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This news about Vanessa Trump (wife of Donald Jr.) is appalling.

Vanessa Trump taken to hospital as precaution after white powder sent to her home

by TOM WINTER and JONATHAN DIENST

President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law was taken to a Manhattan hospital as a precaution on Monday after a suspicious letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to her apartment, senior law enforcement and city officials told NBC News.

The letter was addressed to Vanessa Trump's husband, Donald Trump Jr., the eldest child of the president and his ex-wife Ivana.

After the letter was opened, three people at the residence were taken to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center strictly as a precaution, the New York City Fire Department said.

There is no indication anyone suffered any injuries; the NYPD said the substance was deemed to be non-hazardous and was taken to a lab for further analysis.

"How disturbed must a person be to do what they did to a mother of five children?'' Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney, said in a statement. "This dangerous and reckless act goes beyond political differences."

Well, it ought to go beyond political differences. We'll see.

 

Comments

[JohnH]

seems to me that the section 2 of the 14th amendment is pretty clear that non-citizens (and untaxed Indians) shouldn’t be counted towards determining representation levels in the house. Perfectly valid to ask re: citizenship if not in fact necessary.

[rich]

>>>we make a serious mistake when we presume stupidity on their part. That's the idiotic mistake THEY have repeatedly made. We should not follow suit. She was his National Security Advisor.

...

That note to self is *very* damaging to Barack Obama. How is this not obvious ??? So, either she is caught in a blatant lie or the President and Jim Comey are caught in BLATANT lies.

Posted by: RattlerGator | February 13, 2018 at 08:10 AM<<<

A Happy Birthday to Mrs. RattleGator.

I presume stupidity on Obama's part, don't really care much about the 3rd rate minds he surrounded himself with. Once the returns came in and the transition began, the smarter ones knew the story would come out in some way. One of the first things we found out about was the unmasking and most of those disclosures have been self-serving (sort of like the planted question to get in front of the IRS scandal and the planted questions for Hillary to get in front of her private server). Rice's email to herself is self serving, not dissimilar to Lerner emailing to IT, 'oh goodness gracious, another hard drive failure, nobody will believe this' that just happened to wipe out a bunch of relevant files.

If Rice were so smart did she even think to ask why a conversation that Erik Prince (marginally attached to the campaign and not a member of the transition or administration) was having in the Seychelles was recorded and made it to her desk? Or why she was even reading dozens, maybe hundreds, of conversations among people associated with the Trump Campaign-Page was in contact with all those people?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

JohnH,

I agree with you. Now if they want to count warm bodies for things like whether more roads are needed, that's ok.

But CITIZENS are the only numbers which should count for determining representatives.

[Old Lurker]

John, Sec 2 is crystal clear and would seem to absolutely require asking the question.

Of course so many in Blue Hells now think everybody should be allowed to vote regardless, so those people will not agree with you and me.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/7x76w0/4chan_is_claiming_that_the_black_supremacist/

This is a thread about the Obama painting, with some interesting observations about photoshop, stenciling, and other stuff.

I also learned that the artist's studio is in China and his Chinese assistants do a lot of the background painting and such.

Lots of artists weighing in on that thread.

[Rocco]

Can we rename the painting, Make Like a Tree and Leave?

[GUS]

On the census issue. The census was created to determine populations for the purpose of distributing federal funds. Should Kalifornia for example, receive more federal money, because they have more ILLEGALS than WISCONSIN?
No.

[Old Lurker]

"The census was created to determine populations for the purpose of distributing federal funds."

That's joke, right GUS?

[rich]

and what the hell was the National Security Advisor doing have all that in her portfolio anyway? she wasn't busy enough watching corpses piling up in all the dumpster fires Zero was leaving behind?

[Another Bob]

OL, you missed the "No" at the end.

[Old Lurker]

A-Bob...since GUS never sleeps, sometimes you have to check.

:-)

[henry]

Wray claims Porter's background check was done last June.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/fbi-contradicts-white-house-on-rob-porter-probe-timeline.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain

[GUS]

Henry did you read the story. It takes the spokesman out of context. The issue isn't when the FBI gave a report or partial report, the only issue was, the "TEMPORARY" security clearance.

Of course the source was MS13NBC.

[henry]

yes, fake news at its best. saw that Gus. also saw FBI providing updates through last month. (so much for "complete").

[jimmyk]

How does this contradict the WH's claim that the background check was ongoing:

"What I can tell you is that the FBI submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in March, and then a completed background investigation in late July, that soon thereafter we received requests for follow-up inquiry," Wray said Tuesday, "and we did the follow up, and provided that information in November, and then we administratively closed the file in January, and earlier this month we received some additional information and we passed that on as well."

It seems that there was an "ongoing" process, even if the formal file was closed in January.

[jimmyk]

Ok, henry beat me to that, though it was actually "earlier this month."

[Neo]

WASHINGTON - D.C. Metro Police are on the scene at former President Obama's D.C. office after reports of a white powdery substance.

[Buckeye]

Is Sarah doing a presser today?

Might be particularly entertaining today.

BTW, does offing a couple hundred Russian mercenaries in Syria constitute "collusion". Not quite sure how to characterize that.

[Extraneus]

Here's another instance where Gateway Pundit gets sloppy.

Either Former FBI Director Comey or Former NatSec Advisor Susan Rice is Lying Based on Yesterday’s Email Released by Senator Grassley

He makes this claim at the end:

Comey never stated that he met President Obama in person in the Oval office in 2017. Either he or former Ambassador Rice is lying. (They both probably are.)

The tweet above the claim:

Another significant finding: in her CYA email on Inauguration Day 2017, Rice states the conversation with Comey & Yates took place "in the Oval Office." Comey denied ever meeting Obama more than 2x in his tenure, and never after 2016. pic.twitter.com/iMSHK9eALh

— Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) February 12, 2018

But Comey didn't deny that. He denied meeting him "alone" more than twice.

“I spoke alone with President Obama twice in person (and never on the phone) – once in 2015 to discuss law enforcement policy issues and a second time, briefly, for him to say goodbye in late 2016.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2017/live-updates/trump-white-house/james-comey-testimony-what-we-learn/why-comey-documented-his-talks-with-trump-not-obama/?utm_term=.1aef5c2d59dd

[GUS]

I don't remember the COMMIE FUCKERS at MS13NBC reporting this breathlessly.

((What did the FBI find that led them to suggest Ben Rhodes be denied a security clearance? Why was Ben Rhodes the only applicant out of 187 to be rejected for an interim security clearance?}}

Maybe it was hard to sift through all of Little Ben's creative writings.

[Dave (in MA)]

Neo | February 13, 2018 at 01:04 PM

Must've dropped his baggie of "a little blow" last time he was there.

[GUS]

Jim Hoft is weird.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I just can't get enough of the painting story. This has the close-up of the hidden sperm which is apparently the artist's trademark. It's on Obama's temple.

https://www.hannity.com/media-room/portrait-perversion-obama-portrait-features-secret-sperm-artist-joked-about-killing-whitey/

[Dave (in MA)]

That would be Reggie's.

[Momto2]

Anyone else listening to Rush today? He is *hot* on the trail of the Flynn story and other things! ("Biggest scandal in country's history!")

[GUS]

Speaking of not being ALONE....read the words, the parsing. This guy is/was a sociopath.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/whatclintonsaid.htm

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Just got off the phone with my former neighbor, who is a federal marshal for HUD.

We discussed this FBI think and she said she HATES to work with the FBI. She said while she is in charge of assmebling evidence, writing reports, and forwarding to prosecutors, FBI agents have "analysts" who do that type of thing. She said they are too big and don't know much of anything and are TERRIBLE investigators.

Now I appreciate that some of this might be inter-agency rivalry, but I thought you guys would like to know how they are viewed within government law enforcement.

[James D.]

Via Insty (well, one of his guest posters):

The Washington Post announced today that the inestimable Megan McArdle will now be writing an OpEd column there. More like this, please. It’s about time they had a conservatarian columnist (my characterization) who, unlike Jennifer Rubin, is not a token conservative cum incoherent strawman.

I'd say that a token conservative cum incoherent strawman, is precisely what McArdle is (yes, she's less bad than Jen Rubin, but that's not a high bar)

[James D.]

Speaking of swamps that need to be drained...

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/13/baltimore-trial-police-officers-uncovers-stunning-levels-corruption/

[maryrose]

Iggy:
I actually laughed when I saw the link to the York story.

[jimmyk]

McArdle is about as conservative as David Brooks. And she passes the anti-Trump test for the WaPo brand of "conservative." They are afraid of the backlash from readers who would feel threatened by an actual pro-Trump conservative.

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

" ... Why was Ben Rhodes the only applicant out of 187 to be rejected for an interim security clearance? ..."

Well, thank God we had Rhodes spearheading that whole Iran deal, huh?

/end sarcasm

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

MSNBC has cancelled Joy Reid's show.

Pity.

[narciso]

Director wray if you had been in office in october 2016, knowing what you know now would you accept the dossier as a basis for any electronic intercepts.

Secondly, are you basing these indications of Russian interference on anything besides

[narciso]

Crowdstrikes and Clint watts oracular insights.

[James D.]

MSNBC has cancelled Joy Reid's show.

Wow. Considering their ratings generally, how pathetic must hers have been to merit cancellation?

And this just two days after she was given a fawning (except that's not nearly strong enough a word) profile in the Sunday NYT.

[GUS]

No biggie James, she can get a job on THE VIEW.

[Extraneus]

one of his guest posters

Was that by any chance Charles Glasser? He should know about token conservative cum incoherent strawmen, since he is one.

[narciso]

That's what I thought

https://loadedforguccifer.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/dcleaky/

I'm reminded of Kyle mills sphere of influence, the villain is an eastern European mob boss who is a primary purchaser of Afghan heroin from al queda sources which he trades for high end weaponry

[Extraneus]

Heh. Yeah, it was him.

YOU GO, GIRL!

[Extraneus]

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/288605/

[Clarice Feldman]

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/02/13/boomage-sharyl-attkisson-calls-susan-rice-out-over-memo-suggesting-obama-withheld-intel/

The big deal, she says, about Rice's email is that it shows Obama directing the outgoing officials to withhold information to Trump.
(She asks,Is this legal? It was done to Lincoln--I suppose it's legal but politically awful--willing to harm national security for partisan purposes.

[Extraneus]

Good link to Clenis and the many variations of the word "is," GUS.

[Extraneus]

So my babe Sharyl asks the question at 11:09 that I asked right here ... at 11:08!

[beats chest like a gorilla]

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5387301/Israeli-police-recommend-Benjamin-Netanyahu-charged.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

[narciso]

Dogslaying poker, look at the portrait and say 'we have standards'

[narciso]

That was the least surprising tidbit, I've seen. This is their version of the Mueller mauling

[Extraneus]

Scaramucci: "Kelly Must Resign... Almost Certainly Knew About Abuse"

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I really don't know what to say about this. Differences in cultures are sometimes overwhelming.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5385155/Olympics-South-Koreas-penis-park-draws-Olympic-crowd.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

[Porchlight]

Insty launched McArdle's career by linking to her when she was a tiny little amateur blogging as Jane Galt. So he's naturally proud of one of his stable making the big time.

She was better as Jane Galt.

[jimmyk]

Scaramucci needs to crawl back into his hole.

[Porchlight]

A tale of three tweets.

[Sum Ting Wong]

"TV station apologizes for using 'P.F. Chang' instead of Pyeongchang in Olympics graphic"

http://www.miamiherald.com/article199812754.html

[Porchlight]

Wi Tu Lo

[Old Lurker]

Ho Li Cow

[Sum Ting Wong]

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[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Iggy:
I actually laughed when I saw the link to the York story.--

That doesn't surprise me, maryrose.
You're a good sport about this stuff.

[Old Lurker]

You sure are, Maryrose.

[henry]

R&D spending Census time. From went from 3 pages to 50+. I was very tempted to put "b*** me" as my indicator of "not applicable." Yes I do R&D (and would do more if I didn't have to waste time on this bullshit paperwork). No the government doesn't pay for it. No furriners involved. Get bent Census Bureau. /rant

[DebinNC]

Thomas Lifson channeling his inner RG ...FBI-gate - "The Outlines of the Story Are Coming Into Focus" ... in which "our own [AT] Clarice Feldman" appears.

I hope this slow drip,drip is agonizing for control freak BOzo.

[jimmyk]

I hope this slow drip,drip is agonizing for control freak BOzo.

Yeah, unfortunately it's agonizing for some of us as well (waving hand frantically).

[Clarice Feldman]

"In some sense, we are in uncharted territory — given the misadventure of appointing Robert Mueller as special counsel. His team is now replaying the role of Patrick Fitzgerald in the Scooter Libby case: investigating a crime that did not exist and that even if it did was committed by someone else."
and
"Once a special counsel is appointed, can he be superseded by a really special or special-special counsel, an attorney who might have to investigate the other special counsel (who was in charge of the botched Clinton Uranium One scandal, who was appointed through a clear and constructed conflict of interest, and whose own team is largely composed of proud partisans and campaign donors, and who may have been involved in using poisoned FISA surveillance data to leverage confessions or indictments)?"
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/…/fisa-scandal-clinton-obama-…

Do not cross, maryrose. She's almost always right.

[Sue]

I don’t understand curling.

[Tom R]

There are too many dots not connecting for me regarding the GEN Kelly/Rob Porter kerfuffle.

1) If GEN Kelly knew Porter was a wife beater for several months now and would never get a Top Secret clearance, what plausible reason would GEN Kelly actively try to protect him so he could keep his job? Porter's job wasn't some highly technical position requiring job skills that are hard to find. Porter could have been easily replaced with just about anybody.

2) The wording of the NY Times article today has FBI Director Wray saying the background check was completed in July 2017. It doesn't say what the results of that background check were. It also doesn't say whether Porter's Top Secret clearance request was denied or still in process.

3) Since we now know the FBI/DOJ was weaponized under Obama, how do we know whether the FBI agents who did Porter's background check are trustworthy? How did Dailymail.com know that Porter beat his ex-wives? His ex-wives never went public with that information. Dailymail.com approached them to confirm if the allegations against Porter were true. Did someone in the FBI leak to the media that Porter was a wife beater hoping it would cause a problem for Trump?

[Clarice Feldman]

Sorry--better link to VDH http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456354/fisa-scandal-clinton-obama-corruption-lawbreaking-whats-next-prosecution

[Extraneus]

Meanwhile, Trump will keep hammering Dems for abandoning the DREAMers.

"Do you think they care about you? You're just a bargaining chip to these people."

"They could have changed the law on their own, years ago. Why do you think they didn't?"

"Democrats don't care about the DREAMers. I do!"

"Even DREAMers think we should have border security!"

Shumer is playing a dangerous game.

[Clarice Feldman]

If you read nothing else at all this week--read the vdh article,

[exdemocrat]

great AT piece from Clarice today:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/the_great_flynn_case_mystery.html

[GUS]

This MARK PORTER guy, who is he again??

[Buckeye]

Do not cross, maryrose. She's almost always right.

Besides, she has a ruler, and knows how to use it:)

[Jim Eagle]

Having just visited the home where Mark Twain aka Sam Clemens wrote Huckleberry Finn, I cannot believe this story but then again I am not surprised of the ignorance of history and literature.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/12/harper-lee-mark-twain-banned-minnesota-schools/

No one on planet Earth at the time was as anti-racism and tyranny as Mark Twain. If he was alive today he would be aghast at the logic being used to ban his book because of its language. A language precision used to editorialize to the readers the sins of racism.

Duluth educators are idiots.

[Threadkiller]

The ultimate dic-pic:

https://mobile.twitter.com/deplorableish/status/963174292157542402

Hahaha!

[Buckeye]

Did someone in the FBI leak to the media that Porter was a wife beater hoping it would cause a problem for Trump?

Is the Pope Catholic?

On second thought, don't answer that:)

[narciso]

Yes the same feeling of déjà vu

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/13/tom-cotton-chris-wray-fbi-still-believe-steele-dossier-salacious-unverified/

[Buckeye]

Mrs. Buckeye just got back from the Doctor's office.

She does have the flu.

Crap.

[Porchlight]

"Do you think they care about you? You're just a bargaining chip to these people."

I heard a young Dreamer on the radio the other day saying just that. Seems like Trump is getting through.

[Old Lurker]

Clarice "Do not cross, maryrose. She's almost always right."

Except when she talks about Kasich, Romney or Ryan.

[James D.]

Duluth educators are idiots.

No, they’re not. They are perfectly aware of the deliberate damage they are doing to the children in their schools. They are not stupid, they are evil, full stop.

[narciso]

Yikes, did they prescribe tamiflu.

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

maryrose is saintly in her always positive reflections on those who we criticize and don't trust. Remember how most saints are remembered?

Martyrs.

[jimmyk]

great AT piece from Clarice today

Indeed, great piece. Interesting comments about Andrew Weissman, who appears to be the Zelig of prosecutorial misconduct. It seems rather ominous that he is on Mueller's team, though, rather than in prison or at least disbarred.

[Old Lurker]

Jack, I figure Maryrose can be sainted so I don't have to be.

[narciso]

You see how allahpander has .made a hash with the Facebook login.

[jimmyk]

Sorry to hear that, Buckeye, best wishes to Mrs Buckeye for a speedy recovery.

[Jim Eagle]

JamesD,

You're right. Used the wrong adjective.

At the Yale bookstore today, beside buying a Yale hoodie, Frederick picked up a copy of the Elon Musk biography. He has decided that instead of Musk's flamethrower he wants to micro it to a wrist mounted flamethrower. And he has only read 2 chapters.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

More painting stuff!

I am not letting this go until the National Portrait Gallery decides not to exhibit it.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/racist-verified-obamas-portrait-artist-hires-cheap-chinese-labor-paint-work-says-kill-whitey-major-theme/

[Momto2]

Sorry your wife has that rotten flu, Buckeye! Take good care of her!

For dog lovers - this 44 second video of the agility champion is fun to watch.

https://pickle.nine.com.au/2018/02/13/11/05/dog-agility-champion-obstacle-course

[narciso]

He really is a junior tony stark, elon doesn't seem to take full capacity of technology.

[maryrose]

Clarice:
I read the VDH article and it was excellent.
Dims were allowed to get away with getting Libby when the real target was Cheney.
I still remember how upset they were when they couldn’t get him to testify.
Because this wasn’t halted at the time they decided to use the same strategy to get Trump.These people will only stop when some go to jail and face stiff consequences.
Sadly I agree with Tom R.
They have protection six ways to Sunday.
Wray was disappointing today but he too must walk a fine line or his -ss will be in a sling.

[Old Lurker]

I assume Buckeye Jr. is on the case, Buckeye?

[maryrose]

OL :
You will be happy to hear that I have given up on Kasich and his petulant reaction to the election of Donald Trump.
As CH has stated in Ohio we rarely have good choices , so we must go with the Republican because they will do the least amount of damage.
As to Romney, I would like him to be the next senator from Utah and don’t apologize for that belief.
Ryan is gradually getting with the program and I still like him as Speaker.
I would point out the criticism leveled at President Bush about spending now also can be applied to President Trump.
Whoever is in power, will spend on their priorities.
I am happy with President Trump and all that he has accomplished.

[Appalled]

"Do you think they care about you? You're just a bargaining chip to these people."

And Trump isn't using the Dreamers as a bargaining chip to gets what he wants out of immigration? I don't think that's wrong he's doing that -- it's the only way he gets the immigration law he's looking for. I just find Trump's audacity more breathtaking than usual.

"They could have changed the law on their own, years ago. Why do you think they didn't?"

Hm. I guess they could have done it in the first two years of Obama, but they were concentrating on stimulus and TARP and Obamacare. After that, there weren't 60 votes for it, and the GOP was willing to filibuster.

[Clarice Feldman]

This AT piece today is great--I posted it upthread-but want to make sure you read it https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/fbigate_the_outlines_of_the_story_are_coming_into_focus.html

It's a bookend with the VDH piece..

[Appalled]

So, is maryrose the patron saint of rulers?

[Clarice Feldman]

A tip for dog owners from FB--Do not use diffusers with tea tree oil in them--very poisonous to dogs--probably to cats, too though I don't know that.

[narciso]

They have had it in for bibi for some time:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/february-13-2018/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Appalled,

The dems put the Dreamers in jeopardy by not passing a law. Now they want the President to pass a law without getting anything for it.

Um, no.

And at least he is offering something. What do the dems have to offer them? Nothing, because they couldn't or wouldn't pass a bill.

I see Cruz is against offering a path to citizenship, but doesn't offer any alternative for those DACA people. He's all bluster about deporting illegals, but what do you do with these people who are here through no fault of their own? Yes, their parents were in the wrong, but the last time I looked we didn't punish children for their parents' crimes.

Are we to deprt all of them? THAT would be a nightmare - and where would they go in Mexico or South America, without jobs or places to live?

We need the wall and the other immigration reforms so that this situation isn't repeated. And I am all for offering citizenship after 10-12 years for those who don't commit crimes, have jobs, and generally contribute to society (and they must speak English).

Deport the criminals. For those who can't quite meet the requirements for citizenship, give them a permanent green card so that they can work.

Cruz is posing every bit as much as the democrats, only on the other side.

[JimNorCal]

Appalled | February 13, 2018 at 04:04 PM

Yes, I think that Trump has a genuine feeling "fairness" that leads him to want to make an exception for DREAMers in the application of the law. Along with using their status as a bargaining chip.
I certainly don't think he is MORE calculating than the Dems on this issue. Trump's base would back him if he went all out to send DREAMers home and will grumble and worry if he gets special treatment for the DREAMers.
Unlike the Dems.

Plus, the Dems had "only" 2 years to straighten this out. LOL.

[GUS]

He's a clown Jim.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Here's the Washington Post via the Boston Globe proving what my art teacher sister says: modern art isn't about talent, but rather about whether you can spin a convincing story around your piece.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2018/02/12/the-obamas-new-portraits-defy-typical-depiction-politicians/wVx1vdah5hCdb4VhEkyWCK/story.html

I would add that this article seems to be trying awfully hard to convince us that these are good paintings and not the dreck we actually see when we look at them.