Over the weekend, Robert Mueller’s suggestions for Paul Manafort’s sentence were made public. The document was, in fact, a tome. Heather Digby Parton writes: As it turned out, the memorandum wasn’t filed until Saturday afternoon and it turned out to be a richly detailed 800-page document about Paul Manafort’s sordid
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Montreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Horrible Hurricane Problems
As Hurricane Florence churns across North and South Carolina, Donald Trump has more than one hurricane on his mind.For while Florence should be occupying his limited attention span now that it's a killer. He's also obsessed with Hurricane Maria that struck Puerto Rico last year, and that he claims hardly killed
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Conservatives defend racist heckler who tried to sandbag the prime minister … so how’s that working out for them?
Hmmmmmmm … Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives appear to have picked defending a racist heckler who tried to sandbag Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a string of tendentious questions about immigration as the hill they want to die on! I wonder how this will work out for them? Not well, I imagine.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Could This Be Donald Trump’s Worst Day Ever?
Donald Trump is holding a rally in coal country West Virginia, and I think I can imagine what he's going to say."Pray for me bubbas, I'm having a really bad day."And who can blame him?Read more »
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Manafort Mysteries
Ruth Marcus writes that Paul Manafort is, indeed, a man of mystery: The mystery — a mystery to me at least — is comprehending the magnitude of Manafort’s greed. Assuming the allegations are true — and even if Manafort’s former partner, Rick Gates, is an admitted liar, bank accounts don’t
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Scary Halloween Horror Show
Well just as I predicted, it's Donald Trump's worst Halloween ever. What with Bob Mueller indicting three of his advisers.And revealing new campaign ties with Russia.As well as revealing that one of those advisers, George Papadopoulos, was collaborating with the FBI and may have been wearing a wire.But despite that devastating
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hurricane Mueller Finally Strikes The Trump White House
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Hurricane Mueller was closing in on Donald Trump at an alarming speed.I said it was gathering strength with every passing day.And that it was only a matter of time before it came ashore at the Trump White House.Well now Mueller has finally arrived.Read
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