Smart, he knew Trump would make him the fall guy

8/18/2018 6:56:23 PM

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/20/rudy-giuliani-truth-isnt-truth-788922

Quote :

"“When you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he’s going to tell the truth and he shouldn’t worry, well that’s so silly because it’s somebody’s version of the truth. Not the truth,” Giuliani told Todd. “Truth is truth,” Todd responded. “No, no, it isn’t truth,” Giuliani said. "Truth isn't truth.""

8/20/2018 10:15:35 AM

I’m still so baffled by the media and the talk of conspiracy/collusion. Like, why is Trump allowed to say and why are pundits allowed to say there was “no collusion.”

His son, son-in-law and campaign manager met with a Russian lawyer to conspire to get information about the Democrat candidate for president. They admitted it. Junior literally posted the emails.

It’s such a bizarre disconnect.

8/20/2018 10:43:15 AM

There's also the fact that Don Jr.'s response, "... if it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer..." was in direct response to an email from Rob Goldstone that stated, "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump..."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEdnhw-WsAEbW9N.jpg

[Edited on August 20, 2018 at 1:27 PM. Reason : ]

8/20/2018 1:27:03 PM

Manafort verdict likely today and news Cohen is going to plea.

The Trump rally tonight is gonna be lit as fuck.

8/21/2018 11:51:40 AM

Has anything actually happened to indicate Manafort verdict will actually happen today, or you just expecting it since it’s been so long?

8/21/2018 12:07:37 PM

Quote :

"Just in: The jury in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort presented a note with a question to the judge this morning: “If we cannot come to a consensus on one count, how do we fill out the verdict sheet?”"

Quote :

"Judge T.S. Ellis III told the jury that this situation was not unusual. He informed them that there can be a partial verdict, and that he will not ask them if they have unanimous consent on all counts when he impanels them."

[Edited on August 21, 2018 at 12:11 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2018 12:11:30 PM

Cohen plea deal confirmed

8/21/2018 1:52:18 PM

Lol can we all admire how insane it is that the president’s lawyer and campaign manager could become convicted criminals on literally the same day and it’s still taboo to talk about the very obvious and long-term crimes the president obviously has committed.

8/21/2018 1:57:51 PM

but it’ll just make people want to vote republican, because punditry

[Edited on August 21, 2018 at 2:15 PM. Reason : GOTTA HEAR BOTH SIDES]

8/21/2018 2:12:22 PM

but didn't you know that democrats are imperialists and therefore equally bad

8/21/2018 2:22:20 PM

cohen's plea is for campaign finance violations - trump is fucked

8/21/2018 3:39:28 PM

Quote :

"I can't stand the guy any more than the next educated person, but I'm so sick of the constant barrage of crap. They're throwing everything at the wall hoping something will stick. At this point, rather than wasting so much time disparaging Trump, everybody should focus on finding a good solid candidate, go ahead and get that person out there, touring the country, building a base, so they can have a shot at 2020."

lololololol

8/21/2018 4:36:59 PM

At least they didn’t have bad email management practices.

8/21/2018 4:45:19 PM

Manafort guilty on 8 of 18 counts



[Edited on August 21, 2018 at 5:00 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2018 5:00:14 PM

Quote :

"*COHEN SAYS HE VIOLATED CAMPAIGN LAW AT DIRECTION OF CANDIDATE *COHEN DOESN'T NAME CANDIDATE WHO DIRECTED CAMPAIGN VIOLATION hint: it's @realDonaldTrump"

Trump is super, super fucked

8/21/2018 5:05:25 PM

But probably not really.

8/21/2018 5:06:40 PM

I guess it's time for you people to start digging shit up on Pence now. Not that it matters, Don will wiggle out of this somehow, but go ahead and get your Pence ducks in a row so it doesn't take another two years of constantly negative coverage to get rid of him.

8/21/2018 5:09:58 PM

https://mobile.twitter.com/gilbertjasono/status/1032010729061212160



[Edited on August 21, 2018 at 5:10 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2018 5:10:06 PM

Quote :

"I guess it's time for you people to start digging shit up on Pence now. Not that it matters, Don will wiggle out of this somehow, but go ahead and get your Pence ducks in a row so it doesn't take another two years of constantly negative coverage to get rid of him."

dude...

8/21/2018 5:14:44 PM

Dude what? You're salivating. Do you really think Cohen will sink Trump? I think it could go either way, but if it goes the way you want, you're going to have an ultra-con in the WH. However Trump has somehow managed to slither out of everything else thrown his way.

8/21/2018 5:19:51 PM

It scares me that rjrumfel is probably typical of reasonable Trump supporters.

8/21/2018 5:20:32 PM

Obviously any other President ever would be impeached but it’s also obvious he won’t be.

8/21/2018 5:24:46 PM

I doubt there's anything to "dig up" on Pence. Ignoring his political beliefs, the dude seems pretty straight and narrow.

8/21/2018 5:26:59 PM

how someone could still blame negative coverage on everything that has happened, on today of all days....man.

8/21/2018 5:29:23 PM

How the fuck is that me being a Trump supporter? I don't support the man. It is kinda funny though the conclusions that people are jumping too already, and the Cohen news is what, an hour old?

I just think people will be equally unhappy with Pence, for different reasons.

8/21/2018 5:29:47 PM

Those different reasons will be reasons with which we can live. Criminal activity is not something with which we can live.

8/21/2018 5:31:04 PM

Quote :

"Those different reasons will be reasons with which we can live."

I'll come back to this when Pence goes after the LGBT community. And certainly Roe v. Wade. You guys won't be able to live with him either.

8/21/2018 5:34:46 PM

At best, you're a Trump supporter in denial. And that's not something I just started thinking after your past few posts.

For fuck's sake, your hot take on Cohen is "Now you assholes are just gonna dig up shit on Pence."

8/21/2018 5:43:13 PM

Quote :

" I doubt there's anything to "dig up" on Pence. Ignoring his political beliefs, the dude seems pretty straight and narrow "

Eh... Manafort picked Pence, he cant be that clean

8/21/2018 6:07:11 PM

the whole operation is dirty, including Pence

8/21/2018 6:25:50 PM

This is the beginning of the end for these treasonous assholes.

Rjrumfel just sounds like an uninformed Republican to me

8/21/2018 6:37:02 PM

This tweet has aged like a fine wine

8/21/2018 7:20:04 PM

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1032047533755981825?s=21

These people should definitely be engaged and are persuadable voters..

8/21/2018 7:33:14 PM

QAnon predicted this.

8/21/2018 11:13:41 PM

Oh my God, fucking of course you're a qanon supporter

8/22/2018 6:37:35 AM

it's a joke, dumbass.

8/22/2018 6:50:14 AM

Quote :

"I guess it's time for you people to start digging shit up on Pence now. Not that it matters, Don will wiggle out of this somehow, but go ahead and get your Pence ducks in a row so it doesn't take another two years of constantly negative coverage to get rid of him."

While everyone wonders "how dumb can this dude be" just remember he's continually chalked this whole situation up to anti-Trump people throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. This stupid quote is just a further step down that stupid road where Trump bears no responsibility for all the illegal shit he, his family, and his campaign did, it's just detractors throwing shit against the wall. And now he thinks we need to load our shit throwers for Pence. FFS rumple.

8/22/2018 7:16:45 AM

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1032080049980272640

Quote :

"Lanny Davis: "Mr. Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows.""

it's weird how if you're a narcissistic asshole all of your confidants are really eager to throw you under the bus

8/22/2018 8:36:26 AM

Cohen saying he wouldn’t accept a pardon from Trump

8/22/2018 9:09:18 AM

Fucking Lanny Davis. We are forever stuck in 90s hell.

8/22/2018 9:49:55 AM

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/manafort-engaged-in-unsuccessful-plea-talks-with-mueller-to-avert-dc-trial

So Manafort is still trying to plea leading into his DC case.

Looks like the trial starts mid sept and could run to the beginning of october. The case is on Ukraine lobbying that Manafort did. Should be ugly.

8/27/2018 7:19:39 PM

Sergey Kislyak should be a familiar name for anyone following this story; he met with Sessions and is why Sessions had to recuse himself, he was who Kushner wanted to setup communication with, and why Michael Flynn lied about talking to.

Now there's this:
Here's Why The FBI And Mueller Are Investigating "Suspicious" Transactions By Russian Diplomats
The former Russian ambassador received a salary payment twice as large as past years, and bankers blocked a $150,000 withdrawal.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/suspicious-payments-kislyak-russia-embassy-mueller

Quote :

"But new documents show that American bank examiners delved deeper into the embassy's financial activity than was previously known — and reveal why they flagged two of the transactions as suspicious. The first, made just 10 days after the US presidential election in 2016, was a $120,000 lump-sum check to then-ambassador Sergey Kislyak that was twice as large as any payment he’d received in the previous two years. The second, just five days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, was a blocked attempt to withdraw $150,000 in cash that a bank official feared was meant for Russians the US had just expelled from the country."

Quote :

"Last November, BuzzFeed News began revealing suspicious embassy transactions, including a $29,000 wire transfer to the embassy's US bank account to “finance election campaign of 2016”; $325,000 in payments to the Russian Cultural Centre in Washington; and $2.4 million paid to small home-improvement companies controlled by a Russian immigrant living in Virginia."

Quote :

"Ten days after the election, the embassy cut a check to the former ambassador for $120,000. The check was marked “payroll.” Kislyak deposited the money in his Citibank checking account, then wired the funds to his account in Russia in two $60,000 installments. Now, new documents show that the $120,000 payment, purportedly his 2016 salary in a lump sum, was more than twice as large as any the embassy had given Kislyak in the past two years. In 2014, the embassy provided Kislyak a payment of $53,538, and in 2015 it gave him $50,000. Bankers were unable to determine what those funds were for, but Kislyak deposited both payments into his personal checking account in the US, then wired it to his accounts in Russia. A manager at the branch where Kislyak banks said that the former ambassador did not regularly deposit his salary into his personal account but rather allowed his pay to accumulate in the embassy’s account until it reached a large sum."

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"On Jan. 25, 2017, less than a week after Trump was sworn in, a Citibank relationship manager was visiting the diplomatic compound for an annual check-in when embassy officials asked to withdraw $150,000 cash. In the past, the embassy had withdrawn about $30,000 in cash each month. Now it was asking to take out five times that amount. The money, embassy officials told the Citibank manager, was going to be used to pay the salaries of employees who had been transferred out of America in December 2016. The bank officer was suspicious, because President Obama had recently expelled 35 Russian intelligence operatives in response to interference in the 2016 election. So the Citibank manager pressed the Russians for more information, documents show, asking for the names of the people who would be receiving the $150,000 and why they needed cash in America, given that the workers had already returned to Russia. Embassy officials never responded."

8/30/2018 8:42:57 AM

AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’
https://apnews.com/4ac772445073491aa7d3ca9e558e0144

8/31/2018 12:38:49 PM

The typical RU crew was pretty damn quiet after that Ohr interview earlier this week. I wonder what else he had to say?

8/31/2018 12:46:25 PM

https://twitter.com/shimonpro/status/1035583191225122817?s=21

I’m sure this was a one off and no other Russian or Russian-backed actors made illegal donations to the Trump campaign or inaugural. Seems on the up and up.

8/31/2018 1:46:44 PM

So Papadopoulos has now said Trump approved meeting with the Russians and Jeff Sessions committed perjury

9/1/2018 12:41:40 PM

^
We’ve known for a while Sessions lied when he said there were no meetings with Russians

No we know Sessions was aware of and supported meeting with the Russian gov for the purpose of illegally acquiring info

Gonna be interesting to see what Pence knew...

9/1/2018 2:16:36 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/politics/deripaska-ohr-steele-fbi.html

The FBI tried to flip Oleg Deripaska......allegedly.

I gotta think this is bullshit. Like, surely this is US intelligence just trolling Putin right?

9/1/2018 7:18:59 PM

I believe it

9/2/2018 11:12:17 PM