The Goat Pen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... 518b2f2c1a

he is among five current and former Trump administration Cabinet members to be investigated by inspectors general over travel expenses. Tom Price resigned last year as health and human services secretary amid widespread outrage over his use of taxpayer-funded charter flights.

Rachel Brand, next in line to oversee Mueller investigation, abruptly leaves DOJ
Brand, the third in line at the US Justice Department, is suddenly stepping down after only 9 months on the job
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/09/rachel ... eaves-doj/

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is leaving the bureau, multiple outlets reported Monday.
A CNN producer and a Fox News report described sources as saying McCabe was told Monday morning to step down and that he was being "removed" from the FBI.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-depu ... uit-2018-1

Former acting attorney general Sally Yates to headline Dem fundraiser
Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general fired by President Trump for refusing to defend his controversial Muslim travel ban, will appear at a fundraiser Monday night for a Democratic candidate for Ohio attorney general.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 693698001/

DOJ Official Linked To Trump Dossier Leaves Another High-Level Post
Ohr’s job as associate deputy attorney general put him just a few office doors down from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential campaign. But Ohr was removed from that position early last month after it was revealed that in 2016, he met separately with Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, and with Glenn Simpson, the founder of the opposition research firm that commissioned the salacious document.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/08/doj-o ... evel-post/

Mueller Removed Top Agent in Russia Inquiry Over Possible Anti-Trump Texts
The agent, Peter Strzok, is considered one of the most experienced and trusted F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators. But Mr. Strzok was reassigned this summer from Mr. Mueller’s investigation to the F.B.I.’s human resources department, where he has been stationed since.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/p ... texts.html

FBI agent suspected of sending anti-Trump texts removed from Mueller team
Lisa Page, the other FBI agent involved in the communications, left the special counsel's office before it was aware of the accusations, according to the special counsel's office.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02 ... ssion.html

Oh, stormy, oh, stormy, bring back that sunny day
Yesterday´s love was like a warm summer breeze
but like the weather it changed
New things are dreary baby and it´s windy and cold
and I stand alone in the rain callin´ your name

http://theweek.com/articles/755197/trum ... nistration

If Cohen made the payment and Trump reimbursed him, they might have had to report that payment, like all payments candidates make to their campaigns. Trump might try to claim that it had nothing to do with the campaign and was a private matter, but that might not pass the smell test, given that it happened just weeks before the election. But if Cohen paid the $130,000 out of his pocket … then that would mean he may have made an illegal in-kind contribution to the campaign. He obviously wants to protect Trump, but in doing so he may be implicating himself. [The Washington Post]

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No surprise, The Donald's new budget proposal dovetails nicely with his recent big tax give-away. What a motherfucker.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get ... 18cddf077b

Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, wrote this in response to Trump’s FY19 budget proposal: “Despite Donald Trump’s numerous promises during his presidential campaign to not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, he proposes to cut all three in his just-released budget. And not just by a little. He proposes cuts of over $1.8 trillion to the three programs. On top of that, he proposes to slash Meals on Wheels, home heating assistance, and other programs on which seniors rely. It is noteworthy that Republicans just passed, for almost the same price tag, a huge tax giveaway to their donors. So that’s the Republican plan: save money by gutting programs for the elderly and transfer the savings to the billionaire class.”

Maybe he's against Meals on Wheels b/c he figures if you put a meal on a wheel, it'll get squished...

bluetick wrote:No surprise, The Donald's new budget proposal dovetails nicely with his recent big tax give-away. What a motherfucker.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get ... 18cddf077b

Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, wrote this in response to Trump’s FY19 budget proposal: “Despite Donald Trump’s numerous promises during his presidential campaign to not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, he proposes to cut all three in his just-released budget. And not just by a little. He proposes cuts of over $1.8 trillion to the three programs. On top of that, he proposes to slash Meals on Wheels, home heating assistance, and other programs on which seniors rely. It is noteworthy that Republicans just passed, for almost the same price tag, a huge tax giveaway to their donors. So that’s the Republican plan: save money by gutting programs for the elderly and transfer the savings to the billionaire class.”

The stupid assholes who voted for Trump deserve all the misery they're about to get when their benefits go away. The crazy thing is that this morons will vote for him again.

The crazy thing is that this morons will vote for him again.

Correct. And many more like me, who did not vote for him last time, will in 2020.

MAGA baby!

Mueller charges another one https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/the ... edoGgQ0eXm

THIS IS IT!! lol

Mueller has indicted so many ham sandwiches he should open a deli.

A mafia inmate once told me "FBI" stands for "Forever Bothering Italians," or "Full Blooded Irish."

Now it means, "Famous But Ineffective."

So you are buying the FBI-looking-at-Trump-failed-to-stop-FL-killer line from The Donald. 37k FBI employees and maybe 10 following the russia story.

trumptards can trick their minds like that...history has already proven it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... id=U142DHP

ho-hum...no hoes

Interesting article, but what does that have to do about Trump supposedly colluding with Russia?

Wait a minute... I thought Manafort was already an indicted, and therefore cooperative, witness for Mueller. I figured Manafort has already sworn that Trump was the shooter on the grassy knoll. Why is Lurch now ratcheting up pressure on a supposedly cooperative witness? Is Manafort not cooperating all of a sudden? Are Manafort's lawyers going the same route as Flynn's, and getting all the charges against him based on FISA thrown out?

Democrats just flipped a Kentucky state legislature seat in a district Trump won by 49 points
Vox.com Matthew Yglesias 14 hrs ago

mm Hmmm

Sooo, watched a little of the TV version of Waco the other night and it dawned on me how we've come 180 degrees in dealing w/kooks w/guns.
1993, in Waco the FBI...ATF are in full riot gear, try to storm the compound resulting in death on both sides. 2018, FBI is notified of a kook w/gun who publicly states intentions to kill students and they stand down.

Did it also dawn on you that the current head of the FBI is a Trump appointee?

Seems like these incidents happen randomly among both parties' administrations....just noting our growing reluctance to deal w/crime/weirdos/folks on the fringe of society. Shout at the inanimate....


....but please, carry on w/your personal TDS circus.

one sec, toe..

:::refers to note::::

I hear you.

I blame Trump, the Russians and racism.