As I explain here, not only did President Trump almost certainly know about the Trump Tower collusion meeting in advance. There’s strong circumstantial evidence he coordinated directly with Vladimir Putin in a secret, no-US-witness conversation to devise the false cover story that he dictated for The New York Times. I explain here.
Pretty clear they’re saying that, among other things, foxbot Kimberley Guilfoyle got forced out for forcing other Fox staffers to look at Don Jr. dick pics, which is horrifying.
Last week Netflix surprised investors by reporting disappointing quarterly results. Specifically they noted that subscriber “acquisition growth was lower than we projected.”
This has happened before. And Netflix didn’t provide a clear explanation of why their subscriber growth numbers were soft. But I couldn’t help remembering that Netflix is a heavy, heavy user of Facebook advertising and marketing tools to keep growing their subscriber numbers. Remember, Netflix is a classic ‘direct to consumer’ marketer, even though people sometimes don’t think of them that way. Read More
If you enjoyed reading the article on the history of voter suppression and disenfranchisement in the United States we published yesterday, don’t miss my podcast interview with author Gregory Downs which you can listen to here.
Trump threatens “consequences” for families who cross border illegally, says “many are just using children for their own sinister purposes.”
One of the things I have wanted for TPM for a very long time is a greater ability to visualize the story streams we focus on here at the site. This is a particular need for what we do precisely because we’re not a general interest publication. We’re focused on news about politics and political culture. But even within that purview, we tend to go deep and in a sustained way on a relatively few core stories we think are of particular importance and interest. Much of this you will recognize intuitively if you’re a core or longtime reader. I narrate some of these threads in my own commentary and analysis in the Editors’ Blog. But as the site has evolved over time that is not really sufficient. We’ve largely relied on these bigger pictures being clear in regular readers’ heads through repeat reading and immersion. But that’s not sufficient. Read More
Rudy Giuliani made two TV appearances this morning, one on Fox and one on CNN. Both are pretty convoluted and a bit hard to follow. So they’ve led to various interpretations. But there’s what I believe is one pretty big admission that is at least very new to me and I think a pretty big problem for Trump and Giuliani.
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, one of the oddities of Giuliani’s rolling defense of Trump in response to Cohen’s accusations is this: Giuliani says that the meeting where Trump allegedly learned about the Russia meeting never happened and he (Giuliani) has talked to the participants and they agree it never happened and Trump didn’t attend the meeting or know about the Russian offer. Now, there’s sort of a problem here. Cohen never said just what meeting he was referring to. And how can you be a witness to a meeting that never happened about what was said in that meeting? Read More
Rudy Giuliani just went on Fox News and explained that actually he was denying that the pre-planning meeting took place. The walk back is just as convoluted as the original claims. So I’m going to just show you the video of what he said. Read More
The first trial to come out of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe starts tomorrow in the Eastern District of Virginia. There will be a day or two of jury selection, and then the trial itself will get underway.
Covering the trial from a courtroom in which electronics are banned will present an interesting set of challenges for reporters, including our own. Tierney Sneed and Caitlin MacNeal have a plan that will involve a hotel room, a deli, a pay phone, and some all-out sprints. Caitlin explains it here (Prime access).
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, the guy who just got subpoenaed in the Michael Cohen probe, was deep in the Trump University scam too. Allegra Kirkland reports.