I guess that's what happens when you make big plans on an illegal money grab.
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What happens to a market when the government has to pick up the tab for everyone?
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It's heating up!
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The only public defender that matters is this guy:
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I'm interested to see if they assassinate any Americans over this investigation.Quote:
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BREAKING: UK police say Russian ex-spy and daughter poisoned with nerve agent.
Can someone send me a PM when there is actual evidence of collusion between Trump Administration and Russia?
Because so far.. zilch.
Sounds like Nunberg sobered up:
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Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg says that he believes special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election is "warranted," walking back his previous remarks calling the probe a "witch hunt."
"No, I don't think it's a witch hunt. There's a lot there, and that's a sad truth," Nunberg told ABC News in an interview broadcast Saturday, a day after he answered a subpoena by Mueller's team to testify before a federal grand jury on his time in the campaign.
Nunberg also said after his grand jury testimony that he doesn't believe the investigation "leads to the president," despite his comments this week that he thought Mueller's team had evidence of criminal wrongdoing against the president.
That's not what rationing is. We set up a system where the government pays for college, and the quantity and cost of college attendance has skyrocketed - obviously, what else would colleges do? By repealing the individual mandate but not the subsidies we have now set up a system where the government pays for insurance - obviously, insurers will now jack up the price of insurance. Why wouldn't they? They won't lose any customers by doing so because the government foots the bill.Did you know there is still no evidence of collusion between President Nixon and the Watergate burglars?
There is less product (in this case the product is education), higher demand and the price has skyrocketed. Quantity doesn't = quality, it's like eating a steady diet of mud cakes 3x a day and saying there's plenty of food to go around.
Why didn't you ask yourself this in the first place?
This is still wrong. But even if we assume you're right, it strengthens my case. Lower quality healthcare would mean higher consumption of healthcare: if I have to go to a doctor five times to get an ailment treated instead of one, the doctor doesn't charge any less, because the government has to subsidize the care regardless of whether it's any good.Good try. Insurance companies did not have the ability to increase costs indefinitely under the mandate because the government wasn't paying for everyone under the mandate. It is removing only the mandate and not the subsidies that has put the ledger in increasingly dire straits.Quote:
Why didn't you ask yourself this in the first place?
Your problem is you see any time the liberals lose as a time you win. There is such a thing as a lose-lose scenario, and that is exactly where we've ended up. But your puppeteers tug the string, and you keep dancing right along. Oh well.
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You keep trying to dodge the fact that none of this happens if the ACA never happens.
I didn't dodge anything. I have explained very clearly how the ACA was Constitutional, how it accomplished the goal of insuring the poor, and how it will continue to do so in ways that further imperil your goals of reduced government now that the individual mandate has been repealed.
If you're trying to say that the Republican attempts to repeal Obamacare were hapless, incomplete, and otherwise impotent, of course that's correct. Has anyone disputed that? The social liberals have always won, and were always going to win this "debate". Like Judgment Day, it is inevitable.
Felix Sater = Government Asset?
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Interesting day today:
- USA won't say shit about Russia using nerve agents in the UK
- GOP House Intel says investigation's over and no collusion; Dems say "Huh? We're planning more interviews"
- Rosenstein comes out defending Mueller:One thing about a trump presidency is that it's not boring.Quote:
"The special counsel is not an unguided missile," Rosenstein said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY. "I don't believe there is any justification at this point for terminating the special counsel."
Oh; on a side note, Stormy's lawyer says that contrary to rumors there is nothing to the idea that trump got her pregnant and paid for an abortion. He was very explicit about that and mentioned it like five times. LOL
So... still no collusion?
Weird...
It's almost as if Hillary needed to fabricate some excuse for losing an election that should have been easily in the bag.. and that was the only one that stuck. Of course, it required some willfully ignorant people to sit there and believe it.
Enter people like cwolff, Backlash and Androidpk.
Grats?
You sure have a lot of sexual fantasies involving me. It's flattering but disturbing.
...and in other news:
I don't have a crystal ball but I'd say we do about as much as we did with the sanctions.Quote:
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BREAKING: Tillerson says ex-spy's poisoning in UK 'clearly came from Russia,' vows it 'will trigger a response.
It's pretty bad when you lose a Florida Republican
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Rep. Tom Rooney just went on @CNN and contradicted the @GOP House Intelligence Committee.
Rooney said Russia did try & help Trump get elected.
Asked why his committee was ending the probe, Rooney said his committee has “gone completely off the rails” & “lost all credibility.”
Please don't expose me Stormy Daniels!
Rep. Schiff's statement:
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“Today, the House Majority has announced it is terminating the Russia investigation, leaving to others the important work of determining the full extent of Russian interference in our election, the role of U.S. persons connected to the Trump campaign in that intervention, possible efforts to obstruct the investigation by the President and most important, what needs to be done to protect the country going forward. While the Majority members of our committee have indicated for some time that they have been under great pressure to end the investigation, it is nonetheless another tragic milestone for this Congress, and represents yet another capitulation to the executive branch. By ending its oversight role in the only authorized investigation in the House, the Majority has placed the interests of protecting the President over protecting the country, and history will judge its actions harshly.
“Next week, it will be one year since our investigation began with its first open hearing, and the country learned that the Trump campaign had been the subject of a counterintelligence investigation since July of the election year. Since that time, we have learned a great deal about countless secret meetings, conversations and communications between Trump campaign officials and the Russians, all of which the Trump Administration initially denied, would later misrepresent, and finally be forced to acknowledge. Thirteen Russians have been indicted in a far reaching conspiracy in which the Russians sought to influence our election by helping Donald Trump, hurting the Hillary Clinton campaign and sowing discord in the United States. Most significant, high-ranking Trump campaign and Administration officials have also been indicted, including the President’s national security advisor, his campaign chair and deputy campaign chair, as well as one of his foreign policy advisors, and three of those have already pled guilty.
“During that first open hearing of our investigation, I asked whether we could conduct this investigation in the kind of thorough and nonpartisan manner that the seriousness of the issues merited, or whether the enormous political consequences of our work would make that impossible. At that time, I said that I did not know the answer, but ‘if this committee can do its work properly, if we can pursue the facts wherever they lead, unafraid to compel witnesses to testify, to hear what they have to say, to learn what we will and, after exhaustive work, reach a common conclusion, it would be a tremendous public service and one that is very much in the national interest.’
“Regrettably, that challenge proved too much. The Majority was not willing to pursue the facts wherever they would lead, would prove afraid to compel witnesses like Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump Jr., Corey Lewandowski and so many others to answer questions relevant to our investigation. It proved unwilling to subpoena documents like phone records, text messages, bank records and other key records so that we might determine the truth about the most significant attack on our democratic institutions in history. Instead, it began a series of counter-investigations, designed to attack the credibility of the FBI, the Departments of Justice and State, and investigate anyone and anything other than what they were charged to do — investigate Russia’s interference in our election and the role the Trump campaign played. Ironically, even while they close down the Russia investigation, they plan to continue trying to put our own government on trial: this is a great service to the President, and a profound disservice to the country.
“Some will say that we should leave the investigation to Special Counsel Mueller anyway, since he has the resources and independence to do the job. But this fundamentally misapprehends the mission of the Special Counsel, which is to determine whether U.S. laws were broken and who should be prosecuted. It is not Mueller’s job to tell the American people what happened, that is our job, and the Majority has walked away from it. Others may be tempted to say a pox on both houses, and suggest that in a dispute between the parties, both must be equally culpable. But after months of urging the Majority to do a credible investigation, the Minority was put in the position of going along with a fundamentally unserious investigative process, or pointing out what should be done, what must be done, to learn the truth. We chose the latter course.
“On a fundamental aspect of our investigation — substantiating the conclusions of the Intelligence Community’s assessment that the Russians interfered in our democracy to advance the Trump campaign, hurt Clinton and sow discord — we should have been able to issue a common report. On those issues, the evidence is clear and overwhelming that the Intelligence Community Assessment was correct. On a whole host of investigative threads, our work is fundamentally incomplete, some issues partially investigated, others, like that involving credible allegations of Russian money laundering, remain barely touched. If the Russians do have leverage over the President of the United States, the Majority has simply decided it would rather not know. On the final aspect of our work — setting out the prescriptions for protecting the country going forward — we will endeavor to continue our work, with or without the active participation of the Majority.
“In the coming weeks and months, new information will continue to be exposed through enterprising journalism, indictments by the Special Counsel, or continued investigative work by Committee Democrats and our counterparts in the Senate. And each time this new information becomes public, Republicans will be held accountable for abandoning a critical investigation of such vital national importance.”
Yikes.
OMG FINALLY THIS IS REALLY REALLY IT FOR SUPER SERIOUS SURE WITH SOY ON TOP THIS TIME TRUMP IS FINALLY GOING DOWN AND...Quote:
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If it were that simple we'd have done it already.
As trump hastens the decline of U.S. power we now have to worry about retaliation. I'm not talking sanctions, tariffs or a stern talking to by the U.N. but actual military incursion into our territory. Chinas quickly becoming a force militarily and with the money they're spending plus their manpower we could be facing real defeat and humiliation in the not so distant future. God knows we're shitting on our friends to favor our enemy. At the end we should expect to be a version of a trump business. Bankrupt and begging Russians to bail us out
This is how these things happen. Like that quote you see from time to time. "Slowly at first then all at once"
I do not doubt that a war started by North Korea would go that way. I stand by my first post.Nah, Mattis didn't even go along with the transgender ban. If nothing else he clearly has a personal investment in the well being of our soldiers, and he's not clueless enough to think we'd enjoy 0% losses in any war.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.
The breadth of the subpoena was not clear, nor was it clear why Mr. Mueller issued it instead of simply asking for the documents from the company, an umbrella organization that oversees Mr. Trump’s business ventures. In the subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, Mr. Mueller ordered the Trump Organization to hand over all documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, the people said.
The subpoena is the latest indication that the investigation, which Mr. Trump’s lawyers once regularly assured him would be completed by now, will drag on for at least several more months. Word of the subpoena comes as Mr. Mueller appears to be broadening his investigation to examine the role foreign money may have played in funding Mr. Trump’s political activities. In recent weeks, Mr. Mueller’s investigators have questioned witnesses, including an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, about the flow of Emirati money into the United States.
THIS IS REALLY IT THIS TIME OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!3
THIS IS IT THIS TIME GUYS!!!!!!!!!!11111111 FOR REAL!!!!
153 pages later...
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The AG side of this has been very quiet. I remember reports when the investigation started about coordination between Mueller and SDNY, but haven't heard much about it since then. NYT and others are reporting on a whole slew of WH firings in the works right now. If he does clean house and brings in his hand picked "yes" men then I don't see anything stopping him from firing Mueller.
The only person that can disband the grand jury is the judge that started it.
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McCaffrey is a retired 4 star Army general.
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If you don't know who he is, McCaffrey served as a senior White House appointee for five years. When he retired from the Army in 1996, he was the most decorated general officer serving at the time, with two Distinguished Service Crosses, two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts.
They all come from the same anus so it probably doesn't matter.
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Trump's really dragging his feet on Russia. Mostly I think trump is an incompetent bungler with a well honed knack for baffling with bullshit. He's a great pitchman no doubt but I've not given him credit for being actively involved in a major criminal conspiracy. I'm beginning to re-think that. He's aggressively protective of Putin and even some right wingers are beginning to recognize.Quote:
If Russia continues its cyber aggression, “you’ll see the president continue to take bold and swift action to make sure the United States won’t sit idly by," Spicer argued on "America's Newsroom."
“It certainly is one of the toughest things he’s done since he became president towards Russia, but picking up on what Sean Spicer just said, I’d push back and say it's neither bold nor swift," Wallace said after watching a clip of the former Trump spokesman's comments.
"The fact is that these were sanctions that were passed overwhelmingly, I think the vote was 98-2 in the Senate, last July and there was a lot of complaints from the Republicans as well as Democrats, 'Why hadn’t the President actually imposed these sanctions that have been authorized by Congress?'"
"He invoked some of them yesterday, but there are major sanctions that were still in his arsenal that were still approved by Congress to go after the defense industry and other industries in Russia that the president did not impose yesterday," the "Fox News Sunday" host continued. "So this was a middle step, stronger than what he’s done, but not nearly as far as he could have gone."
Subtle. Get McCabe one day, warn Rosenstein the next.Quote:
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down the Mueller probe.
Reached for comment by email about the firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, sent The Daily Beast the text of Trump’s most recent tweet on the subject, which applauded the firing. Then he wrote that Rosenstein should follow Sessions' lead
“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,” Dowd then wrote.
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The crazy thing is if Comey and McCabe didn't release the unprecedented letter against Clinton, they probably still have their jobs and pensions. Trump always burns you, no matter what.
We should start planning a birthday party for this thread.
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Attachment 8923
Good reminder that trumps been calling for McCabes ouster for a while
Yes we should. There's so much to celebrate in July too. Not only is it the anniversary of Don Jr making all kinds of inconsistent comments about his meeting with the Russian agents about Hillary dirt, but also an anniversary of trump Sr. having a second meeting with Putin at the G20 with no American interpreter present. We're also seeing speculation that Don Jr and trump crew met a second time with the Russian agents in 2016 and this July is the two year anniversary of that. Our birthday party theme could be, "Collusion Fusion" or something like that. It'll be a hoot!
yeah what a raging homo
Also:
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What you and cwolff do behind closed doors is your business, but nobody here wants to hear about it.
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http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...h-trump-report
I think we already know what's in these memos. Lots of low level badgering. Loyalty pledge type bullshit. None of this is a magic bullet to take down trump but they sure do add up. If dems have weak mid-term none of it will matter of course. Republicans have no stomach for moral courage now a days.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has interviewed fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News. McCabe was asked by the firing of James Comey as well as his own conversations with President Trump, CBS News' Paula Reid reports.
McCabe kept memos of his conversations with Mr. Trump and what happened during Comey's firing and Mueller is in the possession of the memos.
The documents, Reid reports, provide important corroboration of Comey's accounts for an obstruction of justice investigation.
Here we go. Trumps working up his courage to pull the trigger.Quote:
The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!
Newly released .pdf of the McCabe memo.
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Good theory. Give trump rope and let him hang himself. He is 70 some years old with a track record of imploding.
It's not the first witch hunt in D.C.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has presented President Trump's legal team with a list of questions as investigators seek an interview with the president.
The New York Times reported Saturday that the questions were a sort of starting point for Mueller, whose team is working to negotiate an interview with Trump as part of the investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election.
It was after his legal team received the questions that Trump launched into a series of tweets, in which he denied that his campaign coordinated with Moscow during the 2016 election and lambasted Mueller's investigation as unnecessary.
In one Saturday night tweet, Trump asserted that Mueller's investigation should never have been opened in the first place, because there was "no collusion" and "no crime."
So now we know why he's been ranting like a scared little bitch.
This is from Seth Abramson on his Twitter feed. Hes probably right about this too. It explains why Mueller is putting aspects of the investigation on a back shelf while continuing with other leads.Quote:
Listen: Trump's *actual* "red line" for Mueller is a subpoena.
Trump will refuse to speak to Mueller and force him to issue a subpoena.
A subpoena is a perjury trap for Trump, so at that point Trump will have to fire Mueller.
In other words, things are coming to a head soon.
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In other words, things are coming to a head soon
Cwolff has entered the Maxine Waters zone.
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Congressman Trey Gowdy had some tough words for Trump lawyer John Dowd for his comments yesterday about how the Mueller probe should end.
Dowd initially claimed he was speaking for President Trump on this, before scrambling to walk that back, but since then Trump has attacked the Mueller probe twice on Twitter.
“The President’s attorney,” Gowdy told Chris Wallace, “does him a disservice when he says that and when he frames the investigation that way.”
He said Mueller’s jurisdiction is very clear and has elements that have “nothing to do with collusion,” so the idea that he’s only looking at it is absurd.
“If you have an innocent client, Mr. Dowd, act like it!” Gowdy declared.
He also added that he hopes Mueller doesn’t get fired because he’s doing important work.
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Such a shame that so any republicans only stand up to trump after they announce their retirement. The simple answer has been that there is a fear of losing so GOP pols are getting out before facing defeat. I'm assuming there's more to it than that. Each one who announces ahead of time that they are quitting will have a great story to tell when they primary trump.
In the meantime trump tweets are getting more and more desperate.
Graham is still standing up to Trump.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said he believes the Senate Judiciary Committee should hold a hearing on the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.
“I think we owe it to the average American to have a hearing in the judiciary committee where Attorney General Sessions comes forward with whatever documentation he has about the firing, and give Mr. McCabe the chance to defend himself,” Graham, a member of the panel, said on CNN’s “State of the Union."
“I believe when it comes to this issue we need as much transparency as possible to make sure it wasn’t politically motivated,” he added.
I'm not sure. People ask...why doesn't Trump act like he's innocent...and I believe the answer is that he considers the very existence of the investigation to be a blow to his ego. So even if Trump has no knowledge of collusion (and I don't have an opinion on this either way), he is going to act badly.
It will be interesting to see how this interview request plays out. If Trump refuses to be interviewed, calls for impeachment are likely to gain steam. And if he fires Mueller, things will hit the fan very quickly.
Regardless of your elitist and narcissistic opinion, Trump has passed all the required tests to be President. He is 35 yrs old or older, a Natural Born Citizen, a resident within the United States for 14 years or more and the one that you can't stand, he got elected by the Electoral College. While he may do things you don't like and I know he does things I don't like, he is qualified to be the POTUS. Your insistence otherwise simply speaks to your elitism and failure in school civics class.
Oooooo, a RINO Never Trumper supports Mueller. Big surprise. Just because something is popular does not make it moral, ethical or correct.
DUDE! You can tout your supposed education from here to Uganda, the fact is you posted a bullshit statement about qualifications to be the POTUS and I called you on it. You said bullshit, I demonstrated that what you said was bullshit, now shut the fuck up and stop spewing bullshit.
Here's No Spine Ryan chipping in.
House Speaker Paul Ryan reiterated his support for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on Sunday after President Trump targeting the probe in a series of tweets over the weekend.
"As the speaker has always said, Mr. Mueller and his team should be able to do their job," Ryan spokesperson AshLee Strong told the Washington Examiner.
Also, you come across as super butthurt, just so you know. This amount of butthurt:
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Asked about comments on the probe from Trump, who Sunday morning was continuing to tweet his frustration, Gowdy offered similar thoughts.
"If the allegation is collusion with the Russians, and there is no evidence of that, and you are innocent of that, act like it," Gowdy said.
He added later in the interview, "If you've done nothing wrong, you should want the investigation to be as fulsome and thorough as possible."
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Gowdy is finally catching on to what I said in the very first post in this thread..
This speaks to the "give him enough rope to hang himself" theory.
He's feeling his oats and we're about to get the real trump. I'd say it can only one of two ways: 1) He is president for life or 2) He fucks it all up and resigns in disgrace. I don't believe we'll be seeing an election leading to a peaceful transfer of power.Quote:
For months, President Trump’s legal advisers implored him to avoid so much as mentioning the name of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, in his tweets, and to do nothing to provoke him or suggest his investigation is not proper.
Ignoring that advice over the weekend was the decision of a president who ultimately trusts only his own instincts, and now believes he has settled into the job enough to rely on them rather than the people who advise him.
A dozen people close to Mr. Trump or the White House, including current and former aides and longtime friends, described him as newly emboldened to say what he really feels and to ignore the cautions of those around him.
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Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano explained Monday why he believes the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe could be viewed as "obstruction of justice."
McCabe was fired Friday, two days before he was set to officially retire and receive pension benefits. The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility made the recommendation to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to terminate McCabe, accusing him of a "lack of candor" under oath.
Napolitano said he sees the firing as "reckless" and "vindictive" because McCabe is "more likely than not to be a witness" against Sessions' boss, President Trump.
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Trump to Hire Lawyer Who Has Pushed Theory That Justice Dept. Framed the President
By MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT MARCH 19, 2018
MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Trump has decided to hire the longtime Washington lawyer Joseph E. diGenova, who has pushed the theory on television that Mr. Trump was framed by F.B.I. and Justice Department officials, to bolster his legal team, according to three people told of the decision.
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The hire has not been announced, and Mr. Trump frequently changes his mind and sometimes adjusts his plans based on media coverage. It was not clear whether Mr. Trump planned to hire other lawyers.
Mr. diGenova has endorsed the notion that a secretive group of F.B.I. agents concocted the Russia investigation as a way to keep Mr. Trump from becoming president. “There was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate Hillary Clinton and, if she didn’t win the election, to then frame Donald Trump with a falsely created crime,” he said on Fox News in January. He added, “Make no mistake about it: A group of F.B.I. and D.O.J. people were trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime.”
Maggie Haberman is at is again. It was just one week ago that Trump had to humiliate her publicly for writing an article saying that he was hiring another lawyer, as you can see in the tweets below from March 11, 2018.
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He's not wrong though.
So far, no collusion.. only a fabricated excuse for losing.
Sorry if that hurts your feelings.
Totally no collusion, that's why there are multiple guilty pleas, indictments, and obstruction of justice left and right. They pathetic cries and tears of the trolls are meaningless at this point.
In 1997, DiGenova wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal arguing that the Constitution allows for the indictment of a sitting president.
President Trump’s attorneys have provided the special counsel’s office with written descriptions that chronicle key moments under investigation in hopes of curtailing the scope of a presidential interview, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Trump’s legal team recently shared the documents in an effort to limit any session between the president and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to a few select topics, the people said. The lawyers are worried that Trump, who has a penchant for making erroneous claims, would be vulnerable in an hours-long interview.
:lol: But he's a stable genius!!!11
The President accused a newspaper writer of lying.
A week later he did exactly what the newspaper writer said he had been considering.
He knew the newspaper had him dead to rights, and just lied as loudly as he could.
Why?
Because he knew people like you would eat it up with a spoon.
The lie didn't even matter! Who cares if the President hires another lawyer? He's got a hundred lawyers. All that mattered, all that ever matters, is that the President loves pushing your buttons and making you hop.
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Hours before his appointment to President Trump's legal team was made public, Joe DiGenova told a Washington, D.C. radio station that the Trump-appointed FBI director had performed in a "despicable" way and had "become an embarrassment," for not being more forthcoming with the public about fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's conduct at the bureau.
McCabe "deserved what he got," DiGenova told WMAL Radio this morning. "He was the guy who was the head of the brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton so she could become president of the United States."
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That's confusing. I thought McCabe was fired for lacking candor in discussing a leak that he authorized of bad information about Hillary Clinton. If Chris Wallace and Trey Gowdy are correct, then it had nothing to do with Trump.
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WALLACE: I just want to go on one point. And, look, leaking is improper and the lack of candor, some would call it lying to investigators, especially under oath. It’s inexcusable and should be held to account.
But my guess is, most people would think that what Andy McCabe was involved with, leaking, was something against the Trump administration. My guess is most people don't know that in fact what he asked -- he didn't actually leak. He apparently authorized and official to talk to a reporter about was the fact that the FBI wanted to pursue the Clinton Foundation investigation over the objections of the Justice Department.
GOWDY: Yes, that's right. I mean, if you look at his statement, he was really upset that he is being blamed for ending something. And the interesting part of his statement, which I’ve heard a lot of people talk about is that he was really blaming DOJ, the Department of Justice who shut down the investigation.
But you know what, Chris? We don't live in a relativistic world and you don't get to pick and choose which rules to abide by and you don't get to decide when to tell the truth and what not to. I’m going to withhold judgment until Horowitz’s report comes out.
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Correct link on the Fox News Sunday transcript.. http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/20...shut-down.html
Can you link the guilty pleas, indictments and obstruction of justice that are actually related to the collusion of the Trump Administration and the Russian government?
Not lying to Congress.
Not tax evasion.
Not fraud.
Specifically the charges that prove there is collusion.
Nobody will be charged with collusion because collusion is not a crime. That's not just an argument that Trump's lawyers are making. Everybody acknowledges that collusion is not illegal. If Trump cooperated with Russians to steal Clinton's emails or if he took or paid bribes relating to stolen information, then that would be a crime. If he lies under oath about colluding with the Russians, that would be a crime. Or if the expanding investigation uncovers prior financial crimes, then that would, by definition, be a crime.Quote:
One of President Trump's top lawyers told The New Yorker that it doesn't matter if members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia as long as no crimes were committed.
“For something to be a crime, there has to be a statute that you claim is being violated,” Jay Sekulow said in an article published in the December issue of the magazine. “There is not a statute that refers to criminal collusion. There is no crime of collusion.”
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Mueller's mandate, which you can read for yourself if you don't believe me, was to investigate matters about which Comey testified before Congress after he was fired. If Comey had not been fired, there would have been no special counsel. That's why Steve Bannon called Comey's firing the biggest political mistake in modern political history. Nobody with any knowledge and understanding of the history of D.C. scandals would have even considered firing Comey in this situation.
And they call you a troll. That's about as good an explanation for the trump supporters to understand as any I've read
So.. this was never, ever about the fabricated story about the Trump Administration colluding with the Russians?
Shocker.
Really.
What does your common sense tell you?
Picture it. In the midst of a heated and nasty campaign, Trump Jr. received an email on June 3, 2016, stating, in part, "The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump..." Trump Jr. responded the same day, "Love it." Then Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort -- Trump's son, son-in-law and campaign manager, a group that would not be assembled for something viewed as unimportant -- met with the Russians on June 9, 2016. When asked in July of 2016 about rumors that Russia was trying to help the Trump campaign, Trump Jr. said it was a disgusting lie being spread by the Clinton campaign.
Do you think this is the sort of thing Trump Sr. would ignore? Is he the kind of person who wants to win at all costs, or does he have a code of honor that would prohibit accepting help from a foreign government?
If you do a search for timelines relating to the Russia investigation, you will find a variety of sites with long lists of other contacts, both before and after the Trump Jr meeting, between the Trump campaign and the Russians, all circumstantial evidence of collusion. The only direct evidence of collusion is the Trump Jr. meeting, which, of course, was not illegal if it happened as reported by Trump Jr. Lying about it under oath would be illegal, but lying about it to the public, as he did in July of 2016, was not illegal.
I believe the perceived need for an investigation is being driven by circumstantial evidence, reinforced by the attempt to cover up the meeting between Trump Jr. and the Russians, and given credibility by Trump's personal moral character.
just stfu, clyde. You butthurt bastard you.
Did he just break character?
Did Trump ask him? Olson has been in all the big scandals in recent years.Quote:
Attorney Theodore Olson will not join President Trump’s legal team, one of his legal partners said Tuesday afternoon.
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Forget for a minute the absurdity of Trump even being in the White House. He got there. However it happened. So here he is. Top job in the country. In the world some might say. Here is the chance of a lifetime to really make a difference. To really show your best to America and the world. What does Trump do with this opportunity? Fires people, rants on twitter at odd hours, sows discord among everyone, and wants a military parade. If Trump isn't the definition of biggest loser ever in the history of all time I don't know what is.
Well, also tax cuts, appointed a very conservative young justice to the supreme court, put a dozen judges on the federal appeals court, cut out the individual mandate on Obamacare (killing it), removed hundreds of regulations, giving control over to the Generals to fight ISIS, recognized Jerusalem, got us out of the weak Paris Accord, etc....
But while he was doing that, retards like you concentrated on his twitter account.. which is amazing.
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If Trump isn't the definition of biggest loser ever in the history of all time I don't know what is.
It really isn't that complicated. Trump's got no balls because putin has 'em.Quote:
Sen. McCain on Pres. Trump congratulating Putin on election win: “An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections." http://abcn.ws/2u3Ee6Z
This is some crazy shit. Russia says Jump, Trump asks how high.
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Unreal!!
The Kremlin does send their messages to @realDonaldTrump via media..
This morning all Russian media was discussing Trump failing to make a congratulatory phone to Putin. Peskov even suggested Trump “sleep on it”
A few hours later Trump phone call made!
This is correct.
This is also correct.
This is correct as well.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says special counsel Robert Mueller should be allowed to finish his job as he investigates contacts between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.
McConnell calls Mueller "an excellent appointment" who will "go wherever the facts lead him." McConnell said Tuesday that Mueller, a former FBI director, "will have great credibility with the American people when he reaches a conclusion of this investigation. So I have a lot of confidence in him."
Here's a WaPo follow up:
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President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladi*mir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” according to officials familiar with the call.
It's somehow as if the POTUS can say what he wants like every other US Citizen. If he just followed along what his advisers and so on said, you would be calling him a puppet.
No man. He's Putin's puppet. POTUS can't just say what he wants. He has a grave responsibility. He gave up just running his mouth when he got elected. At least he should have. Of course you know this and can probably understand this to be true yet let your feelings get in the way of any objectivity.
This from Lieu.Quote:
Why would officials leak that Trump's national security staff told him in all caps DO NOT CONGRATULATE Putin? Because folks in the White House are beginning to realize that the American President seems to have been compromised by the Russians.
What is @realDonaldTrump hiding? https://t.co/XyGf1YUO8D
You realize that President Obama did the same, exact thing to Putin in 2012 when he won re-election.. right?
Or was President Obama a Putin puppet as well?
I'm absolutely entertained by your Trump Meltdown though. Androidpk's meltdown has slowed down in recent weeks (he's probably being asked to move again) while yours has actually sped up.
Keep it up. Please. Tell us again how upsetting this is for you.
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I can sense the hatred in you. Let it flow and feel the power of the dumbside
BTW: speaking of dumbside, have you realized yet that the channel 4 investigation into Cambridge is not 4chan? Once I figured out your confusion I got a good laugh out of that. Thank you
Just a few days ago, Trump had to correct the failing New York Times for reporting that Trump was thinking about replacing his lawyers. Trump tweeted that he was very happy with his lawyers, specifically including Dowd. Today, Dowd resigned. Putting it together, Trump wanted Dowd to stay but Dowd quit anyway. That's not a good sign.
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WASHINGTON — The president’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, John Dowd, resigned on Thursday, according to two people briefed on the matter, days after the president called for an end to the inquiry.
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From The hill.com:
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U.S. investigators have reportedly discovered that "Guccifer 2.0," the hacker who claimed credit for a breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 2016 election, revealed himself as a Russian intelligence operative.
G2 is GRU
Rosenstein with a cyber announcement tomorrow at 10am
I love the smell of indictments in the morning
boo, looks like it's Iranian hackers.
So... President Trump colluded now with Iranians and not Russians?
OR did he really collude with both!
TWO PRONGED ATTACK!?
diGenova will no longer be joining Trump's Jr Varsity legal team. :lol:
OH MAN THAT'S IT IT'S HEATING UP NOW!!!!!111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no one cares