• FBI Raids Office of Trumps Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen
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For real tho I'm studying media teaching and stuff like this is gonna be a goldmine of material when it comes to discuss bias and integrity.
God it's great to watch the fucker squirm.
Jasper is a good boy and a sharp dresser with his bow tie.
Jasper is a good boy forced to serve as just another cog in the right-leaning propaganda machine.
Stormy Daniels is an esteemed director of her own successful films and probably a pretty calculating person. Don't ask me how I know that.
You mean she directs the action while she's getting some action?
Trump lets loose after offices of his attorney raided Might be late, but trumps throwing a tantrum again. Floating the idea of firing Mueller again. "We'll see what happens." Do something you fat fuck. Do it.
She wrote and directed Operation Desert Stormy which won an industry award for best picture in like 07 or 08.
https://twitter.com/danielle_ivory/status/983734055433891840?s=20 https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/983734168134864898 It just keeps getting better and better, don't it?
https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/983565741302648832 I'm sorry but I just can't get over this. It's too good.
This is so good
Is that you, Stormy Daniels?
SHH! You'll blow heh her cover!
Stormy Daniels 2020 tbh. What good would opposition research and smear campaigns be against an unashamed porn actress? It doesn't get more authentic than that
So an interesting little side note from CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/politics/michael-cohen-search-warrant/index.html https://twitter.com/TucciTellsIt/status/983744848229486592
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/trump-russia-mueller-rosenstein.html Rosenstein personally signed off on the raid. Most interesting bit of this article might be the last paragraph As the president’s attacks became more severe over the past months, top Justice Department officials quietly worried about what to do should Mr. Trump fire the special counsel or one of his top officials. They chose to band together in a public show of solidarity in late February, when Mr. Sessions dined with Mr. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who is overseeing Mr. Mueller, and Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general who would oversee the Russia investigation should Mr. Rosenstein be fired.
imagine if danger donald fires rosenstein only to find that the guy replacing him isn't willing to play ball that'd be hilarious
To be fair, the Fox one has the earliest time stamp (only by a few minutes) and is during the last segment at the very end of a political talk show where the hosts mention a quick thing on something important to them.(sometimes it's personal like your family or in this case, your dog, sometimes its raising awareness for a cause you follow, or anything else really) At the turn of the hour Shep Smith is on who is Fox's breaking news guy. Who likely covered the topic. Though it doesn't surprise me they wouldn't break the news immediately. They wouldn't be able to postpone it past Shep though as he's got the most integrity in Fox's lineup of on air hosts.
"We have a warrant." "Says who?" "The FBI, bitch" Glad they got Michael `Says who´ Cohen as the next chess piece on this one dimensional chess game (which is technically closer to dominoes). We didn't really get to see t_d/pol/faux-news go into mild rage had Trump lost the election, but it will sure as hell be a wonderful spectacle when they go into full-blown meltdown when Trump and his deplorable cronies finally get taken down. As long as that day comes, I am willing to wait for any investigation to nail this one down for good.
It was Nixon's Solicitor General, Robert Bork, who agreed to fire the special prosecutor during the Saturday Night Massacre, but in this case it looks like the SG wouldn't go for it, so Trump would have to fire him as well and continue down the chain of command https://i.imgur.com/Rb5a3vX.jpg
Sarah Sanders just announced that the administration believes Trump has the authority to fire Mueller directly https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/983779415950811136
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/983776372240904194 a few minutes later https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/983778707679608832
let's see if they actually stick to their word this time and don't continue to be "deeply concerned" and take action before it's too late
this is trump dictating to his fans how to respond
Sure, go ahead and fire Mueller. That would be akin to shooting yourself in the foot. With a rocket launcher. While standing in a pool of gasoline.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/04/10/top-republican-senator-warns-trump-that-talk-of-ousting-mueller-is-suicide/ Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.), the second ranking Republican, said he didn’t believe Mueller would be removed. Okay listen here you complicit fucks, the man is effectively an eight-year-old, he's exactly the kind of selfish cunt who'll do anything to avoid getting into trouble. Pass legislation to protect Mueller now. Also, it's an analysis/opinion piece, but the WaPo points out that this is potentially another self-inflicted wound by the Dealmaster and his epic IQ: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/10/how-trump-may-have-invited-investigators-to-go-after-michael-cohen/ TL;DR remember "You'll have to ask Michael"? https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/982104705928126464 Mueller decided to ask Michael. The same analysis writer for the WaPo wrote another piece earlier in the morning regarding Trump's desperate flailing: Trump’s reaction to the Michael Cohen raid suggests a new level .. Basically, Trump's tangled himself up in a real mess thanks to his apparent habit of sticking his dick into people who aren't his current wife. It unrolls like this: Trump can't admit to being involved in the Stormy Daniels case: It would be politically damaging if it's revealed that Trump cheats on his wife regularly with porn stars and then pays them six-figure sums to shut them up and cover up his affairs, but only so damaging because he's gotten away with grabbing them by the pussy, supporting Roy "I asked her mother for permission" Moore, and a long history of being a perverted old fart. Admitting to it also exposes Trump as someone who can be led into dangerous situations by his penis and blackmailed -- this is a core claim in the Steele dossier. Admitting to it partially validates the multiple claims by other women to have had the same "screw and silence" treatment from Trump and his intimidation (Cohen), and the last thing Trump wants is for this case to multiply Admitting he knows anything would put him into the crosshairs for answering questions about the money Cohen provably spent to pay Daniels to keep the cover-up on the Trump affair secret before the election, and the last thing he wants is an investigation into the thing he's trying to cover up (gee does this seem familiar?) Trump greatly suffers if he doesn't take ownership of his alleged role in the Stormy Daniels case: If he claims he wasn't involved, he can't enforce an NDA he never signed for an event that never happened. At best, he can sue Stormy Daniels for libel/slander and defamation, but he knows damn well that concrete evidence of the truth is an absolute defense against claims that someone is lying, and Daniels' attorney has very strongly hinted that Stormy is in possession of messages and particularly dick pics Trump sent her, which shouldn't exist if he never had any dealings with her. By refusing to admit he's involved in paying Stormy off and making her sign the NDA, he is making the claim that Cohen acted as his legal representative and engaged him in legal contracts without his active knowledge or consent; this is insane because it not only exposes Cohen to the threat of being disbarred for flagrant violations of lawyer rules, that disbarrment is going to come hand-in-hand with, ding ding ding, an investigation into Cohen's shit. As we saw above, where Trump may regret saying "I don't know anything about that, you'll have to ask Michael". And then there's the little problem of why Cohen decided to spend $130,000 making Trump's problems go away without him even knowing it was being done, much less consenting or paying him back. Paying him back would actually be better for Cohen since otherwise it appears to be a wildly illegal campaign donation on Cohen's part; and guess what illegal actions like that tend to provoke? Ding ding ding, investigation! Trump can't claim attorney-client privilege to keep people out of his shit if he claims he never knew about the shit being there. If Cohen wasn't representing Trump then there's nothing to find; if there's something to find, then it can't be covered under a-c privilege because Trump didn't know about it, right? Trump shouldn't want to be protected by a-c for something that never happened! Trump has set himself up to be the victim of an entirely justified "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about" situation. If nothing happened, as he says, then the investigation will turn up nothing that implicates Donald J. Trump, and at most will turn up some old-fashioned white collar crime by his feckless personal attorney and part-time coffee boy Michael Cohen that he most assuredly knew nothing about and would've never associated with him if he knew what kind of slimy person he is; Cohen gets thrown to the dogs, Trump walks away being able to yell about how the "deep state" tried and failed to take him down. But Trump is worried, and he may have good reason: If Mueller was able to convince powerful people in the NY federal justice environment to authorize a no-knock raid on legal offices belonging to Trump's personal lawyer, then that means that Mueller successfully argued, to the ridiculously high standard for such a raid, that there is compelling evidence to believe that the FBI will find evidence of crimes among Cohen's personal and professional files and materials. That is not only huge, it also brings with it an incredibly dangerous fact for Trump: attorney-client privilege doesn't protect criminal discussions, and Mueller can be assumed to have had Cohen's professional communications seized on extensively-argued probable cause of criminal activity/communication. Local man confronted by unavoidable payback for lifetime of never having to think about the consequences of his actions because he could always pay or refuse to answer questions to make them go away.
And if/when he does fire Mueller they'll mutter something like it's "deeply concerning", and still do nothing.
If Mueller is fired and Congress does not act to immediately impeach Donald Trump, those who still stand with him will be guilty of nothing less than a coup. If (or when) Trump fires Mueller, we must stand up as a nation and make it very, very, very clear what we expect of Congress, the Judiciary, and the FBI. https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/search/ Over 750 cities have already registered mass protest events, ready to spring at a moments' notice. Join now and be prepared to grind every city in our country to a halt until such time as the rule of law is reinstated and justice is brought to Donald Trump and every single one of his co-conspirators.
Congressional Republicans are total scumbags who have been complicit in the dismantling of our democracy, but they're not politically suicidal. If they feel the tide turning, they'll do what they best: throw their allies (in this case Trump) under the bus to save their own skin.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/983796349874458624 The Dersh is a Trump sycophant.
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