Russia Investigation Heating Up

[Ashliana]

Are ANY of the people around Trump not corrupt slime balls?

[ClydeR]

The inspector general said that when investigators asked whether he had instructed aides to provide information in October 2016 to a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. McCabe said he did not authorize the disclosure and did not know who did.

But Mr. McCabe did approve the F.B.I.’s contact with the reporter, according to the review.

The newspaper article delved into a dispute between F.B.I. and Justice Department officials over how to proceed in an investigation into the financial dealings of the Clinton family’s foundation. It revealed a sensitive meeting during which Justice Department officials declined to authorize subpoenas or grand jury activity.

The inspector general also concluded that Mr. McCabe’s disclosure of the existence of the ongoing investigation in the manner described in the report violated media policy of the F.B.I. and Justice Department and constituted misconduct.

In a statement, Mr. McCabe said that he had full authorization to share this information with the media. Mr. McCabe also said that he did not intentionally mislead investigators.

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[ClydeR]

We need to have a talk about spelling.

It's slimeball, not slime ball.

And it's low-life, not low life.

It doesn't matter much, of course, unless you're publishing it to millions.

[time4fun]

Um the juvenile-in-chief just went to Twitter:

DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!

Translation:

Edit: Drat Lost to Clyde!

[ClydeR]

The report says that Comey is great! And McCabe is not so great! McCabe seems to be at odds with Comey, not, as Trump asserts, under Comey's control.

In a letter submitted by McCabe’s counsel after reviewing a draft of the report, McCabe argues that “the OIG should credit Mr. McCabe’s account over Director Comey’s” and complains that the report “paints Director Comey as a white knight carefully guarding FBI information, while overlooking that Mr. McCabe’s account is more credible for at least three key reasons ...”

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[Methais]

We need to have a talk about spelling.

It's slimeball, not slime ball.

And it's low-life, not low life.

It doesn't matter much, of course, unless you're publishing it to millions.

You're forgetting that 90% of the people that will see it don't even know the difference between your vs. you're, or there vs. they're vs. their. Pretty sure most of the world won't notice that.

[time4fun]

SO...

1) Trump's personal lawyer goes to Court today to fight the review of evidence that was seized from him this week after a no-knock warrant

2) We find out that the lawyer has been under criminal investigation for months, and there have been previously unknown warrants executed against him

3) We learn that the President had to hire 3 MORE lawyers to try to fight the evidence because he's terrified there's information in there that would get him in a lot of trouble

4) A day or two after having to resign as a Deputy Finance chair for the RNC, we find out that Cohen actually helped negotiate a $1.6m payout to a Playboy Bunny mistress of one of the other Deputy Finance chairs- who has now resigned over the scandal

5) The President pardons someone who was convinced of obstruction and lying to the FBI (Rule of law!) presumably to send the message to his indicted former campaign chair and soon-to-be indicted personal lawyer that he's ready to obstruct justice further and Pardon them

6) Several House members threaten impeachment because the President is considering firing the person overseeing the investigation into him and his campaign- because he's trying to head off an obstruction report that's about to come out (plus the collusion report)

7) The former head of the FBI- whose firing initiated the Special Counsel investigation into the President- is about to go on a book tour and is likening the President to a mob boss, so the RNC is on a PR offensive to smear him while the President is calling him a slimeball via Twitter

8) We find out about the third payoff deal between Trump, Cohen, and the Enquirer (and parent company)- deals that have triggered investigation into campaign finance violations for everyone involved. And this one is about a child he apparently had with a housekeeper a few years back.


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Oh, and we're on the verge of war in Syria, a trade war in China, and we're facing trillion dollar annual deficits.


Does...that about cover the news cycle for the first half of the day?

How's that winning going?

[time4fun]

ROFL

SDNY threw some serious shade at Cohen today:

A court filing did not detail what Cohen is under investigation for.

But the filing contains the first details released by the Justice Department on the searches, which covered Cohen's residence, hotel room, office, safety deposit boxes and two cell phones. Previous search warrants allowed New York federal prosecutors to search multiple email accounts, the filing said. In them, they found that Cohen had done "little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump."

The prosecutors assert that they have confidence that any seized material would not fall under the significant amount of attorney-client privilege that Cohen has claimed. They said Cohen has told at least one witness that his only client was Trump.

The prosecutors noted Cohen had personally not turned over any documents to Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation. Initially, Mueller had requested some records from Cohen while he was with the Trump family company — a position he held for about a decade — yet dropped the request after Cohen pushed back. Mueller's office referred the case about his business dealings to New York but hasn't been involved since, the Manhattan prosecutors said.

[Fortybox]

It's FRIDAYYYYY!!!! Here comes the liberal army of dumb!

[Androidpk]

Just noticed that Cohen got his law degree from Cooley. This explains everything.