The Trump criminal enterprise is desperately trying to stop Deutsche Bank and Capital One from being able to answer the question of "What's in your wallet?" to the House Financial Services Committee.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to block the banks from complying with federal subpoenas investigating his financial dealings https://t.co/bDmgObHlXq by @RichMcKay101 pic.twitter.com/QIAZgoeoaF

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) April 30, 2019

It's exactly what we've been saying all along:

 

1) "Follow the money."

 

2) If you really want to hurt this guy and his family, imply he's not rich.

I'm not sure who didn't see this coming a mile away. Guaidó's small band of breakaways was not going to match up with the military force that is still under Maduro's control.  And like I said before, on the previous page, most of Latin America and the Caribbean has a long history of distrust of the U.S. government.

 

 

Military bases in Maracay & Valencia, which house most of Venezuela’s top fire power, are calm by 1pm and under Maduro’s control, according to eyewitness accounts by local reporters @churuguara & @tibisayromero. It was Maracay paratroopers who swayed the 02 coup in Chavez’s favor

— Anatoly Kurmanaev (@AKurmanaev) April 30, 2019

To make matter worse-

 

Blackwater founder Erik Prince has been seeking investments and political support from influential Trump backers to send up to 5,000 soldiers-for-hire into Venezuela. https://t.co/l20r3FGs4I

— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) April 30, 2019

I'll never forget the reports of just how awful Blackwater treated the troops - things like blood on the floors. 

 

And now it looks like there are reports of tanks running over protesters in Venezuela. The cronies who claim to want the country's "freedom" will have more of a reason for their schemes, without admitting that their meddling has made the situation even worse and put even more lives at stake.

 

Oh, and we're threatening Cuba and Russia too. 

 

I'm so glad we have such brilliant minds and leaders in the White House now.

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Robert Mueller makes a liar out of William Barr six ways to Sunday.

Mueller has written a letter objecting to Barr’s summary of his report because it “did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of the investigation.” I have demanded the letter & Barr must answer for this. Mueller must be allowed to testify. https://t.co/gylocOsYlv

— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) April 30, 2019

Something I'm hearing from lots of former DOJ/FBI folks tonight is just how rare & significant it is for a DOJ official, especially an institutionalist like Mueller, to "go to paper" like this. "We are conditioned not to" do that, Chuck Rosenberg told me. https://t.co/y9M16SgvTS

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 1, 2019

Fmr. acting U.S. solicitor general Neal Katyal: "We are seeing interference by the attorney general becoming a matter of public record … everything Barr has done has now set up Congress to investigate … they have no choice." @TheLastWord

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 1, 2019

The case for impeaching Bill Barr, in six seconds https://t.co/o8I5gy8exe

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 1, 2019

Ted Lieu, member of House Judiciary Committee, said on @CNNTonight that if Barr doesn’t show up Thursday or provide the full Mueller report tomorrow as the subpoena demands, “I’m going to push for contempt proceedings” for Barr

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 1, 2019

NBC News has obtained Mueller's full letter to William Barr. https://t.co/TPVJwxGP2L

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 1, 2019

Uh-oh.  Uncle Bobby is PISSED.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Uh-oh.  Uncle Bobby is PISSED.

 

And sometime this month I think we will get to see just how pissed.

 

 

Mueller pushed Barr twice to release the summaries of his investigative findings in late March after Barr outlined the inquiry’s main conclusions in a letter to Congress. Those summaries were not released then. https://t.co/b1ZU6qxBO0

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 1, 2019

BARR on Mueller: "His work concluded when he sent his report to the attorney general. At that point it was my baby, and I was making a decision as to whether or not to make it public... it was my decision how and when to make it public, not Bob Mueller's." pic.twitter.com/DoNzqaw90s

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2019

I have to say how discouraging it is to hear the MSM continue to praise Trump for selecting sycophants who will lie, cover, and break the law for him. He's got his "roy cohn" in Barr like that is good, he's ignoring subpoena's, like that is somehow an asset, he "won" the narrative because Barr covered for him with his 4 page lying summary and now the American people want to move on. The media makes me ill and I can't believe they still praise this cretin while our country crashes and burns. None of them give a darn. The politicians I expect to be law breaking and celebrating the corruption, the MSM though - it frankly makes me sick. And now apparently Pelosi is weak and is being led by the nose by Trump.

20 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:

I have to say how discouraging it is to hear the MSM continue to praise Trump for selecting sycophants who will lie, cover, and break the law for him. He's got his "roy cohn" in Barr like that is good, he's ignoring subpoena's, like that is somehow an asset, he "won" the narrative because Barr covered for him with his 4 page lying summary and now the American people want to move on. The media makes me ill and I can't believe they still praise this cretin while our country crashes and burns. None of them give a darn. The politicians I expect to be law breaking and celebrating the corruption, the MSM though - it frankly makes me sick. And now apparently Pelosi is weak and is being led by the nose by Trump.

 

It's their daddy issues. They desperately want to see Trump as a strong father. I'll never forget seeing supposed political reporters talking about how Romney was so masculine it gave them a stir. This is the real basis of so much of our times - men who need to take their daddy kink into a much less destructive line of work.

That's really not the take I had on today. Just to name one example, MSNBC broke into the hearings just to call Barr a liar. IMO when the media smells blood that trumps most things, and they do here; while they were easily snowed by Barr a few weeks ago, that was a few weeks ago. Things have changed rapidly - they don't want to move on and they're not saying the public does. They are covering the open calls for Barr's resignation and/or impeachment. This is yet another fiery shitshow for Trump.

ICYMI

 

Congressional Democrats’ emoluments lawsuit targeting President Trump’s private business can proceed, judge says https://t.co/X9hG7NnbEn

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 30, 2019

"We see now with a new and oddly liberating clarity that these next 18 months may well be the most consequential and frightening time in living history" https://t.co/tu8mNRkB46

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 2, 2019