Cont: Mueller Investigation pt3

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I Am The Scum said:
Always bet on stupid with this administration.
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My amazement with Der Trumpenführer's ability to continually tell bare-faced, verifiable lies is only exceeded by my amazement with the lengths his fawning, devoted followers will go in order to cover up and lie for him.

There is no doubt America that you have a lying, cheating Crook-in-Chief in the White House, who is as bad as; perhaps even worse than, the lying, cheating crook you had there from 1969 to 1974*. Honestly, this is staring you right in the face; you need to be a certified member of the double digit club not to see it.



*PS: It turns out Nixon wasn't the only crook in the White House; his VP Spiro Agnew was probably was an even bigger crook. For those who like podcasts, Rachel Maddow has her first one out, called "Bagman" and the criminal acts he perpetrated while in office. I've been following it the last couple of weeks, and it has been really interesting so far; IMO, for anyone who is interested the the history of those times, its well worth the time spent, and best of all, its free.

Subscribe here: http://www.msnbc.com/bagman
 
One result we already have from the Mueller investigation is that Trump could indeed be impeached for conspiring to violate campaign finance laws. And this wasn't just a typical matter of some shady money being contributed under the table, which might only draw a fine; this was suppression of information that arguably could have made the difference between Trump winning and losing a very close election. Furthermore, Trump repeatedly lied to the public about the affairs, which is evidence of mens rea (knowledge of wrongdoing), which is necessary to prove intent. This isn't just a matter of Trump's morality and ethics, either: I'm genuinely concerned that the most powerful person in the world could be subject to blackmail as a result of some of his shenanigans, and some blackmailers might want something other than money.

Donald Trump Played Central Role in Hush Payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal (paywall)
Wall Street Journal said:
As a presidential candidate in August 2015, Donald Trump huddled with a longtime friend, media executive David Pecker, in his cluttered 26th floor Trump Tower office and made a request.

What can you do to help my campaign? he asked, according to people familiar with the meeting.

Mr. Pecker, chief executive of American Media Inc., offered to use his National Enquirer tabloid to buy the silence of women if they tried to publicize alleged sexual encounters with Mr. Trump.

Less than a year later, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Pecker to quash the story of a former Playboy model who said they'd had an affair. Mr. Pecker's company soon paid $150,000 to the model, Karen McDougal, to keep her from speaking publicly about it. Mr. Trump later thanked Mr. Pecker for the assistance.

The Trump Tower meeting and its aftermath are among several previously unreported instances in which Mr. Trump intervened directly to suppress stories about his alleged sexual encounters with women, according to interviews with three dozen people who have direct knowledge of the events or who have been briefed on them, as well as court papers, corporate records and other documents.
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Jeeze, Dolt 45 knows how to pick 'em. It seems Matt Whitaker, the man Dolt has illegally/unconstitutionally appointed to AG in order to stymie the Special Counsel's Russia Investigation, has got some legal problems of his own

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianah...ut-many-filed-complaints-anyway/#4033e5cb1afa

Whitaker is currently under investigation by the FBI because he was part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme. The Company was called "World Patent Marketing", and one of the reasons why the FTC shut them down (quite aside from the fraud) was because they would threaten any customers who dared to complain about being defrauded. These actions ranged from threats to take civil action against the complainants, to actual, physical harassment and intimidation.

Whitaker wasn't only an adviser, or just involved peripherally. He was on the board, and actively threatened complaining customers.

"In emails uncovered by the FTC investigation, Whitaker personally threatened a customer who complained, according to a story in the Miami New Times that was picked up by other news outlets.

The emails the FTC obtained, in fact, suggests Whitaker used his background as a U.S. attorney to try to silence customers who claimed they were defrauded by the company and sought to take their complaints public."​

Rather than expressing concern about the customer’s charge of being cheated, Whitaker wrote him to let him know that he, Whitaker, was “a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois...Your emails and message from today seem to be an apparent attempt at possible blackmail or extortion.”

“You also mentioned filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and to smear WPM’s reputation online. I am assuming you know that there could be serious civil and criminal consequences for you if that is in fact what you and your ‘group’ is doing. Understand we take threats like this quite seriously...Please conduct yourself accordingly.”

Apparently, though, he picked on the wrong customer.

“Do not email me with your scare tactics,” the customer known as “A. Rudsky” wrote back. Claiming that he, too, was an attorney, he added: “Stop with your bull-**** emails...You are party to a scam...You will be exposed. I hope I make myself clear, Mr. Whitaker.”​


Only the best people huh?



PS: for those who would like to see more, here is MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviewing Mark Maremont, a senior editor at the Wall Street Journal (for the attention span challenged, its only 8 minutes long)

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/...nder-fbi-investigation-1366827587507?v=raila&
 
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Whitaker was also interviewed to become part of Trump's legal team.
The guy is a walking Conflict-of-Interest.
No wonder Trump wants him as his Personal Attorney, which is what he thinks the Attorney General is.
 
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1061045846362546176

WaPo: The acting attorney general's role as an adviser to a scam company "came as a surprise to both senior Justice Department and White House officials, several officials said."
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It's such a shame that neither the Justice Department nor the White House has access to Wikipeida, and that even the most thorough of vetting procedures couldn't involve googling a candidate's name.
 
Fun article in Slate yesterday: If Trump Wants the Russia Investigation to End, He Should Stop Committing Crimes

It argues that a significant reason for the length of the investigation is that Mueller has a mandate to investigate not just Trump/Russia, but "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation", and Obstruction of Justice would count for that. Since Trump keeps obstructing the investigation (and there is a lengthy history of that detailed in the article), the investigation keeps going.

It's like saying, "We can't stop that man from stabbing people until we have a complete list of all the people he has stabbed... Oh great, there's another one..."
 
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Fun article in Slate yesterday: If Trump Wants the Russia Investigation to End, He Should Stop Committing Crimes

It argues that a significant reason for the length of the investigation is that Mueller has a mandate to investigate not just Trump/Russia, but "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation", and Obstruction of Justice would count for that. Since Trump keeps obstructing the investigation (and there is a lengthy history of that detailed in the article), the investigation keeps going.

It's like saying, "We can't stop that man from stabbing people until we have a complete list of all the people he has stabbed... Oh great, there's another one..."
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Mueller's investigation has been very short, with more indictments than most.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-muellers-first-year-compares-to-watergate-iran-contra-and-whitewater/
 

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Every few days I have to remind myself how insane it is when you step back from this whole thing and remember that Mueller... is a Republican. And not a RINO or South Park Republican or a this or that or a whatever, even within the narrow range that those phrases make sense.

He's a former Marine Corp Officer, a lifelong Republican, appointed to head of the FBI by George W. Bush. He's not some Democratic Party Insider out to get the President as a Partisan Political Smear Job.
 
Babbylonian said:
Not only should Sessions not have been appointed, he is a vile racist who straight-up hates individual rights when applied to women, minorities, non-Christians, and the poor.

Sorry, but there is literally no downside here. Whatever irritation he has caused Trump was not worth having Sessions in charge of the Justice Department.
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To chip in a bit belatedly... There are unlikely to be any tears shed for Sessions, given that he's been probably the worst person in that position in modern history. With that said, firing anyone because they're not corruptly protecting their superiors from serious investigation is thoroughly objectionable. Replacing the nation's top lawman with a stooge whose main qualifications are sucking up to his superior and loudly and publicly advising on how to obstruct justice is also thoroughly objectionable. Doing so in an effectively illegal manner adds even more reason to object.

ChrisBFRPKY said:
I wonder how many Democrats will now come out in support of Jeff Sessions. Remember Comey? Every leading Democrat was demanding his head because he released info about Hillary's investigation and yet after he was fired by Trump it seemed the same folks were outraged.

Their reaction to the Sessions news should be very telling.
Chris B.
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Mmm? In general, the objections from those people were not specifically about firing Comey. It was about the hows and the whys. Certainly, other people and some of the centrist media started having fun with treating Comey as a bit of a hero, though, especially in light of the mitigating circumstances in play.
 
Aridas said:
To chip in a bit belatedly... There are unlikely to be any tears shed for Sessions, given that he's been probably the worst person in that position in modern history. With that said, firing anyone because they're not corruptly protecting their superiors from serious investigation is thoroughly objectionable. Replacing the nation's top lawman with a stooge whose main qualifications are sucking up to his superior and loudly and publicly advising on how to obstruct justice is also thoroughly objectionable. Doing so in an effectively illegal manner adds even more reason to object.
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What you're describing isn't a downside, though. It's a perk. It's more ammunition if our elected representatives will get off their fat asses and do some checking and balancing.

Think of it as two birds with one stone: A horrible human being gets fired and the horrible human being who fired him could find that termination prominently mentioned in his articles of impeachment. Win-win.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Every few days I have to remind myself how insane it is when you step back from this whole thing and remember that Mueller... is a Republican. And not a RINO or South Park Republican or a this or that or a whatever, even within the narrow range that those phrases make sense.

He's a former Marine Corp Officer, a lifelong Republican, appointed to head of the FBI by George W. Bush. He's not some Democratic Party Insider out to get the President as a Partisan Political Smear Job.
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Trump keeps saying that the investigation is being led by 17 Angry Democrats. I'm sure he wouldn't lie about something important.
 
Aridas said:
To chip in a bit belatedly... There are unlikely to be any tears shed for Sessions, given that he's been probably the worst person in that position in modern history. With that said, firing anyone because they're not corruptly protecting their superiors from serious investigation is thoroughly objectionable.
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I saw a meme going around the other day saying that it's ironic that Sessions got fired for the only thing he did that was right.
 
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