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@DonaldJTrumpJr @realDonaldTrump #losertrump Just in case you missed how a real President speaks and acts....

— Brad Jacobs@bradleyhere

Biden, slamming Trump's bogus claims of fraud and GOP lawmakers who backed Texas lawsuit, notes his election win survived Supreme Court challenge: "Now it's time to turn the page... to unite, to heal."

—  Jim Acosta@Acosta

There's no question about it: Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in history

— Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew

Column: Shaming? Absolution? Jail? How to treat those complicit in Trump's wrongdoing

How do we bring to justice those complicit in Trump's wrongdoing?

www.latimes.com

Among the glories of democratic government, the historian Jill Lepore wrote recently, are that after an election “the loser concedes without violence, and the winner accepts without vengeance.”

Lepore was right in her observation but wrong in assessing its current implications for the U.S. She was arguing against a reckoning of Trump administration wrongdoing that takes the form of either a South Africa-style “truth and reconciliation commission” or criminal prosecutions.

Either option would inevitably become an instrument of partisanship, Lepore argues. She approvingly quotes Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as warning that criminal prosecutions of Trump officials would be “probably not very … good for democracy.”

Can someone send Donald Trump, Jr my birthday wishes? He blocked me shortly after I found this photo of him in Moscow at a Russian real estate conference, where he served as keynote speaker.  Don’t retweet this though. We don’t wanna remind folks of his 10+ years of Russian ties.

— Scott Dworkin@funder

"Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets", Donald Trump Jr. said during a conference in New York in 2008.

R.N.C. Spent Nearly $100,000 on Copies of Donald Trump Jr.’s Book

“Triggered,” published Nov. 5, topped the best-seller list thanks in part to a big order from the Republican National Committee.

www.nytimes.com

“We haven’t made a large bulk purchase, but are ordering copies to keep up with demand,” Mike Reed, an R.N.C. spokesman, said two days after the fund-raising email promoting “Triggered” was sent. “Each book is sold to an individual who supports the Republican Party.”

But a financial disclosure form filed to the Federal Election Commission showed that the R.N.C. paid $94,800 to the bookseller chain Books-A-Million on Oct. 29, a week before the book went on sale. Disclosures filed by the R.N.C. indicate that the payment was for “donor mementos.”

According to a report last month by The Independent Florida Alligator, a student newspaper of the University of Florida, a fund-raising consultant working for the R.N.C. and President Trump’s re-election campaign also helped arrange a paid speaking engagement on campus in early October for Donald Trump Jr. (The consultant told The Alligator that she had been helping the president’s son in a “personal capacity.”)

All this talk about corruption today got me thinking about: 

Tom Price  Ryan Zinke Scott Pruitt Ben Carson Wilbur Ross Michael Flynn Paul Manafort  trump University trump Foundation 

What do they all have in common? NON-UKRAINE, NON-BIDEN CORRUPTION. 

ALL connected to trump. 

— BrooklynDad_Defiant Savage! @mmpadellan

• Ivanka Trump
• Jared Kushner
• Donald Trump Jr
• Eric Trump
• Melania Trump

The biggest loser on earth just took a shot at an actual hero! How much more of this nauseating insipid lowlife rat shit bullshit do we have to bear every day!

— Ron Perlman @perlmutations

Republican Senators to Hold a Retreat at Trump’s D.C. Hotel

The National Republicans Campaign Committee’s multi-day retreat at Trump International Hotel is the latest example of GOP events enriching the president.

theintercept.com

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is hosting a “Save the Senate” retreat from November 7 to 8 at the Washington, D.C., hotel. 

Listed on the invitation as attending are 

• Donald Trump
• Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
• NRSC Chair Todd Young (Indiana)
• Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia), 
• Steve Daines (Montana)
• Cory Gardner (Colorado)
• Jim Risch (Idaho)
• Pat Roberts (Kansas)
• Dan Sullivan (Alaska)
• Thom Tillis (North Carolina)
• Michigan Senate candidate John James.

On Thursday, White House Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney announced that next year’s G-7 summit would take place at the president’s Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in Florida.

The Doral resort lost 62 percent of its operating income between 2016 and 2017, and its revenue fell 13.8 percent, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold tweeted. 

Replying to @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS 

Need I say more #americanidiot @POTUS @trump @IvankaTrump @EricTrump I see where your kids get their smarts from #Italy @SERGIOMATTAREL4

— Amy @WakeUpMilhous

Donald Trump Jr. touts Bevin to a mostly-empty arena in Kentucky coal country https://kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article234523747.html 

— Bluegrass Politics @BGPolitics

 “about 200 people turned out  — the venue has a capacity of 7,000.” 

— World's 'Saddest' Rally? Donald Trump Jr. Mocked For Speaking To Mostly Empty Arena, HuffPost 

Trump, his children Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, and his businesses sued the banks in April to block them from complying with the demand from lawmakers to turn over the financial information. A federal judge in May rejected that request, and Trump has appealed. 

Deutsche Bank AG confirmed that it has tax returns requested by U.S. lawmakers seeking financial information for President Donald Trump and his family. Whose returns are those? That’s still a secret.

Deutsche Bank has long been a principal lender for Trump’s real estate business. A 2017 disclosure form showed that Trump had at least $130 million of liabilities to the bank.

The Trumps are also seeking to block a separate subpoena served by the Financial Services Committee on Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N) seeks records related to the Trump Organization’s hotel business.

Capital One said in a court filing on Tuesday that it did not have any tax returns related to the subpoena. The bank did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The disclosure comes as Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee are seeking to obtain Trump’s personal and business tax returns, which the president has refused to turn over, from the Treasury Department.