#2
I understand charging a loosing politician with corruption is pretty standard in some parts of the world. Of course, there is the other way around - just ask Don or Bibi.
h/t Instapundit
Just about everyone sitting around the panel tables on cable news outlets (except Fox, of course) and the stable of reporters from most of the major papers can all agree on one thing these days. President Donald Trump is in big trouble. He’s constantly awash in scandals, his cabinet members and White House staffers are being changed out faster than most people go through socks. He’s always only a few steps ahead of the Next Big Scandal which will surely bring him down. And that Russia, Russia, Russia investigation has to turn up something one of these days, right? So the voters who put him in office must finally be developing a serious case of buyer’s remorse.
But at least when it comes to a majority of the people who actually voted for Trump, that doesn’t seem to be the case. His approval ratings are still nothing to write home about, but he’s actually been making some slow progress in an upward direction. How is that possible, given the 24/7 marathon of pundits and news anchors setting their hair on fire and telling the nation what a horrible person the President is and how he’s going to destroy the world any day now? At the Boston Globe, Diane Hessan has been conducting interviews and surveys with a large number of both pro and anti-Trump voters and provides the details of her results. It turns out that many Trump voters aren’t particularly wild about some of his comments, tweets and reported stories of alleged infidelities, but given the alternative, they’re still satisfied with their vote.
Why aren't people concerned about the wolf after the boy cried wolf when there wasn't any for the 632rd time? I just don't get it - don' they care? Its all about the children!
#5
The MSM has shot themselves in both feet. They have been putting out propaganda for too long. Few believe them anymore and even fewer Trump supporters believe them. It is a good thing. Not so easy to hornswoggle the voters anymore.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the offices of US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Cohen has been at the center of a controversy surrounding the payment of a porn star who has alleged that she had sex with Trump and was paid money shortly before the 2016 election to keep quiet about it.
Stephen Ryan, Cohen's lawyer, confirmed to the New York Times that a raid had taken place and that certain "communications" had been seized. "I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller," said Ryan.
#1
Supposedly the investigation centers on a $150,000 payment to the Trump Foundation via a pro-Russian Ukrainian organization. This was during the presidential campaign. Mind you;
1) This was not made to the Trump Campaign.
2) The same Ukrainian organization paid $13 million to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton was the Democratic Presidential Nominee.
#4
You were stopped because your tail light is out. Please step out of the car, remove all your clothes, bend over, and spread your buttcheeks so we can search it in full view of the hostile media...
FIFY - no charge
You know that those client-lawyer privledge memo's will be leaked to the press during Meuller's daily press releases leaks.
#6
It is not uncommon to pay someone in a civil case to make the claim go away because it is a nuisance claim. It implies nothing just that it is worth it to pay the claim rather than go through an expensive litigation process in court. To pay something for a claim does mean Trump has done what is claimed. I smell a lawyer using Stormy Daniels to try do a political hit job before the mid-terms. It is possible Cohen did not do a very good job of handling the claim.
#9
As we focus on the details of this we are missing the bigger picture. Read the book "Killing Pablo" The methods used to kill Pablo are the same ones Mueller is using to take down Trump.
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#10
As we focus on the details of this we are missing the bigger picture. Read the book "Killing Pablo" The methods used to kill Pablo are the same ones Mueller is using to take down Trump.
With some US Army augmentation, the same agency(s) at work as well.
#11
When Hillary Clinton was under investigation, her personal lawyers and aides were granted immunity by the FBI, while 30k+ emails went missing AFTER being subpoenaed.
When Donald Trump is merely a "subject" (whatever that means) of an investigation and has turned over countless documents to the Special Counsel, his personal lawyer and aide is raided by the FBI.
#12
#12 When Hillary Clinton was under investigation looked at for "matters." FIFY.
Obama and Clinton placed doorstops in DOJ (Holder 1st and then Lynch) also to create logjams for anyone who might try to probe criminality in the Dem admiin.
#17
US Marshals should be sent to raid Mueller and companies offices, all of his underlings and ANY and ALL FBI agents working with them. Raid their homes and everywhere they have been. Seize everything that they have computers, documents, phone, etc. Any resistance should be met with instant lethal force. At the same time, raid the clinton foundation, Hillary's offices and the DNC. Inside all these documents will be more than enough evidence of treason to execute them all.
[RealClearPolitics] Sunday on her weekend morning program, MSNBC's Joy Reid seriously discussed a situation where President Trump refused a subpoena and would have to be arrested and put in jail until he testified before a grand jury. Reid envisioned a scenario of a White House besieged by federal marshals who would wait for Trump to give the Secret Service a stand down order so he could be taken into custody.
"Let's say that Donald Trump decides he doesn't want to give an interview with Mueller, but Mueller says 'Oh, but you will.' And he's subpoenaed to [be] interview[ed] [by] Robert Mueller. And Donald Trump simply says, 'I don't recognize that subpoena.' This is a president whose behavior is different as president of the United States. He doesn't follow convention. Who would force him to comply with the subpoena ordering him to do an interview with Robert Mueller?" Reid asked.
"It would be a federal court judge," former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said.
"How would they enforce it?" she asked.
"Normally, a person who refuses to testify before a grand jury winds up being incarcerated for the time period of the grand jury which can be up to 18 months," Akerman said. "So, one way to enforce it is to have Donald Trump taken by the federal marshals and put into federal prison until he testifies."
"What if he refuses to open the White House door?" Reid asked, seriously. "What if he fires any Secret Service agent who would allow the federal marshals in? What if Donald Trump simply decides I don't have to follow the law? 'I refuse to be held under the law. No marshal can get into this White House and any Secret Service agent who defies me is fired.'"
"Well, at some point he is going to have to come out of the White House," Akerman answered. "At some point, he is going to have to leave and the U.S. Marshals will be directed to take him into custody, bring him before a federal district court judge. He'll be basically told that either he goes in and he testifies or he takes the Fifth Amendment. If he takes the Fifth Amendment, there's not a problem. If he refuses to answer on the grounds that a truthful answer would tend to incriminate him he has the right to do that. If he does that, there's no contempt. If he doesn't do that, he can be directed to go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. End of story."
As the discussion continued Akerman talked about a bench warrant for Trump and how that would play out with law enforcement. Reid also conceived a situation where Trump wouldn't "recognize the authority" of investigators while "an entire media chorus" would be there to encourage him to be defiant, something she said Nixon did not have. I believe this whack-o has monsters under her bed. And in her meds.
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#1
I believe this whack-o has monsters under her bed. And in her meds.
Wacko is she? Lets do a thought experiment.
Suppose Stormy Daniels is killed in a car accident tomorrow (what, you think the deep state doesn't have resources or will to do something like this - ask Seth Rich). Can they find a federal judge to issue an arrest warrant against Trump?
#4
He has immunity of office till he's impeached. That is what impeachment is about.
Besides, there's the 5th Amendment. No one can be forced to testify against himself.
Of course, the courts themselves seem to have thrown out Article 5 and are on a run to amend the Constitution as they see fit. That would be people who sit for life and are unaccountable to the people.
#5
Joy read is building the case for inevitability in the minds of her viewers. They'll be let down when it never happens and believe he pulled something illegal (joy will invent that when the time comes).
#6
"Besides, there's the 5th Amendment. No one can be forced to testify against himself."
The deep state is like a cornered animal. All bets are off. They don't recognize the constitution except when it benefits them. Trump is a street fighter...time to hit the streets.
#7
Me Reid: what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone Watching MSNBC is now dumber for having listened to it, if possible. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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#8
Everyone who is paying for this "product" in any way - NBC, advertisers, cable subscribers - deserves exactly what they are getting for their $$$.
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#9
Can't Trump pardon himself for any 'crimes' of refusing to be arrested?
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