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Old 30th October 2017, 07:17 AM   #161
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Originally Posted by Argumemnon View Post
Who's Rick Gates? What'd I miss?
Here's a profile of him.

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Rick Gates, the longtime lobbying partner of ousted Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is still making multiple visits to the White House—even though the Trump administration has sought to distance itself from Manafort.

Manafort may be under investigation for alleged Russia ties, and thus persona non grata at the Trump White House. However, his top deputy Gates—who also worked on behalf of Russian interests—has managed to wedge himself back into Trump-world. having landed a sweet new gig with one of President Donald Trump’s best and wealthiest friends.

After leaving the Trump-boosting nonprofit America First Policies in March—as former FBI Director James Comey officially announced an investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign team and Russian officials—Gates is now working directly for Tom Barrack, according to eight sources in and around the Trump White House.
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Old 30th October 2017, 07:23 AM   #162
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George Papadopoulos was also indicted. You might remember him as the Trump aide that tried to set up a meeting with Putin during the campaign.

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George Papadopoulos was a campaign adviser for President Donald Trump. According to The Chicago Tribune, Papadopoulos sent emails to seven campaign officials during the 2016 election with the subject line:”Meeting with Russian Leadership — Including Putin.”

The Chicago Tribune adds that Papadopoulos’ proposal “sent a ripple” through the President’s campaign headquarters, many of whom feared that it was a possible violation of U.S.*sanctions against Russia and of the Logan Act,*which forbids U.S. citizens from unauthorized negotiation with foreign governments.
They're going to end up using the Iran-Contra defense, "Our Alzheimer's addled President had no idea what his underlings were doing!"
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Old 30th October 2017, 07:23 AM   #163
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Reading the indictment the Russia connection is rather obvious, as it is about financial ties between Manafort and his associates and Yanukovic and the Party of Regions in the Ukraine - a man and a party with heavy backing from Putin. There's nothing in the indictment to implicate Trump, but what is there will probably worry the Cheeto Supreme, as it's about money-laundering and illicit business practices which is what has been put forth as possible charges against the big man himself.
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Old 30th October 2017, 07:24 AM   #164
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George Papadopoulos was also indicted. You might remember him as the Trump aide that tried to set up a meeting with Putin during the campaign.



They're going to end up using the Iran-Contra defense, "Our Alzheimer's addled President had no idea what his underlings were doing!"
Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos's false statements to the FBI are directly related to Russian interference
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Old 30th October 2017, 07:28 AM   #165
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There's nothing in the indictment to implicate Trump, but what is there will probably worry the Cheeto Supreme, as it's about money-laundering and illicit business practices which is what has been put forth as possible charges against the big man himself.
It shouldn't worry him. There is zero chance the Democrats will be able to leverage anything in these indictments back to Trump in any usable way.

Mueller could literally show a video of Putin himself handing a giant cartoon money bag with a dollar sign on it to him while shouting "THIS IS FOR FIXING THE ELECTION FOR TRUMP! TO REPEAT THIS IS AN ILLEGAL BRIBE THAT I, PUTIN, AM GIVING YOU, MUELLER, TO FIX THE ELECTION FOR TRUMP!" during the Halftime Show of the Superbowl and Democrats would find a way to not make that stick.
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https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...nt-Offense.pdf

ETA: he plead guilty ....
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Old 30th October 2017, 07:29 AM   #167
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Originally Posted by JoeBentley View Post
It shouldn't worry him. There is zero chance the Democrats will be able to leverage anything in these indictments back to Trump in any usable way.

Mueller could literally show a video of Putin himself handing a giant cartoon money bag with a dollar sign on it to him while shouting "THIS IS FOR FIXING THE ELECTION FOR TRUMP! TO REPEAT THIS IS AN ILLEGAL BRIBE THAT I, PUTIN, AM GIVING YOU, MUELLER, TO FIX THE ELECTION FOR TRUMP!" during the Halftime Show of the Superbowl and Democrats would find a way to not make that stick.
Thankfully, that would be a criminal case and not a political one.
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Thankfully, that would be a criminal case and not a political one.
Then he would have even less to worry bout.
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Then he would have even less to worry bout.
It's a hard sell to any voter-base getting them to vote for a president that has a sword of Damocles hanging over him in the form of a criminal prosecution the day he steps out of office.
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That's interesting. That's verified collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Nothingburger, anyone?
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Old 30th October 2017, 07:37 AM   #171
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Old 30th October 2017, 07:38 AM   #172
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But..but..but...

Her emails!
That's basically what Trump's tweeting while lying about the timeframe of Manafort's crimes and his involvement with the campaign.
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Coincidences are fun:
The FBI interview where Papadopolous lied about his Russia contacts came on the same day, Jan. 27, Trump asked Comey for a loyalty pledge.
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Originally Posted by C_Felix View Post
No twitter tirade yet.
I am confused.
Trump may actually have been persuaded that, since none of the charges relate to him or the campaign, he really should keep his mouth shut on the subject. Like the man already said, Manafort? Do I know him?

Back to Clinton.
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COUNT TEN
(Unregistered Agent Of A Foreign Principal)

COUNT ELEVEN
(False and Misleading FARA Statements)
I think these are aimed at Flynn, a reminder that Mueller is coming for him.
And he, of course, is the link to Obstruction of Justice charges.
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I expect a full Twitter storm, more outrageous allegations against Hillary, Comey, Mueller and so on, some kind of ramping up against North Korea and picking some kind of nonsensical fight with another group of people to create a smokescreen.
Most of that, but I think Trump may go quiet on Mueller and the investigation for a while. There's plenty to be getting on with in Clinton, the media, renegade Republican senators, footballers and who knows who else Trump will lash out at.
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Old 30th October 2017, 07:55 AM   #178
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There is something funny about this Trump tweet.

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Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren't Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????
People have a nasty habit of losing track of time. Trump announced he was running for president 2 years and 4 months ago. He hired manafort 19 months ago. The last crime manafort committed is alleged 3 years ago.
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Seth Abramson with interesting timeline that fleshes out Page, Papadopoulos ...

https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbram...50485277380615
(THREAD) This is a picture of one of the biggest moments in the Trump-Russia scandal—and no one has reported on it until now. Please SHARE.
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Originally Posted by BobTheCoward View Post
There is something funny about this Trump tweet.



People have a nasty habit of losing track of time. Trump announced he was running for president 2 years and 4 months ago. He hired manafort 19 months ago. The last crime manafort committed is alleged 3 years ago.
come on!
Everyone knows that a Foreign Agent stops being a Foreign Agent the moment he runs a presidential campaign.
I mean, why would his handlers want him anywhere near a possible future president?
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This story-arc shows promise.
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What did the President know and when did he know it?
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From another article on your fantastic link:


Oh, horror! Vlad's white kool-aid buddies in danger!

If the primitive ad hominem helps you to ignore that the talking head is buddy with the people he's "reporting" on, fine for you. Keep the bubble up.
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WASHINGTON — A professor with close ties to the Russian government told an adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in April 2016 that Moscow had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,” according to court documents unsealed Monday.

The adviser, George Papadopoulos, has pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about that conversation. The plea represents the most explicit evidence connecting the Trump campaign to the Russian government’s meddling in last year’s election.

Mr. Papadopoulos repeatedly tried to arrange a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials, court records show. Attempts to reach Mr. Papadopoulos were not successful.

Mr. Papadopoulos told the F.B.I. in January that the professor was “a nothing.” But Mr. Papadopoulos now acknowledges that he knew the professor had “substantial connections to Russian government officials.”

The United States government has concluded that Russia hacked Democratic email accounts and released thousands of embarrassing emails related to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. The emails began appearing online in the summer of 2016 and the Trump campaign has repeatedly denied any inside knowledge about that.

Mr. Papadopoulos was one of a small group of foreign policy advisers that Mr. Trump announced in March 2016. Another of the advisers, Carter Page, has met with the F.B.I. about his own meetings with Russians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/u...os-russia.html

Trump must face justice for his crimes against the American people!
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Old 30th October 2017, 08:35 AM   #185
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What did the President know and when did he know it?
Even if someone did say something, there's no guarantee that The President was paying attention and even if he was, despite his self-proclaimed best memory in the world, there's significant doubt that he'd be able to remember.
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Thankfully, that would be a criminal case and not a political one.
Originally Posted by JoeBentley View Post
Then he would have even less to worry bout.
Originally Posted by uke2se View Post
It's a hard sell to any voter-base getting them to vote for a president that has a sword of Damocles hanging over him in the form of a criminal prosecution the day he steps out of office.

Mebbe.

But I can see how it might be difficult to put twelve jurors in place without at least one of them being a Fox News fed Trump supporter.

No convictions there.
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Even if someone did say something, there's no guarantee that The President was paying attention and even if he was, despite his self-proclaimed best memory in the world, there's significant doubt that he'd be able to remember.
I would love to see the headline:

"Trump avoids indictment by proving he is mentally incompetent."

subheading:

"Trump says, 'I am hugely incompetent! I am the most incompetent of anyone. I dare Clinton to prove she is anywhere nearly as mentally incompetent as I am!'"
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I would love to see the headline:

"Trump avoids indictment by proving he is mentally incompetent."
Already proved effective in the Iran-Contra affair
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/u...os-russia.html

Trump must face justice for his crimes against the American people!
Clearly a nothingburger. I wonder how our resident Orange Faithful community will spin that.
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Leads on Hillary or the Dems should also be pursued, IMO. ....
Because they haven't been thoroughly investigated yet.
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In NY the foreperson of the jury takes the charges the grand jury found to a judge for the official indictment.
This isn't NY.

But that's my last post on this because it'll either be tossed into the hopeless dungeon or split off and anyone can look the information up just like I did.

Prosecutors do not always need a judge to sign arrest warrants and how often does a judge go against a Grand Jury indictment anyway?

This argument is stupid.
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How witty. You'll be in for a couple of more surprises as long as you receive your programming from complicit sources, buddy. Fun to watch, though.
One of Trump's stooges has admitted complicity as starkly as is possible, by pleading guilty.

About those complicit sources...? How very bleakly amusing.
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How to make a nothing burger:
Ingredient 1: A campaign adviser pleading guilty lying to the FBI about meeting with Russians to get dirt on Hillary.
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Clearly a nothingburger. I wonder how our resident Orange Faithful community will spin that.
In their shoes I'd call it a politically motivated witch hunt which seeks to turn a molehill of some slight financial oversights relating to people on the far periphery of (indeed barely related to) the Trump Administration into a mountain of corruption relating to Russia.
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One of Trump's stooges has admitted complicity as starkly as is possible, by pleading guilty.

About those complicit sources...? How very bleakly amusing.
And if watching TV has taught me anything, it's that sealed guilty pleas are usually associated with plea bargains, and cooperation with investigators who are chasing bigger fish.


But that could just be wishful thinking on my part.............
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And if watching TV has taught me anything, it's that sealed guilty pleas are usually associated with plea bargains, and cooperation with investigators who are chasing bigger fish.


But that could just be wishful thinking on my part.............
No, I think you are spot on.
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Prosecutors charged Papadopoulos with lying to investigators about his conversations with a foreign professor who told him that Russians had thousands of emails containing "dirt" on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
So the Trump campaign was aware that the Russians had hacked Hillary's/DNC's emails?
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Trump minion-pundits out in force on the three MSNM broadcasts:

Chris Christie: discussing the illegality of leaking Grand Jury information about the impending indictments. --- I'm not sure leaking an impending indictment equates to leaking GJ information.

All of the regular minion-pundits when asked their opinions, immediately shift to denial and distraction: Hillary, uranium, it was all before the campaign, WH not implicated, not a single word in the indictment that refers to the campaign, charges don't relate to any actions about collusion [they do of course, because Manafort lobbied to get the GOP Platform changed against the Ukraine sanctions]...

Fox news framing: Papadopoulos only admitted lying to the FBI, he didn't admit to any collusion. Fox:"He (Papadopoulos) didn't do anything wrong but he lied about it which was the crime." --- OMG, these Trumpers are going to deny it to the end. Hello, the plea bargain charges are always less than the actual potential charges.

Fox news: There are a whole slew of Russia-gate issues, Mueller needs to look at both sides, no evidence Mueller is looking at both sides...

which they immediately contradicted saying he was:

Another pundit: Mueller is investigating Podesta and Podesta's company's involvement in the uranium blah blah blah...

Call for Mueller to recuse himself (latest angle to get rid of Mueller) because he has relevant testimony on the "Uranium 1 deal".


And finally, note the framing:

Pundit: "Trump doesn't believe there was any collusion."
As opposed to Trump denies there was any collusion.

The latter implies Trump is denying guilt. The former implies Trump has no involvement and denies knowing about any collusion.

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So the Trump campaign was aware that the Russians had hacked Hillary's/DNC's emails?
I thought that was common knowledge. He asked them on camera to produce them.
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Don't you find justice important at all? Is it really paramount to just piss your opponents off rather than see the country run properly? I'm asking a serious question here and I would like a serious, detailed answer.
When your only guiding political belief is "liberals suck," it's very easy to adjust.
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