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Mothercuker used the authority of the US Executive Branch as collateral for his own personal gain in collusion with a hostile foreign power ... but Republicans were beside themselves over some emails.

This is no big deal tho.

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I’m just glad the dominoes are starting to fall.
Motherfuckers want to act all surprised when ALL of this shit and more was blatantly obvious more than three years ago.

Dumbasses voted him in as POTUS.

“But, but emails” tho.

Exactly

Literally no new info has been revealed in 2018. This is shit everybody knew from inauguration.
 
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/...l-means-its-trumps-word-against-everyone-else

Schiff: AMI Non-Prosecution Deal Means It’s ‘Trump’s Word Against Everyone Else’

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday that prosecutors’ non-prosecution agreement with American Media, Inc., which was announced earlier in the day, was “more significant” that Michael Cohen’s three-year prison sentence.

“Because what that means is, this is not simply Michael Cohen’s word against Donald Trump’s, it is now Donald Trump’s word against everyone else,” Schiff told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said Wednesday in its announcement of the non-prosecution deal: “As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman [Karen McDougal] did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election. AMI further admitted that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election.”

Schiff also told CNN that he believed the Justice Department should “reexamine” its current rule against indicting sitting presidents — “under circumstances in which the failure to do so may mean that person escapes justice.”

“There ought to be a mechanism to make sure that that is not the case,” Schiff added, “whether that means revisiting the [Office of Legal Counsel] opinion and allowing the indictment of a sitting president, and staying the prosecution, or allowing both the indictment and prosecution.”

Schiff said near the end of the interview that he was “very pleased” a lawyer for Cohen said the former Trump fixer was willing to speak to the Intelligence Committee.

“We certainly intend to take him up on that,” Schiff said.

 


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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/giuliani-write-the-goddamned-report

Giuliani Urges Mueller To ‘Write The Goddamned’ Report Already


In an unprompted phone call, Rudy Giuliani vented his frustrations after Michael Cohen’s sentencing to Yahoo News in a colorful tirade.

“Our strategy is … to do everything we can to try to convince Mueller to wrap the damn thing up, and if he’s got anything, show us,” Giuliani told Yahoo News. “If he doesn’t have anything, you know, write your report, tell us what you have, and we’ll deal with it. He can’t prosecute [Trump]. All he can do is write a report about him, so write the goddamned thing and get it over with now.”

Giuliani then turned his lasers to the just-sentenced Cohen, who will serve three years in prison for crimes including lying to Congress and tax evasion.

“Cohen is a completely dishonorable person. … I’ve never heard of a lawyer that tape-recorded their client without the client’s permission, and I’ve known some pretty scummy lawyers,” Giuliani said. “You don’t exist very long in the legal profession if you go around taping your client.”

Giuliani also stuck to Trump’s party line that Cohen’s crimes were not related to the President or his campaign.

“The President’s not a lawyer,” Giuliani said. “The simple fact is that it’s not a criminal violation of the campaign finance law.”

“How do they all of a sudden become campaign finance prosecutors? You need a special prosecutor for campaign finance? I mean, they started with collusion. … After two years and two investigations … they have nothing on collusion,” Giuliani continued. “Then, they started squeaking about obstruction. They’ve got nothing on obstruction, and Article II prevents them from doing anything about obstruction. Now they’re doing campaign finance.”

He also added his professional opinion that collusion is “like the biggest bunch of bullshit.”
 
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-press-release-wall-unique-tone

‘Never Built Wall That High’: DHS Takes Odd Tone In Press Release On Border Wall


The Department of Homeland Security sounded a bit like Cookie Monster or The Incredible Hulk in a press release Wednesday detailing how the agency has spent the roughly $1.67 billion allocated to it for fence and wall construction and renovation over the past 19 months.


“DHS is committed to building wall and building wall quickly,” the release read. “We are not replacing short, outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall. Instead, under this President we are building a wall that is 30-feet high.”

The release — its cadence, height obsession and strangely casual tone — caught readers’ attention.







A DHS spokesperson did not return a request for comment. Near the end of the release the agency takes a harsher tone, characterizing asylum-seekers and migrants who approached the U.S.-Mexico border wall recently as “a violent mob of 1,000 people” which “had become assaultive.” The migrants, including young children who happened to be nearby, were teargassed.
 
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ari-fleischer-60-minutes-benghazi-cohen-hush-money

Ari Fleischer Compares CBS’ Benghazi Coverage To Hush Money Payments

Ari Fleischer, a pundit and former press secretary for President George W. Bush, on Thursday compared Michael Cohen’s campaign finance violations to “60 Minutes”’ Benghazi coverage — conveniently leaving out that Cohen’s crimes were not ones of editorial discretion, but rather, those of cold hard cash.

“The idea of media corporations not playing a role in campaigns is a joke. Does anybody remember when ’60 Minutes’ suppressed information about Barack Obama contradicting what he said in one of the presidential debates about Benghazi being caused by terrorism?” Fleischer said. “’60 Minutes’ sat on that, didn’t make that information public, that he was contradicted in their interview. They suppressed the news until the day before the 2012 election. Media companies do play roles in elections, and everybody knows it.”

He was referring to when “60 Minutes” withheld video for several weeks that showed Obama saying, the day after the Benghazi attacks, that it was “too early to tell” whether they were terroristic in nature.

But Fleischer missed the crucial point of Cohen’s confessed criminal activity: The former Trump fixer engaged in campaign finance violations — coordinating real payments of money to two women who allegedly had affairs with Trump, in order to help Trump’s electoral chances. American Media, Inc., the “National Enquirer” publisher, paid off Karen McDougal with Cohen’s coordination.

“60 Minutes” was never accused of being financially involved in the 2012 election on Obama’s behalf.



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