There’s that old saying about avoiding fights with people who buy ink by the barrel. In the campaign, he was able to vilify the media and the intel agencies to his voters and it worked. I think he fails to recognize that his most important constituency for the remainder of his term is congress, and they can’t ignore the mainstream media or the intelligence agencies.
I hope that if this does come to pass, they subpoena his financial records. The thing is that even if Trump ignores a congressional subpoena to get his tax records they can just bypass him by subpoenaing the IRS instead. I suspect they may be able to get similar more detailed financial records by subpoenaing other groups to which he made required disclosures.
Trump is still fighting the election; blathering on about Hillary, and how many votes he got, and how he really won the election even more bigly.
I guess we’ll never know. Those tax returns sure woulda helped. Oh well. Our bad luck.
I do wonder if the NSA already knows the full information about the ownership of the recently sold Rosneft. That would be interesting to know.
It’s possible that this is all slowing dawning on him now, a la Truman Show, but I don’t know.
A sane person would be sweating, staying quiet, and looking for the closest escape hatch, but this is Trump we’re talking about. He is likely is in denial, so he will continue to do things that mire him in deeper. Dude is probably on his phone right now blabbering to an asset, saying shit that is blatantly shady.
Is something brewing?.
Also, David Frum tweeted earlier this evening: “Decoded: one or more of NYT, CNN or NBCNews has a very very damaging story in the pipeline …”
“Warner also said the committee has put in place a process to ensure the White House does not destroy documents lawmakers need for their investigation.”
Hmmmmmm.
LOL. This was David Frum’s attempt at humor. He saw some tweets from Trump and he “decoded” them by (in his mind, humorously) suggesting that it was a distraction from a big story coming.
But he definitely got a lot of the anti-Trumpers palpitating. You’re not the only one that was fooled.
At the risk of being repetitive
Lots of laughs ahead.
You’re so easy to play. I bet you waited with bated breath for the “24 business hours” to be over.
This story will be ongoing for weeks or months. There will be some information that comes out that will be true and some that will turn out to be false. Watching people working constantly to cast doubt on one tiny part of it and using that to conclude that the whole thing is untrue reminds me of watching the tactics of sponsored climate change deniers.
A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates
A week before Michael T. Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way for President Trump to lift sanctions against Russia.
This plan was written by Andrii V. Artemenko, given to Felix H. Sater then Michael Cohen.
You all probably know Michael Cohen is Trump’s attorney.
Andrii V. Artemenko is a convicted felon and Putin supported pro-Russian Ukrainian politician who is trying to get the current president ousted. He styles himself as the Ukranian Trump and claims to have kompromat on the current president.
Felix Sater is a longtime Trump partner who was responsible for getting Russians to invest millions on dollars in Trump properties. He is also a convicted felon who once stabbed a commodities broker in the face while having dinner in a restaurant. Sater is the son of Mikhail Sater, a top underboss in the Mogilevich mafia. During interviews, when Sater’s name is mentioned to Trump, he has a habit of standing up and walking out of the room.
Trump will tell everyone they’re great guys, TERRIFIC guys, and Americans will just nod their heads and go back to watching “Ow, My Balls!”
I know the buzz is that this is the other shoe we’ve been waiting to drop. But I won’t be holding my breath.
I’m sure that this was just an incredible coincidence.
“The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.” - July, 2016
The very notion makes my skin crawl. Who could blame people for reaching out for any kind of peace proposal, even one inspired by greed and treachery? Its worse than just plain ol’ extortion, it oozes corruption, more blasphemous than marketing Baby Jesus butt plugs. Putin makes Roy Cohn and Lee Atwater look like Mr Rogers.
Maybe GeeDubya really did look into his soul, maybe that’s why all he does is daub paint onto canvass, ripped to the tits on tranks.
Google “abducted by aliens”. If that’s your level of proof.
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The Google search’s first hit is to time.com. From there, click a little and find this article:
I’ll leave you to continue your search for alien abductions alone.
There were blackmail attempts on Manafort that have come out from hacked text messages, apparently sent to his daughter from a Ukrainian government official, Serhiy Leshchenko:
(from the article)
“Considering all the facts and evidence that are in my possession, and before possible decision whether to pass this to [the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine] or FBI I would like to get your opinion on this and maybe your way to work things out that will persuade me to do otherwise,” reads the note. It is signed “Sergii” — an alternative transliteration of Leshchenko’s given name — and it urges Manafort to respond to an email address that reporters have used to reach Leshchenko."
Manafort has confirmed the authenticity of the texts.
When the pro-Russian Ukrainian president Yanukovych fled to Russia, he left a bunch of documents behind. One showed $12 million in payments to Manafort. It sounds like someone tried to cash in before the anti corruption bureau got ahold of it.
Maybe they are afraid he will wipe his servers clean. You know, like with a cloth.
And heaven knows the IRS won’t delete anything under subpoena. Probably.
Regards,
Shodan