Acting OMB Director @RussVought45 sends letter to all Cabinet members that NO “government owned, rented, leased, or chartered aircraft” can transport any Congressional delegation, “without the express written approval of the White House Chief of Staff” during the gov’t shutdown
when i read that i got a vision of the alky inching closer to the bathroom with his walker, trying to get there before mail order has an unfortunate mess to clean up...
i found the smoking gun buried deep within the buzzfeed article.
Ivanka Trump was slated to manage a spa at the tower and personally recommended an architect. She also instructed Cohen to speak with a Russian athlete who offered “synergy on a government level” to get the Moscow project off the ground, in another aspect of the deal first revealed by BuzzFeed News that later was affirmed by the special counsel’s sentencing memo. Cohen rebuffed the athlete’s proposal, which angered Ivanka Trump, according to emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News.
yup. you read that right. ivanka was prepared to move to moscow to manage a fucking spa.
If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming January 18, 2019 at 2:11 pm EST
Garrett Graff: “The allegation, which Buzzfeed sourced to two federal law enforcement officials, simultaneously adds new information to both the ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’ sides of the Russia probe. The idea that the President of the United States directed his personal attorney to lie to Congress about his attempt to complete a multi-hundred-million-dollar deal with Vladimir Putin in the midst of the presidential campaign is, in short, as big as it gets.
“While we’ll be unpacking the implications of the apparent revelation for days to come, there are six aspects of the new report which, if true, make clear the scale of the political peril facing the president as of Friday morning.”
Why Trump’s Directing Cohen, Others to Lie Would Be Far Worse Than Watergate by Ryan Goodman January 18, 2019
If the President of the United States directed his personal attorney and fixer to help sabotage the Russia investigation by lying to Congress, there is no turning back for the nation. Given the independent corroborating evidence that special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly has to show that’s what the president did, things are only going to get worse for the White House from here.
Cohen’s lying to Congress (and to the Special Counsel’s Office) was not only about covering up a secret deal with the Kremlin during the heart of the campaign, a deal that potentially even included an illegal payoff for Putin personally. It was also a direct hit on the Russia investigation itself. The Special Counsel told the court that Cohen’s lies to both Congress and the Special Counsel were “intended to limit ongoing investigations into Russian interference in a U.S. presidential election, and the question of any links or coordination between a campaign and a foreign government.”
This Charge Is Different An explosive report that Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress provides a straightforwardly impeachable offense. Adam Serwer Staff writer at The Atlantic
It’s not just the collusion. It’s the conspiracy.
On Thursday evening, BuzzFeed News dropped a bombshell, reporting that President Donald Trump told Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney, to lie to Congress about the Trump Organization’s pursuit of a real-estate project in Moscow during the 2016 election, a period in which the Russian government was seeking to aid Trump’s presidential campaign.
“Assuming all the evidence adds up to the conclusion that the president asked Cohen to lie about the Russia deal, it’s evidence of conspiracy, of obstruction of justice, of suborning perjury,” said John Q. Barrett, a law professor at St. John’s and a former associate counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation. “It’s impeachment material.”
According to BuzzFeed News, Special Counsel Robert Mueller assembled evidence that Trump directed Cohen to lie, including “interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.” That would represent a significant escalation in the legal and political risks to the president.
“If true, this directly implicates the president in a conspiracy to obstruct justice or to make false statements to Congress, or as an aider and abettor to Cohen committing those crimes,” said Randall Eliason, a former U.S. attorney and a law professor at George Washington University. “Whether a sitting president can be indicted is a separate question, but there would be no wiggle room in terms of whether he was guilty of the offenses. The key, of course, is whether you can prove it and whether there is additional evidence beyond just Cohen’s word—and from the article, it sounds like there is.”
While evidence that the Trump campaign sought to assist the Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 election, and that the president then sought to hamper the federal investigation into that effort, has been in public view for some time, evidence that the president directed Cohen to lie to Congress would be something different entirely, a claim that the president conspired to commit a crime in pursuit of personal financial gain. Republicans have tried their best to set expectations so that only the clearest and most shocking of acts would qualify as criminal—and Trump’s reported actions not only meet but exceed them.
The report, if verified, provides a potentially simple narrative for a story that has often seemed complicated: Trump sought to profit from a real-estate deal in Moscow, and so defended Russia against accusations of interference, and then directed his personal attorney to commit perjury to cover up what he had done.
Obstruction of justice and perjury are crimes that turn on state of mind, but the details in the BuzzFeed News report would leave Trump with few defenses. “If President Trump instructed Michael Cohen to testify to Congress, giving an account of the Russia project that Trump knew to be false, that’s obstruction of justice,” said Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham and a former associate counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation. “It’s hard to imagine that Trump would have had an innocent ‘state of mind.’ The only viable legal defense would be ‘It didn’t happen.’”
According to BuzzFeed News, Special Counsel Robert Mueller assembled evidence that Trump directed Cohen to lie, including “interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.” That would represent a significant escalation in the legal and political risks to the president.
Kumbaya A journalist report of news should never ever and I mean Never include “if this is true”. Simply irresponsible journalism. You either know what you know with strong supporting evidence or you don’t. Journalists reporting like this is why we have ‘Fake News’....
Mollie Hemmingway: Which is why something close to 99% of media coverage on this story is infuriating. Meanwhile, reporting actual facts on FBI/DOJ malfeasance is ignored by same group.
Julie Kelly If BuzzFeed’s sources are connected to Comey’s FBI - and based on reporter’s comments, they are - the entire basis for the article is deeply suspect. Particularly if those sources are known partisans and/or liars.
Ned Ryun "Critics have noted Weissman’s donations to Clinton & his unseemly support of former acting AG Yates’s obstruction of Trump orders. Now turns out that senior Mueller players were central to the dossier scandal. The conflicts of interest boggle the mind."
WSJ ›
What Bruce Ohr Told the FBI
Kimberley A. Strassel January 17, 2019
Everybody knew. Everybody of consequence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department understood fully in the middle of 2016—as the FBI embarked on its counterintelligence probe of Donald Trump—that it was doing so based on disinformation provided by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. That’s the big revelation from the transcript of the testimony Justice Department official Bruce Ohr gave Congress in August. The transcripts haven’t been released, but parts were confirmed for me by congressional sources. …... The testimony also destroys any remaining credibility of the Democratic response, in which Mr. Schiff and his colleagues claimed Mr. Ohr hadn’t met with the FBI or told them anything about his wife or about Mr. Steele’s bias until after the election.
the one component of this whole FBI/DOJ coup attempt that they absolutely needed to have nailed down and in the fucking bag in order to get away clean with the whole scheme was the feckless old cunt getting elected.
What is even more stunning is Lindsey going down the rabbit hole defending the liar in chief....even more stunning will be him voting for impeachment when muellers report confirms buzz feed.....
Court Filings Line Up with Bombshell Story . Although the cable news network has not corroborated last night’s bombshell report that President Trump instructed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, CNN reports there are a handful of distinct areas where reporting from BuzzFeed News lines up perfectly with court records, including the charging documents against Michael Cohen, sentencing memos and hearings.
BREAKING: Spokesman for Special Counsel's Office - "BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate."
Who are you to believe, Roger and Buzzfeed or the Special Councils Office ?
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Lol@nancy
She just got Skooled.
i read somewhere that trump fucked up by cancelling the trip. he should've allowed the trip over and prohibited the trip home.
i can just picture her and lil schitt trying to book a flight home out of kabul international airport.
Should have prohibited the trip back and then held the State of the union.
Priceless.
good point, Rat.
Never thought of that.
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Acting OMB Director @RussVought45 sends letter to all Cabinet members that NO “government owned, rented, leased, or chartered aircraft” can transport any Congressional delegation, “without the express written approval of the White House Chief of Staff” during the gov’t shutdown
https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1086325865405927424
uh oh... lil schitt just got caught in a significant LIE:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/01/18/uh-oh-kimberley-strassel-points-out-why-bruce-ohrs-steele-dossier-testimony-could-spell-big-trouble-for-adam-schiff/
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Which of these stories could doom Trump?
Which of these stories could doom Trump?
good question pederast.
my money is on that scathing expose' reported this morning in Highlights for Children.
Lol, tell us Jane.
Jane you support and defend the clid rapist. Being you're a fellow traveler.
Political hay wire. Commie
"Biden Inches Closer to White House Bid
January 18, 2019 at 12:48 pm EST"
Run Joe, your part needs ya.
"Biden Inches Closer to White House Bid
when i read that i got a vision of the alky inching closer to the bathroom with his walker, trying to get there before mail order has an unfortunate mess to clean up...
i found the smoking gun buried deep within the buzzfeed article.
Ivanka Trump was slated to manage a spa at the tower and personally recommended an architect. She also instructed Cohen to speak with a Russian athlete who offered “synergy on a government level” to get the Moscow project off the ground, in another aspect of the deal first revealed by BuzzFeed News that later was affirmed by the special counsel’s sentencing memo. Cohen rebuffed the athlete’s proposal, which angered Ivanka Trump, according to emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News.
yup. you read that right. ivanka was prepared to move to moscow to manage a fucking spa.
there it is.
there.
it.
is.
all the proof you need right there.
IMPEACH!!!11!
If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming
January 18, 2019 at 2:11 pm EST
Garrett Graff:
“The allegation, which Buzzfeed sourced to two federal law enforcement officials, simultaneously adds new information to both the ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’ sides of the Russia probe. The idea that the President of the United States directed his personal attorney to lie to Congress about his attempt to complete a multi-hundred-million-dollar deal with Vladimir Putin in the midst of the presidential campaign is, in short, as big as it gets.
“While we’ll be unpacking the implications of the apparent revelation for days to come, there are six aspects of the new report which, if true, make clear the scale of the political peril facing the president as of Friday morning.”
Why Trump’s Directing Cohen, Others to Lie Would Be Far Worse Than Watergate
by Ryan Goodman
January 18, 2019
If the President of the United States directed his personal attorney and fixer to help sabotage the Russia investigation by lying to Congress, there is no turning back for the nation. Given the independent corroborating evidence that special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly has to show that’s what the president did, things are only going to get worse for the White House from here.
Cohen’s lying to Congress (and to the Special Counsel’s Office) was not only about covering up a secret deal with the Kremlin during the heart of the campaign, a deal that potentially even included an illegal payoff for Putin personally. It was also a direct hit on the Russia investigation itself. The Special Counsel told the court that Cohen’s lies to both Congress and the Special Counsel were “intended to limit ongoing investigations into Russian interference in a U.S. presidential election, and the question of any links or coordination between a campaign and a foreign government.”
Read the entire article.
The Atlantic cover in red: IMPEACH
This Charge Is Different
An explosive report that Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress provides a straightforwardly impeachable offense.
Adam Serwer
Staff writer at The Atlantic
It’s not just the collusion. It’s the conspiracy.
On Thursday evening, BuzzFeed News dropped a bombshell, reporting that President Donald Trump told Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney, to lie to Congress about the Trump Organization’s pursuit of a real-estate project in Moscow during the 2016 election, a period in which the Russian government was seeking to aid Trump’s presidential campaign.
“Assuming all the evidence adds up to the conclusion that the president asked Cohen to lie about the Russia deal, it’s evidence of conspiracy, of obstruction of justice, of suborning perjury,” said John Q. Barrett, a law professor at St. John’s and a former associate counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation. “It’s impeachment material.”
According to BuzzFeed News, Special Counsel Robert Mueller assembled evidence that Trump directed Cohen to lie, including “interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.” That would represent a significant escalation in the legal and political risks to the president.
“If true, this directly implicates the president in a conspiracy to obstruct justice or to make false statements to Congress, or as an aider and abettor to Cohen committing those crimes,” said Randall Eliason, a former U.S. attorney and a law professor at George Washington University. “Whether a sitting president can be indicted is a separate question, but there would be no wiggle room in terms of whether he was guilty of the offenses. The key, of course, is whether you can prove it and whether there is additional evidence beyond just Cohen’s word—and from the article, it sounds like there is.”
While evidence that the Trump campaign sought to assist the Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 election, and that the president then sought to hamper the federal investigation into that effort, has been in public view for some time, evidence that the president directed Cohen to lie to Congress would be something different entirely, a claim that the president conspired to commit a crime in pursuit of personal financial gain. Republicans have tried their best to set expectations so that only the clearest and most shocking of acts would qualify as criminal—and Trump’s reported actions not only meet but exceed them.
The report, if verified, provides a potentially simple narrative for a story that has often seemed complicated: Trump sought to profit from a real-estate deal in Moscow, and so defended Russia against accusations of interference, and then directed his personal attorney to commit perjury to cover up what he had done.
Obstruction of justice and perjury are crimes that turn on state of mind, but the details in the BuzzFeed News report would leave Trump with few defenses. “If President Trump instructed Michael Cohen to testify to Congress, giving an account of the Russia project that Trump knew to be false, that’s obstruction of justice,” said Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham and a former associate counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation. “It’s hard to imagine that Trump would have had an innocent ‘state of mind.’ The only viable legal defense would be ‘It didn’t happen.’”
Read the rest of the article.
If it proves to be true...
According to BuzzFeed News, Special Counsel Robert Mueller assembled evidence that Trump directed Cohen to lie, including “interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.” That would represent a significant escalation in the legal and political risks to the president.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If it proves to be true...
hey alky -
wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.
Kumbaya
A journalist report of news should never ever and I mean Never include “if this is true”. Simply irresponsible journalism. You either know what you know with strong supporting evidence or you don’t. Journalists reporting like this is why we have ‘Fake News’....
Mollie Hemmingway:
Which is why something close to 99% of media coverage on this story is infuriating. Meanwhile, reporting actual facts on FBI/DOJ malfeasance is ignored by same group.
John Cardillo
Notice that BuzzFeed's anonymously sourced story dropped just as Bruce Ohr's damning on the record testimony was getting traction.
@magaxxoo
Anyone who hasn't recognized this strategic tactic continually over the past 2+ years has not been paying attention.
Exactly why the globalists took control of 99% of media organizations. Control of the narrative.
Sheep can be led.
Julie Kelly
If BuzzFeed’s sources are connected to Comey’s FBI - and based on reporter’s comments, they are - the entire basis for the article is deeply suspect. Particularly if those sources are known partisans and/or liars.
Sheep can be led.
and sheared.
right alky?
Ned Ryun
"Critics have noted Weissman’s donations to Clinton & his unseemly support of former acting AG Yates’s obstruction of Trump orders. Now turns out that senior Mueller players were central to the dossier scandal. The conflicts of interest boggle the mind."
WSJ ›
What Bruce Ohr Told the FBI
Kimberley A. Strassel January 17, 2019
Everybody knew. Everybody of consequence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department understood fully in the middle of 2016—as the FBI embarked on its counterintelligence probe of Donald Trump—that it was doing so based on disinformation provided by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. That’s the big revelation from the transcript of the testimony Justice Department official Bruce Ohr gave Congress in August. The transcripts haven’t been released, but parts were confirmed for me by congressional sources.
…...
The testimony also destroys any remaining credibility of the Democratic response, in which Mr. Schiff and his colleagues claimed Mr. Ohr hadn’t met with the FBI or told them anything about his wife or about Mr. Steele’s bias until after the election.
full story at:
https://outline.com/ANjgbL
Lindsey Graham
Revelations that Bruce Ohr told senior DOJ and FBI officials that dossier author Christopher Steele:
1) was biased against and hated Trump.
2) was on the payroll as a Democratic operative before FISA warrant application was requested.
are stunning.
it's ironic...
the one component of this whole FBI/DOJ coup attempt that they absolutely needed to have nailed down and in the fucking bag in order to get away clean with the whole scheme was the feckless old cunt getting elected.
heh.
i have some significant warmyl cooling headed my way.
2 feet of snow and arctic cold to the tune of -25 wind chill.
ye ha!
are stunning.
What is even more stunning is Lindsey going down the rabbit hole defending the liar in chief....even more stunning will be him voting for impeachment when muellers report confirms buzz feed.....
Do you have 67 required votes in the US Senate?
Gorebal Warming thingy to hit here too.
Most of the upper US and upper East Coast.
Stupid is your middle name goat fucker....figure it our yourself if lindsey votes for impeachment.....asshole
Gorebal Warming thingy to hit here too.
Massive amounts of snow are indicative of a warming climate....
Massive amounts of snow are indicative of a warming climate....
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLLOLLOLOLLLOLLOLOLOLLOLLOLOLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see rat is posting his IQ again.....no wonder why you flunked out of ag school......BWAAAAAAA!!! Prove my statement wrong, asshole...
Court Filings Line Up with Bombshell Story
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Although the cable news network has not corroborated last night’s bombshell report that President Trump instructed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, CNN reports there are a handful of distinct areas where reporting from BuzzFeed News lines up perfectly with court records, including the charging documents against Michael Cohen, sentencing memos and hearings.
https://www.iflscience.com/environment/does-global-warming-mean-more-or-less-snow/
For the ag school drop outs amongst us.....LOLOLOL
Yes , we agree.
"Massive amounts of snow are indicative of a warming climate...."
So are droughts as are massive grain increases per acre in the US.
Do you have 67 required votes in the US Senate?
Denise said "NO"
BREAKING: Spokesman for Special Counsel's Office - "BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate."
Who are you to believe, Roger and Buzzfeed or the Special Councils Office ?
The Latest: Mueller's office says BuzzFeed report inaccurate
35 mins ago
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