FBI Raids Cohen Office, Speaker Ryan Resigns – Coincidence?

Posted on April 13, 2018 by theurbanllama

Federal agents raid Trump attorney’s office.

Our esteemed commander and chief, the Orange One, is having another rough week. Monday the FBI raided the office of Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, which was followed on Wednesday by the announced retirement of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Coincidental, perhaps, but more likely the raid was the final straw for the Wisconsin Republican, as the legal jeopardy continues to grow exponentially for Trump.

At first blush supporters of this chaos president might cheer the ousting of Speaker Ryan, but upon closer examination his exit might serve as a dire warning. Ryan’s resignation sends the message that he cannot lead his caucus through Trump’s haphazard style of mood swing policy making, and that the Republican Party is conceding the loss of the House of Representatives in November. If the Democrats regain power in the House, impeachment of the president will be priority one.

Ryan best find a good priest because he has some serious confessing to do if he plans to cleanse his sins for not calling out Trump’s harmful rhetoric and despicable moral conduct. Ryan crawling away from Washington with his tail between his legs does not excuse his cowardly behavior, nor will it salvage his tarnished reputation.

No one as young as Ryan just walks away from the job of Speaker of the House, especially a guy with presidential aspirations. It’s one of the most powerful positions in the world and two heartbeats away from the presidency. Clearly Ryan has no interest in facing voters in what would be a heartily contested re-election, where the Speaker would be forced to defend his failed leadership and support of this corrupt chief executive.

Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen.

Trump can crow all he wants about nearly having all the right people in place for his new leadership team, but there is no positive spin on having federal agents kicking down the door of his attorney. Cohen is Trump’s fixer. He knows where all the bodies are buried. Or in this case, how many extramarital affairs Trump has had and the amounts of cash Cohen paid these women to keep quiet.

The FBI is reported to have seized records including information on the $130,000 payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump was furious about agents breaking into his lawyer’s office, home and hotel room, calling it some kind of Gestapo-type raid and an “attack on our country.”

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller was Trump’s preferred object of blame, along with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, but the raid came as a result of a search warrant overseen by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan. The warrant was based on information discovered by the Mueller team and passed along to the state because it was considered out of purview for the special prosecutor.

The State of New York in turn found compelling evidence of criminal wrongdoing and acted. Due to a perceived likelihood that Cohen would either destroy or hide requested evidence, it was deemed necessary to execute search warrants instead of issuing subpoenas for the information.

This is a perfectly legal maneuver, and considering the various high-level officials required to sign-off on these warrants, it means probable cause of criminal activity was shown, and a judge was convinced that exigent circumstances existed supporting the issuance of warrants, and by doing so it was likely evidence of wrongdoing would be recovered.

The mind runs wild at the possible goodies Cohen might have tucked away on Trump that now reside in the hands of law enforcement. I just keep wondering when it will dawn on Trump believers that investigations like Mueller’s and all these other legal entanglements involving the president don’t continue churning up information for no good reason.

Trump keeps blanket denying that no evidence has been found. Yet numerous Trump aides have been indicted and pled guilty. A more accurate depiction of what has unfolded thus far is that Trump and those surrounding him are involved in so many different misdeeds, it’s taking this long to unravel the full spectrum of their guilt.

The beauty of this new saga is in the “strategerie” of how Mueller chose to hand off this damaging information to a state court, so even if Trump finds a way to fire the special prosecutor, this investigation, along with the one involving former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, will both continue moving forward regardless.

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Crowds Fill DC and Beyond in “March for Our Lives”

Posted on April 3, 2018 by theurbanllama

David Hogg, MSD student and one of the #NeverAgain organizers.

They came from Parkland. They came from Newtown. They came from Columbine. They came from Las Vegas, Virginia Tech, Orlando, St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, and Chicago.

People came from every corner of the country on March 24, to demonstrate in support of putting an end to gun violence. Yes in our schools, because that is such an inappropriate location for guns and murder, but also in our streets, urban or rural, big city or small town.

The March for Our Lives was sparked in the aftermath of the 17 deaths at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL on Feb. 14. Surviving students launched Never Again MSD, a student-led gun control advocacy group. Millions of posts on social media have borne the tag #NeverAgain, and commentary from the Parkland kids about the incident and friends lost have gone viral.

Before Parkland’s students spoke out, no moniker hung on this generation that accurately encapsulated their upbringing, but we know them now as the Mass Shooting Generation. Young people currently live each day under an assumed threat of death or violence in their places of education. School shootings have become so commonplace that educational facilities and daycares must frequently train for them.

Think about that for a second. As parents, we are willingly dropping our children off at schools, where a perceived threat of violence exists daily, and we’re okay with that. I may have an active shooter drill at work, but as an adult I realize the world is a dangerous place. That is a reality I was allowed to grow into understanding once my school years were well past.

Our current children have no choice. They were born into this violence and must attend school. We drop them off there five days a week, leaving teachers and school administrators to offer protection, in a situation where it is not possible to adequately be prepared for a child gunmen going on a rampage.

The students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas said “enough!” Enough of the violence, the funerals and hollow promises of change from politicians held hostage by special interest. By taking to social media, Never Again MSD gained a voice with its message of sensible gun control measures and pushed back against high-paid lobbyists from the National Rifle Association (NRA).

This injection of youth into the gun control debate has changed the dynamic of the conversation. The kids know this isn’t the atmosphere their parents attended school under. Laws are available to tighten lax firearms purchases, and adults have chosen to act against the safety of young people and instead lined their pockets with cash or re-election victories.

What’s interesting is the Parkland kids can’t be bought off by the NRA or quieted by Republican political theater. When they hear empty rhetoric they jump on social media and call “bullshit.” This has allowed them in slightly more than a month to see the passage of sensible gun control measures in Florida and organize one of the largest protest marches in American history.

“March of Our Lives” fills DC streets.

With help from the nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety, the student-led March for Our Lives rallied more than a million people to Washington, DC, and an estimated million more gathered in the 800 sister demonstrations held across America and abroad.

Some 96 people die daily from gun violence in the U.S. This march gave voice to those victims that do not make the front pages as part of some dramatic mass shooting. These are everyday people, some from good neighborhoods, others not from the best parts of town, merely in the wrong place at the wrong time and they got shot. Maybe it was a robbery, could be they caught a stray bullet in crossfire or might be for no reason at all.

“In their greed, the gun lobby and their politicians have tried to deflect and distract us, they have tried to twist what is so clearly a gun issue into anything else. But we won’t fall for it. We know that to only focus on school safety instead of American safety is to dismiss the thousands of tragedies in between the massacres. It ignores the people, disproportionately people of color, who die by bullet without even making a headline. Yet our politicians still lack the compassion to act, and when that cold inaction that continues to fuel this endless bloodshed churns and churns, it’s not difficult to diagnose the moral health problem of this country. Our nation’s politics are sick with soullessness, but make no mistake we are the cure!,” said Matt Post, a Montgomery County (MD) senior at Sherwood High School, during his remarks at the March for Our Lives.

I continue to be blown away by the poise on display by these young people. This was a massive stage, at such an emotional gathering, jumbo video displays everywhere, broadcast worldwide, yet they kept their cool, again. It was impressive.

The question is where does this energy go next and can it be sustained? These young people must keep up the momentum for another 200 days, continue registering voters, and push this conversation so it remains in a public forum, then direct their constituency to cast ballots against political candidates who refused to act on gun control. The NRA and Republican Party is wagering this youthful exuberance will drain away before November.

As approximately 70 percent of Americans don’t own a single gun, there is plenty of room in this conversation for gun control to become a national reality, but it will require a continued push. Sure the younger generation is impulsive and less patient, and while they may be naive, they don’t know they aren’t suppose to be able to accomplish so much so quickly. This gives them an edge.

One thing is certain, a little over one-year into Donald Trump’s chaotic administration has revealed telltale signs of a growing Democratic wave aimed at clawing back power in the midterm elections. If the #NeverAgain movement can capitalize on its message of sensible gun control and deliver the 18-25 year old voting block en masse, this movement could be the crucial piece that removes the NRA and Republican Party from power.

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Revolving Exit from Trump White House Keeps Spinning

Posted on March 25, 2018 by theurbanllama

People close to Donald Trump report the Groper-in-Chief is starting to feel comfortable in his role playing president. He is prepared to unshackle his gut instincts and remove any voices of dissension from the administration that might try checking his instinctual moves.

On March 13, Trump unceremoniously fired Sec. of State Rex Tillerson. There was no phone call or personal communication from Trump beforehand to smooth the move. Tillerson was forced to learn about being replaced from a tweet announcing CIA Director Mike Pompeo was the new nominee.

This move was long anticipated. Turmoil between the former ExxonMobil CEO and Trump existed throughout Tillerson’s tenure, as the no-nonsense Texan saw through Trump’s schtick, and called him out on several occasions. Rumored discord between the two spilled out into public in Oct. 2017, as reports indicated Tillerson referred to Trump as a “fucking moron” in a Pentagon meeting.

Trump cited disagreements on issues such as North Korea, steel and aluminum tariffs and the Iran nuclear deal – essentially all the big issues at play in TrumpWorld – as justification for the Tillerson firing. It also might have everything to do with Tillerson having condemned the recent nerve-gas attack carried out on a former Russian spy in England as being a “really egregious act.” Considering it’s commonly believed the hit was sanctioned by Vladimir Putin, Tillerson’s remarks are the harshest words to date from anyone in TrumpWorld against Russia.

The Trumpster wasn’t done yet. After the White House released a fabricated rendition of the circumstances surrounding Tillerson’s termination, Steve Goldstein, undersecretary for public diplomacy, released a counter-narrative to set the record straight. The White House did not look kindly upon this redirect, and informed Goldstein later the same day his services would no longer be required.

With the Stormy Daniels affair kicking into high gear on all cable news networks last week, and additional credible accounts of adultery coming from Playboy model Karen McDougal and former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, Trump needed a splashy move going into the weekend to change the headlines.

Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director.

Still fuming about the FBI being out to get him and pissed that AG Jeff Sessions had not adequately utilized the Justice Department to derail the Russia investigation, Trump decided to settle a petty score with Andrew McCabe, deputy FBI director, firing the 20-year bureau veteran late on a Friday night the day before he was scheduled to retire, denying him the ability to qualify for his full pension.

This also was a way to put Session in the hot seat. He could either fire McCabe or Trump would come back and fire Sessions for not doing his bidding.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) says McCabe was fired after an internal review conducted by the DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded McCabe misled investigators about his role in directing other officials at the FBI to speak to media outlets. The findings were referred to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), an office staffed by career officials, who recommended McCabe’s termination.

This report has not been made public, but generally it takes months to finalize such an inquiry, and it’s not uncommon for individuals to announce their retirements during the process. This particular report was sped up after it was learned that McCabe had kept memos on his dealings with Trump and that any possible testimony asked to give likely would corroborate fired former FBI Director James Comey’s accounts on conversations had with President Trump.

McCabe was a frequent target of Trump rants about being part of the deep-state trying to undermine the president’s agenda and legitimacy to hold office. The president conveniently likes to overlook the aspect that the FBI is a law enforcement organization and officials in his administration have committed offenses deserving investigation. Numerous Trump staffers have been unable to pass background checks or obtain permanent security clearances. Several are currently under indictment, and have pled “guilty” to federal crimes.

What Trump can’t square is McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, ran for a seat in the Virginia Senate in 2015, as a Democrat, and received financial assistance from a political action committee controlled by Terry McAuliffe, a close friend of Hillary Clinton.

Keep in mind Andrew McCabe is a Republican, but he put job before party when asked to supervise the FBI’s Russia investigation. McCabe authorized the wiretap on Carter Page, a former Trump adviser. That wiretap application was approved by senior DOJ officials, was re-approved under Trump’s Justice Department and signed by a federal judge based on evidence that Page was a Russian agent. Trump of course thinks the wiretap was unlawful and points to it as politically motivated by the FBI to inappropriately monitor Page and whoever he spoke with inside TrumpWorld.

It’s not that there were not legitimate grounds for McCabe to be fired, but the issue was already being addressed through proper channels. The FBI is a non-political organization by design, and Trump should have simply let it play out. Instead he vindictively injected himself into the process, making it political, because he knew McCabe would retire with full benefits and was too petty to allow that.

Flash forward to Thursday of this week when one of Trump’s mistresses, Karen McDougal of Playboy fame, had a splashy interview scheduled with Anderson Cooper on CNN. Trump again needed an announcement that would help cover any embarrassing revelations McDougal might divulge.

His solution, fire respected National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster. Like with all Trump terminations, the president lacked the nerve to actually contact the outgoing party ahead of time. McMaster learned of his demise through a tweet announcing the hiring of John Bolton to be the new National Security Advisor. This even took Bolton by surprise as the tweet rolled while he was doing a live interview.

Incoming National Security Advisor John Bolton.

Bolton is known as a bomb thrower. A political knife fighter, skilled at bureaucratic infighting. By all accounts he is an intelligent guy, but only sees things one way, his way, and that usually involves military intervention. If you liked going into Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and finding they did not exist, but got stuck in a protracted war, then you should love this guy. He was one of the Iraq conflict architects and loves conspiracy theories. He fits Trump like a glove.

And last but not least let us not forget to mention John Dowd, President Trump’s lead lawyer for the special prosecutor investigation. Technically he “resigned” but was getting kicked to the curb regardless because Trump didn’t want to be careful in dealing with Mueller and chose to disregard an experienced attorney’s sage advice.

The common thread in all this staff turnover is Trump’s dislike of being shown-up for the lack of intelligence he possesses. These are skilled professionals in their fields, and each was placed in circumstances by Donald Trump where they had no choice but to disparage his wishes because either they were poorly thought out, dangerous or potentially illegal.

Trump loves to proclaim his “smartness” but in reality The Donald is sharp like a bowling ball. He doesn’t read well, nor can he understand complicated scenarios requiring in-depth analysis. He can’t handle having more competent people around him who must help in his recognizing complexities and prevent him from executing brain-dead moves, so he fires them.

The implication of this staffing turmoil is incalculable. Preliminary arrangements are underway for the president to meet with North Korea by the end of May. It becomes questionable if that diplomatic breakthrough will even take place, as Bolton has voiced his interest in preemptively bombing Kim Jong-un. It’s also likely the U.S. will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal as both Trump and Bolton dislike the criteria.

Some rank and file Republicans showed a bit of spine this week in publicly condemning Trump on his congratulations extended to Vladimir Putin about his rigged Russian re-election, after U.S. advisors strenuously insisted against such recognition.

While plenty of Capitol Hill Republicans speak boisterously off the record about concerns with this administration, it’s unclear what it will take for them to go public. Meanwhile mixed messages are coming through from out in the country. Trump’s poll numbers are slightly up, yet Democrat Conor Lamb won a special election in a Pennsylvania congressional district Trump carried by 20 points.

This feels like it’s all coming to a head soon. Trump is insulating himself with like-minded individuals who will not act as a filter to his autocratic whims, while the Mueller investigation inches closer to West Wing occupants, and ghosts of the president’s past sexual dalliances are popping-up like spring flowers. Whether darkness or light wins remains in the balance, but Trump isn’t playing by conventional Washington rules and that gives him an edge.

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Reality TV President Struggles Amid Collusion and Stormy Daniels

Posted on March 23, 2018 by theurbanllama

Stormy Daniels with President Donald Trump.

This isn’t rocket science. Once a person is elected President of the United States, the days of banging porn stars and sweeping it under the rug are over. Donald Trump can’t seem to get that through his small mind. A president isn’t just accountable to himself for his actions and moral failings, but also accountable to the American people. It’s “our” business, and the free press has a constitutional right to pursue the chief executive and bring his misdeeds to light for public review. That’s the deal.

Trump thinks he can still operate like a New York playboy, where any news is good news, and sexual conquests are to be worn like badges of honor. Bless his heart. The Donald has the sense God gave a door knob. His reputation as a cad is well established, but instead of simply having a wife he is cheating on, now he disrespects the office of the First Lady. America is watching, and fatigue is setting in from the inability of this president to do his job and regarding his embarrassing conduct.

After a year-plus of his unhinged and chaotic management style, we’ve seen the Trump playbook of launching preemptive scandals to remove damaging headlines from the front pages.

Just this month Trump’s unprepared remarks on gun control measures after the Parkland shooting were met by gasps from Republicans, as they ran counter to the NRA’s stance and to those of responsible gun owners. To distract The Donald announced a batch of tariffs on American steel and aluminum to throw a tizzy into the economic world.

Gary Cohn, former White House chief economic adviser.

This caught his administration and cabinet agencies by surprise, costing Trump his top White House economic mind in Gary Cohn, who resigned over the brain-dead move. The collateral damage from this tariff announcement was a necessary evil to make the story sensational enough to hijack several news cycles and wipe away his ill-prepared statement on guns — and it worked.

Unique to Trump’s switcheroo strategy is the Stormy Daniels affair. This originally broke in January over the $130,000 non-disclosure payment made by Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Under any normal administration a president having slept with a hardcore porn starlet would be wall-to-wall coverage, but it didn’t catch on immediately. Likely because Trump already was seen as a scum bag and plenty of other scandal carnage was going on simultaneously.

Yet the story never went away either. Daniels was out making headlines and cash off high-dollar appearances at strip clubs around the country on her self-proclaimed “Make America Horny Again” tour. She seemed poised to speak about the affair before something re-affirmed her silence.

The leverage on this story tipped when Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, filed her own lawsuit claiming the non-disclosure agreement was invalid. This filing brought forth several tidbits of bizarre information, such as President Trump using the fake name “David Dennison” to help hide his identity, and that Mr. Dennison never signed the agreement. It also was divulged by Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, that the porn star was threatened with physical violence by Trump’s people.

In a brazen move, Trump’s legal team boasted Daniels violated her non-disclosure agreement several times and was liable for some $20 million in damages, a dollar amount requisite to petition moving the lawsuit from state court to the federal level. Certainly this is a more advantageous venue for Trump, and at the federal level the particulars that Daniels alleges can be better hidden by Trump’s team behind closed-door proceedings of an arbitration hearing. But in so doing, it made public that Trump was involved with Daniels, and that he had knowledge of the hush money she was paid.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney.

Cohen can argue all he wants about supposedly paying Clifford out-of-pocket. He misses the point. This isn’t about adultery or the campaign finance law the payment possibly violates. Stormy Daniels is a problem because she represents the systematic method Trump willfully engages in to silence misdeeds, his misdeeds, whether it’s cheating on his wives, failed business ventures or attempts to prevent staffers from leaking his abhorrent behavior inside the White House.

It goes to the question of judgment. Donald Trump’s unstable decision making and how he chooses to handle his affairs are no longer his alone. The American people and Congress are now party to his lawsuits, Twitter rants and who is hired and fired.

Consider Trump’s staff and the questionable individuals he has placed into sensitive positions. Rob Porter, White House Staff Secretary, was credibly accused by two ex-wives of physical and emotional abuse, along with a girlfriend who alerted the White House about his “anger problems.” Porter was forced to resign after not being able to pass a security clearance.

Porter’s girlfriend at the time was the White House Communications Director, Hope Hicks, who shares a likeness to Porter’s second wife, also “resigned” after compromising herself by trying to spin an official White House message of support for Porter, while still being romantically involved with the disgraced staffer.

Speechwriter David Sorensen, resigned amid allegations from ex-wife, Jessica Corbett, that he ran a car over her foot, put out a cigarette on her hand, threw her into a wall and grasped her menacingly by her hair while they were alone on their boat in remote waters off Maine’s coast, leaving her fearing for her life. Shockingly, Sorensen was having problems passing his background check.

Then we have John McEntee, Trump’s longtime personal aide, who was abruptly fired for issues involving gambling addiction and is under investigation by the Secret Service for serious financial crimes. McEntee also was unable to obtain a security clearance.

What happened to Trump’s promise of surrounding himself with the best people available? Like Jared Kushner who also can’t get a security clearance. Add into this mix Corey Lewandowski and Steve Bannon, who have their own issues of female abuse among other possible charges. And let’s not forget the numerous ex-Trump staffers currently under indictment, several of which have pled “guilty” to federal crimes.

I understand a few bad apples getting through, but with this administration it’s a few good ones that got hired (and Trump fires those). The remainder is a horribly flawed grouping, or worse, criminals, abusers and quite possibly traitors. This goes to Trump’s problem of judgment.

It’s getting really difficult to figure out what it is that prevents Trump voters from seeing what a piece of trash they voted into office. I suppose voter remorse is a bitch. It must sting the Trump faithful to look inward and confront the legitimate possibility they may have placed a compromised candidate into office who is sympathizing with a hostile foreign government.

Karen McDougal with President Donald Trump.

As the Russia allegations get sussed out by Mr. Mueller, America gets not one but two chances to watch former Trump mistresses tell their stories this week. Thursday on CNN former Playboy model Karen McDougal told Anderson Cooper convincingly about her lengthy affair with President Trump. She was paid $150,000 through third-party, American Media Inc., “The National Enquirer’s” parent company, for the rights to her story and then purposely shelved it, holding hostage the truth and hindering McDougal’s career.

Sunday, it’s Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels’ turn to detail her relationship with Trump and the actions taken to silence her. This is likely to draw record viewership on “60 Minutes.” The question remains will it be allowed to air, or will the president and his henchmen stop it.

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Former Trump Strategist Nunberg Goes Off Deep End

Posted on March 6, 2018 by theurbanllama

The face of fear was on full display Monday, as ex-Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg, opted to take his mental breakdown public over being subpoenaed by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller about his time working for Donald Trump.

From late morning into the evening, Nunberg gave interview after interview on cable news outlets and radio call-in shows. Instead of seeking discrete crisis counseling, Nunberg blew a gasket and removed any filter from his stream of consciousness, allowing unfettered commentary to roll off his tongue for public consumption.

He frequently dared federal authorities to arrest him, thumbed his nose at Mueller declaring he would not appear for questioning before the grand jury Friday, but several times turned to hosts asking rhetorically, “do you really think I could go to jail?”

Perhaps the biggest bombshell was the reflective insinuation that in all likelihood Trump did something during the election that amounted to criminal wrongdoing.

The low point was his trashing of the appearance of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. After calling in to Spectrum News NY 1, Nunberg said, “She’s a joke. Okay fine, yeah, she’s unattractive, she’s a fat slob. But that’s irrelevant. The person she works for has a 30 percent approval rating.”

The administration attempted to distance itself from Nunberg, same as it tried with the four former staffers under indictment, casting him as only having a minimal role with the Trump campaign, and possessed a “lack of knowledge” about the inner workings of the White House.

Nunberg actually was employed by Trump for years as his strategist, and played a crucial role in Trump’s decision to run for president and how Trump positioned himself as a candidate to take advantage of certain issues.

Nunberg, like Hope Hicks, is known to be a “Trump whisperer,” capable of translating the goings-on inside TrumpWorld. Supposedly it was Nunberg that came up with the “build the wall” concept, the Muslim Ban, and Trump’s early alignment to be “friendly” with Russia.

He was dismissed from the Trump campaign in 2015, over a series of controversial social media posts. Regardless, Nunberg was uniquely positioned to see any contact Trump had with Russians in the years before running for office, and how much direct contact might have occurred once Trump Tower shifted gears into becoming a quasi-political organization.

Having perviously sat voluntarily for a FBI interview, it’s understandable that Nunberg might have believed he was in the clear. To then get hit with a subpoena from Mueller is something all in TrumpWorld fear. Nunberg didn’t even get a shot at volunteering for a deposition. Instead, Mueller compelled his appearance before a grand jury, where no attorney will be allowed to assist with answering questions.

Either this is an overt intimidation tactic or Nunberg has something juicy to offer the investigation. Regardless the issuance of a formal subpoena is a warning shot to others in the Trump universe who might not want to cooperate or answer questions truthfully.

This certainly creates a financial hardship for Nunberg. He must comb through and produce all emails, correspondence, invoices, telephone logs, calendars and any other pertinent records. Along with this will come the necessity for serious legal representation, and that is pricey.

It seems clear something happened to spook Nunberg. Either he started looking through his emails and found something overtly damaging, or possibly he was personally threatened. This guy is not the big fish everyone is trying to catch, but he has information, and was offered immunity so not to be constrained by any potential wrongdoings of his own.

Let’s be honest, the guy got fired for posting racial slurs on Facebook. Imagine what his private conversations look like. The mere possibility that his loose talk could be leaked to the public would grip most anyone with fear. Additionally, there likely could be inappropriate or criminally negligent content attributable to Trump himself or Trump family members.

Roger Stone

Interestingly, Nunberg’s mentor is none other than Roger Stone, who is Trump’s longest running advisor. Stone is under scrutiny in the collusion investigation for his statements about Hilary Clinton’s emails being hacked and those of John Podesta, the former White House chief of staff and chairman of Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Supposedly Stone left the Trump campaign in Aug. 2015. At issue is whether he secretly worked behind the scenes for Trump through 2016. It has been established that Stone communicated with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame, and was quite vocal about WikiLeaks having dirt on Clinton and the Clinton campaign.

Stone tweeted on Aug. 21, 2016, that John Podesta would be next. It’s curious how Stone would know that at that time. On Oct. 7 this magically came true, hours after the Access Hollywood tape went public. Podesta’s emails began being released that day and continued to be released in batches each day after that until election day. WikiLeaks published over 20,000 pages of Podesta’s emails.

Stone’s involvement and his fortune-teller abilities to see the future are beyond suspicious. If Mueller is climbing the ladder to Trump, Mr. Nunberg is perhaps the next wrung, and is about to get squeezed in order to reach Roger Stone. If Stone is implicated for complicity, then the real heat cranks up on Donald Trump. Stone will be in the unenviable position of either going to jail, or cutting a deal to deliver Trump’s head on a platter.

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17 Shot Dead at High School in South Florida

Posted on February 28, 2018 by theurbanllama

On Valentine’s Day in Parkland, FL, a troubled 19-year old took an Uber to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with an assault rifle, murdering 17 people. This came two weeks after a 15-year old killed two classmates at Marshall County High School in Kentucky.

The shooting took place shortly after 2PM, as Nikolas Cruz, a former student who was expelled for disciplinary reasons, entered with an AR-15 rifle and countless magazines, causing panicked students to hide inside classrooms and closets – as others raced for the exits.

Cruz was known to be a troubled student who was bullied and came from a broken home. The school had dealt with his behavior problems before, including threats against students. He was known to possess guns, and in the aftermath of the shooting it was discovered Cruz posted prophetic statements on social media of threatened violence, including pictures of him posing with his firearms.

As news spread of an active shooter at the local high school, students used their phones to communicate with families, as frantic parents raced to the scene to rescue their kids.

Cruz utilized a tactical maneuver of setting off the fire alarm at the school to force students out of their classrooms, where they could more easily be targeted – a technique copied from previous school shootings. Chaos erupted in the hallways as the unexpected deafening echo of semi-automatic gunfire interrupted what appeared to be a routine fire alarm drill.

Life and death was randomly swapped, as resourceful teachers crammed frightened students into barricaded classrooms to prevent the shooter from entering – while others answered the ultimate call of bravery, shielding children with their bodies from gunfire, trading their lives in the process.

In the end 17 were killed and more than 20 hurt in the six-minute attack. Similar to the recent Kentucky school shooting, the Florida suspect neglected to take his own life. Cruz escaped the scene by blending in with fleeing students. He was apprehended two miles from the scene in a residential area of Coral Springs at 3:41PM, after first stopping at a Subway restaurant inside a Walmart, where he purchased a drink, and then sat for a while at a nearby McDonald’s.

What we have learned in the weeks after this tragedy is it was preventable. The Broward County Sheriff acknowledged some two dozen calls were received about Cruz. Public records indicate at least 45 calls were made in reference to Cruz, his brother or the family’s home between 2008 to 2017. Anonymous tips reported Cruz threatened to shoot up the school, that he collected knives and guns, and that he might be a “school shooter in the making.” A peer counselor notified school administrators that Cruz attempted suicide and indicated he intended to buy a gun.

The FBI Tip Line got a call in January from a concerned citizen close to Cruz detailing his erratic behavior, gun ownership, expressed desire to kill people, disturbing social media posts, and warned about a potential to perpetrate a school shooting. This information was not forwarded to the FBI’s Miami Field Office.

There is plenty of blame to share between the school, social services, FBI and the sheriff’s office. It seems everyone had Cruz on their radars but no one connected the dots.

We all as a society own some of the blame here, as collectively we have acquiesced in allowing government to restrict funding and access to mental health for Americans. To save cash on care, as a country America has shrugged off the issue of closing mental health hospitals to instead push those that previously would qualify for treatment to be dealt with through law enforcement. The problem, like in Parkland, is there are consequences for not acting fast enough.

In President Trump’s statement after the shooting he refused to even use the word “gun,” and instead attempted to refocus the debate away from guns as a problem and dump all the responsibility on a breakdown in mental health.

No doubt there is a mental health angle to the gun problem, but Republicans are being disingenuous in trying to make this the sole issue while neglecting the unchecked access to assault weapons.

If Trump and the Republicans care so much about mental health as a cure to America’s gun violence, then why did the president slash Medicaid spending by more than 22 percent? Medicaid funds a quarter of all mental health care in America. The only logical conclusion is Trump and his Republican cronies don’t care, and recognize that mental health isn’t the true cause behind America’s gun epidemic.

Amid this tragedy some beauty has grown with the advent of young people entering the social and political debate over school safety and gun control. The voices from survivors of Parkland have traversed the globe, and students far and wide have answered the call to challenge the status quo of disdainful politicians.

Adolescents and young adults are speaking with great authenticity and commitment about school shootings not being tolerated, and the immediate implementation of sensible gun control measures. From the soiled hallways at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Never Again MSD was organized, a student-led gun control advocacy group. They along with kids and adults across the nation have seized the gun control narrative away from complacent politicians by taking to social media and to the streets with a personal message of #NeverAgain.

Common sense gun control is not difficult. People have a constitutional right to bear arms, but there is every reason to background check every purchase of a firearm. Guns are deadly weapons and people have failed to behave responsibly with their storage, sale and use. Bump stocks and large-capacity magazines need to be outlawed, as promised after last year’s Las Vegas massacre, and the age limit on the purchase of rifles needs to be raised from 18 to 21.

Cruz had some 50-plus complaints and warnings submitted about him, yet this disturbed kid was allowed to lawfully buy a weapon of mass destruction. There is no legitimate reason the general public needs access to military-grade assault-style weapons. A shotgun, handgun or hunting rifle, sure. An AR-15, no way. But trying to once again pass an assault weapons ban would be a long uphill fight.

Blame for all of this lies squarely at the feet of the National Rifle Association and the current breed of spineless Republican politicians, who are bought and paid for by this militant gun lobby that are made rich from representing gun manufacturers.

I do not understand where the courage and leadership has gone from the Republican Party. They are willing to trade America’s children, school safety, terror incidents and patriotism for loyalty to the NRA, and in return their campaign coffers get filled with tainted special interest contributions.

I know Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is fighting for his life, but we sure could use him back in Washington about now. The rest of his caucus, Trump, McConnell and Ryan included, are cowards. They shiver in a dark corner as the NRA admonishes them to “DO NOTHING!”

All this death over the fear of the NRA giving a candidate a failing grade or running advertisements against them in their districts. This isn’t about the right to bear arms. This is about gun manufacturers. Their stocks go up with the death of our children.

Adults have had their chance to fix this problem and for selfish reasons refused. This time the kids in Parkland called “bullshit.” They don’t want to hear platitudes about federal, state and local officials willing to work together. Save the ribbons, memorials and moments of silence. With a consolidated voice the #NeverAgain crowd says, fix it, NOW, or pay the price come election day.

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A Cuban Sandwich Worthy of Super Bowl Contention

Posted on February 4, 2018 by theurbanllama

For anyone hosting a Super Bowl party or who has a hungry horde at home ready to feast on tasty treats Sunday leading up to the big game – try offering this marinated Cuban sandwich on your menu as a fun and interesting alternative to the standard football fare.

This pork-based recipe is a blast to put together and in terms of prep, really there is very little. It’s a slow cooker recipe, and takes about five hours for the meat to tenderize and marinate through. After that it’s easy to render the pulled pork and serve up the accompanying side ingredients to make these Cubano delicacies. Simply set out the fixings on a serving table and folks can put their own together at their convenience throughout what will be a long day of football watching. Whether for the Philadelphia Eagles or New England Patriots, we can all agree this Cuban sandwich will satisfy a hungry appetite.

MARINATED CUBAN PORK SANDWICH

Ingredients: 4-6 pound Boston butt pork roast (or boneless pork shoulder); 3 tablespoons olive oil; 1 teaspoon black pepper; 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning; 1 teaspoon garlic powder; 1 teaspoon onion powder; 1 sweet onion (sliced); 1 lime; 1 package Campbell’s Slow Cooker Hawaiian Luau Sauce; 1 pound thick cut hickory bacon (preferably pepper bacon); 16 ounce bottle of Mt. Olive hamburger dill chips; 16 ounces sliced swiss cheese; 1 jar Dijon mustard; 2 packages sourdough sandwich rolls.

This recipe originally called for a pork shoulder roast, but for a barbecue-type recipe that needs to be pull apart tender, I’m a big fan of using a Boston butt pork roast instead, and it’s cheaper. This cut comes from high on the hog, above the shoulder-blade. There is tons of marbling in it from all the muscle groups and gobs of connective tissue. That is tough stuff until it’s slow cooked, and then it melts away and naturally bastes the meat in all sorts of savory juices.

Take the Boston butt and trim excess fat. There often is a thick layer on the bottom that can easily be sliced away. Heat a large skillet with three tablespoons olive oil over medium heat; brown each side of the Boston butt, 2 minutes per side.

While roast is browning place spices into a small bowl and combine. Once the Boston butt is browned, sprinkle all sides with spice mixture and place into slow cooker.

Peel and roughly cut the onion into quarters, spreading the pieces around inside the slow cooker; open the Campbell’s Hawaiian Luau Sauce and pour atop the Boston butt; squeeze half of a lime into the slow cooker; set temperature on high and cook for five hours.

With around 30 minutes of cooking time left, take out the pound of bacon and cut in half, then cook all in a pan over medium heat; set aside for later use.

Place roast on cutting board after cooking. The meat should be tender enough to shred using two forks being pulled in opposite directions; place rendered meat in a serving dish and cover to keep warm.

To make a Cuban sandwich, take one of the sourdough rolls, place four or five pickles on the bottom layer; add a heaping serving of pork; top that with two half pieces of bacon and finish with a slice of Swiss cheese. Spread Dijon mustard on the top portion of the roll and you are all set.

My recommendation would be to then place the full sandwich into a panini grill or a George Foreman grill and press or 90 seconds. If this is not available, open the sandwich in a toaster oven or conventional oven with the bacon and Swiss on the top half of the roll and pork on the other half and toast until the cheese has melted.

Depending on serving size, this should provide near 16 sandwiches.

Enjoy the game everyone!

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Trump Declassifies Rep. Nunes Memo to Help Obstruct Russian Investigation

Posted on February 2, 2018 by theurbanllama

President Donald Trump today declassified and released a summary memo authored by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) against the recommendations of the FBI, Justice Department and the greater intelligence community – in an attempt to refute the legitimacy of damaging information collected against the president.

This highly politicized Nunes memo was issued by the chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, to suggest information collected by Fusion GPS, known as the Steele dossier, was tainted in part due to payment from Democrats to use it as opposition research. This dossier was later submitted into evidentiary review to secure a warrant against Carter Page, a former Trump foreign policy advisor who is under investigation as an agent of a foreign government. It further insinuated that the Mueller investigation into the president’s possible collusion with Russia was a fabrication by a corrupt FBI.

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.

The implication of these charges sets up a scenario where President Trump could use this postulation as cover to fire Rod Rosenstein, deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department. Rosenstien is the boss of Robert Mueller, who heads the special counsel investigation into Trump’s collusion and possible obstruction crimes. With Rosenstein out of the way, Trump could more easily manipulate the investigation or fire Mueller.

Review of the memo has garnered bi-partisan criticism for its poor construction and failure to delegitimize any aspect of the Mueller investigation or offer Trump insulation from its findings. Largely the memo is a non-bombshell, a politically motivated hit job authorized by Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), containing cherry-picked information without providing the context submitted to FISA judges.

It’s telling no argument was made that the underlying evidence that led to granting the FISA warrant on Page was false or incorrect. It only suggested additional information should have been used other than the controversial Steele dossier, omitting that a great deal of other evidence was provided in support of the FISA warrant. Nor is there any legal protection afforded to an offender for being implicated by damaging evidence simply because the party that supplied it may not “like” the suspect.

Former Trump aide Carter Page.

There are plenty of constitutional protections for Carter Page against unlawful search and seizure. If Trump and his conspirators think something here was untoward, Page’s attorney could go back to court and argue those merits in privacy. It would prevent the public airing of classified information that potentially is harmful to America, and if founded would nullify the evidence and poison any subsequent fruit discovered from its use.

By not seeking this available legal remedy it tips Trump’s hand that he wants to conflate a bogus conspiracy theory about improperly collected surveillance to then allow him to shut down the entire Mueller investigation, since it’s hurtful to the president’s ruse of no obstruction. This of course fails to take into account that four individuals associated with the Trump campaign have already been indicted, two of which have pled guilty.

Republican Congressman Devin Nunes (CA-22).

The president’s actions today to declassify and release the Nunes memo are unprecedented by a chief executive and subvert democracy by blatantly disregarding the intelligence and law enforcement communities. The American government has time-tested norms and traditions that offer executive protections from abuses of power and commingling separate branches of government for perverse uses to further corruption. Donald Trump treats norms and traditions like speed bumps, and blows right through them.

If Trump has nothing to hide, then why does he keep injecting himself into this investigation? Mueller has not yet revealed any direct evidence of Trump’s culpability, but when looking at who has been arrested and then inferring the connection of those dots higher, it becomes plausible the president has exposed himself to wrongdoing.

Trump consistently interferes with government agencies and key players who are seeking the truth about his campaign’s contacts with Russians. While there are a variety of important issues the president should be working on like negotiating a budget, immigration reform, building his stupid wall, infrastructure, the opioid epidemic – yet instead he consciously devotes significant time and uses the stature of the presidency to obfuscate and obstruct the independent investigation into his Russian contacts.

We’ve seen Trump metastasize his guilt by seeking loyalty oaths from agency leaders, firing the head of the FBI without cause, firing the acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, without cause, forcing the resignation of 46 U.S. attorneys general, and forcing the retirement of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

What does the president have to hide?

Ultimately Trump’s actions indicate guilt and are the maneuvers of an individual feeling threatened by a penetrating investigation that the president needs to choke off before an impeachable offense is revealed.

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Two Students Killed in Kentucky High School Shooting

Posted on January 30, 2018 by theurbanllama

As students were milling about in the commons area before classes began at Marshall County High School last Tuesday, a 15-year old classmate entered with a handgun and methodically opened fire, killing two and injuring 18.

One child, 15-year old Bailey Nicole Holt, died at the scene, and Preston Ryan Cope, 15, passed away after being airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Four others injured were also airlifted to Vanderbilt, about 120 miles south, which is the nearest Level 1 trauma center. All were boys aged 15-18, and in critical condition.

“We had three injuries – (2) gunshot wounds to the head – one did not survive unfortunately. It was a traumatic injury that was non-survivable to start with,” said lead trauma surgeon Oscar Guillamondegui. “We had an injury to the arm which is successfully being treated and the final injury was to the chest and abdomen.”

The other injury was not gunshot related. All four are going to survive, as the injuries were fairly minor.

The suspect, Gabe Parker, being led out of Marshall County High School in custody.

The suspect is 15-year old sophomore, Gabe Parker, who was arrested at the school by Marshall County deputies. The boy will be charged with two counts of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder, according to Kentucky State Police. It is believed he will be tried as an adult.

The shooting occurred just before 8AM in a crowded atrium in the center of the school where students gathered to eat breakfast and talk at that hour of the morning in this rural southwestern Kentucky high school located in Benton. Witnesses said the shooter appeared to know what he was doing and was determined in his acts – pulling the trigger as his arm jerked upward from the recoil, bang, bang, bang. He kept firing, picking targets at random, until running out of ammunition, when he took off running to try and get away.

Student Bryson Conkwright witnessed the shooting from 4 feet away and said the shooter looked lifeless and didn’t think twice about what he was doing. “You could tell he wasn’t thinking about it. He didn’t hesitate. He pulled it out and he just did it. He didn’t care. Something happened to him. He was…I don’t get it. Something happened to him that made him want to do that,” said Conkwright.

The call went out, “Five shots fired. Four down at the high school at Marshall … one unresponsive.” First-responders arrived nine minutes after the shooting began. Hundreds of students fled for their lives in a mad scramble, leaving behind backpacks, purses and cellphones in the commons area. Students slipped in spilled coffee and soft drinks, tripping over other students and forgotten shoes as they ran for safety.

From left: Bailey Holt and Preston Cope.

One of the first state troopers to arrive Tuesday morning saw the young woman who died and initially thought she was his daughter, who had been dropped off at the school just before the shooting.

Inside the commons area was a bloody mess, with bodies lying about on the ground. Abandoned cell phones were going off in differing ring tones as families were frantically calling to check on their kids.

Police found the weapon, a pistol, in the back side of the high school. Gabe Parker, the student accused of the shooting, had run to a room in the school where other kids were hiding and attempted to blend in and talk with other students as if nothing had happened. Sheriff’s deputies apprehended him moments later and he was led away in handcuffs.

There is talk that Parker was bullied at the school, but that remains an open question. Students who had classes with him said Parker was quiet and kept to himself, was a member of the band, did what he was asked to do in class and did not cause discipline problems.

Scene from a candlelight vigil to honor the fallen and comfort survivors.

My heart breaks for the parents of these two 15-year olds who were killed. The enormity of such a sudden and tragic loss – how does one rebound from that? The rage I would feel and self-doubt of how I wasn’t there to protect them. It’s asking a lot of a parent to find their way back to normal after losing a child under these conditions.

School should be a safe zone for kids, a place of nurturing and understanding, but more and more there is bullying and violence. Much like what we are seeing in our workplaces and in society as a whole, something is cracked and getting lost down in the crevices, because we are not identifying the signs of troubled individuals, as mass shootings are happening in America on nearly a daily basis.

It was blessed to hear the father of Preston Cope was able to reach the scene in time to comfort his son and say goodbye. Once hearing of the shooting, Brian Cope recognized his son on a stretcher from the socks that were visible in the television report. These were the same socks he had laid out for Preston the night before. It was also apparent from what his father saw that his son was severely wounded. Thankfully Cope reached his son in time to say he loved him one last time.

Likewise it’s impossible to fathom the pain, guilt and baffling questions that must overwhelm the suspected shooter’s parents. Turns out the editor of the Marshall County Daily Online newspaper, Mary Garrison Minyard, raced to Marshall County High School to cover the story Tuesday only to find her child was in custody as the shooter. This is still a child and there will be an extreme helplessness and shame the parents must shoulder that will come with having to watch their baby go through being punished for his crime.

This attack marks the first fatal school shooting in 2018. According to the anti-violence group Everytown for Gun Safety there have been at least 283 shootings at schools since 2013.

Marshall County High School is about 30 minutes from Heath High School in Paducah, KY, where a 1997 mass shooting killed three and injured five. Michael Carneal, then 14, opened fire there about two years before the fatal attack at Columbine High School in Colorado.

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Trump’s 1-Year Anniversary Celebrated with Government Shutdown

Posted on January 29, 2018 by theurbanllama

As the holidays passed with relative peace in Trumptown, it was thought the country might ease into the New Year leading up to the administration’s one year anniversary on Jan. 20. We all could have used a lengthy break from Trump drama, but it was not to be.

The Trumpster roared out of the gates in a foul mood, swinging at Democrats as negotiations were underway to cobble together a spending deal and find a solution to the 800,000 “Dreamers,” residing under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Turns out his anger was aimed at the impending publication of a new book by Michael Wolff, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

Early releases depicted a president not in control, and lacking the requisite mental capacity to comprehend even rudimentary policy issues. The Trump children were seen as traitorous or “dumb as a brick” according to sources from inside the White House. Steve Bannon, the president’s former senior strategist, was prominently featured, and certainly had his own agenda, but like many others around this administration felt compelled to let outsiders know just how dysfunctional and inept the Trump administration was in terms of doing its daily business.

The response was typical Trump. His people denied everything and attacked the author’s credibility. Attorneys for the president frivolously tried preventing the book’s publication, claiming it was all lies, but as news outlets sourced the information, and it became clear Wolff had voluminous recordings of his interviews, the stories checked out. Trump never expected to win, and when he did Trump was completely unprepared and without a level of staff capable of running a government.

The fallout from allegations inside “Fire and Fury” added gasoline to the ongoing Russia investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. There already was a White House preoccupation about the probe as the president continually referred to the inquiry as a “witch hunt.” But the reality was the information about potential money laundering and elements of obstruction were a credible motive for Trump’s wrongdoing.

To try and squelch the perception of Trump’s mental unfitness, a 55-minute public meeting was hosted by the president with key players on immigration reform from both parties present. Throughout it Trump showed he failed to grasp a definable understanding of the immigration issue and was easily swayed by whichever person spoke last. To that point Republican leaders had to correct the president in that he had agreed with Sen. Dianne Feinstein about a clean bill on DACA, which that was not the Republicans intent, making Trump look inept.

Sen. Feinstein went on to make bigger news that same day as she unilaterally released the Senate Judiciary Committee testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson. Republicans were spinning hard to delay the release of this testimony due to its damaging contents. It showed U.S. intelligence and the FBI were previously looking at the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russians, and it was not the controversial collection of information in the Trump dossier that was the genesis of the investigation as Republicans wanted to insinuate. It also exposed Trump’s business in sketchy Eastern European countries and with organized crime figures there.

All these incidences and concerted foot-dragging by Republicans only served to further the feel of Trump’s guilt and that a coverup was underway. As the administration’s first year anniversary neared and a government shutdown loomed, Trump reneged on two bipartisan DACA deals negotiated in good faith after being manipulated by White House staffer Stephen Miller. Afterward, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said working with Trump is like “negotiating with Jell-O.”

Trump then further poisoned negotiations by referring to majority African-American countries as “shithole” countries while in a bipartisan meeting on immigration. Trump vainly asserted he was no racist and then opted to not attend any Martin Luther King ceremonies to instead golf.

This earned the country a big fat government shutdown to celebrate Trump’s 1-year anniversary. Breaking at the same time was the revelation that Trump had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, 38, and that she was paid $130,000 right before the election to keep quiet. The sexual encounter with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, took place in 2006 – mere months after Trump’s wife, Melania, gave birth to their son.

While the government reopened on Jan. 22, only a short-term fix was reached and all spending and immigration issues must be revisited by Feb. 8. It’s unclear how this will go as it’s obvious Trump doesn’t grasp the policies, and the White House inner-circle is filled with warring factions of moderates and hardliners who can’t agree on much.

As we learned this week Trump tried to fire Mueller in June to end the Russia investigation, but was stopped by White House attorney, Don McGahn, who threatened to resign over what was perceived as an impeachable offense.

I’ll give it to Trump, for a 71-year old man, taking a huge number of body blows, he’s still walking upright. But eventually those shots to the body will take his legs. It’s only January, but the feel is Trump can’t go the distance.

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