Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mueller-investigation-closing-trump-152317334.html

What a catalogue of rogues – and what a tantalizing pile of clues. Surely we will soon know where all this leads
The rogues’ gallery exposed in Robert Mueller’s court filings last week make the Watergate burglars look positively classy.
Even veteran lawyers who were involved in the investigations of Richard Nixon say they’ve never seen this level of chicanery. Most importantly, last week’s events showed that Special Counsel Mueller is getting closer to exposing the scope and depth of it all. His most recent filings make clear that considerable evidence touches the president himself.
The disclosures from Michael Cohen, the former Trump fixer who is now a cooperating witness, drew the connection tighter. In his guilty plea to an additional charge of lying to Congress, Cohen revealed, and Trump confirmed, that the Trump Organization was pursuing a luxury skyscraper deal in Moscow while Donald Trump, identified as “Individual 1” in the latest court filings, was sewing up the Republican party p**********l nomination.
As a candidate, Trump repeatedly reassured v**ers that he had no business dealings in Russia. But as he uttered those lies, he knew Cohen was planning to sell Russian kleptocrats $250m units in a future Trump Tower Moscow by luring Putin into the project with a free $50m spread. This was all unfolding as emails from Democratic officials, hacked by the Russians, disrupted the Democratic convention and the Republican party was making its party platform much kinder to Russia.
Trump tried to dismiss this Moscow real estate bombshell, saying it was fine for him to pursue his business affairs while running for president, because if he lost, he expected to return to the throne of the Trump Organization. Could this help Mueller close the circle of collusion between Trump and Russia?
Cohen had previously connected President Trump to payoffs made to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, which may violate e******n law. But the additional guilty plea last week goes to the heart of Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and possible links to Donald Trump.
Also last week came the astounding revelation that Paul Manafort was acting as a double agent inside Mueller’s office. After Manafort was convicted on multiple counts of bank and tax fraud related to the millions he was paid by Ukrainian clients, he cut a deal with Mueller before his second trial, agreeing to plead guilty and to cooperate with the special counsel. Instead of cooperating, turncoat Manafort was spying and tipping off the president’s lawyers about the prosecution’s areas of interest.
" Clownish though some of them seem, these men may hold some keys to Mueller’s investigation
Manafort’s deal then went where it belonged, in the trash. Big jail time should be in store for him, but it is more than likely that he will receive a p**********l pardon for being such a standup guy. “I wouldn’t take it off the table,” President Trump said in an Oval Office interview with the New York Post. “Why would I take it off the table?” Mafia dons often dangle protection to silence snitches. But this isn’t the mafia, it’s the White House.
It’s hard to imagine anything lower than what Manafort did. But also trotting on stage last week were the conspiracy-loving tag team of Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi. In a draft court filing related to a collapsed plea deal with Corsi, 72, Mueller also revealed that in email exchanges, Stone told Corsi to get hold of hacked emails from WikiLeaks and that the pair discussed optimum times to release them in order to damage Clinton’s candidacy. Stone and Corsi have ties to Alex Jones’s ultra-right conspiracy site, Infowars, and Corsi was the man behind the false birther campaign against Barack Obama and Swift Boat Veterans for T***h, a rightwing group that tried to besmirch John Kerry’s military record in his 2004 bid to become president. Stone is a trickster from way back (he even has a Nixon tattoo on his back). Stone and Corsi have both denied contacts with WikiLeaks.
Clownish though some of them seem, these men may hold some keys to Mueller’s investigation. And we have yet to hear from Michael Flynn, the Trump foreign policy adviser and short-lived national security adviser, who has also pleaded guilty in the Mueller investigation and whose role in this muck is soon to be revealed in court. Though last week’s documents did not deal with the suspect meeting in Trump Tower during the campaign with a Russian lawyer claiming to have dirt on Clinton. Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr, were there and the meeting remains a subject of interest to Mueller.
What a tantalizing pile of clues. Surely, we will soon know where they lead.
During the Nixon years, a famous journalist, Jimmy Breslin, wrote two books. One was a novel about the mafia called The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, that I thought about as I watched Manafort et al trot across the television screen last week. He also wrote a book after Nixon resigned about the politicians who helped restore honesty and dignity to Washington. It was called How the Good Guys Finally Won. That one deserves a sequel

Comment Loc: California

Keep on dreamin BBop.

vernon

I have been hearing all this bulls**t since the e******n and all we got was yea but we got him now. And Just last week you turkeys were claiming
we were going to have a depression ,now that has flopped you jump back to muller and what what will be next mr chicken little

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

yayaya...

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Ya...we've known forever where it all leads. Straight to the hag and the g*******t special interests pulling her strings.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

woodguru

We see it in front of our eyes, and the right thinks if it's done openly it's not a crime.

Part of Mueller's list of crimes is things Trump did in our faces, but listed with the hard cold statutes that were violated it goes from gray so what to black and white clearly violated laws and committed impeachable offenses.

Impeachable offenses are not necessarily crimes that are prosecutable, they can be violations of ethics and rules of government...emoluments violations don't have legal implications such as jail time, they simply warrant an impeachment. Conflicts of interest, even the appearance can easily be used to impeach, and no proof of a crime needs to even be there, simply the appearance, a word that is in the constitution regarding conflicts of interest.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Money talks...and the KKKK left a trail of it during the Obama administration thinking the hag had it in the bag. This is playing out in slow motion but wh**ever you think the Mewler Mob can do is doomed. GHWB croaked just in the nick of time to buy them a little. Wonder if they'll have a service on the 5th! Get it? HAHAHAHA!

Seriously...what are the odds? I hear there was a bunch of stuff scheduled for the 5th.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Well? What's he waiting for?

patrioticmind

Donald Trump has surrounded himself with liars
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
dic. 3, 2018
(CNN) - President Donald Trump has lying on his mind today.
"'Michael Cohen asks judge for no Prison Time,'" Trump tweeted on Monday morning. "You mean he can do all of the TERRIBLE, unrelated to Trump, things having to do with fraud, big loans, Taxis, etc., and not serve a long prison term? He makes up stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for himself."
He followed that gem up with this: "Bob Mueller (who is a much different man than people think) and his out of control band of Angry Democrats, don't want the t***h, they only want lies. The t***h is very bad for their mission!"
"He makes up stories." "They only want lies."
It's fascinating that one of Trump's preferred lines of attack against his enemies also happens to be his greatest weakness/flaw: Telling the t***h (or not). By now, everyone knows -- or should -- that Trump said more than 5,000 things in his first 601 days in office that were either totally false or misleading, according to a count maintained by The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog.
What's less known but of critical import is how many people who are (or have been) very close to Trump are now proven-beyond-any-doubt liars. Sharon LaFraniere of The New York Times (you might have heard of it) made that point in a hugely important piece over the weekend. Here's the key bit:
"If the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has proved anything in his 18-month-long investigation — besides how intensely Russia meddled in an American p**********l e******n — it is that Mr. Trump surrounded himself throughout 2016 and early 2017 with people to whom lying seemed to be second nature.
"They lied to federal authorities even when they had lawyers advising them, even when the risk of getting caught was high and even when the consequences for them were dire."
LaFraniere goes on to note that:
• Michael Flynn, Trump's one-time national security adviser, admitted to lying about his ties to Russia.
• Rick Gates, Trump's deputy campaign chair, admitted to lying about his financial dealings in Ukraine.
• Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman, admitted to lying about his financial dealings in Ukraine -- and reportedly broke his plea deal by back-channeling information about the Mueller investigation to Trump's attorneys.
• Cohen, Trump's one-time personal lawyer/fixer, admitted to lying to Congress about his conversations about a Trump Tower Moscow project
And that is only the list of people around Trump who have lied with criminal penalties. As LaFraniere notes, Sean Spicer, Trump's first press secretary, made himself irrelevant in the eyes of the press corps on his first official day on the job when he insisted that Trump's inauguration crowd was the largest in history. And Spicer's replacement in the job -- Sarah Sanders -- has fared little better. That's to say nothing of White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, who famously/infamously created the phrase "alternative facts" in the early days of the Trump administration.
The common thread here, the hub at the center of the wheel, is, of course, Trump.
From The New York Times: "'Mr. Trump looks for people who share his disregard for the t***h and are willing to parrot him, 'even if it's a lie, even if they know it's a lie, and even if he said the opposite the day before,' said Gwenda Blair, a Trump biographer. They must be 'loyal to what he is saying right now,' she said, or he sees them as 'a t*****r.'"
The way to rise in Trump's world is to tell the boss what he wants to hear. And what Trump wants to hear is that he is doing the exact right thing at all times -- and that those who argue any differently are losers and h**ers out to make him fail because they are jealous of his success.
That's a very dangerous proposition when the boss is Trump, because he spends most of his time telling himself a story of his life. In that story, he is always the hero, the genius, the best, the winner. Whether the story Trump tells himself comports with established facts is of little concern to the President. So if the way you ascend the ladder in Trumpworld is to tell him wh**ever he wants to hear -- t***h be damned -- you have a whole lot of people enabling the most powerful person in the country to live in a fantasy world of his own creation.
Which brings us back to Trump's down-is-up view of the Mueller investigation. Trump has convinced himself that the probe is illegal on its face because it was triggered by the purposeful leak of classified information by former FBI Director James Comey. That's not true on two counts: 1) We know the FBI investigation was triggered by former Trump foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos when he bragged to an Australian diplomat that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton and 2) Comey has testified under oath that the memo he asked a friend to leak on his interactions with Trump was purposely written without any classified material in it.
Then there's Trump's characterization of the Mueller investigation as nothing more than witch hunt conducted by Democratic partisans out to get him. The "witch hunt" idea is belied by, well, a lot of facts, including: 1) 192 criminal charges have been brought as a result of the probe 2) 36 individuals and entities have been charged 3) seven people have pleaded guilty 4) one person -- Manafort -- has been convicted by a jury of his peers and 5) three people have been sentenced to or have served jail time due to wrongdoing uncovered by the Mueller investigation.
Trump's insistence that Mueller is some sort of rogue prosecutor with an ax to grind is, again, not backed up by facts. Mueller served as the FBI director for a decade -- nominated first by President George W. Bush and then by President Barack Obama. He was named special counsel in this investigation by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a Trump appointee. And, did I mention that Mueller himself has been a lifelong registered Republican? As for Trump's attacks on the "13 Angry Democrats" on the Mueller team, it's not clear where he's getting his numbers; nine of the 17 members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats in the past, according to The Washington Post.
Those are all facts. They are the t***h. That the President of the United States finds a way to disagree speaks to the level of staff-enabled fantasy in which he lives.
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buffalo Loc: Texas

ALL BULLS**T, booby! Corsi on Monday filed a “criminal and ethics complaint” against muelley and his team, accusing the investigators of trying to bully him into giving “false testimony” against President Trump.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-writer-corsi-files-complaint-against-mueller-alleges-bid-to-seek-false-testimony

When they can’t find the crimes, they make them up.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

buffalo Loc: Texas

Nobody but butthurt moonbats would try to make something criminal out of normal business dealings, even on a deal that did not t***spire.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

What's a "butthurt moonbats" Please be very specific.

buffalo Loc: Texas

LOL butthurt= mental distress or irritation caused by an overreaction to a perceived bad outcome.
moonbat=political insult for people with extreme left-leaning, bat-s**t crazy political views.