Woody wrote:WSJ: Russian state bank secretly financed Trump hotel project--the bank whose head met with Kushner in December

Yep, fun news day

TenuredVulture wrote:

pacino wrote:bill to eliminate death penalty fails Louisiana house panel by one vote

Alabama House votes to shorten death penalty appeals

If Louisiana came that close, it is a good sign.

td11 wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:roger ailes has died

Allahu akbar

Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews waxing poetic

Republican Rep. Steve Pylant of Winnsboro had been a bill co-sponsor, having argued that although he firmly supported the death penalty, delays in carrying out executions had made it too expensive. Louisiana has executed one person since 2002.

Pylant, a former sheriff, said he had only co-sponsored the bill by his New Iberia colleague so he could get his frustrations heard.

"My position has never changed," Pylant told reporters after the vote. "I co-sponsored the bill because I wanted to get my message out — the fact that we're not doing it. We're spending $10 million defending people on Death Row every year and we're not executing anybody. We say we can't get the drugs to do it, but Arkansas has executed (four) in the last month. ... If I wasn't (the co-sponsor), y'all wouldn't be talking to me, right?"

Landry said Pylant's stance caught him entirely off-guard, as Pylant had never told him he was going to vote against the measure.

"The mere fact that he didn't share with me that he wasn't going to (support it), it would have changed my strategy," Landry said. "I don't think that's the way I would have conducted business with a colleague."

pacino wrote:why did the Louisiana bill failed to reach the floor? a co-sponsor didn't reveal he was against the bill:

Republican Rep. Steve Pylant of Winnsboro had been a bill co-sponsor, having argued that although he firmly supported the death penalty, delays in carrying out executions had made it too expensive. Louisiana has executed one person since 2002.

Pylant, a former sheriff, said he had only co-sponsored the bill by his New Iberia colleague so he could get his frustrations heard.

"My position has never changed," Pylant told reporters after the vote. "I co-sponsored the bill because I wanted to get my message out — the fact that we're not doing it. We're spending $10 million defending people on Death Row every year and we're not executing anybody. We say we can't get the drugs to do it, but Arkansas has executed (four) in the last month. ... If I wasn't (the co-sponsor), y'all wouldn't be talking to me, right?"

Landry said Pylant's stance caught him entirely off-guard, as Pylant had never told him he was going to vote against the measure.

"The mere fact that he didn't share with me that he wasn't going to (support it), it would have changed my strategy," Landry said. "I don't think that's the way I would have conducted business with a colleague."

Slowhand wrote:

Donald Trump wrote:This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!

Bucky wrote:

Slowhand wrote:

Donald Trump wrote:This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!

says the manchild insisting on a voter fraud investigation

pacino wrote:

td11 wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:roger ailes has died

Allahu akbar

Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews waxing poetic

msnbc will be officially useless if they ever let chris hayes go. it's about 95% useless now. i guess we can hear from George Will soon!

i selfishly want trump gone just so rachel maddow will talk about other stuff again. she's very good but i just can't stand it anymore.

Forty-seven percent of white voters with no college degree approved of Trump's job performance, while 46 percent disapproved, the survey found. That's a steep drop in support from last month, when 57 percent approved of Trump, and compare that to exit polls in November that found 67 percent of non-college-educated whites voted for Trump, the highest such figure for any candidate since 1980.

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Trump having a press conference today at 3:45, should be fun. I could see him trolling the situation and either not showing up, or talking specifically about his trip abroad w/ no questions taken.

just going to be a #$!&@ show troll job.

pacino wrote:The GOP wanted to make Sarah Palin Vice President in 2008.

Slowhand wrote:

Donald Trump wrote:This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!

Donald Trump wrote:With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special counsel appointed

Woody wrote:It's gonna be great when Trump gets got for something like NYC mob money laundering or RICO vs. any sort of Russian stuff

I can't imagine this is the first time the FBI has built a file on him

The lawyer, Howard Snyder, approached the casino cage and handed over a certified check for $3.35 million, drawn on Fred's account. Snyder then walked over to a blackjack table, where a dealer paid out the entire amount in 670 gray $5,000 chips. The next day, the bank wired another $150,000 into Fred's account at the Castle. Once again, Snyder arrived at the casino and collected the full amount in 30 more chips.

New Jersey's Casino Control Commission investigated the chip purchase the following year and said it was an illegal loan that broke the state's rules about casinos receiving cash from approved financial sources. The Inquirer wrote that a casino lawyer told the paper that "Fred Trump is ineligible for licensing, and Trump Castle should be required to return the money, a move that would almost certainly force it into bankruptcy court." In the end, the casino kept the money and the commission fined the casino the relatively small amount of $65,000.

momadance wrote:

Slowhand wrote:

Donald Trump wrote:This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!

Donald Trump wrote:With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special counsel appointed

Guess he forgot about Ken Starr.