Octopus Overlords

Grifman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:01 pm Note - subject title has been updated to reflect the multiple investigations facing the president. Sorry it took so long

Grifman wrote:Note - subject title has been updated to reflect the multiple investigations facing the president. Sorry it took so long

El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 2:55 pm As always Popehat's twitter feed is invaluable in terms of providing context.

For a year online conspiracy theorists and marginal publications have argued that Sullivan would dismiss the case because the government failed to turn over exculpatory material, or because his interview was conducted incorrectly. Since Flynn filed his sentencing brief, more mainstream outlets – including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page – have taken up the cause, proclaiming that the FBI broke the law in its interview. Those arguments are, and have always been, errant nonsense, as any legal professional should know. Could it be that Flynn and his lawyers included the disastrous Flynn-as-victim pitch in their brief because they came to accept the partisan din – because they forgot that federal judges don’t react like people on Twitter? That would be a very 2018 way to go to federal prison.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:45 pm Mr.Fed has said in the past that judges will often push hard in one direction in anticipation of actually going in the other. I don't recall his reasoning, but it might have to do with giving the appearance of a balanced approach, as well as being able to point out how close they were to actually ruling the opposite so they clearly weighed all evidence, fair and balanced something something.

I'm not explaining the concept clearly. The point is that Mr.Fed has said that when a judge blusters in a certain direction it is often followed by a ruling in the other. I have no idea if that's true or not. I know that I don't like the idea in this case, that's for sure.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:47 am He didn't buy the presidency.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:02 pm

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:47 am He didn't buy the presidency.

Putin bought the presidency. Who said that?

A newly obtained document shows President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Russia, despite his attorney Rudy Giuliani claiming on Sunday the document was never signed.

CNN's Chris Cuomo obtained a copy of the signed letter of intent that set the stage for negotiations for Trump condominiums, a hotel and commercial property in the heart of Moscow. The letter is dated October 28, 2015, and bears the President's signature.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:49 pm My attorney should know better than to let me sign a letter of intent that I didn't sign with people I've never talked to for which I never lied under oath about not having deals with when I said I had not business dealings with Russia after I said I have very big dealing with top Russian Government officials and top Russian Oligarch but I couldn't say who but it was big. That's why I pay them. I mean really, why aren't we investigating the Clinton Foundation? Witch hunt. No Collusion.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... oscow.html

Presidential norms and ethics, meh. Clinton! Lazy Mexican leech theives! Terrorists from Allah!

Sepiche wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:11 pm You forgot: "But, even if, I did, it's not, a CRIME!"

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:59 pm The consensus from British people on reddit is that the Daily Mail is one step away from reading the Enquirer.

CNN

A newly obtained document shows President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Russia, despite his attorney Rudy Giuliani claiming on Sunday the document was never signed.

CNN's Chris Cuomo obtained a copy of the signed letter of intent that set the stage for negotiations for Trump condominiums, a hotel and commercial property in the heart of Moscow. The letter is dated October 28, 2015, and bears the President's signature.

The invitation to interview him about national security before an international conference audience came on short notice. The setting was a gilded hall of the palatial National Museum of Art in the historic heart of Mexico City. Mueller was dressed, as always, as if it were 1956, Eisenhower in the White House, Sinatra on the radio. He was relaxed, courtly, charming.

I was reeling over the reality that Donald Trump was going to be president — and the slowly dawning realization that the Russians had wanted him in the White House. I hoped that Mueller, three years out of office as FBI director, might have some thoughts on this politically charged counterintelligence case. Six months to the day after we met, he was appointed special counsel.

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:59 pm I would love to see every Trump except Barron locked up over their dealings. And that includes Melania (but not the pool boy...he's innocent in all this).

Max Peck wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:33 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:59 pm I would love to see every Trump except Barron locked up over their dealings. And that includes Melania (but not the pool boy...he's innocent in all this).

What did Tiffany ever do to anyone?

Or did you just pull a classic Trump move and completely forget that she's his daughter?

GungHo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 3:18 pm

This is so totally crazy I'm really not sure what to say about it. My 8yo wouldn't even say something this illogical.

And the beauty part is that today Flynn just shot all of that innanity down by saying 'uhh, yeah actually I knew I was lying and I knew lying to the FBI was bad, mmkay?'

Max Peck wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:33 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:59 pm I would love to see every Trump except Barron locked up over their dealings. And that includes Melania (but not the pool boy...he's innocent in all this).

What did Tiffany ever do to anyone?

Or did you just pull a classic Trump move and completely forget that she's his daughter?

A senior Justice Department ethics official concluded acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker should recuse from overseeing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe examining President Trump, but advisers to Whitaker recommended the opposite and he has no plans to step aside, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Within days of the president’s announcement in early November that he had put Whitaker in the role on a temporary basis, Whitaker tapped a veteran U.S. attorney to become part of a four-person team of advisers on his new job, including the question of whether he should recuse from Mueller’s investigation because of his past statements regarding that probe, and his friendship with one of its witnesses, according to a senior Justice Department official.

Whitaker never asked Justice Department ethics officials for a recommendation, nor did he receive a formal recommendation, this official said.

However, after Whitaker met repeatedly with ethics officials to discuss the facts and the issues under consideration, a senior ethics official told the group of advisers on Tuesday that it was a “close call,” but Whitaker should recuse to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, the official said. Whitaker was not present at that meeting, they said.

Those four advisers, however, disagreed with the ethics determination and recommended to Whitaker the next day not to recuse, saying there was no precedent for doing so, and doing so now could create a bad precedent for future attorneys general.

BREAKING (CNN): Giuliani Says It's Not a Crime to Knowingly Receive Stolen Property (Hacked Emails), Laying the Groundwork for It Eventually Being Revealed That Trump's Campaign Did Exactly That* *See the lengthy chapter in Proof of Collusion entitled, "The Hunt for Her Emails."

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:56 pm You disdain for specific Twitter personalities never ceases to amaze.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:25 pmAlso, Mitch McConnell is a douche.

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:30 pmAny particular reason today? Or just a general observation?

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:40 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:30 pmAny particular reason today? Or just a general observation?

Nope. It's just a constant, unwavering feeling I have.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:25 pm I didn't actually consider Abramson and Mensch in the same category, but maybe I'm wrong. As we all continue the slide into madness it's hard to keep things straight anymore. I'll endeavor to do better and refocus my hate more accurately.

Also, Mitch McConnell is a douche.