Who ever missed Rachel, catch the rerun later. She has absolutely jaw-dropping

[shraby]

stuff.
On top of the having the military gas up to the tune of 11 mil. in Scotland, he is withholding the aid that has been allocated to Ukraine to help them hold off Russia. The aid will be released in return for dirt against the Bidens to help him win against Biden.

The damned grifter taking the country for a ride, he's bribing a country to help him win the 2020 election. He needs to be hauled up to account for himself.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Whoever continues to support Trump after this are not an American.

[joshdawg]

24. Or rather,

whoever continues to support trump is not American.

trump supporters are traitors to the U.S.

That includes about 80% of all republicans.

Vote the bastards out!!

[BlueMTexpat]

38. +1! eom

[spanone]

2. He's an absolute enemy of the state.

hands down.

[dchill]

19. Without a doubt.

Mobster Thief Traitor.

[triron]

44. +1000

[splunge63]

39. this

lock him up.

[DURHAM D]

3. and the top military officials are complicit nt

[Midnight Writer]

10. And it will be the military tasked to "investigate". So far, they are refusing comment.

This will be another case of not being able to trace this directly to Trump, to a legal certainty.

The Congress can subpoena, but the Executive will have to act to enforce it. Same with Judicial decisions. I am aware that the Capitol Police can be used, but can you imagine them rolling up to a military base to take their General in?

Another "Balance of Power" stalemate.

[Lonestarblue]

42. I assume some of this happened on Mattis' watch.

He should be asked about it the next time he is interviewed for his book tour. I am angry at the extra unnecessary spending when Congress just keeps giving more and more money to the military, but I find it very disturbing that the military was doing this to support Trump’s personal finances. That’s a level of corruption I did not expect to see, and it makes me wonder just what the military will do to protect and support Trump—like sending a nuclear bomb to Iran. It feels as though there are no controls anymore—it’s all whatever Trump wants, including allowing him to use funds for the wall specifically not allocated by Congress for that purpose. Trump has effectively taken away Congress’ power of the purse with nary a peep from any Republican.

[malaise]

4. ITTMF

That is all

[KPN]

29. Wait. Today you support it?

[malaise]

31. Huh?

I have always supported impeachment after building the case for impeachment.
Dems now have way more than the Mueller report. I am not a fast food supporter.

[KPN]

35. Oh, so IMTF is different than ....

[link:https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12442935|

Just messing with ya.

[malaise]

37. We're on the same page

ITTMF!

[Grasswire2]

5. and now NOAA is corrupted by him

The center isn't holding, peeps.

Open the spigot.

Step back and hold hands. Gonna get deep and choppy!!

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. Holding up our support to Ukraine to force them to meddle in 2020 elections...

seems like the much bigger story than the military stopovers in Scotland...

Our outrage fatigue is certainly being tested daily.

[avebury]

7. The video is up on YouTube now. nt

[DemocracyMouse]

32. Under what? Google what????

[MasonDreams]

8. I don't believe it. He's going to cancel elections and all signs of domestic tranquility.

[CentralMass]

9. Nothing will come of it. He does whatever he pleases.

[KPN]

30. Sure seems that way.

ITMF!

[cilla4progress]

11. I can no longer countenance anyone

who supports him.

[Ilsa]

12. And then there is the grifting.

Using the military to stopover and buy fuel for aircraft at retail rates to support the failing airport next to his country club in Scotland, and having personnel stay over at his failing resort.

[Ilsa]

13. The Sticher app also carries podcasts of her show. nt

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. Agreed! I hope other news outlets pick up on this Politico news.

She took it and wrapped it up beautifully.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. But no one is there to take it to the next level. Congress

Can say, we will investigate that...even for us, it seems so pointless. We have lost our moral authority, imho, since we did not declare on April 4th, that Dipshit's actions were impeachable. Where the hell is the emoluments investigation anyway?

[seta1950]

16. 😱

Future generations are going to ask us what we did to stop this,what in heaven’s name will we say?

[erronis]

50. Well, if the histtory books are rewritten as they often are in dictatorships, future generations

will think the dump dynasty is the best thing since burger buns.

And about all of those detentions and deaths of protesters? No word in those new history books.

[dchill]

17. He needs to be KEELHAULED...

Fixed it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. World War III is democracies vs mobsters and oligarchs

We're deep into a global war.

[gordianot]

21. Who needs nuclear bombs any more?

........When you can fly a nuclear missile that with a little tweaking will turn vast swaths into a large irradiated wasteland. Not only that Putin wants to share his Nuclear Cruise missile with Trump. Maybe extreme measures will get Trump out of hock to Putin and stave off 2020. Kill off excess population and you can still live like kings. A world worthy of Boris, Vlad and Donald just around the corner. Dystopia anyone?

[KPN]

33. I agree 100%. And the GOP is the cartels

goon force.

[randr]

20. If Bidens son has and issue that may cause problems

He needs to get it out front and do an end run around the lsos no matter the consequences.

[KPN]

34. Any issue related to Biden's son pale's

in comparison to the on-slaughter of bold-faced criminal and otherwise corrupt or totally unethical acts by tRump and his stooges. Yet, here we are ... concerned about a possibility of a little something that can damage a fully law abiding, ethical candidate. Too many American voters are so fucked up.

[randr]

46. Without question there is no comparison

My point is that "if" there is any "there" there it needs disclosure asap.

[KPN]

47. Understood. It's just extremely frustrating that

the the mainstream media tend to normalize trumpism and treat him/them as no different by and large.

[MadLinguist]

22. In addition to POS-45's increasingly predictable brazen rat-fucking grift,

this makes zero sense politically or business-wise for Ukraine. Surely it'd be far more expensive to wage an infowar against some foreign political campaign (a former US vice president running for president) than the aid that is being dangled and simultaneously being threatened to be withdrawn. Unless there are matching funds from Russia to do the dirty deed, or some other kind of backing, this shyte has no rational calculus. I can't bring myself to believe that Ukraine would go along with this, or even that the chief ass-wipe in the White House thinks it would, even taking into account all the mental instability he parades around like a baboon's hind quarters. It feels like he and whoever his cabal is want to pull the remaining truth-tellers into a narrative so outrageous and face-value ridiculous that stories about this crap will look like accounts of pizza-gate.

[7wo7rees]

23. I did the math for her.

Jet fuel is $1.70/gal.
C17's have a fuel capacity of 28,000 gallons.
Each fill up is $47,000.
For $11 Million to be spent, there would need to be 230 trips.
No freaking way.

I'm not saying $11 Million isn't long gone, but there were nowhere near that many trips.
How much did we pay to lodge the military at his Dump at Doonbeg?

They should be court martialed and he should be flayed.

[drray23]

49. are you sure there were nowhere near that many trips ?

From what Rachel was reporting, this is a routine supply route between the US and the middle-east. If they started diverting those C17 flights to systematically use that airport, it may not be that surprising.

[DFW]

51. Assume they paid inflated rates for both fuel and Trump's hotel.

The military is coming? Nothing too good for our men and women in uniform! Put them all in the Presidential suite!! What? There is only one presidential suite? Well, EVERY ONE of our service people deserves the presidential suite! For them, EVERY room is the Presidential suite. After all, the money IS going into the president's pocket. It costs £3000 a night? Cool, our taxpayers would never refuse only the best for our service people, right? Thirty people at £3000 a night? There's $110,00 per night right there.

[7wo7rees]

59. You're on it.

Padding the bill is standard for Trump. Using his government issued charge card is new, but his slow-witted grift is so open and low level. It's all about cash flow before his marks get wise.

v

[mwooldri]

55. Jet fuel a bit more expensive in UK.

Last quote I saw was about $2.36 per US gallon. But still 165 trips? Yikes!

[riversedge]

61. How many jets were used?? just asking as I do not know

[riversedge]

62. Politico retweeted the Maddow blog

Link to tweet

?s=20

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

25. Bodies are really starting to pile up on 5th Ave...

and still getting away with it.

[Funtatlaguy]

26. Our country has been invaded from within. Incredible.

[sagesnow]

27. I read your OP as "She has absolutely Law-dropping stuff"

Seemed apropos considering all the laws tRump is breaking.

[Pachamama]

28. I want to know what was on the C17's that landed in Scotland & where were they coming from

I’m dead serious and I think a lot would be revealed by those answers and might explain “why” they landed - not just to keep the Scottish airport Trump’s resort depends on.

Meanwhile the irony is not list that Trump is not only dismantling all the Obama era penalties against Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, but then bribe the Ukrainians and help him steal an election (again).


This is so beyond fucked up

[grumpyduck]

36. He gets all the blame (mostly),

but it's those assholes in Congress that are enabling him. Get THEM outta there.

[Ferrets are Cool]

40. And yet, he still sits on his throne.

We gotta keep our political aspirations intact, right? Or in other words, keep our powder dry.

[superpatriotman]

41. Exactly

What’s being done?

[Paladin]

43. Yeah, I'll withold my enthusiasm on this until something is fucking DONE about it.

I'm not holding my breath. We're going to dry-powder our way into a right-wing dictatorship before too much longer.

[Ferrets are Cool]

57. It does seem to be headed that way, doesn't it? nt

[elias7]

45. Yet another impeachable and jailable offense...

[triron]

48. I just say "To hell with with a system that allows this shit to happen". Idiocracy in action.

[Gothmog]

52. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

53. From last night's show

Link to tweet

[Vinca]

54. I can't believe there's still nothing about this on either HuffPo or the CNN site.

IMO, it's a huge, freaking deal. Maybe someone needs to put a face on it and locate someone from the flight crew for an interview.

[Rhiannon12866]

56. MSNBC also repeats Rachel at 9pm tonight (Saturday)

[triron]

58. She knows what the fucker is up to and it ain't no good.

[riversedge]

60. Maddow was stunned--she even admitted it. Please watch and pass it on

[triron]

63. Surprises me that even she would be stunned. She's the last I would have expected.