Watergate II?

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

ISIS and their cohorts have made Westerners afraid of public spaces.

If ISIS is our worst enemy, WTF did Trump accomplish by visiting Saudi Arabia, the land of Wahhabi doctrine, moral compass and inspiration to Al Qaeda and Daesh?

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

If ISIS is our worst enemy, WTF did Trump accomplish by visiting Saudi Arabia, the land of Wahhabi doctrine, moral compass and inspiration to Al Qaeda and Daesh?

Both parties have blinders re the Saudis. They are all eager to kiss the rings of the Saudis.

You should remember the Saudis have huge amount of cash to spend on all sorts of toys.

Trump will now brazenly say that the Saudis have reduced their doctrinal export and one should remember the Saudis are rabidly anti Iran.

Just business as usual--Bush, Obama, Trump.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Both parties have blinders re the Saudis. They are all eager to kiss the rings of the Saudis.

You should remember the Saudis have huge amount of cash to spend on all sorts of toys.

Trump will now brazenly say that the Saudis have reduced their doctrinal export and one should remember the Saudis are rabidly anti Iran.

Just business as usual--Bush, Obama, Trump.

If only...............

As far as Saudi Arabia is concerned, Trump's anti-Muslim rabble-rousing is just red meat for the American rubes. They don't take anything Trump says seriously, only what he does. And what's clear is that (a) Trump's personal brand of corruption is reassuringly Middle Eastern, (b) he hates Iran, (c) he's not going to harass the Saudis over trivia like human rights, and (d) he doesn't care how brutal they get in their war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

That's it. That's all they care about.

Perhaps Trump sees himself as the 'Emir of America' as he makes America Great Again. As long as he keeps stepping into quicksand at every step...

Here's Why the Saudis Love Trump

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dru...dis-love-trump

[Pio1980]

'The Quiet Man': The Powerful Conservative White House Lawyer In The Middle Of It All http://n.pr/2rBYI3x

[bobabode]

'Trump’s lawyer in Russia probe has clients with Kremlin ties' WP

"The hard-charging New York lawyer President Trump chose to represent him in the Russia investigation has prominent clients with ties to the Kremlin, a striking pick for a president trying to escape the persistent cloud that has trailed his administration.
Marc E. Kasowitz’s clients include Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who is close to President Vladimir Putin and has done business with Trump’s former campaign manager. Kasowitz also represents Sberbank, Russia’s largest state-owned bank, U.S. court records show.
Kasowitz has represented one of Deripaska’s companies for years in a civil lawsuit in New York and was scheduled to argue on the company’s behalf May 25, two days after news broke that Trump had hired him, court records show. A different lawyer in Kasowitz’s firm showed up in court instead, avoiding a scenario that would have highlighted Kasowitz’s extensive work for high-profile Russian clients.
Kasowitz, whose scrappy style in the courtroom mirrors Trump’s approach to politics, represented Trump in various matters for more than a decade before he took on either Deripaska’s company or Sberbank, according to one of Kasowitz’s partners in the firm.
Trump has turned to Kasowitz for matters that include debt restructuring and suing an author who Trump said undercounted his net worth. On Thursday, Kasowitz became the public face of Trump’s counterattack on former FBI director James B. Comey, challenging the former federal prosecutor’s credibility and calling for Comey to be investigated for leaks after his testimony to Congress.

As Kasowitz takes on his most high-stakes work for Trump yet, the lawyer’s Russian clients could cause complications.
“If the behavior of a Russian client of the firm or its relationship with Trump becomes an issue in the investigation, a conflict could arise,” said Stephen Gillers of New York University Law School, an expert on legal ethics." WP

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...=.5e9521fb313a

[donquixote99]

In Watergate, Nixon was said to have hired a 'lawyer's lawyer.' Best Trump can do is an oligarch's lawyer?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

In Watergate, Nixon was said to have hired a 'lawyer's lawyer.' Best Trump can do is an oligarch's lawyer?

Washington's top law firms declined to represent Trump. The reason? "The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...n-trump-report

[barbara]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Washington's top law firms declined to represent Trump. The reason? "The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen."



http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...n-trump-report

What a surprise. 😏

[Chicks]

Watching Newt Gingrich this morning, highly critical of the "biased" team Mueller is assembling. This slimeball is scared to death; he knows Mueller will get to the truth, and the truth will bring Trump down. Very encouraging.

[Rajoo]

Federal attorney says Trump’s contacts made him uncomfortable before he was fired

Bharara was fired on March 11, a Saturday. He said the story told by former FBI director James B. Comey about his own contacts with the president “felt a little bit like deja vu.”

Based on Comey’s testimony, “I think there’s absolutely evidence to begin a case” for beginning an investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice. “No one knows right now whether there’s a provable case of obstruction … [but] there’s no basis to say there’s no obstruction.”

there is a pattern here and this is just not going to go away and will keep the spotlight on Trump's corrupt administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...story#comments