Mueller Investigation pt4

[Belz...]

Not quite. Team Trump wanted to break the law, but the Russians were staying within the law, so Team Trump didn't have the opportunity.

So it becomes "We tried to break the law but the Russians were too ethical for us."

The Russians.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

"Stuffed means stuffed".

"We demand our cranberry sauce!"

 

[slyjoe]

Not quite. Team Trump wanted to break the law, but the Russians were staying within the law, so Team Trump didn't have the opportunity.

So it becomes "We tried to break the law but the Russians were too ethical for us."

The Russians.

Team Trump better watch out carrying this logic too far. There is no "attempted obstruction of justice". If you attempt it, you just did it.

 

[Stacko]

And that's who our resident conservatives choose to believe? Huh.

Party over country.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

 

[Belz...]

Party over country.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

"Final"? That's a nice touch, implying that the Republican party is dead and has been for years.

 

[phiwum]

Judge ruled that Manafort lied to the FBI and grand jury about contacts with Kilimnik.

 

[dudalb]

Judge ruled that Manafort lied to the FBI and grand jury about contacts with Kilimnik.

Wow, a Trump associate lied. I am so so shocked!

 

[smartcooky]

I'd love to see an enterprising reporter prepare a comparable chart for the Obama/Biden, Romney/Ryan and Clinton/Kaine campaigns of 2012 and 2016. How many contacts with the Russians is typical for a US presidential campaign, I wonder?

I wonder how many rimes Obama, Biden, Clinton and Kaine met one-on-one with Putin when there were NO OTHER AMERICANS PRESENT or where the only other American present was a translator, whose notes were immediately seized.

Forget it, I know the answer to that..... ZERO

 

[smartcooky]

Judge ruled that Manafort lied to the FBI and grand jury about contacts with Kilimnik.

I'm shocked I tell you... shocked!!

 

[Trebuchet]

Party over country.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Reagan Rule.

But even that doesn't apply to Trump. It's not about the country or the party; it's all and only about him.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Party over country.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

How very...Politburo of them!

 

[acbytesla]

I wonder how many rimes Obama, Biden, Clinton and Kaine met one-on-one with Putin when there were NO OTHER AMERICANS PRESENT or where the only other American present was a translator, whose notes were immediately seized.

Forget it, I know the answer to that..... ZERO

But lets be honest. Would we really have had a concern with any previous leaders?

 

[smartcooky]

But lets be honest. Would we really have had a concern with any previous leaders?

No, because I seriously doubt that any of those previous leaders would have been stupid enough to allow such a scenario occur.

 

[Aridas]

Judge ruled that Manafort lied to the FBI and grand jury about contacts with Kilimnik.

How much longer is Manafort likely to spend in prison because of this ruling?

 

[The Great Zaganza]

How much longer is Manafort likely to spend in prison because of this ruling?

That depends on when he starts rolling on his oligarch sponsors.

 

[a_unique_person]

How much longer is Manafort likely to spend in prison because of this ruling?

He's doubling down on Trump backing him. Not many people are stupid enough to do that these days.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1095776415524503554

The judge handling Mueller's Russian troll farm case denied Concord Management's motion for discovery about whether there was selective prosecution – judge disagreed that the Skadden case was similar to the charged conspiracy https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5736680/2-13-19-Concord-Order.pdf …

Document embedded in tweet.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

He's doubling down on Trump backing him. Not many people are stupid enough to do that these days.

We can't rule out the possibility that he's scared of what Putin might do to his family.

 

[smartcooky]

He's doubling down on Trump backing him. Not many people are stupid enough to do that these days.

Because of the fact that he has lied, that changes everything. The prosecutors in both NY and VA can, if they wish, re-present the changes they dropped against him and those changes on which the jury was hung. They can take their own sweet time to do that so long as the SoL (if applicable) hasn't run out.

Provided Trump does not get re-elected next year, then if those prosecutors are cunning enough, they can stretch this out and hold any trial over until such time as Trump no longer has the power to pardon him (AIUI he can only pardon a convicted person, not an indicted person.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Judge ruled that Manafort lied to the FBI and grand jury about contacts with Kilimnik.

BBC story on this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47234491