Day 957

[matt (Matt Kiser)]

1/ The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to investigate Trump's alleged involvement in the 2016 hush-money payments to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels. The committee plans to hold hearings and call witnesses involved in scheme as soon as October, but say there is already enough evidence to name Trump as a co-conspirator. Michael Cohen previously pleaded guilty to two campaign finance crimes related to the hush-money payments. The renewed inquiry will serve as another aspect of the House's consideration of whether or not to draft articles of impeachment against Trump. (Washington Post)

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/09/03/day-957/

[dragonfly9]

T is spending what he can find to build that wall before the election. And somehow, the new Defense Secretary Esper agrees that the wall is a good idea. Do stuff to make the boss happy…despite all that money which had already been allocated for the military housing, and other.

Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper agreed Tuesday to free up $3.6 billion from the Pentagon budget for President Trump’s border wall by effectively defunding 127 military construction projects using emergency authorities.

Esper determined that the use of the military construction funds was necessary to support American forces deployed to the southern border with Mexico under the national emergency that Trump declared in mid-February. The formal determination allows Trump, under an obscure statute in the federal code overseeing the military, to tap the funds appropriated for other purposes without sign-off from Congress.

The Pentagon declined to disclose which projects would be defunded. Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman said the list would be made available later this week after the Defense Department notifies lawmakers with affected projects in their districts and foreign embassies with affected projects in their countries.

Pentagon approves diversion of military construction funds for Trump’s wall

[Windthin (David Bythewood)]

Trump used a sharpie to obviously alter the official charts so he didn’t have to apologize for lying about Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama.

Trump appears to show Sharpie-altered hurricane map

Official version:

Photos from President Donald J. Trump’s FEMA Briefing on Hurricane Dorian |...

Per the Daily Show: please take his Sharpie away.

[Windthin (David Bythewood)]

OMFTWHPBLCG!

Trump says ‘I don’t know’ how map was altered to show Alabama in Hurricane Dorian’s path

According to 18 U.S. Code § 2074, “whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.”

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-hurricane-dorian-map-alabama-sharpie-201552689.html