Reposted. On-target analysis by David Frum

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Reference: 5/30/19 commentary/analysis article link. No affiliation:

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/impeach-trump-not-yet/590578/

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3/24/19 article link: "Here Are the... Investigations President Trump Still Faces"

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(5/30/19 report (link)): "Trump Tweets, and Then Retracts, Statement That Russia Helped Him Get Elected"

(Updated:) Reposted: Oh, stop the never-ending scrutiny of the Trump admin. already.. You know, it's not like they operate like cliché Mafia dudes or something..:

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5/16/19 news reporting story link: "Flynn told Mueller that people tied to Trump, Congress tried to obstruct probe"

Story excerpt. Emphasis is added:

"...Flynn even provided a voicemail recording of one such communication, the court papers say...

No other details were provided in the filing, but the Mueller report noted that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer left a voicemail message for Flynn in late November 2017 that addressed the possibility of him cooperating with the government[:]

"[I]t wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal with ... the government," the attorney said in the voicemail message, according to Mueller.

[I]f... there's information that implicates the President, then we've got a national security issue [so] ... we need some kind of heads up. Just for the sake of protecting all our interests if we can .... [R]emember what we've always said about the President and his feelings toward Flynn and, that still remains."

In a separate court filing, Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered federal prosecutors to file a transcript of the voicemail message, as well as transcripts of any other recordings of Flynn including his conversations with Russian officials."

(Material incorporated in this post from the following unaffiliated source as well (link):
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show, aired 5/16/19)

Additional reporting (link, possible paywall): https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judge-orders-public-release-of-what-michael-flynn-said-in-call-to-russian-ambassador/2019/05/16/1e68712a-7825-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html?

5/17/19 update. ↓Copies, no affiliation:

Obama told him not to hire Flynn. Trump did it anyway.

Yates warned the White House that Flynn was compromised. Trump fired Yates and kept Flynn in place for 18 more days, until the media got wind of the problem and the White House caved under pressure to fire Flynn. https://t.co/tLX5qsmUMC

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 17, 2019

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Re Donald Trump's 'billion-plus in the red' business acumen: How long does it take to count to a billion..?

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Reference: Reposted 5/7/19 news analysis article link (possible paywall): "Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses"

Quotation from the NYT story: "In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer...”

5/9/19 update: ..Creepy and disturbing: (Article link) "Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen"

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Excerpted from this linked source article:

"The Question:

How long would it take to count to a billion?

 The Answer:

It would depend on how fast you counted.

Let's suppose, for the sake of the argument, that you could count one number every second on average. (Since most numbers in that range are something like "five hundred million, seventeen thousand, two hundred and fifty," this is being very optimistic.) In that case, it would take you a billion seconds.

Dividing that by 60 (and leaving the remainder in second form), we find that it would take 16,666,666 minutes and 40 seconds. Dividing the minutes by 60, we find it would take 277,777 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds. Dividing the hours by 24, we get a new total of 11,574 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds. Finally, dividing by 365.25 (the extra quarter-day is for leap years), we end up with an approximate total of 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds..."

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(Reposted) Holed up in our country's highest public office: An individual who would almost certainly be facing prosecution..if he hadn't slid in (..with Russian assistance)

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Reposted 5/6/19 news article link:
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/05/06/ex-prosecutors-trump-wouldve-been-charged-if-not-president

Article excerpt:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 former federal prosecutors say in a new letter that President Donald Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice for his acts if he were anyone other than president.

The letter was signed by more than 370 ex-prosecutors who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations. It was released by Protect Democracy, a nonprofit organization critical of the Trump administration.

The former Justice Department prosecutors say special counsel Robert Mueller’s report “describes several acts that satisfy all of the elements for an obstruction charge.” However, a Justice Department legal opinion says sitting presidents cannot be indicted...."

Link: The letter 

5/7/19 update: Closing in on 600 signatures (link),,,
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Reference: This post's headline: "Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections"

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12/22/16 link: "It's official: Clinton swamps Trump in popular vote"