A.M. Links: Trump and Russia, Joe Arpaio Found Guilty, Venezuelan Regime Arrests Opposition Leaders

Damon Root | 8.1.2017 9:00 AM

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President Donald Trump reportedly dictated the misleading statement that Donald Trump Jr. issued after news broke of Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.
"New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning, according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey."
Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.
Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has been found guilty of criminal contempt in U.S. District Court.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has reportedly been fired from One America News Network.
"The United States began removing furniture and equipment from a diplomatic property in Moscow on Tuesday in the first sign of compliance with a Kremlin order to slash its presence in Russia as retaliation for new U.S. sanctions."

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Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

President Donald Trump reportedly dictated the misleading statement that Donald Trump Jr. issued after news broke of Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.

140 characters at a time.
1. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  Hello.
  
  Well, you got your fisticuffs with Russia. Happy now?
  
  Not sure why but FUCK YEAH!
Bee Tagger 8 years ago

President Donald Trump reportedly dictated the misleading statement that Donald Trump Jr. issued after news broke of Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.

Officially a dictator, now.
1. Rhywun 8 years ago
  
  Works for the Venezuela link too.
Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.

I blame the United States.
1. Memory Hole 8 years ago
  
  Trump has endorsed the strongman.
  1. Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
    
    “Endorsed” is a pretty odd euphemism for “hit with sanctions.”
    
    Also, fuck you for making me defend Trump.
    1. Rhywun 8 years ago
      
      fuck you for making me defend Trump
      
      It’s a troll’s world, we’re just living in it.
    2. Memory Hole 8 years ago
      
      Jesus fucking christ dude I didn’t imply Trump endorsed Maduro. I was reminding you that Trump admires authoritarians like Duterte “you’re doing a wonderful job murdering people for using drugs”, Erdogan “calling to congratulate you for consolidating your power” or Putin “he’s a great leader”.
      1. Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
        
        Context matters, homeboy, and the context here is Venezuela – which is the country mentioned in the sentence Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.
        
        Your comment didn’t imply anything – it straight up said that Trump endorsed “the strongman,” who is, in Venezuela, Maduro. If you didn’t intend that, maybe you could try getting better at English.
        
        $park? leftist poser 8 years ago
        
        maybe you could try getting better at English.
        
        Excuse my barging in, but this is the Internet. The proper wording for your rebuke is ‘GIT GUD!’
        
        Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
        
        Sorry. Maybe Memory Hole could get more gooder at Englishing.
Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

The United States began removing furniture and equipment from a diplomatic property in Moscow on Tuesday…

The bugs stay.
1. Bee Tagger 8 years ago
  
  The beard stays, you go
  1. Bee Tagger 8 years ago
    
    excellent work, as always
    
    The beard stays, you go
    1. Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago
      
      Leave the working link. Take the cannoli.
Bee Tagger 8 years ago

according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey.”

Noreen Sally Adams and Neal Samuel Applebaum
Bee Tagger 8 years ago

The United States began removing furniture and equipment from a diplomatic property in Moscow on Tuesday

In Soviet Russia, you are your own repo man.
Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning…

That Comey gets all the firsthand gossip.
1. Tom Bombadil 8 years ago
  
  Comey has bravely earned zero sympathy from me.
  1. damikesc 8 years ago
    
    Yeah. Comey is a profoundly weird man. No wonder Schumer adores him.
Citizen X - #6 8 years ago

Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has been found guilty of criminal contempt in U.S. District Court.

Chances this derails any of his future plans for despotic bullshittery: 0.07%
1. Anomalous 8 years ago
  
  Will he be required to wear pink underwear? If not, it’s a slap on the wrist.
  1. Tom Bombadil 8 years ago
    
    He’s spent years building up an immunity to pink underwear.
  2. Zeb 8 years ago
    
    Yeah, put that fucker in a tent in the desert with pink underwear and make him eat moldy bologna.
    1. Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
      
      That is a hell of a euphemism.
2. Thane Eichenauer 8 years ago
  
  Take away his shiny badge and Arpaio is just another old guy.
  1. Tom Bombadil 8 years ago
    
    Then this is no country for him.
    1. Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
      
      Call it, friendo.
      1. loveconstitution1789 8 years ago
        
        This is the best deal you’re going to get. I won’t tell you that you can save yourself, because you can’t.
Citizen X - #6 8 years ago

Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.

“Trust democracy” – joe from lowell
1. Aloysious 8 years ago
  
  …taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces.
  
  Hmm. Where have we seen this happen before?
  1. Zeb 8 years ago
    
    Everywhere there are police?
Jerryskids 8 years ago

Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has been found guilty of criminal contempt in U.S. District Court.

Allegedly, according to sources.
1. Thane Eichenauer 8 years ago
  
  Not allegedly. He was actually convicted, according to U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton.
2. Unlabelable MJGreen 8 years ago
  
  Reportedly.
Rebel Scum 8 years ago

New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning

///draintheswamp

according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey.”

Uh huh… ///anonymoussources
1. pan fried wylie 8 years ago
  
  mmm, chocolate moussources, /drool
Rebel Scum 8 years ago

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has reportedly been fired from One America News Network.

Make America News Network Great Again. ///MANNGA
Rebel Scum 8 years ago

President Donald Trump reportedly dictated

///penandphone
Rebel Scum 8 years ago

Opposition leaders in Venezuela were reportedly taken from their homes in the middle of the night by government forces

Inherent violence and tyranny of a socialist state is inherent.
1. Necron 99 8 years ago
  
  Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
2. loveconstitution1789 8 years ago
  
  What government force really is.
3. creech 8 years ago
  
  Is anyone giving odds of a military coup by Sept. 1st?
  1. Philadelphia Collins 8 years ago
    
    Ask Sean Penn.
4. Dillinger 8 years ago
  
  midnight hoops…winner gets Caracas.
5. damikesc 8 years ago
  
  Does Sean Penn still think Venezuela is hella groovy?
Domestic Dissident 8 years ago

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has reportedly been fired from One America News Network.

Leftards in the JournoList are actually still obsessed with this guy? Normal Americans are all like “who the fuck is Corey Lewandowski and what the fuck is the ‘One America News Network’?”
1. Rufus The Monocled 8 years ago
  
  Yeah but ‘Two Americas News Network’ hired him.
2. $park? leftist poser 8 years ago
  
  Normal Americans are all like…
  
  “…ohmygoduh!”
  “…whatevs dudes.”
  “…no way! Then I was all like, yeah! And then they were all like, no way! Then I was all like, yeah!”
  “…getthefuckouttahere.”
3. Zeb 8 years ago
  
  And you are still obsessed with the leftards in your head. So all is right in the world.
  1. Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
    
    Did you know that the JournoList was disbanded in 2010? Simple Mikey doesn’t!
4. paranoid android 8 years ago
  
  Mikey, you should know that the vagrants and hillbillies that reside in the crack house where you huff glue and masturbate to your own misogynistic rants are not most people’s idea of normal Americans.
  1. Mmmmmm 8 years ago
    
    But enough about your family…
Palin's Buttplug 8 years ago

If John Kelly has an ounce of decency (and he probably does) he might be waiting for the right time to knife the Con Man in the back if for nothing else Trump’s disrespect for the US military and Gold Star families.
1. Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting 8 years ago
  
  Trump’s disrespect for the US military
  
  “Disrespect” in this case to mean “not launching ICBMS at them like my new neocon BFFs wanted to do.”
2. Libertarian 8 years ago
  
  So disrespectful that he patiently waits for a general to retire before hiring him.
3. Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
  
  Are you waiting for the right time to pay your bet?
  1. BestUsedCarSales 8 years ago
    
    What was this bet anyway?
    1. Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
      
      If i recall correctly, shreek bet somebody (i forget who; probably one of those we lost in the Glibbening) that ?Jeb! was going to be the Republican nominee for president, or would stay in the race longer than Cruz, or something like that. Loser was supposed to donate a sum to Reason. Shreek claimed to’ve paid up, but Welch confirmed several months later that no such donation was received.
      1. Dillinger 8 years ago
        
        not a good bet. gracias for the update.
      2. Unlabelable MJGreen 8 years ago
        
        Was it about Jeb? This whole time, I may have been confusing it with his stock market bet with Playa, the one where shreek’s stock lost like 90% of its value.
        
        Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
        
        That was another one. He also tried to get some action going on gold becoming basically worthless, but i don’t recall if anyone took him up on it.
        
        Mmmmmm 8 years ago
        
        It was the stock thing with Playa. He never made a bet on the election, despite many attempts to force his hand with juicy terms
  2. Dillinger 8 years ago
    
    yes, what was the bet and what kind of dummy makes a public bet and doesn’t pay up?
    1. Citizen X - #6 8 years ago
      
      The kind of dummy that thinks calling himself “Palin’s Buttplug” is a trenchant political statement.
      1. Dillinger 8 years ago
        
        one man’s humor is another’s ick…
Dillinger 8 years ago

is One America News Network newsworthy?
1. Rhywun 8 years ago
  
  It’s so newsworthy you’re going to get sick of all the newsworthiness.
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