Day: May 12, 2018

Stormy Daniels Lawyer In MAJOR Trouble After Trump Opens A Closet Full Of Corruption

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The issues and controversy surrounding Stormy Daniels seem to not be going away. She is increasingly taking media interviews in an effort to remain relevant. Now the President is going to have the last laugh. Because Daniels attorney is in for a rude awakening.

At the request of President Trump, the inspector general of the Treasury Department is investigating Daniel’s lawyer named Michael Avenatti. The charges are obtaining confidential banking records pertaining to a controlled company by Michael Cohen who is the president’s personal attorney outside the White House.

The Right Scoop reported,

“The inspector general’s counsel, Rich Delmar, said that the office is looking into allegations that Suspicious Activity Reports filed about Cohen’s banking transactions were “improperly disseminated,” according to the Post.
Avenatti on Tuesday went public with detailed claims about Cohen’s banking history, including allegations that he received $500,000 from a company controlled by a Russian oligarch in the months following the 2016 presidential election.

The payment was, according to Avenatti, deposited in an account for a company that was also used to pay Daniels $130,000 as part of her non-disclosure agreement weeks before the 2016 vote.

Avenatti also revealed that AT&T, the Swiss drug company Novartis, and aircraft manufacturer Korea Aerospace Industries — all of which had business considerations with the federal government — had made payments to Cohen. The companies later confirmed the payments, which are under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Avenatti refused to reveal his source for this information and said investigators should reveal the Suspicious Activity Reports filed on Cohen’s account.

Such reports are filed if an unusual transaction of over $10,000 is made, and experts told the Post that Avenatti’s information could have come from a report filed by Cohen’s bank.”

This is not the end of this dispute though. The lawyers are having it out and it looks like it is going to be a bloody fight. Avenatti took to social media to allege that Cohen’s dealings were not completely made public and that he would make it so if Trump’s lawyers didn’t cut it out.Fox News reported,

“Cohen is involved in a legal battle with Avenatti and his client, Daniels, over a $130,000 payment to the adult-film star in the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election. They payment was made in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump more than a decade ago.

Cohen is also under criminal investigation as part of a grand jury probe of his personal business dealings. The investigation is being led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. Companies AT&T and pharmaceutical giant Novartis both said they’d hired Cohen’s Essential Consultants to assist them in understanding President Trump as his administration kicked off.

Novartis said in a statement that it paid Cohen $1.2 million for services, though the relationship ended after one meeting. AT&T confirmed that it had also hired Essential Consultants, as well as other companies, “in early 2017 to provide insights into understanding the new administration.” It said Cohen’s firm didn’t do any “legal or lobbying work for us” and the contract between the parties expired in December 2017.

The firms both said they were contacted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team about their connection to Cohen. Mueller is probing Russian influence in the 2016 election.”
Daniels lawyer has also been going toe to toe with Fox News reporters and journalists. Tucker Carlson offered for him to come on their show but he refused asking instead to go on Sean Hannity’s show. The result ended with a back and forth on social media where Avenatti accused Carlson of lying in order to get publicity.

Shortly thereafter Carlson went on his show and bashed Avenatti accusing him of being shady and creepy and being the type of person who people who not want in or near their home. Furthermore, of arguing that the reason Avenatti does not want on Fox News is that he is too busy over at CNN and that when they tire of him he is welcome over at Fox News.

There’s an Interesting Reason Why Trump Hasn’t Destroyed This SLEAZEBALL on Twitter

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Aging porn star Stormy Daniels has one of the sleaziest lawyers we’ve ever seen.

Michael Avenatti makes carnival barkers look credible and serious.
But, why hasn’t President Trump sliced and diced the legal buffoon on Twitter?

There’s a very good reason why, and it’s the “strategy of non-engagement” which is working; as Avenatti keeps making blunder after blunder trying to catch President Trump’s attention.
While President Trump typically doesn’t hesitate to use social media to blast his opponents, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti’s name has been noticeably missing from Trump’s Twitter feed.

However, it’s not that Trump doesn’t have an opinion on Avenatti, but rather could be, as the Daily Beast puts it, a strategy of “strategic non-engagement.”

Add that to the fact that Trump reportedly thinks Avenatti is a “loser” unworthy of his time.

The Daily Beast reports:

According to two sources close to the president, Trump has privately branded Avenatti a wannabe bigshot and a “loser.” A White House official noted that Trump has explained his decision to not go after Avenatti publicly because he deems him a “total loser” not worthy of Trump’s acknowledgement, whether on Twitter, in public statements, or in response to shouted questions from the White House press corps.

While Trump himself may be silent on Avenatti for that reason, it’s unclear why more GOP groups aren’t picking up the slack when it comes to the Stormy Daniels lawyer.

“No one seems to understand why the RNC, America Rising and other GOP groups aren’t doing even basic political blocking and tackling with Avenatti,” said a GOP operative to The Daily Beast. “He’s essentially gotten a free pass from them.”
Notable exceptions including a recent Fox News report on Avenatti’s business dealings, and criticism from Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer called the entire Stormy Daniels situation a “sideshow,” citing the fact that it’s “being investigated in the Southern District of New York and not by Mueller.”

“I can see why the Trump White House wants to concentrate its fire where the fire matters most,” said Fleischer. “And that’s with Mueller.”

Look How Pompeo’s Work Ethic is Leaving Former Secretary of States in THE DUST

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Newly appointed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a house on fire.

He’s gotten so much done in a short period of time, that much like Trump, he’s making his predecessors look bad.
Pompeo, after just WEEKS as Secretary of State, has already helped secure a foreign policy VICTORY for President Trump, with the release of three Americans from North Korea.

And, he’s positioned himself as a key player in the upcoming U.S./North Korea peace summit.

It looks like President Trump has found someone just like him, with the same winning attitude and unstoppable work ethic!
Mike Pompeo has hit the ground running in his first weeks atop the State Department, drawing a stark contrast with his predecessor by taking a decidedly public approach to his role as chief diplomat.

Pompeo has already notched early wins for President Trump’s foreign policy agenda, positioning himself as a key player in next month’s historic summit with North Korea.

He has also pledged to restore morale among State employees, who were deeply unhappy with the way Rex Tillerson managed the department.

The early moves from Pompeo have impressed even those who did not support his nomination for secretary of State.

“To the extent that he says he’s going to be supportive of a strong, robust State Department and of the State Department’s structure, to the extent that he’s had — we applaud him getting the Americans back from North Korea,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told The Hill. “Those are all positive things.”

Pompeo, who was formerly Trump’s CIA director, took over at State on April 26, immediately departing on a tour through the Middle East to raise alarm over what the administration views as a growing threat from Iran.
This week, Pompeo spent 13 hours in North Korea hammering out the agenda for Trump’s historic meeting with Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang’s leader. The summit is set to take place on June 12 in Singapore.

He capped off the dramatic trip by returning to Washington with three American prisoners who had been held since 2015 in North Korea.

The high-stakes missions indicate that Pompeo is more in sync with Trump that Tillerson ever was.

“What we have seen in the last week is this is foreign policy on Trump time,” said Jim Carafano, a foreign policy expert at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation who worked on Trump’s landing team at State. “That’s what Pompeo is paid to do and, man, that’s what he’s doing.”

Pompeo has also interrupted his travels to connect with career civil servants and foreign affairs officers within the State Department. Addressing employees at the start of May, he promised to restore the department’s “swagger” and roam away from the department’s seventh floor — the spot where the secretary and his immediate staff are located, and where Tillerson is said to have spent most of his time.

“The United States diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner, every stretch of the world, executing missions on behalf of this country, and it is my humble, noble undertaking to help you achieve that,” Pompeo said.

Pompeo’s remarks followed months of staff exits and rumblings of declining morale under the leadership of Tillerson, who kept a distance from rank-and-file employees and the press and kept his decision-making confined to a small group of advisers.

“There is a more positive buzz around the corridors since Tillerson left,” said one former official who keeps in touch with existing employees.

Pompeo has also reversed one of Tillerson’s more unpopular policies, which was a hiring freeze on spouses of employees at overseas embassies.

“I think he’s doing many of the right things at the personnel level,” said Peter Harrell, a former State Department official during the Obama administration who worked on sanctions policy.

Many observe that Pompeo entered the department with a few advantages that allowed him transition easily into the role.

Once a member of Congress, Pompeo came into the administration with an intimate understanding of the workings of government — something his predecessor lacked.

He also led the CIA for the first year of the Trump administration, which afforded him a deeper understanding of foreign operations as well as the opportunity to forge a relationship with the president. Pompeo used to deliver many of Trump’s daily intelligence briefings.

Maxine Waters New INSANE Reason to Impeach Trump Proves She’s Running Out of Options

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Maxine Waters is always looking for a reason to impeach President Trump.

From “mean” tweets, to telling NFL players to stop kneeling, Waters has absolutely no grasp of how our system works, which adds to the humor, until you realize that she’s getting PAID for this.
Now, Rep. Waters is calling on Trump to be impeached for withdrawing from the failed Iran Deal.

I get being against Trump. You don’t like him. He’s dangerous. He’s sexist. He’s a racist. He’s not conservative. He’s not a Republican. There are plenty of reasons both sides don’t like this man, though he’s not any of those things. And yes, he’s not a conservative Republican. He’s a right-leaning populist that has an agenda that gives conservative Republicans most of what they want.

Yet, the resist fever that’s broken out among liberal Democrats is just popcorn-worthy. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been the face of this resist at all cost wing among progressives, which has devolved into a total clown show. She said the president is a sad excuse of a man, who has no business being in the White House. Oh, and he poses a constitutional threat and have generated a related crisis because he’s a different kind of president, or something. Oh, and Trump colluded with the Russians, in her mind.

Waters has pledged to work day and night to get Trump impeached, even, apparently, in instances where such a charge wouldn’t apply. It’s not even grounded in reality. She thinks he should be impeached over our withdrawal from the Iran Deal.

Trump, further isolating the United States, thinks he knows better than our negotiators and all of our global allies who agreed to the Iran deal. How long do we have to suffer his gigantic ego and narcissistic behavior? Impeachment is the only answer.

— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) May 9, 2018

“Trump, further isolating the United States, thinks he knows better than our negotiators and all of our global allies who agreed to the Iran deal. How long do we have to suffer his gigantic ego and narcissistic behavior? Impeachment is the only answer,” she tweeted.

“Trump, further isolating the United States, thinks he knows better than our negotiators and all of our global allies who agreed to the Iran deal. How long do we have to suffer his gigantic ego and narcissistic behavior? Impeachment is the only answer,” she tweeted.

Yeah, back in the real world, this decision was probably one of the best in Trump’s presidency. It also wasn’t legally bindingand he was well within his authority to do so. Screaming at the clouds might be good for fundraising and being a California liberal; Waters can and does say insane things that will yield zero political consequences. Nevertheless, it’s beyond entertaining seeing how people who simply cannot accept the result of the 2016 election continue to throw tantrums. Meanwhile, Trump is on the verge of making history by helping bring to an end the Korean War and denuclearizing the peninsula, something that Hillary Clinton couldn’t have managed…unless they have her foundation a large donation (maybe).

Guy has a lengthy post about how this was a tremendous decision by the Trump White House.
You are going to impeach Trump for refusing to honor a deal, that wasn’t binding on him? You are some kind of special stupid, Maxine

16 GOP Senators Light a FIRE Under McConnell and DEMAND Congress Work for Trump

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16 GOP Senators are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to actually get some work done for the American people.

Instead of taking days off and enjoying an “August recess,” these 16 GOP Senators are calling on McConnell to order the Senate to stay in session and earn their paychecks.
A group of 16 Republican senators are sending Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a serious message Friday: It is time to work full weeks, confirm the president’s nominees and stop wasting precious time while Republicans hold both chambers of Congress and the White House.

Sen. David Perdue of Georgia is leading the charge, calling on McConnell to realize there are only 67 working days left in the 2018 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. The coalition of Republican senators are urging McConnell to make the Senate work through Friday and on some weekends (senators typically go home to their districts on Thursday afternoon) and cancel the August recess — a request newer GOP senators and the president asked of leadership in 2017 in order to get action on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Action is exactly what Perdue and his colleagues want. They want more time in session to confirm the president’s nominees. They want more time in session to get must-pass appropriations bills out of committee and onto the Senate floor for a vote. They are tired of the slow walking pace and don’t want to waste another day when they are in the majority.

Effectively, they want a change in the way the Senate is currently running, which they view as sluggish and increasingly subject to “obstruction” from Democrats.

The White House is on their side as well. White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters at the Capitol Tuesday that the administration would support a delay in the August recess and more time in the Senate because it is their duty to the American people.

“If we reach August and we still have not completed appropriations work or not confirmed our nominees, then of course we would like to see the Congress stay here and do its work,” Short said. “It’s about getting the job done for voters across the country.”

The president urged members of Congress to delay the August recess in early July 2017. McConnell responded to President Donald Trump’s request with an announcement that he would shorten the recess by two weeks to give lawmakers ample time to come to an agreement on the best way to reform health care. The delay in recess only lasted one week, but senators who requested it point to the fact that it helped the chamber confirm nearly 80 of the president’s nominees.

An open appropriations process is one of the key asks on the part of the part of the coalition of senators, after Congress passed a massive $1.3 trillion spending bill in March that upset many conservatives in Congress, who viewed it as a backdoor, last-minute deal Republican leadership struck with Democrats. The president pledged he would “never sign another bill like this again.”

Read the text of the letter below:
Dear Leader McConnell,

We continue to witness historic obstruction by the minority party when it comes to funding the federal government and confirming the President’s nominees. If we are complicit, we are on track for another last-minute spending battle come September. However, if we take action now, we can break the cycle of continuing resolutions and omnibus spending deals. Therefore, we want to offer our full support to expedite floor consideration, even if we must work nights and weekends and forgo the August recess to get it done.