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<\/p>\nYesterday, I got my electronic Christmas cards selected, the rough drafts edited, all the addresses in a row like my ducks, and scheduled to be sent. Whew. Is that ever a relief!<\/p>\n
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Wonkette – Manhattan DA Meeting All Donald Trump’s Favorite Accountants And Bankers!<\/a> Robert Reich – Why I don’t trust the mainstream media<\/a> AP News – Forbes editor says he testified before Trump grand jury<\/a> Food For Thought: Yesterday, I got my electronic Christmas cards selected, the rough drafts edited, all the addresses in a row like my ducks, and scheduled to be sent. Whew. Is that ever a relief! Cartoon – Short Takes Wonkette – Manhattan DA Meeting All Donald Trump’s Favorite Accountants And Bankers! Quote – And then there’s Rosemary Vrablic. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3712,3711,3721,4115,4748,4738],"class_list":["post-46273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-lies","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-money","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\/46273","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – And then there’s Rosemary Vrablic. Remember her? She was the banker who handled allllllll Trump’s shit at Deutsche Bank, which has reportedly been cooperating with the investigation since last year, when it was basically the only large bank in the entire world that was strangely willing to touch Trump with a ten-foot pole. (She’s since left the company.) The Post says Vrablic didn’t talk to the grand jury, but rather to prosecutors. They add that folks like these who weren’t employees \u2014 you know, like the indicted Allen Weisselberg \u2014 but rather who were, like, the point person for Trump in companies he dealt with, were people who “knew more about his company\u2019s inner workings than many employees did.”
\nClick through to an article<\/a> filled with suggestive tidbits. I don’t want to get hopes too high too fast … but this is good.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – I\u2019m often asked how I keep up with the news. Obviously, I avoid the unhinged rightwing outlets pushing misinformation, disinformation, and poisonous lies. But I\u2019ve also grown a bit wary of the mainstream media \u2013- the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and other dominant outlets \u2014 not because they peddle \u201cfake news\u201d (their reporting is usually first-rate) but because of three more subtle biases.
\nClick through to see how a pro does it.<\/a> It’s not as hard as you might think.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Lane said he was questioned for about 20 minutes by Mark Pomerantz, a former mafia prosecutor assisting in the probe, and was asked to confirm various things, including the methodology of the magazine\u2019s list of richest Americans and Trump\u2019s statements in the article that \u201cI look better if I\u2019m worth $10 billion than if I\u2019m worth $4 billion\u201d and that a higher net worth \u201cwas good for financing.\u201d
\nClick through for more.<\/a> This article didn’t mention it, but, as Wonkette pointed out, those who testify before Grand Juries in New York are granted immunity.<\/p>\n
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