A few moments ago on MSNBC, Roy Moore’s lawyer Trenton Garmon brought in host Ali Velshi’s “diverse” background as a partial explanation of why Moore dated underaged girls. The clear gist seemed to be ‘who are you to judge since they do this in your country too.’ For the record, Velshi is from Canada.
Lol: Moore Lawyer to Ali Velshi: They have child marriage where you're from (Canada), right? pic.twitter.com/hGF588dIR7
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 15, 2017
TPM Reader MM asks a pretty good question …
Everyone seems to think it’s most likely Don Jr. passed on the link that his dad tweeted.
Lord knows his dad is on the twitters a lot.
Why the automatic presumption that Assange hadn’t been in contact with Sr.?
In China, after a joint statement with President Trump, President Xi pulled Trump aside and asked: “Who’s Roy Moore?”
Last night on CNN, Hill reporter Phil Mattingly explained how and why Republicans have decided to raid Obamacare to help make the numbers work for their tax cut. 13 million are estimated to lose coverage.
Wow, CNNer explains how GOPs decided they had to raid health care to pay for their tax cuts. 13 million to lose coverage … pic.twitter.com/KaCgembIMj
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 14, 2017
Here’s our report on why the Senate is going back to partial Obamacare repeal to get its big upper income tax cut over the finish line.
I can tell by how many of you are NOT clicking on the feature that you are skeptical any form of Obamacare repeal is really happening AGAIN. Some skepticism is understandable given the GOP’s track record this year, but this is very much for real.
Many Americans have feelings of shock, embarrassment or just serial cringing watching Donald Trump’s presidential tweets. But intelligence professionals have noted for months that it also provides a priceless channel of information for foreign intelligence services trying to understand the President’s state of mind. All countries diplomatic personnel and intelligence analysts devote immense time and resources to understanding the views, motivations, weaknesses and agendas of key foreign leaders. Trump’s often erratic and impulsive tweeting patterns reveals sleeping patterns, moods, what makes Trump angry, what he’s focused on, who he’s hating or cuddling up to at a given moment. In some cases, his tweets actually having geolocations turned on. So they know precisely where he was. But there’s yet another dimension to Trump’s tweeting and generally impulsive nature and it bears on the Russia investigation. Read More
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It appears that Senate leadership is prepared to include repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate in their big tax cut bill, which is expected to come to a vote the week after Thanksgiving. Here we go again.
Jeff Sessions is considering appointing a new special counsel to probe things President Trump said he wants investigated about Hillary Clinton and James Comey. Read More
It reads like pulp fiction. But according to The New Yorker, back in the eighties, as local DA in his early thirties, Roy Moore was banned from his hometown mall because of cruising the facility for teenage girls. Read More