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Washington (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's ongoing battle with House Republicans reached new heights Tuesday, as the No. 2 senior leader of the Justice Department plans to call on the House to investigate its own committee staff.

Rosenstein has butted heads with House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes for months over a subpoena for documents related to the Russia investigation, but the battle spilled out into public view Tuesday after Fox News reported staff on the committee felt "personally attacked" at a meeting with Rosenstein in January.
 
Justice Department officials dispute the recounting of the closed-door meeting detailed in the story, and Rosenstein plans to "request that the House general counsel conduct an internal investigation of these Congressional staffers' conduct" when he returns from a foreign trip this week, DOJ said.

"The Deputy Attorney General was making the point -- after being threatened with contempt -- that as an American citizen charged with the offense of contempt of Congress, he would have the right to defend himself, including requesting production of relevant emails and text messages and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that their allegations are false," the official said. "That is why he put them on notice to retain relevant emails and text messages, and he hopes they did so."

Another former US official, also present at the meeting, agreed that at no time did Rosenstein threaten any House staff with a criminal investigation.
 
A spokesperson for Nunes did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
 
The DOJ official said that no formal complaint about Rosenstein's conduct has ever been filed with the House general counsel or inspector general to his knowledge.
While Rosenstein and Nunes have been trading barbs for months for the California Republican's document requests, the two nevertheless went to dinner with a mutual friend on the evening of the January meeting.
 
Nunes never raised Rosenstein's conduct that evening, the official added.
 
 
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Bro, who gives a fuck if you starve your entire country, execute anyone who disagrees with you, including family members (that Jared fuck has been annoying the fuck out of me)...man....HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET AWAY WITH IT!!! PLEASE TEACH ME!!!!!

Also, how are the North Korean whores? Are their pussies slanted? Please have some bitches lined up to piss on me when I visit your republic in the next few months. Ask Vladimir!!! I had a blast getting pissed on while in Russia a few years back.

Fuck I love you and Vlad!!!!

-Dotard to Rocket Man

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23 minutes ago, Pods said:

Washington (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's ongoing battle with House Republicans reached new heights Tuesday, as the No. 2 senior leader of the Justice Department plans to call on the House to investigate its own committee staff.

Rosenstein has butted heads with House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes for months over a subpoena for documents related to the Russia investigation, but the battle spilled out into public view Tuesday after Fox News reported staff on the committee felt "personally attacked" at a meeting with Rosenstein in January.
 
Justice Department officials dispute the recounting of the closed-door meeting detailed in the story, and Rosenstein plans to "request that the House general counsel conduct an internal investigation of these Congressional staffers' conduct" when he returns from a foreign trip this week, DOJ said.

"The Deputy Attorney General was making the point -- after being threatened with contempt -- that as an American citizen charged with the offense of contempt of Congress, he would have the right to defend himself, including requesting production of relevant emails and text messages and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that their allegations are false," the official said. "That is why he put them on notice to retain relevant emails and text messages, and he hopes they did so."

Another former US official, also present at the meeting, agreed that at no time did Rosenstein threaten any House staff with a criminal investigation.
 
A spokesperson for Nunes did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
 
The DOJ official said that no formal complaint about Rosenstein's conduct has ever been filed with the House general counsel or inspector general to his knowledge.
While Rosenstein and Nunes have been trading barbs for months for the California Republican's document requests, the two nevertheless went to dinner with a mutual friend on the evening of the January meeting.
 
Nunes never raised Rosenstein's conduct that evening, the official added.
 
 

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25 minutes ago, scottsins said:

LOL if THIS is the catalyst for contempt of Congress action...

There have been 30 more blatant and more relevant acts on contempt by witnesses to date.

Nunes and his goons threatened to charge Rosenstein with contempt of Congress. Rosenstein warned them, if they did, Rosenstein would have access to discovery of their emails and text messages about it. Nunes' goons flipped out and bitched to Fox, claiming they were threatened.

Other officials back Rosenstein's recollection and Rosenstein is issuing a complaint to the House when he gets back. Paul Ryan is still speaker, so expect that to go exactly nowhere.

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Trump is engaging in his juvenile name calling on Twitter with De Niro because he actually is an actor with credibility among his base. Expect Russian propaganda mouthpiece Fox News to start running stories on De Niro and his “lib” views. These nazis are even more predictable than the Nazis. 

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1 hour ago, FondrenRoad said:

Yet he ran in 2000 for the reform party. The guy cant not lie.  There's no need at all to lie here and yet he goes out of his way to add a lie in parentheses. 

Trump is the anti truth. Everything he says is by definition a lie. Makes things easier once you realize that. 

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2 hours ago, Fozzz said:

Trump wants to build prison camps for kids.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article213026379.html

I can't find the right adjective to suitably describe the disgust and sadness I'm feeling right now. It's utterly heartwrenching to imagine this country I hold so dear would stoop so low to punish young innocents in such a manner for the "sins" of their parents. It's just sickening.

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And, now, for something completely different: It looks like the judge might let the emoluments case proceed. This shouldn't be overshadowed by the TrumpKim rendez-vous.

Judge in Emoluments Case Questions Defense of Trump’s Hotel Profits

GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge on Monday sharply criticized the Justice Department’s argument that President Trump’s financial interest in his company’s hotel in downtown Washington is constitutional, a fresh sign that the judge may soon rule against the president in a historic case that could head to the Supreme Court.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland, charge that Mr. Trump’s profits from the hotel violate anti-corruption clauses of the Constitution that restrict government-bestowed financial benefits, or emoluments, to presidents beyond their official salary. They say the hotel is siphoning business from local convention centers and hotels.

The judge, Peter J. Messitte of the United States District Court in Maryland, promised to decide by the end of July whether to allow the plaintiffs to proceed to the next stage, in which they could demand financial records from the hotel or other evidence from the president. The case takes aim at whether Mr. Trump violated the Constitution’s emoluments clauses, which prevent a president from accepting government-bestowed benefits either at home or abroad. Until now, the issue of what constitutes an illegal emolument has never been litigated.

Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and Maryland say that by allowing foreign officials to patronize the five-star Trump International Hotel blocks from the White House, Mr. Trump is violating the Constitution’s ban on payments from foreign governments to federal officeholders. They also claim the president is violating a related clause that restricts compensation, other than his salary, from the federal government or from state governments.

In a two-hour hearing, attorneys for the local jurisdictions and for the Justice Department debated what the framers meant by the emoluments clauses, citing definitions of the word emolument in centuries-old dictionaries and quoting Alexander Hamilton and other founders in attempts to discern their intent.

The Justice Department contended that the Constitution’s framers meant only to bar federal officials from providing a service to a foreign government and receiving compensation. For example, said Brett Shumate, a deputy assistant attorney general, the Constitution would prohibit Mr. Trump from signing a treaty in exchange for a financial benefit. But it allows him to profit financially from foreign diplomats who book his hotel because there is “no allegation that in exchange, he took some official action,” he said.

Judge Messitte repeatedly challenged that interpretation, asking whether the framers meant merely to rule out outright bribery or to ward off situations that could give rise to corruption as well.

“Is your argument that as long as the president takes the money without corrupt intent, it’s O.K.?” he asked Mr. Shumate. “It has to be an actual quid pro quo?”

Steven M. Sullivan, the solicitor general for the state of Maryland, argued that it would be absurd if Mr. Trump were barred only from profiting for personally rendering a service to a foreign government. That “would prohibit him from accepting $5 for carrying a diplomat’s bags up to a suite at the Trump International Hotel but would permit him to receive thousands of dollars from the same foreign government” for its hotel bookings, he said.

Mr. Shumate insisted that previous officeholders had engaged in the same type of behavior without a whiff of public controversy. For example, he said, libraries owned by foreign governments had purchased President Barack Obama’s biography, earning him royalties.

Penny Pritzker held onto to her stock holdings in the Hyatt Hotels Corp. while she served as Mr. Obama’s commerce secretary and while foreign governments rented rooms and held conferences at Hyatt properties worldwide, he said.

But Judge Messitte seemed unconvinced by that comparison to Ms. Pritzker. “It may well have been a violation,” he said. “I don’t know. No one challenged it.”

The Trump Organization signed a 60-year-lease in 2013 with the federal government for the building, renovated it and reopened it as a hotel just before Mr. Trump was elected president. Since then, the plaintiffs claim, the hotel has made special efforts to drum up business from foreign governments, including appointing a head of diplomatic sales. Mr. Trump himself regularly visits.

Judge Messitte has already ruled once in favor of the plaintiffs. In March, he rejected the Justice Department’s argument that Maryland and the District of Columbia had failed to show that they had suffered injuries.

If he rules for the plaintiffs again next month, the case would typically move to the evidence-gathering phase, which could open up some of Mr. Trump’s financial records to public scrutiny

But legal experts said the Justice Department is highly likely to appeal an adverse decision from Judge Messitte. The department could seek an emergency stay, arguing that the circumstances are so extraordinary that a higher court must intervene without waiting for the lower court proceedings to end, as is customary.

The federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has another emoluments case on its docket. In February, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit organization known as CREW, appealed a decision by a federal judge in New York to dismiss a suit involving Mr. Trump’s restaurant interests. CREW is also a co-counsel in the Maryland case.

In promising an opinion in just seven weeks, Judge Messitte appears to be acting with dispatch. As he noted during the hearing, federal judges are almost never called upon to decide a new constitutional question.

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3 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I can't find the right adjective to suitably describe the disgust and sadness I'm feeling right now. It's utterly heartwrenching to imagine this country I hold so dear would stoop so low to punish young innocents in such a manner for the "sins" of their parents. It's just sickening.

Trump and his supporters are in fact evil because they are willing to look the other way at human suffering staring them right in the face. 

They’ll deny it to their deaths though and in fact don’t recognize it.  They support legal immigration and states rights because they claim to hate illegal immigration and institutional racism.

It’s incredible the ways the mind will deceive itself to shield it from the truth.

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Fucking tent city-styled internment camps for kids...in the gotdam desert. If this goes through, it'll forever be a shameful blight on the soul of America.

These are the same evil idiots who drummed up fantastical fears about Wal-Mart concentration camps as a result of standard military training exercises.

No Gestapo in Bastropo! How 'bout Gestopo in San Angelo?

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3 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Fucking tent city-styled internment camps for kids...in the gotdam desert. If this goes through, it'll forever be a shameful blight on the soul of America.

These are the same evil idiots who drummed up fantastical fears about Wal-Mart concentration camps as a result of standard military training exercises.

No Gestapo in Bastropo! How 'bout Gestopo in San Angelo?

'Member FEMA camps? I 'member.

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22 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

Trump and his supporters are in fact evil because they are willing to look the other way at human suffering staring them right in the face. 

They’ll deny it to their deaths though and in fact don’t recognize it.  They support legal immigration and states rights because they claim to hate illegal immigration and institutional racism.

It’s incredible the ways the mind will deceive itself to shield it from the truth.

You are being too kind. Things like that are the payoff for many of them. 

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18 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Fucking tent city-styled internment camps for kids...in the gotdam desert. If this goes through, it'll forever be a shameful blight on the soul of America.

These are the same evil idiots who drummed up fantastical fears about Wal-Mart concentration camps as a result of standard military training exercises.

No Gestapo in Bastropo! How 'bout Gestopo in San Angelo?

I'm sure they got the idea from Joe Arpaio.

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5 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

That’s right, North Korea.  If you betray our trust in this game of nuclear apocalypse chess, you will have to face the same consequences as Canada.  Like them, you won’t be invited to Donald Trump’s birthday party!   And it will be the bigliest most terrific party ever, everyone will be saying that, and you will miss it!  MAGA!

Just look at the fire and fury they suffered when they defied Trump's demand to stop testing missiles and nukes.

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