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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,609
    edited June 2021
    Bill Barr was so vital in convincing the American people that the Muller investigation was a nothingburger. He spent every moment of his time (at least prior to the election) devoted entirely to Trump.

    This really should be a lesson to all of his current bootlickers; Their commitment has to be permanent. He'll turn on him the moment they waver and/or the moment it suits him.
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  • ikiT
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  • ikiT
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    That statement makes ZERO sense.  
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    yo

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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,392
    Kat said:
    Lunatic.
    That's all.
    Just lunatic.
    Now imagine his followers, supporters,  and voters
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    OnWis97 said:
    Bill Barr was so vital in convincing the American people that the Muller investigation was a nothingburger. He spent every moment of his time (at least prior to the election) devoted entirely to Trump.

    This really should be a lesson to all of his current bootlickers; Their commitment has to be permanent. He'll turn on him the moment they waver and/or the moment it suits him.
    Did he say something about the Mueller report recently? I saw some quotes but thought he was talking about other things. 
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  • cblock4life
    cblock4life Posts: 1,855
    Boy would I love to be a fly on the wall when he meets his maker!  
  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,609
    OnWis97 said:
    Bill Barr was so vital in convincing the American people that the Muller investigation was a nothingburger. He spent every moment of his time (at least prior to the election) devoted entirely to Trump.

    This really should be a lesson to all of his current bootlickers; Their commitment has to be permanent. He'll turn on him the moment they waver and/or the moment it suits him.
    Did he say something about the Mueller report recently? I saw some quotes but thought he was talking about other things. 
    Not to my knowledge. My point was that, way back then, his response to the Mueller report was pretty good for Trump. And Trump has no gratitude.  It was the highlight of his time in a key federal position serving one man instead of the entire country. He worked tirelessly for Trump.  And now that doesn't matter. Once you are in, you'd better be all-in or he'll cut you lose and MAGA will make you an enemy.  

    It's really sad that so many people want leadership that puts so much premium on loyalty to the leader.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    A Bull Durham mention. Bull? Bull? Bull? Whatcha got? Shit, huh?
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  • mickeyrat
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    Trump Org lawyers make last pitch against prosecution
    By TOM HAYS and JIM MUSTIAN
    6 mins ago

    NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the Trump Organization met again Monday with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in a last bid to forestall a potential indictment stemming from a long-running investigation into the former president’s company.

    Trump Organization lawyer Ron Fischetti told The Associated Press the meeting came as a grand jury nears a vote on an indictment this week following a more than two-year investigation into Trump's business affairs.

    He said prosecutors have told him Trump himself will not be charged at this time — “at least not with what's coming down this week" — but added the investigation is continuing.

    “There is no indictment coming down this week against the former president," Fischetti said in a telephone interview Monday. "I can’t say he’s out of the woods yet completely.”

    The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment.

    The former Republican president, however, issued a blistering statement in which he derided District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s office as “rude, nasty, and totally biased in the way they are treating lawyers, representatives, and some of the wonderful long-term employees and people within the Trump Organization.”

    “After hundreds of subpoenas, over 3 million pages of documents, 4 years of searching, dozens and dozens of interviews, and millions of dollars of taxpayer funds wasted, they continue to be ‘in search of a crime,’" Trump alleged, calling the investigation a “continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time.”

    In recent months, investigators in Vance's office have focused on fringe benefits the company gave to top executives, such as use of apartments, cars and school tuition.

    Investigators have scrutinized Trump’s tax records, subpoenaed documents and interviewed witnesses, including Trump insiders and company executives.

    Another person familiar with the investigation confirmed there were communications between defense lawyers and prosecutors on Monday. The person declined to give any details of the talks.

    Such final exchanges are considered formalities that rarely change the course of an investigation in a late stage, suggesting the grand jury is near a vote.

    The person was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

    Fischetti, who did not attend Monday’s meeting, said the gathering had been arranged “for the Trump Organization — not Donald Trump himself.”

    “We’re just waiting,” Fischetti said, adding he expects to know this week whether charges will be brought.

    The prospective charges this week, he said, “are limited to a couple of Trump Org employees who didn't declare taxes on fringe benefits” they received. The company itself also could be charged, he added.

    Lawyers representing Donald Trump's company also met virtually with prosecutors for more than 90 minutes last Thursday.

    It isn't illegal for a company to offer employees tuition help, lease them cars or let them use company-owned apartments, but such arrangements can be subject to income tax.

    Fischetti has called the possibility of charges “absolutely outrageous” and politically motivated. He said it would be extremely unusual for prosecutors to seek criminal charges over unpaid tax on fringe benefits.

    Some of the scrutiny has been focused on longtime Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg.

    Vance’s investigation of Weisselberg, 73, stemmed in part from questions about his son’s use of a Trump apartment at little or no cost, cars leased for the family and tuition payments made to a school attended by Weisselberg’s grandchildren.

    Weisselberg’s attorney, Mary Mulligan, has declined to comment.

    In addition to fringe benefits, prosecutors have looked into whether the Trump Organization lied about the value of real estate holdings to lower taxes or to obtain bank loans or insurance policies on favorable terms. They have also looked into the company’s role in paying hush money to two women who say Trump had affairs with them, accusations Trump has denied.


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  • ikiT
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  • HughFreakingDillon
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    ikiT said:
    Jr.'s all coked up again. 
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




  • mickeyrat
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    The man who will never go away

    Donald Trump is back, possibly at his party’s peril

    Former President Donald Trumps vengeance tour against his GOP critics that began with a Saturday night stop in Ohio proves he will never willingly give up the limelight Shapiro writes Tayfun CokunAnadolu Agency via Getty Images
    Former President Donald Trump’s vengeance tour against his GOP critics that began with a Saturday night stop in Ohio proves he will never willingly give up the limelight, Shapiro writes. (Tayfun Cokun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Posted June 29, 2021 at 6:00am

    There is a time-honored spy story plot: A retired CIA agent, tired of the clandestine life, has retreated to an island in Mediterranean. One day up the dirt road to his hideaway comes his former CIA station chief luring him back for one last mission. 

    Saturday night, Donald Trump lured everyone back to his alternative universe of crazed conspiracies about a “rigged” election. His 91-minute speech in Wellington, Ohio, was the start of his vengeance tour against Republicans like nearby Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Trump for fomenting the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. 

    Equally predictable, but far more devastating, is the beginning of the onslaught of books featuring dramatic scenes from inside the Trump Oval Office. We have, of course, had articles and books like this before, but this time around the sources are finally talking on-the-record instead of lurking in the shadows. 

    The Atlantic published on Sunday a chilling excerpt from ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book, “Betrayal,” about the end times of the Trump presidency. Instead of Richard Nixon drunkenly talking to the portraits in the White House in “The Final Days,” we have the 45th president, his face bloated with rage, shouting at his attorney general, William Barr, “You must hate Trump. You must hate Trump.”

    Barr’s candid interviews with Karl have been characterized as a Trump toady’s last-ditch efforts to salvage his reputation. But Barr’s motivations — which presumably are not based on his dedication to truth, justice and the American Way — do not undermine the narrative power of his tale. 

    The attorney general’s purported disloyalty came when he displayed a belated flicker of moxie in telling The Associated Press in an interview that there was no compelling evidence or legal justification to overturn Joe Biden’s election. 

    According to Karl, the catalyst for Barr’s truth-telling was a series of desperate pleas from Mitch McConnell, urging him to do something to save the two Republicans on the Jan. 5 ballot in the Georgia Senate runoffs. McConnell feared that Trump’s rants about a stolen election would muddle the GOP message in Georgia. 

    Yes, we have another example to insert in the McConnell chapter in any future edition of “Profiles in Courage.”

    McConnell, who confirmed the anecdotes in Karl’s excerpt, did not want his fingerprints on any effort to uphold the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Instead, his devilishly clever notion was for Barr to do the dirty work for him — and make the attorney general the focus of Trump’s rage. 

    McConnell’s actual words to Barr should be included in every future profile of the supposed Machiavellian genius that is the Senate GOP leader: “Look, we need the president in Georgia, and so we cannot be frontally attacking him now. But you’re in a better position to inject some reality into this situation.”

    Throughout Trump’s presidency, McConnell kept thinking that he could placate an erratic, ego-mad president with one more piece of his soul. With each payment, McConnell naively believed he could go back to his single-minded agenda of rubber-stamping conservative Republican judges.  

    Blessed in 2018 with the most favorable Senate map in memory (26 Democratic-held seats were on the ballot and just 9 GOP seats), McConnell expected to win a lasting, unassailable majority. Instead, the GOP picked up a net of just two seats that year, a paltry gain that eventually made possible Chuck Schumer’s current status as Senate majority leader. 

    The difference-maker: Donald J. Trump. 

    Virtually everything the president did in 2018 and 2020 had the inadvertent result of fueling record Democratic turnout. By never standing up to Trump, Republicans like McConnell allowed him to continue as a human wrecking ball trying to destroy everyone — including Republicans — who stood in his way.

    The Ohio rally illustrated a truth that should have been obvious from the beginning: Trump will never willingly give up the limelight.

    Bristling with resentments, Trump, who never pledged allegiance to anyone other than his own reflection in the mirror, is happy to fight a two-front war against disloyal Republicans and the Democratic Party. 

    No former president since Richard Nixon in 1974 has been a major factor in off-year congressional elections after he left office. 

    But Trump in 2022 promises to be the exception — and nothing could make the Democrats happier. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, an old-fashioned Republican who is retiring next year, said Sunday on ABC News that Trump is “definitely the leader” of the GOP. 

    This week, members of Congress — and, yes, mostly their staff members — will be putting the final touches on patriotic remarks to be delivered over the Fourth of July weekend. 

    What better time for timorous Republicans to come forward and say, “I have looked closely at the evidence. And on this weekend of celebration of 245 years of American democracy, I want to tell you that Joe Biden was honestly elected and is the legitimate president of the United States.”

    For most congressional Republicans (legislators like Marjorie Taylor Greene fall in a special category), this would merely be the public acknowledgement of what they have known since all the Trump lawsuits challenging the election were rejected by both Republican- and Democratic-appointed jurists. 

    By not standing up to Trump even now, congressional Republicans will be doomed to spend 2022 defending his deranged conspiracy theories. By Election Day 2022, Trump will probably be talking about how little green men flying undetected in UFOs altered the ballots to elect Biden.

    American patriotism through the ages has been linked with courage. This is the perfect weekend for congressional Republicans to show it with more than just empty platitudes about the Founding Fathers.

    Walter Shapiro has covered the last 11 presidential campaigns. He is also a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and a lecturer in political science at Yale. Follow him on Twitter @MrWalterShapiro.

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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 41,986
    mickeyrat said:
     

    The man who will never go away

    Donald Trump is back, possibly at his party’s peril

    Former President Donald Trumps vengeance tour against his GOP critics that began with a Saturday night stop in Ohio proves he will never willingly give up the limelight Shapiro writes Tayfun CokunAnadolu Agency via Getty Images
    Former President Donald Trump’s vengeance tour against his GOP critics that began with a Saturday night stop in Ohio proves he will never willingly give up the limelight, Shapiro writes. (Tayfun Cokun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Posted June 29, 2021 at 6:00am

    There is a time-honored spy story plot: A retired CIA agent, tired of the clandestine life, has retreated to an island in Mediterranean. One day up the dirt road to his hideaway comes his former CIA station chief luring him back for one last mission. 

    Saturday night, Donald Trump lured everyone back to his alternative universe of crazed conspiracies about a “rigged” election. His 91-minute speech in Wellington, Ohio, was the start of his vengeance tour against Republicans like nearby Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Trump for fomenting the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. 

    Equally predictable, but far more devastating, is the beginning of the onslaught of books featuring dramatic scenes from inside the Trump Oval Office. We have, of course, had articles and books like this before, but this time around the sources are finally talking on-the-record instead of lurking in the shadows. 

    The Atlantic published on Sunday a chilling excerpt from ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book, “Betrayal,” about the end times of the Trump presidency. Instead of Richard Nixon drunkenly talking to the portraits in the White House in “The Final Days,” we have the 45th president, his face bloated with rage, shouting at his attorney general, William Barr, “You must hate Trump. You must hate Trump.”

    Barr’s candid interviews with Karl have been characterized as a Trump toady’s last-ditch efforts to salvage his reputation. But Barr’s motivations — which presumably are not based on his dedication to truth, justice and the American Way — do not undermine the narrative power of his tale. 

    The attorney general’s purported disloyalty came when he displayed a belated flicker of moxie in telling The Associated Press in an interview that there was no compelling evidence or legal justification to overturn Joe Biden’s election. 

    According to Karl, the catalyst for Barr’s truth-telling was a series of desperate pleas from Mitch McConnell, urging him to do something to save the two Republicans on the Jan. 5 ballot in the Georgia Senate runoffs. McConnell feared that Trump’s rants about a stolen election would muddle the GOP message in Georgia. 

    Yes, we have another example to insert in the McConnell chapter in any future edition of “Profiles in Courage.”

    McConnell, who confirmed the anecdotes in Karl’s excerpt, did not want his fingerprints on any effort to uphold the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Instead, his devilishly clever notion was for Barr to do the dirty work for him — and make the attorney general the focus of Trump’s rage. 

    McConnell’s actual words to Barr should be included in every future profile of the supposed Machiavellian genius that is the Senate GOP leader: “Look, we need the president in Georgia, and so we cannot be frontally attacking him now. But you’re in a better position to inject some reality into this situation.”

    Throughout Trump’s presidency, McConnell kept thinking that he could placate an erratic, ego-mad president with one more piece of his soul. With each payment, McConnell naively believed he could go back to his single-minded agenda of rubber-stamping conservative Republican judges.  

    Blessed in 2018 with the most favorable Senate map in memory (26 Democratic-held seats were on the ballot and just 9 GOP seats), McConnell expected to win a lasting, unassailable majority. Instead, the GOP picked up a net of just two seats that year, a paltry gain that eventually made possible Chuck Schumer’s current status as Senate majority leader. 

    The difference-maker: Donald J. Trump. 

    Virtually everything the president did in 2018 and 2020 had the inadvertent result of fueling record Democratic turnout. By never standing up to Trump, Republicans like McConnell allowed him to continue as a human wrecking ball trying to destroy everyone — including Republicans — who stood in his way.

    The Ohio rally illustrated a truth that should have been obvious from the beginning: Trump will never willingly give up the limelight.

    Bristling with resentments, Trump, who never pledged allegiance to anyone other than his own reflection in the mirror, is happy to fight a two-front war against disloyal Republicans and the Democratic Party. 

    No former president since Richard Nixon in 1974 has been a major factor in off-year congressional elections after he left office. 

    But Trump in 2022 promises to be the exception — and nothing could make the Democrats happier. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, an old-fashioned Republican who is retiring next year, said Sunday on ABC News that Trump is “definitely the leader” of the GOP. 

    This week, members of Congress — and, yes, mostly their staff members — will be putting the final touches on patriotic remarks to be delivered over the Fourth of July weekend. 

    What better time for timorous Republicans to come forward and say, “I have looked closely at the evidence. And on this weekend of celebration of 245 years of American democracy, I want to tell you that Joe Biden was honestly elected and is the legitimate president of the United States.”

    For most congressional Republicans (legislators like Marjorie Taylor Greene fall in a special category), this would merely be the public acknowledgement of what they have known since all the Trump lawsuits challenging the election were rejected by both Republican- and Democratic-appointed jurists. 

    By not standing up to Trump even now, congressional Republicans will be doomed to spend 2022 defending his deranged conspiracy theories. By Election Day 2022, Trump will probably be talking about how little green men flying undetected in UFOs altered the ballots to elect Biden.

    American patriotism through the ages has been linked with courage. This is the perfect weekend for congressional Republicans to show it with more than just empty platitudes about the Founding Fathers.

    Walter Shapiro has covered the last 11 presidential campaigns. He is also a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and a lecturer in political science at Yale. Follow him on Twitter @MrWalterShapiro.

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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    it just dawned on me that this is probably never going to go away. even after 5 years, we'll still have these idiots pulling shit like this for attention and/or money and/or mental issues. and then when trump eventually dies of a McStroke, the Second Coming of Trump movement will emerge, with people claiming he isn't really dead, that he's in hiding, waiting for his eventual triumphant return to politics to save America. 
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,392
    it just dawned on me that this is probably never going to go away. even after 5 years, we'll still have these idiots pulling shit like this for attention and/or money and/or mental issues. and then when trump eventually dies of a McStroke, the Second Coming of Trump movement will emerge, with people claiming he isn't really dead, that he's in hiding, waiting for his eventual triumphant return to politics to save America. 
    Sad but true
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