Trump/Russia/SDNY investigation

Kentonio said:
I find her so difficult to watch. She labours every point and just winds me up like crazy. I know she’s trying to explain complex matters to a public audience, but urg..
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Yeh she's annoying no doubt, she covers a lot of interesting stuff though.
 
Oscie said:
Maddow is a terrible journalist. Just absolutely awful. Such a long-winded, liberal blow-hard who's in love with the sound of her own voice. Her opening monologues are only just slightly less painful than having all your fingernails ripped out individually. Besides everything else she jumped the shark for sure when she hyped up that 'I've got Trump's tax returns' nothing burger. Her reputation isn't recovering from that.
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She’s not a terrible journalist by any stretch. She’s a very good journalist. She’s a very annoying presenter though.

Regarding the Trump’s tax returns thing, that was partly attention seeking but also partly trolling the Trump Admin. Trump carefully selected and leaked that memo and she knew he will have been waiting in anticipation to see it catch her out but she saw right though it and called him out for it after the big build up. The journalist equivalent of a man walking towards a banana skin oblivious as the man who put it there watches on waiting for the slip only for him to stop last minute, wink and step over it.


It doesn’t matter if Trump releases the memo at this point. The damage had been done to himself and Nunes. It backfired spectacularly. Everyone knows this memo exists now and everyone knows the original memo was nonsense.

By not releasing it he’s just doing yet more damage to himself and Nunes.
 
There is no light in the world of politics
 
Raoul said:
What fecking weirdo

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Aye that's what the article I posted above was about. He's lost the fecking plot.

I read an article about his chances for re-election and it looks pretty slim. He's basically been ignoring his constituents for the last 12 months and focusing on protecting Trump. Of course there is some Trump supporters that think he is a hero for it but a lot of people, even some Trump supporters, are sick to death of him. They've got genuine concerns that need addressing and he's nowhere to be seen.
 
As much as I loathe Nunes et al you've got to admit these feckers have some serious balls. I guess the stakes are so high they'll do whatever they can to hang on to whatever power and influence they have.
 
Barca84 said:
As much as I loathe Nunes et al you've got to admit these feckers have some serious balls. I guess the stakes are so high they'll do whatever they can to hang on to whatever power and influence they have.
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I agree.
These guys have told majority of Americans one big "feck you".
 
Nunes is a fantastic clown. To think he was one of the 'moderately okay' Republicans before all this started. Same as Spicer.

This regime is throttling its people towards their own ruin.
 
Barca84 said:
As much as I loathe Nunes et al you've got to admit these feckers have some serious balls. I guess the stakes are so high they'll do whatever they can to hang on to whatever power and influence they have.
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The long term ramifications of what he is doing won't be good for himself, Trump, or the GOP, so in that sense, having balls to pull of a couple of political stunts in the near term won't benefit anyone on his side of the fence.
 
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's No. 3 attorney had been unhappy with her job for months before the department announced her departure on Friday, according to multiple sources close to Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand.

Brand grew frustrated by vacancies at the department and feared she would be asked to oversee the Russia investigation, the sources said.

She will be leaving the Justice Department in the coming weeks to take a position with Walmart as the company's executive vice president of global governance and corporate secretary, a job change that had been in the works for some time, the sources said.
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NBC News

Rachel Brand quits.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
NBC News

Rachel Brand quits.
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In a few weeks time:

@DonaldJTrumpJnr said: "Rozenstyn cudnt bee trusted by the Administrayshun and thats why we had to get rid. Thats why we sacked Rachel Brand too befour he wos gone becorse it made it easyer to get someone who wood sack Muler"
 
Mike Schatner said:
In all fairness a hell of a lot of Trump property sales have dubious Russian ties. Its only a matter of time before his past catches up with him.
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I wonder what the percentage is of his sales that DON'T have dubious ties?

And he/his people said to Mueller 'definitely don't look at my properties'. fecking idiots.
 
matherto said:
I wonder what the percentage is of his sales that DON'T have dubious ties?

And he/his people said to Mueller 'definitely don't look at my properties'. fecking idiots.
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It's like Tubbs saying "we didn't burn him!"
 
matherto said:
I wonder what the percentage is of his sales that DON'T have dubious ties?

And he/his people said to Mueller 'definitely don't look at my properties'. fecking idiots.
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Mike Schatner said:
In all fairness a hell of a lot of Trump property sales have dubious Russian ties. Its only a matter of time before his past catches up with him.
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I think one of the issues he's going to have is that it's very unlikely he's done any sort of due diligence on the money they were receiving. Whether there was any intention on his behalf to launder money will be irrelevant at that point.
 
Pexbo said:
I think one of the issues he's going to have is that it's very unlikely he's done any sort of due diligence on the money they were receiving. Whether there was any intention on his behalf to launder money will be irrelevant at that point.
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Problem is most of that stuff is outside the scope of the Muller investigation. They would have to tie his past property deals directly to doing favors related to the election.
 
Somewhere in DC shit like this is playing out...

 
Pexbo said:
Aye that's what the article I posted above was about. He's lost the fecking plot.

I read an article about his chances for re-election and it looks pretty slim. He's basically been ignoring his constituents for the last 12 months and focusing on protecting Trump. Of course there is some Trump supporters that think he is a hero for it but a lot of people, even some Trump supporters, are sick to death of him. They've got genuine concerns that need addressing and he's nowhere to be seen.
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He's still got some backers that see him as a hero.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...of.cnn/video/playlists/erin-burnett-outfront/
 
MrMarcello said:
He's still got some backers that see him as a hero.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics...of.cnn/video/playlists/erin-burnett-outfront/
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The 33%’ers who worship Trump (not actually 1/3 of the populace, just the 1/3rd of the voting block consisting of Republicans who are far more aware (magically) of the Deep State Conspiracy than everyone else of which he has support baked in and I couldn’t come up with a better name than that) absolutely think Nunes is a hero.
 
The Atlantic said:
Trump’s Top Intelligence Officials Contradict Him on Russian Meddling

The country’s leading intelligence officials said Tuesday that Russia intends to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections. But they wouldn’t discuss in an open setting what the U.S. intelligence community is doing to stop it—or how it could be combatted without the support of the White House.

“There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations,” Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence, said during the Senate Intelligence Committee’s annual worldwide-threats hearing on Tuesday.

“We have seen Russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle,” CIA Director Mike Pompeo said later. Other top intelligence officials, including the FBI Director Chris Wray, agreed.
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Organic Potatoes said:
Nunes is a fantastic clown. To think he was one of the 'moderately okay' Republicans before all this started. Same as Spicer.

This regime is throttling its people towards their own ruin.
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The Russians have dirt on Nunes. Being head of the Intelligence Committee would obviously place you as a target for bribes or whatever from Putin.
 
Il Prete Rosso said:
The Russians have dirt on Nunes. Being head of the Intelligence Committee would obviously place you as a target for bribes or whatever from Putin.
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Silva said:
It's more likely he's just a charlatan who enjoys being the centre of attention and kissing presidential ass.
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Kentonio said:
There are some questions about a wine company he owns. We’ll see what comes out.
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https://www.unhackthevote.com/our-research/devin-nunes-trojan-horse-website/
 
I'd be wary of believing anything related to that unhackthevote site - the guy running it is* part of the Mensch brigade. (*or was - I try to avoid these people entirely)

Nunes has obviously been running interference for Trump and that's probably because he was involved in the campaign/transition and has been close to Mike Flynn for years. Far more likely he was aware of certain sketchy activities he failed to report than him being under direct Russian influence.

There was a decent explainer on Nunes & Flynn in Newsweek a couple of days back:

http://www.newsweek.com/nunes-memo-trump-russia-probe-flynn-mueller-page-fbi-802710
 
The Intercept taking shots at Assange/WikiLeaks. Some interesting snippets in there including Assange claiming privately that he wasn't in contact with Roger Stone. Nothing too Earth shattering either mind but certainly doesn't do Assange many favors.

 
House Russia investigation has 'abundance' of evidence against Trump, says top Democrat
Adam Schiff said the panel had seen evidence of collusion with Russia and obstruction by Donald Trump’s campaign and administration that is not yet public
Schiff, from California, added on Wednesday that the intelligence committee had also seen evidence pointing towards money laundering involving Trump’s circle, but had been hindered by the partisan deadlock that has paralysed its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

He said: “It is a tried and true maxim. As a former prosecutor, you follow the money. We have not been able to adequately follow the money. And I think the allegations on money laundering are credible enough that we ought to, in the exercise of due diligence, see if this was one of the other vectors of the Russian active measures campaign.”

He added: “We know that in other places they use money laundering as a way of entangling people, as a way of compromising people. To me that is far more potentially compromising than any salacious video would be.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...on-evidence-collusion-obstruction-adam-schiff
 


This Jim Risen piece in the Intercept is certainly quite a departure from what Glenn Greenwald has been pushing this past year or so. He was also trying to distance himself from their own Wilileaks expose the other day too. Even Jeremy Scahill has been taking a far more accepting view of the role of Russia in the election in his Podcast of late which suggests Greenwald may be getting rather sidelined editorially at the Intercept.
 
Raulduke said:


This Jim Risen piece in the Intercept is certainly quite a departure from what Glenn Greenwald has been pushing this past year or so. He was also trying to distance himself from their own Wilileaks expose the other day too. Even Jeremy Scahill has been taking a far more accepting view of the role of Russia in the election in his Podcast of late which suggests Greenwald may be getting rather sidelined editorially at the Intercept.
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I think the folks at the Intercept are attempting to push back on the narrative that they are somehow pro-Russia.
 
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