{"id":35388,"date":"2019-01-18T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35388"},"modified":"2019-01-18T08:10:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:10:22","slug":"personal-update-1-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/personal-update-1-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update – 1\/18\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m in a big rush.  More tomorrow.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:34 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In an indication that he has reached his breaking point with the Speaker of the House, Donald J. Trump is offering a hundred and thirty thousand dollars to keep Nancy Pelosi quiet, White House aides confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to those aides, Trump floated the idea of a six-figure payment to silence Pelosi during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday night, in which he asserted that he had done \u201ca million of these deals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s effort to mute Pelosi faces a number of obstacles, however, including the fact that the person who has crafted such agreements for Trump in the past, Michael Cohen, is not available to perform such a service now.<\/p>\n

Additionally, any agreement to silence Pelosi could face constitutional hurdles, since one of Pelosi\u2019s principal duties as Speaker is to speak.<\/p>\n

Dang! Andy, I don’t think the Fuhrer can afford Nancy. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NBC News<\/a>: <\/font>Calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment grew among Democrats after a report on Thursday said he directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.<\/p>\n

BuzzFeed News<\/a> on Thursday evening reported that Cohen told special counsel Robert Mueller the president personally instructed him to lie to Congressional investigators in order to minimize links between Trump and his Moscow building project, citing two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter. The report also alleged that Cohen was directed to give a false impression that the project had ended before it actually did.<\/p>\n

NBC News has not independently confirmed this report.<\/p>\n

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, called the allegation the \u201cmost serious to date\u201d Thursday evening and said that his committee would look into the matter.<\/p>\n

This is direct evidence of a felony. Tick\u2026 Tick\u2026 Tick\u2026 RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I’m in a big rush.  More tomorrow. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:34 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: From The New Yorker: In an indication that he has reached his breaking point with the Speaker of the House, Donald J. Trump is offering a hundred and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}