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Post by TC on May 3, 2018 13:29:12 GMT -5
How'd Rudy know that Cohen was being tapped, or that Trump had called Cohen?
How would Rudy know if Cohen is going to flip?
We know the NY FBI leaked to Rudy in October 2016.
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Post by SSHoya on May 3, 2018 16:08:21 GMT -5
Fake News Alert: NBC now stating a correction that Cohen only subject to pen register/trap and trace (PRTT) not ELSUR on his communications. Gathering only metadata. Pen registers are surveillance devices that capture the phone numbers dialed on outgoing telephone calls; trap and trace devices capture the numbers identifying incoming calls. Also time and length of calls usually provided. PRTTs are not supposed to reveal the content of communications and require a lower threshold than probable cause but still require an court order from a federal judge or magistrate judge. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-II/chapter-206
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Post by hoyarooter on May 3, 2018 19:08:35 GMT -5
I listened to David Axelrod's podcast with Michael Avenutti yesterday - one of the more interesting parts was his belief that the Michael Cohen $1.6M payoff for a playboy model abortion on behalf of Elliott Broidy may not have been on behalf of Elliott Broidy. His evidence is pretty interesting - Broidy was not named by Cohen's lawyers as a client of Cohen when they released the names of his clients in court, and Broidy had no prior relationship to Michael Cohen. Cohen's clients were Trump, the Trump Organization, and Sean Hannity. That'll be a whole other ball of worms, especially when you consider the tactics that Cohen uses. SHAME ON SEAN HANNITY! IMAGINE THAT!!
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Post by SSHoya on May 4, 2018 5:24:39 GMT -5
This qualifies as a "man bites dog" story: Fox News host Neil Cavuto ripped into President Trump’s trail of conflicting and false statements in a monologue on Thursday, targeting Trump for everything from the Stormy Daniels payment to his exaggerations about illegal voting during the 2016 election. Speaking directly to the president on his show, “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” he questioned why Trump lambastes the news media for “fake news” when his own statements are often contradictory. “Now, I’m not saying you’re a liar,” Cavuto said. “You’re the president. You’re busy. I’m just having a devil of a time figuring out which news is fake. Let’s just say your own words on lots of stuff give me, shall I say, lots of pause.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/04/foxs-cavuto-to-trump-thats-your-stink-mr-president-thats-your-swamp/?utm_term=.8ee340c59e80
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Post by tashoya on May 4, 2018 7:55:21 GMT -5
So, if you're busy, you can lie willy-nilly? Interesting justification. My favorite bit:
Cavuto said that none of this “makes you evil” or “makes what you say fake,” but does make “calling out the press for being so a bit of a stretch.”
Um... disagree Mr. Cavuto. If President Trump were making things up because he was hiding that he wasn't more educated on a subject, that would be one thing (of course, he does this constantly as well). But actively deceiving people does make what he says "fake" and, because those lies are always self-serving at the expense of others, it does make him "evil" as well.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 9:49:20 GMT -5
Lying is like oxygen to this guy....
"facts straight"... That's hilarious...
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 9:52:27 GMT -5
Remember when you guys spent 2016 pretending you cared about the handling of classified information?
40 times.... He was reading the PDB more than Trump, and requesting more classified info that any other person in the White House according to reporting..
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 11:38:01 GMT -5
This qualifies as a "man bites dog" story: Fox News host Neil Cavuto ripped into President Trump’s trail of conflicting and false statements in a monologue on Thursday, targeting Trump for everything from the Stormy Daniels payment to his exaggerations about illegal voting during the 2016 election. Speaking directly to the president on his show, “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” he questioned why Trump lambastes the news media for “fake news” when his own statements are often contradictory. “Now, I’m not saying you’re a liar,” Cavuto said. “You’re the president. You’re busy. I’m just having a devil of a time figuring out which news is fake. Let’s just say your own words on lots of stuff give me, shall I say, lots of pause.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/04/foxs-cavuto-to-trump-thats-your-stink-mr-president-thats-your-swamp/?utm_term=.8ee340c59e80
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 20:41:37 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 5, 2018 7:01:19 GMT -5
I guess Dr. Pena wouldn't get with the Trump program so she left the WHMU. She continued to complain about Dr. Jackson. The Post needs to do more reporting on this because you don't simply "resign" from your Navy billet unless you are at the expiration of your active obligated service. Then you may resign your commission or request assignment to the Naval Reserves. Dr. Pena "left her position" is vague which indicates to me that she may have been reassigned in the Navy Medical Corps. But was it voluntary? Did she go to her detailer (Navy officer in charge of rotations and PCS moves) and request reassignment to another billet since she did not want to work in the WHMU if Dr. Jackson was returning? Seems pretty clear that Jackson's over-the-top briefing on Trump's health was done in order to further his own career. A White House doctor who raised concerns about Ronny L. Jackson, the president’s former physician and scuttled nominee to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, has resigned. Jennifer Peña, the vice president’s lead doctor, left her position on Friday, according to a White House spokeswoman. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/vice-presidents-physician-resigns-amid-ongoing-furor-over-white-house-medical-unit/2018/05/04/9610c122-4fd7-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.htmlThe memos were provided to CNN on the condition that the vice president's physician not be named and that the memos not be published. The documents were provided last fall to senior White House officials, including Ayers and Kelly, a source familiar with the matter said. In one of two tense encounters described in the memos, Jackson made the vice president's doctor feel uncomfortable with his "accusatory" tone, "unprofessionalism" and "intimidating" and "aggressive" behavior during their private meetings. Jackson told the doctor to "let the issue go" and to " let things go ... if I am to succeed in my career," the physician wrote.www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/politics/karen-pence-doctor-privacy-ronny-jackson/index.html
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 9:48:02 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 11:04:51 GMT -5
Trump aides hired Israeli private intelligence firm to dig up dirt on Obama officials: report hill.cm/AkV1BtB Irony aside it seems odd that if this deal is so bad they have to manufacture reasons to stop it which they have done repeatedly.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 11:18:45 GMT -5
1) 🤔... Wonder where Trump got the money because odds are it's not his.. How Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire 2) mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/business/michael-cohen-lawyer-trump.htmlFrom 2011 to 2015, limited liability companies connected to Mr. Cohen purchased at least five buildings in Manhattan, public records show. Like many of Mr. Cohen’s business dealings, the transactions were unconventional. His companies would buy a building, often in cash. Soon after, they would flip the building in another all-cash deal for four or five times the previous purchase price. The buyer was generally another limited liability company. In October 2011, for example, a limited liability company listing as its address Mr. Cohen’s apartment at Trump Park Avenue purchased a building on Rivington Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side for $2.1 million. In 2014, Mr. Cohen sold the building for $10 million in cash — nearly five times what he paid three years earlier. That same day, Mr. Cohen sold three other Manhattan buildings, also entirely for cash. In total, the four buildings sold for $32 million — nearly triple what Mr. Cohen had paid for them in the span of no more than three years. It is not known who owns the limited liability companies that purchased the properties from Mr. Cohen or why they agreed to pay such rich prices. Mr. Cohen told McClatchy, which first reported the transactions, that the sales were in cash to help the buyers defer taxes in other transactions. Richard K. Gordon, director of the Financial Integrity Institute at Case Western Reserve University’s law school, said that such real estate transactions — large profits, achieved quickly, involving cash purchases by L.L.C.s — should raise red flags. “If I were the bank, I’d either refuse his business up front or rate him extra high risk,” said Mr. Gordon, who once led anti-money-laundering efforts for the International Monetary Fund
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Post by SSHoya on May 7, 2018 5:37:15 GMT -5
Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! The gift that keeps on giving and the lies that keep on coming! “I’ll give you the conclusion: We all feel pretty good that we’ve got everything kind of straightened out and we’re setting the agenda,” Giuliani, the former New York mayor who recently joined Trump’s legal team, said in an interview with The Washington Post. Giuliani said he met with the president at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., to discuss developments and legal strategy. “Everybody’s reacting to us now, and I feel good about that because that’s what I came in to do,” he said. Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert in legal ethics, said Giuliani’s interview Sunday reminded her of a garden hose that was whipping around wildly because nobody had a handle on it yet: “Just erratic, unpredictable, aimless.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-pleased-with-his-media-tour-everybodys-reacting-to-us-now/2018/05/06/6764454e-5138-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html?utm_term=.b4aa321403f0“He”ll get his facts straight,” President Trump said Friday of his new personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “I say, You know what? Learn before you speak. It’s a lot easier.” Yet there Giuliani was Sunday morning, speaking on ABC News’s “This Week” with host George Stephanopolous. The result was a fiasco. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/05/06/giuliani-stumbles-into-another-fiasco/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 9:13:02 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 9:26:14 GMT -5
Since the 2 articles above on Cohen and Trumps shady business dealings seem to dance around using the phrase -money laundering this seems relevant.... From March 06, 2015
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2018 9:45:52 GMT -5
Like many of Mr. Cohen’s business dealings, the transactions were unconventional. His companies would buy a building, often in cash. Soon after, they would flip the building in another all-cash deal for four or five times the previous purchase price. The buyer was generally another limited liability company. In October 2011, for example, a limited liability company listing as its address Mr. Cohen’s apartment at Trump Park Avenue purchased a building on Rivington Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side for $2.1 million. In 2014, Mr. Cohen sold the building for $10 million in cash — nearly five times what he paid three years earlier. That same day, Mr. Cohen sold three other Manhattan buildings, also entirely for cash. In total, the four buildings sold for $32 million — nearly triple what Mr. Cohen had paid for them in the span of no more than three years. It is not known who owns the limited liability companies that purchased the properties from Mr. Cohen or why they agreed to pay such rich prices. Mr. Cohen told McClatchy, which first reported the transactions, that the sales were in cash to help the buyers defer taxes in other transactions. Richard K. Gordon, director of the Financial Integrity Institute at Case Western Reserve University’s law school, said that such real estate transactions — large profits, achieved quickly, involving cash purchases by L.L.C.s — should raise red flags. “If I were the bank, I’d either refuse his business up front or rate him extra high risk,” said Mr. Gordon, who once led anti-money-laundering efforts for the International Monetary Fund Money laundering, plain and simple and clear as day.
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Post by SSHoya on May 7, 2018 10:11:03 GMT -5
And don't forget Deutsche Bank's fine for assisting in Russian money laundering: money.cnn.com/2017/01/31/investing/deutsche-bank-us-fine-russia-money-laundering/index.htmlAnd of course, Kushner's relationship with Deutsche Bank is pure coincidence, right? Last year, federal prosecutors also requested documents from Deutsche Bank related to a Manhattan retail property, formerly the New York Times headquarters, that the Kushners bought for $296 million in 2015. The Kushners later refinanced the property at a higher appraised value. As part of the $370 million in loans, they took out $59 million in cash. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-28/kushner-loan-details-sought-from-deutsche-bank-two-others-je7dvy2pAnd surely Trump's relationship with DB is simply another coincidence? No question about it. Prior to Trump's election as president last fall, his financial disclosures showed he held roughly $360 million in debt to the bank, with about $125 million in two mortgages for one of the president's major Florida golf courses, Trump National Doral, The Washington Post reported. Trump's debt to Deutsche Bank also included loans for Trump's Chicago building and the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. www.businessinsider.com/trump-deutsche-bank-mueller-2017-12
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Post by SSHoya on May 7, 2018 20:35:49 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on May 7, 2018 20:44:08 GMT -5
Too bad Mr. Phillips. It's not as though Trump wasn't clear on his stance. If his business suffers, he'll have gotten exactly what he voted for. Hopefully that tax cut will soften the blow.
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