dagblog - Comments for "Trump Org CFO Granted Immunity"

From Empty Wheel:

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:35:22 +0000

From Empty Wheel:

When Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller, he described Mueller’s scope to include,

any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and

any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and

any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a)

Mueller's good.

Spiro Agnew's corruption had

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:02:00 +0000

In reply to Mueller and his 17 Angry

Spiro Agnew's corruption had nothing to do with Watergate, but it was refreshing when his sorry crooked ass got taken down.

Trump & Cohen & Manafort's corruption have been blatant for decades. That "oh-me-oh-my" whining of yours that "oh not related to Russia" is bullshit, because they've had illicit ties to Russia forever, laundering illegal cash through banks in Cyprus & elsewhere, propping up their casino & real estate empires with Russian money that had to be expatriated from Mother Russia's imperiled rubles. Perhaps there's been some excess in that some of this is only tangential to Russian influencing the 2016 election.

But here's an analogy for you - 2 years ago I started noting a lot of ants going back and forth from my barn. I was a bit lazy, and rationalized it like, "there aren't that many, and how much damage could they do?" but as time went by, I finally started lifting some of the roof beams and floor boards, and peeking into what was actually happening - and sure enough, they'd eaten the insides out of the barn annex (which was more sodden), enough so that it had to be knocked down even though it looked structurally intact from outside. Tens of thousands of ants with eggs laid everywhere, guaranteed to keep growing and spreading if nothing was done.

So Mueller & SDNY and Miami Beach and others are finally starting to take down the Trump criminal empire. A shame it's taken so long, and now that it's invested the presidency with defiled powers and an openly corrupt attitude towards that role, willing to sell this position or legislation or access or other piece of the pie for some bag of cash, it really doesn't matter whether Mueller overstepped his bounds - Mueller's ripped apart enough nests of thieves there's no need to keep quibbling over how bad the rot is when the whole shithouse is coming down. Deal with it, Peter - you're barking up a hollow gutted tree.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-or...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/michael-cohen-and-the-busti...

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-russian-italian-mafia-fusion-785524

Lawyers don't do anger, it's

artappraiser — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 14:42:47 +0000

In reply to Mueller and his 17 Angry

Lawyers don't do anger, it's just that simple, you obviously don't know many..

Mueller and his 17 Angry

Peter — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 14:34:38 +0000

In reply to "It resembles a mob case in

Mueller and his 17 Angry Dwarfs do resemble a little Mob operation and they are representing the snowflake/deep state Mob in this witch hunt. They started their Mob operation with the vague charge of collusion knowing there was no real crime commited by Trump related to Russia and the election so they needed to create a crime to frame Trump with. They tried an obstruction of justice ploy but that has gone nowhere and they were reduced to using fuzzy logic to frame a personal, private and legal financial transaction as a campaign finance violation about as serious as jaywalking. This Mob would use jaywalking as a valid reason to impeach Trump if they could but it only displays their advanced TDS.

"It resembles a mob case in

artappraiser — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 07:11:29 +0000

In reply to Trump Org CFO Granted Immunity

"It resembles a mob case in so many ways," said former prosecutor @eliehonig, who played a decisive role in mafia investigations. "If you were to just strip the violence out of a mob case, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference."https://t.co/yRyFGuDZid
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 25, 2018

I love how former lawyers

Michael Wolraich — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:22:00 +0000

In reply to All of Cohen's phone,

I love how former lawyers from the Nixon administration have finagled fifteen extra minutes of fame by trashing Trump.

PS One might equally assert that Trump is a clown, and Guilliani should resign, but won't

All of Cohen's phone,

NCD — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:42:11 +0000

In reply to And a note of caution before

All of Cohen's phone, computer stuff didn't have "enough"?

The dossier made clear the Cohen-Russian Prague meeting involved the Trump people coming up with cash for the Clinton hackers....would the Trump finance guy possibly have any clue about that?

And Spiro Agnew's lawyer says Guiliani is a clown, Trump should resign, but won't.

And a note of caution before

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:09:00 +0000

In reply to Trump Org CFO Granted Immunity

And a note of caution before you do your touchdown celebration dance...

Just to pump the breaks a bit: it’s possible Pecker and Weisselberg’s cooperation was obtained in order to build case against *Cohen* in case he didn’t plea. Now that Cohen has pleaded. Unclear what SDNY does a the into it has now...
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 24, 2018

Former Trump org employee to

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:56:00 +0000

In reply to Trump Org CFO Granted Immunity

This is huge

Former Trump org employee to me:
"Alan knows where all financial bodies are buried within the Trump organization. He knows Trump's net worth. He knows any and every expenditure out of Trump Org was approved by Alan."https://t.co/bC6ZKBZxAa via @WSJ
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) July 26, 2018