LPJamison

A lot of soccer, politics, humor, and Boston. I also write books.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a huge scandal for any other president.

A South Korean company challenging Commerce Department trade penalties paid Donald Trump’s holding company $2,000,000 last year.

The payment came from Base Group, the lead investor in Korea Aluminium, which faced penalties after the Commerce Department found that South Korean companies were circumventing trade duties on Chinese-made aluminum. The money surfaced in Trump’s annual financial disclosure released in late June.

The disclosure described it only as a nonrefundable development fee tied to a letter of intent. The Trump Organization says it relates to an unannounced golf course project.

Base Group has courted the Trump family for nearly a decade. It sells Trump-branded wine in South Korea and hosted Eric Trump at its Seoul headquarters in February, where executives discussed expanding trade between the two countries.

As recently as last month, the Commerce Department was weighing whether to raise tariffs further on Korea Aluminium. A preliminary review released last week sided with American aluminum companies. The agency that decides this company’s fate answers to the president. The president took $2,000,000 dollars from its largest investor.

This is one payment. Trump’s holding company collected at least $125,000,000 from foreign sources last year, from more than a dozen countries.

Every president in modern history stepped away from their business to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. This president kept nearly 30 ventures with foreign partners and now profits from companies whose fortunes his own government controls.

This cannot be normalized.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

The FBI will no longer investigate ICE agents for crimes they commit while enforcing immigration law.

Don’t ever tell me again that this isn’t the Gestapo.

[... @Trachta10]

Player’s SofaScore Rating compared to their Team’s Rating

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Brennan: "These were fatal shootings in Houston and Maine — and in Houston, it was an unmarked car."

Homan: "They have emergency lights and sirens…We'll see how the investigation plays out, but they would be alive today if they simply complied with the vehicle stop by federal law enforcement. Just comply."

Brennan: "The family of the man in Houston thought he was being robbed because it was an unmarked vehicle — not that was law enforcement at all."

Homan: "They had emergency lights. They activate emergency light."

Brennan: "You've seen that on video? Because we haven't…In the videos that we've seen there aren't. And because there weren't body cameras, it is hard to substantiate some of what you are sayings."

Homan: "I have not seen the videos, but I am saying our vehicles are equipped with emergency lights. Now, if they didn't activate the lights — again, I haven't seen that video — if they didn't activate their lights, then there's an issue there. But I'm saying they are equipped with lights. So let me just caveat that, they should have been equipped with lights and sirens. But I do not know specifically if they activated those lights."

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Martha Stewart did prison time for six months for what Trump does on a daily basis.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Imagine being the sort of person who'd avoid meeting with child rape and sex trafficking victims for months, then when forced to do so to get a promotion sit in a room and lie to their faces with every word

Because whatever sort of person that is, that's the sort Todd Blanche is

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Abolish ICE.

[Brendan Pedersen @BrendanPedersen]

this is jaw dropping. my jaw is dropped. I am having difficulty lifting my jaw back up into closed position.

[Sheikh Hopeful @high_hopeful]

Jude just slapped Barco during Argentina's celebration, but don't expect the same people to care. If an Argentine player had done that, X would've been in full meltdown mode.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: "Todd Blanche spent approximately nine hours meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, he did not even spend nine minutes meeting with a survivor…We need an AG committed to ensuring that everyone who facilitated Epstein's crimes is held accountable."

[🕊️ @MagicalXavi]

Can't move on from this edit

[🌧️ @wstgoat7]

Messi was arguably the best player on the planet at 19 years old and he’s still arguably the best player on the planet at 39 years old. Do you know how fucking nuts that is?

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

This picture will always be a reference point for us.

Mbappé, for example, won the World Cup. But when it came to Messi, he knew where the line was. He never tried to manufacture a moment against him or speak disrespectfully about him.

But this guy? I genuinely wonder where all this confidence comes from.

Has he achieved something extraordinary with his club? Barcelona have dominated Real Madrid repeatedly, and for the last 2 seasons he’s ended up empty-handed, while Spain also outclassed England at the Euros.

Has he won a Ballon d’Or? A Golden Boot? Anything?

Or does he play for a club that used to dominate Messi?

Messi practically spent 16 years tormenting Real Madrid. He scored 26 goals against them alone.

Yet somehow he thought provoking the greatest player in football history was a good idea.

In the end, he got his answer on the pitch.

[Nick Miller @NickMiller79]

We all loved the superstars being brilliant at the start of the tournament, but ultimately all of them - Mbappe, Haaland, Vinicius, Kane, Bellingham, Olise - did little in the games their teams were eliminated.

Nearly all of them. Then there’s Messi.

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[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

I remember when getting a consensual blowjob was enough to warrant an impeachment. Now Presidents can pay out $5M+ to the victims they raped and no one fucking bats an eye

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

A unanimous jury found that a man sexually abused a woman, then defamed her for saying so. He appealed - and appealed, and appealed. The verdict survived every level.

That man is the sitting president of the United States.

[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

Argentina will play in three World Cup finals in the Messi era.

And he led them as their captain, their top scorer, and their best player to all three finals.

Only 6 players in all of history can boast of playing in 3 FIFA WC final matches; none can boast of being their team’s best player in all three.

Do you know the crazier bit? Messi has won two FIFA World Cup player of tournament awards and he will certainly win a third regardless of what happens in the final.

He is above and beyond all. Past, Present and foreseeable future.

[Rafael Hernández @RafaelH117]

Every single match Rodri plays there’s bigger proof he deserved that Golden Ball more than anyone else.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Schiff: In the past, the president was convicted in the case you represented him in, of falsifying business records, in part for tax purposes. 

Blanche; That's not what he was convicted of.

Schiff: I'm happy to read the statement of facts to participants took steps that mischaracterized for tax purposes the true nature of the payments made in furtherance of the scheme.

Blanche: That was somebody else.

Schiff: Well, if the president is conspiring with others to falsify business records to help them cheat on taxes, he has also exposed a liability. You know that as well as I do.

Blanche: He can't be audited for that.

Schiff: And of course, he can be. Of course he can be and he can be prosecuted for it.