Tag Archives: Matthew Whitaker

Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort receives 7.5 years in prison, and faces additional time in New York, which would not be subject to pardon

By Mark | March 13, 2019

Like a lot of folks, I was kind of pissed off last Thursday, when U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III, of the Eastern District of Virginia, chose to disregard sentencing guidelines that would have put Donald Trump’s incredibly corrupt former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, behind bars for 19.5 to 24 years, and instead just […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Amy Berman Jackson, collusion, conspiracy, conspiracy against the United States, Cy Vance, Donald Trump, House Judiciary Committee, indictments, Jerrold Nadler, Kevin Downing, lobbying, Michael Cohen, money laundering, New York, obstruction of justice, pardons, Paul Manafort, perjury, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, sentencing, sentencing disparities, T.S. Ellis, Trump Tower, Ukraine, unregistered foreign agent, Viktor Yanukovych, witness tampering | 93 Comments

Michael Flynn’s sentencing was postponed to give him time to cooperate more fully with federal prosecutors

By Mark | December 18, 2018

One year ago this month, General Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s national security advisor, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations he’d had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak while working on the Trump transition team, and, today, he was supposed to be sentenced. That, however, never happened. As I understand it, things were moving […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged abuse of power, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, Emmet Sullivan, entrapment, FBI, flipping, foreign agent, Jeanine Pirro, Lock Her Up, lock him up, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Michale Flynn, perjury, perjury trap, prosecutorial misconduct, Qanon, rats, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sergey Kislyak, special counsel, treason, Turkey | 82 Comments

The Trump administration uses press conference footage deceptively edited by InfoWars to justify the banning of CNN’s Jim Acosta

By Mark | November 8, 2018

Yesterday, when I posted about how Donald Trump had installed someone as acting Attorney General who has said publicly that the Mueller investigation should be stopped, I made a brief mention of the fact that CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, on the same day, had his press credentials revoked after refusing to stop a […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged CNN, Donald Trump, fake news, InfoWars, Jim Acosta, me too, Orwellian, Paul Joseph Watson, post-truth, press credentials, Republican lies, threats to journalists | 96 Comments

Sessions to be replaced by a Fox News commentator who once described in detail how he would kill the Mueller investigation… I think this probably qualifies as a constitutional crisis, right?

By Mark | November 7, 2018

[above: A shot from outside the White House tonight by CNN’s Jim Acosta, who had his press credentials stripped this afternoon after standing up to Donald Trump.] Back in July of 2017, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said there’d be “holy hell to pay” if Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Well, today, Donald Trump not […]