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Cont: All things Trump + Russia Part 3

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acbytesla said:
He's listed Hannity as a client so he's already done that. Hannity seems to be trying to have it both ways. He wants to deny that he is a client but still be entitled to attorney client privilege. I don't buy that argument, but he still may dodge the bullet since his relationship with Cohen may not fall within the scope of the search warrant. But if Cohen actually worked for Hannity, it cost Hannity a hell of a lot more than $10.
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None of this is unusual at the beginning stages of hiring a lawyer. It really is irrelevant. I’m sure Hannity did not want his name associated with this process.

A huge nothingburger.
 
acbytesla said:
If you can't see that Russia has something on Trump you're blind. My suspicion of that seems to be confirmed constantly.
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Mycroft said:
There is certainly something unusual about how Trump wants to cosey up to Russia
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After the embarrassment Trump just handed the Russians? You don’t think they would have released it by now?

Not to mention wiping out that little band of mercenaries they had out in the open a few weeks ago, bet that pissed Putin off more then bombing Syria.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
By "embarrassement" do you mean "bombing three targets after giving ample warning, which allowed the Russians and Syrians to remove personnel from the sites"?
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You already knew which targets they were going to bomb? Lol

I’ll explain the embarrassment to you. Ignoring the Russians.
 
acbytesla said:
It has, but I never believed it before. But I said serious crimes. And by that I mean crimes that the population as a whole will look at as a crime. If it is thought of as petty, then no.
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The problem with this is that the entire concept of "petty" is being redefined to more and more ridiculous extremes as each of Trumps actions crossing another, farther line.

His administration and behavior in office has left a trail littered with things which would have been ranked as far more than petty. Remember, the man is the standard bearer in a party which once went all but ape **** because Obama wore a tan jacket. They didn't consider that to be petty.

Look at the two posts immediately after this one of yours.

Would it have been thought of as petty to criticize a President for such blatant cronyism with a hostile foreign power if it had been any administration before this one?
 
quadraginta said:
Would it have been thought of as petty to criticize a President for such blatant cronyism with a hostile foreign power if it had been any administration before this one?
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I mean, a lot of people thought Dan Quayle was unfit to be president because he once misspelt "potato"...
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
You think it coincidence that the sites had had their personnel removed?
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Obviously they were only interested in their objective.


Inviting Vladimir Putin to the White House is "ignoring the Russians"?
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That’s what you do when dealing with bad actors around the world. It’s called diplomacy. The ignoring was about Russia’s threat on the Syria bombing.
 
Oh, and as far as their objective goes:

Segnosaur said:
From: http://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-intelligence-trump-syria-strike-failed-2018-4
...Israeli intelligence officers reportedly called it a failure. "If President Trump had ordered the strike only to show that the US responded to [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's use of chemical weapons, then that goal has been achieved," a senior defense official told Israel's Ynet News. "But if there was another objective — such as paralyzing the ability to launch chemical weapons or deterring Assad from using it again — it's doubtful any of these objectives have been met." An intelligence officer who talked to Ynet wasn't as forgiving. "The statement of 'Mission Accomplished' and (the assertion) that Assad's ability to use chemical weapons has been fatally hit has no basis"....
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"If you want to shoot — shoot, don't talk," an Israeli diplomatic source told Ynet. "In the American case, this is mostly talk."...After Trump tweeted that Russia and Syria should "get ready" for incoming missiles, it appears they moved assets to more protected locations, potentially limiting the available targets for the strike.
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Definitely embarrassing for someone. I'm not sure that that someone is Vladimir Putin.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Oh, and as far as their objective goes:



Definitely embarrassing for someone. I'm not sure that that someone is Vladimir Putin.
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Israel will have been lobbying for strikes against Iranian and Hezbollah targets, and this "leak" is presumably punishment for disappointing them. Trump is turning out to be just a big tease over Iran, and the Israelis must be getting pretty fed up with it.
 
logger said:
Obviously they were only interested in their objective.

That’s what you do when dealing with bad actors around the world. It’s called diplomacy. The ignoring was about Russia’s threat on the Syria bombing.
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If the objective was to spend $240M+ to blow up empty buildings, mission accomplished. Yeah, looks like all that diplomacy is working: Trump is gonna hand Syria over to Assad and Putin. Art of the Deal.
 
logger said:
After the embarrassment Trump just handed the Russians? You don’t think they would have released it by now?

Not to mention wiping out that little band of mercenaries they had out in the open a few weeks ago, bet that pissed Putin off more then bombing Syria.
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I disagree. We joined in with the Brits and France who were going to launch the attacks anyway. We weren't attacking Russia but Syria. Actual sanctions against Russia are unthinkable by Trump. He may do some petty things but I'm afraid that's just a minor attempt to preventing it from being too obvious.

Something doesn't wash. Trump is fast to anger and start punching anyone who has the temerity to disagree with his holiness. And the only person he seems to mollycoddle is Putin.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I mean, a lot of people thought Dan Quayle was unfit to be president because he once misspelt "potato"...
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That's not the only reason. But they did make a big deal about that. That he corrected the kid who spelled it right was hilarious though. Ooops.
 
acbytesla said:
I disagree. We joined in with the Brits and France who were going to launch the attacks anyway. We weren't attacking Russia but Syria. Actual sanctions against Russia are unthinkable by Trump. He may do some petty things but I'm afraid that's just a minor attempt to preventing it from being too obvious.



Something doesn't wash. Trump is fast to anger and start punching anyone who has the temerity to disagree with his holiness. And the only person he seems to mollycoddle is Putin.
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I think others may have said this but Putin must have more than pee pee tapes. My guess is Putin could collapse the house of cards that make up Trumps businesses.


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seayakin said:
I think others may have said this but Putin must have more than pee pee tapes. My guess is Putin could collapse the house of cards that make up Trumps businesses.
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I think it's worse; I think it's probably something that would send him to jail (which would collapse the house of cards that make up his ego).
 
WilliamSeger said:
I think it's worse; I think it's probably something that would send him to jail (which would collapse the house of cards that make up his ego).
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Not going to argue with that. I believe this is true also.


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