I'll Be Your Girl For All Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 81)

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Previous thread titles for reference:

First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation (10/27/17)

First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation, Part Two (10/28/17)

The Four Treasons: Mueller Investigation, Part 3 (10/31/17)

A Man For All Treasons: Mueller Investigation, Part 4 (11/5/17)

It's Beginning to Look a lot like Treason! The Mueller Investigation Part 5 (12/4/17)

Treason Is The Reason For The Season! The Mueller Investigation Part 6 (12/16/17)

Treason to Believe (The Mueller Investigation Part 7) (12/26/17)

I Love You For Sentimental Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 8) (1/3/18)

Give Me One Treason To Stay Here... (The Mueller Investigation Part 9) (1/15/18)

Treasons of Love (The Mueller Investigation Part 10) (1/24/18)

For Treasons Which Are Well Known To Them (The Mueller Investigation Part 11) (1/30/18)

Come on and Treason Down, Treason Down the Road (The Mueller Investigation Part 12) (2/6/18)

13 Treasons Why (The Mueller Investigation Part 13) (2/18/18)

By Treason of Insanity (The Mueller Investigation Part 14) (2/23/18)

The Edge of Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 15) (2/28/18)

A Treason to Live; A Treason to Die (The Mueller Investigation Part 16)…(3/10/18)

Treasons of the Heart (The Mueller Investigation Part 17) (3/17/18)

A Stormy Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 18) (3/21/18)

Lovin', Touchin', Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 19) (3/26/18)

Everything Happens for a Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 20) (4/4/18)

For All the Right Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 21) (4/11/18)

Treasons Change (The Mueller Investigation Part 22) (4/16/18)

Dangerous Tre'asons (The Mueller Investigation Part 23) (4/22/18)

Don't Stop (the) Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 24) (5/1/18)

Got This Treason in My Body (The Mueller Investigation Part 25) (5/7/18)

I'm Treason on a Jet Plane... (The Mueller Investigation Part 26) (5/14/18)

Treasonnaires' Disease (The Mueller Investigation Part 27) (5/21/18)

You've Lost That Lovin' Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 28) (6/2/18)

Multiple Treasons Why (The Mueller Investigation Part 29) (6/9/18)

For Undisclosed Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 30) (6/18/18)

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 31) (06/23/18)

Treason d'être (The Mueller Investigation Part 32) (06/30/18)

My Treasons Are Not My Own (The Mueller Investigation Part 33) (07/08/18)

The Treasons a Baby Cries (The Mueller Investigation Part 34) (07/13/19)

Get to Know Your Family Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 35) (07/15/18)

All You Got To Do is Hold Him And Kiss Him and Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 36) (07/17/18)

Fall or Spring? Which Would / Wouldn't Be Your Favorite Treason? (The Mueller Investigation Part 37) (07/18/18)

It's the Time of the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 38) (07/21/18)

My Treasonal Summer Job Abroad (The Mueller Investigation Part 39) (07/25/18)

Yellow is the Color of the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 40) (07/27/18)

The Treason for my Life's Trials and Tribulations (The Mueller Investigation Part 41) (07/31/18)

Hunting Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 42) (08/04/18)

It's Swimsuit Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 43) (08/07/18)

Treasonably Priced (The Mueller Investigation Part 44) (08/12/18)

Tre45onal Affective Disorder (The Mueller Investigation Part 45) (08/16/18)

A Plea for Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 46 (08/21/18)

Untreasonably Hot (The Mueller Investigation Part 47) (08/22/18)

There is a Treason... Turn, Turn, Turn (The Mueller Investigation Part 48) (08/24/18)

The Voice of Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 49) (08/28/18)

The Golden Age of Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 50) (09/03/18)

Treasons for Remaining Anonymous (The Mueller Investigation Part 51) (09/08/18)

Hurricane Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 52) (09/16/18)

All Natural Mushroom Treasoning (The Mueller Investigation Part 53) (09/22/18)

Treasoning with an Alcoholic (The Mueller Investigation Part 54) (09/28/18)

Judicial Treasoning (The Mueller Investigation Part 55) (10/06/18)

Treasons for Hidden Genius (The Mueller Investigation Part 56) (10/15/18)

Trick or Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 57) (10/25/18)

Several Treasons to Get Out and Vote in the Midterms (The Mueller Investigation Part 58) (11/5/18)

Heading Back to the Magical Keebler Elf Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 59) (11/11/18)

It's Turkey Picking Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 60) (November 18, 2018)

Stepping into the Holiday Treason! (The Mueller Investigation Part 61) (November 26, 2018)

Treason's Greetings! (The Mueller Investigation Part 62) (November 29, 2018)

Spirit of the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 63) (December 3, 2018)

'Tis the Treason to be Jolly (The Mueller Investigation Part 64) (December 5, 2018)

Celebrate this Holiday Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 65) (December 8, 2018)

Treasons to Get out of Solitary (The Mueller Investigation Part 66) (December 10, 2018)

Numerous Treasons For Silence (The Mueller Investigation Part 67) December 12, 2018)

Treasons We Celebrate This Season (The Mueller Investigation Part 68) (December 15, 2018)

Trimming the Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 69) (December 19, 2018)

O Christmas Treason, O Christmas Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 70) (December 22, 2018)

Treasons We'll Be Ringing in the New Year (The Mueller Investigation Part 71) (December 27, 2018)

Treasons I'm Coming For You (The Mueller Investigation Part 72) (January 3, 2019)

A Shutdown is Perfectly Treasonable (The Mueller Investigation Part 73) (January 6, 2019)

Treasons I'm Focused (The Mueller Investigation Part 74) (January 10, 2019)

Treasons We Need A Wall (The Mueller Investigation Part 75) (January 13, 2019)

Mid-Treason Replacement (The Mueller Investigation Part 76) (January 15, 2019)

A Treasonable Request (The Mueller Investigation Part 77) (January 19, 2019)

Treasons to Postpone (The Mueller Investigation Part 78) (January 23, 2019)

Swinging from the Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 79) (January 26, 2019)

Sweating Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 80) (January 30, 2019)

I'll Be Your Girl For All Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 81) (February 4, 2019)

Brilliant, OP.

Terrible film, great thread title.

Excellent, OP!

A living memorial to the great Laura Hope Crews!

I wish something big would happen tomorrow just before SOU.

Republicans are jut the lowest part of pond scum that can be imagined.

Never forget that.

Finally, she get's featured, OP. Good job.

You just know she reads DL and stews. In the pretend items in her bedroom thread, there was a post with a quote that she denied being gay. If it wasn't her, it was one of her staff or other supporter.

Graham looks like she has bad anal hygiene. Never is properly cleaned out for tops.

The old days when McCain kept things under control and Lieberman kept watch in the background. Sad, those days are gone.

I think Meghan looks lovely, r13.

Oh, we won't R10!

Miss Lind. is facing the least-desirable fate for a Southern belle. She's an old maid.

I can't wait to see what Rachel has for us tonight!

r16, yes.

Another number for her lounge act.

OMG Miz Lindsey looks just like Angela Lansbury without her make up.

Thanks OP

we have gone SO low

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 #𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐎𝐟𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬! 𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫 “𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄” 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦 $𝟓.

Pres Bone Spurs seems to be flailing more than usual lately. The craziness, already at unprecedented levels, appears to be up several notches.

I heard that Trump is now using the Iraq war to prove our Intelligence failures and his justifications for calling them to the carpet. What a fuckwit! But ya know he does have a point..that G -dubs!

r24, Это было хорошо, но ты должен быть менее очевидным.

Go Patriots!

I can't read that R25...troll derangement syndrome?

I think the cameras should focus on the republican'ts during the SOTU. Let's see the faces of these cowardly idiots as they applaud and cheer their dear leader.

The OP pic of Aunt Pitty Pat is quite adorable.

What I wouldn't give for this to happen: Drumpftard is giving his SOTU and while he's making a particularly important point, ALL the Democrats stand up in UNISON and yell "YOU LIE!!!!!!" at the top of their lungs.

But they never would, so WTFever.

Wonder if John Bolton was in the room when he said it, r24? Being very, very quiet. He knows exactly how much the intelligence community was pressured to tell lies to make Bush and Cheney's war happen.

Woo hoo!

GUILTY AS SIN.

Yay! Just in time for the SOTU.

They Democrats should not yell YOU LIE during the SOTU. They should all yell LOCK HIM UP!

Oh, I’m sorry. Are bribes from foreign powers NOT supposed to laundered through the Inaguration Committee? Cuz no one told us.

"Ordered to hand over documents?"

We'll see about that.

What’s with the inaugural documents?

So Mueller is making sure the investigation goes on!

Will Ivanka be sitting with Melania tomorrow night? Does she feel the bullseye on her back? Also, didn't Melania's best friend make off with a whole wad of dough from this Inauguration that nobody came to?

The House Intel Committee meets tomorrow to authorize the release of testimony transcripts to Mueller. We could see indictments from the likes of Junior and Prince as early as this Friday, although not likely. ...but theyll be coming soon. Watch for action at the Grand Jury Thursday.

^^^sorry, they meet Wednesday ^^^

Junior Mnt, boyfriend of Pooh Bear, rages against the Washington Post Super Bowl ads, and Twitter responds.

I hope that slob is raging and throwing shit all over the WH about that subpoena.

Miss Thang is threatening other Republicans if they don't back Trump on the Wall.

What's she going to do? Have another hissy-fit on the Senate floor? Slap Susan Collins? Pull Rubio's tallywacker until he relents?

Will someone please post a State of the Union live action thread tomorrow? I can't do it, will still be at work when it starts. I don't plan on watching, but I sure would like to follow along here where his idiocy will be appropriately and justifiably mocked.

I'm just picturing some Republican firmly placing their palm on Lindsay's forehead as he tries moving forward, fists prissily flailing.

YOU CAD! YOU BEAST! YOU MASHER!

R31: Yep! Tick Tock Motherfucker

[quote] What if the kompromot on Graham is a video of him fucking a young boy to death?

Highly unlikely.

Lots of greenback and the boy with a big dick fucking our dear Miss Graham to death.

I won't be watching Trump's SOTU because I don't want to listen to his fart voice.

I just hate looking at his hair. Earlier today, I realized that when the light hits it right, it looks like butter.

....

Some WH spokesperson claimed that Trump’s “tan” is the result of good genes.

I forget where I read it, but Gates (Manafort's protégé) might have stolen funds from the inaugural fund. And then Melania channeled a ton of money to a good friend for planning inaugural events. And I think there was suspicion that the Russians were using the fund to channel money to Trump and all of the inauguration funds could not be accounted for.

I'm reading Michelle Obama's autobiography. It almost makes me cry, she and Barrack are so damned honest, decent, and brilliant. How is it that America replaced them with one of the most dishonest, repulsive men in human history? It makes me sick.

If that whore gets nailed to the wall for inaugural fund corruption I’ll be so fricking giddy.

I'm with you, R54. I was watching Obama election night videos and other Obama videos last night. The greatest president of my life followed by the worst.

r53....Read it ???......hell theyve been talking about it from day one....especially when you look at someone like Obama, who raised half as much , but look at the extravaganza his inaugurations were. Trump was lucky to get high school bands and local law enforcement equipment and z-list country bands. So where did the money go ?

Amen r56

Because Trump is a man, R54.

Trump is a huge whiney infant. No man pouts and throws tantrums.

Following the wads of money back from a former Russian military officer, now a lobbyist in Washington. He spoke rudely to Buzzfeed!

I won't waste one fucking second of my time watching this asshole spew lies and stupidity.

[quote]Also, didn't Melania's best friend make off with a whole wad of dough from this Inauguration that nobody came to?

Yez, zis is what happen! Zis is essacally dat!

I feel it in my bones, something big is going to happen.

I'm ready to tax the shit outta the rich. They use up everything and give nothing back in return of any real value. It is unsustainable. Maybe bringing this idiot down will finally pop out bubble of this infatuation with the rich.

Preach

If the rich truly want capitalism to survive (which is doubtful) they would willingly let the highest tax bracket go up to at least 70%.

Those fuckers don't pay taxes anyway.

Most of the have unearned income which is taxed differently (less) than the rest of us poor slobs working and getting w2's.

Fuck them. Tax unearned income, end pass thru entities and limit carryback/carry forward losses.

For a start.

Prosecutors are investigating crimes related to conspiracy to defraud the US, bank fraud, wire fraud, and lying to investigators, re: inaugural fund. This is reported by WaPo, who have seen the documents from the SDNY. Apparently it grew out of the Cohen raid.

I hope Stacy Abrams hits it out of the park. She knows how hazardous the rebuttal speech can be for younger party stars.

I think the big thing that's going to happen is her ascension into the top tier of Dem stars.

R69 that is some amazing shit. That is HUGE. And it has nothing to do with Mueller. LOLOL!!!!!

"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by Michael Cohen's tapes, his files, his papers, his cell phones, and the cocktail napkins crumpled in his coat pockets."

now if only fucking Northam resigns the news can go back to solely focusing on Trump and the new news about the investigationsssss

Ari was adorable today. He cutely cringed when a guest quoted a Shaggy lyric.

Rep. Ted Lieu on today's Trumpcast. Great episode.

r72 Northam is going to exhaust the news cycle and remain in office.

The SOTU will bump him to the back burner to be bumped to the floor by Friday.

I have been on a federal grand jury where we heard wire fraud cases. They do NOT fool around with that stuff and it’s pretty easy to prove.

Nancy Pelosi should do little noises with her mouth behind his shoulder to totally throw hiim his skit off and derail the event: yum, pops, smack, woooh, zing, barf, ho, tsk, haaaa and so on. That would bring his attention span from that of a gnat to thhat of a drosophila.

Ewwww, too many queefs and farts will be in that room.

Nancy should bring a big-ass purse, put it in her lap, open it and start unwrapping many, many hard candies.

Have her hum the "Jeopardy!" think music.

[quote]The OP pic of Aunt Pitty Pat is quite adorable.

It's very funny because its takes a millisecond to see its the Senatrice

Nancy should come in and take her place looking like a Boss. Wear shades and wear RED. Absolutely. She should be clothed in POWER.

AOC isn’t doing the rebuttal speech?

Literal. Violence.

She should stand right behind him like he did to Hilary in the debates and whisper stuff, like "You're the puppet," and "Fatty says what?"

What is the purpose of him doing this?

He wants attention. "I'm talking here!!!" Think of him as Ratso.

Free buffet r85.

Dotard really deserves to be booed and heckled. I do hope to here some sort of response to the outrageous lies that he continually farts out of that pie hole of his. Last summer it was estimated that fat Donnie told an average of 15 lies a day. That figure has, without a doubt, increased and the Mueller probe moves closer and closer to the him. His lies, and the lies of his sycophants, should be called out on a continual basis. Whenever anyone in the tRump crime family (including their 'soldiers' McConnell, Graham, Stone, etc.) is in a public place, they should be jeered and shamed.

The Le Sénatrice will be all giddy. She will be close to her beloved Kava'naughty.

I have to wonder if some in the gallery will misbehave and shout. I hope the younger members don't embarrass Nancy. I like AOC, and the rest, but they need to be classy tonight.

Nance should mug and roll her eyes like that high school kid in the plaid shirt did a while back.

Don't stand, don't clap, don't smile. Fox will declare Democrats were rude anyway. But don't give them camera shots of disruptive behavior.

I agree, R92.I think the Dems should sit on their hands and be expressionless. Nancy ought to be seen visibly doing the crossword.

Well, one thing we know for sure, you can count on it: He will talk about how important his wall is, and he will threaten to shut down the government in spite of the fact that I'd bet people who still talk to him might urge him not to. So I want to see how many hypocrites on the Republican side applaud and cheer when he says that.

OK, along side of the Feds investigating of the Trump Inaugural Committee, this is the biggest fucking story of the day. CNN just released this. So this is what Trump will walk in to the SOTU knowing. He's arming Al Qaeda and giving them new life. He and his filthy son-in-law and their Saudi buddies. So he will use his speech tonight as he would a political rally. He will play to his TV audience MAGAs. Attack the Lying Press, build the Wall, Shut everything down if I don't get my way, and incidently I'm declaring an emergency if things don't get settled by February 15th. That's it. That's the speech. He'll use threats of a shutdown and the declaration of Emergency as a distraction from today's headlines.

Trump names yet another environmental destructionist for Interior Secretary. He names an oil industry lobbyist, David Bernhard.

More destroying of wildlife habitats, the destroying of old growth trees, sell-off of federal lands at bargain rates, more asphalt, more ground contamination, dirtier air, filthier water, more health issues, more drilling and fracking, and richer developers, timber barons, invested CEOs, and bankers.

Koch Bros rejoicing.

Kickbacks?

^Bernhardt

Fools and their money ...

Northam is such a selfish fuck. Zero concern for the party's progress and prospects.

[quote]What is the purpose of him doing this?

To get attention by any means possible?

Laughing at those stupid pricks who could not vote for a woman getting screwed over!

Every fucking Trump voter deserves what they get. Farmers, tax payers, WTF ever. Fuck them. They voted for a racist. They got one. Tell them to drive for Uber if they're broke.

R103 or they can hold a garage sale.

I would like to see Nancy opening a tote bag and pulling out a knitted scarf with Pence's, Jr.'s, Ivanka's, and Jared's faces already knitted in it. Then pull out a pair of knitting needles and get to work on Trump's face.

R105 more like it should have Flynn, Manafort, Cohen, and Stone's faces already on it with Dotard's face 3/4 finished.

Trump knows Mueller's already got those criminals, r106. I want her to really freak Trump the fuck out!

The symbolism in R106 is better.

And he isn't freaked out about Pence, Jr. or Vanka's being investigated. He already knows they are.

Kushner's at the core of this. Criminality from his father. Disgusting.

Nancy Pelosi should be playing Candy Crush on her phone while he's spewing his bullshit.

Mansplaining R85

Here's something Trump won't be talking about in his SOTU, to the detriment of us all:

Scientists have discovered an enormous void under an Antarctic glacier, sparking concern that the ice sheet is melting faster than anyone had realized — and spotlighting the dire threat posed by rising seas to coastal cities around the world, including New York City and Miami.

The cavity under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is about six miles long and 1,000 feet deep — representing the loss of 14 billion tons of ice.

If the loss of ice becomes so severe that the glacier collapses — something computer models predict could happen in 50 to 100 years — sea levels would rise by two feet. That’s enough to inundate coastal cities across the globe.

Is anyone actually buying Chris Christie's stupid book?

Trump's GOP approval is 80%, but consider how many don't identify as a Republican anymore because of him.

On Andrea Mitchell, Chris Christie immediately dodged a question about Deutsche Bank.

Maybe he knows.

God I love her.

I see interim President Pelosi in the cards. After being denigrated by the monsters, she'll be victorious.

She's not scared of him. We shouldn't be either.

Nancy should arrive with a few bottles and shot glasses and down a shot with every lie...just like the rest of us will be doing tonight.

Damn, has anyone heard of this wack-a-doodle? Liz Crokin? Is this just simple mental illness?

One camera on her, one on him. It's only fair -- and would drive him nuts.

It's stories like R98 that make me wonder why people are complaining about Trump's 5 hours of "executive time". If he had 24 hours, he wouldn't be appointing scumbags to decimate important organizations that kill our way of life.

I think he should play golf 24 hours a day until his term is up!

^^Sorry, I meant the story at R96,

What time is the SOTU? And will one of you kind bitches be live posting during it so that the rest of us don't have to bother watching?

Uhoh. Buzzfeed published a "cache of internal Trump Organization documents" today, that back up what everyone now knows - that Trump and family were actively pursuing business deals in Rusher during the campaign, including soliciting Putin support for Trump for President.

[quote]As Trump went from rally to rally, vociferously denying any dealings in Russia, his representatives, Michael Cohen and his associate Felix Sater, worked with Trump Organization lawyers and even Ivanka Trump to push forward negotiations to build a 100-story edifice just miles from the Kremlin. The fixers believed they needed Putin’s support to pull off the lucrative deal, and they planned to use Trump’s public praise for him to help secure it. At the same time, they plotted to persuade Putin to openly declare his support for Trump’s candidacy. “If he says it we own this election,” Sater wrote to Cohen.

[quote]“All we need is Putin on board and we are golden, meeting with Putin and top deputy is tentatively set for the 14th,” Sater emailed Cohen on Oct. 12, 2015. “See buddy I can not only get Ivanka to spin in Putins Kremlin office chair on 30 minutes notice, I can also get a full meeting.” Trump tweeted out a Washington Examiner story with the headline, ‘Putin loves Donald Trump,’ on Oct. 17, 2015, just days after receiving a signed letter of intent from a Moscow developer.

I get a kick out of the tweeters at R98 insisting they voted for him once but WON'T VOTE FOR HIM IN 2020!

As if Sing Sing is anywhere near a campaign trail.

Well hunny, if he was actively soliciting Putin's help and it can be proved, then he is toast. That is totally illegal. It's one thing to have buffers like Putin's "close friends" among the oligarchs talking to Trump about running, and giving him money, and blowing smoke up his ass and quite another for Vlad to get personally involved...as he did... at Trump's request. Because those GRU agents Mueller indicted, and that troll farm and the hackers in St. Petersburg, didn't get set up by oligarchs. That was a direct result of Putin. No one tells GRU agents what to do except Putin. Good for Buzzfeed. We have no need to "wait for Mueller." Trump has already destabilized this country to Putin's benefit as President, to start impeachment proceedings. And you gotta know that a lot or people in the Intel community, and very likely the Supreme Court, know shit we don't know. I think Roberts believes Trump and anyone in his orbit, is scum.

R124, this is huge. Why isn't it being covered on MSNBC, etc.?

“See buddy I can not only get Ivanka to spin in Putins Kremlin office chair on 30 minutes notice,"

Continue boycotting.

[quote]this is huge. Why isn't it being covered on MSNBC, etc.?

Probably because MSNBC, etc. feel they got burned by jumping on BuzzFeed's report that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress. That story may indeed by accurate, but no other media org. has been able to corroborate it. That makes them gun-shy about this newest BuzzFeed exclusive.

This is the third (?) major thing in this entire saga that has been broken by... Buzzfeed.

That's sort of amazing.

R129 - the Democrats don't it to tell me what to drink or eat.

Many of us are boycotting Starbucks simply because Shultz is a fuckwit and needs to go away.

I'm not doing it because some Democrat told me to. Some of us can figure it out on our own.

Did Miz Lindz buy this beautiful dress but won't dare wear it to the SOTU address? Kind of have to feel sorry for her frustration.

R132, where the fuck did that come from? Defensive much?

From r129's post.

Did you read it, r134?

Yes, R132, but who said the Dems were telling you where to eat and drink?

Something going to burst soon, I can feel it.

What time does Bernie speak? Gotta buy my pizza. Bud Lite, weed, and cut out on my evening Social Awareness class before he starts. I need a good dose of "feel the Bern".

Hoo boy! Lots of people unhappy with their tax returns ...

[quote]Something going to burst soon, I can feel it.

Vanka's bladder on Daddy's bed.

Natasha Bertrand:

Lots of subpoenas yesterday--Maryland prosecutors also subpoenaed financial documents from Trump's golf courses in Scotland, per the Times of London, as part of their investigation into whether Trump has violated the Emoluments Clause.

[quote]Something going to burst soon, I can feel it.

Not sure why you posted that on this thread, but you might want to have it looked at by a professional.

Came here to post what R141 just did. Thanks, R141!

I can’t believe how many people here can’t stay on topic. This thread isn’t supposed to be about Nancy Pelosi and the SOTU or making fun of “Miss Lindz” or any other pointless bullshit, is it? I find myself just scrolling and scrolling through all the noise.

Don't the Scottish people around his Turnberry course think he's a complete piece of shit?

I never thought I could hate Graham so much. He is a huge traitor, just like Trump. He is amoral and has nothing good inside him.

Why would anyone join his Golf Club? These people are disgusting.

I know a super wealthy couple and what do they have? 4 homes and no fun. They are religious (although I think the husband hits on older boys) but the truth is, they never seem to have fun. Wouldn't you want to have a great life if you were wealthy?

[quote]I find myself just scrolling and scrolling through all the noise.

Welcome to the Datalounge asshole.

Fuck my life.

If Junior still has documents? No I am sure he tried to get rid of everything.

First off, all Trump phones should have been tapped years ago...these guys are traitors.

r144 It is in Aberdeen that Trump has been at his shit-flinging worst.

I am glad someone is finally checking into the inauguration committee. I think the inauguration money came from a lot of different countries and went into Trump off shore bank accounts. Cyprus and Wilbur Ross...thank you very much. Trump and Jared, grifters to the end. COULD SOMEONE PLEASE CATCH THEM, AT IT!

R146

It has been alleged that his businesses, such as the golf clubs, are basically bankrupt, operating only on the remainder of laundered money.

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There's almost no one I would rather see fall more than Ivanka. She comes as such an "untouchable" (in her own mind). I want to see her perp-walked. Evil cunt.

Sobbing, too.

Oh, R154, there are so many people attached to Trump that I want to see fall, at any given time I can't say who I want most: Donnie, jr. Ivanka, Jared, Melania. But asI think about it, Jared, most of all.

Ivanka in prison would be so wonderful. Spoiled plastic brat.

R154 Princess Ivanka will be President in 2024!

Daddy and Vladdy promised me!

Wilbur Ross, McConnell, Ryan, Graham and Jared are probably the worst criminals after Trump. They are all really bad guys and I wish someone would find a way to investigate them.

Jvanka in prison would make life worth living.

Why would anyone watch Trump tell a bunch of lies? I certainly won't.

God! Trump is a complete fool, says he is pulling troops out of Syria but fails to tell the man who is in charge. What a fucking asshole?

I was thinking about these Treason threads and I laugh. Do you realize how many peoplw in the US are clueless about any of this ? Yes, there are A LOT that are trying to stay informed, but as to the larger story and the list of characters, they too are ill informed. We are on part 81 of this thread and it has been going on for well over a year...and for months before that there were multiple Russia threads. The indictment for Flynn started this thread. It is a day to day accounting of various news reporting and a collective discussion of the people, places and events...It really is a historical document. A living historical document. Who in a million years would have thought that ?

r161....thats EXACTLY why you NEED to watch. In among his lies, he admits things and tips his hat to what he has up his sleeve and possible policy. You also need to see him lie when you know the truth so you can counter someone who believes him or the lie. Always keep abreast of your enemy.

Yawn.

[quote]This thread isn’t supposed to be about Nancy Pelosi and the SOTU or making fun of “Miss Lindz” or any other pointless bullshit, is it?

Says who?

These threads have always encompassed everything going on politically. I also enjoy the banter in between and I'm sure many others do as well.

Calm down, Hilaria Hall Monitor at R143.

I kind of hope that Northam will resign in the middle of the State of the Union just to suck all the focus.

Northam will be pushed to the back burner, to be pushed to the floor by Friday.

He will have successfully rode out the news cycle.

I don't understand what Maryland prosecutors would have to do with what happens in Scotland? Loans?

r170, money laundering through his golf course.

I've been reading Fear, by Bob Woodward. My big problem with the book is that he seems to make Trump appear knowledgeable about certain issues like trade, etc. Now, he says Trump is uninformed and ridiculous in his demands, and he is, and his staff at that time like Porter and a few others try to stop him from doing terrible things or explain why he can't do what he wants, but at the same time, I asked myself, how would Trump even know to ask? And it's pretty clear he is talking to other people not on the page. People his staff seems to not be aware of. So IMO Putin has been coaching him, and making demands and suggesting things through a variety of methods, including his oligarch buddies and others.

R170, the Trump Org is a US-based company and is bound by US law. I’m sure Trump has relished having foreign businesses like a pig in shit, but he can’t hide forever.

I mean to add the Syria pull out is a perfect example.

[quote]I can’t believe how many people here can’t stay on topic. This thread isn’t supposed to be about Nancy Pelosi and the SOTU or making fun of “Miss Lindz” or any other pointless bullshit, is it? I find myself just scrolling and scrolling through all the noise.

Shut up. I love my DL fans.

Here is an aggregate news source on just fat Donnie.

Rather see Pooh Bear's Rolodex of dic pics she showed her former Fox News colleagues. Bet Shepp was not impressed.

But Tucker is a different matter.

ECCHHH! MSNBC has the newly fired Jack Kingston on Ari's show tonight. God, please don't tell me he's a new MSNBC regular.

I should have added he was fired from CNN very recently. He's a Trump supporter/deplorable and I really hope Ari won't start having these type of people on on a regular basis. Leave them on FOX.

I don't watch Ari anymore. He seems inauthentic to me. Fake.

R172 that would explain his comments about Montenegro, Afghanistan/Russia, the UN etc..he gets talking points from Putin or people within his sphere.

[quote]the inauguration money came from a lot of different countries and went into Trump off shore bank accounts. Cyprus and Wilbur Ross

Wilbur Ross is an off shore country?

Kingston, ugh. Joy has him on occasionally and always winds up blasting him out of the water. Besides him being a wingnut toadie supreme, he IS an actual Russian lobbyist. He should be banned from punditry and from public life in general

Ross ran The Bank of Cyprus

Junior Mint is elated that MAGA activist, David Malpass, has been nominated to head the World Bank..

When will the DoJ agents come for Junior?

r185, not soon enough.

830 PM EST tonight would be fine by me, R185.

Y’all, I can’t decide how I feel about tonight. Don’t you feel numb? I think I’m in overload again. Remember his first speech with Congress, how the Dems mostly refused to applaud?

Someone please live post for the rest of us.

r177, that made me throw up in my mouth.....

I can't help it. I'm going to hate-watch it. I promised myself I wouldn't, but I will.

R191 please post while you watch and help the rest of us out so we don't have to.

I bought Christie's book. Haven't finished it yet. It's like a combination highlight reel/Oscar acceptance speech.

He's kind to Trump, although Trump's ignorance shines through. The Jared stuff is funny. He's short but brutal to Kasich. He doesn't burn any bridges with anyone who still has power.

How can anyone sit through the lies of Christie and his book? As if ANY of it is true except the Jared stuff and even then, fuck him.

I will not sit through any repug lies anymore. I mute or turn the channel. I won't waste my time watching this fuck lie over and over tonight. You just know he says ONE thing decent and the punditry will fall over themselves proclaiming he's become "Presidential" again despite the last 2 + years of hellish lies and corruption. No thank you!

I will not watch this POS so you bitches please keep us posted if:

A. DJT Strokes out B. DJT Totally loses his shit and goes off script (I hope this happens) C. Nancy brings the facial expressions or starts filing her nails. D. All the Dems turn their backs on him and boo

I hate the sound of his voice and I don't want to give him ratings.

I haven't noticed any Christie lies in the book. It was vetted by some law firm that he thanks in the introduction. The book lacks depth, but for anyone who has been living under a rock, it's a good introduction to Christie.

The beloved Pet Shop Boys have released their latest single that was inspired by our Dear Leader!

r196 Lies of omission are just as bad. And his perceptions or opinions (esp to paint Pres Bone Spurs in a flattering light) are suspect. Fuck him and anything that viper has to say.

Anyone saying Lindsey Graham has nothing to do with the Trump-'Russher' saga and the matter of the Mueller investigation, needs to have such a claim confronted. Graham, a complete cheerleader for Trump, is Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and has been no friend of the investigation for months.

Who will sit with Melania?

Hubby Mike looks dashing. Just like a new President.

r200...probably the kid who gets bullied because his last name is Trump....BE BEST.

It would be funny if they cut to him and he's doing nothing but staring at her chest.

so, Eric, r202?

How obscene to choose a person to represent being bullied BECAUSE THEY HAVE YOUR LAST NAME not for any other fucking reason!

Sick sick sick narcissistic sociopath!

But Pence was on the corrupt inaugural committee, wasn't he? Bye!!!!

How long is the SOTU?

Too long R207...

R199 I hope Lindsey enjoys his time as chairman, because in November 202, we are taking the Senate too, and he will be reduced to ranking member. Although I imagine his member is pretty rank right now.

[quote]Remember his first speech with Congress, how the Dems mostly refused to applaud?

I remember Van Jones having orgasms over him, live for all the world to hear.

R206 Not to mention looks like your generic kid bully in movies/tv shows.

Is it over yet?

Pence was head of the Transition. Not the Inaugural. That was closely held by family and friends....

Be quiet. You're in Dubrovnik, I can't hear you.

Isn’t it “I don’t hear you”?

Christie said last night on Chris Hayes that he will vote for Cheeto in 2020.

Nough said.

OK it's over. The state of the union is still shite.

What happened with all the speculation that Lindsey is a pedophile or some other kind of virulent pervert?

Guess the skeptics were right - this is just idle talk from Dumbocratic conspiracy mongers, like everything relating to this tiresome Russia thing.

Lindsay will be glad to know he has a fan on DL

R219 to Russher, mean Miz Lindz, with ❣️

Klobuchar announcing her run for the presidency this Sunday. MSNBC. She was on and hinted strongly at it.

Nicolle Wallace is ON FIRE on msnbc right now.

Fuck off, R219.

What do you mean, what happened to it, R219? They’re still very much there.

You’re a troll.

r219 Just got its taxes back. They were higher than promised so it's lashing out.

Fainting couch for two, R219's apartment please.

I didn't watch the State of the Union last night. This morning, from the coverage I'm seeing, it seems like it was no big deal.

R228 the reports this morning were that he got a 58% approval rating for his speech....but the audience who watched it skewed Republican, and Trump supporters were higher than anything they've seen for a SOTU. So a lot of people didn't watch it.

I didn't watch it either r228, but I want to ask a question from those who did, how many Democrats applauded Hair Furor when he entered the room? And how many Democratic whores asked for his autograph or a picture with him?

R230, none. I watched the entrances very closely and there was a lot of hostility in that room. Coldness. Watching who was interacting with whom was interesting. Republicans were not talking to Democrats at any level, and applause for Trump's entrance was muted, and very "polite." Nancy respects the office not the man. AS he came in and greeted the four SUpremes, even Kavanaugh seemed like he smelled something bad in his limp greeting of the President. IMO the most partisan piece of shit was Gorsuch.

Jerry Falwell Jr. was apparently indulging in some nose candy with the pool boy while watching the speech:

Best State of the Union speech in my lifetime delivered by the best @POTUS since George Washington and it’s not even over yet! God bless @realDonaldTrump !

Had NO idea that Jerry Falwell Jr. saw George Washington give a speech; damn, God really does work in mysterious ways.

Tulsi Gabbard currently on "Morning Ho", she says Syria and Assad are NOT our enemy; she should know, she went and met with the bastard.

Yeah, I'd feel so much better with her as president. (sarcasm alert)

Trump fans are like Michael Jackson fans with lower standards.

I love you R215! Glad I am not the only one waiting for that photo to be as significant as I think it would be.

Quote is: "Be quiet, you're in Dubrovnik, I can't hear you"

[quote] from the coverage I'm seeing, it seems like it was [bold] no big deal.[/bold]

"That's Donalt . . . "

Every woman he's ever been with.

Yes, WW for r215.

Well Claire, it is better to acknowledge late than never.

The House Intelligence Committee announced Wednesday morning that Michael Cohen’s testimony has been postponed until February 28th “in the interest of the investigation.”

Donald's back on the rally trail. He's got one scheduled for El Paso on Monday.

Isn't President Fatass supposed to be canoodling with Rocket Boy on the 28th?

The Lindsey Graham defender(s), troll(s) or not, increasingly posting on DL, fail to note that Graham craves the cameras and sometimes multiple bookings a day on TV, most frequently on Fox News. It doesn't stop there; anchors on CNN and MSNBC reference him daily, moreso than any other Senator. Graham chose to flip and be a sychophant, surrogate, and enabler for DJT, much of it directly related to the investigation. His PAC chose to accept foreign oligarch money, and he accepted NRA money, also tainted with foreign oligarch money. Expecting him not to receive negative responses, is rather absurd.

As to the amusing 'Miss L' characterizations, that has been around for decades, notable in South Carolina before he became a US Senator. He was a Congressman before that, including a House leader to vote to impeach Bill Clinton

Graham's anti-gay voting record, and some past, disturbing anti-gay rights rhetoric, certainly got the attention of DL, publications, and other social media that were not even gay-related. What is seen as hypocrisy, measuredly authentic or not, will get reactions from those who have been victims of his, and others, discrimination.

If Graham doesn't want certain responses of people not pleased with him, perhaps he needs to stop running to Sean Hannity to be featured.

Can someone explain r215? I'm not getting it.

Its Ivanka meeting Wendi Dang in Europe....right after having a baby and in the middle of the campaign.....WD was dating Putin at the time.

Thanks, r245!

Moron wanted the spotlight. Now he has it.

R244, it was also weird that she and Jared went for the weekend only, halfway across the world, when she was breastfeeding, without the baby, presumably in a private plane. They tried to pass it off as a fun weekend vacation, when it was obvious it wasn’t.

At the time, Wendy Deng was rumored to be dating Putin. It seems unlikely that she was, it only lasted a short time. People have speculated that Deng was acting as a bagnan for Putin, giving money to Ivanka, who could get it past customs by using a private plane. That means Ivanka carried illegal funds over international lines for Trump. At the time there was a rumor that Trump needed money for the campaign, I think people were going unpaid. Although Trump never pays anyone anyway.

Ivanka made a big deal about what great friends she was with Deng at the time on Twitter. This just brought the whole thing to people’s attention. I don’t know if it was stupidity or she was sending a signal to somebody, maybe Trump, that she got the money.

R248 I can't remember all of the details but at the time wasn't there speculation that because of where they were, it could have given Kushner the opportunity to sneak off and be somewhere he shouldn't?

r249.....yes

Has Ivanka ever appeared before any of the House committees before? Can they ask about this trip to see Wendi Deng?

I'm away from the TV right now, is Donald still doing the "maybe a shutdown, maybe not?" thing again.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced Wednesday a broad investigation his committee would undertake "beyond Russia" into whether President Donald Trump's financial interests are driving his actions.

Schiff said the investigation would "allow us to investigate any credible allegation that financial interests or other interests are driving decision-making of the President or anyone in the administration."

"That pertains to any credible allegations of leverage by the Russians or the Saudis or anyone else," Schiff told reporters after the House Intelligence Committee's first meeting in the new Congress.

There’s no doubt there was funny stuff going on between Wendy Deng and the Kushners, but my understanding is that private planes go thru customs too. I’ve taken a few, and we went thru customs.

I can't wait until Miss Lindsane gets outed.

Shiff also announced that one of the things they are looking at is obstruction.....by members of Congress !

Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but doesn’t it seem like a good thing that Mueller has put a hold on Cohen’s testimony before Congress? That he has some really incriminating stuff on the shit gibbon that he doesn’t want Cohen messing with at this critical time?

Link for r257.....see #5

I think Devin Nunes will see prison time when this is all over.

r258....this might have something to do with it......

Kyle Griffin is so cute

r250 as well as Trey Gowdy.

whoops ^^^ r260.

R255, I wondered about that, but maybe they were able to bribe their way through. If they were carrying money from Putin, he probably had somebody on the payroll that could help them. I always got the impression they were in that exact place because it couldn’t be done in another location.

I wouldn’t put it past Putin to have Customs officials on the payroll. You know he’s doing all kinds of shady things for himself too. He probably smuggles money out for himself and puts it in a Swiss bank or somewhere.

My guess is Ivanka would be carrying a very large sum. Maybe she got it out in a diplomatic pouch, no one can open that.

R265 she wasn’t a diplomat at the time—Dump was still a candidate. My feeling is they may have made a pit stop somewhere not in the US and deposited the money there.

[quote]Quote is: "Be quiet, you're in Dubrovnik, I can't hear you"

The quote is, “I don’t hear you,” not “I can’t hear you.” I know that movie like the back of my hand. No W&W unless you get the quote right.

On the House investigations front, Schiff also announced an investigation that could (will) ensnare Congressional Republicans—Nunes being at the top of the list, if there’s any justice in the world.

And just for a laugh, Congressional Republicans also requested a new investigation into the Clintons and their ties to Russia. Seriously, they really did. House Democrats said no.

Sorry, just now realizing the obstruction investigation announced by Schiff was covered at R257/259.

See? This is what I'm talking about!!!!! When we're on our game, we can do anything. This whole Wendi Deng/Ivanka thing is gold. This is like our Butch Sous Chef investigation. We're THAT GOOD.

I think the simplest explanation is usually the right one, so the notion of Wendi being Putin's bagman seems like a very plausible scenario. The possibility of them stopping off somewhere to deposit the money before returning home makes sense too, although bribing customs is also plausible.

Think about it. Trump had his Russian Oligarch buddies following him to weird campaign stops. Very probably delivering money. And even before that the whole billionaires-on-private-planes paying off customs people may have been going on for a long time, pre -dating any campaign.

In fact, if I were the SDNY FBI I'd certainly look into it. IMO it would be money laundering 101 to do that. And Ivanka and Trump, INC had product coming in from all over the world, China, etc. Trump's a cheap bastard when it comes to paying bills.

Anyone know how it works to pay duty on products like 20,000 cheap purses and 600 tons of rags she calls designer coats? This entire family has been crooked for years. Trump is one of those guys who thinks he is special and he is allowed to "cut a few corners. "

OTOH, it's possible Trump was using Deng and Ivanka as couriers related to the Trump Moscow deal too. So I'm thinking two solid leads here.Either money for his campaign, or Trump Moscow. Absent any new developments let's keep a focus on this. We may break another case. Mueller will love us!

I think the delay in Cohen's testifying is good. It means something is going down. Big time. They don't want Congress fucking up something and it may break very soon. Jared, Donnie, Jr., Steve Bannon and Brad Parscale are all on my list of hopefuls.

Tarot reading on Junior:

“Alchemy: It’s coming together!”

That was great, R270.

One of that whore Maria Butina's johns was indicted today.

Damn, R272. How’d we miss that? Hopefully Rachel covers it.

Rachel won't just cover it, she'll read the damn transcript word for word.

Lol R274, love Rachel but her fondness of dramatic table readings can get a bit out of hand.

Whatever Putin/Roger Stone has on Lindsay Graham, it's gotta be fucking SPECTACULAR.

I want a front row seat at Lindsane Graham's treason hearing. She will probably be reduced to tears and sputtering like his bestie Kavanaugh. Especially when the incriminating photos are entered as evidence.

The fact that they busted Butina's guy for money laundering is significant. It should be making the Trump family very queasy.

Don’t be silly. What could Trump possibly have to do with money laundering?

When Nunes was leaving the committee meeting earlier today a reporter asked him if he voted to release the transcripts. His answer was pretty much, 'Ya know, you guys suck!" Haha. Dumb lil' fucker.

I hope Nunes gets his after all of his testerical performances.

A couple of months ago the FBI busted a rich Russian in Raleigh, NC for money laundering and murder-for-hire, and it turns out he's connected to Putin's "chef", Yevgeny Prigozhin. He might be a bigger fish than Butina.

Why doesn't the CIA or someone take Putin out? He's not good for his own country or the world. Aren't any of the Russians angry enough to go after him in a suicide mission or something? Do you think the Russians would take a trade. They give us Putin, we give them Trump?

When Nunes gets out of those Intel Committee meetings, DJT knows within minutes everything that occurred.

Exactly, R284.

O M G. I was NOT expecting that picture @OP and just burst out laughing as I was scrolling through threads.

Oh dear lord, some of you bitches are too much.

I love this thread title.

[quote]They (Republicans) sought to immediately make public the committee's interview transcripts conducted in an unclassified setting, which includes most of the panel's Russia interviews. Nunes in a statement slammed an "unacceptable delay" in the executive branch's declassification process.

Oh, how the worm turns...

[quote]The quote is, “I don’t hear you,” not “I can’t hear you.” I know that movie like the back of my hand.

It is not.

You do not.

A Sénatrice is not too pleased with this thread and DL.

[quote]A Sénatrice is not too pleased with this thread and DL.

Not quite as displeased when that video of her getting spit-roasted by two 300-pound black linebackers comes out.

Lindsey actually, is rather good at shooting pool. His late parents owned a bar/pool room/liquor store and they lived in the same building. As a child, Lindsey would "dress up", usually as a cowboy, and greet and entertain the patrons.

[quote]Lindsey actually, is rather good at shooting pool.

Honey, we ALL know he knows his way around a big stick and some balls.

[quote]The Lindsey Graham defender(s), troll(s) or not, increasingly posting on DL

This is a phenomenon I have never seen.

[quote]As to the amusing 'Miss L' characterizations, that has been around for decades,

On this very forum!

From the link in the tweet at r272, about Butina's boyfriend

[quote]Erickson also allegedly defrauded investors through a company called Investing with Dignity that claimed to be “in the business of developing a wheelchair that allowed people to go to the bathroom without being lifted out of the wheelchair.”

Isn't that the same business the sweaty attorney general is in? And for which he is being investigated for fraud?

[quote]A couple of months ago the FBI busted a rich Russian in Raleigh, NC for money laundering and murder-for-hire, and it turns out he's connected to Putin's "chef", Yevgeny Prigozhin. He might be a bigger fish than Butina.

Is that the one where the teenage immigrant from Russia was fucking the man's wife while staying at their house?

[quote]The quote is, “I don’t hear you,” not “I can’t hear you.” I know that movie like the back of my hand.

[quote]It is not. You do not.

Um, excuse me? It IS, and I DO.

Watch the clip. The line is in the first few seconds of it. Tell me what you hear, cunt.

[quote]Isn't that the same business the sweaty attorney general is in? And for which he is being investigated for fraud?

No, Whitaker was involved with World Patent Marketing, makers of the "masculine toilet" for well-endowed men.

Jim Carrey's new artwork on Lindsey Graham.

Yes, r296.

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I've said from the very beginning that the Dubrovnik meeting was a major smoking gun. It didn't make any sense at the time. Trump had just won the nomination and the campaign was in full swing. That's not when two of your major advisors decided to go on vacation - especially since Ivanka had just given birth a week or so earlier. I think we'll find that there was money being delivered to Trump. I think we'll also find that Cohen was also in Prague - even though he has said that he was not there. Ivanka and Jared also had a couple of "vacations" to Aspen that seemed suspect at the time. Aspen has lots of private jets and the airport is small so would be easy to bribe any airport official.

R302, I believe the baby was a month old, not a week, which *totally* changes the context of the whole story. There is most certainly nothing strange about it at all.

I see they are (Russians) going after Klobachur.

Btw- I met Pelosi when I was an intern. I have her book signed to me. Also met her daughter Alexandra.

So, Nancy Pelosi showed up tonight at a gay basement bar called Dito’s (underneath the Italian restaurant Floriana’s) tonight and was making the rounds with selfies with all the gays there. This is on 17th Street in the heart of Dupont Circle in D.C.

Pelosi visited Dito’s infamous Christmas tree right after the infamous Oval Office meeting when she played him like a strativarius

R304, Russians going after Klobuchar? You mean the Huffington Post article? Is Huffington Post a Russian outlet now? Or did the Russians originate the story online? Link?

R305, that's awesome. Love her.

Here’s an interesting thing I saw on Twitter today.

Remember Michael McFaul, Obama’s ambassador to Russia that Dump was threatening to turn over to Putin for “questioning”? It seems that a picture has surface of McFaul testifiying to a Congressional committee in 2016 (8 days after the Trump Tower meeting)and guess who is sitting behind him with her iPhone pointed straight at the Ambassador’s open laptop? Why none other than our favorite Russia adoption lawyer Veselnitskaya. Some Dump campaign flunky from Florida got her a front-row seat at a Congressional hearing rigt where she could photograph everything with her phone’s camera, Jesus H. Christ it gets worse every day.

This story seems to have surfaced before, but I don’t recall it. Information overload.

As a followup (I can’t get the link to paste) check out the twitter of @DrDenaGrayson who is posting about this McFaul hearing photo.

Yes, that photo is old news.

I just have to laugh about Donald putting Ivanka in charge of some sort of campaign to benefit women in third-world countries. Donald, buddy -- she's not as precious or endearing as you'd think. This is the sort of last-minute publicity stunt you do before shit hits the fan.

[quote]Pelosi visited Dito’s infamous Christmas tree right after the infamous Oval Office meeting when she played him like a strativarius

Well, the tree WAS in honor of her.

[quote]I just have to laugh about Donald putting Ivanka in charge of some sort of campaign to benefit women in third-world countries.

WHET her national childcare initiative based on babysitting services at overhyped hotels?

Trump movie fantasy casting.

Ozzy Osbourne as Sarah Sanders? How insulting to Ozzy Osbourne.

O. J. gives Roger Stone advice.

Maxine Waters, Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, seeks to have a chat with Steven Mnuchin regarding the lifting of sanctions on Russian companies connected to oligarch Deripaska.

Seeking DJT's tax returns. How will Mnuchin respond?

Is Madamè Mnuchin telling them again to "let them eat cake", metaphorically, of course?

It's disturbing the guy that had a big hand in the 2008 financial collapse has continued to profit by the billions.

These people continue to economically rape the middle class with zero accountability.

Trophy.wives? Good grief.

What's wrong with being a trophy wife? I am one.

I sure would love me an "Unlimited Presidential Harassment" t-shirt.

Just a trophy mistress.

Junior Mint, where was your flag pin?

Such a punchable face.

Just saw the following on FB in a response to an article about Trump having a rally in Texas. Don't know if true or if they're trolling. Anybody else see or hear anything like this?

[quote]while it's just conjecture, there are rumors circulating that donald trump jr's arrest is imminent and may happen as soon as tomorrow or saturday. if so, i'd think the rally might be postponed.

R326, who said that on FB?

Hunny if they indict Jr Mint, Trump will schedule ten rallies back to back. He don't care.

I have to think that indicting Junior Mint will be one of the last things Mueller will do just because we know that it will set Trump into "burn it all down" mode rather quickly. Wouldn't Jerome Corsi me more on the horizon? I'd like to see that pasty fat fuck hauled off into court. He was so smug and gross on Ari Melber pushing that lame story about how he suddenly had an epiphany -while on a plane with his wife over the Atlantic flying to Italy (too many detail, Jerome dear) that Podesta's emails would be dumped.

The level of bullshit these people think they're able to sell is just astonishing. Corsi, in particular, seems to think very highly of himself.

[quote]Just saw the following on FB in a response to an article about Trump having a rally in Texas.

R326, you need to cite your sources, even if it's a FB post from a random person. Remember that's how the Ruskie trolls operate, they used to just leave comments like that without linking to posts so that people could investigate if say comments were done by real people or just trolls.

I sure wish I had a dollar for every time someone has said "Junior will be indicted this Friday or Saturday".

I bet I could purchase a super-sized happy meal. Or two.

[quote]I sure wish I had a dollar for every time someone has said "Junior will be indicted this Friday or Saturday".

So... you'd have $1?

Because nobody really ever says he's going to be indicted on a certain day. All anyone has ever done is state that's what they hope for.

Now Trump is crying, "The republicans never did this to Obama!" Wasn't it HE who had an investigation going in Hawaii that was finding "big" things re: Obama's birth certificate? Didn't that non productive investigation last over two years?

It's one thing to lie, it's another thing to be a bad liar. (Has Donald said anything about his SOTU ratings, or can he not even enjoy that?)

Trump's outrageous lies on the regular, daily multiple times a day, spring from the well of contempt he holds for both the Media, and for government/politicians/ and the Law. He has successfully worked that triumvirate of venaliity with ease for decades. He doesn't give a fuck. He has no esteem for the suckers who support him either. He doesn't care about them.

Whittaker won't testify if subpoenaed. He's scared.

Mueller has been quite careful in not having leaks as to when action is taken. The media keeps tabs on characters under investigation, including keeping watch near their residences, such as CNN having a cameraman nearby when Stone was arrested. Other clues come from court filings that are part of the public record, except when certain documents are sealed. Also, grand jury deliberations are not disclosed when in process. Still, a leak or two may be allowed by investigators, at certain timing, for varying motives.

Mueller may indict Junior, Jared, etc., close to the end of the investigation, or in way.to pre-empt pardons issued by DJT.

It's going to be nasty, dramatic, and groundbreaking.

Whitaker doesn't really have a choice, does he?

I love how much Rachel Maddow was making fun of him and his "flopsweat" the other day. It was hysterical.

Whitaker was there to report to Trump what evidence Mueller has, and where the investigation is heading.

Barr will be more professional, but may still act to minimize damage for Trump and other major Republicans who could be cited.

A Swamp Divided: How Trump's Arrival Turned D.C. Nightlife Upside Down:

Love this. Pelosi's daughter explains why she clapped like that. You can see it in her mother's eyes.

Flop sweat doesn't have much of a choice. He ignores a subpoena, he gets slapped with contempt.

These fuckers have grifted and skated for so long they think they are untouchable.

They are about to smash up against a hard brick wall of reality.

President Obama never did anything that needed to be investigated, Obama is a great man and there is nothing more to it.

If Whittaker isn't subpoenaed and shows up, he'll refuse to answer a ton of questions.

If he's subpoenaed, he won't show up.

Disgusting. I hope he's investigated after leaving office.

"Because of his career on television and in business, I think the President thinks that you make things true by saying them often enough." Tom Nichols, professor, U.S. Naval War College

[quote]Now Trump is crying, "The republicans never did this to Obama!"

Indeed, birth certificate, plus of course 'her emails.' Karma has a lot to live up up to, but it's looking quite promising.

[quote]Trump's outrageous lies on the regular, daily multiple times a day, spring from the well of contempt he holds for both the Media, and for government/politicians/ and the Law.

He has contempt for literally everyone except (some of) his family, Vladimir Putin, and the billionaires who call the shots. Tiger Woods sometimes for photo op fun.

One day a clever dramatist will create (or draw from) a situation in which Trump has to choose between Ivanka and Putin. It should be obvious, but of course isn't. Because look at with whom we are dealing.

Why is Tiger Woods playing golf with him? Oh yeah... sex stuff.

The inevitable Trump and Ivanka confrontation. Pitted against each other, no way to turn back. A collision course akin to the best courtroom dramas.

Do you think that Trump has ever actually fucked Ivanka?

YES.

Send the whole clan away. But let's never be in a situation that we will be discussing "Mother's" inaugural gown.

Incest is BEST!

[quote]Obama is a great man and there is nothing more to it.

We know FOR A FACT that Obama and Hillary PERSONALLY molested every fourth child that was brought through the basement of that pizzeria! I read it online!!!

Whitaker will be cool enough. Nunésie will be licking the sweat off his balls.

My apologies R327 and R330. Here's the whole thing. Some random dude as far as I can tell.

[quote]Bill Bamberger: while it's just conjecture, there are rumors circulating that donald trump jr's arrest is imminent and may happen as soon as tomorrow or saturday. if so, i'd think the rally might be postponed.

Comment on post on Mother Jones' Facebook page. I don't know how to link to a Facebook Post, but it's the post with story titled: "El Paso has had it with Donald Trump: "What he's saying and doing is extremely insulting". Marked as 4 hours ago from this post.

Do the Pences even realize how much of a laughingstock they are? I know that Trump and his disgusting crotch-fruit don't seem to care (at least Trump doesn't), but I don't think the Pences have the same psychological makeup.

They do realize that they'll have to live on this Earth after this is all over, right? It's so funny watching them try to tiptoe around the horrors of the administration, like at any minute they'll need to try and distance themselves from the whole grotesquerie of it (which is impossible, of course).

I keep imagining all the people left in the White House (Trump, Pence, Ivanka, Jared, etc.) in a game of musical chairs where they're slowly walking in a circle around the last remaining seats while the music plays (I am imagining the theme song from "Benny Hill"), their asses hovering around each of them, trying to leave room to snatch one up when the music (AKA Mueller) stops.

How playful, Lindsey. Won't be watching you on Fox tonight, though.

"Handful" means lack of control, uncooperative, difficult, and not presenting the truth.

Well, a "handful" for Trump is about the size of a teaspoon so maybe he'll think this means he's not a lot to deal with.

CNN crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz confirms he's got his eyes on someone tomorrow:

[quote]"Handful" means lack of control, uncooperative, difficult, and not presenting the truth.

In other words, rather like a 5-year-old.

ABC:

Nancy Pelosi says a kitchen worker recently told her, "'When the president says that the Mueller investigation is going on too long, you just say back to him, Not as long as your tax audit, Mr. President.' I thought those were words of wisdom."

Nick Ayers will be leaving as Pence's Chief of Staff.

So who can Pence hire that is devoutly religious, has government administrative experience, thrills his base supporters, makes a statement by hiring a woman, and 'Mother' would trust him meeting alone with her completely?

It's more like, who will now be bottoming on command for Pence now that Nick Ayers is leaving?

Pence wasn't the bottom?

[quote]It's more like, who will now be bottoming on command for Pence now that Nick Ayers is leaving?

Mike Pence? A TOP?

Pence a top? ROTFLMAO

I have bad 'dar for that. I always kind of assumed that Pence was versatile, leaning top.

Sorry!

I had interactions with two deplorables this week. Unusual as I live in a very blue county in a blue state. I don't run across them too often although their unschooled letters show up regularly in the Letters to the Editor of our local paper.

The first was a couple. I work in a store and the woman part of the couple does, too, but she came in to pay her rent (it's a collective, we all take turns working). First, the male starts joking about Fake News and the word "trump" starts dribbling from his lips. Unable to stop myself, my face became a mask of revulsion.

Then the woman chimes in, "I love Trump, he's done wonderful things for our country." "No he hasn't," I said.

"I'm a Christian and against abortion. He's a good Christian, too." "No, he isn't," I said.

"He's changed, people can change. I was once the Whore of Babylon, I changed," she said.

At that I was silent because, first, she's married (I think separated) and was there with her lover who was actually writing the check for her rent, as he always does. Thus, still a whore. Then another woman who works there came over, giving me the opportunity to escape. The encounter upset me.

Stupid trump is backed by idiots, clear and simple. Our country is in the power of the mean and stupid. Makes me sick.

Oops, "The first" in the second paragraph above makes no sense. I actually had two encounters but chose to omit the second as the post was getting too long. R368

I have dropped friends and family members because of their support for Trump. A couple people are almost begging to be let back in and I'm just not interested. Some of them are actually regretting their votes.

Where can I get a Presidential Harassment t shirt?

I'd like that one that says "Harassed by a Fake President."

Gates spilled the tea to Mueller about manafort, court docs breaking now that connect the dots between oligarchs/ manafort clients/ Polling data shared. Tee hee.

Fresh Air today

R367 No one is being critical of your post. It was funny and triggered humorous replies.

Where Junior should go, he can't wear a flag pin. But an institutional jumpsuit with identification numbers on it will quite suffice.

Yale psychiatrist describes the effect of Trump's mental state on the rest of us.

[quote]"His condition has grown worse since last year, when there was great concern about his mental health. So on top of his personal mental health deteriorating, we have the added complication of the population habituating to what Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, who wrote the foreword to our book, called a “malignant normality.” In other words, instead of the afflicted person getting better, the family members (the nation) have grown worse and have come to accept the abnormal as normal..."

Let me know when he starts thinking he's Napoleon!

R368 Trying to argue with Trump devotees is useless, but it does show them there are those that disagree. I am in a red state, and don't bother discussing politics with any of them anymore. I notice some have begun to show doubts, but then they listen to more Fox News, that exploits their ignorance, biases, and feeds them lies and propaganda, and they remain devoted.

R377 Yes, and the repugs and even moderates have accepted things with Pres Bone Spurs they would never have accepted before. And the repugs have been going down a dark path for over 20 years.

Too many are accepting horrific things as ho-hum now. So much shit happens every week I don't know one person who knows all I do because I worked in politics. Everyone is tuning this out for the most part. Bottom line though- he is NOT popular in the least. He has never really been above 50% approval which is unheard of for the first 2 years.

R378 DJT doesn't read and knows little history. Doubtful he even knows which country and what century Napoleon was from.

R381, yes he does! And he knows they’re delicious!!

I've always said Dump has much in common with Mussolini, but DAMN, he reminds me of fucking NERO, too! It would be wonderful if he would split his own throat after finding he's been abandoned by all his guards/syncophants/lackeys! He's already fiddling while the country burns.

He truly doesn't think he is going down. He had never been held accountable for all the horrible things he has done.

I hope there are more cameras than you'd believe capturing his reaction when the other shoe drops.

He really is just the dumbest person alive, isn’t he. I love the Fran Lebowitz quote about him. Talk about nailing it.

I don't get what was so special about the "big reveal" today. Sometimes the media likes to hype stuff on slow days. So Manafort's partner Gates confirmed the direct link between the oligarchs, the data sharing, the quid pro quo on sanctions, and Michael Flynn's deeper involvement? But I thought we already knew this.

Don't know if it's related but the Twitter account of Michael Flynn Jr., , another delusional wingnut asshole, is gone.

r387 WE did but the dense public at large doesn't.

The gaslighting we are being subjected to is quite impressive. If only everyone paid as much attention. I believe, and I know conservatives do as well, that if everything were truly fair and the media did a great job and laid out every fact about a range of issues AND people paid attention, Democrats would be a permanent majority.

Anything new about the pee pee girls?

^wow, those tiny fingers

Whittaker is showing up tomorrow. Breaking.

FWIW Mike Flynn Jr deleted his Twitter account. I've read he's under investigation.

R393 An encouraging sign. An arrogant blowhard no longer in the mood to brag and boast means the noose is tightening.

In any other time in our history, the amount of indictments and convictions and clouds around Pres Bone Spurs would be something everyone was talking about, it would be administration breaking.

Correction: In any other time in our history, ONE indictment or conviction or cloud around Pres Bone Spurs would be administration breaking.

I genuinely do not understand how this is happening to the degree that it is happening.

R396 because never before in our history have we had so many Rethuglicans who are also committing crimes and therefore need to protect him to cover up their own.

I love Brennan and I love the Brits

Now that so much is coming out, When I think about how Obama pleaded with the Republican leadership, especially McConnell to issue a joint statement and they refused, I swear I want to kick McConnell's ass until his nose bleeds. I hate him SO MUCH.

This is worst political scandal in U.S. history. It is far worse than Watergate, Teapot Dome, and Iran-Contra put together.

Mitch better get his comeuppance.

Manafort is either crazy or desperate or both, and he must also be supremely confident he will get a pardon. I cannot believe what I'm reading, but that fucker was doing business with shady Russians last year...after he was found guilty, etc.etc.etc. Is he fucking nuts? Does he really think Mueller won't find out? 'Cause he did. or doesn't Manafort give a fuck at this point?

Here. THis lays everything out really well, and it clearly indicates the end is definitely in sight. The next batch of indictments is going to set Trump's wig on fire baby. The Merde is going to hitting the fans and raining down like a typhoon. A proverbial shitstorm.

The thing about Manafort still doing the same old, same old even AFTER he’s been indicted pisses me off. Same with Flynn (and by association, Flynn Jr.). And now Pecker. The fucking balls on these guys. Do they not understand the shit they're in?

(My spell check just tried to to turn "Do they" into "Dothraki". Not germane to the conversation, but I thought I’d share.)

Clearly the cyber attacks have not stopped and Bezos 's text messages were stolen, etc. A lot of shady ugly shit going on and the Republican PArty and their "helpers" are counting on the public to be as stupid and gullible as we were in 2016. The Media certainly needs to stop chasing the shiny objects and look behind these efforts at obvious manipulation. THis is Nixon's Dirty Tricks Squad on steroids. I hope we discover Parscale, Bannon, and the Mercers involvement this time around too. Cambridge Analytica may have been disbanded but they a re u to the same old shit.

How can AMI get away with hacking the richest person on the planet?

Well the richest guy is investigating and so is the FBI so I expect at some point AMI will be ruined.

I don't think Manafort understood modern technology, so he just assumed he had gotten away with everything.

Had trouble posting up thread earlier today but the Cheetolini is actually supposed to come to the city he maligned during the sotu: El Paso.

He’s gonna be here on Monday. What an asshole.

He’s holding a rally at the coliseum. It’s a complete dump, not many people fit and they’re giving tickets away.

David Pecker might be a bigger dumbass than Roger Stone.

I'm going to put my tin hat on here for a minute.

I firmly believe that all of this shit going down regarding Northam, et al, is a planned attack to put a rethug in charge in Virginia so that manafort can be completely pardoned.

That's what fat Donnie is waiting on in order to pardon manafort. Those are state charges that fat boy can't get Paulie out of.

That's why manafort has continued doing his dirt - he knows he will skate. He knows what's going on to free him so he can flee to Russia.

I say we fry the fucker. It's the only way to be sure. And it would put the fear of Cher into these traitors.

What would the governor of Virginia have to do with pardoning Manafort for federal crimes?

R412, clearly R411 means that he/she believes Drumpf is trying to get someone in VA who will pardon Manafort for State Crimes so that when he pardons for Federal crimes, Manafort will be completely pardoned.

I agree that there is something sinister behind all this but not necessarily for that reason.

They have wanted that state so bad with a blood thirst. When those images were presented to the repugs, they seized the opportunity. They believe that if they can control the gov seat, they can win it back in 2020 with their usual shenanigans.

But man have they wanted that state back in bad way. They want a red coast. They’re getting close.

They are getting further and further from a "red coast" every election cycle, even with all the cheating. They're not getting close to anything.

Manafort's crimes are not in Virginia state court. They are in federal court in Virginia. His crimes are federal. A governor can't pardon federal crimes. And, Manafort needs to worry about New York, not Virginia, trying his ass for a million other crimes.

OMG, I just watched a video of Senator Susan Collins and she's so uncomfortable to watch: shaky voice, shaky head, shaky hands...

What condition could cause that? Parkinson's? DTs? Delusion of concern?

R406 - ten to one AMI didn’t hack him. I’ll bet the new girlfriend handed the texts and pics over. Who knows what her motivation was? Money probably - or they’re holding something else over her. But whatever the reason - smells like a honey trap.

And haven’t others pointed out that the woman has family connections to stone and/or his minions? (Dunno how accurate that is?) -

So yeah. Look at each spineless tethug congressman and senator and ask yourself - what have they got on them?

So, it is Pecker & AMI that holds much of the blackmail stuff on politicians that could be used in behalf of DJT?

That could explain why, certain Senators and House members, are such extreme sychophant for DJT. They were told the dirt, with pics, what the Nat'l Enquirer had on them.

Spurs, Pecker, MBS, etc., fucking with Bezos and the WP is biting off more than than they can chew.

R417 it is certainly is suspicious. I’ve read that Bezos hasn’t seen her in a few weeks, so maybe he’s blaming her, whether or not she was hacked or willfully handed the stuff over. And r411, no tin hat, you make sense re the GOP attacks in Virginia. I don’t know if they’re necessarily about Manafort but I do believe the GOP is behind them and it’s to try and turn Virginia red. All of the stuff we are seeing re Democrats like Amy Klobuchar are all the doing of the GOP. They’re slimes, and they can’t go low enough to get what they want. I mean, all of this stuff is from years and years ago. The question is, do we want to go just as low?

The Bezos hacks came from "government sources" according to what I read. Go back and read the articles at the links.

Mean and stupid...perfect description of a deplorable.

Hacked material included potentially embarrassing photos of Sanchez too. So she’s probably not the leaker.

Washington Post refers to hacker as a “government entity.”

Could be CIA, but they hate Trump for the way he’s treated them. Probably the KGB. They love him.

Russia is playing with us and all we can do is to use our own dirty tricks and stick together...this war is no place for snowflakes.

If Manafort died, Russia would be blamed.

[quote]Could be CIA, but they hate Trump for the way he’s treated them. Probably the KGB.

I've seen speculation that it's the Saudis.

Senator Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) told CBS News yesterday that the Senate inquiry into Russian intelligence activities is broader, and perhaps more consequential, than it has long been thought to be.

"I'm not going to tell you that what we set out to do — which was to understand what happened in '16 — is what's extended the life of the investigation," Burr said. "I think it's a better understanding of what happened and how coordinated and organized the effort was."

He made clear that the investigation is not compiling the story of one pivotal election, but of something larger, more complicated and, from a counterintelligence perspective, more nefarious. The final report may be so highly classified, he said, that a meaningful portion may not be made public at all.

"Many of the connections that we've made are the direct result of intelligence products," he said. "I think it's safe to say we've interviewed people that I don't even know if the special counsel knows about them — but you've got to remember that we're on a totally separate path than what they are."

"My only advice to you is, be careful. There are a lot of false narratives out there,."

Last time I checked I think Blackmail is illegal. And trying to violate someone's free speech is against the law, isn't it? Who the fuck do these thugs think they a re that they can go after people like this and then, they think they can get away with it and no one will find out? And yes, absolutely Pecker and Trump and their Russian buddies are definitely blackmailing politicians, journalists, and others. Hell, that was Roger Ailes, signature move. He had people followed photo'd and illegally wiretapped. Ailes is the guy who invented Fox news. And his protege from Fox is now the Director of Communications for Trump, in the White House. Bill Shine. All these people, Pecker at AMI, Trump, etc. all have that gangster mentality. Like they're big mafiosi.. What a low point for our country. Ronan is very brave.

When this is all finished (if we haven't all been reduced to ashes) I believe the MAGA hat will be about as acceptable as wearing a swastika in public.

There's a reason neonazis do all that coded tattoo shit.

[italc] Could be [/italic] R425.

But we know from both Mueller that the Russians have been pulling this cybershit for years

[quote]Who the fuck do these thugs think they are that they can go after people like this and then, they think they can get away with it and no one will find out?

They've gotten away with it for decades. They just finally ran up against someone who called their bluff.

Hey they can enlist the Saudis, of course, but at the end of the day it's the no long so invisible hand of Putin. As we watch this unfold we will get a real good picture of how determined these rotten bastards are to hold on to their gains and keep Trump and that Extreme Right cabal in power. We are in for a real ugly, dangerous period, and the people running for PResident against Trump and investigative journalists are literally taking their lives into their own hands. And think about it. Bezos is a wealthy, powerful man. And they're going after him. Now personally I think they have overreached, but you have to know Trump & Putin are real pissed off at the Washington Post and that's what it comes down to.

Putin has gone after wealthy powerful men in Russia and he has prevailed, so it's not surprising he might try it here. And using the Saudis as a front is something the Russians would do. They have often used surrogates in the Middle East for their dirty work at all levels.

Rick Wilson:

Cohen (and other Trump lawyers, tbh) will have their fingerprints over any number of AMIs blackmail and catch-and-kill schemes.

It's going to be DELICIOUS.

The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, privately complained that he was ordered by president Donald Trump to write the notorious memo justifying the firing of the FBI director James Comey, according to Comey’s former deputy.

Andrew McCabe writes in a new book that Rosenstein, who has publicly defended the memo, lamented that the president had directed him to rationalise Comey’s dismissal, which is now the subject of inquiries into whether Trump obstructed justice.

McCabe, a 22-year FBI veteran, who was fired after internal investigators said he had been dishonest, is scathing about a president he views as posing a threat to the country. In his sharpest criticism, McCabe writes that after firing Comey, Trump and the White House counsel, Don McGahn, acted like mobsters by in effect offering McCabe protection in return for loyalty.

“The president and his men were trying to work me the way a criminal brigade would operate,” McCabe writes.

McCabe portrays Trump and his senior aides as frequently distracted by TV news and suspicions of leakers in the White House. He is also sharply critical of Jeff Sessions, Trump’s first attorney general, saying he had trouble focusing, frequently flew into red-faced rages and confused classified intelligence with things he had read in the media.

C.B. Spurs & Pecker poked Miz L into being a surrogate. Dirt, dirt, dirt ...

Seth Abramson has a great take on Burr's CBS interview. This is amazing...

Whitaker starting out with saying "I'm not saying anything about my conversations with Trump."

My god Whitaker's a fucking idiot.

The vote to lift sanctions on Deriposka businesses should be an indicator on which Republicans and an independent are shivering as to what could be disclosed by the djt/putty/mbs/pecker/mercery/murdochy/ conglomerate.

But he's the BEST idiot!

OMG Whitaker's infuriating. He doesn't understand how this works. He's all "meta" about the questions: "What are you basing your question on?" "I know this committee is very interested in this, but..." META is WEAK. Lameass.

To Nadler: "I see your five minutes are up." Smarmy fucking evil bastard.

I can't watch this. He's pure evil. I hope Mueller goes after him.

Has he had to apply Ban Roll On to his head yet?

I hope someone in the media will do a highlight reel of his stupidity. I thought about watching, but I...just...can't. My Psychological well being budget has to last the whole month of February and I have a feeling things are excellerating.

[quote]To Nadler: "I see your five minutes are up." Smarmy fucking evil bastard.

I think he'll come to regret that sass.

Collins is a Trumpster. CNN had a cameraman near Stone's residence for weeks.

He's disgusting. Infuriating. He'll get his.

Fat bastard's arteries are clogged, affects his already diseased brain.

They need to go with "What are you scared of?"

R446 I hope so. The breadth of their arrogance is simply staggering. I've rarely seen such open hostility on the part of cabinet officials to the legislative body that they depend on for their budget and other support as well as the occasional favor. These Neo Nazis are too damned sure of themselves and their words and behavior is downright disrespectful. They don't acknowledge the legitimacy or the authority of Congress. Whitaker is stupid and obvious. But that's a good thing, because if he were smarter and more underhanded and smoother, he might fool more people. Fortunately as the Watergate Deep Throat guy said in the movie: These guys aren't very bright, and things got out of hand." I have been reading Bob Woodward's book, Fear, and while it has some flaws and things I take exception to, his portrayal of Don McGahn gave me goosebumps. McGahn is an evil bastard and a maniac. He's gone now, but he did a lot of damage.

Collins is a closeted lesbian and is afraid of being outed. Thus in Trump’s corner.

Any Maine superstars planning on running against Collins?

"Both sides" "heartland" "independent" voters love Biden. And of course we need to win them over. The base is going to show up regardless, right? They don't care if they're reflected in their party's candidate. Obama was an anomaly, and they totally showed up for Hillary in droves, but she didn't appeal to the all-important "independent" both-sides types. And they're who really count.

Right?

Has Biden contacted Anita Hill yet? I think approaching her would be nice, stir up some press, really polish his image.

Wrong thread, sorry.

Ted Lieu, Eric Swalwell, and Sheila Jackson Lee are on the committee. Expect bigger fireworks!

Louie Gohmert and Jim Jordan are big-time Trumpsters. Watch their behavior.

Whitaker: "What's the basis for that question?"

Nadler (what he should have said): "Oh, I forgot you're new. You don't know how this works, do you. Oh, of course. Here's how it works: I ask questions, and you answer them."

I'd like to know Whitaker's #metoo background. Is he married? He was a football player, right? Wild parties, I bet...

I think Mueller needs to speak to Whitaker after Barr takes over. There are likely quite a few things to ask him about. Important lines of inquiry. He should start considering counsel. Hope he has cash for the retainer.

Whitaker was appointed to be a Trump informant and try to undermine Mueller whenever possible.

R460, oh I didn't consider that. Makes sense.

I can't watch the Whitaker thing anymore. He's so smarmy. And I can't watch the back and forth about among the pundits, even on MSNBC, which I love. Can't take it. Too angering.

Watching BBC cover the death of a Brazilian soccer player. Hot Brazilian fans on the scene.

I couldn't take any more either. I'm watching History Detective on PBS.

I'm watching "Doc McStuffins" on Disney Junior now lol. My cat likes it.

I'm watching a puff piece Today Show interview with Kit Harrington.

I need to watch violent movies lately. Last few months. Not gore and horror movies, but the other ones. The kind where people get their asses kicked....

R465 is it new? I'd watch that. I like that little pocket sized Lothario. He has a nice ass.

R467, it aired earlier today. My Today Show is on a delay (we run a local show between the real one and what used to be Megyn Kelly's hour).

K.Just watched it. Kit has sorter hair, no beard and a lame looking moustache for the play he's ding, and I have to say: No. He needs the facial hair. And honestly he needs eyelashes. His eyes look naked. OK. I digress. Sorry.

Is that bald bastard still on?

r461 Oh, Miss Prisspot, we are are so fortunate to have your sarcastic critiques of commentaries by others. Makes sense to note your delightful capabilities.

Yes R470, he'll be on all day.

Is the sweating still in control? I guess he bathed scalp and face in antiperspirant purée the whole night.

Twitter is crucifying Whitaker. Good. Some of the people ragging on him are actual journalists.

One of the things I learned from reading Fear is how closely Trump monitors Twitter. I mean he monitors it. Anything coming from his administration. So he has to know that Whitaker is a total joke and Trump hates that. He smells weakness and looking at Whitaker all sweaty, lacking in poise, etc. Trump hates a sloppy presentation. He hates a Fail. So Whitaker's stock went down with Trump today. And you know Whitaker was coached. So if he does that bad with coaching can you imagine?

Whitaker looks like a bloated, bald, baby monster...he is a huge liar, like all Trumpsters.

[quote]The vote to lift sanctions on Deriposka businesses should be an indicator on which Republicans and an independent are shivering as to what could be disclosed by the djt/putty/mbs/pecker/mercery/m - urdochy/ conglomerate.

Burr is one of the Senators that voted to lift the sanctions. Also, he - and NC's other Senator Tillis - received more NRA money than any other member of congress.

Burr was also on Trump's Transition team.

Senator Burr also had a role in the transition. He really tries to come off as measured and non-partisan but none of them are.

LMFAO so I tuned in briefly on lunch break...some dumbass repub rep from California was fucking citing Fox "News" Gregg Jarrett's idiotic, conspiracy theorist bullshit book as a "source" about FBI corruption and bias and he brought up Uranium 1 and all that jazz

pathetic that he's in Congress

I've said it before, but I still believe we're past the 90 percent mark of the Trump presidency.

Well, it looks like the sky is falling in and I hope so! Shit is coming at Trump from all angles. This is a beauty: We sort of knew this, but now we KNOW...

hope this link works. the other one didn't.

Neither of them worked, R483. What is the story?

Damn. I was trying to link to a Washington Post exclusive breaking news special about all the illegals who were part of a pipeline of laborers for Trump at his many holdings. If he could set up a pipeline of illegal workers, then he could have possibly done the same with trafficking girls.

Yes, my god, what is the story?

I wouldn't be surprised if his fluid supply of illegal workers ended up being trafficked people.

[quote]Whitaker looks like a bloated, bald, baby monster

The son DJT always wished he had.

This might be the WaPo link:

I'm being shallow here, but Rep. Armstrong of North Dakota is starting to bald.

If you can't be shallow on the Datalounge, where the fuck can you be shallow?

Do you see it? He's got that odd triangle at the front of his head and when he leaned forward, it looked like it's starting to go in back.

Manu Raju:

Getting heated: Doug Collins tries to stop Swalwell from asking about Whitaker former group and whether it received foreign donations. Swalwell tells Collins to sit down at witness table and be his lawyer if he wants to protect him. Collins accuses Swalwell of campaigning for WH

Indeed. Where else but on DL political threads could I feel safe commenting on Trey Gowdy's weird nose?

Trey Gowdy looks like a penis.

Is there a live Whitaker thread?

holy shit that Doug Collins needs to get his ass kicked. He interrupted Swalwell and now Raskin because they're asking embarrassing but appropriate questions of the fraud currently serving as acting AG

That one guy who keeps interrupting looks like he'd be desperate to lick the shit out of Whitaker's dirty asshole if given the chance.

Doug Collins is another one on the take.

I hope after Whitaker's time as acting AG is up that he gets prosecuted. He's clearly a dirtbag. It has to be weird for the DOJ to have to report to him knowing that they're currently investigating that company he worked for that was fined millions of dollars for fraud

Whitaker thread

W: another arrogant refug, but he looks like he might have an interesting pinga.

I remember an interview with some of the laborers who worked on the renovation of the Trump Hotel in Wash DC. They remained anonymous but admitted they were illegal. And Trump and company knew it. He didn't pay some of them and there was nothing they could do. They couldn't complain cause they had no legal status.

I think this was right before the election. We were told over and over again he was slime but most did not want to pay any attention to it.

Is there a Whitaker thread?

Kudlow and Mulvaney might be leaving the sinking ship. Vanity Fair but I don't have the link.

R504, see r501.

Here's one of the articles but when I googled there was a slew of them. From 2015.

lmfao! Mulvaney just got the new job and he might be leaving? I guess we are going to end up with no chief-of-staff, not that that seems to matter in this administration.

R489, yes that's the one I kept trying to link. Just to be clear, because I don't want to start rumors.... but when I suggested that Trump might possibly be involved in trafficking girls, I was speculating, that. It wasn't part of the Washington Post article. I would hate to falsely accuse our President of such a heinous, reprehensible crime................. ( please note the sarcasm.)

Is Mulvaney seriously out? LOL

r509....Can you say....TRUMP MODEL MANAGEMENT ? It is well known Trump was using it to traffic underage girls....see Jeffrey Epstein. Not a rumor.

Here's the Hive/VF article

Trump is positively gleeful when he is describing human and sex trafficking. And the women with "blue tape over their mouths." He is 100% projecting. I think his administration was also aware that hundreds of those missing border children would be sold off for sex to rich people or some type of "Hostel" freaks. With these psychos, I go to the worst possible scenario FIRST.

Something was up for KKKirstjen Nielsen at the SOTU. She had the look of a woman who had recently had a "dark night of the soul."

R512 and Mulvaney and Kudlow are the bottom of the barrel. You watch. Jared will be chief of staff and Donnie r will be in charge of Middle East Peace.

Jared and motherfucking Jr. are going to prison.

R515, that was Rachel yesterday.

I know it's not likely, but I want to hear the true results of Donald's physical today.

You just know that the only reason Trump likes McDonald’s is because his name is in the title of the restaurant.

New Evidence Emerges of Possible Wrongdoing by Trump Inaugural Committee.

Federal prosecutors in New York are circling Donald Trump’s inaugural committee as part of a wide-ranging investigation into possible money laundering, illegal contributions and cash-for-access schemes. Now, WNYC and ProPublica have identified evidence of potential tax law violations by the committee.

A spokesman confirmed that the nonprofit 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee paid the Trump International Hotel a rate of $175,000 per day for event space — in spite of internal objections at the time that the rate was far too high. If the committee is deemed by auditors or prosecutors to have paid an above-market rate, that could violate tax laws prohibiting self-dealing, according to experts.

Tax law prohibits nonprofits from paying inflated prices to entities that are owned by people who also control or influence the nonprofit’s activities.

Odd, Ronnie Jackson returned just in time to conduct Trump's physical exam.

Just looking at Trump, he has gained considerable weight, shows no evidence of regular exercise, looks and acts fatigued and stressed, and by his tweets and verbal messaging, doesn't come across as mentally grounded.

His physician is not doing him or anyone else a favor to render an unrealistic and glowing report to convince him and the country that he's just 'dandy'.

What will they say Trump weighs this time? 210? A trim 175? We should all kick in a buck and start a pool.

How much does he really weigh? I say about 290.

R523 I say half of a Chrissy Metz

Guess he is between 290 and 320. If truth be told.

He looks about 55 lbs overweight.

Trump's physical was done at Walter Reed today, by physicians other than Dr Ronny "Scrote" Jackson, so maybe we’ll get to know what the fat slob's weight really is.

How about an even 300?

My guess is that Trump is at least 330 lbs. He is at least 100 lbs. over weight.

How tall is he? IS he 6 feet? Because you shrink when you age. My father did.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, who frequently posts on Instagram, is letting all know she's in love.

My God, she’s full of plastic. Ugly piece of trash.

I always see Kimberly GARGOYLE when I see her name.

I'm French and I can tell from 9 time zones away that Gavin Newson really dodged a bullet here. Eww!

Roger Ailes was right about one thing - Kimberly Guilfoyle is a Puerto Rican whore.

Do you think she and Ivanka have a Maggie-Sister Woman dynamic?

Trump claims to be 6’2”, but chances are that’s a lie too.

The photo of him along with actual World leaders at the post in R537 doesn't even look like he's a real person. He looks like a wax figure or...

Maybe Put Put really did have him doubled.

Part 82: My Funny Treasontine.

Pecker update.

The Le Sénatrice needs to have another hissy-fit to take advantage of a tread dedicated to her.

thread, but tread may work^

[quote] Trump is positively gleeful when he is describing human and sex trafficking. And the women with "blue tape over their mouths." He is 100% projecting. I think his administration was also aware that hundreds of those missing border children would be sold off for sex to rich people or some type of "Hostel" freaks. With these psychos, I go to the worst possible scenario FIRST.

r513, I mentioned this on another thread, but as soon as Trump became President, "human trafficking" was put front and center at Homeland Security. There were suddenly scare-inducing ad campaigns and posters at airports implying your kids were going to be stolen any day now and put to work as sex slaves. Part of it just fits with Trump's "hate everyone who is not White American"/scary foreigners scare tactics. Human Trafficking is a problem worldwide. But I also agree that it was projecting. If Homeland Security is trying to stop this, how on earth could Donald and his criminal cronies have been part of it? people may ask themselves. Then you just look at the dictators Trump looks up to - Putin and Kim-Jong Un.

CNN is providing Howard Schultz a Town Hall event in a prime slot on February 12th. He has not even declared yet.

Schultz must be their new Bernie. Declared or prospective Democratic candidates for President would be elated to have such early and focused coverage.

This guy could help Trump get re-elected.

Not all journalists are pleased with CNN doing this.

All I can tell you is that the new "pro socialist" posters on twitter and the BernieBot type posters are out in force attacking the authenticity of various Democrats. Posting how they proudly supported Jill Stein in the last Presidential. So the shit is on. I've been attacked for retweeting Washington Post !

Anything anti-democratic party is full of shit.

The Russian bots are going to push the narrative that the Dems are full on socialists and for open borders. When every fucking repug pundit says the same exact fucking bullshit over and over (they don't have an original thought in their heads) it doesn't take a genius to figure out the narrative being set. Schultz was a very liberal guy and suddenly he is acting as if the Dems are going to seize 99% of all the rich's assets and nationalize everything. That is a tell. He is WAY overreacting and that speaks volumes.

It is time for the Dems to go tribal or go home meaning the voters. This is no time for nuance. We are facing the worst crisis we have faced since the Civil War. I have no patience for nitpicking assholes.

Well smething else is going on too. My governor in Georgia was a rabid Trump supporter. He had campaign ads where he was driving a bus, armed with a shotgun, ging after illegal immigrants. He's also the former Secretary of State in charge of voter fraud. Rotten piece of shit, ultra Conservative. And today he was supporting the expansion of Medicaid. Yes. I'm hearing that all over the country GOP governors and legislators are "softening" on certain healthcare issues. IMO they know healthcare beat the shit out of them and maybe they're trying to appear to care about it. So keep an eye on that, too.

Well, the numbers say that our wealthy distribution is so skewed towards the Rich we haven't seen things this bad since the 1920's. And Social Security Administration is saying 70% of american wage earners are earning less than $50,000 a year. Anecdotally all you have to do is look at how desperate things got for all those government workers who missed just one or two paychecks. They were against the wall. It's disgusting to me that the Republicans oppose decent healthcare, decent wages, living wage, minimum wage increase, what ever you call it.

Ex-FBI official Frank Figliuzzi: "Listen, I'm not kidding when I say I have interviewed terrorists who are more cooperative and respectful than Matt Whitaker was today." @MSNBC

Manafort Prosecutors Have Questions About $1 Million Condo Loan

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I'm depressed thinking about pardons after today's shitshow.

Buck up R553! Spring is coming and there is a whiff of the Trials of Treason in the air!

There aren't enough pardons in the world to escape this treachery.

Rough days ahead

And pardons compel people to answer truthfully as they admit to whatever they are being pardoned for.

Yes, R557, to accept a pardon an admission of guilt is required. Once you have done that you can't seek any other protections for the crime for which you've been pardoned. You have to respond to subpoenas, you cannot plead the 5th, and you can be held in contempt and charged for other crimes.

[quote]Yes, [R557], to accept a pardon an admission of guilt is required.

No, you do not. This is completely not true. You do not have to admit guilt in order to accept a pardon. People need to stop repeating this.

Sure you were KAC.

Thoughts and prayers.

Was it another #MeToo for Kellyanne?

And yet no one in the restaurant has come forward and corroborated that some woman grabbed KAC and violently shook her?

Could it be that KAC is a lying liar????

R559,,, I think you're right. I should have said that it is implicit. the very acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt. It is not "required that you admit guilt. " I was wrong about that.

r562....If anyone EVER laid a hand on ANY person around Trump, the police would have been called and every media outlet notified and they would be reporting on every aspect of it for days.

One could not write a novel as sordid as all this mess. If a movie is made ten years later, that touches on all this stuff it would be 6 or 8, or 10 hours long?

26 min. into this vid. from an allegedly anonymous male prostitute in a article section posted somewhere earlier. It could be all bogus. Maybe it isn't? Sounds so bizzare.

A series on Netflix

There's no end to the grifting.

I'm ready for someone to go down.

Me too, R571.

R571, what do you think I do all day?

R571, maybe some of this too?

^mean R573

I appreciate it, too. The more exposed laundry, the better.

Only Milo can save us now!

R559, interpretations of the Burdick decision say otherwise.

[quote]This brings us to the differences between legislative immunity and a pardon. They are substantial. The latter carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it. The former has no such imputation or confession. It is tantamount to the silence of the witness. It is noncommittal. It is the unobtrusive act of the law given protection against a sinister use of his testimony, not like a pardon, requiring him to confess his guilt in order to avoid a conviction of it.

Six week old article, but gives a good summary of the general activities of the Mercers.

R580, that article is one legal interpretation. Other legal scholars disagree. It is not as clear cut as people are implying.

[quote]Confusing “imputation of guilt” with being an actual legal component to the process. Public assumption, accusations, implications don’t hold water in terms of legal proceedings. The legal right to reject a pardon based on the fact that a person (Burdick, Wilson or otherwise) feels it would appear as though there’s a pretense, imputation, liability, religious/moral cost, or otherwise, does not mean that by accepting the pardon they are legally admitting guilt.

[quote]From Burdick v. US. This brings us to the differences between legislative immunity and a pardon. They are substantial. The latter carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it. The former has no such imputation or confession. It is tantamount to the silence of the witness. It is noncommittal. It is the unobtrusive act of the law given protection against a sinister use of his testimony, not like a pardon, requiring him to confess his guilt in order to avoid a conviction of it.

[quote]It is of little service to assert or deny an analogy between amnesty and pardon. Mr. Justice Field, in Knote v. United States, 95 U.S. 149, 153 , 24 S. L. ed. 442, 443, said that ‘the distinction between them is one rather of philological interest than of legal importance.’ This is so as to their ultimate effect, but there are incidental differences of importance. They [236 U.S. 79, 95] are of different character and have different purposes. The one overlooks offense; the other remits punishment.

[quote]2. Confusing dicta with holdings. Basically within the decisions of Burdick and Wilson… there’s quite a bit of discussion. Some of it is of questionable importance and coherence, but let’s take this completely out of context, ignore the paragraph that follows the one below, and derive meaning from these three sentences alone…

[quote]This brings us to the differences between legislative immunity and a pardon. They are substantial. The latter carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it.

[quote]Okay… this is an excellent example of why the dicta, derived from the latin obiter dictum, or “by the way”, is both an explanation and justification for the court’s holdings but are not binding decisions, rulings, findings or holdings of the court. Now granted, these decisions were written a long time ago, and there’s some blurry language, but there is simply no holding that identifies a legal component to the acceptance of a pardon.

R582, just posting the wording of the previous link doesn't make it definitive.

[quote]Those who refer to the case Burdick v US, from 1915, as deciding that a pardon does imply an admission of guilt have simply not read the decision or do not recognize dicta as being dicta, that is, as not being the holding or a question decided in the case. In Burdick, the man had been tendered a blanket pardon for all crimes arising from the subject inquiries about which his grand jury testimony was sought. Burdick refused to accept the pardon, and, eventually the US Supreme Court reversed his conviction for contempt and ordered his release. Because Burdick refused the offered pardon, the question of the effects of an accepted pardon was never required as part of the decision. Dicta, or statements extraneous to the matters actually decided in a case, are not holdings, the parts of a case which are actually decided by the court. Dicta, essentially, do not count for anything in law.

Link to new thread for when this one maxes out:

MYTH NO. 4 Pardons are only for guilty people; accepting one is an admission of guilt.

In 1915, the Supreme Court wrote in Burdick v. United States that a pardon “carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it.” Over the years, many have come to see a necessary relationship between a pardon and guilt. Ford carried the Burdick quote in his wallet, defending the Nixon pardon by noting that it established Nixon’s guilt. More recently, MSNBC host Ari Melber taunted Arpaio by saying he had admitted he was guilty when he accepted Trump’s pardon.

But Burdick was about a different issue: the ability to turn down a pardon. The language about imputing and confessing guilt was just an aside — what lawyers call dicta. The court meant that, as a practical matter, because pardons make people look guilty, a recipient might not want to accept one. But pardons have no formal, legal effect of declaring guilt.

Indeed, in rare cases pardons are used to exonerate people. This was Trump’s rationale for posthumously pardoning boxer Jack Johnson, the victim of a racially based railroading in 1913. Ford pardoned Iva Toguri d’Aquino (World War II’s “Tokyo Rose”) after “60 Minutes” revealed that she was an innocent victim of prosecutors who suborned perjured testimony in her treason case. President George H.W. Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger because he thought the former defense secretary, indicted in the Iran-contra affair, was a victim of “the criminalization of policy differences.” If the president pardons you because he thinks you are innocent, what guilt could accepting that pardon possibly admit?

Tick Tock, Mother Fucker.

I can't wait, R589. I wonder if he's even worried though. He seems too stupid and too cocky to think twice.

I still don't think Kushner will ever be indicted. I firmly believe he'll sell them all out first to save his own ass.

R591 Kush can only do that if they actually need him to cop a plea deal. I have a feeling they'll have everything they need and won't need to even talk to Jared.

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I'm listening to some pundit right now saying what happened to Bezos isn't illegal. How is blackmail not illegal?

R594 whoever that is is full of shit. It's extortion.

Not to mention, R595, how was the information on Bezos obtained? That in itself could be illegal.

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