"That dog": (the totally not racist or misogynistic) Trump slams Omarosa as she claims he used the N-word haaretz.com/us-news/trump-…
For months, White House officials have refused to confirm reports that aides were ordered to sign nondisclosure agreements, which legal experts say are essentially unenforceable for government employees.
.@KenDilanianNBC: "Omarosa tells @KatyTurNBC just now she has talked to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office, and "there was a lot of corruption," in the campaign and the administration. She says Trump knew about hacked emails before they were released." 🍿
Omarosa claims Trump "absolutely" knew about hacked emails before WikiLeaks released them, and says campaign officials were instructed to bring up the emails at every chance at the end of the 2016 campaign thehill.com/policy/cyberse…
"Every 10 minutes [with Trump on "The Celebrity Apprentice"] was like fingernails on chalkboard."
Penn Jillette lends support to Omarosa's claims of n-word tapes of Trump, says he heard Trump say 'racially insensitive things' vulture.com/2018/08/penn-j…
"Ivanka would not stop talking about being ribbed. Like her father, Ivanka was thin-skinned and could not seem to take a joke.”
#Omarosa releases secret tape of Lara Trump offering her a $15,000/month campaign job just days after she left the White House, on condition that she sign a NDA (she refused) nbcnews.com/politics/white…
On behalf of the president of the United States, his daughter-in-law offered to bribe an former top White House aide, paid for with donor money – an official hush-money slush fund. (h/t @twschaller)
As @anniekarni noted, "Omarosa’s slow release of secretly taped conversations from inside the Trump campaign and White House is having the same effect on staffers as the daily dumps from WikiLeaks had on Clinton’s campaign."
Turkey has concluded that Jamal #Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a 15-member Saudi team sent “specifically for the murder" washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
"#Khashoggi visited the consulate to obtain documents related to his upcoming wedding.
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a stunning escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent, rounding up clerics, business execs & women’s rights advocates"
"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. #Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate." reuters.com/article/us-sau…
Interpol president Meng Hongwei reported missing after trip to his native China; his wife hasn't heard from him since he left France at the end of September nbcnews.com/news/world/int…
"China has not commented officially on Meng Hongwei's disappearance & there was no mention of him in official media"
French police investigate disappearance of Interpol chief, place his wife under protection after receiving threats by phone & social media irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
"The initial working assumption of Western investigators was Mr Meng had antagonized Chinese authorities in some way and had been detained as a result."
American Bar Association reopens evaluation of #Kavanaugh's "well-qualified" rating, based on his unhinged performance during a Senate hearing last week pbs.org/newshour/polit…
"A report by Washington Economics Group, whose clients include businesses like Nascar, projected that automatic restoration of voting rights would lead to $365 million/year in gains for Florida's economy, from lower prison costs and increased productivity"
Amazing statistic: the recidivism rate for people who had their voting rights automatically restored under Gov. Crist is 12.4%, vs a state average of 30%.
Also noteworthy: Charles and David Koch's network has declared support for Amendment 4.
.@nycsouthpaw: When career prosecutor Rachel Mitchell asked #Kavanaugh about his drinking & the July 1 party where Judge and Smyth were in attendance – a key date that aligns with Ford's account – Republican senators then came to his rescue and benched her yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh…
Trump says he rejected a one-on-one meeting with Justin Trudeau at the #UNGA, threatens tariffs on Canada auto exports: "We're going to tax the cars coming in, and we'll put billions and billions into our treasury .. Canada has treated us very badly"
Aside from his economic illiteracy (Americans pay the tariff, not foreign exporters), his personal animus towards Trudeau and Canada – neighbors, close allies, brothers and sisters – is senseless and destructive.