Treasonable Interference (The Mueller Investigation Part 94)

Link to previous thread for reference:

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)

House Cleaning Treason (The Mueller Investigation Part 82) (February 9, 2019)

For Emergency Treasons (The Mueller Investigation Part 83) (February 15, 2019)

Treasons I Speak (The Mueller Investigation Part 84) (February 19, 2019)

Treasonable Preparations (The Mueller Investigation Part 85) (February 23, 2019)

Treasons for Redemption (The Mueller Investigation Part 86) (March 1, 2019)

Treasons to Watch (The Mueller Investigation Part 87) (March 7, 2019)

A Treasonable Amount of Time (The Mueller Investigation Part 88) (March 11, 2019)

Treasons I Have Veto Power (The Mueller Investigation Part 89) (March 18, 2019)

Treasons I've Submitted My Report (The Mueller Investigation Part 90) (March 22, 2019)

Treasons to Continue On (The Mueller Investigation Part 91) (March 24, 2019)

Treasons For a Barr Cover (The Mueller Investigation Part 92) (March 24, 2019)

Treasons to Protect Our Assets (The Mueller Investigation Part 93) (March 26, 2019)

Treasonable Interference (The Mueller Investigation Part 94) (March 31, 2019)

Fox News is Anti-American. People don’t realize it’s a foreign company owned by foreigners.

Remind deplorables that it’s not an american company and would love for this country to rip itself apart.

Linda is now firmly planted in the dark side. Remember this:

Graham encouraged McCain to turn Trump-Russia dossier over to FBI

Another weekend in Florida. Have they no shame?

It’s easier for Trump to send intel and get his marching orders from Putin via liaisons at Maralago than the scrutiny of Whitehouse security.

we have our second post-Barr summary poll!! The CNN one a few days ago said 54% no it doesn't exonerate and 43% yes. The NBC one released today says 40% no, 29% yes and 31% unsure

good to see in both polls that more people said no it doesn't exonerate. For the first days last week I thought the public might fall for Barr's stunt. Happy to see I was wrong

I think there's something that should be noted. The day of and the days following Barr's summary - I think what we saw here is proof that it was a coordinated effort to try to lie and spin the truth and make people STOP talking about the Mueller report.

Think about what we saw here and how this board and these threads were FLOODED with trolls insisting that there was nothing to see, they told us so, these threads are pointless, stop talking about the report, and trying desperately to FF the OP and get these threads deleted.

To me, all of that shows that they were desperately trying to make sure their hoax went off without a hitch and they were concerned it wouldn't.

Notice all those trolls have disappeared?

The very ham-handed cover-up leg by Barr most certainly DID NOT take. Now they’re scrambling to keep a consistent message.

I agree with whoever it was in the last thread that you just know Barr is freaked out now about what to redact and what not to. One leak of the interacted version and he could be charged with some obstruction of justice of his own.

(Do you believe that the Attorney General is above the law and cannot be charged with such an offense, you fat bitch?)

r4, Fox viewers are so low information that they probably have no idea that it's controlled by an Australian/British family. If you asked them they'd probably say Hannity or Trump owns it.

I told you guys the person and persons who have the most to lose from the Mueller Report coming out is Trump and his close advisors and I write as someone who had concluded a year or so ago that it wouldn't show a conspiracy, as that term's elements are is legally defined, between Trump and the Russians to beyond a reasonable doubt.

Their piñata, aka The Mueller Report is gone. And the candy its dropped can become a huge political bellyache for Trump. They know that.

I wouldn't be surprised if, right now, Barr is shitting bricks because of what contained in it.

Sorry about my grammatical errors.

I'm just concerned that the Trump campaign will realize that during the next election, if they wait to drop a big fake scandal about whoever his opponent is 2 days before the election, it might sway just enough people from voting. Look at what happened last Sunday and Monday-the dumbass complicit mainstream media was acting like Barr's word was the final word and some of the public fell for it too

Right now, someone needs to tell Trump that the most powerful man in Washington is Barr. Mueller reports to him, He has full access to the report, he literally holds Trump hostage. Talk about leverage!

R14, even Brian Lehrer on WNYC Radio fell for it, which was a big bummer.

I don't think I'm board with the idea that Barr is now worried he'll get in trouble for obstruction. I don't believe any of them are worried. These motherfuckers have been getting away with shit for so long, they believe they always will. When and if they ever do get caught-- they act completely shocked and surprised.

I don't know about that, R15. What would Barr want or need from Trump? No matter what, Barr's place in history is firmly planted. His choice whether he wants to go down as some lackey who protected Trump or as a hero who took down the most corrupt and treasonous POTUS we've ever seen.

I'm with R17..I don't think any of them are sweating. Barr is so fucking arrogant and such a creature of the swamp..he doesn't care, he's been getting away with it all his life.

One of Russia’s richest women has been killed in a plane crash in Germany. Hmm...

yeah I don't know if Barr is worried. He's very arrogant. He advised Bush to pardon all those Iran-Contra pieces of shit and besides brief criticism, it was largely forgotten until he reentered politics again last year.

I'm sure he wants to make sure there are no leaks but I don't think he's worried about any consequences for himself. It would be hilarious if shit goes sideways and Trump begins trashing him though

Anyone see Chris Wallace own Kellyanne Conway? Skank

Can you post a link, R22?

Here

r21....THIS is not Iran-Contra....there is a lot of evidence in the public sphere....so they cant easily pull the wool over everyones eyes like in the past when people were pretty much clueless about what was going on internally in the white house.

Regarding Fox...you can thank Ronald Reagan for this fiasco....he did away with The Fairness Doctrine for exactly the reason we see today. Remember, the GOP is a slow moving coup...the judicial system, the media, etc are slowly being infiltrated.

I don't think it's slow, R25. It's takes a lot of work to destroy a country but their 4 year time line is working

Sigh. Kellyanne is the Liar in Chief.

Kellyanne, of course, never answers Wallace’s question which is, “Why is Trump lying at his rally about being fully exonerated of obstruction of justice?”

If nothing else I hope that cunt Kellyanne Conway and that human swollen thumb Sarah Huckabee Sanders end up divorced and shunned by anyone they ever considered a friend and ally.

r26....its been going on for 3 decades....not just 4 years.

[quote]they can keep trump, we vote up and down the line as Dems. Every seat, local, regional, state.

The problem is, even if some Independents and Republicans who voted for Trump will switch over to the Dem candidate (hopefully), they may still vote Rethug downticket and that may stop us from getting the Senate etc.

We really need to get out the Dem vote by massive numbers.

You're right R25. This time Barr is under a really hot spotlight. He can't operate in the background, he is front and center, and he is being challenged heavily by Congress, public opinion, and yes, the media who has now re-focused.

The reason I said BArr has leverage right now is because he does. But that window will close soon. For example, Trump wants him to challenge Obamacare in court. He already indicated he opposed to doing this. It's not the best example, but holding that report like a sword of damocles over the heads of the people who least want it publicized is useful now.

This week would be a great week for Trump to stroke out.

Maybe Trump will just stay in Florida and forget he lives in Washington.

While there was an insane number of trolls here during those two crazy days, we've also had several "regulars" here who did their "See? I TOLD YOU all for months" routine. Their "I give up and you should, too" script that they type out in various forms.

Their histories could be searched and they had been posting for a long time, sprinkling in their concern and worry and doubt, but when the bottom seemingly fell out, they shouted from the rooftops about how vindicated they were not to think anything will ever happen to Trump and that it's pointless.

You need to be vigilant against those people as well. They give themselves away very early but get passes to just continue to infiltrate, and then they join in on the doom chorus when something "bad" happens to us.

Oh, and the new candidates for president really don't belong here. You all said this was an all-inclusive political thread, not just "the Mueller Report," but that allowed all the divisive in-fighting to take over half of the thread during those chaotic days. We even had "long-timers" advocating for voting Republican! Now, suddenly, it's died down. You know why.

I would say that the unofficial "guardians" in this thread who shout down anyone who points out divisive talk are the ones who allowed all of the infiltrators to take hold in the first place. YES, there were sudden two-day trolls who came and went, but several stealth trolls had been here all along.

And now call me "divisive" for stating that pointing out trolls isn't wrong.

We don't have the luxury of allowing Trump and his minions to wear us down. We can't afford to be "tired of this." We have to rip pages out of their playbook, and be relentless just like the Republicans. They never admit defeat, never apologize, never say " We were wrong." They never stop coming at us. IF they are the minority party represented on a House committee they obstruct. They just never stop no matter what. And that is exactly what we have to do.

OP, a very good thread pic & title.

The troll situation here was nuts for several days. They can't even disguise what they are doing. There are plenty of regulars, as was pointed out, who gloated. I am just perplexed how anyone who posts here, LGBT, could ever gloat about Pres Bone Spurs getting away with anything.

Good news is his schtick is wearing thin. He is boring. His little rally in MI and what he said was boring asf. "Pencil neck Adam Schiff"? How embarrassing for a "president" to utter.

We are 4 years into his same utterances since he descended from hell in 2015 and he has jumped the shark.

we are in a war and the fatigue is designed to wear us down. We are supposed to feel overwhelmed and defeated. A defeated population is easy to control.

Well, R38, one of the biggest gloaters here has shrieked over and over "I've been here over twenty years! Since the beginning!" any time he was called out for his divisive posts.

And y'all just let him shout people down who call him out on his stealth trolling.

Catching up on the threads and referring back to the previous one, specifically the post linking to the Chris Wallace/Bill Hemmer dialogue about what started the Russia investigation: when did Hemmer turn into a right-wing shill, or was he always one?

When Hemmer skipped over to Fox from CNN years ago, the first thing he did was swallow a big pitcher of the Fox Kool-Aid

Bottom line, Mueller needs to testify before Congressional committees with basically his original report distributed beforehand.

Mueller's conclusions, to the extent they are reported to be true, are perplexing. The public doesn't need to be confused and left with unanswered questions.

I don't want to see Barr's collaborative report with Miss Lindsey as the last word, or for it to be accepted as credible without Mueller defending and endorsing the distribution. What's missing or changed he needs to address to a satisfactory level. If Barr's assessment is garbage, it needs to be treated as such. The top DoJ official hiding and/or denying actual criminal behavior would be a monumental scandal in itself.

Barr is a party hack who injected himself into the investigation long before he was appointed and confirmed as AG. He's representing Trump, and Trump is not the country. Miss Lindsey engaging in the preparation of the report is way out-of-bounds. Congress should be livid by such. If Barr had invited Eric Swalwell, for example, to help edit the VERSION report, do you think Republicans and Trump would clap?

Hemmer is a closeted asshole.

Yet to come - money laundering, tax evasion and bribery. Don't give up.

^^^^^^^

That’s what I keep telling my friends. Don’t give up.

Trump knows he’s not going to have a moments peace either in or out of office. Go New York, hang the sum-bitch!

RICO asset seizure is what I am holding popcorn for...

Thankfully Trump doesn't technically own the White House.

Is there anything stopping Congress into opening an investigation on Barr?

*from opening

They dont need an investigation. They need to start impeachment for obstruction....and stick to it when he doesnt comply.

R49, Barr has agreed to answer questions/testify before Congress. They'll see how that goes first.

You DL'ers are so delusional! Why do you think there was nothing to the report, because there wasn't. Boo hoo...

yes r52....IN MAY..... He needs to be in front of Congress YESTERDAY. For every day they allow him to delay and play games, the deeper the cover up will go. Think of how they will have control of the narrative if it takes months before anyone receives the real report.

They do need to investigate Barr. THey need to refer him to a Grand Jury and have him investigated. John Mitchell went to Prison. Barr is not immune from prosecution. He was the wrong person to appoint. He should have been disqualified from ever getting approved by the Senate. Close your eyes. Now. Pretend Barr wrote a 19 page memo telling people that the Starr investigation was not legitimate, the fact that they were allowing Starr to investigate the POTUS was outrageous, and the PResident could not be charged with obstruction." and then after he writes this memo, he is shortlisted to become Bill Clinton's Attorney General. Who here believes the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee would have approved that appointment simply based on some polite promises Starr gave that he'd do his job properly.

R54, I agree. Congress has set a Tuesday deadline for delivering the complete Mueller report. If they don't get it (they won't) things will hopefully start to happen faster.

R53, you little troll fucker, talk about delusional, if the report is such a big "nothingburger" why not release it? Why keep lying about it, and distorting the results and spinning? And BTW: There are people who were charged by a grand jury, and indicted, and people who pleaded guilty, so this is not a witch hunt, and it is still going on. Yes. Mueller and his grand jury are still "robustly investigating." So go fuck yourself with steel wool wrapped around your dick.

R53 “You DL'ers are so delusional! Why do you think there was nothing to the report, because there wasn't. Boo hoo...”

It’s 10 AM in Moscow, Boris. A little early to be drinking, nyet?

What the Mueller Report Stated: You cannot indict a sitting President.

What Barr said: No indictment, no obstruction.

What Mueller stated: President not cleared.

What Barr stated: Total Vindication.

The evidence of the investigation: more than enough to convict under normal circumstances for obstruction and conspiracy.

Barr: Because Trump was not indicted, he id considered peripheral to this investigation. peripheral third parties are not to be exposed. COVERUP.

r55...Cabinet members get impeached....thats the investigation...if guilty, hes removed and criminally charged.

And conviction still takes 2/3 of the Senate.

The Senate is this Presidents parachute .

Bracing myself for a week of DC fuckery. Where’s the report Barr?

R61, for now.

R60, cabinet members are not impeached. They can be forced to resign, members of Congress can call for their resignation and the President can ask for their resignation, (which in Trump's case would not happen to Barr) and they can be charge with crimes. They aren't important enough to be impeached. Federal Judges and the POTUS are impeached.

And in January 2021, we will have enough Senators and House members to impeach Trump and a few judges in the mix.

The troll situation here was nuts for precisely one week. And now they're gone. (well except for R53 who's still trying to get his beet rations for the week).

R64 yes, which is proof to me that they were desperately trying to get out early to cover up whatever the fuck Barr was trying to do.

As much as I want to hope that things are changing for the better, are we really in any better position than we were last week? Barr is still doing exactly what he wants. Thankfully the news has decided to stand up instead of maintaining their bent over position for Barr and Company but, legally, nothing has changed. We still don't have the report. There are no plans for even Congress to see an unredacted report. Barr has actually added to the number of things he's going to redact in collusion with Graham. We've moved from 54% believing the report didn't exonerate the asshole to 40% in two different polls. We still can't impeach the fucker because of the Senate and, since Mueller didn't indict him, there's no hope for justice to actually take place.

Are we just trying to make ourselves feel better or is there actually some real reason for hope that I'm missing?

Good poll numbers out this weekend: roughly 75-80% of the US public want the entire unredacted Mueller report released.

If anyone anywhere has Atom bomb level dirt that will destroy those two racist closet cases McConnell and Graham they better let it fly soon because those two working together will keep the real report from ever seeing the light of day.

"will keep the real report from ever seeing the light of day" DURING THIS ADMINIISTRATION...

McTurtle and Grahammy will be here after the orange turd is long gone R69 and McConnell is already cheating the system again to stack the lower courts with conservative judges.

R47 is speaking my language!

Bring those racketeering charges! Money laundering! Tax evasion!

Music to my ears!

As evil as they are, I’m not worried about those cunts, Graham and McConnell. That report is coming out. End of story. Wait for it.

For the person in the previous thread asking what Barr did after his first stint as AG, he was EVP and General Counsel at the telecom company GTE (based in TX) until the merger with Bell Atlantic to create Verizon. He left once the merger was completed.

R66 said "there's no hope"...

Just block he trolls! Life is so much better

[quote] cabinet members are not impeached.

True. However, they can be impeached -- the last one was Secretary of War William W. Belknap in 1876 (who was acquitted in the Senate) -- but the most likely situation is that the President who appointed them forces them to resign. That won't happen here because Barr is DOTUS's insurance policy.

The way the Media drank the fucking Kool Aid and went nuts for the "Barr Report" a fucking 4 page opinion memo, was infuriating. The Media has to know by now that they're dealing with a criminal enterprise, and no one, whether it's a cabinet member appointed by POTUS, or certain members of Congress, no one who supports this regime is clean. This is a fucking criminal enterprise and that's exactly how Barr and anyone else connected to Trump, needs to be treated. Stop giving them the "benefit of the doubt" because there is NO doubt.

The. Media. Doesn't. Care. They want $ ad revenue $ and nothing else. If dumb Americans stopped watching/reading/linking MAYBE they'd start behaving like adults.

[quote] the Media drank the fucking Kool Aid

They did. But, quite surprisingly, the American public isn't buying the nonsense they're peddling. Which, is somewhat shocking, considering how they were more than happy to be led astray about Hillary's damn emails.

My experience with people like Trump (and yes, I actually have worked for people who were that fucked up) is that they tend to stay in power until the people who've been responsible for putting him there are exhausted by the effort of propping up and covering for the stiff in office and can no longer protect him. Then the enemies swarm in and take him out. But by then there's no triumph because the Stiff has caused so much destruction and misery that nobody feels anything anymore about the whole situation. That's how it was with Nixon. One piece of writing by Hunter S. Thompson that I think has stood the test of time is his description of Nixon leaving the White House for the last time, in its sense of utter anticlimax.

Re: R80, the only comparable event I lived through was the fall of Margaret Thatcher. She was as deeply divisive as Trump, but not a crooked mob boss. Trump is by magnitudes worse.

The build-up to Thatcher's dramatic exit was intense and exciting - riveting. It's true that when she'd finally been ousted, it was too much to take in after her eleven years in power. Eleven! The relief though was phenomenal.

She was pretty much a wreck thereafter. As was Nixon - his Frost interviews were hardly redemptive. Trump will similarly be a wreck, but as now, not know it. He'll be history's laughing stock for centuries, but bellow he's a winner till his last.

Per CNN, the House is going to subpoena the full, unredacted Mueller Report.

NYT: Whistle-Blower Tells Congress of Irregularities in White House Security Clearances

After Barr shit out his nonsense last weekend I had to unplug from most media not only because of an intense work week, but travel and a death in the family. Underneath all of that was this nagging dread and reluctance to plug back in.

SURPRISE. The Barr Report was a goose egg and Americans aren't buying it. That's a huge deal. I caught up with one of Mueller, She Wrote's dailies and they reported polling that showed it hasn't moved the needle. A Majority of Americans want the full report, do not believe it clears Trump and, as mentioned earlier in threads (thanks, everyone) now Barr/Trump aren't as smug as they were last weekend. Nervous, I'd say. I like that. The report doesn't shut down RICO charges, and I've always believed that that's where Trump is most vulnerable. No way he isn't in knee-deep. HA.

Barr is a knuckle-cracking, fat bastard enforcer who did what he does best--protect Republicans at all cost. He shut Mueller down. Mueller didn't reach conclusions because he wasn't allowed to finish the work. THAT's the message Mueller is signaling. Believe your eyes and ears. Also, Tump knows everything in the report. He's a mob boss and sociopath. They know everything, and put people in place who will tell them everything.

Bless Adam Shiff. Bless Congress as they pull in the full report, Barr and Mueller to serve justice on behalf of the American people.

Oh! Bless those AWESOME voters who showed up in LA on Saturday. Holy shit! Another unexpected surprise.

What a difference one week makes. This is how people resist and fight for their country. So thanks to you people who took the gut punches this week, documented the day-by-day in our threads, roasted the trolls and gave me one hell of a good morning cup of coffee.

Great post, R84, and sorry for your loss.

Wait, Miss Lindsay is helping to redact the report? F her and that black cock she rode in on.

I don’t understand why the fuck Lindsey has anything to do with the redactions. Why is she even being allowed to review the report before everyone else? Does Ivanka get to weigh in with her two cents as well? This is so outrageous and ridiculous.

I really wish some brave American (is there even one left?) would leak the report.

The media is practically owned by the right wing. The surprise is that the mainstream does not understand that by now and still buys their bullshit.

There is something really wrong with this if the presidents and his vast team of paid cunts get to cut the report to shreds and not let anyone see the level of criminality it contains.

William Barr is an unelected partisan hack who, I believe, is way in over his head here.

[quote]I don’t understand why the fuck Lindsey has anything to do with the redactions.

It just makes us all think again his kompromat must be devastating.

Since Watergate the right wing made sure that they own the press so history will not repeat itself.

R80 and R81, the thing that gives me hope is that Trump is already over age 70. He has much less chance of a public redemption period, like Nixon sorta got. It's all over for him. He'll never be able to delude himself with still feeling like a winner.

I am ready to see all the dirty laundry aired! Barr you in trouble gurl.

Barr is committing obstruction of justice in plain sight and I would to see more accusations like that flung in his direction.

And why was his son-in-law installed directly in the White House Counsel’s office? Is the son-in-Law acting as a conduit between those two? Everything about this whole thing is so fetid. It stinks and everyone can see what’s happening.

There should be a bigger stink about Barr's son working for Trump.

It's the COVERUP, stupid!

This looks like progress!

Barr already seems to be panicked by the reaction to his “summary memo.” Lots of clean-ups and backtracking happening right now. I especially love how he is so insistent on not having what he specially titled a “summary” referred to as such. You fat fuck.

Also, I have never see someone with a head as large as his. It looks like an extra large bowling ball painted to look like Fred Flintstone.

If LG gets to help redact the report that would mean he would see the unredacted bits, right? And if it is OK for him to see them, what is the possible rationale for not allowing other members of Congress to see them? And if it isn’t OK for him to see them (methods and sources for ongoing espionage cases for instance) isn’t Barr engaging in misconduct? I mean what is to stop LG from blabbing to his Russian handlers? Unless this is all some sort of elaborate barium meal test that Mueller is running.

Not only is the House planning to subpoena the FULL MUELLER REPORT, but also MCGAHN, BANNON, HICKS and PRIEBUS, and to give Jerry Nadler authority to subpoena anyone at any time. Here we go!

Subpoenas is a beautiful word.

So they are sharing it with Republican Senators (Graham) but Democrats get to see it later?

How is this even legal?

Miss Thang wants to cut out all of the references to her kompromat and any other rethug who may be implicated.

Every last one of those traitors needs to have their assets seized and hanged in the public square.

Three thoughts:

1) If we only know what has filtered out in media and the Mueller subpoenas, imagine what Congress knows.

2) Congress is asking for all the underlying evidence as well. The GOP just had collective diarrhea.

3) They're going after the Mob. Beef up everyone's security detail.

A fourth thought:

Lindsay Graham deserves nothing short of humiliation and ruination. I expect despicable behavior from Trump and McConnell, but Graham's willing descent into that pit has been stunning.

So Barr classified Trump as a "peripheral third party"?

We shall see what kind of justice Trump bought with the Barr appointment.

I, too, have been unable to watch the news since Barr's fake summary cover-up. I have never been so angry about anything in my life. Crimes committed in plain sight.

Now I read today that McConnell will block any and all of Pelosi's agenda. He is as great an evil as trump. They want to ruin the citizens of the US to enrich themselves. We simply must over run them in the 2020 elections. There cannot be a Republican majority Senate. This blatant corruption must end.

I want to see all the traitors hang, starting with trump and mcconnell.

Yertle has to go. He’s been in the senate for 60 years and it’s just time for him to go.

There a lot of buzz about the other evidence. What do we thing it is?

Text messages

Emails

Audio recordings

Intent to do business type letters

What else?

No wonder they are going to try to bury this.

Why do republicans always act like they have ownership of the goverment and it’s people?????

They always come at things with the understand that they are somehow superior to the rest of us and can control us and tell us what we can and can’t see? We paid for the report. Actual tax payers.

What is up with? They don’t own the goverment —and they take so much more in the form or corporate welfare and tax doges. They use up so much more resources and always want to pollute and destroy.

They don’t own the U.S. it’s a free country, no matter what they say.

They hate the constitution and the freedoms it protects.

R105 the delicious reality is that Mueller and Barr know each other well.

Barr knows that Mueller would, and will, act honorably.

Mueller knows that Barr wouldn't, and won't. Psychological advantage goes to Mueller and his beautiful, silver-daddy chess-playing brain.

R106 Democrats need to embrace this and go directly to the American people. Put a skeleton crew on legislation and devote 95% of their resources to nothing but televised hearings in all corners of Republican corruption.

Today marks the 800th day of the longest and unfunniest April Fool's Day prank in the history of the world.

They’ll just replace him with Turtle jr. R107. We have to eliminate the Republican Party as a political force.

No r112. It’s not either or.

This one HAS to go.

No doubt r113–I often go back and forth as to whom I hate more—Dump or Turtle. My point is that things won’t be much better if he goes. But yes, I would be very, very happy if he were gone.

Pardon the right-wing Washington Examiner link, but apparently Lindsey Graham, in addition to helping redact the Muller Report, is collaborating with William Barr to appoint a Special Prosecutor to harass Hillary Clinton again about her Emails and Server again.

This is nothing but a planned diversion from Mueller Report-gate and Russia-gate.

Lindsey Graham need reprimanded by his colleagues. There needs to a Special Prosecutor for Kompromat-gate.

Bill Barr is so unprofessional.

Well, tRump is the culmination of years of shit stains like McTurtle. There'd be no orange beast without the cancer that is McTurtle.

R115 if that's true, that's pretty damn despicable. You don't need a special prosecutor for someone who's not President and obviously there's nothing left to investigate. The lengths these repigs go to cover up for their own is beyond shameful. I hope something very damaging about Graham comes out in the press very soon. He needs to go down in flames.

Barr needs his reputation destroyed as well

such an abuse of power

[quote] So Barr classified Trump as a "peripheral third party"?

Peripheral Third Party -- Unindicted Conspirator ... it's such a fine line.

Co-Conspirator, I mean.

McConnell needs to be indicted next.

There must be something in Mueller report that damns him as a traitor.

When the House gets the report they must oust McConnell first.

Take down Elaine "Dragon Lady" Chao with him, please, Baby Jesus.

Democrats in Congress must take the offensive. Distribute those subpoenas with rapid fire. Don't let up.

DJT and his enablers are doing their cover-up offensive, very aggressively with vindictiveness. They even have much of the main stream media intimidated. Interesting, the NYT has been rolling out some of their most conservative reporters/journalists for public commentaries.

I think Chao is facilitating fentanyl coming in through chinese freighters while trump turns the focus to drugs on the Mexican border.

If so, R123, and it's totally plausible, then sum ting wong.

She blew it with the Boeing scandal. ‘Nothing to see here.’

I'm firmly convinced Lindsey may be hospitalized with a severe case of indigestion that turns out to be a massive heart attack,and tah, tah!! WTF are those CIA types when you need them???? And if anyone really does look like a heart attack waiting to happen it's Barr. He has the bulging frog eyes of someone who is either always short of breath, or suffering from a thyroid condition. I say increase his dosage and let's get that thyroid going. Yes! Grossly overweight. Probably poor diet. Fine. He needs a personal trainer who will really put him through his paces. I want to see him huffing and puffing and beyond the point of exhaustion, breathing heavily, face purple and then BOOM, like that. ya know? Let's be creative, people!

"I'm firmly convinced Lindsey may be hospitalized with a severe case of indigestion"

Really? Hmm....What could cause severe indigestion?....what could he have swallowed? Anyone??

Man, Ken Dilanian just gave this rambling babbling bullshit explanation about the whistleblower talking about the 25 people whose security clearances were granted by Trump when he overruled the decision of the people who do that for a living. Dilanian is full of shit. He needs to go. He is trying to spin this as to why they were overruled and why they were denied, and maybe the WH just didn't have the patience to wait, etc. when we know very well that Kushner in particular was denied clearances for cause and he repeatedly lied on his forms. Dilanian needs to go work for Fox. He is over.

"Cocaine Mitch" pertained to the Chao family international shipping industry whereby it was discovered cocaine was being freighted. Mitch is heavily invested in the business. That right-wing politician in West Virginia running for office in 2018 was bringing the matter up. And the Chaos' are examples of "chain migration". Elaine has had multiple cabinet posts including with the Bush administration. The story was included in something called the Paradise Papers.

Lindsey Graham will soon find herself featured in the “Bottoms in Ecstasy” thread here on DL once her kompromat is fully revealed.

Dilanian, like some other reporters, spin for the WH in order to get scoops and leaks from Kellyanne and cohorts. It is exchanging pro-Trump messaging for access.

Couldn't believe the media's initial response to Barr's four-pager, without anyone seeing the damned report yet. (Jonathan Swan is a freaking tool.) They bought in; hook-line-and-sinker, but are coming around now, especially since Barr is under severe scrutiny and the (good) American peeps aren't buying tRumps' early and self-beneficial conclusions.

Thanks for these much appreciated and well written posts!

May Svetlana find her Paxil... and many, many 'blocks'.

Miss LG acts as if she is very compromised. Turning into a DJT supporter could be considered plausible for Miss LG to avoid facing a challenge in the GOP Senate primary in SC for 2020. But she has gone to the extreme, actually doing dirty work for Trump and meddling in shit in which she has no direct business. She's aggressively trying to revive attacks and endless investigations on Hillary Clinton and her Emails. Frankly, the Clintons need to sue the DoJ and individuals such as Miss LG and Trey Gowdy, while out of Congress and a Fox contributor, is still trying to have her prosecuted it appears.

This isn't normal. It is like someone behaving as if blackmail is involved. Whatever it may be, it must have powerful implications if revealed.

I would like to see the Clintons sue, this is way fucked up.

Lindsey does his clever little phrases to look insightful and witty. The media laps it up, but they are not confronting him on his own behavior. Shame on the media!

Miss linds needs to microblade those brows.

I always thought the "Rushed-to-Hospital-to-Have-Overflow-of-Ingested-Semen-Pumped-Out-of Stomach" story was a laughable showbiz urban legend.

But La Senatrice is acting like it's been all about her, in reality.

[quote]So Barr classified Trump as a "peripheral third party"?

Wait, what? Do we know this for certain?

You know, Barr isn't going to be able to get anywhere if they investigate the DOJ about their Clinton investigations. They do not want to put those people on TV at some hearing. Comey, Lynch, McCabe, etc. will make them look so bad! Both BArr and Lindsey have to know it's a dumb move. If BArr caves in and allows it, he is an even bigger asswipe than I thought. So dumb. Yeah, guys, have those "inexperienced" DOJ guys come and testify. Investigate them. I know y'all want it public because you think it will fire up your base, but hunny, careful what you wish for....

Why does Graham continue to use photos of Kavanaugh and him together in his Twitter heading, on his office wall in DC & SC, literature, etc.

Kavanaugh is married with kids I doubt Kavanaugh appreciates such. Not a Kavanaugh fan, but he was confirmed months ago, and he doesn't need to be a pawn for an alleged closeted gay any longer.

Did Barr say Trumo was a peripheral third party???!!!

I doubt that McConnell or Graham are even mentioned in the Mueller report. Mueller is a Republican and purely focused on Trump campaign and associates, to a lesser degree the Trump administration. I would suggest managing expectations.

All I can say is remember Beghazi!!! LOLOL! Dragging Hillary before that committee and making her sit for 11 hours and answer questions? She made asses of tham all. And Comey is no Hillary, but this is not his first rodeo. C'mon, Lindsey, take some more rope.....

[quote] Today marks the 800th day of the longest and unfunniest April Fool's Day prank in the history of the world

Have these fantasy threads really been running that long?

R138 R141 does he need to?

Donald J Trump was named as a co-conspirator in a federal crime entered into judgment in the Southern District of NY in a plea deal accepted by a federal judge.

R141, no, he has not said this. Well, not yet.

La Senatrice's fall will be mighty. I do wonder what 'they' have oh him and if he, McConnell, and Nunes will ultimately do infamy together.

These shit head enablers and obstructionist liars surely make the history books.

R143... yes, wasn't that basically like a great and free campaign ad for Hillary? I seem to recall polls surging in her favor after that.

Maybe if they do it again she'll run again.

[quote]Now I read today that McConnell will block any and all of Pelosi's agenda. He is as great an evil as trump.

He's also attempting to speed up Trumpy's judicial appointments.

Easy. McConnell shuts down the House, Dems shut down the Senate. Nothing gets done until the current occupants are out.

We survived eight years of total gridlock between Obama and Congress, we can survive two more.

Oh, you dirty girl, come here now!

Scroll down link and watch the cow band giving tribute to Nunes & Trump outside WH.

Wow! R150's photo is Miss Graham is terrifying!

Ms. Lindsey learned it from her mentor.

I hope everyone realizes that we are going to be footing the bill for asshole Trump for the rest of his days...he will continue bilking secret service and so forth. I so want him to go to prison so hes disgraced and stripped of everything.

Come on Mikey, it's been a year, you can get it up.

Quick note the 2020 Census is coming up. The trump/republicans are planning on under counting people. In my state, WA, this means we will lose 1.6 Billion in federal money. The census is HOW FEDERAL REPS are apportioned. This is how republicans plan to keep the house forever.

Please call your state senators and reps and let them know you want a complete and accurate count

Mr. Trump was most often described as ‘aggressive’ (48 percent) and ‘mean’ (38 percent),” The Times reported Monday. “He also scored high for being ‘insincere,’ ‘confident’ and ‘creepy.’ But he scored between 0 and 4 percent for the attributes of ‘sexy,’ ‘impartial,’ ‘handsome’ and ‘physically fit.'”

[quote] The census is HOW FEDERAL REPS are apportioned.

You're right. Every American citizen should be counted.

Every American RESIDENT should be counted.

Was that photo R150 posted of Lindsey taken in a bathroom stall? See the handicap bar attached to the wall. Did The Senatrice spot a puddle of jizz on the floor or what?

Always thought Mizz Lindz was a toilet tramp!

I saw this on Raw Story and it made me unreasonably happy tonight. It's a small thing, but I hope we see more of it.

His constituents are the Mercers, Kochs, and the like.

r162....the sad part about that....he doesnt care....and it doesnt phase him in the least.

R164, yes but. Going shopping, going to restaurants, taking a walk, all the things people normally do, I hope they make his life miserable any time he steps outside. I want to see him become a nervous wreck, trembling and frightened. He's nearly 80. May his final years be filled with fear, anxiety and pain. That is my wish for him. That he will suffer in exact measure to the pain and suffering he inflicts on others. I wish that for all of them. Anyone who is in a position to do great good, and instead CHOOSES to do great harm should rot in Hell. Seriously.

stop wishing for bad things because it doesn't create bad things for them but only hurts your soul.

psychics said something terrible is going to happen to McConnell pretty soon. Couldn't see what it was but knew it was really bad, may involve the wife.

I'm surprised we haven't seen some polonium deaths or blunt force suicides.

Donate some money to the the Dems in SC and KY to send these ghouls packing.

One lady came close to beating Yertle in 2014.

I think graham might have a primary in SC. Colbert’s sister came close to beating a repug down there.

It is possible.

How many decades have these two fossils been in congress? Time for them to get a real job!

Drain the swamp!

R159, hi, I'm the person who wrote about the census.

The constitution of the US requires a count of people, not citizens.

I am really really tired of assholes like yourself shiting on the constitution while telling people like myself we are not real Americans.

So gd tired. The constitution sets out the rules and process by which this country operates. Your disrespect, ignorance, racism belongs on 4chan. Fake history is their forte. Sincerely fuck off.

Want to derail Graham & Pence campaign rallies in Carolina? Protest signs, flip-flops, banners, shouting and chanting, won't work. They prepare to counter such.

Just have female bodybuilders show up, G & P will skedaddle.

Trump gets a plaque at the border -- and even it lies.

Amen, R165. So well put.

R165, here, and I try and I usually succeed in not wishing bad things on people, R166.. Because it can come back to bit you in the ass. I do believe that. I just can't with Trump, Graham, McConnell, Ryan, people like the Kochs, etc. " Anyone who is in a position to do great good and instead chooses to do great harm..." and really, that is my point.

There are people in this world who have the capability to really make a huge difference. To have an impact and make lives better. Instead these craven beasts choose to do harm. Look at that fucker today denying aid to Puerto Rico.

Look at how the asylum seekers are having their children taken away, and put in cages. Still. And hundreds have not been reunited from last year! And now they are jailing the parents who have come here simply to see their children. This is evil. It is cruel and sadistic and ugly.

People say it's Trump, but his own party members could stop him and choose not to. Their big donor class could stop them, but won't. Why? Because they do not care. They are all the same. It is not just Trump it's all of them. They are as craven and low as he is. So yes, I want them to feel the same pain they inflict on others.

So Kush is out there denying any issues with his Security Clearance and saying that he's been accused of a million things since 2016 and ALL of them have been proven FALSE.

Uh....

Like what?

I literally cannot think of one thing that turned out to be false.

R173 that’s how he’ll claim victory re the border wall. It’s funded and finished! See? There’s a plaque!

In the wake of an alarming rise in right-wing extremism and violence, the Trump administration had decided to disband the domestic terror intelligence unit of the Department of Homeland Security.

Because we truly are living in Bizarro World.

That’s because we know who financed Charleston and all the you-tube videos used to radicalize the shooters.

There is work to be done at the state levels now that we are no longer waiting for someone else to bring justice.

Just today, NC rounded up some GOP goons, including the top dog GOP chairman.

Great R180. I hope the State Democratic PArties a re doing all they can to insure that the primaries are as clean as possible and not opportunities for mischief. I think all primaries in all states have to be closed. Only registered Democrats can vote. No opportunities for cross over voting. You have to declare your party. After all, that's what the primary process is all about, choosing your party's nominee. In 2016, I know for a fact that BErnie was busing people in to vote in caucuses out west. A lot of them were college students without valid IDs and then there was a big mess in either NEvada or Arizona when it came time to select delegates. Expect more of the same in terms of disruptions. The GOP wants chaos and bitterness.

Watching Ari Melber and Corey Booker together, damn they're flirting! Ari's eyelashes are going ten miles a second, and Coey is beaming and Ari is beaming and they're all warm and jokey and there's definitely sexual energy there.

If we're going after the NC GOP then Mark Harris, the felony ballot snatcher, should be at the front of the line.

Mueller Report: The 9 Things That Don't Make Sense About the Barr Letter

The Barr "Memo" is only 3.5 pages long. Nine things laid out across three and a half pages means basically EVERYTHING.

R185

Trump backtracking about wanting the Mueller report released now lol

what's he hiding?

R185, yup, pretty much the whole thing is a crock of 💩

Here's a game I'm wondering if Barr is playing. He's going to redact the report so basically all you see is "Trump, No Collusion." Democrats will sue and subpoena Mueller. Mueller is such a straight shooter, he may not testify against DOJ wishes or say his report was directed to the AG and any questions need to be addressed by Barr. Court battles ensue. We burn a year or so on this tactic. Now, we're in the middle of the election. The report has lots of information in it about people who probably did bad things but weren't charged - for whatever reason. DOJ has policy against discussing investigation that don't lead to indictments (unless you're Hillary Clinton and its a week before the election). Barr claims this policy as well as not wanting to interfere with an election. Thus, we don't get to see the report until after 2020.

My chance to shout out to the world that I despise the scumbag Trump and I believe I hate Mueller even more than Trump.

Yep, Bill "Candy" Barr is going to do everything to run out the clock to avoid fully disclosing the report.

And Mueller will let him. Because he's a Republican and Good Soldier.

I wonder if there's some brave soul who'd risk his/her career and freedom by leaking?

Barr is going to claim that "Mueller" concurred with the "findings" in Barr's redacted version. That could be subject to multiple interpretations.

Either Barr is going to be honest and forthright, or he is running a cover-up with delay tactics. So far, it firmly looks like there later.

Unless the full original report is released without inappropriate redactions, and done so timely, no confidence should be placed in Barr. His intent is to protect Trump by an means at his disposal.

As for as Mueller, cut the protocol crap. Appear before Congress whether Barr likes it or not.

Rosenstein needs to answer some questions as well.

People keep asking why Rosenstein is collaborating with Barr when he is a potential witness....I will remind you that Rosenstein...and Kavanaugh...worked for Ken Starr and his "real" witch hunt against a president.

R189, the problem with that calculation is that unseen horrors are always worse than visible ones. The longer DOJ/Barr fights to withhold the full Report, the easier it is to argue that the Report must be incredibly unfavorable to Trump and involve acts we, the general public, do not know about.

Comey Defends Barr

Former FBI Director James Comey said people should give Attorney General William Barr the “benefit of the doubt” when it comes to the report from Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia and President Donald Trump’s campaign.

“What is normal redactions in cases like this? I mean, you must have seen a lot of this in your tenure and in all your positions. I mean, you know, the jokes are that it will all be redacted except for a couple of words. You just said give him the benefit of the doubt. But what should one expect beyond what he just said,” CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked.

“You should expect a good faith effort by the department of justice to protect things in those categories, you don’t want to reveal classified information,” Comey replied. “You don’t want to damage ongoing investigations and you don’t want to smear people who had no part in the investigation, but that’s all easy to figure out if you know the case as, Mueller’s people do.”

God, fuck Comey. He has been botching things up for years now.

I am sorry, but anyone who gives ANYONE from the Trump administration, and their supporters and associates, the benefit of the doubt is a fucking idiot.

We can't look for justice, or any justified retaliation that fits these people's crimes, from the very establishment that has been taken hostage and has been corrupted by these people.

R197, I agree. While I liked when he was fucking with Trump and pissing him off, I also understand that the Comey letter shifted the election 4 points in Trump's favor and helped put him in the White House.

Let Freedom Leak!

Huffpo had an article about how McConnell is stacking the courts hard for Pres Bone Spurs. He has more circuit judges than any other "president" at this point in their term. All super young. If the nuclear option is invoked, 130+ judges will be confirmed. They are all young, anti-gay/environment/voting. All but one repug voted to bring the debate about judges down from 30 to 2 hours. Fucking Murkowski and Collins voted FOR this. Fuck all the "moderate" repugs. There are NONE. All Dems voted against.

They actually are saying the DEMS are obstructionists and holding up gov't. To call this hypocrisy is a disservice to hypocrisy.

THIS is what the ball game is about. They knew it and WE wanted purity.

"but her emails......" won in 2016.

Dems should never pass any of Trumps judges. Not one of them.

Do not forget that Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein and Barr are all Republicans and never to be trusted.

Nothing to see here. Move along...

"On Saturday, a Chinese national was arrested by the Secret Service at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida, while the president was there. Prosecutors say she was allegedly carrying four cellphones and computer equipment including a flash drive containing malware, and briefly gained admission by lying to federal agents about being on the membership list."

"But the story gets even stranger from there. According to the Miami Herald, although the woman, Yujing Zhang, told officials she was there for a “United Nations Friendship Event,” her actual purpose there was likely to attend an event associated with a familiar, controversial figure in the president’s orbit: MASSAGE PARLOR OWNER LI "CINDY" YANG."

r202 It is not up to them. They don't control the Senate.

President Wrecking Ball is right on course- destroy the ACA, close the border over their manufactured crisis, deficit is bonkers high for a good economy, tariffs ripping our already bad trade deficit. The level of lying, thieving, grifting and more is off the fucking charts bad. I never thought I would see a political party completely lose it to hold on to power. They don't want to adapt to what we want. They will force it one way or the other.

If Kentucky votes that chinless demon McConnell into the Senate again, I hope the New Madrid fault opens up and swallows the whole fucking state.

Truth is no longer truth. It just floors me to watch people lie about things you can easily show them in person, on video or whatever. They just LIE. And the media, and us, let them. Every fucking liar, like KAC, needs to be scrubbed from appearances. Not because they are right wing, but because they fucking LIE nonstop about things demonstrably true.

Demons with black souls is what the repugs have become maybe always were.

WP on Lindsey's selective outrage.

[quote]Trump backtracking about wanting the Mueller report released now lol

[quote]what's he hiding?

He’s worried that the report will exonerate him TOO much! The poor man, he’s just so humble. The report also paints a criminal picture of Obama and Hillary and he doesn’t want the violent mobs on the left to be excited to action.

DoublePlusUnGood!

The GOP has lost their fucking minds. Every day is a horror show of how low they will go. They learned nothing from the 2018 midterms. Vote them all out. Fuck that demonic party.

[quote] If the nuclear option is invoked, 130+ judges will be confirmed

"If"?? It was invoked years ago by Harry Reid. Thank him for every one of those judges.

The current attack on Democrats as obstructionists by McConnell recently are just projection to take the attention away from what theyre doing...and its working. Democrats are on the defensive about the hypocrisy, and nobody is talking about his "nuclear option" which is pure obstruction.

Who else has slipped through the porous security at Mar-a-Lago?

Why doesn't AOC speak out against this Kushner and Barr craziness?

Or does she only attack her fellow Democrats?

R215 is showing us the trolls are getting quite trolly at their trolling. He/she/it complains upthread about trolls, pretending to be one of us, then drops the AOC post to distract us. No, you’re not one of us; go back and do a couple more shots of Vodka maybe you’ll get better at it.

[quote]Dems should never pass any of Trumps judges. Not one of them.

You don't seem to understand how judges are confirmed.

And, to the asshole blaming Reid for the nuclear option, you also have no idea what you are talking about. First, the Repugs were blocking 100% of the judges Obama put up. There was no other option that would keep the judiciary running. Secondly, dummy, do you really think McConnell wouldn't have blown it up five seconds after he took over? Have you been paying any attention to the lengths McConnell has gone to to subvert every democratic foundation of the legislature?

golfing weekend

Meghan McCain Rages in Fiery View Rant: Trump’s Going to Get Reelected, Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You

The View‘s Joy Behar and Meghan McCain got into an icy standoff on Tuesday, which ended with a proclamation from the latter that President Donald Trump will win re-election if Democrats keep flirting with socialism ahead of 2020

The argument started during a panel discussion of the political traction Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been getting among the Democratic base. McCain brought up a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll suggesting most Americans would be okay with a homosexual president. However, the poll also said only 25 percent of the country would approve of having a socialist as president.

When Behar suggested most Americans don’t realize what socialism really means, McCain responded that “people are smart.” This led to a back-and-forth in which she asked if Behar was questioning her intelligence.

The conversation grew increasingly tense as McCain said “it’s so ridiculous” and that nominating a Democratic socialist 2020 candidate would make Trump’s re-election a certainty.

“I miss Whoopi [Goldberg] when she’s not here,” an exasperated McCain said to substitute moderator Behar.

Well McCain is sort of right probably by accident. Bernie is making serious progress. And he is getting support under the table, from Trump people/Russians, or WTF ever. Nixon sort of did this in 1972. He wanted to run against McGovern. Muskie was polling well and was a strong candidate to beat him. So he created a fake scandal and took Muskie out before the nomination was secured and he ran against McGovern, the anti war, who was Far Left, and popular with the younger people, and McGovern lost. Every fucking state. So if they succeed in fucking up Biden's chances, and Bernie remains strong, it is possible he may win the primaries and get the nomination. If that happens we.are.fucked. Trump said it out loud today. He told someone, at some press event that he is certain the Dems are going to nominate someone so far to the Left it will be impossible to vote for them. Now Trump could say that about any Dem, even if it's not true. But Bernie would be the worst possible candidate for us.

Yes, people forget how the GOP were blocking every judge Obama had. There was a huge judicial crisis (surprise the media did NOT make this a huge issue) and the GOP knew what they were doing. They knew they'd get the Senate (thanks to Russia and our own oligarchs) so the crisis was manufactured so they could ram through their own nominees. That strategy also reveals how sure they were they'd win the 2016 prez election. Putin made them sweat it out, though. Pres Bone Spurs now has 1 out of 5 circuit judges. He has over 100 more to fill and will easily. ALL young, anti gay, anti environment, anti voting.

Yes, it's ridiculous that Rethugs are allowed to basically lie and create a narrative that Dems are obstructionists without the media correcting and or pointing out that THEY are the real obstructionists.

Huckabeast was allowed to make that statement and did anyone shout out, "What about Merrick?"

why is Trump lying about his father's birthplace? He said today he was born in Germany when the truth is his father was born in NYC. Does he think it makes his story look better to come from 2 immigrant parents? Or that he's more sympathetic to immigrants than he really is? If not I have no idea why he'd lie about THIS

add to it the irony of making up the lie that Obama was born in Kenya

just weird as fuck

r225, it is the snorted Aderall

omg he also said the noise from windmills causes cancer!!! WTF

The mayor of San Juan spilled some tea today that Trump had a failed golf course in Puerto Rico. That does make one wonder if he's taking it out on the island because his business flopped there. He's that petty

The media should completely push back at the gall of repugs saying the Dems are obstructionists. To steal a SC pick should never be forgiven. That, on top of the refusing to vote on Obama judges is un-fucking-real.

The media too often present both sides and just say, well, you decide. No! You point out fucking LIES if they say them. It is time for the media to either save our democracy or get the fuck out of the way. They love bothsiderism. No calling out lies it is all, "The Dems say it rained yesterday in X city. The repugs say it did not. Well, back to you, Jim!"

Rick Reilly has a new book "Commander in Cheat" about Trump's golf habits and how that explains his personality. He said Trump cheats constantly whenever he plans in plain sight.

The more we learn about the orange idiot, the insane it is that he got elected to the highest office. There really are some fucking idiots in this country

*whenever he plays in plain sight

Fuck this shit. Call Mueller to testify. We will never get to see the full report

That's in the pipeline. I think the guy who signs the subpoenas probably has a cramp in his signing hand.

My question is, what happens when the Trump Crime Syndicate just ignores the subpoenas? They can turn it over to the Justice Department, but Trump will be out of office by the time they do anything about it.

I never though an entire political party would rot so deeply and wholly. It is scary. There really are no "adults" in that party. All it would take is a few of them with principles (lol I know, a repug with principles!?) to switch parties to the Dems, stripping McConnell of his power and saying they will only switch back when the insanity stops. Can we get 4 heroes? Nope-all demons with black souls.

the only few repubs speaking out are the ones you see on MSNBC and CNN who are either retired from politics or just the advisers/talking heads. It seems pretty much all actively serving elected repubs are falling in line.

Even Will Hurd signed that letter last week petitioning for Schiff's resignation!!! Hurd seems like a pretty moderate guy who has publicly disagreed with Trump about the US/Mexican border but then he goes and falls in line for that stunt.

Every. Single. Repug. Is willing to let our democracy fizzle away. Think about that. Especially when you're forced to suffer some idiotic deplorable this weekend or you hear someone moan how red states 'just want to be heard'. Don't waste your time arguing with them, just remember who these people really are.

I don't know many Republicans but there are a couple I work with who despise trump. They still consider themselves conservative, they're both in business and are somewhat religious but not evangelical. They are nice people, fine to work with, and they give me some hope. But I'm in a deeply blue region and an Orange County Republican colleague once laughed at our Northern CA Republican Lites. He hated Putin, he's retired and I wonder what he's thinking now.

R236 Even Hurd? I don't even know why I am surprised. What a shame. Fuck. I wouldn't vote for a repug for anything but it is heartbreaking to see what they have become. They know the country isn't truly conservative in any way. Their policies are failures all the way around. When it comes down to it, the public does not like conservatism when you strip away the platitudes. It doesn't work and doesn't help the average person. They know it, we know it so they have to go for a bold power grab.

If they ignore the subpoenas Congress can take them to court. And judge will decide. LOL! And right now that judge is Beryl Howell and she will not look favorably on Trump There is too much case law on the side of Congress.

Our poor country has been reduced to being led around by a very weak, shithole country like Russia and its short leader. Our poor country isn't up in arms at having a leader who acts like an emotionally disturbed 8 year old with the vocabulary to match.

All of this is the fault of rich conservatives. Had Dems not had some power over the last 30 years, this would have happened much sooner. They cheat so brazenly and openly for a reason- there are far more of us than them.

r241, MSNBC hero Robert Mueller would ask what are you talking about ?

Drag Mueller in to testify. I am sure the reason why Barr is delaying the release of the report is that he is retyping 300 plus pages to make Trump come off like Mother Theresa

I heard some legal experts say if the subpoena fight goes to the courts, the case could be lingering even during the election next year and that it wouldn't be a quick decision with appeals etc. ugh

fuck...with Trump either mixing up or lying about his father's birthplace and mixing up "oranges" for "origins"...I think Trump will NEVER go to jail, even when the NY AG indicts him. I bet you his lawyers will claim he has early onset dementia and he'll get to stay at home unpunished.

R244, what I heard was that the exact same scenario played out during Watergate and it was decided within a month. This should be quicker because of the precedent established during Watergate. It is the law that certain committees in the House and Senate get to see the full, unredacted report. There is no question there.

the video from r184 should be distributed far and wide. Particularly to those who keep claiming that Mueller's report exonerated Trump and that he's completely innocent of anything he's been accused of.....

Thanks for tracking that down, r184 :)

R246 I hope you're right. I'm just glass half empty at this point. Nothing would shock me. We SHOULD get the whole report with only sources/methods redacted but I doubt it. The repubs have just been so successful at covering up

Okay, so this Chinese woman who got past the Secret Service at Mar-a-Lago...

Anyone think they'll duck if the bullets start flying and this was just one of their little "oopsies" that got some attention? "Oh no, he tripped and fell out of Marine One. Who forgot to lock that door?" or, "Boy, who knew those stairs on Air Force One were so slippery?"

We don’t have the caliber of intelligence in our Government reps compared to the reps we had when Watergate occurred. This is what frightens me. There are more morons and party first turds in office right now than brains or the quest for unity. It was different during Watergate. It wasn’t openly putting party over country back then. Because it’s openly party over country now, few are going to stand up against the destruction of the United States. They only care about “winning” against their other fellow citizens and they flat out refuse to seek a common ground.

In light of there being no reservations to how low the Repigs will go, we need to cut to the chase, subpoena Meuller and get the short version from him. This idea to go from bottom up through the chain of command will not work. There are MANY more pressing issues that we need to cover - climate change, health care, etc.

I don't know why matters are going so slowly. For example, why do they have to wait until April 2 to go to phase 2 when that Fat Barr already said long ago that he's not doing it. Why wait?

Also, I think Mueller's Report may contain compromising material on some very powerful people on the Dem side as well.

I can totally believe that much, or most, of Bernie's haul so far ($18.2 million in 41 days) is via GOP "dirty tricks" channels.

Trump also denies that he called the Microsoft guy "Tim Apple", although he is captured on film doing that...MULTIPLE times! He is not only a liar, he is a PATHOLOGICAL liar

R225, Trump is like a guy who would rather climb a tree and tell a lie than remain on the ground and tell the truth.

R184, Youtube's LegalEagle is great! Thanks for the heads up!

R254 Also the Dumpy Dotard pathologically cheats playing golf.

[quote]I don't know many Republicans but there are a couple I work with who despise trump.

But I bet you they voted for him.

And I bet you they will vote for him again.

^^^EXACTLY. They voted for him last time and they will vote for him again. I don’t trust a single person who still identifies as a Republican.

They're "Good Christians" who had no problem voting for a man who embodied nearly every sin in the Bible and none of its virtues.

What's with all these Chinese women and Mar-A-Largo? Wendi Deng Murdoch, Cindi Yang, Y. Zang.

The Chaos? Elaine is Mitch's wife & cabinet member so there's that direct connection.

Joe Wilson has no problem yelling “liar” at President Obama, but where is this cunt now to yell “liar” at Trump who doesn’t know how to tell the truth?

Republicans = scum.

Graham & Hannity with their nightly diversion to attack Hillary, Comey, McCabe, etc.

This could backfire. Comey and company may convey previously unreleased information they won't want to hear.

Comey is such a drama queen. I liked him for about a year and a half because he was causing such consternation for L’Orange, but I’m kind of back to hating on him.

ABC: Democrats move forward on subpoenas for Mueller report

Good grief, now some Trumpians are buying these T-shirts.

I want a "Trump looks like Kathy Bates" T-shirt.

No mention of the Dems flipping that Pittsburgh area seat in yesterday's special election that has been GOP for nearly 50 years and that Trump won by 6 points?

I want a t-shirt with Lindsey Graham fellating Dump's nine iron

Saw that, R267, fantastic!!!!

McConnell has to be stopped that's the only way the GOP's master plans will be stymied...Focus on old Mitch and repeat these words, Stop his breath, stop his breath, stop his breath...Hey, it worked in that one episode of Tales From The Darkside.

So, by this right-wing, fundamentalists' logic, only brick masons, concrete pourers, iron and steel welders, and fencing crews, may criticize Trump on the wall?

Does anyone else wonder where Vairst Leddy has been?

Sucking some Secret Service guy’s dick, no doubt.

Kyle Griffin:

Nadler not backing down, tells reporters he will not negotiate on Mueller report redactions: "The Committee must see everything, as was done in every prior instance ... The Committee is entitled and must see all the material ... We handle confidential material all the time."

Sign up for the protests this week.

Thanks R275 - just posted the link on my FB page. (I know FB is evil - sigh)

If this at R265 isn't idolatry, I don't know what is!

No, R257, never. I have NEVER voter Republican, ever. I despise the lying trump and everything he stands for. I despise McConnell and all the corrupt politicians and stupid deplorables. My point was that not every single conservative is a deplorable. The one co-worker I knew who is conservative is registered Independent and she did not vote for trump. She threw her vote away on Gary Johnson.

I worked with the Republican consultant before 2016, I even had to travel with him. He was totally devoted to his work and family, really knew the airline field and was very generous with sharing his experience and knowledge of the filed. We talked politics only once then agreed never to again. Mainly his thing was not supporting welfare recipients or social programs. He worked very hard but did not seem to get that not everyone gets the breaks he did and that it's important that we have safety nets like Medicare and Social Security, to be sure that the elderly and anyone else at risk, like the mentally ill, fall through the cracks into poverty and homelessness.

Like I said, I'm in a deeply blue area, I don't even know any deplorables, there are none in my solidly liberal family or among my friends.

One of the problems we're having today, and I believe it's more on the republican side, is that people don't listen to other viewpoints, they just smear, hate, and demonize. President Obama was respectful to everyone but the evil on the right, led by trump, wallow in hatred, division, and derision. There are billions of dollars behind those, like Fox News, dedicated to keeping America ignorant.

If we're going to win in the future, we need to draw in reasonable conservatives who are on the fence, we'll need their votes. Because in spite of our divisions, studies have shown that the majority of Americans lean left. Some are in need of a gentle push. Their beliefs may not be supported by facts, but demonizing people will absolutely not change their minds.

^field (second para)

isn't there some bad dirt reporters can dig up on McConnell? He cannot be clean

McConnell seems like he might have a “boy past.” I always get that feeling when I see him.

Call me crazy, but most ugly people are ugly because their inner ugliness seeps through and expresses itself externally. Check some of these old school Republicans where they look pretty decent in their younger years and become ghoulish looking when they are rising the ranks of the Republican Party.

I mean, look at Democrat Joe Biden. I wouldn't describe him as ghoulish looking.

Google Yertle’s brief stint in the military. There’s something fishy there.

I love these backward compliments the trolls bring to these threads. Any chance to insert names like AOC, Biden, Pelosi just to change the subject from the wrongdoings in the White House. Taking a cue from Donald and the Republican playbook - deflect and project.

McConnell has always been ugly as hell even when younger

[quote]Google Yertle’s brief stint in the military. There’s something fishy there.

Somehow I feel certain that fish was never involved with Yertle's stint in anything.

I always find it interesting that the party of bigots is perfectly fine with their representatives having non-white spouses. I guess it's better to have an Asian woman than a gay guy as your partner when you try to make it in the GOP.

[quote] I always find it interesting that the party of bigots is perfectly fine with their representatives having non-white spouses. I guess it's better to have an Asian woman than a gay guy as your partner when you try to make it in the GOP.

Ooops, totally forgot about the Bachmanns.

Graham attacking NYT in behalf of Rupert Murdoch.

Then she attacks the House Judiciary Committee.

1st two tweets.

Graham acts desperate and scared, using projection aggressively. Something is being hidden she doesn't want revealed at all. It may be in the Mueller Report somewhere. Barr consulted Graham to review the report. No other Senator or House member was invited to do so.

Something really stinks with this.

Maybe Miss Thang is getting insurance that her secrets don't appear in one of Rupert's UK tabloids?

A woman I met recently said that many years ago McConnell and Lindsey Graham had an affair. McConnell's wife is smart and ambitious. From Wiki, "As Secretary of Transportation, Chao appeared in at least a dozen interviews with her father, a shipping magnate with extensive business interests in the United States and China. Ethics experts said that the appearances raised ethical concerns, as public officials are prohibited from using their office to profit others or themselves." Is she also Mitch's beard?

"A woman I met recently said that many years ago McConnell and Lindsey Graham had an affair. "

OMG! How fucking gruesome! Did it look anything like this?

Yes, 292, exactly like that. The question is, which one is Lindsey? They both seem like bottoms to me, but then Mitch does have that deep no-nonsense voice. He must be the top.

The Senatrice is the bossiest bottom who ever bossed and bottomed.

Deplorable at R278.

Years ago when I was in Rome with a friend we visited the zoo. We heard some strange noises and turned to look. It was two Galapagos tortoises going at it in wild public abandon. It was awesome, especially because the top was also chewing on a wad of lettuce and spewing shreds of it all over his' lover's shell.

A couple walked by holding hands with a little boy who shouted, "What's that?" They laughed and quickly pulled him in another direction. I couldn't hear what they said.

Troll @ R295.

Okay you guys have said some disturbing things in these threads but LindMitch is A BRIDGE TOO FAR

I'm really sick and tired of the Media and a lot of other types cataloguing his latest bullshit. I don't give a fuck if he lies about his father, cheats at golf or exhibits confusion with word recognition (early dementia).

As far as I'm concerned, we know all we need to know about him, and right now with his current threats to shut down the border, deny aid to Puerto Rico, go to court to repeal healthcare, if that isn't a fucking abuse of power WTF is? Oh, and using campaign money to pay off hookers is illegal.

I said it before. We do not need a Mueller report to throw his fat ass out. His foreign policy is an embarrassment. He totally mismanaged North Korea and he has put us in greater danger as a result. I'm convinced once that fucking report is made public there will be ample evidence he broke the law and is guilty of Obstruction of Justice several times over.

I am also convinced that he conspired with Russia. Maybe Mueller was reluctant to take the final step of saying it rises to the crime of Treason (that's what it's called, guys) but he did it. We have way too many guilty pleas, indictments, and a litany of facts. FACTS. Cambridge Analytica, Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, Donnie Jr. and Hope Hicks factor into this mess big time.

Trump's relationship with Russia goes back decades. He's an asset, a money-laundering useful idiot, and a fucking criminal. Enough is enough. Congress needs the fucking report, and he needs to go.

And the big money people like the Kochs need to have a sit down with Mueller, to get the full scope of his criminality, and they need to tell McConnell to get on board. I'm sure as more information is made public, there will be the necessary 20 GOP Senators who will do the right thing.

Preach, R299.

Thank you R300. Sorry for the rant, but that's exactly how I Feel. I think we need to let the media and our elected representatives know that. I think a lot of us feel that way. Swear to god, I am voting straight Democratic PArty ticket, and I am voting for the state legislature and other state offices, too. And I am going to do everything in my power to run the Republicans out of town. I want them to get beat so bad they have to look up to see the bottom. I want to kick their asses until their noses bleed.

Per MSNBC, the House just requested Trump's tax returns for the last six years.

Hmm. This whole yertle / miss thang scenario gives me horrible ideas to write a disgusting slash fanfiction and push the hell out of it on social media.

The thought alone both sickens and amuses me. I cannot think of two more horrible scumbags. Aside from adding agent orange as a 3some.

R265 How does any "Christian" look at that shirt and not see anything but blasphemy? The cognitive dissonance must be enough to make their heads explode. I'm an Atheist, but it looks pretty blasphemous to me. Is the American religious right the Synagogue of Satan referred to in Revelation?

That shirt at r265 isn’t real though, is it? I just assumed it was a joke.

I'm telling you if McConnell were out of the way most of the GOP wouldn't know what to do.

NY Times is reporting Mueller investigators are saying the Report is more damaging to Trump than the AG indicated.

R306, I wouldn't be surprised. This one's $75.

Of course the report is more damaging to fat fuck. That’s why he’s backtracking about releasing it. Fucking Mz Lindsay filled him in as to what’s in the report. We MUST all be able to see this report.

WASHINGTON — Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.

At stake in the dispute — the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel’s office — is who shapes the public’s initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history. Some members of Mr. Mueller’s team are concerned that, because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel’s findings, Americans’ views will have hardened before the investigation’s conclusions become public.

The Mueller team leaks begin! Yay!

Thank You team Mueller patriots.

Good for the Mueller patriots.

I wanna believe in the Mueller patriots!

One of 2 things is about to happen.....1. Barr is going to realize he miscalculated his entire operation to silence the report, so he is going to turn the entire thing over...and soon...in order to try and protect himself...... 2.Barr is going to double down, as a result the report will leak....you just know there are multiple copies in various locations just for instances like this....and Trump will go down and Barr will be charged with obstruction and be disgraced.

Let this be the first of many leaks. Long live America!

At least one Attorney general went to the clink during Watergate. Is this guy just a clutz or is he on a kamikaze mission?

They are trying to do this stunt this close to an election and that is a stupid decision. It might have worked a year ago.

One of Miss Thang's X-BFs works in a corporate office park a few miles from where I dwell. As far as I know, it is not active now and hasn't been for a long while. Know nothing salacious about it. Nice, professional, middle aged now, white guy. Not saying name. Don't recall it either off hand. But those that say Miss Thang is celibate, that's quite amusing.

New York Times has it, bet on it. They are waiting for Barr to deliver first. Chris Hayes is talking about it.

No wonder Miss Lindzee is attacking the NYT preemptively, & praising Murdoch's NewsCorp.

NYT will not release it ahead of Barr unless he prolongs for months. Once he releases, they would say yeah here's what he conveniently left out.

A friend who worked for a well-known member of Congress says everyone on the hill knows Miss Lindz is gay. It's an open secret, but no one feels comfortable outing a colleague, even one as oily as Graham.

Even if they don't have it, just having Barr think they have it will make a huge difference.

The rumors about McConnell getting booted from the Army Reserve for sodomy have been around since he was discharged in 1967, but he's never suffered because of them. His official record shows that he received a medical discharge, which was likely a cover-up arranged by John Sherman Cooper, the senator he interned for.

Mueller and team have been tight as a drum for two years...now they leak. They must be so pissed at Barr. Hope our I.S. peeps help save the republic and regain their stature.

R236, I wonder how Beto feels about his BFF Will Hurd signing that letter against Schiff. Someone should ask him...

I betcha the heat on Barr from within the DoJ is really bad. I think he will allow Congress to go to court, and have the judge force him to release the report. That way he satisfies Trump and the thugs backing Trump, and he also complies with the court. So Trump can get pissed at the judge and not him. What kind of low life piece of shit must Barr be to read that damned report, and as a lawyer, the top lawyer in the land, the head of the Department of Justice, he tries to kill the findings? These are truly snake. Rotten vile corrupt evil people. I bet Mueller and Barr are no longer friends. If they ever were.

There were 19 high caliber lawyers Mueller hired to work on the investigation & report. Add to that paralegals, secretaries, clerks, etc; that's a lot of personnel that know all are parts of the report's content. Plus, FBI officials and field agents fed information to the Mueller team. All this went on for a couple of years, in addition to the work Comey's people were doing as far back as late 2015/early 2016. Too many people know, for leaks not to happen, if Bill Barr does not deliver the report basically intact and relatively timely.

Barr is in a pickle. If he's smart, he'll get off the Trump train and do what's right. But he'll try to do every trick to protect Trump first, before slipping on the shit.

That friendship is over now.

My question is why do all these people throw themselves on a grenade for him? Seems masochist.

Was this posted?

r327....Barr was AG for Daddy Bush....he also orchestrated the Iran-Contra pardons so all those fucking criminals went free. Hes a GOP hack...just like Kavanaugh....just like Rosenstein, both of whom worked for Ken Starrs attempted takedown of Clinton.

bitch, shit is popping off now!

I hope Barr goes down for this

SO GLAD Mueller's investigators have talked to the NYT that his summary isn't accurate

This is just the beginning. The cover-up has been exposed. Barr is going to go down with the sinking ship and end up in jail. He must be shifting bricks, now. Fucking treasonous criminals.

Trump is like a piece of dog shit stuck to your shoe.

I want to believe the NYT.... but I also don't trust the NYT.

Don’t be a puppet, R335, that’s what fatass wants people to say. The NYT has this one correct. There will be tons more leaks. This report will come out, in full.

and WaPo reporting Kushner has been id'd as the Senior Official who wasn't cleared due to influence of foreign powers...

The Mueller team wrote their own summaries which could have been released without exposing sensitive info, and they’re pissed that Barr chose not to release them. Neil Katyal, who wrote the Special Counsel regulations, says the regulations are designed to allow Mueller and his investigators to speak out if they believe the Attorney General is trying to cover up.

It's just beginning, R335.

But the failing NYT has published nothing but fake news ever since Trump became President!

In other not so optimistic election news, the Dems in WI slept through a Supreme Court election that can have disastrous results. There seems to be a recount possibility but who knows.

[quote]So, to liberate Wisconsin from anti-democratic rule, all Democrats really had to worry about was winning this year’s Supreme Court election. And in a rare stroke of luck, Wisconsin conservatives managed to rally behind a reactionary judge so extreme, two of the GOP’s most reliable donors — the state’s Chamber of Commerce and Realtors Association — could not bring themselves to support him. Specifically, Judge Brian Hagedorn had written that the NAACP was a “disgrace to America,” and that homosexual intercourse should be a criminal offense because the “idea that homosexual behavior is different than bestiality as a constitutional matter is unjustifiable.” The judge had also recently cofounded a K-8 Christian school in the Milwaukee suburbs that does not allow LGBT teachers, students, or parents on its campus.

[quote]Unless Hagedorn's apparent victory is undone by recount, conservatives instead will enjoy a 5-2 majority and won't be at risk of losing it until at least 2023. The high court already looks likely to decide early disputes between new Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and majority Republicans in the Legislature.

Turnout was nearly 27%, well above the 22% of last year's state Supreme Court race. Hagedorn overcame Neubauer's huge margins in the liberal strongholds of Madison and Milwaukee by running up the vote in Green Bay and more rural parts of northeastern and north central Wisconsin. Those are both parts of the state that helped fuel Trump's win in 2016.

How hopeless, R341.

Fuck off, R336. If you want to pretend that Habberman hasn't fucked around and helped Dotard, then you're a moron.

Hoist The Colours - Pirates Of The Caribbean

"Lord Beckett! They've started to sing, sir."

"...Finally."

R336 is the puppet!

Mueller kind of fucked my life up with his washy washy report. Too bad he is a mouse instead of a man.

R346, since you obviously have seen the report, perhaps you'd like to share the "washy washy" details.

R348, you haven't seen Mueller's report.

“You’re the puppet”

“No, you’re the puppet“

“No, you’re the puppet“

“No, you’re the puppet“

“No, you’re the puppet“

The Mueller team needs a Daniel Ellsberg. Take one for the country. Leak the report over the fucking transom. Be remembered as being a hero on the right side of history

Why isn’t Mueller being the hero then? He has got his pension and money. He is older than his lawyer hires. Why isn’t he sticking up for his own report? Maybe he will. I hope so. I wish the House Committees would subpoena him already. I don’t know the rules but I can’t help asking what are they waiting for? Barr is not going to submit and we don’t have a lot of time to waste.

It could very well be that Mueller can't? Maybe by not saying anything right now it's allowing him to continue with something else or saving evidence.

Isn't he supposedly still working?

Dear Lord in Heaven!

This is Muellers team throwing down the gauntlet as a warning to Barr....be truthful, do your job and release the report....or we will.

Is it looking like the leaks are about to start? Mueller's team is not happy about how Barr is handling this at all.

Mueller is still working with the Grand jury, etc. He isn't finished. But some of his former team members have left and they're finished. I doubt any of them would speak up without at least letting him know. I can see him giving them a grim nod and saying, "Hey, you're free to say what you need to say. I can't stop you." Of course that would be him giving his assent.

Our country has never been more vulnerable to corruption from foreign powers than now. Russia, of all shitholes, China, Saudi Arabia are all stronger. We are being sold off to greed and conservative interests. Honestly, how can the deplorables hate Muslims so much when Pres Bone Spurs sucks the toes of the Saudis?

Thanks, GOP. You always fuck up everything.

[quote]Turnout was nearly 27%, well above the 22% of last year's state Supreme Court race. Hagedorn overcame Neubauer's huge margins in the liberal strongholds of Madison and Milwaukee by running up the vote in Green Bay and more rural parts of northeastern and north central Wisconsin. Those are both parts of the state that helped fuel Trump's win in 2016.

Sounds like Russia left their hacked voting machines in place. Precheck for 2020 to make sure everything is up and running. There is no way a five percent higher turnout was among the people already in power during this time in this country. No way. That five percent increase was due to pissed off people and that's the Democrats.

I really wonder if the Russians let the Democrats win the House while making sure the Repugs kept the Senate because that would lead to even more chaos. It would also have looked really fishy if, with all the anger and increased turnout, the Repugs still kept everything. Now, they are free to throw the elections back to the Repugs. Warmup for 2020. Let's see what they try to do to the Democratic primaries.

[quote]My question is why do all these people throw themselves on a grenade for him? Seems masochist.

Ooooh! Ask me! I know I know!

Because President Shithole has blackmail/kompromat on [bold]EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM.[/bold]

R358 Spot on.

Seems like the cover up is unraveling ...

R361 The real mystery is why the heck did anyone especially so-called journalists fall for this transparent ruse in the first place.

It's because most news people aren't journalists anymore -- they just read the copy, they don't do any critical thinking. So this tripe got put in front of them and they read it like automatons and expected everybody else to too.

They're all too busy trying to get the scoop and therefore the hits and clicks, they'll report anything and everything.

Is Barr looking for guidance from his Rabbi on how to handle Mueller’s report? Why is he giving the photographer dagger eyes?

All Republicans are snakes that will throw the nearest colleague under the bus so Barr will try to save himself even if it means betraying Trump and the old beady-eyed bullfrog.

He is stealing Elton Johns look.

[quote] The real mystery is why the heck did anyone especially so-called journalists fall for this transparent ruse in the first place.

Well, DUH! They are told to push that narrative by the right wing owners of the (news) media outlet.

Just wait and see...if the report ever comes out, Mueller just backed down...like every other Republican.

Is that Russian sentence structure, R369?

From the same thread in R361 linked from a poster who pulled quotes from the WaPo article since it's behind a paywall.

[quote]"The report was prepared “so that the front matter from each section could have been released immediately—or very quickly....It was done in a way that minimum redactions, if any, would have been necessary, and the work would have spoken for itself.”"

So the summary that could have been given was pretty much already written & Barr, of course, ignored it. The article also said that apparently Mueller was under the impression that the report was going to be released directly to the public but Barr had other ideas.

What is incredulous to me is that with all the horrendous character hits that fat bastard spewed against Mueller, the special council still didn’t have the balls to do anything but hand the report in. Why not be specific and say there was obstruction of justice?

Mueller believes the President committed a crime. Scenario (1) is If he were not the President they would have charged him. But maybe Mueller is old school and believes you do not charge (indict ) a sitting President, so Mueller wanted his report to go to Congress so they would begin impeachment proceedings and throw the bastard out.

Of course the flaw with that scenario is that in the real world Mueller also had to know that the craven McConnell would not support a conviction even if he was guilty of a crime. The impeachment part was easy. The House would be ready to do that. The Senate part, a trial and conviction, would be next to impossible.

I think, there was enough evidence of "cooperation" and conspiracy with Russia, and enough evidence of obstruction to indict the son of a bitch along with his son & his son-in-law, Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica. So Scenario (2) is that maybe Mueller did want to indict, but Rosenstein and Barr blocked it. They said they didn't deny any requests made by the Special Counsel, but I bet they did.

This is a cover up. And a very inept one. Right in our faces out in public, like almost everything else that gang has done. WTF was Barr thinking? Seriously. Did he think he could offer that feeble opinion of his and that it would stand up? Did he do it to buy time? Did they think that by "getting ahead of the story" they would divide public opinion and gain more support for the President? That worked for about two minutes. It's evaporating.

No matter what Barr does from this point he is covered in Trump's shit. He has no credibility, and nothing he says is true. Period. This is it for him, and who ever talked him into taking the AG job and I suspect it was someone like Graham or Grassley, this fucked him up real good. I'd suggest Giuliani may have had a hand in it, but does anyone still believe he's credible? No, this came from the oldtimers inthe Senate, because Barr is clearly assuming he can do what he did in Iran Contra and get away with it. Not this time.

Trexit can’t come quickly enough.

How nice for Ken Dilanian to catch up to the rest of us....

There was Russian involvement with the Trump campaign. Shocker!

WP: Trump says he’s subject to the ‘highest level of Presidential Harassment’ in history

Business Insider: Rudy Giuliani called Mueller's staff 'rabid Democrats' and 'sneaky, unethical leakers' after new report

"The Witch Hunters Are Grabbing Me By My Mussy,!" Proclaims Trump About Historic Harrassment

Lindsey Graham & Susan Collins defend Joe Biden for being affectionate. OK, both know him well, and perhaps the intent is sincere.

Maybe these two really are the Senate experts on touchy-feely?

I still want Donald to throw himself off the White House roof.

Not tall enough, he wouldn't die. Trump Tower, on the other hand...

If he landed on his face, the White House would be fine.

I wish Barr would stop stalling with the report. I want it all and I want it now.

Trump breaks every law in the book but we can not get one person to make a copy of the Mueller report and release it. Is there not one good person in the DOJ? One brave person....there are rich people there, they could do the right thing and then leave the country. My god! America has been hoodwinked by ridiculous laws.

Aren't Mueller and Barr buddies? Don't they go to church together every week? Awkward.

It’s nice to see Susan Collins has gone back to her plain Jane schoolmarm look, after the ill-advised makeup and hairdo experiments from the last few months.

"But I WANT them to be stupid!"

Photo at R379 perfectly illustrates that politics is showbiz for ugly people.

[quote]Business Insider: Rudy Giuliani called Mueller's staff 'rabid Democrats' and 'sneaky, unethical leakers' after new report

I think this may be why Mueller laid out the evidence and didn't make a decision. If he believes Trump did something, they'll try and discredit him and claim he and his staff are democrats and he's out to get them. If he leaves it up to Congress, while they wouldn't likely do anything, at least the report would be in the hands of both parties. Of course, Barr had other ideas.

[quote]Trump breaks every law in the book but we can not get one person to make a copy of the Mueller report and release it.

How do we know that they haven't copied it and given it to any number of people on the good side of things? The repercussions for releasing it would be grave for the leaker if it was instantly made public. However, if it was (leaked but not publicly) it could be an indicator to some people that they should dig deeper and push harder to get it through legal channels since they would know it was would be worth it.

I think that's why people from Mueller's office are allegedly talking now to the press. They're letting them and us know that they need to keep fighting and it is worth it.

During his confirmation, Barr kept saying how he and "Bob" were such good friends. I seriously doubt that. I think Barr only lied about that so it would be perceived that he could be open minded and impartial when it came to his "friends" report.

‘So the summary that could have been given was pretty much already written & Barr, of course, ignored it. The article also said that apparently Mueller was under the impression that the report was going to be released directly to the public but Barr had other ideas.”

How could Mueller even think that???

Has he not been paying attention??

Trump appointing Cain to the Fed makes sense, certainly moreso then his current job in the administration. Cain has high level background there already.

[quote] Cain was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Omaha Branch from 1989 to 1991. He was deputy chairman, from 1992 to 1994, and chairman, from 1995 to 1996, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

A little further down in r375's twitter link

R373, well said, I totally agree.

It is driving my crazy that these corrupt fools are blatantly committing crimes and working against the best interests of our citizens right before our eyes.

I get so angry every time I think of McConnell blocking and delaying Obama's judicial nominees and waiting for a repuke to be rigged into office before he starts rushing conservative judges down the pike. Makes me so sick. Their idiot allies don't care about the lack of morals and ethics and criminality as long as they can keep their guns, avoid paying taxes, trash the environment, or whatever else they do to screw us all over to benefit themselves. This country is now a shit hole, thanks to the orange shit stain and his criminal friends.

Now Trump is saying he's giving Mexico one year to stop the drug and immigration flow and if they don't he'll close the border then. He also said he will take questions from the press around 2:00 PM. He's really showing his age today.

The security incident at Mara Lago gave me hope. A golf club can do a lot of damage.

Guess the secret service isn't as on the ball as they are purported to be.

But maybe they hate him, too

I still hope for Trump to die on the toilet and Melania, or the secret service, leaking his death pics just to piss off the Trump family and the GOP.

The most dangerous drugs on the street are coming from Big Pharma labs in India and China, not Latin America.

The Secret Service as a whole can't have much use for Trump - especially after he shut down the Government for weeks, depriving them of paychecks at the same time they still had to show up to work to protect his treasonous ass.

[quote] apparently Mueller was under the impression that the report was going to be released directly to the public

Isn't it good news that the FBI Office of the Special Counsel wrote unclassified summaries of their investigations, which can be released to the public?

I've noticed for a long time that every time things seemed to be looking up for Trump, a short while later the shit would hit the fan again for him. Thanks for keeping that on track, DOJ leakers!

Barr may be on a 2 hour lunch; then back to redacting. maybe with Mz Lindz at his side.

How come no one is raising a bigger deal about the Senatrice being able to read an unredacted file but a Democrat cant?

[quote] apparently Mueller was under the impression that the report was going to be released directly to the public

Sorry, but I can't believe Mueller was THAT naive to believe that a party, and Trump, loyalist would not fuck with his report. I don't know what Mueller's (end) game is, but I cannot see him to believe that Trump and his associates would just roll over and let the report do them in.

My apologies. ... but I cannot see him believing that Trump and his associates would just roll over and let the report do them in.

[quote] The most dangerous drugs on the street are coming from Big Pharma labs in India and China, not Latin America.

Not that I trust Chinese promises any further than I could throw the entire nation, but ....

China announces new crackdown on fentanyl in win for US President Trump

Why the fuck would China help Trump with the tariff issue still unresolved?

Has he read it? R403 I haven't seen any confirmation that he has.

He just posted Joe Biden’s apology video and said “WELCOME BACK JOE!” LOL obviously to get it more exposure.

Mueller's time is running out to redeem himself. IF he actually cares and there is legit damning stuff in the report, I don't know how he can sit back and let these American traitors shit all over his hard work. It just seems like at one point you have to throw up your hands and say fuck the system. The repugs will NEVER do the right thing. They'd sell their own mother for political points.

This sums it up nicely R410.

[quote]they'll try and discredit him and claim he and his staff are democrats and he's out to get them.

Wasn't the practice to appoint special prosecutor/ independent counsel from the opposing party? Ken Starr is and was a Republican.

Apparently what was acceptable to Rethugs in Bill Clinton's investigation isn't at all acceptable to them now.

Rudy can stick the arrogant double standards up his wazoo.

R411 that's great and all but it needs to fully happen and most importantly, it needs to be effective. I'm looking at it from a psychological point of view. Every day that goes by more and more (stupid) Americans want to move on from this. Every day the orange beast and his shit stains do more damage. Every day they cheat, lie and break the law. A few supposed leaks here and there is not enough. We aren't living in a civil, law obiding society. Sometimes you need to fight fire with fire.

For those who dont remember, Herman Cain had to drop out of the presidential race in 2011 because of sexual harassment charges.

Was Michael Cohen Representing Sean Hannity Because Of Trump’s Mistresses?

Brian Krassenstein: BOOM!

NBC News is reporting that a "US Official" tells them that "evidence of collusion" is "very compelling" in the Mueller report.

It's almost as if the last 2 weeks were all part of a Trump/Barr/GOP coverup.

Greenwald is to the point, but never underestimate the MSNBC audience's capacity for wishful thinking and grasping at straws.

Even Ken Dilanian, peppy young cub reporter for NBC, is now on camera saying that the Mueller Report doesn't fully absolve Trump campaign with colluding with the Russkies.

Glenn Greenwald will end up on the wrong side of history, yet again

You'd think by now one of these traitors/repugs would've killed themselves. Scared of the consequences or ashamed by their behavior. Waiting...

Exactly where he belongs.

I love that Mueller’s team is coming out now and saying that Barr’s “summary” was total bullshit. As if we all didn’t already know.

As has been stated, if Barr tries to release some heavily redacted version of the report that whitewashes all of TrumpCo’s wrongdoing, they can simply say here are all the parts they decided the public shouldn’t see (all the criminality obviously).

I love love love that Trump and his henchmen cannot win this time.

Well, Trump's deplorables and evangelists don't care about his tax returns or that he's Putin's puppet, but if it ever came out that one of Trump's mistresses had an abortion and he got Broidy and Hannity to lie and cover it up, I think that would be the turning point for them.

But he had to pay for her abortion! The woman was ugly and would probably have given birth to a troll!

[quote] I love that Mueller’s team is coming out now and saying that Barr’s “summary” was total bullshit.

Name one.

R427 is a Deplorable. Block immediately.

Stormy’s Abortion!

Yeah, right... if he personally & on video performed a late term Abortion on Stormy with a wire coat hanger and then BBQ’d the baby and ate it... the deplorables would first say it was fake and if he admitted it they’d start eating babies.

Trump could abort a baby with a coat hanger on Fifth Avenue and he wouldn't lose a single supporter.

R427 Read the fuckin news. Even Barr is trying to back track on his summary

So what does the subpoena work if the DOJ/Barr continues to stonewall? More court dates or some actual consequences?

Fat lady’s about to sing her guts out and I don’t mean Candy Crowley.

Lindsey must be reading DL.

I had forgotten about the sex-pest allegations against Herman Cain. I just know he was a dumbass, as exemplified by this commercial and "Ubeki-Beki-Bekistan."

I'm ready for the wave of suicides, I really am.

I'm not ready. I don't know whom I should put on my death pool list. Give me some names.

I would love it if Ivanka suddenly got out of a car and walked in front of a speeding bus a la Sarah Paulson in Birdbox.

Ivanka will do no such thing because she is too busy fighting with Jr. about which one of them should run for president next They do not have a clue.

Playboy playmate Shera Bechard, claims that she had unprotected sex with Elliot Broidy and got pregnant. And that he has genital herpes and never told her. When she told him she was pregnant, he demanded that she get an abortion. She also said that she did it because she was scared of him because he carried a gun and told her that he knew people who can make other people "disappear". She got an attorney to negotiate a hush money deal for 1.6 million dollars. That agreement was drawn up by Michael Cohen, who had also drawn up the same hush money agreements with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

Trump definitely has herpes

Trump IS a herpe.

Lol R419 (CIA) Kenny D. and his co ass-licker, Johnathan Swan who'll write or say anything for Trump access look really, really stupid these days. Habermannish.

OMG Chuck Toad preaching fairness w/ the Mueller leaks since he was 'so cautious' w/ Barr's 4-pager. since we haven't seen the actual report. Chuck, the actual talented investigators are leaking, you fucking knob.Todd+Dilanian are on the same set today...cringe worthy.

Yawn

To the person upthread who wanted to know why no one at DOJ has yet to leak the report: the simple answer is that almost no one has access to it. My hunch is that there are perhaps four copies in Main Justice. Two in Barr's office and two in Rosenstein's. When they are not using them, they are locked in the SCIF. Security on the fourth floor (the Deputy AG's suite) and fifth floor (the AG's suite) is tight. Not just anyone could waltz into those offices and pick up the report and copy it. In fact, no one could. There are a few career staff people -- administrative assistant types -- in those offices, and I know several of them. Lovely people but they have no intention of leaking this report. This is on members of Congress to demand the report and the Courts to follow the law and give it to them.

R446 is right... proecedures have changed greatly since the Pentagon Papers leaked. We can always hope that someone’s conscience overcomes their fear, but the best way to the report is through legal means. Unbelievable, to be sure. What a joke that the will of the American people are being ignored.

Show tunes and the police begging for more cops in Times Square.

Let's make #trexit happen

Here’s the demonstration in Times Square. They’re singing their protest. New words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

They believe he’s Mussolini But he’s only Putin’s bitch! As we go marching on!

It's so refreshing seeing people out in the streets. We need that reminder that there are more people out there who care.

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R452 barf... or rather rapture him now!

R452 Is Jesus trying to smother him?

Now we know why his signature is so special.

Ugh ... that piece of shit Matt Gaetz is considering moving to Alabama and running for Senate against Doug Jones.

That's a really bad depiction of Satan in r455.

R452 Paul Ryan grew a beard and let his hair go long. White is not his color.

Trump called upon Jesus, and Jesus answered.

Someone say that fucker Matt Gaetz's true name so he'll be sent back to the drunk driving redneck Hell where he belongs.

Doug Jones could get re-elected in Alabama.

Is Papa Gaetz going to buy carpetbagger Matt a mansion or ranch outside Mobile? Papa's power in the Florida panhandle won't be the same in Alabama.

What are Jones approvals in Alabama?

I hope Matt does it!

This is Alabama for you, but they have a ONE-DAY residency requirement for Senate candidates.

Bernie & Jane Sanders release your taxes. You have secrets like DJT?

wow Lindsay looks just awful next to Susan Collins and she's no prize either. The stress of the kompromat must be getting to him.

Bernie is a Russian asset as well. Who do you think he skipped out on the sanctions vote?

They probably have a ton of sketchy things in their taxes, especially going years back.

Jane has a lot of sketchy relations that she got jobs for when Jane was working at the college. She committed bank fraud for the college, maybe she did it for herself too. She told the college board money would come pouring in if Bernie’s name was attached and then it didn’t. That is all kinds of unethical.

Considering how they suddenly bought a house after the election, my guess is some of that BernieBro money leaked into their coffers somehow and that’s why he’s running this time too, not to save the world as he claims he can do.

Look, I'll gladly vote for Sanders if he is our nominee. No questions.

However, I despise him. HRC won fair and square. She played hardball but she won. Unlike her and what she did for Obama by coming out fully and strongly without even a hint of hesitance in favor of him once the primary was over, Sanders did the opposite. I was floored about how lukewarm and frankly, obvious he was about his lack of support for her. You cannot tell me that didn't have some effects on his supporters who were so disrespectful even at the convention. That is why we had the disturbances at the convention. He never gave her a full, unequivocal endorsement of her. It exposed a character trait I did not like. And the fucker still won't help Democrats and won't join the party. So, I don't trust him.

Four lake homes in Vermont? Do the Sanders fish much?

I agree (470) with everything you said plus I think his campaign manager being Manafort’s partner etc Means he is a Russian too. Plus not showing up for the Russian sanctions vote and his earlier refusal to back sanctions....so many things he and his wife have done. I believe he is as big a thief as Trump and I don’t understand his following nor why the Democratic Party let him back in this year. Were they afraid of a Third Party Run by him or what? It is very discouraging. He could derail everything.

Auto correct again. Obviously I don’t think he is a Russian! I meant a Russian tool.

R473 I agree, too. He seems to have some issues with Russia as well. There is no push back on this from anyone (or are they waiting?)

Barr should pass the report on to Congress and then resign.

No, no, Miz Lindz, you're stepping in it.

Apparently, Equador is expelling Julian Assange "within hours or days".

I say thats why the DOJ sent a plane over to the UK last week....we already have him and they're going to unseal his indictment.....soon.

Wow, getting Assange into US custody could be very big. I wonder what will happen to his cat?

Miss Cooper had a great show tonight but I kept being sidetracked by his blue gingham dress shirt. He actually looked a bit sexy-ful.

I'm sure someone will grab his pussy, r478.

Pussy is fine, r278. She sends her love.

They will have to give this loser a silkwood shower to get the stench off of him before they stick him on a plane.

He's fucking toxic with his unwashed ass.

Heads up, people. I'm reading THE definitive Trump book. It's called House of Trump, House of Putin and it's written by Craig Unger. Trump hooked up with Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Black in 1987, or thereabouts, entertaining the notion of one day running for President. He was already back from his first Moscow trip with Ivana where he claimed falsely that he met with high officials, but he did in fact get to know their ambassador to the US. He was talking to them about building a hotel across from the Kremlin. LOL! This was when Gorbachev was in charge. They've been playing him and using him f or years. The book really gets into the history of the mobsters and sleeze Trump surrounded himself with including the despicable Roy Cohn.

So what's Pence then to the Trumpfanatics?

Tarot reading

The people around Trump are playing a dangerous game and they are all going down. COmes out he told McConnell to fast track one of his former employees to a position at the IRS even before the Senate confirmed Barr, back in February, because he knew the Dems would call for his tax returns. The guy is still waiting, but Trump is furious! F.U.R.I.O.U.S. He told the press today that the Dems would have to talk to his lawyers ..."and the Attorney General." LOLOL! He still believes if he places people in a position they can "fix things" for him and everything will simply go away. Not happening. We have 24/7/365 news cycles, we have the internet, and we have cell phones that are like mini computers. LOLOL! No more hiding and stalling and cover ups. It all comes out eventually, but now it comes out in days instead of years, baby.

Uh-ohh

Michael Cohen finds hard drive with files he thinks Congress should see

I wouldn't trust Glen Greenwald to tell me if it was day or night.

What is Glen G's deal?

[quote]What is Glen G's deal?

He's ass-deep in Wikileaks, and Russian intelligence by extension.

Spends his days on Tucker Carlson's show saying how totes ridiculous the Russia investigation is.

R489 What a tool. Thanks!

R486 he held the really damning shit for the last minute

[quote]Michael Cohen finds hard drive with files he thinks Congress should see

I love the image of Cohen frantically digging through everything he's ever owned, swearing his head of about getting that orange fucker, and then yelling triumphantly and cackling like a crazed man every time he comes across something new that he'd forgotten about.

I don't want to count the chickens before they hatch but it does seem like the Mueller team was pissed off about Barr lying and are ready to leak if this doesn't go public. Maybe, as some here have speculated, Mueller knew Barr was going to do this so he gave him enough rope.

He may have wanted to get first impressions but Barr may have made this already huge scandal an even larger one.

Is there anything conservatives don't fuck up?

R493, the Mueller Team talking to the NYT’s is their way of firing a warning shot. If Barr doesn’t knock off the fuckery, they will release info Tsunami-style, Mark my words. ‘‘Twas but a warning shot to Barr.

Cohen must've lost any last shred of hope that his former man crush was going to swoop in and save him. Not because he gives a shit about Cohen, just in hopes it would prevent this mysterious hard drive from appearing. I doubt he 'found it'. It was clearly hidden well and saved for a rainy day. We can only hope it really does have some amazing, mind blowing shit on it.

R493 That what Mueller gets for being soft on Trumpies, who will not hesitate at any opportunity to take a bite out of him. They are vicious cornered rats, and Mueller needs to turn on extermination mode, not coddle with fairness and impartiality.

R496 I agree. I think we may be seeing the first signs of Mueller willing to go balls to the wall. What will Barr's response be now? The memo can't be unwritten. So why a warning shot? Clearly, Barr fucked up and is actively trying to cover this up. Are they really trying to give him an opportunity to say he fucked up with the memo and downplayed the seriousness of the report?

As an old, corrupt fuck, I wonder if Barr was a bit unaware of the sheer power of social media to sniff out bullshit in about two seconds flat and then spread the word around the entire world in the next two seconds.

Well, SDNY did say that they felt Cohen was holding back...this "new" hard drive proves it if true.

I just wanted Bob Mueller to do the right thing and he did not.

R500 We don't know that, yet.

How do you know he didnt r500.....did you see his report....you know, the one that totally exonerated Trump ?

Chuck Todd: ‘But the Mueller Report’ is Going to Be the New ‘But Her Emails’

Chuck Todd went on to argue that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani had a point when he argued that the latest reporting about internal pushback to Attorney General William Barr‘s four-page summation on Mueller report is the work of “disgruntled Mueller staffers who are rabid democratic supporters.”

“While his credibility at times can be hot and cold, the fact is … he was able to look credible in this statement,” Todd said — citing Giuliani’s point that the special counsel’s office would have publicly disputed Barr’s summary, as it did a BuzzFeed report in January, if there was a “significant difference.”

Don’t forget Trump is being accused of raping a 13yo girl in NY Federal Court

How does Chuck Todd have such a lofty newscaster job without a college degree?

If Grassley turns on Trump that is actually something of a big deal.

He’s one of the few GOP Senators who doesn’t have any Kompronat other than possibly donations and he is ferocious.

I agree Grassley got bent out of shape about Trumps wind comments and called them idiotic and then later he tweeted that he supports releasing the Mueller report. Chuck g would probably have followed the party line until trump attacked his wind energy bread and butter. Also remember Grassley and Feinstein both looked ashen about two years ago after getting briefed. Maybe he decided it was time to get out of the cult.

I hate chuck Todd he should go work at Fox. I would prefer to see Katy Tur take on MTP daily.

William Barr acts like Porky in Porky's Revenge. Porky just didn't wear suits.

R48 has it nailed. Barr is not ready for the blow back. He's old school. I go on my Twitter news feed and Barr is the lead story, talking about how he has permanently damaged his reputation, Barr this, Barr that, etc. I love it.

As for Mueller, I think if he is as smart and capable as his reputation indicates, then IMO he might have given Barr enough rope, in the sense that strategically, he waited to see how B arr would handle his report. Once he confirmed his suspicions, the summaries his own team wrote on various aspects of the investigation would come to light, and the leaks would start.

Mueller is not playing, and if it damages Barr's reputation so be it. Because Barr didn't give a flying fuck about damaging Mueller's reputation, and more importantly, damaging the reputations of dozens of people who worked with Mueller and by extension, the DoJ itself. So yeah, they're fighting back, and Rosenstein better GTF out of the way. (He seems to be a good dancer.)

[quote]Trump hooked up with Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Black

Pics please.

R511, the pics are probably in Stone's cellar, hiding under a cement pour.

I'm telling you. That Craig Unger book lays it all out. Today Trump's attacking Barbara Bush. Well that goes back a few decades. When he was seriously entertaining a run for POTUS, in 1987, he was told Bush had it locked. Bush's numbers were great. Trump couldn't beat him. Even if he ran, especially if he ran as an independent (He was seriously considering it.) Barbara Bush claimed they had dealings with Trump in the 90's and she said he was evil.

Trump became enamoured of Russia in 1985 when Gorby opened up the USSR and openness was the order of the day. Trump pivots to politics giving an interview about nuclear arms proliferation and tells a journalist that he Trump, " could play a key role in strategic Arms limitations..." And get this. He tells a reporter for the Washington Post, "Some people have the ability to negotiate. It's an art you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't. " He wanted Reagan to appoint him ambassador to Gorbachev. (Roger Stone, Manafort & Black worked on the Reagan re election in 1984 and Trump had already retained them as early as 1980, when they opened up shop.

Russia was concerned they didn't have enough really viable American assets and started making it a priority in 84. In 86 Trump met the Russian Ambassador to the UN who was lavishly praising Trump for his Trump Tower. OMG So Cool!!! ..."I wish we had something like this in Moscow." In "The Art of the Deal" it gets a mention:" Now I'm talking about building a large luxury hotel across from the Kremlin." The former Russian ambassador's daughter said, Trump was an emotional impulsive person who craved recognition. They played him, groomed him and so it started.

I think Trump nixed Ron Vitiello for the ICE gig because he caught him pounding Melania with that 10” Italian Stallion tool of his.

Ivanka has sat on Trump's c*ck,.

R514 - but it was sooo small she didn't even notice - hence the need for real meat

From The New Yorker on Barr.

I wonder how much longer Barr will stay around?

The patriots are lining up to blow the whistle on corruption in the WH.

[quote]Tricia Newbold set an important mark when she became the first official currently serving in Donald Trump’s White House to take accusations of wrongdoing to Congress—and to put her name publicly behind them.

[quote]But Democrats on Capitol Hill say that beyond Newbold, a small army of whistle-blowers from across the government has been working in secret with the House Oversight Committee to report alleged malfeasance inside the Trump administration. Lawmakers and aides are reluctant to discuss information they have gleaned from anonymous government tipsters in detail. But the list of whistle-blowers who either currently or previously worked in the Trump administration, or who worked closely with the administration, numbers in the “dozens,” according to a senior aide from the committee now led by Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland.

[quote]Pics please.

NO! NO! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO!!

Barr is hell-bent on his own redactions and altered report to look favorable for Trump. Anything he delivers needs to be taken with many grains of salt.

Deliver the damn report to Congress unaltered. And do it now.

Sick of all this corruption.

R519 indeed. These "swingers" and whomever joins them are disgusting.

This is why religious people are dangerous (and people who know how to exploit them). They're willing to believe ANYTHING. There are no limits to whatever nonsense they'll fall for. We've seen over the past year or so how much more they keep pushing the god/jesus shit with him. Yes, we know that you know some "nice" ones or some that are democrats. They still aid in giving religion the power it has over politics and our fucked up culture. Once again, religion gives people no boundaries in what they can "believe" in. This vile administration knows this and they love pushing this ideology that he is some type of god or god sent him here to do this job. Nothing will keep the deplorables hooked on him like that. This is what these pathetic, brain dead fools have been begging for all their lives.

We need to look into the Barr appointment closer. I had no idea that Don McGahn's uncles were collaborators of Trump's years ago. Patrick McGahn was a lawyer who helped him get the Taj Mahal casino set up and going in NEw Jersey, along with his corrupt brother, and Trump name a bar in the Complex "Paddy's Saloon." Not saying McGahn is corrupt, he's just ideologically abhorrent to me, but I am saying his family ties made him someone Trump would feel good about.

Now Barr has ties to Bush 41. Given how much Trump hated them, and the Bushes couldn't stand him (see Barbara Bush's new biography) I find it curious....unless Barr was recommended by ether Grassley or Graham, or there was some vague connection through the Charlie Black/ Roger Stone /Paul Manafort/ Reagan crowd.

Trump makes new friends easily when they're useful to him. But he is very much inclined most of the time to go with someone that meets his comfort level through old ties. He likes context.

As I understand it, and I know y'all will correct me, someone from Trump's camp reached out to Barr asking him to be Trump's personal attorney in the Mueller investigation. Barr declined, but wrote a 19 page analysis/ audition about why the POTUS couldn't be prosecuted and the whole Mueller investigation was outrageous. He was more than willing to step into the AG spot and refused to recuse himself.

Koch Bros had a hand in Barr's selection. McConnell, Graham, Grassley, Pence, etc. don't do anything major in Republican matters without the approval, or the requests by, the Koch funding outfit.

Is that an assumption, R524? Because the Kochs have absolutely no love for Trump and they were real pissed off about the tariffs and the trade wars, etc. Grassley and Graham are perfectly capable of doing what they think is best, acting independently without consulting with the Kochs. In fact Graham will blow smoke up their asses and justify anything he does. Some guys are so impressed with the Kochs they'll wipe their asses, like Paul Ryan. Grassley is not Paul Ryan. McConnell is more beholden to the Financial Services lobby than to anyone, but he'd be a Koch shill as is Pence.

Barr's whole purpose is to fall on his sword and make sure that nobody in the GOP gets implicated. Republicans don't care about their legacy they want to hold on to their power any way they can (cheating, bullying, etc.)

Grassley has known from nearly the beginning the real truth about the level of corruption and collusion with Russia (remember the Feinstein ashen faced meeting), so I am glad he finally has some conscience.

Ken Dilanian is being ridiculed all over Twitter after every single post. He's a complete laughingstock now after his "Total exoneration" tweet.

RELEASE THE REPORT!

Good, R528.

They should put this image up on the screen behind Ken whenever he appears on TV.

Call Mueller or any of his investigators immediately. Time is being wasted. I think Barr is seriously rewriting that whole damn report to spin it his way

How long can the IRS stall in releasing the Trump tax returns?

Following up on r533's question (and perhaps helping to answer it), was the guy Trump was pushing to head the IRS ever confirmed?

R533, it all depends on whether the dotard has installed arsehole lickers in the right positions.

Why the fuck was that human anal wart Jerome Corsi never indicted? Didn't he admit to lying to the FBI and Congress? I want that fat fuck with the pizza face to face charges.

That’s another reason we need to see the whole report, R536. Mueller would have to outline all the evidence against people he investigated, and why he chose NOT to indict.

Today news came out that his top priority was installing one of lackeys at the FBI! The man has no shame..his corruption knows no bounds.

I meant IRS above

He’s a fucking criminal. Through and through. Thanks, Mueller. Couldn’t you have said something by now?

blame the repubs for voting for people who protect Trump. He couldn't keep getting away with shit if not for those pieces of shit

As much as I despise the m-f and am so tired of his antics, I still find this kind of hilarious....

I woke up way too early this morning and watched the first half hour of Scarborough. I was pleasantly surprised at how much agreed with his early morning rant in which he delineated the difference between a legally defined "crime" and something that is dangerous to national security or very bad for our country. Hetaked about the difference between Congress's Job and the job of Mueller's team. He made the strongest case yet for Mueller's Report being turned over to Congress immediately. It was something worth hearing if you can stomach five minutes of Scarborough.

Putin hates America, so he helped Trump get into office...idiot Trump thought that was a great idea, as long as no one knew about it. Putin had this genius idea and it certainly worked out the way he wanted it too. A simple plan that destroyed our country (with the help of news readers).

Another Friday and still no fucking Mueller Report details. So damned infuriating.

Rachel has taught us that DC business is open on Friday till midnight.

Trump is getting crazier by the day and Barr seems to want a psycho POTUS.

He is getting more and more irrational. Apparently Steve Miller, the vile Neo Nazi worm in the White House is in charge of Border Policy. He's the one who persuaded Trump to pull the name of his acting ICE chief at the last minute today. The Department of Homeland Security is pissed. They said when Miller's advice is bad and his policies don't work he convinces Trump that it's because they have the wrong people. This guy was supposed to get a permanent appointment. He had been acting director of ICE. Now he is gone and the entire border security operation is breaking apart because it's strained to the limit. Trump is saying the guy whose appointment he cancelled is "a good man" but Trump is looking for someone who is a lot "tougher." Gods help us. Last thing we need is some tough thugs, worse than the ICE people we already have.

Miller would have been adding ovens to Auschwitz in 1945.

exactly, R549.

^^and singing his own family members to be marched into them.

sorry, signing

Barr obstructing justice? Madison Law Review thinks so.

Since Dotard didn't have to now everyone is going to claim they don't have to.

Question, what is the big deal in showing your tax returns?

Reuters: 'Our country is full': Trump says migrants straining system

USA Today: House of Representatives files lawsuit targeting Trump's emergency to fund border wall

Job market bounces back in March with 196,000 gain in payrolls

Nonfarm payrolls expanded by 196,000 and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.8%.

A broader gauge of unemployment that also counts discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons also was unchanged at 7.3%. The measure, known as the "real unemployment rate" is down from 7.9% a year ago.

Wall Street closed out another solid week of gains Friday as the stock market hit its longest winning streak in a year and a half.

75% of the job gains were in liberal California.

Bernie Sanders has been reneging on show us his tax returns since 1976.It has been a constant problem for him. He lies about it and says he will and he never does.

Yeah, and why? What's he hiding in his tax returns?

is it possible for Trump to fake his returns? Is it possible he could have someone go in and falsify the information before Mnuchin releases it? Because he and his crowd are so slimy I would not put it past them to try it if they can get away with it? Also didn't Mueller have access to the tax returns? Can't they request them that way?

As much as I wanna know what dirt Cohen just found on his magic hard drive...I don't see how it helps him with SDNY.

Legal eagles on the telly have said that when you cooperate, you're required to spill [bold]ANY AND ALL[/bold] criminal information you have, for decades if necessary. Cohen's criminal dirt probably goes back to his taxi medallion business connected to the Russian mafia. Not snitching on them seems like a smart way to stay alive.

The reason SDNY said he didn't cooperate is because he didn't give them info on his criminal business practices prior to Trump.

R561, It's possible, but I don't think even his personal IRS toady would let him get away with that.

Most people probably don't care that Trump cheated on his taxes, but it would absolutely ruin him to have definitive proof he's not anywhere as rich as he's claimed to be, and the tax returns would do that.

Trump's IRS "toady" is the general counsel at the IRS. I believe I read somewhere that they keep the president's taxes locked in a secure safe. I doubt there are many copies nor any electronic files. Mueller may have accessed a copy but that is probably about it. The request actually goes to Steve Mnuchin who will refuse. Will definitely end up in Federal Court. Court will uphold law and tell Mnuchin to release and he will appeal to Supreme Court. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will decline to hear as all those conservative judges are strict constitutionalist and read the law very literally. It doesn't get much more literal than "shall provide."

I think Barr was sent in to protect Trump at all costs - even the cost of his own reputation. He's being paid off somewhere. I would not be the least bit surprised if he or Trump didn't classify the entire Mueller Report as Top Secret - Code Word. As above, the courts move so slowly that the 2020 election will come and go before any court forced the administration's hand. Barr has ways of tying this up in court for years. In my opinion, the democrats should have been issuing subpoenas two weeks ago.

R564, People do care that trump cheated on his taxes. It's deplorables who don't care. Plus, revenues will go down because people will say," trump and other richiy riches cheat, why should I be honest?" It's a downward spiral towards becoming a third world country.

R565, that guy was personally picked by Trump to head the IRS. Until I'm convinced otherwise I'm sticking with 'toady'. As far as the law goes, it's very clear that the IRS shall provide the returns that Congress requests. It may end up in court, but it's so clear cut I don't know what Trump's lawyers could possibly argue.

R568, his lawyers today made the only argument they could make: that they can magically read the mind of the Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee and they KNOW he doesn’t have a legitimate purpose in asking the returns, no matter what reason he has actually articulated. Yes, it’s not a convincing argument.

R566 I agree. Democrats won't fight on Trump's level and they never get tired of losing to Rethug antics. You'd think house Democrats would eventually learn how to play the game. It's so frustrating to watch it play out from the sidelines and to have no control.

Fat Donnie doesn't have the time to clean up all of the returns for his scams aka businesses. He has more than 50 from what I understand. And those all have separate entities from there. It is a HUGE spiderweb of returns that it would take a decade to "doctor".

Secondly, there ARE electronic copies of his returns. All of them. So he can have his bonfire but the IRS still has copies of his returns as will his accountant.

He can run but he cannot hide.

He referred to immigrants again today as not human, but animals. That’s downright Fascist-speak. Abominable.

Anyone read Seth Abrams recent twitter thread?

bummed we didn't get a Friday dose of breaking bad news for Trump today

Seth Abramson: This has to be said clearly and be understood by all Americans: in late January 2017, Trump was as much protecting Flynn over *Saudi Arabia* as Russia. When you see what Flynn and Trump were doing during in the 72 hours Yates alerted the White House about Flynn, you'll be amazed.

Auntie Maxine: "He's lied. He's said that they're under audit. He never intended to release them. He is not going to release them until we make him, until we force him to do it."

Wouldn't his personal accountant also have copies? Wouldn't there be copies at Trump Tower with whomever was in charge of all the financial stuff for his "empire"? Can't Congress or the state of New York compel those with subpoenas? Isn't it probably that New York already has them?

Maybe they're on Cohen's hard drive.

why does someone keep posting a picture of Stan Laurel ?

PSA - R580 = Troll.

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Imagine the fit Dotard is going to have when his tax returns are released.

You just know Drumpf and the Rethugs are going to distract with yet something else when those taxes come out.

Question is what?

At this point Trump will declare that the release of his real tax returns is a Fake News, Witch Hunt maneuver. Why does the media even give Trump any attention at this point? It's the same buzzwords and obvious lies.

Because the Media has proven to be his bitch.

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