I can’t wait to see how this event is entangled in the whole Trumpsia mess:
I’m starting to think that we need to be asking “how many countries did/do the Trumps help launder money from”, not “did they do anything wrong”.
I think it’s lacking something. How about ‘… to obtain ice cream…’ Or ‘acquire’ ?
I propose “dominate” as the dominative verb in that sentence about food.
“In furtherance of the scheme to dominate ice cream, I propose…”
Ah, Bucky Katt, you’ve taught me so much!
Procure.
Source, evaluate and procure frozen dairy-based comestibles, consumption, for the purpose of.
I think it needs a hereby.
In furtherance of the scheme to source and procure ad hoc ice cream portions to be evaluated and, if appropriate, consumed, I hereby advance the proposal that…
Some of us have waaay to much experience with corporate bingo and not enough ice cream.
I still don’t know how this wasn’t bigger news, but even Manafort’s daughter described Trump and Manafort as up to shady shit together in her leaked text messages from last year:
“Dad and Trump are literally living in the same building and mom says they go up and down all day long hanging and plotting together.”
and describes their relationship as "The most dangerous friendship in America,”
She seems nice though:
“I hope my dad pulls it off. Then I can sell my memoir with all his dirty secrets for a pretty penny.”
NY Times sez Gates is flipping. Possibly today.
I’m going to guess that the obscure (by which I mean “completely unknown”) website that dug up the texts and the fact that the news is only about 15 days old (I see a February 8 date in the story but no dateline) are why. Reading thru it tho, I have a hard time believing Manafort won’t be pleading guilty very soon; no fucking way he (and his people) want things aired in public trial IMO.
Thank you for that link, eh. This is the first I’ve heard of those texts (and I spend a lot of time reading about this) and they are, if not bombshells, surely flashbang grenades.
ETA: The original article at Krypt3ia.com is even more devastating than the Huffpost article.
Missed my edit window; there’s a 2nd article at Krypt3ia
Check out the year. It was February of 2017. These texts have been out for over a year now. And, as you note, I picked a few choice quotes, but there is more and it paints Manafort as a murderer for hire.
Okay, I went back and looked and it took me a couple of minutes to find it in the upper corner of the first image. It was squished so much on my screen that I couldn’t read the text until I clicked the image and it embiggened itself.
In that case, I’d guess that Mueller’s folks have known about this for months now; they really don’t seem like the type of people that ignore details.
I mean, when your own daughter states:
"Don’t fool yourself. That money we have is blood money.”
“You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly. As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered."
You’re probably in a lot of trouble. So, either he flips because that’s his only option, or he doesn’t flip because he’s scared of being killed.
AFAIK, the first rule is still “You do not talk about Fight Club”.
If Manafort has any brain in his head at all, he’ll know that even if he has to plead guilty, opening his mouth is not an option if he wants to live past his next birthday; he knows what kind of people he’s been dealing with.
Yup, it’s officially official!
Two counts - conspiracy and lying to the FBI. That’s quite a bit down from what was filed yesterday…
IANAL but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Gate’s lawyers need more time to look at yesterday’s charges before they’d advise him to plead (or not plead) guilty to all that as well.
Oh granted I’m skimming articles between meetings at work, but I took it to mean that Gates took a plea deal and is gonna do like 6 months at Country Club Prisons Inc in exchange for the goods on Manafort and probably Trump*
- Seeing as how Gates was deputy campaign muckity-muck and deputy inaugural committee thingy … or how the Post puts it:
Thump says he never met the man and doesn’t have any idea who he is… in three… two… one…
It’ll be Sarah first: “Rick Gates wasn’t even an official ‘official’ member of the campaign. He was just some kid who came in occasionally and made copies for people. He was friends with that Papadapolous kid, I think and that’s the only reason he was there.”