Trump/Russia/SDNY investigation

I'm about 2/3's of the way through the senate transcript so far, and my main takeaway is that Chief Investigative Counsel Jason Foster is a massive cnut.

MS. SAWYER: Can I in general ask that you guys all speak up a little bit because we're right under the blower.
MR. LEVY: Will do.
MR. FOSTER: The record will reflect we are not raising our voices.
 
Oh boy..
Q. You mentioned as well that you had reviewed tax bills. Were these specifically Donald Trump's tax bills?
A. They were Trump properties and I believe we may have reviewed some public information about estate taxes and things like that. We didn't have access to his tax returns.
Q. Did you reach any conclusions based on your review of his tax bills? I think you mentioned that in connection with trying to assess either financial connections or his financial standing. Did you reach any conclusions with regard to either of those?
A. Yes. I concluded -- we concluded that his statements about what individual properties were worth were greatly exaggerated and at odds with the information that he'd supplied, you know, in legal filings with tax authorities and other records, corporate records.
 
It would never come to that. His surrogates will take the fall. Junior and Jared will be on the firing line at best.

Him being charged with crimes and him being a criminal aren't the same thing. Even if the whole thing gets whitewashed, I still want to know the truth if possible. I don't disagree with you btw, I'd say there's probably not more than a minute chance that he ever sees a courtroom. Either he'll get pardoned by his successor or the Democrats will let him off the hook like normal.
 
Why are people still hyped by this? I doubt this will lead to anywhere close to impeachment.

Come on, whether Trump is innocent or not, this is pretty gripping stuff, the likes of which hasn't been seen since Watergate and with a cast of characters that the HBO writers couldn't come up with. I'm sure you can understand the fascination.
 
So Papadopoulos had been an informant for perhaps a year longer than first thought?

So here is going to be the next Republican "talking point" pushed out there by Hannity and co: Papadopoulos was already working for the FBI when he was trying to organise Russian meetings for Trump and co.

My money is on it being someone other than Papadopoulos, someone who is still active.

It's the Kushner!
 
Pelosi's responses when asked about potential impeachment are not encouraging.
I'd hope that others will do like Feinstein today and release information where possible to head off the lies and obfuscation. Then public pressure might force some action. While conservatives look willing to back Trump no matter what, they'll pay attention to polls and hopefully let that drive them even where they lack any kind of moral compass
 
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I just dropped back into this thread to respond to this and I'm out again.


And what has that got to do with the Russia investigation?

Seriously, you don't help yourself at all really. It's like you ignore everything and just post your own thoughts, often without reading or understanding anything about the topic you are responding to.

I'm seriously at a loss as to why you would post that in here then back out again? Also, saying shit like that is just extremely childish.
 
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And what has that got to do with the Russia investigation?

Seriously, you don't help yourself at all really. It's like you ignore everything and just post your own thoughts, often without reading or understanding anything about the topic you are responding to.

I'm seriously at a loss as to why you would post that in here then back out again? Also, saying shit like that is just extremely childish.

He has to run out his Mum's basement to shout 'lock her up!' to who's ever awake now. Busy guy.
 
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And what has that got to do with the Russia investigation?

Seriously, you don't help yourself at all really. It's like you ignore everything and just post your own thoughts, often without reading or understanding anything about the topic you are responding to.

I'm seriously at a loss as to why you would post that in here then back out again? Also, saying shit like that is just extremely childish.
Did you see what I was responding to?
 
:lol: whatever floats your boat I suppose. I'm going back to The Wire.

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And what has that got to do with the Russia investigation?

Seriously, you don't help yourself at all really. It's like you ignore everything and just post your own thoughts, often without reading or understanding anything about the topic you are responding to.

I'm seriously at a loss as to why you would post that in here then back out again? Also, saying shit like that is just extremely childish.

He was answering a direct question about Hilary and terrorism.
 
He was answering a direct question about Hilary and terrorism.

Yeah, fair enough. For some reason the message he was replying to/quoting didn't show up on my phone. Actually it still doesn't
It appears I seem to have blocked loads of people by accident while using my phone since my laptop died. So apologies @DenisIrwin.
 
He was answering a direct question about Hilary and terrorism.

He was indeed. It's interesting that he takes the time to respond to that comment but nothing else that's been presented to him in this thread.

As for his declaration that Hillary was "scheming with terrorists" (his words) the out of context screenshot from Wikileaks that he provided in no way backs up his claim.

I would normally take the time to explain the context of that e-mail to him but a) this is all way off-topic and b) he's already proven that when the facts are inconvenient he clams up and does a runner.
 
He was indeed. It's interesting that he takes the time to respond to that comment but nothing else that's been presented to him in this thread.

As for his declaration that Hillary was "scheming with terrorists" (his words) the out of context screenshot from Wikileaks that he provided in no way backs up his claim.

I would normally take the time to explain the context of that e-mail to him but a) this is all way off-topic and b) he's already proven that when the facts are inconvenient he clams up and does a runner.
feck this shit. Look. I am not into discussing this conspiracy theory. That's all. Go on and discuss your theory about this conspiracy all you want. Knock yourselves out. I said I don't want to participate in this thread but I can't stand back and allow personal attacks on me, led by a fecking administrator FFS, to go on ad infinitum.
 
I can't stand back and allow personal attacks on me

Unless I've missed something nobody is attacking you personally; however critiquing the content of your posts and your general approach to debate is well within reason, like with everyone else on here.
 
feck this shit. Look. I am not into discussing this conspiracy theory. That's all. Go on and discuss your theory about this conspiracy all you want. Knock yourselves out. I said I don't want to participate in this thread but I can't stand back and allow personal attacks on me, led by a fecking administrator FFS, to go on ad infinitum.

Whats your issue exactly? You didnt respond to my previous posts.
 
feck this shit. Look. I am not into discussing this conspiracy theory. That's all. Go on and discuss your theory about this conspiracy all you want. Knock yourselves out. I said I don't want to participate in this thread but I can't stand back and allow personal attacks on me, led by a fecking administrator FFS, to go on ad infinitum.

You say conspiracy theory as if this is in the same category as 9/11 truthers or flat earthers. This is a subject that is being investigated at the highest level with several charges already having been served.

You can't just decry it as bullshit with absolutely no basis, ignore all evidence shown to you and then bitch and moan when people pull you up on it.