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Bannon got subpoenaed by Congress WHILE TESTIFYING TO CONGRESS. That's unheard of afaik.

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btw.. if is only 239 pounds, then I'm 180.

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Bannon cuts a deal: Will interview with Mueller’s team to avoid going before grand jury for now, via @KaraScannell

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Bannon cuts a deal: Will interview with Mueller’s team to avoid going before grand jury for now, via @KaraScannell

The schadenfreude is exquisite

While Stormy adamantly denied that anything happened in a letter released by Trump's lawyer on Jan. 10, In Touch has an explosive first-person interview with the adult entertainer that was conducted in 2011, in which she details her affair with the then-star of NBC’s The Apprentice.

In the new issue of In Touch, on newsstands today, Stormy (given name: Stephanie Clifford) confirms in her own words that she had sex with Donald Trump in his Lake Tahoe, NV, hotel suite in 2006 — a story that was corroborated to In Touch in 2011 by her good friend Randy Spears and supported by her ex-husband Mike Moz. Stormy also took and passed a polygraph test at the time of the interview.

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Local GOP activist (NoVa) resigns from the party.

The transactions reveal:

One of the people at the center of the investigation, the former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, received $120,000 ten days after the election of Donald Trump. Bankers flagged it to the US government as suspicious in part because the transaction, marked payroll, didn’t fit prior pay patterns.

Five days after Trump’s inauguration, someone attempted to withdraw $150,000 cash from the embassy’s account — but the embassy’s bank blocked it. Bank employees reported the attempted transaction to the US government because it was abnormal activity for that account.

From March 8 to April 7, 2014, bankers flagged nearly 30 checks for a total of about $370,000 to embassy employees, who cashed the checks as soon as they received them, making it virtually impossible to trace where the money went. Bank officials noted that the employees had not received similar payments in the past, and that the transactions surrounded the date of a critical referendum on whether parts of Crimea should secede from Ukraine and join Russia — one of Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy concerns and a flash point with the West.

Over five years, the Russian Cultural Centre — an arm of the government that sponsors classes and performances and is based in Washington, DC — sent $325,000 in checks that banking officials flagged as suspicious. The amounts were not consistent with normal payroll checks and some of the transactions fell below the $10,000 threshold that triggers a notice to the US government.

The Russian Embassy in Washington, DC, sent more than $2.4 million to small home-improvement companies controlled by a Russian immigrant living not far from there. Between 2013 and March 2017, that contractor’s various companies received about 600 such payments, earmarked for construction jobs at Russian diplomatic compounds. Bankers told the Treasury they did not think those transactions were related to the election but red-flagged them because the businesses seemed too small to have carried out major work on the embassy and because the money was cashed quickly or wired to other accounts.

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An unexpected day off - Trolley Tours generally don't run in the snowfall, since it's a bad idea for 40-foot trolley replica tour buses to tangle with plows and sanders on narrow city streets.

But that said, what a strange world we live in where Clint in Conyers, GA has more snow on the ground and is 20 degrees colder than Waltham, MA.

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Our snow event just ended. Started as rain last night, but just left a coating on the ground. Might make some things slippery though.