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« Reply #50 on: April 26, 2018, 07:46:03 PM »
The process continues.  When you have an egotistical liar ..... who surrounds himself by incompetent liars .... bad things are going to continue to happen.

Whether you are talking about a business..... or a political administration .... it doesn't matter.  You have the same outcome.  BAD.

And it IS a process.  Remember the good ole' days when people thought it (RussiaGate) was all "smoke and mirrors"?  From those early days .... the process has continued of news developments out of what used to be just "many many dots" that needed to be connected.  Well.... that connection of all of those dots continues.  And they continue to connect.

Now.... we're at a point where I expect the public support for Traitor Don to continue deteriorate. .... as well as his support in the Congress.  As I said before, it will be a SLOWWWW process.  But day by day.... blunder by blunder..... Donnie will continue to dig his grave.  As well as the grave of MANY MANY others....

What will the Republicans running for office this November be thinking this summer (June, July, August) as news continues to come out ...... and poll numbers continue to worsen SLOWLY.  What happens if Ted Cruz, instead of being up by 3% is behind by 3% in another few months?

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Re: Mueller Investigation & Cohen Investigation
« Reply #52 on: April 26, 2018, 11:55:08 PM »
Avenatti is happy that Trump can't keep his story straight about the Daniels NDA:

Title: "Michael Avenatti: Trump Made ‘Hugely Damaging Admission’ That Michael Cohen Represented Him In Stormy Daniels Case"

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-admission-michael-cohen-michael-avenatti-902285

Extract: ""Hugely damaging admission by the president because according to what he said on Air Force One a few weeks ago, he didn’t know anything about the agreement, he didn’t know anything about the payment, Michael Cohen went off did this on lark and Mr. Trump knew nothing about it.”

Daniels’s lawyer concluded, “We now find out that that’s bogus.”"
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Re: Mueller Investigation & Cohen Investigation
« Reply #53 on: April 27, 2018, 01:25:01 AM »
You guys are really clueless:


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« Reply #54 on: April 27, 2018, 01:52:42 AM »
^Ramen^


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« Reply #55 on: April 27, 2018, 05:08:58 PM »
It makes perfect sense that Cohen needed to get a home mortgage to pay Daniels $130,000; but that he could loan a taxi mogul $26 million just before the election, because, as he admits, he is a member of the Russian Mafia:

Title: "AP: Cohen loaned taxi mogul $26 million before election"

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385141-ap-cohen-loaned-taxi-mogul-26-million-before-election

Extract: "President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and Cohen's father-in-law reportedly loaned at least $26 million in recent years to a taxi mogul who is shifting his business to selling legal marijuana, The Associated Press reports."

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Title: "Michael Cohen once reportedly bragged that he was part of the Russian mob"

http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-cohen-bragged-about-being-part-of-russian-mob-2018-4

Extract: "Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, reportedly bragged to a guest at a wedding he attended that he was part of the Russian mob."
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« Reply #56 on: April 27, 2018, 05:13:41 PM »
Politically speaking (w.r.t. a blue wave in November 2018), when Cohen pleas the Fifth Amendment the majority of American voters will assume that Trump's lawyer is trying to hide criminal activities:

Title: "Michael Cohen: Trump's lawyer to plead Fifth Amendment in Daniels case"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43904999

Extract: "Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has said he will invoke his constitutional right to remain silent in a civil case brought by adult film actress Stormy Daniels."
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« Reply #57 on: April 27, 2018, 05:24:48 PM »
While the fact that Natalya Veselnitskaya has close ties to the Kremlin comes as no surprise to those paying attention; nevertheless, with the mid-term elections coming it is good to get such 'news' out to mainstream America:

Title: "Lawyer in Trump Tower meeting admits to being informant for Moscow"

https://www.axios.com/russian-lawyer-natalya-veselnitskaya-trump-tower-russia-informant-a49a4eb4-6116-4978-8268-b064e6fbfd6c.html

Extract: "Natalya Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with top Trump campaign officials at Trump Tower in 2016, admitted to being an informant for a top Kremlin official, reports the New York Times.

Why it matters: Veselnitskaya previously denied having ties to Russia’s government and insisted she was a private attorney. The revelation now raises questions about who she was working for when she met with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner in 2016. The meeting is a focus of Special Counsel Bob Mueller's investigation."
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« Reply #58 on: April 27, 2018, 07:05:08 PM »
Because the House Intelligence Committee was not investigating collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, it is not surprising that the House Republicans' report did not find evidence of such collusion (legally conspiracy).  Nevertheless, the GOP report did cite evidence that Michael Flynn & his son met with Sergey Kislyak in early December 2015 just before Flynn joined the Trump campaign.  I imagine that Mueller already knows this, but it is good for the American voters to find out before they decide who to vote for in the mid-term elections:

Title: "BOMBSHELL: GOP Report Says Mike Flynn Went to Infamous Russian Spymaster’s House in 2015 For ‘Very Productive’ Meeting"

https://www.alternet.org/bombshell-gop-report-says-mike-flynn-went-infamous-russian-spymasters-house-2015-very-productive
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« Reply #59 on: April 27, 2018, 07:28:21 PM »
Manafort was just stalling by filling this frivolous civil lawsuit that the judge rejected, thus Mueller will continue his investigation and prosecution of Manafort:

Title: "Manafort loses effort to challenge Mueller's authority in civil court"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/paul-manafort-robert-mueller/index.html
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« Reply #60 on: April 28, 2018, 12:14:27 AM »
The timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 election and of Trump campaign-Russian meeting; are so extensive that they fill-up to complete Wikipedia websites:

Title: "Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

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Title: "Trump campaign–Russian meetings"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_campaign%E2%80%93Russian_meetings
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« Reply #61 on: April 28, 2018, 04:25:58 AM »
Adam Schiff has provided a good clue for Mueller to pursue about a call that Don Jr. made just before the Trump Tower meeting.  Does anyone suspect that Don Jr. might have called his father?

Title: "The new House GOP report on Russia is revealing. But not in a good way for Trump."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/04/27/the-new-house-gop-report-on-russia-is-revealing-but-not-in-a-good-way-for-trump/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b05bebb20ec3

Extract: "By contrast, there may be real news in the Democrats’ response to the report. In particular, the Democrats detailed new information that appears to shed light on what Republicans would not do in their investigation.

The response by Democrats makes this important charge: That Republicans refused to follow up on a lead that could have demonstrated whether, despite his denials, Trump had advance knowledge of the now-infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 between a group of Russians and Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort.

During an interview with us today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), the committee’s ranking member, expanded on this claim.
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According to the Democratic response, right after Trump Jr. set up the specifics of the meeting, he had two calls with a number in Russia belonging to Emin Agalarov. Between those two calls, the Democratic response recounts, Trump Jr. received a third call from a blocked number. Who might it have been?

Democrats wanted to find out, but Republicans blocked it from happening, according to the Democrats’ response.

“We sought to determine whether that number belonged to the president, because we also ascertained that then-candidate Trump used a blocked number,” Schiff said during our interview. “That would tell us whether Don Jr. sought his father’s permission to take the meeting, and [whether] that was the purpose of that call.”"
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« Reply #62 on: April 28, 2018, 05:38:39 AM »
Any reply I'd make would probably be a better fit in the "Dems blow the election again" thread.

The 2016 debacle isn't really anything that Democrats want to bring up with an election on the horizon. With only 25% of Americans holding a favorable impression of Hillary, most voters are jeering, not cheering.

https://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2018/04/19/poll-hillarys-approval-at-25-she-blames-sexism

If Mueller's minions must continue with this fiasco, doing it with as little fanfare as possible would be best for those Democrats that seem unable to get back on track and into campaign mode.
Droning on about how the Russians saved the nation from someone with Hillary's favorables won't play in Peoria, or any other local where the deplorables hold forth. They aren't discussing Mueller's latest gambit, they're wondering why no one is talking about health care, good jobs, or free education.

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« Reply #63 on: April 28, 2018, 06:32:05 AM »
"Because the House Intelligence Committee was not investigating collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign ..."

That's a fine line to draw.  Here is language from the house intelligence committee report

" ... an investigation in January 2017 with the mandate to examine ... 2) whether the Russian active measures include links between Russia and individuals associated with presidential campaigns "

I suppose you could argue that the term "individuals associated with presidential campaigns" is not the same as "Trump campaign" but that's a tough nut to defend.

That said, i agree with Clemens that there is no professional criminal class in the USA other than Congress and they lie lower than snake's bellies in wagon ruts; so as such, this report must be taken with some skepticism. But it accords with other reports that the Trump campaign was the gang that couldn't shoot straight, couldn't find their own asshole with a mirror and a pack of hunting dogs. I'll believe that the Russians dangled sumpn but that the campaign was too inept to either recognize the bait or defend against it.   

Their opposition screwed up massively, they lucked into the presidency, and they're kinda like the dog that caught the car.

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« Reply #64 on: April 28, 2018, 12:39:09 PM »
Delaying Stormy Daniels' civil lawsuit against Trump and Cohen by 90-day would move the deposition of these two key players closer to the mid-term election; which is good news for a blue wave:

Title: "Judge Delays Stormy Daniels' Lawsuit Against Trump, Lawyer Michael Cohen"

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/27/606657506/judge-delays-stormy-daniels-lawsuit-against-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen

Extract: "A federal judge in Los Angeles says the Stormy Daniels civil lawsuit against President Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen will take a 90-day break while events play out in a criminal investigation in New York.

As we have reported, Cohen has said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the Daniels lawsuit because of the related criminal inquiry in New York. FBI agents working on that probe raided Cohen's home and office looking for documents related to the Daniels nondisclosure agreement."
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« Reply #65 on: April 28, 2018, 12:59:43 PM »
I suppose you could argue that the term "individuals associated with presidential campaigns" is not the same as "Trump campaign" but that's a tough nut to defend.

I think that it is very clear that the Nunes led House Intel. GOP report is nothing more than a hack job in a political hail Mary attempt to give Trump cover for firing Mueller.  We all need to remember that Mueller is running a professional grade of investigation (rather than a hack job) and that Mueller already has testimony from Flynn, Gates, Papadopoulos, etc, and that no matter how much word play the House Intel. GOP report engages in; no one should believe that there was no collusion until the Mueller investigation has been completed and his report made public:

Title: "The House Republican Russia Report Is Nothing But a Hack Job"

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a20088918/house-republican-russia-report-hack/

Extract: "But will it be used as fuel to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller?"
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« Reply #66 on: April 28, 2018, 04:07:16 PM »


If Mueller's minions must continue with this fiasco, doing it with as little fanfare as possible would be best for those Democrats that seem unable to get back on track and into campaign mode.
Droning on about how the Russians saved the nation from someone with Hillary's favorables won't play in Peoria, or any other local where the deplorables hold forth. They aren't discussing Mueller's latest gambit, they're wondering why no one is talking about health care, good jobs, or free education.
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Mueller's team is doing the job with as little fanfare as possible.  Essentially zero leaks, no press conferences, just a sequence of indictments, to be followed by a report.

Democrats and progressives aren't just paying attention to Watergate, assertive efforts are being undertaken across a range of interests--mostly to oppose the initiatives of the Trumpkins.

I think your beef is with the press.  Criminal investigations with the potential to put some of the high and mighty into prison are of interest, so they gets covered.  Journalistic click-bait.  Most of the existing press is superficial and vapid, on all subjects.  Left, right, and center--most of it is vapid.

Everybody who cares about anything that is complex but important has exactly the same type of feeling about the press and popular culture.  Climate change, overfishing, wealth inequality, loss of native languages, scientific advances, whatever.  Nothing in depth gets presented to most consumers of the press, there's no market in it.  I think your beef is essentially the corrosive effect of capitalism on culture and society.

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« Reply #67 on: April 28, 2018, 07:47:55 PM »
Democrats and progressives aren't just paying attention to Watergate, assertive efforts are being undertaken across a range of interests--mostly to oppose the initiatives of the Trumpkins.

Trumpkins in Congress are trying to pervert democracy, and thus if Mueller is going to be given a chance to complete his work, then during the mid-term election the Democrats must field candidates that will stand-up to Trump without compromise.

Title: "The dramatic rise of the Democratic resistance"

https://www.axios.com/democratic-voters-dont-want-compromise-with-republicans-eff1d99a-0a2d-475d-934d-47097e4e216b.html

Extract: "Democratic voters have become much less open to compromise with Republicans under President Trump, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

The dramatic shift in Democrats' support for compromise — from 69% last July to just 44% now — reflects the party's growing progressive base. They want to stand up to Trump and stick to their liberal views, even if it's against their moderate colleagues.
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"In this type of climate, it’s less about who you are and more about why you’re running and your willingness to stand up to Trump," said Zac McCrary, a Democratic pollster who has worked with congressional races across the country. "Democratic voters want to know their candidate gets it and is going to be a very active watchdog on Trump.""

Edit: Unless Trump knows that the Russians will undermine the 2018 mid-term elections, his optimism may undermine the GOP's midterm strategy.

Title: "Trump’s Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump’s-role-in-midterm-elections-roils-republicans/ar-AAwsVmV?ocid=spartandhp

Extract: "President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president’s advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midterm elections.

Congressional and party leaders and even some Trump aides are concerned that the president’s boundless self-assurance about politics will cause him to ignore or undermine their midterm strategy. In battleground states like Arizona, Florida and Nevada, Mr. Trump’s proclivity to be a loose cannon could endanger the Republican incumbents and challengers who are already facing ferocious Democratic headwinds."

Also, I note that the House Intel. Committee Majority (GOP) report on Russian interference in the 2016 election makes it clear that the Democrats must rally political support to fight Trumpkins if we want democracy to withstand Trump's assaults on the rule of law.
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« Reply #68 on: April 28, 2018, 11:12:07 PM »
Well I'm certainly relieved to hear that there is a "growing progressive base" within the Democratic party.
The progressive candidates and pundits I've noticed seem very disinterested in Muellers investigations and very interested in what the DNC and the DCCC are doing during this primary season. Other than urging Mrs. Clinton to go away and keep quiet they don't speak much of her or the Russians.
The struggle is for relief from the Corporate stranglehold that the party has been under for decades. The only value that the election of 2016 has to a progressive democrat, is as an example of just how badly progressive values can be crushed when the Corporatists have been put in charge.


Progressives didn't lose that election. Russians didn't cost us that election. Corporate Democrats were in charge, and they are the ones that need to be acknowledged as a malignant force that needs to be excised before progress is possible.


Hillary was the corporate candidate - she lost.
Pelosi and DiFi are corporate shills - they need to go.
Putin couldn't get the dog catcher in Fresno elected - get a life.
Trump is going to kick your ass in 2020 if you don't win a whole bunch of state seats in 2018.


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« Reply #69 on: April 29, 2018, 11:11:40 AM »
Of course Sessions knew about back channel contacts between Putin and the 2016 Trump Campaign via the NRA; and both Rosenstein and Mueller are fully aware of this fact, and some day Sessions will need to testify to this fact in court.

Title: "Was Jeff Sessions Aware of a Proposed Trump-Putin Back Channel?"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jeff-sessions-back-channel-trump-putin-w519652

Extract: "New details from the House Intelligence Committee suggest the attorney general was privy to a critical episode of the NRA-Russia scandal."
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« Reply #70 on: April 29, 2018, 07:46:58 PM »
You couldn't make this stuff up:

Title: "Fedor Emelianenko questioned by FBI for links to Trump, Cohen"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mma/fedor-emelianenko-questioned-by-fbi-for-links-to-trump-cohen/ar-AAwuTqs?ocid=spartandhp

Extract: "Fedor Emelianenko, arguably the greatest MMA fighter of all time, was questioned at his hotel room this past Tuesday by the FBI in regards to his connections to U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen. The contents of that discussion was not disclosed by Emelianenko’s manager, Jerry Millen.

FBI agents were also in attendance for Emelianenko’s Saturday night heavyweight bout for Bellator against Frank Mir.

Emelianenko’s connection to Trump dates back to 2008, when Emelianenko headlined two events for Affliction Entertainment MMA, a promotion in which Trump held an ownership stake. The promotion folded after those two events. Michael Cohen was listed as the Chief Operating Officer of Affliction’s MMA division.

As a Russian celebrity, Emelianenko has been photographed with Putin on several occasions."
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« Reply #71 on: April 30, 2018, 05:00:00 PM »
Traitor Donnie is now moving into the "throw Michael under the bus" phase.  Donnie is having his pal at the Enquirer start it off:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/28/natl-enquirer-scoops-trump-aces-polygraph-cohen-role-questioned/561742002/

So now Donnie has to move from semi-supporting Michael ...... to running him over.  Donnie KNOWS he is toast WHEN Michael talks to the feds.  And now his only hope is a political one.

Donnies last movement of his ever-moving goal posts will eventually be:  OK ..... we did communicate with the Russians and some of my people worked with them ..... BUT ..... look at all the good things I am doing.  Wasn't that worth it.?"  That won't come for several months ..... but mark my words .... THAT IS COMING.

Remember..... the RNC, NRA, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Ronna Romney (Mitt's niece and current head of the RNC), and MANY MANY OTHERS are involved to varying degrees in either the actual "working with the Russians" ....... OR ...."KNOWLEDGE of the things that were going down AT THE TIME" .....OR ..... in the cover up of what happened.

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« Reply #72 on: April 30, 2018, 08:02:31 PM »
Trump campaign has paid portions of Michael Cohen's legal fees: Sources


We probably won't know for SURE whether or not Donald is throwing Michael Cohen under the bus for a few more weeks.  Perhaps up till this weekend ...... Donnie may have been trying to support Michael (both financially AND emotionally).  The payments this article talks about are for the first 3 months of this year.  We should know in another month or so whether Donnie's campaign is trying to help out Michael, or whether they have "cut him loose" and continue to run over him ..... without giving any financial aid.

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The Trump campaign has spent nearly $228,000 to cover some of the legal expenses for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, sources familiar with the payments tell ABC News, raising questions about whether the Trump campaign may have violated campaign finance laws.

Federal Election Commission records show three payments made from the Trump campaign to a firm representing Cohen. The “legal consulting” payments were made to McDermott Will and Emery — a law firm where Cohen's attorney Stephen Ryan is a partner — between October 2017 and January 2018.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-paid-portions-michael-cohens-legal-fees/story?id=54831269
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« Reply #73 on: April 30, 2018, 09:19:21 PM »
More revelations of evidence of Trump's actions to obstruct justice:

Title: "New Evidence of Obstruction of Justice in House Intelligence Committee Minority Report"

https://www.justsecurity.org/55479/evidence-obstruction-justice-house-minority-intelligence-committee-report/

Extract: "The Minority report contains information that adds to the substantive allegations of obstruction, and also to the range of corroborating evidence.

One of the most important revelations is that the FBI General Counsel and FBI Director’s chief of staff listened in on James Comey’s side of at least some phone conversations with the president, in which Mr. Trump reportedly engaged in efforts to alter the course of the Russia investigation. As the Minority report states, “(Jim) Rybicki and Baker also heard Comey’s side of phone conversations with the President, in real time.” It is, however, not clear which particular phone conversations with the president they were able to hear in this manner. Comey testified to Congress that he had six separate phone conversations with Trump.

Both the FBI Director and Deputy Director interpreted one of the president’s phone calls as threatening Comey if he did not lift the cloud of the Russia investigation. In a phone conversation on April 11, Trump said he wanted Comey to lift the cloud, “because I have been very loyal to you, very loyal; we had that thing you know,” according to Comey’s written testimony and contemporaneous memo. But why would the president refer to his loyalty to Comey rather than Comey’s “honest loyalty” to the president?"
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« Reply #74 on: April 30, 2018, 09:28:29 PM »
It should not become socially acceptable for POTUS to defame citizens without legal consequences:

Title: "Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation"

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385517-stormy-daniels-sues-trump-for-defamation

Extract: "Adult-film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Trump in addition to her ongoing one against his personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

Daniels's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tweeted Monday that his client has filed the lawsuit for Trump's "irresponsible and defamatory statements" about Daniels, whom Cohen paid $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement weeks before the 2016 election.

The complaint alleges that Trump's tweets mocking Daniels over a forensic sketch of a man she says threatened her to keep quiet about her claims of an affair with the president amount to defamation because they accuse her of fabricating the alleged crime, which would itself be illegal."
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« Reply #75 on: April 30, 2018, 10:09:24 PM »
Does working as a "Porn Star" qualify a person as a public figure?
If so it's going to be hard to make a defamation charge stick.
Otherwise think of the problems that our Buddy would be in.  8)
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« Reply #76 on: April 30, 2018, 10:22:34 PM »
The GOP has lost its legislative focus, and consequently they (& particularly GOP Senators like Ted Cruz) may pay the price of Republican voter lethargy come November:

Title: "Nervous Republicans to Congress: Do something"

https://www.axios.com/why-climate-change-cant-escape-washingtons-backburner-57cf106f-93f2-47dd-8b59-9450268fda4a.html

Extract: "Some Republicans, antsy about the energy on the left heading into midterms, say Congress needs to pass more conservative legislation this year to bolster the case for why voters should keep the GOP in office.

The catch: They can't agree what it should be. Maybe conservative priorities like regulatory reform or spending cuts, maybe something pragmatic like infrastructure reform. If they can't figure it out, conservative voters could get disenchanted and stay home in November ¬— costing Republicans the House and maybe even the Senate.

 “We need some more wins, first of all because that’s the right thing to do, second of all, because it’s politically expedient to our base to turn out in the fall, to make sure they see us being active and following through on this stuff.”

— Republican Study Committee Chairman Mark Walker"

See also:

Title: "GOP senators are freaking out about midterms because they realize they’ve done almost nothing for two years"

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/gop-senators-freaking-midterms-realize-theyve-done-almost-nothing-two-years/

Extract: "An Axios report Monday noted that the party can’t manage to agree on what any of the legislation should be. It warns that if they aren’t able to pass anything that leaves conservatives inspired, their voters might not come out for the 2018 midterm elections. Given the results of the recent special elections, that could spell disaster for the House and Senate Republicans up for election in November."
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« Reply #77 on: April 30, 2018, 11:14:08 PM »
Is the Trump campaign violating campaign finance laws by contributing to Cohen's legal defense?  Furthermore, is Trump engaging in witness tampering to try to prevent Cohen from flipping on him?

Title: "Trump campaign has paid portions of Michael Cohen's legal fees: Sources"

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-paid-portions-michael-cohens-legal-fees/story?id=54831269

Extract: "The Trump campaign has spent nearly $228,000 to cover some of the legal expenses for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, sources familiar with the payments tell ABC News, raising questions about whether the Trump campaign may have violated campaign finance laws."
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« Reply #78 on: May 01, 2018, 03:41:56 PM »
So the leaked list of questions was given by Mueller to John Dowd last March, and was partially leaked to the NYTs now.  I wouldn't be surprised if Team Trump leaked the list so that they could express outrage at the elitist establishment's (deep state's) nefarious machinations:

Title: "What Robert Mueller Reportedly Wants To Ask Donald Trump"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-mueller-questions-for-trump_us_5ae7bc27e4b04aa23f264b21

Extract: "The questions obtained by the Times are said to be the result of months of negotiations between the special counsel and Trump’s squadron of lawyers. The Times noted that the back and forth led to Mueller providing his ideal list to Trump’s former lead lawyer in the Russia inquiry, John Dowd, in March.

Dowd, who had urged Trump to reject any request for an interview in the investigation, was reportedly even more wary about a meeting after seeing the list. But the lawyer resigned later in March amid reports that his relationship with the president had frayed and that Trump planned to ignore his advice."

Edit: I note that if it turn's out that Team Trump (say by Rudy Giuliani) did leak Mueller's questions, then that would constitute obstruction of justice.
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« Reply #79 on: May 01, 2018, 03:53:53 PM »
Has Trump been Putin's puppet for decades?  Hopefully, Mueller can get to the bottom of this:

Title: "Filmmakers of ‘Active Measures’ Documentary Assert Donald Trump Has Been Putin’s Puppet for Decades"

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/active-measures-documentary-trum-russians-1202790665/

Extract: " Watching Jack Bryan’s explosive documentary “Active Measures,” about Russia’s espionage program and the effect it had on the 2016 U.S. presidential election, could be likened to watching a 21st century version of Watergate.

The film, debuting at Hot Docs film festival in Toronto Monday, features archival footage and a bevy of interviews with key Washington figures including former CIA director James Woolsey, former United States Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, former F.B.I. special agent Clint Watts, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Via these interviews “Active Measures” constructs a powerful argument as to how Soviet modern warfare tactics – “active measures” — shifted the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and weakened Western democracy. The film also meticulously documents Trump’s problematic financial relationship with the Russian oligarchy that began decades ago."

For a trailer, see also:


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« Reply #80 on: May 01, 2018, 04:05:31 PM »
There are 3 people/groups that I would NOT WANT to be on the "other side" working against:

1) Parkland High School students
2)  Michael Avenatti
3)  Robert Mueller

Unfortunately..... Traitor Trump is working against ALL 3 in some form or another.

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« Reply #81 on: May 01, 2018, 04:50:18 PM »
As a follow-on to one of my earlier posts on this subject, I note that presumably Mueller would never give Team Trump a list of advance questions unless Mueller already knew the answer to those questions.  If so, then based on Mueller's March list of preliminary questions, Trump could soon be in trouble on topics ranging from Russian meddling to obstruction of justice to Trump's conduct while in office:

Title: "Robert Mueller's questions for Trump"

https://www.axios.com/russia-investigation-robert-mueller-questions-for-trump-18e2e3da-0584-41c4-b010-fa8b78e246a2.html

Extract: "The questions, which reveal that Mueller is interested in learning more about Trump's ties with Russia, his relationship with his advisers and family, and the motivation behind some of his controversial tweets, offer one of the closest looks yet into Mueller's thinking. They also show that the investigation has expanded beyond Russian meddling and potential obstruction of justice to include the president’s conduct in office."
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« Reply #82 on: May 01, 2018, 05:38:25 PM »
Cohen takes fifth, gets 90 day stay in Stormy civil suit in LA. Avenatti says he may appeal.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/27/trump-stormy-daniels-case-delay-558294

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« Reply #83 on: May 01, 2018, 05:48:26 PM »
Former Mueller assistant, Michael Zeldin, suspects that the questions 'leaked' to the NYTs did not come from Mueller but rather came from notes taken by recipients of a conversation with Mueller's office, and that the 'questions' only covered introductory topics and that Mueller's investigation will not end any time soon.

The NYTs said that the 'questions' came from a someone outside of Trump's legal team, and as Rudy Giuliani is not formally part of Trump's legal team, then he might have leaked the 'questions' in order to obstruct the continuing investigation:

Title: "WATCH: Robert Mueller’s Former Assistant Explains How Grammatical Errors Prove ‘Leaked Questions’ Came From Trump"

https://www.alternet.org/watch-robert-muellers-former-assistant-explains-how-grammatical-errors-prove-leaked-questions-came

Extract: "We have, this morning, been calling these questions that Mueller propounded, but I don’t believe that that’s actually what these are,” he began. “I think these are notes taken by the recipients of a conversation with Mueller’s office where he outlined broad topics and these guys wrote down questions that they thought these topics may raise.”

He explained that the way the questions are written make it pretty obvious.

“Because of the way these questions are written,” Zeldin explained his methodology. “Lawyers wouldn’t write questions this way, in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper. So, I don’t see this as a list of written questions that Mueller’s office gave to the president. I think these are more notes that the White House has taken and then they have expanded upon the conversation to write out these as questions.”"

Also, per the linked article, Mueller's office might have raised the topics addressed in the 'leaked' 'questions' in order to bait Team Trump, and that someone (say Giuliani) may have leaked these 'questions' not only to disrupt Mueller's investigation but also to get Trump to take the investigation seriously:

Title: "Trump Biographer Says ‘Matador’ Mueller Is Expertly Baiting ‘Trump the Bull’ With His Questions"

https://www.alternet.org/trump-biographer-says-matador-mueller-expertly-baiting-trump-bull-his-questions

Extract: "D’Antonio goes on to speculate that someone on Trump’s team leaked the questions as a way to get Trump’s attention and show him just how serious the Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is for the president."
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« Reply #84 on: May 01, 2018, 06:20:30 PM »
The linked Rollingstone article about Mueller's 'questions' 'leak', makes good sense if Rudy Giuliani leaked the 'questions' as a way to get Trump to charge at Mueller, in an attempt to get the Mueller investigation shutdown (say by firing Mueller/Rosenstein),.as Rudy has potential criminal liability himself if the investigation proceeds:

Title: "A Theory of the Leaks Surrounding Mueller's Questions for Trump"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/muellers-questions-for-trump-a-theory-w519706

Extract: "Imagine a bull – or a bull’s handlers – wanting a matador to wave a red muleta in front of the charging beast. That’s one way to look at Monday night’s leak of the questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly wants to ask President Trump as part of the growing Russia investigation: Team Trump is trying to goad the president into charging at Mueller and his investigators.
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Most of the questions, reportedly summarized by Team Trump, are obvious ones that most of us would like to have the chance to ask the president. There are questions about obstruction of justice, questions about who approached the Russians and why, questions about several of the president’s men (and relatives) who seem to be in jeopardy of becoming federal criminal defendants one day soon. Also on that list are questions focusing on Trump’s business interests; questions that appear specifically designed to evoke a response from the temperamental president."
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« Reply #85 on: May 01, 2018, 06:26:54 PM »
Clearly, Trump's allies are preparing the ground for an attempt to end the Mueller investigation:

Title: "House Conservatives Draft Articles Of Impeachment Against Rod Rosenstein"

https://news.google.com/news/explore/section/q/Rod%20Rosenstein/Rod%20Rosenstein?ned=us&hl=en&gl=US

Extract: "A group of conservative House members has drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, multiple news organizations reported  Monday.

The reported draft is the latest in an ongoing feud between Congress members allied with President Donald Trump and the Justice Department over its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservatives led by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), recently finalized the draft, The Washington Post reported.

Meadows called it “a last-resort option if the Department of Justice fails to respond” to congressional requests for documents pertaining to the Russia investigation and another federal inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server."
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« Reply #86 on: May 01, 2018, 07:40:47 PM »
You can add this to Cohen's shady resume:

Title: "Better Call Cohen: The Shady Cases of Trump Lawyer's Personal Injury Practice"

https://www.rollingstone.com/shady-cases-michael-cohen-personal-injury-practice-w519679

Extract: "The president's personal attorney represented multiple clients in New York who allegedly staged car crashes to cheat insurance companies

A few years before he started working for Donald Trump, and long before he gave legal advice to people like Fox News personality Sean Hannity, Michael D. Cohen had a different kind of clientele. Cohen roamed the courthouses of New York City, filing lawsuits on behalf of people with little means who were seeking compensation for the injuries they suffered in car collisions. Many personal-injury lawyers make their living this way, but there was something striking about Cohen's cases: Some of the crashes at issue didn't appear to be accidents at all."
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« Reply #87 on: May 01, 2018, 11:15:29 PM »
It is almost unanimous among experts that it is most likely that someone (I suspect Rudy Giuliani) on Team Trump leaked the Mueller 'questions' to the NYTs, just so the right including Trump can shout about how disgraceful the leaks were:

Title: "Experts: Mueller questions leaked by Team Trump"

https://www.salon.com/2018/05/01/experts-mueller-questions-leaked-by-team-trump/

Extract: "Hartmann also noted that there were three prevailing theories as to why the questions were leaked (and most likely by someone either currently or formerly associated with Trump's team): to convince Trump not to speak with Mueller, to turn the public against the Mueller investigation or to persuade the Republican-controlled Congress that Mueller is getting too close to the president and needs to be stopped.

"The very fact that the questions are out there, my first reaction is that it could be an act of obstruction just to have released these questions," John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, told Anderson Cooper. He elaborated that they may have been released "to try to somehow disrupt the flow of information, the tipping off of a witness in advance as to what the questions are going to be." He also noted, as did Abrams, that these seem to be questions someone wrote down after listening to someone else.

Regardless of the Trump administration's maneuvering, however, most Americans support the Mueller investigation."
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« Reply #88 on: May 01, 2018, 11:40:40 PM »
Does Mueller already know everything that Ivanka knows so that he doesn't need to interview her, or is Mueller saving his questions for her until near the end of his investigation, or is Mueller focused on criminal charges against Jared so he cannot question his wife?

Title: "The real reason Mueller hasn’t called Ivanka Trump"

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/01/ivanka-trump-mueller-russia-probe-563169

Extract: "The special counsel seems to be leaving the president's children for last.

She was in Bedminster, N.J., with President Donald Trump the rainy June 2017 weekend when he decided to fire FBI director James Comey.

She was a passenger on the plane flying home from the G-20 conference in Germany the next month, strategizing about how to manage the fallout of her brother Don Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer peddling “dirt” about Hillary Clinton.

Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and West Wing adviser, also spoke briefly at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer and a lobbyist who was present for that meeting during the campaign.

Yet the family member closest to the president – and the woman who as a key campaign figure helped lobby her father to hire Paul Manafort, a man who is now under indictment on money laundering and fraud charges, as campaign manager – has yet to be called in for questioning by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation.

So far, only Ivanka Trump’s Washington enemies are actively floating the idea that she might be a “target” of Mueller’s investigation – and therefore not called in as a witness.

Like Mueller, Republicans who control the Hill committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election have declined to call Ivanka Trump for an interview. Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill, however, do not buy the argument that Ivanka Trump would be of no interest to them or Mueller.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has said that “it would be valuable to have her come and testify.”

Speaking to reporters in January, Schiff added: “if there’s credible information that Ivanka Trump had contact with any of the participants in that meeting at the time of that meeting, she should be brought in.”"
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« Reply #89 on: May 02, 2018, 12:24:51 AM »
Given the mutual interest in both oil and weapons shared by Russia, UAE and Saudi Arabia, it is not surprising that the Mueller Investigation should have many leads that run through the Middle East:

Title: "Witness in Mueller Inquiry Who Advises U.A.E. Ruler Also Has Ties to Russia"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/george-nader-russia-uae-special-counsel-investigation.html

Extract: "A witness who is cooperating in the special counsel investigation, George Nader, has connections to both the Persian Gulf states and Russia and may have information that links two important strands of the inquiry together, interviews and records show.

Mr. Nader’s ties to the United Arab Emirates are well documented — he is an adviser to its leader — but the extent of his links to Russia had not been previously disclosed.

Mr. Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has a catalog of international connections that paved the way for numerous meetings with White House officials that have drawn the attention of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. For example, Mr. Nader used his longstanding ties to Kirill Dmitriev, the manager of a state-run Russian investment fund, to help set up a meeting in the Seychelles between Mr. Dmitriev and a Trump adviser days before Donald J. Trump took office.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, the de facto ruler of the U.A.E., is a close ally of the United States and a frequent visitor to the White House. He has also visited Moscow and met with Mr. Putin several times in recent years. One person briefed on the matter said Mr. Nader had accompanied the crown prince to Moscow on numerous occasions.

Last year, days before Mr. Trump took office, Mr. Nader helped set up a meeting at a Seychelles resort between Mr. Dmitriev, Emirati officials and Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide and an adviser to Mr. Trump’s transition team. The meeting, at the bar of a Four Seasons Hotel overlooking the Indian Ocean, was brokered in part to explore the possibility of a back channel for discussions between the Trump administration and the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the meeting."
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« Reply #90 on: May 02, 2018, 01:59:11 AM »
If Rudy Giuliani actually did leak the Mueller 'questions', and if the Mueller investigation is completed after the midterm elections and recommends impeachment, then Giuliani would presumably quarterback Trump's defense team for the Senate trial (assuming that the Democrats gain control of the House and vote for an impeachment trial); and his leaks may be viewed as an attempt to precondition the constituents of 34 GOP Senators required to block Trump's removal from office.

In this regards, I note that per the linked Wikipedia article, the majority members of the House Judiciary Committee would act as "managers", the equivalent of prosecutors, and thus it would be imparative that if the Democrats take control of the House that they appoint their strongest political minds to the Judiciary Committee (to counter Giuliani's machinations).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
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« Reply #91 on: May 02, 2018, 04:29:33 AM »
It looks like Mueller is prepared to subpoena Trump if Trump does not agree to a negotiated interview:

Title: "Report: Robert Mueller raised the possibility of subpoenaing Donald Trump"

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/1/17309504/robert-mueller-questions-trump-subpoena

Extract: "A sign the special counsel isn’t backing down from a request to interview the president.
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Robert Mueller has raised the possibility of subpoenaing President Donald Trump to compel him to testify in the Russia investigation — a sign that the special counsel won’t back away quietly from his request to interview the president.

The Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig and Robert Costa report that Mueller brought up the specter of a subpoena during a “tense meeting” on March 5 after Trump’s legal team told the special counsel’s office that the president had no obligation to speak with investigators:"
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« Reply #92 on: May 02, 2018, 09:54:56 AM »
Has a sitting President ever been issued a subpoena by an investigator? I recall Hillary testifying in front of Starr, (which seemed a little strange as I didn't think that wives could be compelled to testify against their husbands), but this seems even more outrageous.

Some NY judge just found that Iran was responsible for 9-11, and ordered reparations totaling in the $Billions,  :-\ so I suppose the judiciary can do whatever it wants, but what ever happened to the separation of powers that Americans so eagerly to boast of?

There are some questions I'd love to have heard "W" or Chaney respond to under oath, but executive privilege was just assumed, I assume.

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« Reply #93 on: May 02, 2018, 11:03:00 AM »
Has a sitting President ever been issued a subpoena by an investigator? I recall Hillary testifying in front of Starr, (which seemed a little strange as I didn't think that wives could be compelled to testify against their husbands), but this seems even more outrageous.

Some NY judge just found that Iran was responsible for 9-11, and ordered reparations totaling in the $Billions,  :-\ so I suppose the judiciary can do whatever it wants, but what ever happened to the separation of powers that Americans so eagerly to boast of?

There are some questions I'd love to have heard "W" or Chaney respond to under oath, but executive privilege was just assumed, I assume.

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« Reply #94 on: May 02, 2018, 07:42:29 PM »
Trump's Russia legal team keeps churning (I note that Emmet Flood was on Bill Clinton's impeachment legal team):

Title: "White House Says Ty Cobb, Trump Lawyer in Russia Probe, Is Retiring"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/white-house-lawyer-in-russia-probe-leaves-as-trump-shuffles-team

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"- Ty Cobb to be replaced by attorney Emmet Flood, NYT reports

 -Trump legal team has been defined by upheaval in recent weeks"
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« Reply #95 on: May 02, 2018, 07:50:03 PM »
Clearly, Trump does not believe that the Justice Department should have an appropriate level of independence from the WH:

Title: "Trump calls Justice Department ‘rigged,’ threatens action"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-calls-justice-department-rigged-threatens-action/2018/05/02/6a568608-4e19-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html?utm_term=.085de48c5b0a

Extract: "President Trump lashed out at the Justice Department on Wednesday, complaining that he may have to “get involved” amid an ongoing dispute between conservative lawmakers and the department over a memo outlining the topics being investigated by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

The president’s tweet suggests that friction may be rising again between Trump and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who just a day earlier declared at a public event that “the Justice Department is not going to be extorted” by public and private threats.

Less than 24 hours after Rosenstein’s comments, Trump fired off a tweet declaring: “A Rigged System — They don’t want to turn over Documents to Congress. What are they afraid of? Why so much redacting? Why such unequal “justice?” At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved!”

Before that broadside, Trump sent a tweet promoting Fox News Channel legal analyst Gregg Jarrett’s new book, which is highly critical of how the FBI investigated Hillary Clinton and Trump. “A sad chapter for law enforcement. A rigged system!” the president tweeted."
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« Reply #96 on: May 02, 2018, 08:02:55 PM »
The head of Rusal is Oleg Deripaska, a likely Trump co-conspirator:

Title: "U.S. Gives Rusal Path to Escape Sanctions"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rusal-set-to-escape-sanctions-after-treasury-amends-russia-blacklist-1525217278?mod=e2tw
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« Reply #97 on: May 02, 2018, 09:35:52 PM »
As the conservatives in Congress leak the documents that they get from the DOJ almost immediately, it may be challenging for the DOJ to maintain its investigatory independence, as Trump intervenes:

Title: "Trump suggests he may intervene in DOJ release of Mueller probe documents"

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/02/trump-justice-department-clinton-565602

Extract: "The presidential criticism comes after the Justice Department refused to give Congress a memo on scope of special counsel investigation."
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Re: Mueller Investigation & Cohen Investigation
« Reply #98 on: May 02, 2018, 09:55:47 PM »
The chance of Mueller sitting down for a "narrow" "2 or 3 hour interview max" ....... is about the same chance that Rudy Guilliani is ethical in his personal life.

That 'aint going to happen.  In fact..... no interview with Traitor Donnie is going to happen.  Donnie is guilty ..... and Donnie is worried.  And when pressure is applied ...... bad things happen to guilty people.

Donnie will try to string this out if he can ..... and if he can't ..... he'll use the "nuclear option" of firing everyone in sight.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lawyer-says-mueller-interview-of-trump-to-be-limited-tweet/ar-AAwEp5W?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp

Too bad Traitor Trump doesn't have a pair of balls and some backbone like someone else I know:

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Hillary Clinton faced 11 hours of questioning before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday, and when it was over, it was hard to say how much new light was shed on the 2012 terrorist attack that killed four Americans while she was secretary of state.

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/22/451012235/clinton-endures-an-11-hour-grilling-before-benghazi-committee
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Re: Mueller Investigation & Cohen Investigation
« Reply #99 on: May 02, 2018, 09:59:31 PM »
Trump's Russia legal team keeps churning (I note that Emmet Flood was on Bill Clinton's impeachment legal team):

Title: "White House Says Ty Cobb, Trump Lawyer in Russia Probe, Is Retiring"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/white-house-lawyer-in-russia-probe-leaves-as-trump-shuffles-team

Extract:
"- Ty Cobb to be replaced by attorney Emmet Flood, NYT reports

 -Trump legal team has been defined by upheaval in recent weeks"

If it is not obvious to some readers, this means that Ty Cobb almost certainly will now become a witness for Mueller, acting in much like the role that John Dean played in Watergate to tie all the loose ends of the investigation together:

See:

Title: "John Dean"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dean
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