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Northam says he'd ban sanctuary cities if one ever appears in VirginiaWas reading that the dem in VA is having trouble motivating Hispanic voters. If you're Hispanic in the fukking south in 2017, 10 months into Trump's presidency and aren't "motivated" to vote you fukking lost at life.
this dude running against a candidate who is winking at racists and you're on the fence/can't decide/dunno if I'll vote/etc? Nah fam.
he probably shouldn't discourage the base then with comments like this. Everyone who is against sanctuary cities was already voting Gillespie.
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NOV 3 2017, 6:53 PM ET
Papadopoulos Repeatedly Represented Trump Campaign, Record Shows
by LEIGH ANN CALDWELL
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has downplayed the role of foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential campaign. But the public record shows that Papadopoulos, who attempted to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, was a more prominent figure than previously understood.
Papadopoulos was in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention where he was invited by the American Jewish Committee to speak on a panel about U.S. foreign policy, organizers said.
"Papadopolous was only one among the many contacts AJC established and maintained among advisers to both parties’ 2016 presidential candidates and in the two parties’ national committees," AJC spokesperson Ken Bandler said in a statement.
"Among the panelists in our 2016 Republican National Convention program — in a session titled 'Defining America’s Role in Global Affairs' — was George Papadopolous, then a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser," the statement continued.
From left, George Papadopoulos, U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, Michael Scharf, dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law; David O'Sullivan, head of the European Union delegation to the United States; U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., and Jason Isaacson listen as Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., makes a statement during an AJC panel discussion July 20, 2016. Courtesy Michael C. Butz / Cleveland Jewish News
The AJC forum, occurred on the third day of the RNC in downtown Cleveland. Papadopolous sat on a panel with Reps. Tom Marina, R-Pa., and Ted Yoho, R-Fla., both members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee while Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave opening remarks.
“Senator Corker delivered brief welcome remarks at an event hosted by AJC in Cleveland last summer," a spokesman for the senator told NBC News. "Due to his busy schedule, he left before the panel discussion began and does not recall having a substantive conversation with Mr. Papadopoulos or any of the other panelists.”
Yoho said in a statement that he “was there for less than an hour and left for another event.” He said that the only interaction he had with Papadopoulos was on what was asked during the panel discussion.
Papadopoulos’ public role for the Trump campaign continued. In late September, just six weeks before Election Day, he gave an interview as a Trump campaign official to the Russian Interfax News Agency, where he said that Trump will “restore the trust” between the U.S. and Russia.
And he met with Israeli leaders during the inauguration in January as a foreign policy adviser for the newly-sworn in president. “We are looking forward to ushering in a new relationship with all of Israel, including the historic Judea and Samaria,” Papadopoulos told the Jerusalem Post the following day.
Papadopoulos’ role in the campaign has come under scrutiny after he pled guilty on Monday for giving false statements to the FBI as part of a Grand Jury investigation into the Trump campaign and their ties to Russia.
Lewandowski: Papadopoulos 'Never Had a Donald Trump Email Address' 1:47
The administration has distanced itself from Papadopoulos. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called him a “volunteer” with an “extremely limited” role in the campaign.
He took part in a meeting Trump and his national Security team on March 31 that Trump highlighted at the time with a picture on social media. And in an editorial board meeting with the Washington Post, Trump called him an “excellent guy.”
At that meeting, another participant, JD Gordon, who was sitting next to Papadopoulos, told NBC News that Papadopoulos told Trump that he could set up a meeting with Putin. Gordon said then-Sen. Jeff Sessions rejected the idea but that Trump was intrigued.
Related: Sessions Rejected Russian Proposal
Trump has said that he doesn’t remember “much about the meeting.”
“It was a very unimportant meeting — took place a long time — I don’t remember much about it,” Trump said Friday before he left for Asia.
Papadopoulos entered politics from the Hudson Institute. He worked for the Ben Carson presidential campaign for about six weeks until mid-January of 2016 before he found his way to the Trump campaign.
Papadopoulos is cooperating with Robert Mueller’s investigation as part of a plea deal. Court documents say that the Papadopoulos told the FBI that a Russian professor he was communicating with was “a nothing,” but he later admitted that the professor, identified as Joseph Mifsud of the London Academy of Diplomacy, said he had thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
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Dude, peep this:He really thinks that if he mentions Hillary's name enough that they are gonna stop looking into his dirty deeds. Also, Donna Brazile...wtf man. Why you giving this dude a topic to hang his hat on?
http://www.thecoli.com/posts/27006675/
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Scott Pruitt just picked a bunch of oil and gas reps to advise the EPA.
Modern air is “too clean,” according to new EPA adviser
Oil and gas industry reps who question the validity of climate change will be advising the EPA on policy for the foreseeable future.
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Scott Pruitt just picked a bunch of oil and gas reps to advise the EPA.
Modern air is “too clean,” according to new EPA adviser
Oil and gas industry reps who question the validity of climate change will be advising the EPA on policy for the foreseeable future.
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smfh
And I thought rex trillerson as secritary of state was bad 
Just embrace it brehs and brehettes:
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This right here is a big deal. If dude corraboroates the theories the FBI already got, Trump will be in even more trouble.
Mueller is crafty. Mueller is aligning a gang of witnesses to point fingers and say "yes, those are true. " no way he can just go to court and say all the evidence is wrong and I'm right.
Carlson once again got put in his place, and ended the segment 
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FBI: "was the pee tape real? If you lie, thats 5 years in prison":robertmuelllerumad:
Trump's Guard: "SHE DROWNED HIM!":shakingdamn:
holy fukk...the pee tape is real
Mueller waited until Trump was out of the country
Longtime Trump bodyguard to face questions about 2013 Moscow trip
Longtime Trump bodyguard to face questions about 2013 Moscow trip
One of President Trump’s most trusted confidants, a security chief who served as his sounding board for nearly two decades, will face questions from congressional investigators next week about Trump’s 2013 trip to Moscow, according to people familiar with their plans.
The excursion is at the center of some of the most salacious allegations contained in a now-famous dossier, which contains unverified charges that Trump has vehemently disputed.
The House Intelligence Committee has called former longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller to appear for an interview Tuesday as part of its probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Investigators plan to press Schiller about allegations in the 35-page dossier that Russian officials obtained compromising information about Trump’s personal behavior when he visited Moscow for the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The document, produced by a former British spy working for a firm hired by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign, is a compilation of claims about coordination between Russian nationals and the Trump campaign amid a Kremlin-directed effort to tip the election in Trump’s favor.
[Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier]
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How Keith Schiller, Trump's former bodyguard, followed his boss to the White House
Keith Schiller has been working for Donald Trump since 1999, and now the former bodyguard is one of Trump's most trusted associates. (Video: Peter Stevenson/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Among them is the assertion that Russian officials had obtained “kompromat” to hold over Trump — including evidence that Trump hired prostitutes at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton.
Trump has called the allegations a “disgrace” and said the dossier is “totally fake and made up — it’s like a novel.” He and his allies have pounced on the recent revelation that Clinton’s campaign helped finance the research, saying it proves the document is a partisan attack.
The president has indicated that Schiller will say that the Moscow allegations are false. “Keith was there,” the president told the New York Times in July. “He said, ‘What kind of crap is this?’ I went there for one day for the Miss Universe contest, I turned around, I went back.”
Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer overseeing Russia matters, said Friday that “the White House is delighted that Mr. Schiller will have an opportunity to shed some light on these scandalous allegations, and we are sure that his testimony will be of great interest to all fair-minded people.”
Schiller will likely be questioned about the specifics in the dossier, as well as whether he or Trump came into contact with any Russian individuals that might have given the Russian government potentially compromising information about the future president.
“He can expect to be asked about any interaction with Russians, with or without Trump” during that 2013 excursion and throughout his tenure with the Trump Organization, according to a U.S. official familiar with the inquiry who requested anonymity to discuss the investigation.
Stuart Sears, Schiller’s attorney, declined Friday to comment on Schiller’s pending appearance.
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After Mueller charges, what's next for Manafort, Papadopoulos — and Trump?
The Post's Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett explain what could come next following the indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos. (Joyce Lee, Bastien Inzaurralde/TWP)
Schiller’s long and close relationship with Trump makes him a potentially valuable witness to investigators and of keen interest to Democrats.
For years, he served as Trump’s “body man,” spending more time with the real estate and hotel executive than perhaps anyone outside the president’s immediate family.
“He’s not going to come in and start spilling,” the U.S. official said.
Schiller, who began serving as Trump’s director of security at the Trump Organization in 2005, shadowed Trump on the road as he campaigned for the Republican nomination and the presidency. He has long been considered one of Trump’s most loyal aides, and when Trump won the presidential election in November, he asked Schiller to join him in the White House as director of Oval Office Operations.
After nine months, he left the White House in September, frustrated by a newly arrived Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and strict limits he set on access to the president, according to several White House aides.
[What the Trump dossier says — and what it doesn’t]
The House panel also plans to ask Schiller about another episode that is a central focus in the investigations by congressional committees and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III: the firing of former FBI Director James B. Comey.
Trump tasked Schiller with hand-delivering to the FBI the president’s letter terminating Comey. Investigators are examining whether Trump was attempting to obstruct the criminal investigation into Russian meddling by firing Comey.
Schiller, a former New York police detective, has been a controversial figure, bringing a rough-and-tough approach to security during last year’s campaign rallies.
“I’m no stranger to putting my hands on people,” Schiller said in a 2015 videotaped Facebook interview.
“Come on, Keith. Go. Get ’em out,” Trump called from the podium when protesters got rowdy at one of his rallies.
Aspects of the dossier that contain the allegations about the 2013 Moscow trip have been rejected as untrue by the president and his allies, including claims that certain Trump associates traveled on specific dates to countries that they say they never visited.
But a broader theme of the document — that there were extensive efforts by Russians to connect with Trump campaign officials — has been subsequently borne out in intelligence reports, investigations by the media and recent court documents filed by Mueller’s team.
The material in the dossier was assembled by a former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, whose security and investigations firm was hired to assist a political research firm in Washington that was initially working for Trump’s opponents in the Republican primaries but later offered its services to Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Alice Crites contributed to this report.
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