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Avenatti Yields Financial Control Of Ex-Firm After Accusation Of Hiding Millions

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Charges Could Be Coming Down The Pike As DOJ Probes Cohen’s Bank Info Leak 1 hour ago

The Department of Justice is investigating the leak of Michael Cohen’s bank information, which revealed that he was making money off of his White House access, according to a Wednesday CNN report.

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The Lobbying Swamp Is Flourishing In Trump’s Washington 1 hour ago

At least 33 former officials — including ex-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke — have found ways to sidestep the administration’s ethics pledge. Of those, at least 18 are now registered federal lobbyists and the rest work in jobs that closely resemble lobbying.

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Amid Trump’s Indifference, DHS Is Wildly Unprepared To Stop Election Tampering

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NASA’s Opportunity rover is dead. Here’s what it saw during its 14 years on Mars.

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https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/2/14/18223868/mars-opportunity-rover-dead-photos

Lawmakers demand Nielsen punish top DHS official

The Department of Homeland Security’s top watchdog is recommending that the agency’s chief Kirstjen Nielsen punish a top official who is refusing to cooperate with the department’s inspector general as part of a high-profile retaliation probe, according to a memo released Thursday by a trio of congressional Democrats.

The Democrats — House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, and Senate Foreign Relations Ranking Member Bob Menendez — are demanding that Nielsen follow the inspector general’s recommendation to discipline Christine Ciccone, the assistant secretary for legislative affairs.

“It is outrageous that a senior Department of Homeland Security official has not complied with requests of the Inspectors General of the Departments of State and Homeland Security,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement. “Targeting of career government employees at the State Department, US Agency for International Development or any federal agency is unacceptable, and it is imperative that this kind of behavior not be tolerated.”

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/14/dhs-kirstjen-nielsen-oversight-1169849

Nearly Half of Republicans Think God Wanted Trump

Political Wire

A new Fox News poll finds that nearly half of Republicans, 45%, believe that God wanted Donald Trump to be president, with another 18% indicating that they weren’t sure.

“More than half of white evangelical Protestants — 55% — said that God endorsed Trump. Only 3 in 10 evangelicals said categorically that they didn’t think Trump had God’s explicit support in the election.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/14/nearly-half-of-republicans-think-god-wanted-trump/

Media Already Fucking Up the 2020 Campaign By Giving Trump a Pass on His Lies

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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/02/media-already-fucking-up-2020-campaign.html