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Old 04-14-2018, 07:26 PM
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In the event that Trump manages to fire Mueller, not an easy process by any means, if the State on New York will go after Trump now for financial crimes that he 'may' be mired in. This perhaps is a viable backup plan that Mueller has.
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Old 04-14-2018, 07:29 PM
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I think Mueller was really smart to do what he did, handing that over to the state of New York.
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Old 04-14-2018, 08:19 PM
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Republican Representative Jim Jordan has come up with another conspiracy theory for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Jordan alleged that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the investigation, plotted for President Donald Trump to fire former FBI Director James Comey to trick Trump into possibly obstructing justice. Jordan suggested that Rosenstein’s motive was to appoint a special counsel who would probe Trump for obstruction of justice.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-tricke...spiracy-886300

Jordan gives ridiculous asshats a bad name.
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:04 PM
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"President Trump’s reelection campaign spent more than $1 out of every $5 on attorney fees this year as the president contended with the ongoing special counsel investigation and a new legal challenge from an adult-film star.
Of the $3.9 million that Trump’s committee spent in the first quarter of 2018, more than $834,000 went to eight law firms and the Trump Corp. for legal fees, according to new Federal Election Commission records filed Sunday.
The latest figures bring the Trump campaign’s total spending on legal fees to nearly $4 million since the president took office, records show. In the last quarter of 2017, Trump’s campaign committee spent $1.1 million in legal fees." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.79400702bc5e


Gotta be a record in there, somewhere. Perversity? Criminality? Douchebaggery? Shitholiness?

I dunno...

All of the above?
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Old 04-15-2018, 07:24 PM
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Democratic Party files lawsuit alleging Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks conspired to disrupt the 2016 campaign

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...4c7_story.html

Whole lotta liars will have to testify under oath. This should be fun!
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democratic party files lawsuit alleging russia, the trump campaign and wikileaks conspired to disrupt the 2016 campaign

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...4c7_story.html

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Old 04-20-2018, 05:43 PM
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Trump fired his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the exchange.

Sessions made his position known in a phone call to White House counsel Donald McGahn last weekend, as Trump’s fury at Rosenstein peaked after the deputy attorney general approved the FBI’s raid April 9 on the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.

Sessions’s message to the White House, which has not previously been reported, underscores the political firestorm that Trump would invite should he attempt to remove the deputy attorney general. While Trump also has railed against Sessions at times, the protest resignation of an attorney general — which would be likely to incite other departures within the administration — would create a moment of profound crisis for the White House.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...5a2_story.html

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Shortly after President Donald Trump was inaugurated last year, top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy offered Russian gas giant Novatek a $26 million lobbying plan aimed at removing the company from a U.S. sanctions list, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.

Broidy is a Trump associate who was deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee until he resigned last week amid reports that he had agreed to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model with whom he had an affair. But in February 2017, when he laid out his lobbying proposal for Novatek, he was acting as a well-connected businessman and longtime Republican donor in a bid to help the Russian company avoid sanctions imposed by the Obama administration. The 2014 sanctions were aimed at punishing Russia for annexing Crimea and supporting pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine.


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Old 04-27-2018, 10:57 AM
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The Russian Lady Lawyer in Trump Tower Meeting was indeed a Kremlin Operative

MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election.

But newly released emails show that in at least one instance two years earlier, the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russia’s chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.

Ms. Veselnitskaya also appears to have recanted her earlier denials of Russian government ties. During an interview to be broadcast Friday by NBC News, she acknowledged that she was not merely a private lawyer but a source of information for a top Kremlin official, Yuri Y. Chaika, the prosecutor general.

“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she said. “Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/u...r-general.html
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