Bucky wrote:he's not doing any time. nor facing any charges. Mueller will brings mounds of evidence to the DoJ who will brush it off as no big deal and it will go no further. No Rs in congress will protest. Life will go on.

slugsrbad wrote:I can't wait for the spin. I'm sure there are plenty of Pro Trump people out there that either don't care or see Hillary as a bigger threat to America.

jerseyhoya wrote:I do think before you get too excited about him going to jail, you might want to look into whether, even if everything reported is true, any laws were broken.

slugsrbad wrote:I can't wait for the spin. I'm sure there are plenty of Pro Trump people out there that either don't care or see Hillary as a bigger threat to America.

Monkeyboy wrote:but really, what law was broken? It's a fair question.

I know the whole campaign is doing Putin's work, but there has to be a law broken before anything can be done to Donny Jr.

Monkeyboy wrote:so you don't know?

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:and this is just what the press has uncovered so far (some from WH sources!), I'm willing to bet that the press is sitting on some stories and waiting on approval from Mueller to publish (as to not ruin investigation) and there's probably all sorts of money stuff that they don't even know about since Mueller has subpoena power

I suspect we have more bombs coming in the next few months

The White House asked the White House Correspondents' Association to single out a reporter and criticize an article, WHCA President Jeff Mason said Monday evening.

Mason's comments were made at a WHCA town hall where White House reporters pose questions to the WHCA board.

"The White House has come to ask me specifically, asking me to intervene or criticize a news organization or a reporter… to release a statement criticizing a reporter’s story," Mason said, declining to elaborate further on when the ask was made or about what article.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — For the second straight year, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf let a state budget bill become law despite being badly out of balance as he presses Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature to approve a tax package big enough to avoid a credit downgrade.

Wolf's decision came in a statement Monday, after the collapse of down-to-the-wire negotiations and hours before the nearly $32 billion spending bill was to become law without his signature at midnight.

Wolf — who had stayed out of sight since Friday — wrote in his statement that he hoped lawmakers could come together in the coming days to responsibly balance a budget plan with a projected $2 billion hole in it.

The revenue package under construction in closed-door negotiations was to rely primarily on borrowing and involved another big expansion of casino gambling in the nation's No. 2 commercial casino state.
Wolf rejected Republican plans that leaned more heavily on one-time cash infusions, and pressed Republicans to support a larger package of tax increases, top lawmakers say.
Wolf had sought $700 million to $800 million in reliable, annual revenue, such as tax increases. House Republicans had been unwilling to offer a tax package even half that size, Democrats say.
Top senators said tax increases under discussion involved basic cable service, movie tickets, bank profits, telephone service and electric service. Another element of a proposed budget deal, designed to save money, would give the state the option to shut down unprofitable wine and liquor stores and transfer the stock to a nearby beer distributor to be sold there.

Wolf has pushed Republicans to agree to a production tax on natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, his third straight year of doing so. Pennsylvania, the nation's No. 2 natural gas state, is the only large natural gas-producing state that does not tax the product. Top Republican lawmakers have rejected that, despite its support from most Democrats and moderate Republicans.