Anonymous ID: 3729d5 May 9, 2018, 10:52 p.m. No.1356398   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6405 >>6418 >>6433 >>6450 >>6764 >>6990

NBC is helping Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti in their shakedown

 

Any doubt was put to rest this week that NBC is promoting Stormy Daniels' extortion campaign against the White House solely for the sake of taunting the president.

 

Michael Avenatti, the unofficial legal correspondent for the network, and who also moonlights as a lawyer representing Daniels, said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he would reveal more information about one of the most explosive threats he’s made against President Trump — but only if “Morning Joe” would devote a whole episode to it.

 

“You told me before we went on the air, not to ask you about the DVD,” show host Mika Brzezinski said to Avenatti, referring to a photo of a disc he tweeted in late March, suggesting it had images related to Trump and his alleged affair with Daniels in 2006. “You’re not going to release the DVD. But what is on the DVD?”

 

Avennati said he wasn’t going to discuss the DVD.

 

“It’s not important what’s on it?” replied Brzezinski.

 

“No, it’s very important,” said Avenatti. “We can have a whole show — If you’ll devote a show to what’s on the DVD, maybe we’ll release it.”

 

That’s how serious the public should be taking this: The lawyer for Daniels is using his client to get an hour of his face on NBC’s cable news arm.

 

Before Brzezinski could challenge Avenatti any more, her co-host Joe Scarborough chimed in, “Ms. Brzezinski, stop badgering the witness,” in a helpful reminder that they’re not there to critically interview Avenatti, but to allow him as much time as needed to screw with the White House.

 

Question: What about the millions of dollars in tax liens the IRS has placed on Avenatti's personal properties, business, and law firm? Is that of interest to anyone? Anybody?

 

Joe Scarborough: Stop badgering the witness!

 

Avenatti’s appearance on "Morning Joe" came the morning after NBC reported on documents he said he has that show a $500,000 payment made to Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, from a Russian oligarch. Avenatti said the payment was used in part for the $130,000 settlement Cohen paid to Daniels for her silence about the affair.

 

In reporting the story, NBC said it had “reviewed” Avenatti’s documents and that they “appear to support” his claims.

 

“Appear to support” is NBC’s way of saying: We don’t know, but we sort of trust our unpaid legal correspondent Michael Avenatti; but if he’s wrong, just remember that we only said “appear to support,” and we didn’t confirm anything!

 

Columbus Nova, the company that paid Michael Cohen and which Avenatti said is run by the Russian oligarch, rebutted Avenatti in a statement and said that it is controlled and owned by Americans.

 

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Columbus Nova's "biggest client is a company controlled by Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian oligarch," but not that it was under his watch in any capacity.

 

But even if it were run by a Russian, Avenatti also said that Cohen had received payments from AT&T, Korea Aerospace Industries, and the pharmaceutical company Novartis.

 

If Cohen was functioning as a lobbyist with access to the White House, so what?

 

None of it means anything right now, but because Avenatti said “Russia,” people are supposed to think it must matter.

 

We were reminded once again that this is a racket when Stormy Daniels did her part for #TheResistance and she appeared last weekend on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.”

 

In a skit with Alec Baldwin impersonating Trump — which is never funny, as affirmed by former SNL cast member Rob Schneider — Daniels said Trump should resign.

 

The audience applauded rather than laugh because it wasn’t funny. But either way, Daniels and Avenatti continued to raise their national profile and capacity to profit off a scam with the eager help of NBC.

 

Avenatti and Daniels have appeared on other TV programs as well, but so ubiquitous are their faces on NBC that Daily Beast politics reporter Gideon Resnick joked Tuesday on Twitter that the two are "living at the NBC studios."

 

It’s a money shakedown that should make Al Sharpton blush.

 

By the way, Sharpton also works for NBC.

 

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nbc-is-helping-stormy-daniels-and-michael-avenatti-in-their-shakedown

Anonymous ID: 3729d5 May 9, 2018, 11:49 p.m. No.1356794   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Philippe Reines: 'I regret' tweet about Trump Jr.'s sex life

 

ormer Hillary Clinton senior adviser Philippe Reines says that he regrets sending a controversial tweet about Donald Trump Jr. and his estranged wife Vanessa Trump, but will refrain from deleting it.

 

With time to think:

 

• I regret the Tweet. But I wrote it, I own it. So leaving it.

 

• Friendlies: I’m sorry to disappoint. It’s a learning moment.

 

• Vanessa/Valentin: Wrong to include you

 

• MAGATs: Take your vitriolic hypocrisy & shove it

 

• Jr: You ain’t seen nothing yet https://t.co/sbO4bzAPfy

— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) May 10, 2018

 

The remorseful follow-up tweet early Thursday morning, which also said Trump Jr. "aint seen nothing yet," came after Reines shared an article on Twitter on Wednesday. That article from Page Six claimed Vanessa Trump previously dated someone involved with a Latin gang.

 

“Vanessa being with a Latin King must’ve driven you insanely jealous. The machismo, the passion. Tough act to follow. Did you wonder if she fantasized about Valentin Rivera when intimate with you?” Reines tweeted earlier on Wednesday to Trump Jr. “She did. Every time.”

 

 

.@DonaldJTrumpJr -

 

Vanessa being with a Latin King must’ve driven you insanely jealous. The machismo, the passion. Tough act to follow. Did you wonder if she fantasized about Valentin Rivera when intimate with you?

 

She did. Every time.https://t.co/HvRyWgjVfA

— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) May 9, 2018

 

Reines faced a wave of backlash for that tweet, including from Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea Clinton. She characterized Reines' comments as “vile.”

 

Vanessa Trump filed for divorce from Trump Jr. in March. They have five children together.

 

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/philippe-reines-i-regret-tweet-about-trump-jr-s-sex-life

Anonymous ID: 3729d5 May 10, 2018, 12:27 a.m. No.1357064   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7114

Family of Prisoner Freed From North Korea Thanks God and President Trump for His Release

 

The family of Tony Kim, one of the three American prisoners released Wednesday by North Korea, is thanking God and President Donald Trump for being freed from captivity.

 

Kim, previously a professor at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, was detained by North Korean authorities in 2017 on charges of “committing criminal acts of hostility aimed at overturning the DPRK.”

 

After a year in captivity, he is finally on his way home, along with two other American men held prisoner, Kim Dong Chul and Kim Hak Song.

 

“We are grateful for the release of our husband and father, Tony Kim, and the other two American detainees. We want to thank all of those who have worked toward and contributed to his return home. We also want to thank the president for engaging directly with North Korea,” the family said in a statement, adding, “Mostly, we thank God for Tony’s safe return.”

 

The statement concluded:

 

We appreciate all of the support and prayers of friends and even strangers during this challenging year. You are dear to our hearts. We ask that you continue to pray for the people of North Korea and for the release of all who are still being held. Thank you.

 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made his second trip to North Korea on Wednesday to lay the groundwork for the president’s unprecedented summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as well as secure the release of the three American prisoners held in North Korea.

 

Trump announced the release of the prisoners Wednesday morning on Twitter, also saying the date ad place for the summit are “set.”

 

I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health. Also, good meeting with Kim Jong Un. Date & Place set.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018

 

“My family and I long to make contact with my dad,” Sol Kim, Tony Kim’s son, told Fox News in February, adding, “We want to tell him that he’s soon going to be a grandfather.”

 

Upon returning to the U.S., Kim will be able to see his grandchild for the first time.

 

https:// www.dailysignal.com/2018/05/09/family-of-prisoner-freed-from-north-korea-thanks-god-and-president-trump-for-his-release/