Wednesday, February 27, 2019

More Mueller Spin

Is the left creating a contingency talking point memo?
“Even if Mueller’s report were to appear and didn’t implicate the president, all these other criminal investigations will continue. That’s not going to be the magic bullet that solves everything. I’d be very concerned if I was a lawyer or a potential target in that world right now,"
So for the past two years, we have heard the talking points memo that Congressional, local, and federal investigations can only produce so much. What we really need to do is sit back and wait on the Special Counsel investigation. After all, special Counsels are given pretty much unlimited financial resources, an unlimited staff, unlimited time, and carte blanche to use whatever necessary powers exist to garner the ultimate information and draw the ultimate conclusions.

Now the argument is that Mueller's investigation was always limited and that it has always been just sort of a preliminary event to uncover a slew of possible issues, so that other people in other departments and other jurisdictions can do the heavy lifting of the meat and potato investigations.

In other words, the new slowly developing talking points memo from the left is that the a Mueller report would not be the beginning of the end, but rather it is simply a new beginning.

I wonder whether or not anyone (other than those emotionally married to TPMs in general) will buy into this concept. I certainly agree with almost every poll that suggests that it's time to move past the 2016 election (or anything that happened prior) and move on with the world as it exists in 2019.

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

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Scoop: Check signed by Trump to be displayed at Cohen hearing

Lanny Davis and Michael Cohen. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
A $35,000 check signed by Donald Trump on Aug. 1, 2017 (after he became president) will be displayed during Michael Cohen's testimony to the House Oversight Committee today, a source close to Cohen tells Axios.

"It was another installment in the illegal hush money 'reimbursed' to Cohen ... for [the Stormy Daniels] hush money payoff," the source said.

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Excerpts from Cohen's opening statement, provided to the N.Y. Times and others, and confirmed for Axios:

"I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience. I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is."
"He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat. He was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails."
"He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a 'shithole.' This was when Barack Obama was President."
"While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way."
"And, he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid."
Cohen then narrates documents he gave the committee:

"Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes, such as trying to be listed among the wealthiest people in Forbes, and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes."
"Mr. Trump directed me to find a straw bidder to purchase a portrait of him that was being auctioned at an Art Hamptons Event. The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon."
"The portrait was purchased by the fake bidder for $60,000. Mr. Trump directed the Trump Foundation, which is supposed to be a charitable organization, to repay the fake bidder, despite keeping the art for himself."
"He asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and to lie to his wife about it, which I did. Lying to the First Lady is one of my biggest regrets."
"I am giving the Committee today a copy of the $130,000 wire transfer from me to [Stormy Daniels'] attorney."

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Michael Cohen Plans to Call Trump a ‘Con Man’ and a ‘Cheat’ in Congressional Testimony https://nyti.ms/2INPQ5s

The Muller investigation may faded into history as a result of this hearing today.

Anonymous said...



The Muller investigation may faded into history as a result of this hearing today.


genius,

the entire point of this hearing is to prop up the mueller investigation for lil schitt so he can continue his charade.

to those of us not afflicted by TDS this much is obvious.



Anonymous said...




nice:


National Guard Assists BP with 75 Apprehensions Over the Weekend

Release Date: February 25, 2019

TUCSON, Ariz. – Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 75 illegal aliens with assistance from National Guard helicopter crews working under Operation Guardian Support over the weekend.


https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/national-guard-assists-bp-75-apprehensions-over-weekend


Anonymous said...

cool

C.H. Truth said...

Roger

Your latest infatuation lost me with "illegal hush money"


- Non-disclosure agreements are perfectly legal.
- According to the Federal Elections Commission they are not a campaign expense.

Inconvenient facts, Rog.