Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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Don't say this very often but Jared deserves praise for helping get this legislation through.
https://www.axios.com/house-passes-...utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic
The House passed a prison reform bill Tuesday evening 360-59, with broad bipartisan support. The bill would send 4,000 prisoners home, provide sanitary products to incarcerated women, outlaw shackling during childbirth and make it easier for inmates to earn time in home arrest or half-way houses.
Big picture: The debate will only heat up in the Senate, where Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley along with Sens. Dick Durbin, Corey Booker and Kamala Harris are demanding that sentencing reform be included in any criminal justice reform effort. Yes, but: Adding changes to federal sentencing guidelines to the bill would risk losing the support of some hardline Republicans — and possibly the President.
This is a win for Jared Kushner, who has been working behind the scenes for months on criminal justice reform, and President Trump who publicly endorsed the bill just last Friday.
https://www.axios.com/house-passes-...utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic
The House passed a prison reform bill Tuesday evening 360-59, with broad bipartisan support. The bill would send 4,000 prisoners home, provide sanitary products to incarcerated women, outlaw shackling during childbirth and make it easier for inmates to earn time in home arrest or half-way houses.
Big picture: The debate will only heat up in the Senate, where Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley along with Sens. Dick Durbin, Corey Booker and Kamala Harris are demanding that sentencing reform be included in any criminal justice reform effort. Yes, but: Adding changes to federal sentencing guidelines to the bill would risk losing the support of some hardline Republicans — and possibly the President.
This is a win for Jared Kushner, who has been working behind the scenes for months on criminal justice reform, and President Trump who publicly endorsed the bill just last Friday.
It seems people are tunneling out of the White House....
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Much needed reforms, and more still needed. But it's a bit shocking that "shackling during childbirth" was even allowed. We are obviously a first-world country.
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Im still pretty convinced that nothing major will come from the Russia Investigation, at least nothing that takes down Trump. Then he'll be able to crow even more about how it was a waste of time. I honestly have a gut feeling he'll somehow win again in 2020 if he runs.
I initially thought that the Russia investigation was only dangerous to Trump if it wandered into his financial dealings as the chances that someone with Trumps morals in a business as notoriously corrupt as international real estate hasn’t got lots of shady dealings is pretty low.
However, his son’s meeting with Russians to get dirt on Clinton was such an incredibly dumb and blatant attempt at collusion I’m really not sure what they will find any more. Whether it matter to voters (and Republicans in congress) is a different question - Trump’s “I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and they would still support me” looks quite prescient.
Also most presidents win a second term as long as the economy is doing OK, “it’s the economy stupid”, so that will play a big part.
From the bbc
Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump, according to sources in Kiev close to those involved.
The payment was arranged by intermediaries acting for Ukraine's leader, Petro Poroshenko, the sources said, though Cohen was not registered as a representative of Ukraine as required by US law.
The meeting at the White House was last June.
Shortly after the Ukrainian president returned home, his country's anti-corruption agency stopped its investigation into Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump, according to sources in Kiev close to those involved.
The payment was arranged by intermediaries acting for Ukraine's leader, Petro Poroshenko, the sources said, though Cohen was not registered as a representative of Ukraine as required by US law.
The meeting at the White House was last June.
Shortly after the Ukrainian president returned home, his country's anti-corruption agency stopped its investigation into Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
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Still no response to that fella who wrestled a gun away from a mass shooter in a diner a few weeks ago.
One for poor wee Tomi, though.
I’d be more reassured that Pompeo knew how to implement effective counter measures to stop Russian hacking and gathering information if he hadn’t been doing this at the same time
Oh and that whole thing of working for a boss that is demonizing any investigations into Russian involvement in 2016 and routinely claims it never happened.
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