Monday, November 20, 2017

The British publicist who set up the meeting between Junior and the Russian attorney now claims he was a "useful idiot." I buy that.

Courtesy of The Independent:  

The British music publicist who arranged a meeting between Donald Trump's inner circle and a Russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information on Hillary Clinton has insisted he was a merely "useful idiot" who became inadvertently embroiled in the scandal. 

Rob Goldstone has agreed to be questioned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller about the meeting, which is at the heart of a probe into alleged collusion between Mr Trump presidential campaign and the Kremlin. 

The publicist emailed the US leader's son, Donald Trump Jr, last year offering "official" Russian documents he claimed would "incriminate" Hillary Clinton and "be very useful to your father".

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In his first interview since the scandal erupted, Mr Goldstone said he regretted his involvement but insisted he had merely been a "useful idiot". 

"I never thought in a million years that an email I wrote to [Donald Trump Jr]... would be examined by the world many times over," he told The Sunday Times. "I should have listened to that little voice in my head. I remember specifically saying to Emin: you know, we probably shouldn't get involved in this." 

He said the meeting at Trump Tower ended inconclusively, adding he believed the Russians used the promise of dirt on Ms Clinton as a "pretext" to lobby the Trump campaign on unrelated issues.

Mr Goldstone claimed he "puffed up" the wording of his emails to Mr Trump Jr to secure the meeting. 

"If I'm guilty of anything, and I hate the word guilty, it's hyping the message and going the extra mile for my clients," the publicist added.

Goldstone claims that he does not know of any other collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign but that if there was he had no part in it. 

It really does not make any difference if Goldstone "puffed up" the wording or not, the important thing is that Junior thought he was taking a meeting with the Russians in order to receive illegally obtained information that could be used against his father's opponent, because the Kremlin wanted them to win the election.

Collusion.

43 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:52 PM

    Trump supporters have a new insane conspiracy theory

    The latest conspiracy theory, which is accompanied by the hashtag FollowTheWhiteRabbit, takes Pizzagate and runs with it in new, even bizarre, directions. Among them is that Clinton, her daughter Chelsea and Senator John McCain are among leading figures secretly wearing ankle bracelets after having already been indicted.

    ...In the minds of those who adhere to the theory, everything is seen as further supporting evidence. Take former President Barack Obama’s recent performance of jury duty, for example. To believers, it was merely the explanation given for him traveling to Chicago to get his own ankle monitor fitted.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/trump-supporters-have-a-new-insane-conspiracy-theory/

    oh good lord.

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    1. Anonymous2:07 PM

      https://twitter.com/TrumpsBlonde/status/931274393593954304

      https://twitter.com/hashtag/followthewhiterabbit?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag

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    2. Anonymous2:27 PM

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5090399/Bill-Clinton-accused-sexual-assault-four-women.html

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    3. Anonymous3:03 PM

      More Republican pedophiles.

      Trump man, Ok, plead guilty to a charge of child sex trafficking.

      https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/20/ralph-shortey-oklahoma-pro-trump-republican-also-c/

      If Americans learn nothing else from this, it should be this: Evil comes in all forms, even cloaked in Christian conservatism.

      Kellyanne Conway, vote in pedophiles, Moore and Trump.

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    4. So Chelsea and Hillary go out publicly in skirts a few times and McCain and Obama go someplace warm and wear some shorts and sandals.

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  2. Anonymous1:58 PM

    GOP adviser ridicules Trump’s tweets as no different than ‘a monkey throwing feces’ at zoo visitors

    ...Speaking with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, long-time GOP election expert Mike Murphy was asked by host Wallace about Trump’s tweets over the weekend where he battled with Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (AZ), Hillary Clinton, the father of a UCLA basketball player and NFL player Marshawn Lynch.

    Wallace began by laughing as she read “some of my favorite” presidential tweets from the past weekend, adding as she finished, “I need my high school grammar teacher to diagram those sentences.”

    “Help me out here,” she asked Murphy. “Throw me a lifeline. What did I just read? They don’t even sound real.”

    “It’s just raging thumbs on a keyboard, it’s like therapy,” Murphy smirked.

    “Do you blame the thumbs?” a laughing Wallace asked.

    “No, I blame him,” Murphy explained. “It’s just this is — look, I totally blame him. The only suspicion I have is there’s an amplifier effect because some of these tweets apparently he dictates to Hope [Hicks] or his social media guy and, I think, on the phone when they’re in the room because he wants to impress them.”

    “‘I’ll show them, tell them this, tell them that,'” Murphy said mimicking Trump. “It just amplifies itself and it’s crazy. It’s like going to the monkey house at the zoo. you make eye contact with them too long and he throws the feces at you. Twitter is his weapon of choice.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/gop-adviser-ridicules-trumps-tweets-as-no-different-than-a-monkey-throwing-feces-at-zoo-visitors/

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    1. Anonymous5:27 PM

      I laughed out loud when I heard him use the analogy of a monkey throwing feces. Perfect!

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  3. Anonymous2:01 PM

    ‘Low-level volunteer’ Carter Page held high-level foreign policy meetings with Hungarian officials during campaign

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/low-level-volunteer-carter-page-held-high-level-foreign-policy-meetings-with-hungarian-officials-during-campaign/

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  4. Anonymous2:03 PM

    Mueller document request puts Trump and Sessions squarely in special counsel’s crosshairs

    Mueller’s team asked for emails between the White House and Justice Department related to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal from the Russia probe after his undisclosed contacts with the Russian ambassador were revealed.

    “Earlier reports indicated that Trump exploded when he found out about his recusal,” former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told Business Insider. “That could be evidence of his state of mind because it is a highly unusual reaction to a recusal decision.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/mueller-document-request-puts-trump-and-sessions-squarely-in-special-counsels-crosshairs/

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  5. Anonymous2:24 PM

    The Indian city of Hyderabad is racing against the clock to complete an extravagant pedestrian shopping mall, round up beggars and secure all local hot spots ahead of Ivanka Trump's visit later this month. http://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-india-fashion-mall-beggars-hyderabad-trip-white-house-security-716827

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  6. Anonymous2:32 PM

    Trump impeachment threat grows as obstruction of justice investigation deepens

    Donald Trump may have convinced himself that the investigation into his campaign’s alleged links to Russia is winding down, but evidence suggests quite the opposite—and that it is inching ever closer to his door. Specifically, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible obstruction of justice is ratcheting up, according to reports.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/trump-impeachment-threat-grows-as-obstruction-of-justice-investigation-deepens/

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  7. Anonymous2:39 PM

    Donald Trump unwittingly tips off that he knows a major Trump-Russia bombshell is about to land

    ...Trump has concluded that he suddenly and desperately needs a distraction. We’ve consistently seen that whenever he does this, It nearly always plays out the same. A major news outlet has called his White House for advance comment on a major Trump-Russia bombshell that it’s about to publish. Trump decides to start a particularly controversial high profile feud, usually with someone very popular (this time NFL star Marshawn Lynch), as a way of baiting the media and the public into giving less attention to the bombshell when it lands.

    So what’s about to land? Donald Trump hasn’t given away specific hints as to its nature this time. But now we know it’s coming, and based on the rare Monday morning timing of his latest attempted distraction, it’s coming soon.

    http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/tips-bombshell/6132/

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    1. Anonymous2:57 PM

      lol. Hi Bill Palmer! Still playing pretend journalist?

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    2. Anonymous4:04 PM

      You can mock all you want, but if you did your homework, you would find that he has been ON THE MONEY with his articles, often well before it hits the mainstream. And he is amazing at connecting the dots on issues. But you have to have the INTELLIGENCE to read past his personal opinion and then watch how it all unfolds. Obviously, you don't have that intelligence, and have no capability of reading between the lines for content that is clearly there and on target. I feel sorry for you, you poor ignorant thing.

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    3. Anonymous5:02 PM

      Oh I will definitely keep mocking your type 4:04. Because you are a moron, and you follow fake journalism morons, like Bill Palmer, which makes you an ultra moron.

      Read between the lines lolololol.

      Why should one have to read between the lines on supposed reporting? If someone has factual evidence or stories to report, they report them directly and succinctly.

      Read between the lines LMAO!

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    4. Referring to yourself in the third person, Bill? You know what that is a sign of, right? And no, you're not the President.

      Oh, and OPINION is not news. It's gossip.

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    5. Anonymous6:30 PM

      Freedom of expression.

      Express your Emotions.

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  8. Anonymous2:43 PM

    The 16 women who accused Trump of sexual assault are telling their story in one video-please share this far & wide.

    https://twitter.com/funder/status/932703161596432384

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPGjM1PW0AAlToG.jpg

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  9. Anonymous2:44 PM

    What is Latin for "Idiocy IS an excuse" -- the new Trump family motto?

    They just found out --

    Ignorantia juris non excusat

    Latin for "ignorance of law excuses no one"

    is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because one was unaware of its content.

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  10. Anonymous2:51 PM

    17 women have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. It’s time to revisit those stories

    ...Now may be the time to look at public accusations against Trump again, to view them anew in a rapidly changing political and social climate. Trump has never been charged with a sexual-misconduct crime, and has adamantly denied each claim listed below. But the world’s approach to women who say they have been victimized by sexual misconduct is changing—and so are the consequences for men who are accused.
    Language also matters. Much of the coverage of the accusations waged against Trump last fall used wording like “groping,” “inappropriate touching,” or “fondling” to describe behavior that could constitute sexual assault. As Laura Bates, author of Everyday Sexism and Girl Up, wrote in the Guardian, using euphemistic language both downplays the severity of the offense being alleged and undercuts the distress felt by the women who came forward.

    https://qz.com/1130324/17-women-have-accused-donald-trump-of-sexual-assault-or-misconduct-its-time-to-revisit-those-stories/

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  11. Anonymous2:51 PM

    “Roy Moore laid out some blankets on the floor, he removed my clothing, he left the room & came back in wearing his white underwear, he touched me, he tried to get me to touch him—I was a 14-year-old child.”

    https://twitter.com/funder/status/932700301798277121

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  12. Anonymous2:55 PM

    (THREAD) In this thread, a longtime criminal attorney analyzes one of the most pressing questions in American life today: how long will the Russia probe go on? Read on for an answer, and please share this thread widely.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/932474004593696770

    (THREAD) If even _part_ of this explosive HFP report is accurate, I get why #Russiagate is taking so long to investigate. Read on for more.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/932755343381336064

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  13. Anonymous2:57 PM

    6/ It's been a *seven-month* battle (since April) to get U.S. media to talk about Hungary—those who did got threatened, belittled, and called "conspiracy theorists" by media in the meantime—but the research has always been solid: Trump was up to funny business in Hungary in 2016.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/932753757250752512

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  14. Anonymous3:07 PM

    collusion/treason ..

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  15. Anonymous3:07 PM

    OT

    BAD JUDGE: Jeanine Pirro Busted For Driving an Insane 119 MPH

    I had no idea brooms flew that fast.

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    1. Anonymous4:05 PM

      OMG, you made me laugh so hard at that comment!

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    2. Anonymous4:10 PM

      https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jeanine-pirro-said-she-was-tired-of-clintons-acting-above-the-law-night-before-getting-nabbed-driving-119-mph/

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    3. 4:05: me, also too. Hilarious.

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    4. Anonymous9:00 PM

      had to get to Hogwarts in a hurry-Voldermort needs her help to kill Harry.

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  16. Anonymous3:22 PM

    Trump wants: 1) NFL to suspend Marshawn Lynch for a year for a peaceful pregame protest; 2) China to imprison 3 U.S. teens for 5 to 10 years unless one of their dads is nicer to him; 3) DOJ to prosecute and imprison Mrs. Clinton; 4) Alabama to vote for a pedophile. Got it.

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    1. Anonymous3:34 PM

      He can want in one hand and shat in the other. Report back which one fills up first. $nark.

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    2. Anonymous4:13 PM

      “So the president should make clear he endorses a man who has credible allegations, credibly accused of being a pedophile?” Tur shot back.

      Nunberg insisted that while he wasn’t personally defending Moore, the president still needed Moore’s vote in the Senate. This led to a back-and-forth over whether it was more important to get a Republican in the Senate than protecting children, with Nunberg then questioning some of the allegations and claiming some have already been discredited. As you could imagine, this caused the segment to grow even more tense.

      After asking Nunberg if he believed Harvey Weinstein’s accusers — he said he did — Tur pressed him on Trump’s low approval ratings. “How does campaigning with an accused pedophile help that approval rating?” Tur asked.

      “This could help rehabilitate him with his party,” Nunberg said.

      https://www.mediaite.com/tv/katy-tur-battles-sam-nunberg-over-roy-moore-how-does-an-accused-pedophile-help-trump/

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  17. Anonymous3:32 PM

    (THREAD) : According to an individual with firsthand knowledge of the judging of the 2002 Miss Universe pageant, Trump tried to rig the outcome of the international contest to award the prestigious “Miss Universe” title to Vladimir Putin’s then-mistress, Oxana Fedorova.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/929021618961215488

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  18. Anonymous4:05 PM

    Obama Wishes Joe Biden A Happy Birthday With An Adorable Meme

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-happy-birthday-meme-to-biden_us_5a1329f3e4b0c335e99674f2?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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  19. Anonymous4:07 PM

    Charlie Rose Accused Of Sexually Harassing And Groping Women

    “It is essential that these women know I hear them and that I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed,” Rose said in a statement in response to the Post’s reporting. “I have behaved insensitively at times, and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charlie-rose-women_us_5a134e10e4b0aa32975d342a?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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  20. Anonymous4:15 PM

    Ex-Fox News Reporter Claims Network Blocked Her From Investigating Trump/Russia Links

    “Fox is just buying what the White House is selling.”

    https://www.mediaite.com/online/ex-fox-news-reporter-claims-network-blocked-her-from-investigating-trumprussia-links/

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  21. Anonymous4:16 PM

    Texas Governor Just Broke Up With Trump; This Is Unprecedented

    http://addictinginfo.com/2017/11/19/texas-governor-just-broke-with-trump-this-is-unprecedented/

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  22. Intent. Doesn't matter if there was no dirt. Junior's INTENT was to trade that info for favors his Dad could provide once he was elected. Quid pro quo.

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  23. Anonymous5:31 PM

    tRump has been 'groomed' by the Russkies since the mid-1970s, if not longer even!

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842?cid=apn

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  24. Anonymous5:32 PM

    "A paper trail proves Mike Pence knew Michael Flynn was a Russian agent. When Flynn goes down, Pence goes down too." Scott Dworkin

    https://twitter.com/funder/status/931906674545299456

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  25. Anonymous6:56 PM

    Ask Queen Elizabeth why England said no? Paybacksa bitch Queenie!
    Life is War. We said all there is to say to each other. Pass it on.

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  26. Anonymous7:15 PM

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/heres-how-kushner-newspaper-new-york-observer-gave-wikileaks-and-assange-an-anti-clinton-platform/

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  27. DetroitSam8:23 PM

    Some people should just avoid taking photos.

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