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Post by SSHoya on Dec 14, 2018 9:00:08 GMT -5
Mr. Kellyanne Conway along with Trevor Potter and Neil Katyal weigh in: This all suggests Trump could become a target of a very serious criminal campaign finance investigation. In response, Trump has offered up three defenses. His first was to repeatedly lie. For quite some time, he flatly denied knowledge about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. But now he seems to be acknowledging that he knew (since his personal company reimbursed Cohen for the payment, he ought to). Now Trump and his acolytes have turned to two other excuses: They point to an earlier case involving former senator John Edwards to argue that what Trump did wasn’t a crime; and they say, even if it was a crime, it wasn’t a biggie — there are lots of crimes, so what, who cares. The bad arguments being floated in Trump’s defense are emblematic of a deterioration in respect for the rule of law in this country. The three of us have deep political differences, but we are united in the view that our country comes first and our political parties second. And chief among the values of our country is its commitment to the rule of law. No one, whether a senator or a president, should pretend America is something less. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/14/trumps-claim-that-he-didnt-violate-campaign-finance-law-is-weak-dangerous/?utm_term=.ae379ce6a354
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 10:06:08 GMT -5
"Nobody got robbed... " I think prosecutors believe it was used to steal an election.
Guess the new defense coming from the right is Committing crimes is not a crime.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 11:54:04 GMT -5
Bill Clinton got impeached for lying about a blow job.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 12:48:44 GMT -5
The Law and Order Party following the Paul Manafort criminal play book...
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Post by hoyarooter on Dec 14, 2018 21:53:17 GMT -5
The Law and Order Party following the Paul Manafort criminal play book... Paul Manafort and President Scumbag, birds of a feather. Can Georgetown revoke Manafort's degree?
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 15, 2018 15:48:44 GMT -5
BLUF: As we noted, our interest is in assessing the Steele dossier as a raw intelligence document, not a finished piece of analysis. The Mueller investigation has clearly produced public records that confirm pieces of the dossier. And even where the details are not exact, the general thrust of Steele’s reporting seems credible in light of what we now know about extensive contacts between numerous individuals associated with the Trump campaign and Russian government officials. However, there is also a good deal in the dossier that has not been corroborated in the official record and perhaps never will be—whether because it’s untrue, unimportant or too sensitive. As a raw intelligence document, the Steele dossier, we believe, holds up well so far. But surely there is more to come from Mueller’s team. We will return to it as the public record develops. www.lawfareblog.com/steele-dossier-retrospective
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 16, 2018 10:45:33 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 16, 2018 13:10:13 GMT -5
Giuliani is a blithering senile idiot. Anyone who can pretend to understand his incoherent rants is also a blithering idiot.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 16, 2018 17:01:27 GMT -5
An honest report prepared for the Senate, unlike the report by the clowns in the House led by clown/moron Devin Nunes. A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election found the operation used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President Trump -- and worked even harder to support him while in office. “What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party--and specifically Donald Trump,” the report says. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/16/new-report-russian-disinformation-prepared-senate-shows-operations-scale-sweep/
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Post by EtomicB on Dec 17, 2018 22:07:45 GMT -5
It's a hoax, a witchhunt... www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynns-business-partner-charged-with-illegally-lobbying-for-turkey/2018/12/17/46fb3762-020a-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.375da87f5bd3Throughout the fall of 2016, while Flynn served publicly as a key surrogate and foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, prosecutors say he and business partner Bijan Kian took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Turkish government to push for the extradition from the United States of dissident cleric Fethullah Gulen. Their efforts, prosecutors said, were directed by Kamil Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman with close ties to the country’s leadershipHere's more on Bijan Kian from last June... www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-transition-aide-bijan-kian-played-key-role-in-flynns-turkish-work/Kian connected Flynn with his Turkish client, helped to negotiate their $600,000 contract and oversaw a documentary and an op-ed aimed at an opponent of Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the client and several others who requested anonymity because of the ongoing criminal investigation. The client, Ekim Alptekin, also confirmed to The Associated Press that Kian worked for one of his Turkish companies at the same time he was working for Flynn Intel.
Soon after Flynn Intel ceased operations after Mr. Trump's election, Flynn and Kian joined the president-elect's transition team. Kian described his role on his LinkedIn profile as "deputy lead" assigned to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Kian said he provided "policy input, strategic guidance and operational counsel to prepare" candidates for the director of national intelligence, the CIA and other top officials.
Two former transition officials said Kian was clearly close with Flynn and served as the retired general's sounding board. One official said Kian helped scrutinize then-Rep. Mike Pompeo before he was named Trump's CIA director.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 18, 2018 6:12:52 GMT -5
Just a coincidence that Trump's tweets and attacks against Mueller are working in parallel with the Russian disinformation campaign, right? And the corrupt and moral bereft Republican Party is complicit. Traitorous bastards. Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sights on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Having worked to help get Trump into the White House, they now worked to neutralize the biggest threat to his staying there. The Russian operatives unloaded on Mueller through fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter and beyond, falsely claiming that the former FBI director was corrupt and that the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election were crackpot conspiracies. One post on Instagram — which emerged as an especially potent weapon in the Russian social media arsenal — claimed that Mueller had worked in the past with “radical Islamic groups.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-disinformation-teams-targeted-robert-s-mueller-iii-says-report-prepared-for-senate/2018/12/17/0e0047f6-0230-11e9-8186-4ec26a485713_story.html?utm_term=.de4a55c96081
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 9:26:32 GMT -5
Would be nice if folks would remember they are Americans before there political affiliation...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 9:48:34 GMT -5
It's a hoax, a witchhunt... www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynns-business-partner-charged-with-illegally-lobbying-for-turkey/2018/12/17/46fb3762-020a-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?utm_term=.375da87f5bd3Throughout the fall of 2016, while Flynn served publicly as a key surrogate and foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, prosecutors say he and business partner Bijan Kian took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Turkish government to push for the extradition from the United States of dissident cleric Fethullah Gulen. Their efforts, prosecutors said, were directed by Kamil Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman with close ties to the country’s leadershipHere's more on Bijan Kian from last June... www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-transition-aide-bijan-kian-played-key-role-in-flynns-turkish-work/Kian connected Flynn with his Turkish client, helped to negotiate their $600,000 contract and oversaw a documentary and an op-ed aimed at an opponent of Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the client and several others who requested anonymity because of the ongoing criminal investigation. The client, Ekim Alptekin, also confirmed to The Associated Press that Kian worked for one of his Turkish companies at the same time he was working for Flynn Intel.
Soon after Flynn Intel ceased operations after Mr. Trump's election, Flynn and Kian joined the president-elect's transition team. Kian described his role on his LinkedIn profile as "deputy lead" assigned to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Kian said he provided "policy input, strategic guidance and operational counsel to prepare" candidates for the director of national intelligence, the CIA and other top officials.
Two former transition officials said Kian was clearly close with Flynn and served as the retired general's sounding board. One official said Kian helped scrutinize then-Rep. Mike Pompeo before he was named Trump's CIA director.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 12:55:53 GMT -5
Judge is a Reagan appointee.
There were a lot of conspiracy theories that were spread on the right recently about Flynn that just went pop. The fact that a lot of R's view Flynn as a hero and Mueller as a villain is so (insert better word here)..
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 18, 2018 13:27:58 GMT -5
Just left USDC. Lots of MAGA cultists. Sentencing continued until March pending possible further mitigation if he testifies at Turkey lobbying trial in EDVA. Ended up in overflow courtroom but better view and audio in there anyway.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 18, 2018 13:40:46 GMT -5
Judge is a Reagan appointee. There were a lot of conspiracy theories that were spread on the right recently about Flynn that just went pop. The fact that a lot of R's view Flynn as a hero and Mueller as a villain is so (insert better word here).. Judge Sullivan had to retract that remark because his Turkish activities only lasted thru the election/transition. Nevertheless, he roasted Flynn for lying to the FBI while national security advisor in the West Wing on White House grounds. As an aside, Judge Sullivan said that in his opinion Gen. Petraeus got off too light pleading guilty to a misdemeanor false statement. He re-allocuted Flynn in light of his lawyer's sentencing memo about being deceived by the FBI interviews w/o warning but said he doesn't hold lawyer's arguments against the defendant. Fox Propaganda will likely seize on SCO asking defense lawyers to redact Strok and Mccabe's names from the defense memo. Defense lawyers agreed to that redaction and merely referenced the 302 which has now been made public in redacted form.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 18, 2018 21:38:20 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 3:04:40 GMT -5
A newly obtained document shows President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Russia, despite his attorney Rudy Giuliani claiming on Sunday the document was never signed. cnn.it/2UYhCxMSmh...
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 19, 2018 19:04:13 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 19, 2018 19:13:52 GMT -5
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