So wait, he fired Flynn for lying to the FBI and then fired James Comey for continuing to investigate Flynn?I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2017
You know the problem with habitual liars is that when their lies are exposed they just keep right on digging that hole.
As reporter Natasha Bertrand pointed out this tweet might also have just handed Robert Mueller his Christmas bonus.
Courtesy of Business Insider:"Just unreal": Trump's latest tweet about Flynn indicates he's either "utterly clueless about his own jeopardy" or "truly believes he is beyond accountability," experts say https://t.co/hDcwke2e5m— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 2, 2017
Trump told reporters at the time that he had been forced to fire Flynn because he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about those conversations. But the White House gave no indication at the time that it knew Flynn had lied to the FBI in a January interview about those conversations — a federal crime that Flynn pleaded guilty to on Friday.
"I fired him because of what he said to Mike Pence," Trump said during a press conference on February 16.
He continued: "Very simple. Mike was doing his job. He was calling countries and his counterparts. So, it certainly would have been OK with me if he did it. I would have directed him to do it if I thought he wasn’t doing it. I didn’t direct him, but I would have directed him because that’s his job."
Trump's tweet on Saturday appears to indicate that Trump was aware Flynn had lied to the FBI when he departed the administration in February.
It also seems out of line with what a person close to White House counsel Don McGahn told the New York Times on Friday, which is that when former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned him about Flynn in January, she did not mention that Flynn had committed a federal crime.
If Trump knew that Flynn was in the FBI's crosshairs when he asked former FBI Director James Comey, whom he later fired, to consider "letting Flynn go" the day after Flynn resigned, that could dramatically bolster the obstruction case federal prosecutors are building against him.
I swear at this rate there will not be any surprises left to be revealed by the time Christmas morning arrives.
Here is your "Holy shit!" update:
K.T McFarland wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by the Obama Administration in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Mr. Trump's victory. The sanctions could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, "which has thrown the U.S.A election to him."Maybe don't put this in writing, KT McFarland... pic.twitter.com/cqWnVDAApg— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 2, 2017
Altogether now, "Holy shit!"
The smarmy piece of shit truly believes he is above the law and untouchable. Tic toc.
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Trump is almost a hate group by the FBI’s definition
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Where is Sarah Palin at? Sure
DeleteSounds like her rhetoric.
Trump is a sociopath, they believe they are smarter than everyone and will never get caught.
DeleteProblem for trump is their"luck" runs out and they eventually are caught.
After Michael Flynn, Robert Mueller's Next Targets Are in This Document
ReplyDeleteThe special counsel made something public he could've kept private. It's full of hints and carries a message to Jared Kushner: cooperate now.
The guilty plea by President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Friday showed once again that for special counsel Robert Mueller, the devil is in the documents.
Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Filed along with his guilty plea were three documents: a criminal information statement containing the charge, a plea agreement, and a document called “Statement of the Offense.” Just as we saw in the guilty plea of former campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, the documents provide a number of interesting insights.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-jared-kushner-robert-muellers-next-targets-are-in-this-document-4
Trump Tweets He Knew Flynn Lied to FBI When He Asked Comey to ‘Let Flynn Go’
ReplyDeleteThe president tried to exonerate himself by claiming he did the right thing by firing Flynn. He might have incriminated himself instead.
...Whether the president remembered it or not, he has never before stated that Flynn lied to the FBI. Whether the president realized it or not, conceding that he knew about Flynn’s FBI lie – to which Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday – opens Trump up to a world of legal hurt. Trump had asked James Comey, the former director of the FBI, to drop an inquiry into a man Trump now says he knew lied to the bureau.
“This tweet makes it clear that Trump knew at the time that he made his request to Comey to let the investigation go that Flynn had lied to the FBI, which is a criminal offense,” Barbara McQuade, who until January served as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, told The Daily Beast.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tweets-he-knew-flynn-lied-to-fbi-when-he-asked-comey-to-let-flynn-go
And yet there he sits, and the GOP too, deconstructing the country to turn it into an oligarchy. I wonder if any of those Trump voting poor dumb fucks know what is happening? Higher taxes and no health insurance must get them giddy. They want to suffer so the wealthy and privileged can be, well, wealthy and privileged. Trump voters deserve to be miserable mud hut dwellers. I never want to hear one of them complain about anything. They have earned their misery. Stupidity and ignorance has costs.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It’s going to hit many of them and how! They sooo love their Bible:
Delete“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” Romans 1:22
Both 1:10 and 1:30. $o Fitting.
DeleteEmails show Trump officials were fully aware that Flynn was talking to Russians
ReplyDeleteA trove of emails obtained by The New York Times shows that officials in President Donald Trump’s campaign and transition teams were fully aware that now-ousted national security adviser Mike Flynn was in contact with officials from the Russian government — in spite of their public insistence that Flynn was acting alone.
“In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents filed on Friday, showed that Mr. Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia,” said the Times.
On Dec. 29, deputy national security director K. T. McFarland told a friend via email that Russia had just “thrown the election” to Trump over his rival, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/emails-show-trump-officials-were-fully-aware-that-flynn-was-talking-to-russians/
...On Dec. 29, a transition adviser to Mr. Trump, K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by the Obama administration in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Mr. Trump’s victory. The sanctions could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, “which has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,” she wrote in the emails obtained by The Times.
But it is evident from the emails — which were obtained from someone who had access to transition team communications — that after learning that President Barack Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats, the Trump team quickly strategized about how to reassure Russia. The Trump advisers feared that a cycle of retaliation between the United States and Russia would keep the spotlight on Moscow’s election meddling, tarnishing Mr. Trump’s victory and potentially hobbling his presidency from the start.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/russia-mcfarland-flynn-trump-emails.html
Ask yourself, why the hell would Russia care about Flynn...unless they are getting nervous about their involvement being exposed.
Russian politicians rushing to defense of ‘scapegoat’ Michael Flynn after guilty plea: report
...“It’s just a couple of relatively senior Russian lawmakers that have taken to social media to voice their opinions about the confession essentially of Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor to President Trump,” Chance explained. “One of them saying that this is a case that is a sack of smoke, essentially it is just hype. Another senator saying that Flynn is a scapegoat and this is really just an attack on the U.S. president.”
“So the little reaction that we’ve had so far seems to be following the previous Russian insistence that nothing untoward happened, there there was no collusion and essentially to paraphrase Russian and U.S. officials, this is merely fake news,” Chance noted.
“The truth is, though, that with all this evidence stacking up and this confession of Flynn, those stories, those lies are starting to gradually, in fact very quickly unravel,” Chance concluded.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/russian-politicians-rushing-to-defense-of-scapegoat-michael-flynn-after-guilty-plea-report/
Trump staffer admitted in email: Russia ‘has just thrown the USA election’ to Trump
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He probably believes he is untouchable because he is the President and republicans control everything in DC. I am starting to believe he is right and if you are not rich your definitely going to be F#&ked by these traitors in the near future.
ReplyDeleteInside the secretive nerve center of the Mueller investigation
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Emails show Trump officials were fully aware that Flynn was talking to Russians
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And again I say, not even ONE year and here we are. There is no defending this! To 1:10 PM above, cheers! It will be a cold day in double hockeys before I kowtow to any of them.
ReplyDeleteThe recipient of that "Russia threw him the election" email forwarded it to six other big honchos..the stars of the show, so to speak... on the transition team....apparently the witch hunt expanded to a coven.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-protests/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-against-netanyahu-corruption-idUSKBN1DW0Q8
ReplyDeleteKEY PLAYER$:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/dont-move-embassy-to-jerusalem-jordans-king-abdullah-ii-says/
"Democratic reasonableness. So long as he is working away, filing documents and convening grand juries, nobody needs to take to the streets. But as the year has progressed, it’s become clear that absolutely nothing will persuade Trump supporters and Republicans in Congress that it’s time to disavow the president—not lying, not spilling state secrets, not abject failure in crisis management, and not openly performed corruption. Given that reality, it often feels like it wouldn’t be enough for Mueller to hand us a smoking gun and an indictment. What if they threw a conviction and nobody came?
ReplyDeleteIt seems as though truth and law are forever losing ground in the footrace against open looting and overt totalitarianism. "I’ve been thinking that America is operating along two parallel legal tracks. On one track is the chug-chug of law and order, as embodied in the Mueller investigation. On the other is the daily mayhem and denialism and circus-performing of the present White House. I tend to worry that with every passing day, the circus is training us to ignore, discredit, devalue, or disbelieve what’s happening on the other track.' We crave nonpartisan and serious authority figures like Mueller because we believe they can guide us through. But having seen this White House shatter norms around the free press, civility, international diplomacy, and truth-telling, it almost defies belief that the line in the sand, the stopping point, is Mueller."
"a game-changer or merely a channel-changer"
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/12/is_it_too_late_for_robert_mueller_to_save_us.html
Train Wreck.
Ping ping bing
ReplyDelete"The complaint continued: “In addition, and among other things, the FBI has lawfully obtained multiple audio recordings of discussions involving certain of the defendants that occurred at various locations within a secure office in Manhattan used by SVR agents to send and receive intelligence reports and assignments from Moscow Center.”"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-had-to-know-the-fbi-had-heard-his-calls-with-russians-so-why-did-he-lie-about-them
Poor Donnie, he has told so many lies he can't even keep track of them.
ReplyDeleteMueller is probably holding off subpoenaing trump because
everyday he incriminates himself due to his bigly mouth.
Here's the plan.
ReplyDelete-- Democrats take House and Senate in 2018.
-- January 2019, impeach Trump and Pence.
-- Speaker of the House Pelosi becomes President.
-- She names Joe Biden as her VP.
-- She resigns the Presidency to return to the House.
Except there will be no nation left in another year. Trump is stupid and a big mouth fool, but the people around him are doing a fine job destroying the land,w water, air quality, jobs, and stability of this nation's people. We cannot afford another year of this deregulation, gutting education and nature, and trying to end the safety net for good.
DeleteINTERESTING TRUMP'S LAWYER MAKING ARGUMENTS THAT COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA IS NOT A CRIME.
ReplyDeleteWHY?
The Hill:
Trump lawyer: Collusion is not a crime
One of President Trump's top lawyers told The New Yorker that it doesn't matter if members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia as long as no crimes were committed.
“For something to be a crime, there has to be a statute that you claim is being violated,” Jay Sekulow said in an article published in the December issue of the magazine. “There is not a statute that refers to criminal collusion. There is no crime of collusion.”
Trump's attorney told the magazine on multiple occasions that collusion with Russia or another foreign power during a campaign is not illegal, and that no statute would be violated by the campaign working with the Russian government even if such an act is proven by special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Read more at
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/362929-trump-lawyer-collusion-is-not-a-crime
I think he's going after the money trail. Trump can't pardon anyone who's indicted and convicted of money laundering in a STATE.
DeleteWhat about the Logan Act?
DeleteSince it is a lie,it is Obama's fault defenses haven't worked, they are ADMITTING there was collusion,but it isn't illegal defense.
Sounds a little desperate.
It will be obstruction.Interfering with a n investigation.Trump will lie when his turn comes,then there will be lying under oath. But think about it.He got his big 800 million dollar tax break for himself plus no estate tax for his kids. He will resign when it's all said and done,and Jared will be in jail.Trump will drive that bus right over him.
DeleteIt's not collusion. It's conspiracy. Trump conspired with an enemy nation against the United States of America. Nothing will happen unless the Dems win the House and Senate. The Republicans took Russian money for their 2016 races so they won't be interested in getting rid of Trump. There has to be so many Dem voters coming out in droves in November 2018 that the Republicans won't have a chance to steal the election or electoral college. Use Virginia early last month as the template. Contest every race. Do not let Republicans run uncontested put someone, anyone against the SOBs. Defeat them!!
DeleteRethugs afraid of Trump's threat:
ReplyDelete“First of all,” Trump responded, according to the book, “I’m going to win. And second, if the Republican Party is going to run away from me, then I will take you all down with me. But I’m not going to lose.”
ReplyDeleteanthony @anthagiox
If Trump and Pence get removed, Paul Ryan becomes president. We’re fucked no matter what. https://twitter.com/mikel_jollett/status/936635508523859969 …
10:56 AM - Dec 1, 2017
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Here’s what happens if Mueller probe takes down Trump and Pence at the same time
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/heres-what-happens-if-mueller-probe-takes-down-trump-and-pence-at-the-same-time/
Ryan won't be POTUS. His time in the barrel is coming. IC/FVEY have got the goods on Ryan.
ReplyDeleteSucks when you're a political whore who's sold all your integrity, 'cause there's probably an indictment with your name on it.
TG for IC/FVEY
GeorgiaPeach
Hi, Georgia Peach! What are your code words up above? IC/FVEY and TG for IC/FVEY?
DeleteThanks.
To be fair, the damning phrase is in quotes. It thus could be interpreted as “the sore losers are claiming they lost because the Russians threw the election to Trump”
ReplyDeleteI do believe that the Russians intervened on Trump’s behalf. It also looks more and more likely that senior members of his campaign—and maybe Trump himself—colluded with them. But this particular email doesn’t really look to me like the definitive smoking gun it is made out to be.
It's not collusion.
ReplyDeleteIt's conspiracy against the United States of America that will bring down DJT, et. al.
And there will be no denying 'cause Mueller has all the receipts, thanks to IC/FVEY.
The beat-down to Mueller's door.....5,4,3,2,1.
GeorgiaPeach
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/937103111117819912
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump is a madman: The President's Wednesday Twitter spasm confirms what many Americans have long suspected
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/donald-trump-madman-article-1.3665163
Is the "madman" suffering from dementia or is venereal disease eating his brain?
DeleteTrump got his lawyer to fall on his sword to clean up the mess.
ReplyDeleteThey're ALL LIARS so are we surprised?
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/trumps-lawyer-wrote-presidents-sloppy-tweet-flynns-dismissal-064207494--abc-news-topstories.html
"President Donald Trump's personal lawyer John Dowd drafted the president's Saturday morning tweet that stated he fired former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lying not only to Vice President Mike Pence but also to the FBI, Dowd told ABC News Saturday."
Anyone believe that bullshit?
"But now Dowd, corroborated by a second source familiar with the matter, said the tweet was not drafted by the president himself but rather by the lawyer -- and done so in a "sloppy" manner.
The White House, which has insisted that tweets from the president should be taken as official statements, has declined to comment."
So they're official until they're not. They're true unless they're not. Trump tweets them unless it's somebody else.
"The public acknowledgment by Dowd means it is not clear whether the president did in fact know Flynn had lied to the FBI at the time of firing him -- though one source familiar with the president’s thinking said Trump did not know. Administration officials have declined to comment on that matter, as well.
The unusual clarification by Dowd –- revealing that someone other than Trump himself had authored a tweet from his official account -- could also be an attempt to tamp down on potential legal exposure from the message."
What a fucking shit show.
Yea, and while that shit show was going on the middle class just got f#cked by the House and the Senate Republicans with their tax scam. How's that feel?
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