| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, November 28MANAFORT LAWYER ‘BRIEFED TRUMP ON MUELLER’ One of Paul Manafort’s lawyers regularly briefed President Donald Trump’s legal team about Manafort’s conversations with federal investigators as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The conversations happened after Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, reached a plea deal with Mueller’s team and began cooperating with prosecutors. The “highly unusual” backchannel may have been an effort by Manafort to score a presidential pardon. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]MUELLER HAS EMAILS ON PODESTA LEAK Two months before WikiLeaks released emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, right-wing conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi sent an email to former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone forewarning the document dump. "Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps," Corsi wrote, referring to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to the draft court papers. "One shortly after I'm back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging." [NBC News]GIULIANI: WE DON’T KNOW IF MANAFORT MET ASSANGE Trump does not know whether his former campaign chairman ever met with Julian Assange before Assange released stolen emails in an effort to help him win the presidency, Rudy Giuliani told HuffPost. The Guardian reported that Manafort had had multiple meetings with Assange dating back to 2013, including one in March 2016 ― just as Manafort effectively took control of Trump’s campaign. [HuffPost]TRUMP SLAMS HIS OWN FED CHIEF Trump placed responsibility for recent stock market declines and this week’s announcement of General Motors cutbacks on the Federal Reserve during an bizarre interview with The Washington Post, declaring that he is “not even a little bit happy” with the central bank chairman he picked. [The Washington Post]WHITE HOUSE LOOKS TO PUNISH GM Trump tweeted that he was looking into cutting General Motors’ government subsidies after the company announced it would slash more than 14,000 people from its payroll. “Very disappointed with General Motors and their CEO, Mary Barra, for closing plants in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland,” he posted. “Nothing being closed in Mexico & China. The U.S. saved General Motors, and this is the THANKS we get!” [HuffPost]MICHAEL MOORE: TRUMP ‘GOT PLAYED’ Filmmaker Michael Moore believes Trump got “played” by GM, saying the automaker was “doing what it’s always done” — going back on earlier promises to create jobs in exchange for tax breaks and abatements. [HuffPost]
 TRUMP ‘TOO INTELLIGENT’ TO BELIEVE SCIENCE In the same Washington Post interview, Trump said he had “very high levels of intelligence,” and as such, did not believe the scientific consensus surrounding climate change. [HuffPost]‘RACIST’ JUDICIAL NOMINEE CONFIRMATION IN DOUBT Senate Democrats only need one more Republican to vote with them against Trump’s controversial judicial nominee Thomas Farr, who has drawn widespread criticism from civil rights groups and has been referred to as the “vote-suppressor-in-chief.” [HuffPost]SENATE TO VOTE ON BERNIE YEMEN BILL The Senate is to vote on a bill from Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) that would end American support for a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen. [HuffPost]GOP SENATOR WINS MISSISSIPPI RUNOFF Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith defeated Democratic challenger Mike Espy in Mississippi’s Senate runoff election. [HuffPost]CLINTONS KICK OFF TOUR WITH TRUMP ATTACK Hillary and Bill Clinton launched a 13-city paid speaking tour by skewering Trump on his feud with a decorated military leader who commanded the 2011 operation that killed Osama bin Laden. “It just absolutely dumbfounds me,” Hillary said. “I mean, I’ve never, ever imagined that you would have a president personally attacking people who put their lives on the line year after year after year, for no cause.” [HuffPost]TRUMP TARIFFS SPIKE FARM BANKRUPTCY U.S. farms are going bankrupt at an alarming rate, with more than 80 in the upper Midwest recently filing for bankruptcy. Trump’s trade war is partially to blame. [Vox]
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