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Trump loses patience with his

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:27:35 +0000

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Trump loses patience with his White House counsel

By Nancy Cooke & Josh Dawsey @ Poltico.com, June 23

The president has taken out his frustration with the expanding Russia probe on lawyer Don McGahn, one of Trump’s earliest campaign supporters.

Trump Signals Tweet Was Meant

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:22:21 +0000

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Trump Signals Tweet Was Meant to Affect Comey Testimony

By MAGGIE HABERMAN @ NYTimes.com, June 23

In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” the president also raised questions about the impartiality of the special counsel for the Russia investigation, Robert S. Mueller III.

WASHINGTON — President Trump appeared to acknowledge on Friday in an interview that his tweet hinting of taped conversations with James B. Comey was intended to influence the fired F.B.I. director’s testimony before Congress, and he emphasized that he committed “no obstruction” of the inquiries into whether his campaign colluded with Russia.

The interview, with “Fox & Friends,” was shown one day after the president tweeted what most people in Washington had already come to believe: that he had not made recordings of his conversations with Mr. Comey.

Instead, the president explained in the television interview, his tweets were referring to the possibility that anyone could have taped those discussions.

“I’ve been reading about it for the last couple of months about the seriousness of the horribleness of the situation with surveillance all over the place,” the president said in the interview. “So you never know what’s out there, but I didn’t tape, and I don’t have any tape and I didn’t tape.” [....]

Bluffing with head of FBI?

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:17:00 +0000

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Bluffing with head of FBI? Little dick but big balls - he's going down apparently, or as my favorite parrot joke goes, "for a guy with no wings, you're pretty ballsy". Not an agent in America wants to see a suspect overtly fucking with them with impunity. My guess is there's actually a recording that Trump knows won't sound good, and if so I'm pretty sure the FBI or other alphabet service has full details. And here's a good example of how much the FBI's in the bag for Trump. Gouliani's keaks were the last of the renegades - wagons will circle, bot to protect the org and screw the Russians. No longer about Hillary.

Figure this fits under your

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:32:21 +0000

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Figure this fits under your flipflop title: NO TAPES:

Trump says he has no ‘tapes’ of Comey conversations (@ WaPo)

"I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” president tweets, a belated admission after weeks of attempts by Congress and the press to determine whether such tapes existed.

By Philip Rucker and Karoun Demirjian
1 hour ago

The Fix: Gingrich admits Trump was bluffing to ‘rattle’ Comey

I suspect the quid-pro-quo on

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:28:00 +0000

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I suspect the quid-pro-quo on foreign policy angle on emoluents will be the bigger deal as opposed to the "cashing in" angle. Because every president is seen as "cashing in" in the end. Further, anyone who voted for Trump was probably doing so with secret admiration for his ability to "cash in," hoping he would use those skills some for the benefit of his fans.

Not to mention my vision of the stereotypical Joe Sixpack character (as opposed to Joe Lunchpail) is someone not totally adverse to the whole cashing in thing as long as everybody plays by the same rules....but that's just me and is all tied up with my views about the popularity of pro sports, steroids, etc.

Emoluments are specific

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 09:51:00 +0000

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Emoluments are specific lawsuits that can be brought now for specific damages, including the newer GOP supported STOCK Act. Flynn's collusion w Russia and his undeclared riving foreign agent business keeps treason pressure in Trump, Pince, Sessions, Pompeo. Russian ties w Felix Sater getting more traction w Trump family. The latter 2 require more drawn out legal procedure.

But emoluments show Trump cashing in on his office - that takes some time to sink in, but eventually it will click with Joe Sixpack as brazenly unfair, esp as details come out.

Reuters version re Wassermann

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 09:43:30 +0000

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Reuters version re Wassermann

Seems to me that more and

artappraiser — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:48:39 +0000

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Seems to me that more and more that emoluments and related conflict of interest issues are becoming front and center and election collusion issues with Russia are falling away. The latter becoming more "much ado about not much", confirming Trump whining. Just sayin'. Open to being dissuaded, but that's what I am seeing now.

Worth noting Andrew Weissmann

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 02:53:53 +0000

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Worth noting Andrew Weissmann and his roll in flipping witnesses.