Guiliani's Chaotic Mixture and More

I. Guiliani's Chaotic Mixture
"[Guiliani] has, in effect, become the legal auxiliary to Trump's Twitter feed, peddling the same chaotic mixture of non sequiturs, exaggerations, half-truths, and falsehoods. Guiliani, like the president, is not seeking converts but comforting the converted." "And the juxtaposition of his seedy theatrics on behalf of Trump with his performance on that grand stage is jarring." [1]

Among the threats levied by Rudy Guilani is that Mueller "doesn't get it done in the next two weeks we will unload on him like a ton of bricks."  (Richard Nixon was subpoenaed for the White House tapes; and Bill Clinton was subpoenaed for testimony in the Whitewater investigation, although he ultimately testified voluntarily." "In 1997, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that President Clinton was legally obligated to submit to a deposition in Paula Jones's sexual harassment case against him."

II. Suspicious Money Transfers
Federal investigators are looking at a pair of suspicious money transfers from some of the planners and participants in the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Kremlin- connected lawyer. The transfers involve money from Russia and Switzerland being moved to places such as the British Virgin Islands, Bangkok and New Jersey. One transfer involved an offshore company controlled by Aras Agalarov, wiring almost $20 million to his own account at a New York bank. He also transferred $1.2 million from the family bank in Russia to a New Jersey account controlled by his son, Emin.

III. Flame-Retardant Chemicals
Lead, a deadly neurotoxin that never biodegrades, assaulted the public health throughout the 20th century, largely through its role as an additive to gasoline. According to the Chicago Tribune, flame retardants are now taking over as a major problem, as it has found that certain flame retardants doubled in the blood of adults every two to five years between 1970 and 2004. This anti-public-health offensive designed to magnify the threat of fire, helps explain why flame retardants are now embedded in an astonishing array of consumer products, including furniture, bedding, electrical equipment, and -- most despicable of all -- children's clothing and car seats. [2]

The E.P.A. maintains a database of some 85,000 chemicals that have been manufactured or processed in the United States, but it has subjected less than 300 of these to rigorous testing under the Toxic Substance Control Act and has banned only five (including PCBs.)

IV. Rescinding TPS Suspended
Edward Chen, a U.S. district judge in San Francisco, suspended the Trump administration's decision to rescind temporary protected status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The decision will relieve immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. He said that "TPS beneficiaries and their children will suffer irreparable harm and great hardship." They face the choice of bringing their children with them or "splitting their families apart." The United States and their communities are the only things the TPS recipients have known.

V. ICE Processing Center
In May of this year, a surprise inspection of the privately run Adelanto ICE Processing Center found nooses made from bed sheets in 15 of 20 cells. Detainees waited "weeks and months" to see a doctor. Detainees were commonly subjected to disciplinary segregation before being found guilty of violating rules. From November 2017 to April 2018, detainees filed 80 medical grievances.

VI. Remirez Eyewitness Not Interviewed
Kathy Charlton, a mutual friend of Brett Kavanaugh, who, NBC has confirmed, was identified to the FBI as an eyewitness to the incident of Kavanaugh exposing himself to  Deborah Remirez. Charlton told NBC News that, in a phone conversation on September 21, a former classmate of hers, told her that Kavanaugh had called him and advised him not to say anything "bad" if the press were to call. Then on September 21, according to the texts, that same person sent Charlton a text accusing her of disclosing their conversation to a reporter. "Hellllllooooo. Don't Fxxxxxx TELL PEOPLE BRETT GOT IN TOUCH WITH ME!!! I TOLD YOU AT THE  TIME THAT WAS IN CONFIDENCE!!!"

Footnotes:
[1] Jeffrey Toobin, "Beating the Drum," The New Yorker, September 10, 2018.

[2] Jamie Kitman, "Worse Than Lead?" The Nation, September 10/17, 2018.