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Federal prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller are focusing keenly on the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. and are trying to determine his intent when he attended a controversial June 9, 2016, meeting with a Russian lawyer, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
Trump Jr. has acknowledged that he was looking for negative information about Hillary Clinton when he, as well as Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort, met with the lawyer. But he claimed he did not receive any useful opposition research.
The source familiar with the investigation said that prosecutors have been trying to determine exactly what information was provided and are scrutinizing Trump Jr.’s statements about the meeting.
Requesting or accepting anything of value for a presidential campaign from a foreign national violates federal election law, legal experts told BuzzFeed News.
Of course none of this will lead to actual imprisonment because Trump will DEFINITELY have his pardon pen out and at the ready for his son.
Now if this were Eric he might just let them take him, but this is Donnie Junior!
However I wonder how long these prosecutors could have to sweat Junior before he cracked like a two bit prison snitch?
Let's face it these Trump boys are soft from a life of extravagance and excess.
Just one night in a county jail and Junior would be giving up family secrets like an automatic Pez dispenser.
All those fuckers are crooked.
ReplyDeleteEric is somewhere getting high off of coke. Thinking "thanks dad for not naming me Donald jr, or really putting me in charge of shit". "Good luck big bro, u are really gonna need it, sux to be u".
DeleteI don't imagine all that extravagance and excess could ever make up for having to have Donald Trump as your father.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, Trump will be out of the White House any day now... before Junior is sentenced.
ReplyDeleteThe Original Russia Connection
Felix Sater has cut deals with the FBI, Russian oligarchs, and Donald Trump. He’s also quite a talker.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/felix-sater-donald-trump-russia-investigation.html
Wow, Wow and WOW. President Hillary here we come.
ReplyDeleteHuh? How? She didn't win any qz election. : (
DeleteHuh? How does that happen? Pence as VP becomes POTUS... then Paul Ryan if Pence goes down with Trump. Sorry you dampened your Depends, but there will never be a Pres Hilary Clinton.
DeleteIt will be President Orin Hatch> JBS Mormon
DeleteI don't know how it works. I can dream. If an office is won by a domestic or foreign entity, that would be fraudulent. Even if the 'winner' didn't know they were put in office by criminals. The 'win' is fraud, nil and void.
DeleteAll things done while the 'fraud winner' is in office is nil and void. Like none of it happened in any lasting sense. It only happened as a crime.
All must be done to undo everything. The remaining candidate is the legit winner.
@4:39 - unfortunately, that's not the way it works. She wasn't election. A new election with no head of state would be a disaster. 3:26 is right.
DeleteActually we have something like that almost every 8 years when the incumbent is term limited.
DeleteWhat 'Heel$' HIM!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/19/dictionary-trolls-trump-ironically-misspells-heals-heels.html
That won't get Trump impeached or indicted.
ReplyDeleteIf they're concentrating on Junior's intent for that one meeting, we're screwed and they're wasting their time.
They need to get back to the money laundering and the Russian collusion for the election.
He may just be the weakest link and easiest to prove. Doesn't mean once established, it can't be linked to DJT. have to wait and see.
DeleteI'm not sure they aren't also pursuing the money laundering. Sounds like Mueller has the resources he needs to follow both leads. He certainly has enough brainiacs in relationto money laundering. Must be a reason for qz that.
Mueller's espionage guy resigned. That doesn't look good.
DeleteGOP Doubts And Anxieties About Trump Burst Into The Open
ReplyDeleteBehind the high-profile denunciations voiced this week by GOP senators once considered Trump allies, scores of other, influential Republicans began to express grave concerns about the state of the Trump presidency. In interviews with Associated Press reporters across nine states, 25 Republican politicians, party officials, advisers and donors expressed worries about whether Trump has the self-discipline and capability to govern successfully.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-anxieties-trump
Really? *NOW* they're worried about self-discipline and capability? Isn't that a conversation that should have happened before the RNC convention. Like during the campaign. Like, right after the Putzi announced he was running? They could have easily taken him out in the primaries if they really wanted to.
DeleteI'm not so sure about that pardon. The minute Jr. is pardoned, he cannot take the 5th. He essentially has immunity, although not granted by the prosecutor - the usual manner. Once he cannot take the 5th, he can be forced to testify, or be jailed for contempt, or perjury. It will become, in short order (I'm imagining) a L&O episode wondering if both or either will betray the other, or which one will be loyal, and which will betray.
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IN thinking further, if Jr. is tried and convicted before Trump is impeached, then Jr. could be pardoned. What are the chances Jr. will be prosecuted and the House not move to impeach quickly. Hmmm. hard to tell. : (
Deleteah yes, the prisoner's dilemma.
DeleteExactly
DeleteJudge sentences pair who threatened black family with Confederate flags to 33 years in prison
ReplyDeleteThe couple who in 2015 led a convoy through a predominantly Black neighborhood in Douglas County, Georgia, shouting racial slurs, flying “rebel flags,” and threatening attendees of a child’s birthday party with shotguns has been convicted and sentenced.
Kayle Norton was sentenced to 15 years in prison while Jose Torres was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In total, fifteen members of a group called “Respect the Flag” drove around Douglasville, with multiple Confederate flags on each vehicle on July 25. They stopped outside a child’s birthday party at about 3:30 p.m. Brian Fortner, Douglas County District Attorney, says the prosecution of the attack began with people in the periphery and the closed in on the leaders, Norton and Torres. It is said that investigators pored over all of their facebook activity and many had ties to the KKK and various other white supremacist groups.
http://theproudliberal.org/judge-sentences-pair-who-threatened-black-family-with-confederate-flags-to-33-years-in-prison/
Obama Bests Trump as Most Admired Man in 2016
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gallup.com/poll/200771/obama-bests-trump-admired-man-2016.aspx?
He'll win for 2017 too. That one will really hurt.
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ReplyDelete‘Known racist and a nazi sympathizer’: Activist projects message onto Trump’s D.C. hotel
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/known-racist-and-a-nazi-sympathizer-activist-projects-message-onto-trumps-dc-hotel/2017/08/18/9726a6c0-8413-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html
Bannon is a gamer. He developed games and probably with ability to hack. Mueller is probably looking into that too.
ReplyDeleteBannon ran a company that was a Chinese gold seller in World of Warcraft.They paid pittances to Chinese to hack and steal the gold from actual players accounts and transfer that fold to the company,all illegal.Then they resold that gold to players for cash,also illegal.
DeleteDonald Trump Jr gets himself tangled with Julian Assange and Russia
ReplyDeletehttp://www.palmerreport.com/politics/jr-gop-congressman-assange-russia/4395/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597035573/barry-and-joe-the-animated-series-pilot
ReplyDeleteA new animated series by director and writer Adam Reid would bring back the bromance between former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden — if it ever gets off the ground.
A Kickstarter page running through the end of August is seeking $100,000 to launch "Barry & Joe - The Animated Series," a crime-fighting animation starring the duo.
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/347225-new-animated-sitcom-would-chronicle-crime-fighting-biden-and-obama
I just gave them money, let's make this happen.
Rumors have started that Steve Bannon is going to launch a crazier version of Fox News
ReplyDeletehttps://qz.com/1058028/fox-news-steve-bannon-style-the-rumors-have-started-he-will-launch-his-own-broadcast-news-network/
Sometimes you need a pulsing red circle of data to understand how abnormally hot Earth is getting
ReplyDeletehttps://qz.com/1057666/sometimes-you-need-a-pulsing-red-circle-of-data-to-understand-how-abnormally-hot-earth-is-getting/
The neo-Nazis and white supremacists who marched and brawled in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend wore their whiteness like a shield. It was proudly evident in their uncovered faces and their arms outstretched in Hitler salutes. It was displayed on their bare skin, which flaunted tattoos of swastikas and Confederate flags.
ReplyDeleteMark Peterson’s photographs capture the baleful scene, illuminating the protesters’ faces and eyes, some of which are joyful in their hate. They bludgeon and stamp on counter-protesters, who scramble and care for the fallen, including Heather Heyer, struck and killed by a white supremacist’s car.
Their assailants had no need for hoods and masks, not when they have a defender in the White House. In these photos, they are naked and unafraid. The faces of the white supremacist leaders Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler are eerily pale, almost incandescent. But the face of David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is partly cast in shadow, as if gesturing at the deep darkness from which this virulent brand of American hatred springs.
https://newrepublic.com/article/144319/charlottesvilles-faces-hate
Trump’s Fan-Service to His Base Is Tearing America Apart
ReplyDeleteIn the field of Japanese comic book production, there’s a term of art called “fan service”: the introduction of material, usually gratuitous sexual imagery, that serves no narrative purpose but to please the hardcore devotees.
Trump is the fan service president: He’s all about keeping his cheering section happy, even at the risk of alienating everyone else. Unlike almost every other president, Trump doesn’t even pretend to serve the wider public.
https://newrepublic.com/article/144358/trumps-fan-service-base-tearing-america-apart
History Will Remember the Republicans Who Appeased Trump
ReplyDeleteBy not condemning him directly, they're empowering his neo-Nazi followers.
...After Trump’s initial comments transformed the disgrace in Charlottesville into a crisis for the White House, only a handful of CEOs on Trump’s business councils resigned unprompted. A few more followed when activists threatened boycotts, but it was only after Trump’s truly unhinged defense of neo-Nazis on Tuesday that the remaining participants responded en masse. Only, rather than resign in disgrace, they connived with Trump to dissolve the councils altogether, sparing themselves the personalized wrath Trump directed at Merck CEO Kenneth C. Frazier, who initiated the exodus, and protecting their access to regulatory favors in the future. Like Ryan, they are now free to criticize white supremacy as an abstraction, without having to cite Trump specifically.
https://newrepublic.com/article/144388/history-will-remember-republicans-appeased-trump
For the last six years I have spent an inordinate amount of time among the American radical right, reporting for my book. Among the first things I learned is that a white nationalist rally is much like the weigh-in of a professional boxing match. There is a lot of finger-pointing and why-I-oughta’s, but all from a safe distance, affording nationalists and counter-protesters the luxury of saving face while remaining blissfully unmolested. It is a song and dance that both far-right groups and Antifa understand, and have come to rely on.
ReplyDelete...On Saturday morning in Charlottesville, things were already amiss. I was on the upper level of a downtown parking structure talking to Matthew Heimbach, the leader of the Traditionalist Workers Party, a fascist white nationalist group and one of the key players in Saturday’s rally. He told me that there had been no co-ordination with law enforcement in advance of the rally. “Nobody told us to use this parking garage,” he said. “We’ve asked the cops to provide us with a way into the rally site, but they haven’t responded at all.”
A few minutes later, a phalanx of 150 or so nationalists filed out of the parking garage, into East Market Street next to the Charlottesville Police Station. They were met by no one. There wasn’t a police officer in sight. I walked at the front of the line, interviewing the leaders as they marched. We approached Emancipation Park, and to my surprise I saw Antifa ahead. There were no barricades and no police, and as the nationalists marched into the waiting arms of their enemies, mayhem ensued. Pepper spray, paint, frozen water bottles, sticks, and clubs flew. The cops had blown their cue and the choreography of the white nationalist rally was thrown into chaos.
...There were no barricades and no police, and as the nationalists marched into the waiting arms of their enemies, mayhem ensued.
https://newrepublic.com/article/144365/cops-dropped-ball-charlottesville
Donald Trump Is Killing Us
ReplyDelete...It would seem that the only thing these two crises have in common is Trump. He instigated both of them: in one case, by turning an impoverished totalitarian state thousands of miles away into his personal bête noire; in the other, by legitimizing the grievances of a pathetic group that believes people of other races are inherently inferior. In both instances he was guided by his north star, a white nationalist base that, depending on whom you ask, is either in its final reactionary throes or is experiencing a resurgence alongside its sister movements in Europe.
But what these crises also have in common is the psychological effect they have on the rest of us, joining a long chain of crises to form a single ur-crisis that hangs over our heads like a sword and from which there is no guarantee of reprieve. America has long been a country of hate and prejudice, of war and belligerence, but the last week was the latest evidence that there is something new and disorienting and dangerous afoot. It feels as if the whole world is coming off its hinges, and the vast majority of us can do nothing but watch it happen.
https://newrepublic.com/article/144309/donald-trump-killing-us