It’s not just that he’s in hock to them for money, he’s in hock to them for their silence. If evidence of Trump money laundering for the ‘Russian Mafia’ became incontrovertible, he’d face a lot more than debt.
“trump haters fantasy” is a very strange construction. turnp has equalled or bested anything anyone has projected on him, and we are only in the third quarter of this, say, if we’re lucky. He has no haters. No one is interested in him except that he is our president. He could resign and avoid whatever is happening. (Well, no, but it’s not my fault or yours) No one has to hate him to know he needs to be removed from public life and it is an emergency. It doesn’t make anyone a hater. the phrase is just not real. Does someone hate you just because they do not want you to be president?
I don’t think there’s anything special about an impeachment investigation that should be needed for Congress to get access to any of these conversations. Like all powers, the making of foreign policy is shared between the branches. I have a fundamental problem with he government having secrets that only the White House and a foreign government have access to, but Congress does not.
But in terms of making things public, if more conversations are being contemplated for release, I think the horse is out of the barn for this president. He has no standing to make a claim for privilege to obstruct the public understanding of what appears to be a pattern of corrupt behavior.
Seriously, in a couple years, the term Nixonian is likely to be replaced.
The whistleblower’s attorney is Andrew Bakaj, who was fired from the CIA for standing up for CIA whistleblowers. After his firing, it was determined by an external review that his firing was retaliation and not a valid firing. Bakaj, unfortunately, has contributed to the Biden campaign.
If he can indeed claim the privilege, doesn’t this prove that he was acting personally for Trump, which is proves the case that Trumnp was using foreign policy for personal gain?
Clarification on hostile foreign powers “owning” Trump: No person from any foreign government is telling the president what to do due to previous agreements of some kind, or by using blackmail, or any thing else of the sort, or even anything not of that sort. Trump, to the extent that he make any decisions at all, are his and his advisers alone, as are his actions.
My “I don’t think” was put there for a reason. If any one has evidence to the contrary, please do show it. I am open to it.
Mueller could have chartered a gold-plated fishing expedition to go after Trump just as Ken Starr went after Bill Clinton for concealing a blowjob. It’s not the most egregious display of Republican situational ethics, by far, but it is about the thousandth example of an increasingly tiresome series. Nothing required Mueller to pretend to be a politically aloof balls-and-strikes centrist, but make no mistake, he did so by choice.
I do thank you. I’ve got other links and things I want to get through now,although I did scan this quickly. Please quote some relevant passages if you don’t mind, to the extent that the article shows foreign control over Trump.
I guess I’m not being clear. I don’t “think” it’s true, because I haven’t seen any evidence of it. I don’t know it’s not true. See last sentence in that post.
Tell it to team Trump. The only diplomatic communications that have been released have been released by the White House. Congress had sweet fuck all to do with it.
Thanks. Same thing I said earlier though. What is the relevant passage(s) that show a foreign power is controlling/directing/however you want to phrase it, the president now? ETA: I could drop this though, since it’s not directly related to the thread. My original post was rather off-the-cuff.
