Day: August 16, 2018
Cuomo: America Was ‘Never that Great’
“We’re not going to make America great again, it was never that great.”
— Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), quoted by ABC News.
Trump Cannot Silence Brennan
“This action is part of a broader effort by Mr. Trump to suppress freedom of speech and punish critics. It should gravely worry all Americans, including intelligence professionals, about the cost of speaking out. My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent.”
— Former CIA Director John Brennan, responding on Twitter to President Trump revoking his security clearance.
Pelosi Not a Factor for Dem Voters in Midterms
34%
A new CNN poll finds that just 34% of registered voters say that Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi will be “an extremely or very important” factor in their vote this fall. That ranks dead last of the 10 factors asked in the survey.
Trump Presidency: ‘The Greatest Intelligence Operation of Our Time’
In an interview on MSNBC, investigative journalist Craig Unger, author of the new book, House of Putin, House of Trump, described how Donald Trump first gained access to Russian mob money, starting with New York real-estate transactions in the 1980s:
I go back nearly 40 years, and I see essentially the greatest intelligence operation of our times. It started off in 1984 with a man who has ties to the Russian mafia, and he meets with Donald Trump in the Trump Tower, the supreme moment of Donald Trump becoming a master of real estate in the United States — and what we end up seeing is Trump Tower become sort of a cathedral of money laundering.
