Zakalwe
April 27, 2018, 11:14am
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I certainly hope he has someone checking over his car very carefully before he starts it up…
friedo
April 27, 2018, 3:39pm
4263
Surprising nobody, the Russian lawyer at the famous Trump Tower meeting has much closer ties to the Kremlin than has previously been acknowledged.
Ms. Veselnitskaya also appears to have recanted her earlier denials of Russian government ties. During an interview to be broadcast Friday by NBC News, she acknowledged that she was not merely a private lawyer but a source of information for a top Kremlin official, Yuri Y. Chaika, the prosecutor general.
“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she said. “Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.”
If the Trump Organization was one of his clients, couldn’t one of the people requiring an abortion payoff be one of Trump’s sons?
Of course it won’t be voted on. Duh. It doesn’t have to “go anywhere” for the point to be made (a point that you seem to have missed).
The excerpt was from the Wiki bio of Stormy Daniels’ attorney. If you’re looking for excerpts from Michel Cohen’s Wikipedia bio, here you go:
he was Executive Vice-President of the Trump Organization…
While an executive at the Trump Organization, Cohen was known as Trump’s “pit bull.”…
The Trump–Russia dossier, that was published in January 2017, alleges that Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague in 2016 with the objective of paying those who had hacked the DNC and to “cover up all traces of the hacking operation”. Cohen has denied the allegations against him, [saying] “I’m telling you emphatically that I’ve not been to Prague, I’ve never been to Czech [Republic], I’ve not been to Russia.”
[et cetera, et cetera]
Channing_Idaho_Banks:
Isn’t Cohen a Jew?
Depends, can we revoke his membership in the Tribe?
wonky
April 27, 2018, 7:49pm
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And by not going anywhere, it will reinforce the (correct) Trumpian idea that congress won’t stand against him.
That’s a poor reason to do nothing.
wonky
April 27, 2018, 9:16pm
4270
It is, however, a good reason not to be so excited by what they are (not really) doing.
Skypist
April 27, 2018, 11:15pm
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Ooh, serious consequences, like an extra-strong tsk-ing.
Unfortunately, it’s all just guff so they can hedge their bets and pretend to be critics of #45 while also eventually falling in line with the administration when push comes to shove.
Does making a payment on someone’s behalf necessarily make that person your client?
Well, if your job is “professional problem fixer,” then yes.
Does drafting a contract on someone’s behalf and then getting someone else to sign it make that person your client?
I’m no expert, but it kinda seems like it would.
Seems like the very essence of acting as the person’s agent. An agent-client relationship strikes me as inescapable.
Robot_Arm:
Does drafting a contract on someone’s behalf and then getting someone else to sign it make that person your client?
I’m no expert, but it kinda seems like it would.
That’s why I’m asking. Seems like it would, but I dunno, maybe there’s a reason it wouldn’t and therefore the payment wouldn’t have to be for Trump/Trump org/Hannity.
So Stormy’s judge has put that case on hold, since one of the defendants is facing criminal charges. That doesn’t seem fair. “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.” Lawyers comment please.
Why can’t they proceed with the deposition of Donald J. Trump? After all, he’s not under criminal investigation, is he?
I have no idea where to put this, but I’ll put it here.
Jill Stein is refusing to cooperate with the Senate Intel Committee’s Russia investigation.
BigT
April 28, 2018, 7:19am
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Same logic applies to her as Trump. In fact, no longer hemming and hawing takes it up one more step. Instead of her just having some bad ties to Russia, I now can’t help but suspect that she was part of it. She did siphon votes away from Clinton, who Russia wanted to stop.
Trump says Putin ordered her to say that to make him, Trump, look bad because he’s been so tough on Russia.