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Big corporate entities like

CVille Dem — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:42:08 +0000

In reply to What nonsense - Foxconn is

Big corporate entities like states with good educational resouces, decent transit, and are well-run so that their employees are happy and they can recruit. Wisconsin is broken due to republican malfeasance.

You left out the Bonanno

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:09:36 +0000

In reply to Criminal defense attorney

You left out the Bonanno family - watch your back.

Criminal defense attorney

Obey — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:54:15 +0000

In reply to NPR has a good roundup of

Criminal defense attorney Trump Jr has hired, Futerfas, has represented members of Gambino, Colombo and Genovese families.

- He obviously comes highly recommended

NPR has a good roundup of

artappraiser — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:07:25 +0000

In reply to Don Jr - Russian blacklist gopher/weasel

NPR has a good roundup of info. on Veselnitskaya and Magnitsky with links current and past @

Lawyer Who Met With Trump Jr. Has Ties To Russian Government, July 10

Which also notes this:

Trump Jr. has hired attorney Alan Futerfas to represent him, Reuters reported.

The latter was an exclusive this afternoon and says he is a sole practitioner who specializes in criminal defense in NY

Worth following how this gets

artappraiser — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:58:41 +0000

In reply to Don Jr - Russian blacklist gopher/weasel

Worth following how this gets handled:

Common Cause files complaints against Trump Jr.

By Mallory Shelbourne @TheHill.com,- 07/10/17 07:39 PM EDT

Common Cause, a non-partisan, non-profit watchdog group, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Department of Justice claiming that Donald Trump Jr. unlawfully solicited a campaign donation from a foreign national.

The complaint is a reference to the opposition research on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that Trump Jr. was reportedly promised by a Russian lawyer, according to a weekend New York Times report.

“These laws exist to safeguard U.S. national security and Donald Trump Jr. appears to have violated the law in order to obtain information helpful to his father’s campaign for the presidency,” Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn said in a statement [....]

Somewhere the story gets

jollyroger — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:20:09 +0000

In reply to And the CIA has a Jared

Somewhere the story gets sourced as three WH aides--I'm thinkin Bannon, Steve Miller and then, who? Bannon has been opening up a torrent of leaks on Kushner, and I guess if he's willing to get into a pissing match (Donald Trump "You say that like it was a BAD thing!...) with Kushner, (and by extension Ivanka) then why not Uday (or is it Qusay--which is the dumb one?)

Sorry, you don't get to

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:54:15 +0000

In reply to there were two statements

Sorry, you don't get to choose the best version in court. Pick the applicable laws that were broken and the most dambing statements made - that's where the investigation *starts*. Don Jr heard the Russians had dirt on Hillary and got *BOTH* Donald's campaign heads to show up in the busy period 2 days after she clinched the nomination. They knew there was stolen data. They knew there are laws against foreign support in an election. Kushner and Manafort both lied about this on federal declaration forms. These are pretty well known facts. That Donald Sr likely knew, that there was probably a quid-pro-quo offered related to sanctions - these have to be proven, but not a large stretch. We're not in conspiracy theory territory - there *was* a conspiracy, and investigators and the participants themselves are simply revealing the details and trying to figure out how much further it went.

there were two statements

artappraiser — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:55:44 +0000

In reply to After winning the Republican

there were two statements according to the update by the NYT,

looks to me like

before legal consultation:

It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.

I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand.

after legal consultation:

I was asked to have a meeting by an acquaintance I knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with an individual who I was told might have information helpful to the campaign. I was not told her name prior to the meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to attend, but told them nothing of the substance. We had a meeting in June 2016. After pleasantries were exchanged, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information. She then changed subjects and began discussing the adoption of Russian children and mentioned the Magnitsky Act. It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting. I interrupted and advised her that my father was not an elected official, but rather a private citizen, and that her comments and concerns were better addressed if and when he held public office. The meeting lasted approximately 20 to 30 minutes. As it ended, my acquaintance apologized for taking up our time. That was the end of it and there was no further contact or follow-up of any kind. My father knew nothing of the meeting or these events.

I am trying to look big picture, and stop flying to conspiracizing after every revelation; I think Kevin Drum gets it. What is illegal about explanation #2? Where does it take us? Where's the gotcha? They are going to come up with something like this every time...

More and more I see the whole Russian collusion thing as leading to something like Whitewater rather than Watergate. Dragging on and on and boring most of the population. The firing of James Comey still seems to be the main trouble. Bush family had lots of suspicious contacts with the Saudis, and they got elected 3 times.

And more and more there seems to be more potential for ending his presidency in the area of emoluments, or even the dementia thing, then this. Russia collusion pre-election seems to be spinning wheels, lots of conspiracizing, not much gotcha. Meantime there's lots of court cases against him/them already. It's what he's doing since the election, not what he was doing to get elected, is what people are going to care about.

What nonsense - Foxconn is

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:54:12 +0000

In reply to just in case, he's ready,

What nonsense - Foxconn is global and the only "wooing" will be big tax breaks that kill any huge advantage. Someone who's serious is wooing a dozen companies.

just in case, he's ready,

artappraiser — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:41:22 +0000

In reply to No worries, then. We'll

just in case, he's ready, willing, able, always prepared, and jobs jobs jobs; Wisconsin State Journal:

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday that it’s clear Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, contradicting President Donald Trump’s public assertion that Russia’s role remains unclear.

Ryan, R-Janesville, spoke to reporters in Madison after accepting an award from a Wisconsin Boy Scouts group.

Ryan told reporters he has attempted to woo iPhone maker Foxconn, which reportedly is mulling building a massive plant in Wisconsin. ....