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Look at this picture. It includes some people, like former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who were never at the White House, but who unceremoniously left Trump's orbit. Others didn't work directly at the White House, but have featured prominently in the Trump administration. And Manafort, by the way, has been charged by special counsel Robert Mueller with money laundering and filing false foreign lobbying reports. See if you can name all of the people -- each one of whom has left the White House or Trump's orbit -- in it. (Confession: I couldn't):

Plus ....



Hope Hicks to Leave Post as White House Communications Director FEB. 28, 2018


Gary Cohn to Resign as Trump’s Top Economic Adviser


Trump sacks Tillerson as secretary of state


这两位也快了: John Kelly，Jeff Sessions

还有：
press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
son-in-law Jared Kushner
national security adviser General H.R. McMaster

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...77aa4dab9ef_story.html?utm_term=.0967b28a798f

Five people with knowledge of the plan have stated that Mr Trump is eyeing up several replacements for Mr McMaster that include former US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton and the Chief of Staff for the National Security Council, Keith Kellogg.

The dismissal of Mr McMaster has not been officially confirmed.

Following the dismissal of Mr Tillerson, the Republican firebrand declared that he is “very close” to having the Cabinet he wants.

He stated: “I’m really at a point where we're getting very close to having the Cabinet and other things that I want.

“There will always be change.

“And I think you want to see change.

“I want to also see different ideas.”

The Washington Post, who claim to have spoken to White House insiders, reported Mr McMaster is not expected to be removed from his post immediately - Mr Trump is said to be willing to take his time in making a change in order to choose a suitable replacement.

 

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Mr. Trump campaigned as a businessman whose deal-making prowess would translate directly into reforming Washington. The argument helped propel him to the White House, but the Trump Organization has been a magnet for criticism from Democrats, ethics watchdogs and some Republicans, who expressed concern that he remained vulnerable to conflicts of interest because he did not separate from the company.

Before Mr. Trump was sworn in, he pledged that he would stay uninvolved in his businesses while in office but insisted it would be too punitive for his business partners for him to divest from the company altogether.

Among the Trump Organization’s holdings are golf clubs, hotels and licensing agreements for the use of the Trump name on properties and other products. While its holdings are complex, the company has always been run like a small, family-owned business; Mr. Trump brought in his three eldest children to help run the enterprise.

The Trump Organization is not publicly held, making it difficult to determine where it receives its money and invests it. The company has said that it never had real estate holdings in Russia, but witnesses recently interviewed by Mr. Mueller have been asked about a possible real estate deal in Moscow.

In 2015, a longtime business associate of Mr. Trump’s, Felix Sater, emailed Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, at his Trump Organization account claiming he had ties to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would help Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. Mr. Trump signed a nonbinding letter of intent for the project in 2015 and discussed it at least three times with Mr. Cohen.

A revealing comment about Russia by Eric Trump, the president’s middle son, also drew scrutiny when it emerged last year. James Dodson, a longtime golf writer from North Carolina, said offhand in a radio interview that Eric Trump, who oversees the golf courses for the Trump Organization, told him in 2013 that the Trumps relied on Russian investors to back their golf clubs. Eric Trump has denied those remarks.

Mr. Mueller was appointed in May to investigate whether Mr. Trump’s campaign colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 election and any other matters that may arise from the inquiry.

A month later, the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, threatened to quit after Mr. Trump asked him to have Mr. Mueller fired because the president believed he had conflict-of-interest issues that precluded him from running the special counsel investigation.

Mr. Mueller is also examining whether the president has tried to obstruct the investigation.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers are in negotiations with Mr. Mueller’s office about whether and how to allow his investigators to interview the president. Mr. Mueller’s office has shared topics it wants to discuss with the president, according to two people familiar with the talks. The lawyers have advised Mr. Trump to refuse an interview, but the president has said he wants to do it, as he believes he has done nothing wrong and can easily answer investigators’ questions.

At the same time, Mr. Trump is considering whether to bring on a new lawyer to help represent him in the special counsel’s investigation. Last week, Mr. Trump spoke with Emmet T. Flood, a longtime Washington lawyer who represented former President Bill Clinton during the impeachment process, about coming into the White House to deal with the inquiry.

 

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Vanessa Trump files for divorce from Donald Trump Jr.
By Julia Marsh and Emily Smith

Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump Getty Images

Vanessa Trump filed for divorce against her husband Donald Trump Jr. late Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“After 12 years of marriage, we have decided to go our separate ways,” the couple told Page Six in a joint statement. “We will always have tremendous respect for each other and our families. We have five beautiful children together and they remain our top priority. We ask for your privacy during this time.”

The president’s daughter-in-law filed for an uncontested proceeding, meaning she’s not likely to fight her ex for custody of the couple’s five children or over their assets.

Legal experts say the former couple likely has a prenuptial agreement.

“Prenuptial agreements and confidentiality agreements are in the Trump dynasty DNA so I would be surprised if Donald Jr. went into the marriage completely naked,” said divorce lawyer Michael Stutman, of the firm Stutman Stutman & Lichtenstein LLP. He is not involved in the case.

Vanessa and Don Jr., both 40, were married in 2005.

Page Six first reported that they were struggling with marital problems related to Don Jr.’s travels and controversial tweets.

The filing comes the same day as special counsel Robert Mueller subpoenaed President Trump’s family business, demanding that the Trump Organization release information related to Russia.

Don Jr. and his younger brother Eric Trump have been running their father’s company while he’s in office.

Nancy Chemtob, another family law expert who is not representing either party, said Vanessa could invoke spousal immunity to avoid testifying against her husband while their divorce is still pending.

Chemtob speculated that Vanessa may be filing for the split now to secure a financial settlement before the Mueller probe potentially puts her husband’s assets at risk.

 

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(CNN) Special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for business documents -- some of which are related to Russia, according to The New York Times -- a move that represents the latest evidence that the probe seems to have widened to include far more than simply Russia's attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

The details of the subpoena are not available. That fact makes it hard to know exactly what Mueller is looking for, what it has to do with Russia or the Trump Organization's business in the country and why he needed to subpoena the documents as opposed to simply asking for them.

But what we do know is that President Donald Trump -- and his lawyers -- have warned Mueller against a widening of the probe to include things that happened before Trump became a candidate or having to do with his real estate business.

In an interview with The New York Times in July 2017, Trump was asked whether Mueller looking into his personal finances -- not involving Russia -- would amount to a "red line"-like violation in his mind. Here's how he responded:

"I would say yeah, I would say yes. By the way, I would say, I don't -- I don't -- I mean, it's possible there's a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows? I don't make money from Russia."

Because of the lack of specificity regarding the subpoenas, we have no way of knowing if Mueller's latest request directly violates that red line. But whether or not it violates the letter of Trump's red line matters less than whether Trump feels as though Mueller's latest inquiry is a step too far.

Trump has been very clear about his feeling on the Mueller investigation, which he has described as a "witch hunt" and a "hoax." He has also been very, very clear that there has been no collusion between his campaign and the Russians. And that the Justice Department should spend its time looking into allegations against Hillary Clinton rather than wasting time on the Russia investigation.

Asked about the Times report on Thursday afternoon, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said only "there was no collusion between the Trump campaign Russia." She repeated that same line when asked a similar question about the red line later in the briefing.

Trump attorney Ty Cobb declined a request for comment.

Trump's Twitter feed lay dormant in the immediate aftermath of the Times report on Mueller's latest subpoena. But the context of this week suggests Trump may well be in a firing mood. He parted ways with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson -- via Twitter(!) -- earlier in the week and made clear more changes would be on the way.

"We're getting very close to having the Cabinet and the other things that I want," Trump said shortly after firing Tillerson.

Sources suggest that national security adviser H.R. McMaster, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson are all on thin ice, with some reports detailing specific replacements being considered for each of them. And Trump has made little secret of his displeasure with Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- specifically Sessions' decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

On Thursday, Trump pushed back on reports that a staff shakeup was imminent, calling it "exaggerated" and "fake news."
Will Trump take umbrage at Mueller's latest move and use it as an excuse to fire Sessions? Will he go even further, risking political suicide by firing Mueller? Or will he stay cool?

Predicting what Trump does on any subject is next to impossible. Predicting what he will do on the Russia investigation -- which has long been an issue on which Trump reacts more on an emotional level than an intellectual one -- is plain impossible.

 

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Washington (CNN) Former CIA Director John Brennan responded Saturday to President Donald Trump's tweet about the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, calling the President "a disgraced demagogue."

"When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America ... America will triumph over you," Brennan, who was CIA head under President Barack Obama, tweeted.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on Friday, just days before he was set to receive his pension after rising through the ranks and eventually becoming the No. 2 at the bureau.
Trump tweeted early Saturday morning about the firing, saying the axing made it "a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI."

"Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!" he wrote.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer responded to Dowd's remarks in a statement on Saturday.

"Mr. Dowd's comments are yet another indication that the first instinct of the President and his legal team is not to cooperate with special counsel Mueller, but to undermine him at every turn," the New York Democrat said in the statement.

"The President, the administration, and his legal team must not take any steps to curtail, interfere with, or end the special counsel's investigation or there will be severe consequences from both Democrats and Republicans."

Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman on the Senate Intelligence Committee, also responded to the news in a tweet.

 

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下一个该轮到AG Jeff Sessions本人被炒鱿鱼了。

 

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Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Former FBI Director James Comey exchanged barbs with President Donald Trump on Saturday, responding to the president's latest broadside by promising to reveal his take on Trump's ongoing struggle with the FBI bureaucracy "very soon."

In the wake of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' firing of former FBI official Andrew McCabe, Comey's name has been invoked by Trump and others, and his role in the affair has come under renewed scrutiny.

On Saturday, the president launched a new broadside against Comey, calling him "sanctimonious" even as he applauded McCabe's firing. Trump stated the former FBI chief was aware of the underlying circumstances that forced McCabe's axing, and implied he had a hand in the affair.

Comey, who since his dismissal last year is wont to using social media to take cryptic and subliminal digs at his former boss, issued an uncharacteristically blunt response of his own. In the process, he took aim at the president's integrity, and vowed the public would hear his response "very soon."

The former FBI chief is working on a book, expected to be published next month, that is shrouded in secrecy. Since departing the bureau, Comey has been circumspect in his public remarks about his brief tenure under Trump, but reportedly kept detailed notes about his interactions with the president.

Last year, Trump hinted that there might be recordings of his conversations with his erstwhile FBI Director — prompting Comey's now famous response to a Senate hearing: "Lordy, I hope there are tapes."

Both Comey and McCabe shared at least one thing in common: Both reportedly kept detailed notes on their conversations with Trump. A report in The Wall Street Journal noted that McCabe passed his notes along to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is in the thick of an investigation into Russia's attempts to influence the general election.

 

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[向问天]

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那也不能改变他被开除了的事实。

 

[向问天]

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Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Former FBI Director James Comey exchanged barbs with President Donald Trump on Saturday, responding to the president's latest broadside by promising to reveal his take on Trump's ongoing struggle with the FBI bureaucracy "very soon."

In the wake of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' firing of former FBI official Andrew McCabe, Comey's name has been invoked by Trump and others, and his role in the affair has come under renewed scrutiny.

On Saturday, the president launched a new broadside against Comey, calling him "sanctimonious" even as he applauded McCabe's firing. Trump stated the former FBI chief was aware of the underlying circumstances that forced McCabe's axing, and implied he had a hand in the affair.

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Comey, who since his dismissal last year is wont to using social media to take cryptic and subliminal digs at his former boss, issued an uncharacteristically blunt response of his own. In the process, he took aim at the president's integrity, and vowed the public would hear his response "very soon."

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The former FBI chief is working on a book, expected to be published next month, that is shrouded in secrecy. Since departing the bureau, Comey has been circumspect in his public remarks about his brief tenure under Trump, but reportedly kept detailed notes about his interactions with the president.

Last year, Trump hinted that there might be recordings of his conversations with his erstwhile FBI Director — prompting Comey's now famous response to a Senate hearing: "Lordy, I hope there are tapes."

Both Comey and McCabe shared at least one thing in common: Both reportedly kept detailed notes on their conversations with Trump. A report in The Wall Street Journal noted that McCabe passed his notes along to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is in the thick of an investigation into Russia's attempts to influence the general election.

这都多久了，他的书还没出版？

 

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那也不能改变他被开除了的事实。

你抬杠水平不断下降。

 

[Teddy]

是啥背景让 Jeff 下这一手？被川普要挟，还是再表忠心，还是树立独立能干的形象？

下一个该轮到AG Jeff Sessions本人被炒鱿鱼了。

 

[Jay Wang]

谁不服，闯王炒之！