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Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

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Exclusive: Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told.

Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House.

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Column: Trump storms ahead with Medicaid work rules, even though they’re disastrous for enrollees

Punishing many of those who voted for him…

Ignoring empirical evidence that it’s fomenting a healthcare catastrophe, and a federal judge’s warning that it’s legally out of line, the Trump administration has quietly reapproved a punitive work requirement for Medicaid clients in Kentucky.

The approval came just before the Thanksgiving holiday….

Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails about government business on personal account: report

Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails about government business on personal account: report:

saywhat-politics:

It said that Trump, a White House adviser and the eldest daughter of the president, sent hundreds of emails about White House business and her official schedule to administration aides, Cabinet officials and her personal assistants.

White House ethics officials discovered this as they reviewed emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies. The agencies were gathering the emails as they prepared to respond to a public records lawsuit.

In their review, the officials found that Trump discussed business from the White House while using a private email account, the Post said.

M.L.B. Asks Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith to Return $5,000 Donation – The New York Times

The baseball commissioner’s office has its own political action committee and donates to politicians on both sides of the aisle to help promote its causes in Congress, like protecting M.L.B.’s antitrust exemption and other legislation, like how teams pay minor league players. Charles Johnson, an owner of the San Francisco Giants, also made contributions to Hyde-Smith. He and his wife Ann each donated $2,700 through a super PAC. In a statement, Johnson said he was unaware the contribution would be used to support Hyde-Smith. “I had absolutely no knowledge that this donation would be used in this manner and I, like the Giants organization, strongly condemn any form of racism and in no way condone the advertisement that was created by this entity.”

Russia confirms it ‘used weapons’ against Ukrainian navy ships: RIA

rogue or intentional? Trump, of course, will follow Putin’s orders on comment or response Russia’s FSB security service said early on Monday its border patrol boats had seized three Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea near Crimea on Sunday and used weapons to force them to stop, the RIA news agency reported.

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Ben, 1. Russia has been the persistent aggressor. 2. Russia has for long tried to cut off Sea of Azov. 3. Now Russia is acting hard & fast in multiple ways, while the West is asleep. 4. How could Ukraine possibly want to provoke Russia. Check how Russia usually starts wars!

Via aleksey godin

Ben,
1. Russia has been the persistent aggressor.
2. Russia has for long tried to cut off Sea of Azov.
3. Now Russia is acting hard & fast in multiple ways, while the West is asleep.
4. How could Ukraine possibly want to provoke Russia. Check how Russia usually starts wars!