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Blumenthal: Enforce the Subpoena of Donald Trump Jr.

May 10, 2019 Buck Banks

“The subpoena should be enforced. If he refuses to obey it, he should be locked up. … There are no privileges for Donald Trump Jr. The son of the president doesn’t have any of those privileges.”

— Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Donald Trump Jr. should go to jail if he doesn’t comply with a subpoena to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, The Hill reports.

But the Weapons Testing IS Negotiating

May 10, 2019 Buck Banks

“The relationship continues. We’ll see what happens. I know they want to negotiate. They are talking about negotiating, but I don’t think they are ready to negotiate.”

— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, on North Korea continuing weapons testing.

What a Joker!

May 9, 2019 Buck Banks

When it comes to illegal immigrants, Trump’s in favor of booting ’em.
And asylum-seekers and migrants, Trump’s in favor of excluding ’em.
But in Panama City
It did seem that he
Jokingly indicated that he is also in favor of shooting ’em.

A Majority of Americans Want to Hear from Mueller

May 9, 2019 Buck Banks

54%

A new Economist/YouGov Poll finds that a 54% of Americans agree with congressional Democrats about wanting to hear from special counsel Robert Mueller himself about the Russia investigation and its findings, while just 20% disagree. Also interesting: By 54% to 22%, Americans want the full Mueller report released to Congress.

Conservative Filmmaker Seeks to Disrupt Democratic Debates

May 9, 2019 Buck Banks

65,000

Conservative filmmaker Ami Horowitz announced that he is running for president as a Democrat in an attempt to disrupt the party’s nominating process. He’s seeking 65,000 donors, even at $1 apiece, so that he can be onstage at next month’s first Democratic debate.

DNC Is Pissing Off the Youth

May 7, 2019 Buck Banks

68

The Atlantic: “The youths in the Democratic Party are angry. Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party’s congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges.”

Buttigieg on Countering Trump

May 7, 2019 Buck Banks

“I have a very different energy than this president. There’s going to be a temptation to kind of play his game. If you’re playing his game, you’re losing. Nobody’s going to play his game better than he does and so we’ve got to do something completely different. The good news is Americans as a rule tend to go for the opposite of whatever they just had in a presidential election.”

— Mayor Pete Buttigieg, in an interview with NBC News.

New NRA President Is a Racist

May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 Buck Banks

“It is wrong to say like McBath said, that the reason she won was because of her anti-gun stance. That didn’t have anything to do with it — it had to do with being a minority female.”

— National Rifle Association president Carolyn Meadows, telling the Marietta Daily Journal that Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) only won her seat in 2018 because she’s black. McBath unseated Rep. Karen Handel (R-GA) on an anti-gun violence platform based on her backstory: Her son was shot and killed in 2012 after a loudness complaint.

Hundreds of Prosecutors Say Trump Is Guilty

May 7, 2019 Buck Banks

370

“More than 370 former federal prosecutors who worked in Republican and Democratic administrations have signed on to a statement asserting special counsel Robert Mueller III’s findings would have produced obstruction charges against President Trump — if not for the office he held,” the Washington Post reports.

Year: 2019

Blumenthal: Enforce the Subpoena of Donald Trump Jr.

“The subpoena should be enforced. If he refuses to obey it, he should be locked up. … There are no privileges for Donald Trump Jr. The son of the president doesn’t have any of those privileges.”

— Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Donald Trump Jr. should go to jail if he doesn’t comply with a subpoena to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, The Hill reports.

But the Weapons Testing IS Negotiating

“The relationship continues. We’ll see what happens. I know they want to negotiate. They are talking about negotiating, but I don’t think they are ready to negotiate.”

— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, on North Korea continuing weapons testing.

What a Joker!

A Majority of Americans Want to Hear from Mueller

54%

Conservative Filmmaker Seeks to Disrupt Democratic Debates

65,000

Conservative filmmaker Ami Horowitz announced that he is running for president as a Democrat in an attempt to disrupt the party’s nominating process. He’s seeking 65,000 donors, even at $1 apiece, so that he can be onstage at next month’s first Democratic debate.

DNC Is Pissing Off the Youth

68

The Atlantic: “The youths in the Democratic Party are angry. Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party’s congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges.”

Buttigieg on Countering Trump

— Mayor Pete Buttigieg, in an interview with NBC News.

New NRA President Is a Racist

“It is wrong to say like McBath said, that the reason she won was because of her anti-gun stance. That didn’t have anything to do with it — it had to do with being a minority female.”

Hundreds of Prosecutors Say Trump Is Guilty

370

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by CBS News.

“Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”

— Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.

— Stephen Miller, quoted by The Guardian, pledging “total devotion” to President Trump.

Numerati

.4%

32%

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

“The subpoena should be enforced. If he refuses to obey it, he should be locked up. … There are no privileges for Donald Trump Jr. The son of the president doesn’t have any of those privileges.”

— Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Donald Trump Jr. should go to jail if he doesn’t comply with a subpoena to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, The Hill reports.

“The relationship continues. We’ll see what happens. I know they want to negotiate. They are talking about negotiating, but I don’t think they are ready to negotiate.”

— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, on North Korea continuing weapons testing.

54%

65,000

Conservative filmmaker Ami Horowitz announced that he is running for president as a Democrat in an attempt to disrupt the party’s nominating process. He’s seeking 65,000 donors, even at $1 apiece, so that he can be onstage at next month’s first Democratic debate.

“Make the case for your sorcery to consumers on your own dime. Like every other business. Quit using the heavy hand of government to make your business profitable through mandates and immunity. It’s disgusting. … Parental rights mean more to us than your self-enriching ‘science.’”

— Texas state Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R), responding to a top vaccine scientist’s tweets about vaccination exemptions by accusing him of ‘sorcery,’” The Hill reports.

68

The Atlantic: “The youths in the Democratic Party are angry. Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party’s congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges.”

— Mayor Pete Buttigieg, in an interview with NBC News.

“It is wrong to say like McBath said, that the reason she won was because of her anti-gun stance. That didn’t have anything to do with it — it had to do with being a minority female.”

370

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by CBS News.

“Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”

— Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.

— Stephen Miller, quoted by The Guardian, pledging “total devotion” to President Trump.

Numerati

.4%

32%

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points