And more new news (it’s a good week!):
Granted, I feel like the source of the letter could be Mifsud or someone with a relatively high chance of lying, just to troll everyone (ala Veselnitskaya). I wouldn’t put too much faith in this one until we know more.
Not just the hammer will fall. You forgot about the sickle
The ones with integrity.
Oh, wait.
I agree with you about better to wait for the vote rather than impeach. One, I’d rather have an incompetent buffoon in office than a competent religious zealot. Two, if he’s convicted of impeachment, forever after after he and his base will think he was a martyr on the altar of the De-e-e-ep State. If he’s tossed out on his ass by the voters it sends a clear message, “You were tried and found wanting.”
It would be even better if Donny Two-scoops contemplates this message in a prison cell.
I thought was called a “reagan”.
I knew that the crimes that Epstein committed were on a scale that is nearly unimaginable, but I had no idea that the prosecution helped cover it all up. I’m (yet again) disgusted with the society I live in.
Brother, could you please include a brief quote from the link or tell us what it is and/or why you think it’s significant?
Any bot can post links.
Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress
Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says he lied about Trump's knowledge of Moscow project | CNN Politics
…about his and Trump’s ties to Russia and his communications with Russian government officials.
The real important thing as far as I am concerned is that Trumpism as a political strategy is utterly and completely discredited. The main danger that Trump poses in my opinion is the demonstration, that bald faced lying and unrelenting demonetization of political opponents is a highly successful way to campaign and govern from a electoral point of view.
In order to salvage what is left of our democracy, we need to be able to use Trump as a cautionary example, that can be pointed to if others appear to be following in his footsteps. Basically invoking the name of Trump in the future needs to provoke the same level of shame that invoking the name McCarthy does today. Otherwise truth and American unity is dead for at least a generation.
Indeed, I am more than ever convinced that Trump will continue on. Hell, a few of his kids will likely try for office in the future and possibly win! What he has demonstrated is that laws really don’t matter, if there is no mechanism in place to enforce them.
Sure, Mueller can write up a report and send it to Congress and…then what? Speeches, hand wringing, cable news talking heads, Trump tweets, 42% will still support him and believe him and doubt the media and our federal law enforcement because he says so.
In my fever dreams I think that maybe we need an Oliver Cromwell figure to sweep in a hit the reset button (I acknowledge that some may think Trump is that figure.)
I’m still reading through the document, but I suspect that it will only tell us the lies, not the truths. But so it’s quite interesting to know that this is a lie!
“On or about September 19, 2017, COHEN was scheduled to appear before SSCI accompanied by counsel. In prepared remarks released to the public, COHEN stated, ‘I assume we will discuss the rejected proposal to build a [Company-branded] property in Moscow that was terminated in January of 2016; which occurred before the Iowa caucus and months before the very first primary. This was solely a real estate deal and nothing more. I was doing my job. I would ask that the two-page statement about the Moscow proposal that I sent to the Committee in August be incorporated into and attached to this transcript.’”
(Bold added) Now, granted, this could just be a lie in terms of timing. But this follows a different lie where the only thing he could have lied about is the timing, so this block is redundant if that’s all this was meant to illustrate.
It could just be redundancy, to fully show all occasions that a false statement was made, but if that bolded portion is the lie, that’s a major statement.
Sorry, I think usually I do. Not sure why I didn’t yesterday.
Andrew McCarthy brought up an excellent, easily-overlooked point. For months after January 2016, we now know, meetings and plans were being discussed about this Moscow project, and then just a few days after the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr., it all came to a screeching halt.
Was the Trump Tower meeting simply a set-up in order to get a style of kompromat (that team Trump would even accept such a meeting), and once they realized there was no dirt, they realized they had been had? And so completely cut ties?
No matter what, as McCarthy also says, I expect Trump Tower to be a major point going forward. I’m still skeptical that the meeting in and of itself can be interpreted as a crime, but today’s revelation is quite an eye-opener.
Probably, more likely, it’s that Trump blurted out everything on TV and all of the rest of them with a brain, reading the headlines the next morning, realized that they were going to get caught if they didn’t shut it all down.
Of course, I’m betting on them still all getting caught.
Jeff Toobin says he finally thinks Trump may not finish his term.
Also Paul Begala says Trump won’t be impeached unless the GOP asks the Dems for impeachment.
You mean when Trump said he had some very interesting info on the Clintons that he was going to share in a few days?
I may get skewered for this, but here goes: Unless Trump or one of Trump’s associates was involved in the hacking conspiracy (I.e., their actions in some way furthered the scheme to hack and disseminate the emails), they’re not complicit in the conspiracy.
Now hear me out. It would be scummy of them to have heard that emails have been hacked and might be released soon on Hillary Clinton, and instead of telling authorities they just gloat on Twitter that they heard about something, but I’m not sure it’s a crime. It’s not a crime to hear about something that you’re not involved in.
Now, assuming that’s the case, can they be charged with failure to report the crime? Is that a crime? I have no idea. But in the above scenario, they wouldn’t be implicated in the criminal conspiracy itself.
In your scenario, if the information is simply damaging info on a rival candidate from a foreign national, as I’ve said before, I don’t think it’s a crime to receive it or share it. Unless the information was illegally obtained (e.g., through hacking a server).
IANAL but as to the part I bolded in the above quote I am pretty sure knowledge of a planned criminal act and not reporting it might be considered aiding and abetting the actual crime in some jurisdictions. A quick Google search doesn’t provide what I would call a definitive answer but it seems it would not be a wise course of action.
If there is a conspiracy to murder Bob, and you are aware of the conspiracy to murder Bob, and the person who wants to murder Bob says, “I want to sell you my car, so I have the money to buy a gun so that I can shoot Bob”, and you buy his car with the understanding of what he intends to do with the money, then you can be charged as part of the conspiracy.
You do not have to be a part of the criminal part, you just have to be complicit in the overall scheme.
Not if you don’t believe it! If you say “Bullshit! You haven’t got the guts to murder Bob, you sniveling wussy!”… you’re in the clear!