The Twice-Impeached Russian Asset

[finnbow]

In an interview with Insider, Paul Manafort, who served as Donald Trump's campaign chairman, made his first public admission that in 2016 he shared polling data from the Trump campaign with Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate with suspected ties to Russian intelligence.

Kilimnik then passed the data on to Russian spies, according to the US Treasury Department, which has characterized the data as "sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy."

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul...ilimnik-2022-8

Now even Trump's criminal sidekicks are admitting that "No collusion, no obstruction" mantra is bullshit.

[Chicks]

Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn’t Be More Like ‘Totally Loyal’ Nazis, Report Claims
REICH MINDED

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...-report-claims

Not at all surprising.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn’t Be More Like ‘Totally Loyal’ Nazis, Report Claims
REICH MINDED

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...-report-claims

Not at all surprising.

If you can get past the paywall (my tweaked browser can), I highly recommend the entire original article in the New Yorker.

It's amazing that anyone can still support this horribly anti-American man unless fascist authoritarianism is the actual appeal (which CPAC demonstrated it is).

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by finnbow

If you can get past the paywall (my tweaked browser can), I highly recommend the entire original article in the New Yorker.

It's amazing that anyone can still support this horribly anti-American man unless fascist authoritarianism is the actual appeal (which CPAC demonstrated it is).

AFAIC this is why the Republican Party should be considered as and treated as an enemy of the state. Oh I'm sure there are those Republicans who aren't part of the Reich-Wing contingent (it's no longer the fringe) but face it, they've lost control of the party. The non-wingnut portion of Republicans and the former Republicans now identifying as Independents need to form a new party. Liz Cheney could be their presidential candidate. Definitely better than these fossils running the GOP now.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn’t Be More Like ‘Totally Loyal’ Nazis, Report Claims
REICH MINDED

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...-report-claims

Not at all surprising.

[Pio1980]

FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Trump says

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/polit...ump/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...ents-rcna42133

[donquixote99]

AP too: https://apnews.com/article/donald-tr...950af7ccfdbdd6

Word is they were looking for classified and/or illegally removed presidential records.

[RickeyM]

The defenders of Donald are streaming out from under their bridges all over the nation tonight. What are they and "the Donald" worried about? I mean it's only some documents Melania boxed up by mistake right? Are they afraid the feds will find something else? Doncha' think you should have been a little nicer to the FBI while you were in the People's House now?

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

AP too: https://apnews.com/article/donald-tr...950af7ccfdbdd6

Word is they were looking for classified and/or illegally removed presidential records.

House Minority Speaker McCarthy threatens to investigate Merrick Garland if the Repubs take back the House in the midterms' after floating a bill to rename the USA tRumpanistan.

[finnbow]

Today it was revealed that Barr's DOJ lied to the Congress and the public about the nature of deliberations as to whether the Lying Dotard should have been prosecuted for Obstruction of Justice is association with the Mueller investigation. Here's how the plaintiff in the case described today's opinion:

Back in 2019, Attorney General Bill Barr cited a secret Department of Justice memo as key to his reasoning for not charging then-President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice at the end of the Mueller investigation.

We sued to make the memo public, and in 2021, a federal judge ruled in our favor, saying that the memo’s contents raise some serious questions, including whether Barr and the DOJ acted in bad faith in describing the memo to Congress and in court. The part of the memo that was released then made clear that the whole exercise was meant to give cover to Donald Trump, but it’s crucial to know the full content of the memo.

The DOJ appealed the decision, fighting to keep the memo secret.

And today, more than a year later, we won. The federal appeals court upheld the district judge’s decision, ruling that the DOJ waited too long to claim that the memo helped Barr decide whether to make a statement on the Mueller report, meaning that the deliberative process privilege did not apply.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court...p-obstruction/