Maybe Thump and his merry little band of criminals will do a midnight escape from the WH, just throwing a few things into a suitcase and getting the hell out of dodge. We can only hope.
Well, provided one of the things thrown in the suitcase isn’t the “nuclear football.”
I recall at least one report a while back that Guiliani was in Russia. Perhaps scouting out nice dachas (certified polonium-free)? Although given the (assumed) state of CFSG’s finances, perhaps counting on the hospitality of Putin et. al. may not be the best course of action.
Lindsey Graham releases a statement that says proof that the Trump campaign had contact with Russian intel officials would be a game changer. Unfortunately, he released that statement in 2017 before he was neutered, so it doesn’t count anymore.
Back in July, I cited this Julia Ioffe piece arguing that the elusive kompromat the Russians have on Trump is the election itself. They helped him win, and they can destroy him at will. Maybe there’s a pee tape; maybe the Russians own him financially, whatever, I don’t know. But we know they own him because they did crimes with him, and if anyone goes down for it, it will be Trump and his family, not the Russians.
Oh, and Russia and Ukraine are about to go to war. I guess Putin sees that the gig is up so he has to cash in now if he wants to get his hands on Ukraine while his puppet is still in the White House.
Team Mueller continues to make its report in court documents.
By the way, I’m working on a research project looking into the 2016 hacking operations. I’m a professor of information security, and I’m looking at it from a purely technical perspective. The Mueller indictments include a ton of technical detail on how the hacks actually were carried out. I’m not a lawyer, but that struck me as odd. I would have guessed the documents would be full of legal minutiae. While there is plenty of legal stuff in them, they devote a lot of space to telling a story about what happened, in clear terms. It’s a cracking good read. I can’t wait for the next installment!
Your observation on how inept team Trump is on everything that they do finally clicked to me:
They’re bad guys in a Dave Barry book. Mixed in with horrible taste in all things. Like if Mr Magoo and Inspector Cleuseau had an orgy on bath salts and Tide pods.
Do you have a link you can share to what you are reading (sorry if I have missed it above)? I’ve tried searching but there is a lot of news about Mueller and indictments…
Sure. I don’t think I posted them before. All the indictments are available on the DOJ site. But here are the three main ones that lay out a lot of detail. At points in the indictments, they describe what the Russians were searching the internet for. Like, after Crowdstrike started helping the DNC and DCCC, the Russians started looking online for what Crowdstrike had published previously about the hack tools the Russians were using. So somehow Mueller got his hands on records showing what the Russians were Googling (or, more likely, Yandexing). That’s a neat trick.
What I don’t understand is why anybody would work for Donny Two-scoops in the first place. He demands total fealty – to the point of compromising any principles you might have – and offers nothing in return. Hell, you’ll be the first he throws under the bus at the first sign of trouble.
The money (or prestige if it’s a government post) can’t be that good.
The memo detailing the latest facts of Manaforts broken plea deal was to be filed today, but the gov’t asked for (with the defense having no objection) the right to file it on Dec 7th, which was granted.
