Surest sign that a recession is coming

Surest sign that a recession is coming: Trump’s chief economic adviser calls recession fears “nonsense.”

Ron Klain, via Twitter

Incoming Democrat chairman: Dems will go ‘all-in’ on Russia, impeach Kavanaugh for ‘perjury’

• Also laments that elite Republicans are joining Democrats.

Lie, cheat, steal

LIE (more than any administration in the history of the Republic). CHEAT (2016 election/Russian Interference). STEAL (one or two Supreme Court seats). When will Republicans put country ahead of party? #CleanUpCorruption

Trump made some outrageous claims about German energy

Trump made some outrageous claims about German energy at the UN — and the German delegation’s reaction was priceless

NowThis, via twitter

Trump accused Germany of becoming ‘totally dependent’ on Russian energy at the U.N.

BERLIN — Out of President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, it probably won’t be the script that will be remembered by diplomats but, rather, world leaders’ laughter, caught on camera and shared in viral videos.

Growing cloud of illegitimacy

Well I think there is a growing cloud of illegitimacy that is hanging over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue related to the strong likelihood that there was some form of collusion and a conspiracy to sell out our democracy between the Trump campaign and Russian spies to artificially place Donald Trump in the presidency.

Hakeem Jeffries

Trump under fire for claim of ‘large scale killing’ of white farmers in South Africa

• The president’s unfounded tweet followed a segment on Fox News on the topic on Wednesday night.

Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud

Donald Trump probably would not have become president without his victory in seven of the 11 primaries held on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Now his presidency is in danger of being undone by Terrible Tuesday – Aug. 21, 2018. This was the day when his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was convicted of eight felony counts in a Virginia courtroom and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight felony counts in a New York courtroom.

Cloud of illegitimacy getting bigger by the day

There is clearly a cloud of illegitimacy hanging over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that’s growing bigger by the day.

Hakeem Jeffries

Transcript: Rep. Adam Schiff on ‘Face the Nation’

The following is a transcript of the interview with Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California that aired Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, on “Face the Nation.”

Rep. Adam Schiff says ‘plenty of evidence’ of Russia collusion hiding ‘in plain sight’

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday there is “plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight” regarding the Trump campaign and Russia. But he admitted that doesn’t mean “there’s proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a criminal conspiracy,” saying it would be up to special counsel Robert Mueller to potentially make that case.

A new study suggests fake news might have won Donald Trump the 2016 election

President Trump has said repeatedly that Russian interference didn’t matter in the 2016 presidential campaign, and he has suggested — wrongly — that the intelligence and law enforcement communities have said the same. His overriding fear seems to be that Russian interference and the “fake news” it promoted would undermine the legitimacy of his election win.

Was the 2016 election legitimate? It’s now definitely worth asking the question

We need to talk about a forbidden subject: the legitimacy of the current president.

President Trump is a Russian ‘asset’ and ‘We are in dire trouble’

• The legendary filmmaker behind ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and ‘The Princess Bride’ discusses his new film ‘Shock and Awe,’ press freedom and our erratic president.

Schumer floor remarks on President Trump’s weak attempt to walk back denial of Russian meddling and actions congress must take following Trump-Putin summit

[…] The president has refused to release his tax returns but these bizarre actions that he has taken which seem so to indicate that President Putin has something over President Trump, something personal, and it might be financial. We need to see the tax returns.

Trump’s crisis of legitimacy

• The president understands the stakes of the Russia story more clearly than most of his followers.

It’s not wrong to compare Trump’s America to the Holocaust. Here’s why

• Parallels lie in authoritarianism, racism, ethnic myths and dehumanizing language, not the Final Solution

Crook? Fake?

Twelve more indictments in Trump-Russia campaign collusion scandal. America deserves to know whether or not 45 is a crook. FAKE President?

‘We cannot allow’ ‘a potential criminal’ to pick a Supreme Court justice!

Just think, this was on Thursday night, so the week from hell for MSNBC’s Hardball and host Chris Matthews was far from over with. Thursday’s installment featured he and various guests demanding that “we cannot allow” “a potential criminal” in President Trump to appoint another conservative Supreme Court justice because he’ll keep Trump from prison and do his bidding “for three decades.”

Karine Jean-Pierre: Trump is guilty

Host Chris Matthews: “I want an answer. Do you think [President Trump] is guilty?”