Trump/Russia/SDNY investigation

Brwned said:
I reckon that 3rd point could be really key at some point. There's already a very curious financial link between the inaugural committee and Trump's family directly. The fact that the deputy chairman is this dude who was deeply involved in money laundering and fraud during exactly the same time when $26m - nearly 1/4 of the overall funds raised, and more money than was paid to any one company for Obama's much larger inauguration - went to this strange company...you have to think there's something there. The very fact this money went to that organisation requires some serious investigation itself. Now you've got a key player in that committee admitting to all this financial wrongdoing at exactly the same time...it absolutely has to be part of the wider investigation.
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Damn. That's some seriously dodgy dealings there. The scope of this investigation just keeps growing and growing each week.
 
A good article on Mueller:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/02/23/politics/robert-mueller-profile/index.html
This made me chuckle:
Mueller, now 73, began his Department of Justice career in 1976 as an assistant US attorney in San Francisco, and during the decades that followed took only two breaks to try out the private sector, each lasting no more than a couple of years.

The stints were so short-lived because of a simple fact, according to Graff: Mueller couldn't stand defending those he felt were guilty.

"He'll meet with the client, they'll explain the problem and he'll say 'Well, it sounds like you should go to jail then,'" Graff said. "There is not a lot of gray in Bob Mueller's worldview."
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It’s no surprise he’s after Trump when you read this :lol:
 
Kentonio said:
Very long article on Paul Manafort.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/

Hugely enlightening regarding his past activities, long ties to the GOP and absolutely moral-free mindset, including helping restore the reputations of some utterly vile people who engaged in activities such as killing children and using women as sex slaves.

The guys a fecking monster.
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Trump's campaign manager, ladies and gentleman.
 
The Crooked Feckin' Bastids
 
Some of the redactions are showing a partial letter. For example, page 3, it states ‘the FBI had already opened sub-inquiries into .... individuals linked to the Trump campaign.’

Looks like that redaction ends in an r to me, so that would be four.
 
Trump and Putin are thick as thieves, it's so obvious. There needs to be more of a discourse between the paramores.
 
Dan said:
Some of the redactions are showing a partial letter. For example, page 3, it states ‘the FBI had already opened sub-inquiries into .... individuals linked to the Trump campaign.’

Looks like that redaction ends in an r to me, so that would be four.
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Manafort, Gates, Papadopoulos, and Page?

The memo is what was expected, even in it's edited form. It clears up the half-cocked assertions of the Nunes memo. But the problem seems to be the same thing we've seen over and over. The lies have been spread and the impact has landed. There's only so much public opinion the Democratic rebuttal can swing back.

If someone had some guts they'd pester Nunes non-stop about this. And God, Page is so so guilty.
 
shabadu84 said:
Manafort, Gates, Papadopoulos, and Page?

The memo is what was expected, even in it's edited form. It clears up the half-cocked assertions of the Nunes memo. But the problem seems to be the same thing we've seen over and over. The lies have been spread and the impact has landed. There's only so much public opinion the Democratic rebuttal can swing back.

If someone had some guts they'd pester Nunes non-stop about this. And God, Page is so so guilty.
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Great points, they got Trump into power already but the cloak and daggers stuff is getting so old now.
 
shabadu84 said:
Manafort, Gates, Papadopoulos, and Page?

The memo is what was expected, even in it's edited form. It clears up the half-cocked assertions of the Nunes memo. But the problem seems to be the same thing we've seen over and over. The lies have been spread and the impact has landed. There's only so much public opinion the Democratic rebuttal can swing back.

If someone had some guts they'd pester Nunes non-stop about this. And God, Page is so so guilty.
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It had next to no impact. It had the opposite effect to what Trump and Nunes had planned, it was ridiculed on arrival and this memo following it only further shines the spotlight on Nunes behaviour.
 
Pexbo said:
It had next to no impact. It had the opposite effect to what Trump and Nunes had planned, it was ridiculed on arrival and this memo following it only further shines the spotlight on Nunes behaviour.
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Yeah that's fair to say about the Nunes memo itself but the buildup to it, the wild speculation, etc was more than enough. Tbh keeping that from the public would have been the best move, to play to the conspiracy lovers.

At least we're seeing Mueller is unfazed by the politics. And he's strengthened his position these last two weeks
 
shabadu84 said:
Yeah that's fair to say about the Nunes memo itself but the buildup to it, the wild speculation, etc was more than enough. Tbh keeping that from the public would have been the best move, to play to the conspiracy lovers.

At least we're seeing Mueller is unfazed by the politics. And he's strengthened his position these last two weeks
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It shows how bright they are. Trump could have rejected the release, pretended he was doing it on the FBI’s advice and let his talking heads push conspiracies.
 
Maagge said:
Well for most of his memo you only needed to look up the law to see he was wrong so.
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And yet Trump and the people on Fox are desperately marketing yesterday's memo as some sort of vindication of what Nunes put out before.
 
Raoul said:
And yet Trump and the people on Fox are desperately marketing yesterday's memo as some sort of vindication of what Nunes put out before.
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Democrats really aren't on the attack ever.
 
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