{"id":37273,"date":"2019-05-29T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=37273"},"modified":"2019-06-09T16:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T23:51:39","slug":"just-saying-what-the-fck-did-mr-mueller-say-translation-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=37273","title":{"rendered":"JUST SAYING:  Cornyn Feeling the Heat; Trump&#8217;s Trip; Will&#8217;s Debacle; Mexican Avocados; What the F*ck Did Mr. Mueller Say? Translation Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BY RAUL HERNANDEZ\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Notebookventura@gmail.com<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CORNYN ALTRUISTIC HEART<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div id=\"js_1g\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-testid=\"post_message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div id=\"id_5cf7f9b8d088d0492247095\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/rick-perry-popcorn-milk-duds-and-guns\/texas-state-flag\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13964\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13964 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Texas-State-Flag-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>States along the border, especially Texas, would take the brunt of the Trump tax, cleverly disguised as a tariff, on the American consumer.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NYT report states that Texas would be hit the hardest by the proposed tariffs.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A 25 percent tariff would threaten $26.75 billion of Texas imports.<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nTexas Senator Cornyn&#8217;s now altruistic heart, despite rubber-stamping Everything Trump and singing the Trump praises, comes to light because he is up for reelection next year, and Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s close underdog run against fellow Republican Ted Cruz has given Cronyn the scare of his comfortable political life. He knows he will lose his power, congressional perks including a generous vacation package if Trump economic voodoo isn&#8217;t stopped.<br \/>\nEconomic survival is the name of the game in Washington D.C., and so Cornyn will be leading the charge to save his own keister.<br \/>\nIt has nothing to do with the rest of the country because if it did, Cornyn, Mitch, and the other spineless Republicans would oppose him on climate change, Chinese tariffs, racist policies, and other issues that are detrimental to the country.<br \/>\nThe Mexico tariff issue, however, is too close to home even for Cornyn who has been silent up until this point \u2014 the Ghost of Beto nearly turning Texas blue is a grave concern, and threat if Cornyn is to continue feeding on the taxpayer trough.<br \/>\nCornyn should have congress hire more immigration judges to hear asylum cases; border patrol agents, install better technology, start a massive Guest Worker Program, increase foreign aid to Central America countries, and change the asylum laws so people can apply in their own countries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_3x-2\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}\">\n<div data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"mtm\">\n<div id=\"u_ps_0_0_3\" class=\"_6m2 _1zpr clearfix _dcs _4_w4 _41u- _59ap _2bf7 _64lx _3eqz _20pq _3eqw _2rk1 _359m _3n1j _5qqr\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"clearfix _2r3x\">\n<div class=\"lfloat _ohe\">\n<div class=\"_63yw\">\n<div class=\"_6ks\">\n<div class=\"_6l- __c_\">\n<div class=\"uiScaledImageContainer _6m5 fbStoryAttachmentImage\">\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"scaledImageFitWidth img\" src=\"https:\/\/external-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/safe_image.php?d=AQBGW3NJSMgcZp04&amp;w=540&amp;h=282&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2019%2F06%2F05%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F05dc-tariffs1-promo%2F05dc-tariffs1-promo-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg&amp;cfs=1&amp;upscale=1&amp;fallback=news_d_placeholder_publisher&amp;_nc_hash=AQAeiztZcnqwVUp6\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" data-src=\"https:\/\/external-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/safe_image.php?d=AQBGW3NJSMgcZp04&amp;w=540&amp;h=282&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2019%2F06%2F05%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F05dc-tariffs1-promo%2F05dc-tariffs1-promo-facebookJumbo-v4.jpg&amp;cfs=1&amp;upscale=1&amp;fallback=news_d_placeholder_publisher&amp;_nc_hash=AQAeiztZcnqwVUp6\" aria-label=\"Vice President Mike Pence with Border Patrol agents along the border with Mexico in April in Nogales, Ariz.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump Says Mexico \u2018Wants to Make a Deal\u2019 as Mexican Officials Head to White House to Avoid Tariffs Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister, has been meeting with Washington officials all week as Mexico tries to head off President Trump\u2019s threatened tariffs. Trump Says Mexico \u2018Wants to Make a Deal\u2019 as Mexican Officials Head to White House to Avoid Tariffs Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister, has been meeting with Washington officials all week as Mexico tries to head off President Trump\u2019s threatened tariffs. NYT Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">TRUMP&#8217;S ROAD TRIP<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/just-saying-trump-nominees-puppet-show-jeff-sessions-and-a-lie-is-a-lie-is-a-lie\/trump\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28782 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Trump took his breathtaking stupidity and skewed version of reality to England.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nonetheless, the English kept a stiff upper lip and a stiffer middle finger in the air to greet the American president and leader of the free world.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">British creativity, however, was in full display and included colorful, anti-Trump signs along with colossal balloon of a scowling Trump baby wearing a diaper.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But, once again, through the filter of his glassy eyes and Dullard mind, Trump claimed that he was greeted by \u201ctremendous crowds of well-wishers\u201d and that there was \u201cgreat love all around.\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, an online Trump-opposition petition with more than 1.8 million signatures and a recent YouGov negative-opinion-of-Trump poll underscored the British middle-finger and a Keep Calm, pinch your nose and Grab a Giant Flyswatter posture.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As Trump and his entourage of assorted nepotism fly back to America after three days, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">King George III was probably laughing in his grave. The good King must have known what the Colonies were capable of doing if left to their own devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Will&#8217;s Crippled Argument<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/impeachment-would-be-a-debacle\/2019\/05\/31\/61474462-8315-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html?utm_term=.3a92163c6d51\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Conservative Columnist George Will&#8217;s writes this week that impeachment would be a debacle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/impeachment-would-be-a-debacle\/2019\/05\/31\/61474462-8315-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html?utm_term=.3a92163c6d51\">George Will\u2019s arguments <\/a>are lame and Ludacris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump once told his cult following that he could kill someone on Wall Street and get away with it.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The silence by the Republican Congress is deafening and underscores this political flyspeck that perhaps, murder can also be explained away.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30682\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/conservative-george-will-trump-dangerous-disability\/george-will-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30682 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/George-Will-300x252.jpeg\" alt=\"George Will\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/George-Will-300x252.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/George-Will-768x644.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/George-Will-1024x859.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/George-Will.jpeg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Will<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Will notes in his column: \u201cThe object of impeachment is not to exact vengeance. It is to protect the public against future acts of recklessness or abuse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mr. Will, the bull is already in the china shop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For starters, Trump has made a mockery of the Constitution, trampled on the rule of law; praised America\u2019s enemies and criticized its allies. There are about two dozen investigations involving Trump Inc.\u2019s criminal and financial empire, including money laundering with the Russians and stealing from charities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The severe breaches in ethical conduct and 10,000-plus lies continue daily.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mitch McConnell and company have not uttered a word, and only one Republican Congressman, Justin Amash, has called for impeachment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the other side of the ledger, there are Democrats like Pelosi who subscribe to Will\u2019s measured and cautious approach to eradicate this cancer that has spread rapidly and has grown to other once-healthy federal agencies like FBI, DOJ, CIA, and DOD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There is a reason that the Founding Fathers included impeachment in U.S. Constitution as the method for removing the president, vice president, federal judges, and other federal officials from office.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, yes impeachment might be an exercise in futility because it would not get past Mitch McConnell and the Republican Senate as Will maintains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Impeaching Trump would allow all the evidence against this criminal to come to light. It would turn up the heat on the Republicans daily. Some will be in tight races in 2020, and they will have to go before their constituents and will be hounded by the media to explain their decisions to continue supporting Trump.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sunlight is still the best disinfectant for America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">NYT HeadLines:\u00a0 <span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Trump Says U.S. Will Hit Mexico With 5% Tariffs on All Goods<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Much of the problem of how Mexico is perceived is because of media coverage.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This coverage rarely extends beyond the drug cartels, El Chapo, illegal immigration, corruption and poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The extreme example of this mindset is when Fox sent a reporter who interviewed Border Patrol agents within a stone&#8217;s throw from Mexico. He was wearing a bullet-proof vest. Laughable, having lived on the El Paso border for three decades.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fox spends a lot of air time supporting and hyping up Trump&#8217;s &#8220;invasion&#8221; of Brown people who are coming to take what many whites are terrified of losing or sharing: economic, political and social power.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1248\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/cuco-rubalcaba\/0105a1_bridge_traffic_2_vc\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1248\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Juarez-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: El Paso Times\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Juarez-bridge.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Juarez-bridge-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Juarez-bridge-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Juarez-bridge-95x64.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: El Paso Times of Bridge of the Americas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the lens through which newsroom managers see Mexico. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;ve had front-row seats to this. I was a reporter at four newspapers for three decades. I worked in one newsroom about 15 years ago where the managing editor had a focus group to find ways to reach more minority readers, and the handful of Black and Hispanic reporters weren&#8217;t asked to participate.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Hispanic and Black female reporters weren&#8217;t happy about this.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I told them I had my own minority program going, and I had learned to work around the newsroom racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yes, Mexico has many very serious problems. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But there is the under-reported economic side:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Each day, more than 1 million people and about $1.7 billion in commerce are processed through official ports of entry. About 1.3 million Americans live in Mexico.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The U.S. Chamber of Commerce repeatedly warned that a shutdown would hurt farmers and manufacturers across the nation, as well as workers and consumers.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: Mexico is currently our 3rd largest goods trading partner with $611.5 billion in total (two way) goods trade during 2018. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mexico was the United States&#8217; 2nd largest goods export market in 2018.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nothing will change, however, until Americans pay $5 for an avocado and the price for a six-pack of Corona is $10.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Then there will be cries to impeach the Orange Buffoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">What the F*ck Did Mr. Mueller Say?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/just-saying-follow-money-trump-treasure-trove\/mueller-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31232 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mueller-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mueller-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mueller-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mueller-1024x709.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In legal nomenclature and while tap dancing around the obvious, Robert Mueller noted in his statements (if we read the fine print) that Trump&#8217;s fingerprints were all over his 400-plus-page report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Suspense at Scotland Yard, Sherlock? <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No, but, perhaps, at CNN, the meaning of Mueller&#8217;s words are being shredded by panelists, legal analysts, commentators, and pundits for clues of buried treasure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sane America, including hundreds of former prosecutors, read the 400-page report weeks ago and concluded the same thing that Trump has been in bed with the Russians for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surprise, again?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You shouldn&#8217;t be because this is the way it works: Putin and his gangsters steal from the Russian treasury, take the stolen rubles to Deutsche Bank ( Russians&#8217; equivalent of Wells Fargo) and have it washed by hand-picked Deutsche Bank employees. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reportedly, Trump Crime Inc. goes to Deutsche Bank with a shopping cart when the Trumps are on the hunt for money. There at Deutsche, the Trumps, including Junior, load up on astronomical amounts of rubles packed as legitimate &#8220;loans&#8221; that are magically converted into U.S. dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">(<strong>Pssst&#8230;Money laundering)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2018 Bloomberg reported that in January 2017 <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/three-arrested-pulling-gun-trump-supporter\/trump-make-america-great-again\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21181 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Trump-Make-America-Great-Again-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Deutsche Bank was fined $629 million by U.K. and U.S. authorities for compliance failures when it helped wealthy Russians move about $10 billion out of the country using transactions that were likely thinly veiled attempts to cover up a financial crime. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An hour after listening to Mueller make his remarks today, I remember thinking: Right about now, Sean Hannity is crawling out of Trump&#8217;s ass waving a new script to use tonight on Fox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There is a story, borderline rumor maybe, that Winston Churchill once asked this beautiful, upper-crust, haughty woman if she&#8217;d go to bed with him for a million pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She smiled, sized him up and said coyly: &#8220;Why, yes.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Churchill then asked the woman whether she&#8217;d go to bed with him for 20 pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Angry, she said: &#8220;No, of course not. Who do you think I am?&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Churchill calmly replied: &#8220;Ma&#8217;dam, we already know what you are. Right now, we are negotiating on a price.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Most of sane America has known what Trump is &#8211; a lying con man with the IQ of a slug and scruples of an outhouse rat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We are now trying to figure out how much the Trumps owe to the Russians and what other parts of America the Trumps&#8217; are trying to sell off while he entertains us with this Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY RAUL HERNANDEZ\u00a0 Notebookventura@gmail.com CORNYN ALTRUISTIC HEART States along the border, especially Texas, would take the brunt of the Trump tax, cleverly disguised as a tariff, on the American consumer. 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