Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
Yes, that quaint idiosyncratic tendency that some of us have, preferring not to have an underinformed chief exec who's surrounded by on-the-take mediocrities.
Russia Collusion Scandal (aka A Leftist fantasy)
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Yes, that quaint idiosyncratic tendency that some of us have, preferring not to have an underinformed chief exec who's surrounded by on-the-take mediocrities.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
record low negro unemployment rate...folks need to be grateful
You laugh but we are seeing that 'negros' are waking up.
I know its killing you that Trump is the best president in the last 30+ years.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
With respect to the slush fund aptly named Essential Consultants LLC my current priors are as follows:
1) Most of the payments were not for any "advice" or "insight" or "work" by Cohen. They were simply gifts.
2) Those gifts will turn out to be legally problematic for Cohen and others, including the parties who made them.
3) Some of the proceeds were used to benefit parties other than Cohen. One of those parties will turn out to be the president.
4) Cohen will flip and share information that implicates Trump in the sense he will have been made aware that various parties that made payments to Essential Consultants did so with the expectation that Trump would be the beneficiary.
5) Evidence will be developed that will show Trump took action as president that provided benefits to some of the parties who made contributions to Essential Consultants. Keep an eye on Elliot Broidy here.
6) The legal system will eventually find multiple parties (including Trump) guilty of paying and receiving bribes.
Those are my priors. ymmv
1) Most of the payments were not for any "advice" or "insight" or "work" by Cohen. They were simply gifts.
2) Those gifts will turn out to be legally problematic for Cohen and others, including the parties who made them.
3) Some of the proceeds were used to benefit parties other than Cohen. One of those parties will turn out to be the president.
4) Cohen will flip and share information that implicates Trump in the sense he will have been made aware that various parties that made payments to Essential Consultants did so with the expectation that Trump would be the beneficiary.
5) Evidence will be developed that will show Trump took action as president that provided benefits to some of the parties who made contributions to Essential Consultants. Keep an eye on Elliot Broidy here.
6) The legal system will eventually find multiple parties (including Trump) guilty of paying and receiving bribes.
Those are my priors. ymmv
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Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
That is a story that I am certain will have some revelatory detail to come.
Runnin
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Which again begs the question, "What else is Mueller sitting on?"
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
I think the Broidy/Nader/Prince nexus will be high yield from a prosecutorial point of view.
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
"Now, Congress has been legislating tougher sanctions against Putin and Russia over the past year by sweeping, close-to-unanimous bipartisan majorities. But the Trump administration has been softening or delaying those sanctions at every turn. Last month, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control finally implemented congressional sanctions against Deripaska and Rusal, in addition to other Russians. The Treasury Department cited allegations that Deripaska ordered the murder of a businessman and had links to a Russian organized crime group. But on April 23, the Trump administration announced major delays on implementation, “slow-rolling” the sanctions seemingly to give Rusal time to minimize the damage and to appeal the sanctions. Treasury gave Rusal an extension to next October, and Reuters reported the department would “consider lifting [the sanctions] if United Company Rusal PLC’s major shareholder, Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, ceded control of the company,” which he soon did. “Given the impact on our partners and allies, we are … extending the maintenance and wind-down period while we consider RUSAL’s petition,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement."
From Slate today, pointing out that the Administration has delayed and otherwise slow-walked sanctions against Rusal, which is 26.5% owned by Vekselberg.
From Slate today, pointing out that the Administration has delayed and otherwise slow-walked sanctions against Rusal, which is 26.5% owned by Vekselberg.
Has Cohen ever been charged with a crime?
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen. Probably Jared Kushner, too. The shoe fits.
Having "Cohen didn't work in the WH" as your bunker to retreat to is not really very compelling.
Julio3000
<B>A Chip Off the Old Rock</B>
So Paul Manafort and Mike Flynn are 'mediocrities'?
If you are going to make this argument, at least make it cohesively.
Er, I don't know.
You don't know.
Only The Shadow knows.
I'm just asking what grounds you assume you have to automagically proceed as though the payments are illegitimate.
Given the preponderance of evidence.
Not the agenda, not the narrative.
I mean, you'd think over the course of three/four decades comprised of "slip-and-fall fraud, various mobbed-up cash businesses, selling condos to his in-laws' mobbed-up cronies, and flipping real estate for suspicious profits" there'd be something, right?
But, yeah, Paul Manafort. Good one. Dude's so guilty.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
getting a federal magistrate to approve search warrants on an attorney to the president of the United States suggests something...we dont know the details, but by now my presumption is things will end very badly for Cohen and Trump