The Indictment Thread (Trump Admin Meltdown Thread Part II)

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ahh, the skullet
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I've wondered before what a "gracefully" aged Trump might look like. If he had stayed in shape, clipped his hair short, gone with a reasonable natural tan...

Joe Biden might be a good comparison, actually. They're roughly physically similar, baseline-wise.
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Full confession - I’ve never wondered that.
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P.D.X. wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:05 am
govmentchedda wrote: Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:53 pm Saw Pod Save America live tonight. The wife listens to it every week. Good show.
You got me excited for a new episode. Not up yet :(
Lovett and Vietor went off stage when the guest came out and one of them left their mic on whilst hitting the urinal. They joked about it when they came back on stage, said they were going to edit it out. Curious to hear if they do.
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DSafetyGuy wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:00 am Such a relief that media outlets will soon be able to go interview farmers in the Midwest who voted for Trump to get their views on things.
I have heard at least 3 of these already.
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Moreta wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:27 pm
DSafetyGuy wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:00 am Such a relief that media outlets will soon be able to go interview farmers in the Midwest who voted for Trump to get their views on things.
I have heard at least 3 of these already.
Let me guess, they are fully supportive despite it potentially devastating their lives?
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tennbengal wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 3:02 pm
Moreta wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:27 pm
DSafetyGuy wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:00 am Such a relief that media outlets will soon be able to go interview farmers in the Midwest who voted for Trump to get their views on things.
I have heard at least 3 of these already.
Let me guess, they are fully supportive despite it potentially devastating their lives?
As long as Trump continues attacking black, brown and gay people, yes. Shocker, huh?
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Johnnie wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:07 am
P.D.X. wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:05 am
govmentchedda wrote: Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:53 pm Saw Pod Save America live tonight. The wife listens to it every week. Good show.
You got me excited for a new episode. Not up yet :(
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I like the show a lot, they are really funny (especially Lovett) but sometimes they are really full of themselves. And as far as they are concerned Obama never made a mistake, or at least that is the impression I get. However, I listen to every show
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Avram wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:29 pm
Johnnie wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:07 am
P.D.X. wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:05 am
govmentchedda wrote: Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:53 pm Saw Pod Save America live tonight. The wife listens to it every week. Good show.
You got me excited for a new episode. Not up yet :(
Anytime they ask for feedback or I feel the need to give it, I say "please come to Albuquerque after I get back from deployment."

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I like the show a lot, they are really funny (especially Lovett) but sometimes they are really full of themselves. And as far as they are concerned Obama never made a mistake, or at least that is the impression I get. However, I listen to every show
their ad reads make me want to commit seppuku

but yes, I listen
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They joke about the hot mic urinal thing. I fast forward through their ad reads.

But I would really love to see someone come on who would talk shit about liberals every once in a while. The closest they've ever gotten to confrontation is when someone says "venmo" and not "cash app."
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Brontoburglar wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:52 pm
their ad reads make me want to commit seppuku

but yes, I listen
That's why they have a fast forward button.

I listen to every episode of Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It, plus most of Majority 54. I love the insight on how truly dysfunctional the Trump WH is from people who actually worked in the WH. It's funny and informative, but the guys can be pretentious and trying to hard to be hip.
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The Sybian wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:57 pm
Brontoburglar wrote: Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:52 pm
their ad reads make me want to commit seppuku

but yes, I listen
That's why they have a fast forward button.

I listen to every episode of Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It, plus most of Majority 54. I love the insight on how truly dysfunctional the Trump WH is from people who actually worked in the WH. It's funny and informative, but the guys can be pretentious and trying to hard to be hip.
I need to listen to Kander's podcast. gotta support my boy
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Fire in trump tower?
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A_B wrote: Sat Apr 07, 2018 6:55 pm Fire in trump tower?
(well-built building)
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it's also peak trump that he tweeted about how good the building was and that the fire was "out" (narrator: it wasn't) and then an hour or so later it's confirmed someone died in it.
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Was it the fireman (or woman)'s fault that someone died?
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govmentchedda wrote: Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:13 pm Was it the fireman (or woman)'s fault that someone died?
only if the firefighter broke off that caravan and joined the fbi.

the death also could also be attibuted to the fact that Trump has refused to install sprinkler systems on the residential floors.

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See, foreign policy is easy. Just blame Obama for everything.
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when you're told that Trump "feels" there was voter fraud

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Brontoburglar wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 2:16 pm when you're told that Trump "feels" there was voter fraud

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Oh God - that look makes me reflexively try to think of an excuse. That reporter doesn't look like my wife, but she looks like my wife.
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Um...the FBi raided Michael Cohen's offices today?

That's probably a big deal.

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Well, it was "Deep Throat" who helped bring down Nixon...

(So many possible punch lines would work here)
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Using a lawyer to funnel campaign funds to a porn star as hush money seems like a pretty clear example of a scenario where the crime-fraud exception would apply.
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I mean, I'll state the painfully obvious:

The man lies as easily as he breaths oxygen. He has never grasped the concept that once you become president, everything you say and write instantly becomes on the record.

And attorney client privilege, while sacrosanct in most instances, doesn't allow for attorneys to knowingly commit crimes and stay quiet about it. The fact that these idiots may have been emailing about it???

I don't even need to type the two words.

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It's just not that fucking hard to pick up the phone, or arrange for a meet. And as slimey as this will sound, when it's not on "paper" it is EXTEMELY easy to just lie about verbal interactions.
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Nonlinear FC wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:43 pm I mean, I'll state the painfully obvious:

The man lies as easily as he breaths oxygen. He has never grasped the concept that once you become president, everything you say and write instantly becomes on the record.

And attorney client privilege, while sacrosanct in most instances, doesn't allow for attorneys to knowingly commit crimes and stay quiet about it. The fact that these idiots may have been emailing about it???

I don't even need to type the two words.

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It's just not that fucking hard to pick up the phone, or arrange for a meet. And as slimey as this will sound, when it's not on "paper" it is EXTEMELY easy to just lie about verbal interactions.
Trump (and Cohen) are used to bullying and intimidating people who can be bullied and intimidated.

I am looking forward to tomorrow's tweets.
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Joe K wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:27 pm Using a lawyer to funnel campaign funds to a porn star as hush money seems like a pretty clear example of a scenario where the crime-fraud exception would apply.
That does cross the mind, yes.
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Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations, according to a person familiar with the case
These idiots just had to shoot their mouths off.
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Pruitt wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:20 pm
Trump attorney Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud, campaign finance violations, according to a person familiar with the case
These idiots just had to shoot their mouths off.
Sure, we all understood how profoundly stupid Trump is, and that he spouts off every thought that pops into his head with no concept of the implications, but his personal lawyer is equally stupid, and the lawyer his lawyer had to hire to represent him on the Stormy Daniels shit is dumber than both of them! Everything these assholes said on TV interviews and the President's Twitter account implicates them! Whenever they try to defend their actions, they admit to another crime or ethical violation.

It is virtually unheard of for a court to grant a warrant specifically for attorney-client privileged documents, but for the privileged communications between the President and his personal attorney? The evidence for a serious crime, beyond the Stormy Daniels payoff, has to be enormous, because this will be the most scrutinized warrant ever, and if nothing come out of this, the judge will have the full force of the MAGA lynch squad all over him or her for the rest of their life.

Or more likely, this Gregg Jarrett shitbag's theory. Mueller "snookered" a federal judge with his "supposed evidence." And the evil Deep State US Attorney who submitted the warrant was appointed by Trump in January, and Trump personally interviewed the guy. And he was a Trump supporter and donor during the election, and a partner in Rudy Guiliani's firm. This guy went super-ninja going deep undercover to sidle up to Trump to attack him. For years! This is almost as good as Obama's parents printing his birth announcement in the Honolulu Star when he was born, as evidence he was born in the US so he could become President. And to submit that from Kenya in 1961 couldn't have been easy.

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"An abhorrent breach of everything law and order is supposed to stand for." Lou Dobbs - Fartcatcher

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The Sybian wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:33 pm
He hashtagged himself.
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I'm going to flood it with Josh Dobbs highlights
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“He’s going to be expected to be the fall guy, the scapegoat. I don’t think he’s going to hold up,” Avenatti said. “I think, when push comes to shove, he’s going to fold like a cheap deck of cards.”
Isn't it supposed to be "a cheap suit"?
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THIS IS AN ATTACK ON AMERICA.

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P.D.X. wrote: Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:29 am
“He’s going to be expected to be the fall guy, the scapegoat. I don’t think he’s going to hold up,” Avenatti said. “I think, when push comes to shove, he’s going to fold like a cheap deck of cards.”
Isn't it supposed to be "a cheap suit"?

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Cheap suitcase.
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5 metaphors in two sentences is pretty impressive.
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tennbengal wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:02 pm
Joe K wrote: Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:27 pm Using a lawyer to funnel campaign funds to a porn star as hush money seems like a pretty clear example of a scenario where the crime-fraud exception would apply.
That does cross the mind, yes.
The New York Times is now reporting that the Cohen search was in fact related to the hush money paid to Daniels and McDougall. Trump is so greedy and disdainful of the law that I could totally see him using campaign funds for those payments. That’s essentially what John Edwards was indicted for back in 2011.
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