Michael Cohen Releases Secretly-Recorded Trump Tape; His Lawyer Lanny Davis Threatens That He's Ready to Talk, Whatever That Means

What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2018

The impression many have gotten for a while is that Michael Cohen is threatening Trump to either get a pardon for whatever crimes he may have committed, and/or get Trump to pay his legal bills. And so he and his shyster, former Bill Clinton mouthpiece Lanny Davis, are ratcheting up pressure and threats to compel Trump to deliver something.

Alternately -- it could be that Cohen is already cooperating with prosecutors and so is threatening to release information in order to get Trump to contact him and ask him to not reveal anything more to investigators, at which point the feds would indict Trump for obstruction of justice.

So, obviously, Trump should not contact this guy.

Whatever their scheme, so far they haven't released much. They caught Trump on tape discussing possibly doing something legal -- to wit, buying someone's story through a third party (the National Enquirer) to keep the story quiet.

What would be the crime here? Will Mueller also start prosecuting blackmail victims for paying blackmail to their blackmailers?

I'm not saying this woman's a blackmailer -- but she was trying to make money off her sleazy story. She made that money. What's the harm? Trump was and is under no legal compulsion to share his sex history with anyone. Keeping a story quiet is only a crime under one circumstance -- when you're under legal compulsion to not hide it, as when you're under subpeona to disclose it or when it's being investigated by police. Neither of these things were true before, and I doubt they're even true now.

Unless, of course, Mueller has decided that blackmail victims can't pay hush money without being indicted for Conspiracy to Commit Privacy.

Which who knows- - maybe he has.

But Cohen, through his Clinton mouthpiece, has threatened that Cohen is now singing to the feds, whatever that's supposed to mean.

Davis, a damage-control maestro going back to the Clinton administration, told me: "Michael Cohen has made a turn. This is on the record -- Michael and I talked about it."
"Michael is going to tell the truth to the powers that be, and let the chips fall where they may."
"I've used this line too many times, but who talks about cash like that besides drug dealers and mobsters?"
Davis said that the tape's release sends the message: "I am no longer the previous Michael Cohen that you knew --taking a bullet for Donald Trump, saying anything to defend him, being a good soldier. ... That is over."
Davis said he was unable to say what Cohen's next move is: "I'm not saying there are more tapes as telling as [this] one, ... but there are more tapes. ... There is more to come."

Alan Derschowitz had already declared/predicted that Cohen would or already was "flipping" on Trump.

One area where I'm actually worried Trump might (might) have done wrong concerns the threats some people claim they got about laying off "Mr. Trump." That could have been Cohen behind that -- and Cohen will say it was Trump ordering him to do that, even if Trump actually only said "make it go away" or something like that.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 12:41 PM

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1 Cohen is a sleaze ball..hope he rots in jail.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 25, 2018 12:44 PM (a0IVu)

2 Hello world

Posted by: Undocumented at July 25, 2018 12:44 PM (5NMZN)

3 And what the hell has this got to do w/ colluding w/ Russia? This entire debacle is ridiculous.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 25, 2018 12:44 PM (a0IVu)

4 30 years ago, Lanny Davis was arguing everyone lied about sex, that only crazy idiots think it's a crime.

Today, he's arguing Trump should be impeached for banging hot women.

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 12:45 PM (TN1P5)

5
Gigantic nothing-burger, with a side of gornischt from gornischt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2018 12:45 PM (VM6ev)

6 Where's the crime?

Posted by: Octopussy at July 25, 2018 12:45 PM (UF4j7)

7 I'd just like to point out to all you 29 year old youngsters that Lanny Davis was the designated liar for Bill Clinton, insisting for the better part of a year that Clinton never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski, before having to admit that Bubba did indeed humidorize the intern.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2018 12:46 PM (/tuJf)

8 Who cares? Cohen is a cockroach with zero character. He is the kind of tick on the penis of society that gives lawyers their good name.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 12:46 PM (o2MD2)

9

I am no longer the previous Michael Cohen that you knew, I'm Michael Cohen 2: Electric Boogaloo!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2018 12:46 PM (IqV8l)

10 5
Gigantic nothing-burger, with a side of gornischt from gornischt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2018 12:45 PM (VM6ev)

6 Where's the crime?
Posted by: Octopussy at July 25, 2018 12:45 PM (UF4j7)

Clara Peller is smiling...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2018 12:46 PM (VM6ev)

11 As we keep saying, if there was anything damning that they had, they would have released it already. This stuff would be embarrassing for a normal politician, but Trump is already inoculated against that line of attack.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2018 12:46 PM (k1TUh)

12 You keep throwing around that, "Clinton Mouthpiece," like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Monica at July 25, 2018 12:46 PM (ALj3k)

13 As always, willowed:

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2018 12:39 PM (eSx+E)

------

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Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2018 12:47 PM (UiRxW)

14 I am more interested in the GDP report coming out this Friday and who Trump slept w/ in 2005 or 2006. I am also more interested in what transpires in the talk Trump is having today w/ Juncker and the EU trade sec.

Posted by: IC, now with extra super elite at July 25, 2018 12:47 PM (a0IVu)

15 "I've used this line too many times, but who talks about cash like that besides drug dealers and mobsters?"

All those who have 'cashed out' an IRA, or sold stock... report to Federal Detention Centers. Now.

You're obviously drug dealers and mobsters.

Lanny Davis is Ground Zero of the Clinton Crime Syndicate™.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 12:47 PM (LOgQ4)

16 Mueller now has a mandate to spend $20 billion over the next 20 years investigating the veracity of hundreds of National Enquirer stories.

Posted by: ShainS at July 25, 2018 12:47 PM (fMTEA)

17 Such a transparent attempt to just find any old dirt on president Trump to embarrass and compel cooperation/capitulation with the meddlers.

Posted by: Wonder Woman's Jet at July 25, 2018 12:48 PM (sYpCy)

18 Mueller is out of control.
And Davis makes every attorney joke seem real.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2018 12:48 PM (0tfLf)

19 insisting for the better part of a year that Clinton never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski, before having to admit that Bubba did indeed humidorize the intern.

* Stubs cigar out *

Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 12:49 PM (LOgQ4)

20 Shrug. Unconcerned about finding the big evil on Trump. There's nothing there, or they wouldn't leak this stuff. They'd be hammering the big evil.

In any case, this should be turned over to the FBI, not Meuller's super secret skwad

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 12:49 PM (39g3+)

21 The main take away from all of this is...

Jeff Sessions is a fucking disgrace and I hope he gets some painful incurable disease and dies a miserable painful death and soon.

Fuck that guy and fuck his scared honor.

What a disaster that piece of shit has been.

What's going on is a disgusting and antithetical to justice as one can imagine.

And the fact that we now have a Clinton bagman and fixer at the center of all of this is the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 25, 2018 12:49 PM (2JcMg)

22
You keep throwing around that, "Clinton Mouthpiece," like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: Monica

The mouthpiece is connected to the codpiece.
Dem bone

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (IqV8l)

23 PDT likes pussy...crucify him!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (V+Su2)

24 While the alphabet networks are once more screaming hysterically, normal people Do Not Care. And Trump approval rating will be up two more ticks by September.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (PHxng)

25 Someone on the Left is paying Cohen or dangling a big paycheck in front of him.

Posted by: Jean at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (LnUJw)

26 Mueller is out of control.
And Davis makes every attorney joke seem real.
Posted by: Diogenes

If it's real, it's no longer a joke.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (7/YOc)

27 Hmmm... so Its OK for a Lawyer to release information about his clients?

Without his clients consent?

IN PUBLIC???

Posted by: Don Q at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (NgKpN)

28 SO here we are in a time warp, watching Lanny Davis on tv spinning a president's handling of "bimbo eruptions."

SMH

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (W+vEI)

29 16 Mueller now has a mandate to spend $20 billion over the next 20 years investigating the veracity of hundreds of National Enquirer stories.
Posted by: ShainS
____________

Damn, now how will we ever get any privacy?

Posted by: Elvis and Batboy at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (9vQJW)

30 I would think trying to blackmail the President is a crime? No?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (V+Su2)

31 So, Clinton's best was a 1AM, bar's closing, beer-goggles.

Trump is banging models and centerfolds.

No wonder they hate him. Last President they had who pulled in decent tail was Kennedy.

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 12:51 PM (TN1P5)

32 @14

They are some reports that it could be as high as 5pct.

If that is true look for something really big to be dumped upper decker like from Mueller and his bully boys.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 25, 2018 12:51 PM (2JcMg)

33 The MSM has beaten the Trump hatred drum so long and so hard that nobody gives a fuck anymore. 2 years and they don't have jack shit. Nobody is listening.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 12:51 PM (o2MD2)

34 >>What would be the crime here? Will Mueller also start prosecuting blackmail victims for paying blackmail to their blackmailers?

Does there have to be a crime?
I think this is to shame Trump, alienate him from evangelical voters, and destroy his marriage (as punishment for winning).

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (W+vEI)

35 Nothingburger.

Posted by: steevy at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (LiyEm)

36 news item - Sergio Marchionne, the executive who built up FIAT and swallowed Chrysler, has died at age 66. I had seen that he had resigned his position just a couple days ago due to "complications" from shoulder surgery - apparently those "complications" were pretty damned serious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (k1TUh)

37 21
The main take away from all of this is...

Jeff Sessions is a fucking disgrace and I hope he gets some painful
incurable disease and dies a miserable painful death and soon.

Fuck that guy and fuck his scared honor.

What a disaster that piece of shit has been.

What's going on is a disgusting and antithetical to justice as one can imagine.

And the fact that we now have a Clinton bagman and fixer at the
center of all of this is the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 25, 2018 12:49 PM (2JcMg)
Okay, so I don't even have to make an effort to comment because you've done all the heavy lifting for me. Thanks, Kreplach!

Posted by: kathysaysso at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (vkS2Z)

38 >>Mueller now has a mandate to spend $20 billion over the next 20 years investigating the veracity of hundreds of National Enquirer stories.

Not for nothing but Mueller has nothing to do with this case anymore. He's been handing off lots of his stuff to career DOJ prosecutors for some reason including the Russian troll case, the 12 Russian hackers and this case which he turned over to prosecutors in NY in April.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (/tuJf)

39 Free Scogg !!! Free Scogg !!!

No Scogg - No Peace !!!

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (hNICT)

40 Isn't recording someone without their consent a crime in New York?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (q6u2X)

41 The left is really pushing the "Trump Tapes" but its going no where because the worst they can do is misquote the tape about cash, and pretend its sinister. And honestly, this is one of those "how does this affect me again?" things that Americans note but don't really care about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 12:53 PM (39g3+)

42 6 Where's the crime?
Posted by: Octopussy
______________

Crime? I don't need no stinkin' crime! Trump is a meanie, and he's crude and ill-bred and not one of us, dear.

That's more than enough reason to destroy him! God Himself told me so when he appointed me to this mission!

Posted by: Bobby Mueller, Sooper Legal Jenius at July 25, 2018 12:53 PM (fqUgw)

43 18 Mueller is out of control.
And Davis makes every attorney joke seem real.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2018 12:48 PM (0tfLf)

Once again.... Mueller is Rosenstein's monster...

He is the Hit Man, Rosenstein is the Mafia Leiutenant trying to take out the God Father, Trump.

Posted by: Don Q at July 25, 2018 12:53 PM (NgKpN)

44 And the fact that we now have a Clinton bagman and fixer at the center of all of this is the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae.

-----

WTF did *I* do. I do not know any Clinton bagman.

Now Bob from the NSA is going give MY name to Mueller. THanks.

Posted by: fixerupper at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (8XRCm)

45 31 . . . Last President they had who pulled in decent tail was Kennedy.
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories
___________

Don't knock Reggie. This is not who we are.

Posted by: Low Information Ex-President at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (9vQJW)

46 Trumps voice is very clear on the recording, up until the "incriminating" bit about cash. I hear him say "don't pay cash". But it is strange how his voice becomes quiet and muddled at the exact moment, so the listener can hear whatever they are told to hear. Then it suddenly cuts off mid sentence. No agreement to do anything is actually on the recording.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (dNzKv)

47 40 Isn't recording someone without their consent a crime in New York?
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (q6u2X)

Sadly, no.

Posted by: Don Q at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (NgKpN)

48 Maxine Waters says God sent her to destroy Trump. I lol'ed. I don't think God needs any help. Maxine, on the other hand..........

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (o2MD2)

49 31 So, Clinton's best was a 1AM, bar's closing, beer-goggles.

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 12:51 PM (TN1P5)

Gennifer Flowers was no slouch ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (hNICT)

50 I want to see Trump go last scene of The Godfather - settle all his affairs.

Posted by: josephistan at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (7HtZB)

51 47 40 Isn't recording someone without their consent a crime in New York?
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (q6u2X)

Sadly, no.
Posted by: Don Q at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (NgKpN)

Unless the phone call is across State Lines? Don't know where Trump was when the call was made.

Posted by: Don Q at July 25, 2018 12:55 PM (NgKpN)

52 Sergio Marchionne... has died at age 66.

that's too bad

I loved those old spaghetti westerns

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2018 12:55 PM (ZQfW9)

53 Left, if I promise to vote for Trump again, will you quit trying so hard? I mean, you've already convinced me, now you're just wasting breath.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2018 12:55 PM (C78No)

54 Maybe we can dig up one of Muellers old mistresses or women he's sexually harassed.

I'm not saying he has one or harassed anyone. I'm just saying wouldn't that be an interesting endeavor?

See how that works?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2018 12:55 PM (q6u2X)

55 Someone on the Left is paying Cohen or dangling a big paycheck in front of him.
Posted by: Jean at July 25, 2018 12:50 PM (LnUJw)

He's trying to stay out of jail for his NYC taxi medallion tax shenanigans.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at July 25, 2018 12:56 PM (O9qtX)

56 The MSM has beaten the Trump hatred drum so long and so hard that nobody gives a fuck anymore.

The problem is that they haven't just been drumming this, they've been cranking up the nuclear attack alarm while running around screaming with their hair on fire for 2 years. After a while it sinks in that maybe they are full of crap. The "boy that cried wolf" again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 12:56 PM (39g3+)

57 Trump got laid again? With a hottie?

Awwwww man.... show off

It wasn't my sister, was it?

Posted by: Ben Shapiro's Lack of Masculinity at July 25, 2018 12:56 PM (1J1mK)

58 Why do I get the feeling that if one does a bit of digging we will find Perkins Coie and Fusion involved in this?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 25, 2018 12:56 PM (dNzKv)

59 Cohen is a particularly stupid and unethical lawyer (who secretly tapes his own clients!), so I think it is almost a certainty that Cohen actually ordered those hamfisted threats to silence witnesses.

That's the next shoe to drop: Mueller probably has proof Cohen actually threatened witnesses. That is real jail time in pound-me-in-the-ass prison, and would certainly scare Cohen enough to make him do crazy stuff like leak this tape even though it will get him disbarred and he will never work again.

Posted by: wooga at July 25, 2018 12:56 PM (eNBQr)

60
Hillary Clinton: *empties colostomy bag into trash can* Okay, Lanny, what do you have?
Lanny Davis: I'll compare him to a drug dealer or mobster.
Hillary Clinton: *presses Life Alert button repeatedly with no effect* Why does no one ever respond? Sure, Lanny sounds good. Do it. *passes Lanny bag of cash*

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 12:56 PM (LOgQ4)

61 Their frustration is palpable.

"WTF!! Sex scandals always worked before!!"

Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2018 12:57 PM (ALj3k)

62 Insomniac still out there?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at July 25, 2018 12:57 PM (AM1GF)

63 Someone posted this earlier.

NSFW but vital for fuller understanding of this current Presidential philandal scandal.

https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/ 986791662994194437

Posted by: mindful webworker - strictly for research purposes at July 25, 2018 12:57 PM (UYkjZ)

64 Not for nothing but Mueller has nothing to do with this case anymore. He's been handing off lots of his stuff to career DOJ prosecutors for some reason including the Russian troll case, the 12 Russian hackers and this case which he turned over to prosecutors in NY in April.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2018 12:52 PM (/tuJf)

Its because there is no case there. He will not get positive headlines from it, as it will never go to trial.

EVERYTHING Mueller does seems to be to get headlines... not convictions.

Posted by: Don Q at July 25, 2018 12:57 PM (NgKpN)

65 And the fact that we now have a Clinton bagman and fixer at the center of all of this is the shit cherry on top of the shit sundae.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 25, 2018 12:49 PM (2JcMg)

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Agree 100%, Kreplach!

But, that last line sounds like Mr. Leahy, LOL...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2018 12:57 PM (UiRxW)

66 54 Maybe we can dig up one of Muellers old mistresses or women he's sexually harassed.

I'm not saying he has one or harassed anyone. I'm just saying wouldn't that be an interesting endeavor?

See how that works?
Posted by: Marcus T
__________

He hasn't paid any income taxes in the past 10 years.

Posted by: A Republican Harry Reid at July 25, 2018 12:57 PM (9vQJW)

67 Maybe we can dig up one of Muellers old mistresses or women he's sexually harassed.

With a face like Frankenstein...LOL. Don't bet the house on that one

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2018 12:58 PM (V+Su2)

68 I can't believe it's legal for a lawyer to tape a client and then release that tape publicly. I mean, seriously. That would be like a doctor releasing a patient's medical records to the public.

If this sort of thing is legal then ... I don't even know what to say.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 25, 2018 12:58 PM (ZVU3Y)

69 Sound and fury signifying nothing.

This is all concocted to keep the useful idiots' midterm election hard-ons raging.

Posted by: kallisto at July 25, 2018 12:58 PM (DJFLF)

70 Hillary Clinton: *empties colostomy bag into trash can*...

Sorry, guys, no overtime today.

Posted by: San Francisco Streets Department at July 25, 2018 12:58 PM (C78No)

71 Perhaps Cohen will take one for the team and die in a fire.

So all along the guys recording his clients. Mr Ethical, as some type of insurance policy in case he gets nailed for all the other sleazy things he was doing that didn't involve Trump. But that was his get out of jail card, and he knew it.

Piece of shit slimeball.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2018 12:58 PM (q6u2X)

72 Um hey guys! I want to address the rumors and say that the only reason beautiful women aren't coming forward to blackmail me too is because my unbroken tru conservative principles stopped me from ever scoring.

Um yeah. That's why...

*Sniff*

Posted by: Ben Shapiro's Lack of Masculinity at July 25, 2018 12:59 PM (1J1mK)

73 Scogg, go to http://whatismyipaddress.com and tell me what address it thinks you have.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 25, 2018 12:59 PM (Fwyn7)

74 36:very aggressive cancer got him, tom. the surgery was a last ditch thing to try and save him.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 25, 2018 12:59 PM (KP5rU)

75 Who talks about this kind of cash? People donating money to the Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 12:59 PM (37IEG)

76 67 Maybe we can dig up one of Muellers old mistresses or women he's sexually harassed.

With a face like Frankenstein...LOL. Don't bet the house on that one
Posted by: Nevergiveup
_____

I dunno. I think he's kinda sexy.

Posted by: Teresa Heinz-Kerry at July 25, 2018 01:00 PM (9vQJW)

77 Who talks about cash like that besides drug dealers and mobsters? Uh ... Obama with the mullahs? Except about a billion times more?

Posted by: csmats at July 25, 2018 01:00 PM (X5VFN)

78 Is this Cohen the same guy who was always on Hannity's radio show in the first 9 months of 2016, sounding like the redhaired actor who played the cop who dated Phoebe on Friends? That guy (the radio guest, not the actor) was a super-enthusiastic Trump booster.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 25, 2018 01:00 PM (YWG/U)

79 I mean, when you see these women.
Every red- blooded man and quite a few women would hit it too if they could.
So any outrage they're hoping to stir in the right will be perfunctory.
"Yeah, yeah, don't cheat. (High five, dude!"

While the left has Lt. Worf, Hillary and Last Call as the best their presidents can pull in.

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 01:00 PM (TN1P5)

80 Who talks about this kind of cash? People donating money to the Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 12:59 PM (37IEG)

Barky secretly talking to the Iranians.

Cold, hard, paper cash.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 25, 2018 01:01 PM (ZVU3Y)

81 ..Its because there is no case there. He will not get positive headlines from it, as it will never go to trial.

It's because there is nothing there that ties this crap, whatever it is, to Mueller's mandate. No Russian collusion, no nothing.

This is great for the media to generate headlines but Trump is in no danger. Maybe some embarrassing moments but he isn't getting impeached over this bullshit.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2018 01:01 PM (/tuJf)

82 Muse - 74.137.40.231

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:01 PM (hNICT)

83 Who knows? We'll just have to wait and see. So far it has all been bullsquash all the way through.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Your Source for Genuine Heyhowarya Blankets! at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (hLRSq)

84 "I've used this line too many times, but who talks about cash like that besides drug dealers and mobsters?"

Beats the heck out of us. It sure seems fishy.

Posted by: Clinton Cash Laundromat at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (C78No)

85 How is this NOT illegal?

Are the Clintons behind this?

Sore losers.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (uDcBt)

86 Ever wonder if you ate an egg from a chicken you ate?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (Bdeb0)

87 as Trump points out, the tapes get cut off when it makes Trump look good.

this is a variance on selective prosecution ... selective leaking of chopped up conversations, edited to distort the real/full context.

When that woman had a house that was a problem for Trump's parking at some casino (or some project) ... he didn't get someone to "make her go away" (and he surely wouldn't use his lawyer to do that) ... he dealt with it in court, and she held out and "won". Later iirc she got less than Trump had offered.

There were enough sharks after Trump before, that it seems unlikely they have a smoking gun on Trump ordering some mobster to break any thumbs.

But what seems very likely is that Mueller DOES play the mafia/Soviet game of squeezing anyone/everyone using illegal/unethical tactics to compose the story Mueller orders. That is Mueller's history ... yet he roams free, still terrorizing a duly elected president.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (bT8Z4)

88 For once I have to agree with JackStraw. This is complete media-driven clickbait nothing.

The people who are on Trump's side don't GAF.

The people who hate Trump will still hate him.

This changes nothing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (kqsXK)

89 In real estate a "cash deal" never involves actual paper cash.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (ZVU3Y)

90 Just more hate fuel for the ignorant CNN watchers. All five of them.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2018 01:03 PM (q6u2X)

91 Far too many Grimer Wormtongues in this hall.

Posted by: Gandalf at July 25, 2018 01:03 PM (sYpCy)

92 >>>6 Where's the crime?
Posted by: Octopussy
______________

Karen McDougal is hotter than Stormy Daniels.
The crime is that each scandal makes Trump look even more awesome.

Next week Trump will be tweeting: "I did not get a KFC grease hand job from Kate Upton. Fake news!"

Posted by: wooga at July 25, 2018 01:03 PM (eNBQr)

93 82 Muse - 74.137.40.231
Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:01 PM (hNICT)

Thank you. I will be in contact via e-mail.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at July 25, 2018 01:03 PM (Fwyn7)

94 So...Cohen can negate attorney client privilege on an issue that has nothing to do with what's being investigated, nothing of which has been proven criminal.

Oh, I see.

Can we assume they're putting the screws to every other client Cohen has or had, because what they've got Cohen for, has nothing to do with Trump other than Cohen is Trump's lawyer.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (37IEG)

95 No wonder they hate him. Last President they had who pulled in decent tail was Kennedy.
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 12:51 PM (TN1P5)
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What, no Love for Reggie?

Posted by: ShainS at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (xSlfo)

96 Expect a leaked recording every couple weeks before the mid-terms.... I'm beginning to think Cohen was the "insurance" policy

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (O2RFr)

97

To be fair to Ol' Snoozy...he *did* speak before high school students, mocking college snowflakes and their safe spaces.

Posted by: kallisto at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (DJFLF)

98 "And what the hell has this got to do w/ colluding w/ Russia?"

What did Stormy Daniels have to do with colluding with Russia?

It is "Get Trumpy" anyway they can, like the Plame thing was "Get Chimpy" at any cost. Anything at all to rid them of this guy. We'll see just what they have.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Your Source for Genuine Heyhowarya Blankets! at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (hLRSq)

99 "Michael is going to tell the truth to powers that be"

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So Mueller is now the supreme power in the land. When did this happen? Who voted him in?

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (Mymqt)

100 It means that Cohen wants to join Team America
It means he wants to rat
He knows the Feds have him on monry laundering And is looking to spend the least amount of his life in kosher Otisville
Which is much better than Attica

Posted by: Comrade at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (ICAoh)

101 Muse - 74.137.40.231

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:01 PM

Indiana. Remain blessed and leave your computer on tonight for exciting details of special offer.

Posted by: Nigerian Hacker at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (LOgQ4)

102 >>Trump got laid again? With a hottie?

Unintentional reaction to this story (NSFW):

https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/ 986791662994194437

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (W+vEI)

103 A thrice married billionaire stuck his dick in a bunch of women. Yeah the shock factor just isn't there for me Chrissy Cuomo.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (q6u2X)

104 Their frustration is palpable.�

"WTF!! Sex scandals always worked before!!"
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For near 30 years, they told us the rule was "Presidents have affairs and it's no big deal. "

Now they're pissed when we say, "you made the rule, fuck off. "

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (TN1P5)

105 Next week Trump will be tweeting: "I did not get a KFC grease hand job from Kate Upton. Fake news!"
Posted by: wooga

Wow, just out of the blue like that!

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (C78No)

106 >>>But Cohen, through his Clinton mouthpiece, has threatened that Cohen is now singing to the feds, whatever that's supposed to mean.

This is why the leftist plan of intimidation is so dangerous. A lot of people might have conservative beliefs or allegiances if they are allowed to go about their business. But not many have the stamina or integrity to weather the leftist storm of persecution. That's how democracy dies. That's the worry.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (/qEW2)

107 All Cohen had to do was shut the fuck up and take it like a man and await his pardon. But he didn't want to go to jail like Manafort, so he is pulling this crap.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (dNzKv)

108 With a face like Frankenstein...LOL. Don't bet the house on that one

You know how the joke goes, right?

If I had a dollar for every woman that rejected me for my looks... they wouldn't reject me any longer.

The left is acting like this dooms Trump, but none of this has anything really to do with him. Manafort is busted for stuff he did years before Trump ran for office, utterly unconnected to him. And they don't seem to grasp this, they think its all about Trump and everything is going to sink him any minute now. Its like the people convinced that the next news story was going to be about Obama being from Kenya.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (39g3+)

109 This is much ado about nothing! Cohen is now burning his bridges. I don't know anyone who wants a lawyer that tapes conversations with them. I think the bar association should investigate this guy and remove his license to practice.

Posted by: Locke Common at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (ww2eH)

110 Yeah, don't sense much actual jeopardy for Trump here. Sad to see Cohen become the new Stormy, complete with the farcically sleazy lawyer mouthpiece and intimations of "doom!".

Posted by: rhomboid at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (QDnY+)

111 Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:01 PM (hNICT)

Spasibo !

Posted by: Starbucks Moscow at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (bUjCl)

112 Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:01 PM

Indiana. Remain blessed and leave your computer on tonight for exciting details of special offer.
Posted by: Nigerian Hacker at July 25, 2018 01:04 PM (LOgQ4)

Whatever you do ... please cover all modalities. I worry myself sick about those.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (hNICT)

113 Three NY Jewish Lawyers have lunch and the topic is Trump. Just another day.

Posted by: Jiffy at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (2LelM)

114 Hillary will never be President

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (O2RFr)

115 Ever wonder if you ate an egg from a chicken you ate?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (Bdeb0)

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We like kid goats, braised in their mothers' milk...

Posted by: Ancient Heathens at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (UiRxW)

116 this is a variance on selective prosecution ... selective leaking of
chopped up conversations, edited to distort the real/full context.
Classic DS media tactic as well. I saw a #walkaway video where a woman said David Muir pushed her away from the demunists. She was at a Trump rally and when she watched the news that evening, saw that Muir had edited Trump's speech to totally change his meaning from the original. To show him in the worst light possible.

Posted by: kallisto at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (DJFLF)

117 Congratulations to Robert Mueller's team for undermining attorney-client privilege, part of the foundation of our entire legal system!

/sarc

Posted by: pookysgirl at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (XKZwp)

118 Was there a conspiracy to commit a federal crime of bank fraud ?
Making any false statement on a bank form is a crime

Posted by: Comrade at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (ICAoh)

119 As for the GDP number on Friday. Let's see 3.5% - 4%.

Because if it's 5% and then Q3 (released just before mid-terms) and it's 4%, MSM will yell: GDP Craters. Falls 20%. OMG !!

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (q1VoB)

120
In real estate a "cash deal" never involves actual paper cash.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM

I always laughed when Realtors pulled that shit on me... "But it's a cash deal!"

Me: "Unless I'm walking away from settlement with a million dollars in a grocery bag, means nothing."

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (LOgQ4)

121 The Left is NEVER EVER going to beat Trump. He's tough and they're pussies, he's smart and they're stupid, he's ruthless and they're juvenile. They bring a squirt gun to fight a man with a 12 gauge riot gun sitting on a pile of loaded magazines.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 01:07 PM (o2MD2)

122 The complication was that the surgeon cut offa my head when he sneezed three times in a row working on the shoulder.

Thrice blessed, my ass.

Posted by: zombie Sergio Marchionne at July 25, 2018 01:07 PM (Evws/)

123 The media has cried wolf so many times that even if Trump does actually do something seriously wrong, no one is going to believe the media anyway.

Posted by: Steve Jobs at July 25, 2018 01:07 PM (y8Foj)

124 >>>It means that Cohen wants to join Team America

It's a matter of trust. Show me you can be trusted.

Posted by: Spotswoode at July 25, 2018 01:07 PM (ALj3k)

125 I think the bar association should investigate this guy and remove his license to practice.
Posted by: Locke Common at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (ww2eH)

When you least expect me, I strike.

Posted by: Curse of teh Donald at July 25, 2018 01:08 PM (DJFLF)

126 Man ... this phone thing sucks.

Cutting the grass is starting to look pretty good.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:08 PM (hNICT)

127 "And so he and his shyster, former Bill Clinton mouthpiece Lanny Davis,"

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Well, looky here. It's the ooze from the swamp representing a snake.

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2018 01:08 PM (Mymqt)

128 Ever wonder how do you know if your out of invisible ink?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:08 PM (Bdeb0)

129 Obama opened the credit card check so his campaign could collect from foreigners.

Hillary collected a couple billion (and perhaps 100 billion, per Charles Ortel) into her illegal foundation (used for her campaign people, or Chelsea's wedding) and that was not cash.

So if you are in the mafia, crimes using traceable cash is no problem ... just make sure Mueller/Comey/Rosie are in your pocket, and even child trafficking will get covered up.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2018 01:08 PM (bT8Z4)

130 Sergio Marchionne... has died at age 66.

that's too bad

I loved those old spaghetti westerns

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Dude, you're thinking of Sergio Manicotti.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 25, 2018 01:08 PM (+y/Ru)

131 You wanna know what's more important than the economy cruising at a 5% clip, Cohen tapes which illustrate no crimes.

Posted by: People who hate trump very deeply at July 25, 2018 01:08 PM (TdS5t)

132 Somebody took a pick axe to Trump's star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/303072/

Posted by: steevy at July 25, 2018 01:09 PM (LiyEm)

133 I always laughed when Realtors pulled that shit on me... "But it's a cash deal!"

The nice thing about cash is that it closes fast. Seven days in my case. It's takes a LOT of worry away and was well worth it.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2018 01:09 PM (C78No)

134 A very clear tape until some mumbling at the end, where it abruptly cuts off?

Man. Does no one here know how to play this game? Trump is fine to insist that the tape exonerates him: now point oit that Davis is the lawyer of a scumbag rapist, and watch the sparks fly!

Posted by: trev006 at July 25, 2018 01:09 PM (S6rSu)

135 Last President they had who pulled in decent tail was Kennedy.

I'd give JFK bro points for banging Marilyn Monroe but I doubt that was a particularly challenging achievement

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:09 PM (39g3+)

136 68 I can't believe it's legal for a lawyer to tape a client and then release that tape publicly. I mean, seriously. That would be like a doctor releasing a patient's medical records to the public.

If this sort of thing is legal then ... I don't even know what to say.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPai

I do. If it is indeed legal then we need to start taking attorney's thumbs.

as a retainer.

Posted by: x at July 25, 2018 01:09 PM (nFwvY)

137 The Democratic Socialists have nothing... thus, this... and it is getting into very dangerous times.

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:09 PM (DpEis)

138 132 Somebody took a pick axe to Trump's star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

Did you know the star right next to trumps is Kevin Spaceys? It remains "unmolested."

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (O2RFr)

139
Lanny Davis and his stupid "cash" statement. People use cash (check) all the damn time. I used cash for my last vehicle purchase. And more so in the commercial real estate business the term cash is used typically as a finance term meaning investment or down payment.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (r+sAi)

140 I wish someone would accuse me of humping a playboy bunny or four.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (guOXV)

141 130 Sergio Marchionne... has died at age 66.

that's too bad

I loved those old spaghetti westerns

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Dude, you're thinking of Sergio Manicotti.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 25, 2018 01:08 PM (+y/Ru)

I thought he was a defensive lineman for the Colts

Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (TdS5t)

142 Me: "Unless I'm walking away from settlement with a million dollars in a grocery bag, means nothing."
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (LOgQ4)

We'll take that ... thank you very much.

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (hNICT)

143 I tried to blackmail Kate Upton over having had sex with me but she said she was tapped out after paying Ace that $30-million for sitting on his face so I knew she didn't have the money.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (Evws/)

144 128
Ever wonder how do you know if your out of invisible ink?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018
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Ever get the feeling the whole world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

Posted by: George Gobel at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (YWG/U)

145
In the sidebar, long-time Republican Staten Island politician Guy Molinari has passed away at 89. RIP.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (VM6ev)

146 Scum.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 25, 2018 01:11 PM (NWiLs)

147 144 128
Ever wonder how do you know if your out of invisible ink?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018
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Ever get the feeling the whole world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?
Posted by: George Gobel at July 25, 2018 01:10 PM (YWG/U)

All the time.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 25, 2018 01:11 PM (NWiLs)

148 Scum.

That says it all

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2018 01:11 PM (O2RFr)

149 Ever wonder why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (Bdeb0)

150 >>Somebody took a pick axe to Trump's star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

>>Did you know the star right next to trumps is Kevin Spaceys? It remains "unmolested."

Well.
Priorities, I guess.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (W+vEI)

151 I'm wondering why the libs screaming to remove Trump have never looked past their hood ornaments. Do they think things will be just hunky-dory if they pull it off?

We're already beating them and we're not even mad. Yet.

Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (QMG5F)

152 >>And more so in the commercial real estate business the term cash is used typically as a finance term meaning investment or down payment.

I sold my last property for cash. It meant that I got a check for the full amount, no financing was involved.

Anyone who has sold a property for cash knows that this means.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (/tuJf)

153 I am certain I'd read an ethics opinion that said, "yes, it's legal to record your client. But it's a bad idea and if you do, you'll probably breach some actual ethics rules. "

I'd lay good money Cohen violated a clear NY ethics opinion. Which would mean he'll ought to find himself before the disbarment committee .... soon

Hahahahagahaha! F me, I'm hilarious!!

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (TN1P5)

154 104
Their frustration is palpable.

"WTF!! Sex scandals always worked before!!"

===

For near 30 years, they told us the rule was "Presidents have affairs and it's no big deal. "

Now they're pissed when we say, "you made the rule, fuck off. "

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 01:05 PM (TN1P5)

And PDT didn't have to pay $850k like some former president we all know.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (jxbfJ)

155 In the sidebar, long-time Republican Staten Island politician Guy Molinari has passed away at 89. RIP.

RIP to TV's 'Murray the Cop,' and 'Al' from 'Happy Days.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (oVJmc)

156 Somebody took a pick axe to Trump's star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

Look closely at that pic. See the Kevin Spacey - underaged boy molesting rapist scumbag -- his star is right next to Trump's and is untouched.

priorities

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (39g3+)

157 I can believe both theories from last night. Shit ain't going good for the Derp State so either economic collapse or people disappearing will begin.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2018 01:13 PM (LsUAU)

158 Avenatti makes lawyers look bad

Hold my freaking Manischewitz

Posted by: Lammy Davis at July 25, 2018 01:13 PM (TdS5t)

159 Sergio Marchionne, the executive who built up FIAT and swallowed Chrysler, has died at age 66.

Marchionne was a magician. Fiat was a joke before him, now it's a monster that can push the other big boys around.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 25, 2018 01:13 PM (9qZ3S)

160 1. I think it's been determined that you can't indict a sitting president. Maybe after his stint in office, but not sitting.

2. The means of removing a sitting president is impeachment. Impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. There doesn't have to be a LEGAL reason to remove a president, just a VIABLE reason.

3. If the House flips -- and let's face it, that's a possibility -- the first order of business will be a bill of impeachment. Their constituents would lynch them if they didn't impeach at once.

4. This is what Mueller is up to: setting the table for impeachment. He doesn't have to have a crime, he just has to have an outrage, something to hang a bill of impeachment on. That's his mission now. He is setting the table.

5. Get. Out. And. Vote.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 25, 2018 01:13 PM (RD7QR)

161 121 The Left is NEVER EVER going to beat Trump. He's tough and they're pussies, he's smart and they're stupid, he's ruthless and they're juvenile. They bring a squirt gun to fight a man with a 12 gauge riot gun sitting on a pile of loaded magazines.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 01:07 PM (o2MD2)

From your keyboard to God's eyes.

Posted by: kathysaysso at July 25, 2018 01:13 PM (vkS2Z)

162 The pickaxe to Trump's star illustrates exactly what I stated @ 121. Fucking 9 year olds.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 01:14 PM (o2MD2)

163 Lanny Davis and his stupid "cash" statement.
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There is nothing left but LOL and finger-pointing. Out of curiosity, when I was younger, every man I knew kept $1k in cash in the house (for bail, just in case) and I sat on a jury where they tried to make a criminal drug conspiracy out of someone keeping cash. Anybody else did that?

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 25, 2018 01:14 PM (MIKMs)

164 priorities
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (39g3+)

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Look, Christopher, Trump has most emphatically continued living his life as a straight man.

He isn't absolved of his devilry yet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2018 01:14 PM (UiRxW)

165
I've used this line too many times, but who talks about cash like that besides drug dealers and mobsters?"

Which is the same screwed up attitude the government uses to justify their slush funds created through civil asset forfeiture.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Maid at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (10vO4)

166 I'd lay good money Cohen violated a clear NY ethics opinion. Which would mean he'll ought to find himself before the disbarment committee .... soon

Yeah any minute now.... any minute

Honestly though his career as a lawyer is over. There's no chance he keeps the job even if he's not disbarred. Who would ever trust him now?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (39g3+)

167 The pickaxe to Trump's star illustrates exactly what I stated @ 121. Fucking 9 year olds.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 01:14 PM (o2MD2)

Wish I could've got my kids to swing a pick-axe at nine years old.

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (hNICT)

168 156 Somebody took a pick axe to Trump's star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

Look closely at that pic. See the Kevin Spacey - underaged boy molesting rapist scumbag -- his star is right next to Trump's and is untouched.

priorities
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (39g3+)

Have they caught the guy yet? It might have been Kevin Spacey.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (guOXV)

169

This is from the other thread about quisling Paulie NoNuts Ryan:
544
529

Better Way may have been a thing, but nobody remembers it.

Posted by: blaster at July 25, 2018 11:19 AM (DH5wZ)

Better Way = "Vote Republican. We can run the administrative state better than the Democrats."

Posted by: rickl at July 25, 2018 11:24 AM (xjiRE)

Posted by: kallisto at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (DJFLF)

170 160
1. I think it's been determined that you can't indict a sitting president. Maybe after his stint in office, but not sitting.

2. The means of removing a sitting president is impeachment.
Impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. There doesn't have
to be a LEGAL reason to remove a president, just a VIABLE reason.

3. If the House flips -- and let's face it, that's a possibility --
the first order of business will be a bill of impeachment. Their
constituents would lynch them if they didn't impeach at once.

4. This is what Mueller is up to: setting the table for impeachment.
He doesn't have to have a crime, he just has to have an outrage,
something to hang a bill of impeachment on. That's his mission now. He
is setting the table.

5. Get. Out. And. Vote.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 25, 2018 01:13 PM (RD7QR)

If the house flips -yeah there will be an impeachment. But it still has to go through the Senate for the trial. Only after the Senate convicts will PDT be removed.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (jxbfJ)

171 Off Snoozy sock !!!

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (hNICT)

172 >>>>Their constituents would lynch them if they didn't impeach at once.

so they are dead meat either way. only one won't be figurative.

Posted by: x at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (nFwvY)

173 @Forgot My Nic..how'd you know it was Indiana ?hmmm???

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (bUjCl)

174 Link to Calm Mentor's Go Fund Me:

https://tinyurl.com/y7zac66o

he is close to being homeless, so please help.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (JKNZq)

175 The Left is NEVER EVER going to beat Trump.

Yeah people thought that about Bush too, until the press found that lever that finally worked: blatant, idiotic lies about Katrina.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (39g3+)

176 If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (Bdeb0)

177 If the house flips -yeah there will be an impeachment. But it still has to go through the Senate for the trial. Only after the Senate convicts will PDT be removed.

True, but I don't trust the Senate either

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (O2RFr)

178 How upset would I be if my lawyer released a tape that publicized my banging of a particularly hot Playmate...?

I could live with it. As long as he got my name right.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (NpvYf)

179 149 Ever wonder why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:12 PM (Bdeb0)

Some of us can. I read once that women open their mouths to stretch the skin around their eyes making application of mascara easier. I never found that to be true.

Posted by: kathysaysso at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (vkS2Z)

180 Not one bit worried about Trump being removed from office by Congress.... greatly concerned about political violence from the Democratic Socialists.

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (DpEis)

181 Three NY Jewish Lawyers have lunch and the topic is Trump. Just another day.
Posted by: Jiffy at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (2LelM)

Can jews be lawyers in America? I thought America was too racist.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (9BLnV)

182 175 The Left is NEVER EVER going to beat Trump.

Yeah people thought that about Bush too, until the press found that lever that finally worked: blatant, idiotic lies about Katrina.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (39g3+)

Difference being Bush never fought back.

Posted by: kathysaysso at July 25, 2018 01:17 PM (vkS2Z)

183 155
In the sidebar, long-time Republican Staten Island politician Guy Molinari has passed away at 89. RIP.

RIP to TV's 'Murray the Cop,' and 'Al' from 'Happy Days.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 25, 2018
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*
No, Murray and Al were played by one Al Molinaro. IMDb says he passed away almost 3 years ago, age 96; so, yes, RIP.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (YWG/U)

184 OOPSIE!

MSNBC's Hallie Jackson refers to Michael Cohen as "kikle." An apparent Jewish slur.

Never heard of it. J. J. or CBD around?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (ptqGC)

185 173 @Forgot My Nic..how'd you know it was Indiana ?hmmm???
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (bUjCl)

Because all us Cool Dudes live in Indiana. Duh.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (hNICT)

186 If the House flips -- and let's face it, that's a possibility -- the first order of business will be a bill of impeachment. Their constituents would lynch them if they didn't impeach at once.

4. This is what Mueller is up to: setting the table for impeachment. He doesn't have to have a crime, he just has to have an outrage, something to hang a bill of impeachment on. That's his mission now. He is setting the table.

5. Get. Out. And. Vote.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 25, 2018 01:13 PM (RD7QR)

----------------

I will definitely get out and vote, but am not too worried as they would need 2/3 of the Senate to vote to impeach. If it were just 60 votes, they might be able to grab enough weasels to make this happen. 67, I just don't see it, especially with so many Dem seats being challenged in Trump states.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (b3Pum)

187 So stupid.

Cohen talks about financing the deal. Trump says no financing, cash.

Is any sentient being over 18 really having trouble understanding this?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (/tuJf)

188 This looks like endgame stuff. You know, the muck that comes out, when they've played all their hand, and there's nothing left to hold back, because they have no hope of any sort of even exchange of gunfire on the battlefield.

They're bankrupt. This is their hail Mary. They're out of timeouts, and their top scorers have fouled out of the game.
And with that, I'm out of cliched metaphors.

We're getting the sleazy lawyer recording of Trump saying something marginally sleazy, because it's their final card. Not a trump card, of course, just their last card.

Ok, I guess I wasn't out of metaphors after all.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (9chmE)

189 If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM

It's a trap!

Posted by: Admiral Ackballs at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (ctuyM)

190 all this is pre-midterms noise to damage Trump. there is going to be more. gird your loins !

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (bUjCl)

191 Forgot the link at #184:

https://tinyurl.com/y94myj7l

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (ptqGC)

192 175 The Left is NEVER EVER going to beat Trump.

Yeah people thought that about Bush too, until the press found that lever that finally worked: blatant, idiotic lies about Katrina.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (39g3+)

Right Chris, and trump will roll over like a whipped dog just like Bush, right?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 01:18 PM (o2MD2)

193 Only after the Senate convicts will PDT be removed.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (jxbfJ)

Oh no! Then we're stuck with President Pence...oh, wait, nevermind.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at July 25, 2018 01:19 PM (guOXV)

194 If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from
vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:19 PM (Bdeb0)

195 @Forgot My Nic..how'd you know it was Indiana ?hmmm???

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM

You can run anyones IP address and get a rough location. Back in my blogging days it was helpful to determine if the muslin I had offended was in my 'hood or across the ocean.

https://www.iplocation.net/

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 01:19 PM (LOgQ4)

196 Whut! I sees you has cash in the amount of $124.32 in your bill fold.

Only a drug dealer would carry dat much cash!

We has to confistacate it immediatily and we're gonna, whuts da woid, sasquatch all your bank accounts until we's done wid da investation.

Posted by: NYPD and FBI at July 25, 2018 01:19 PM (37IEG)

197 184. Yup. It's an oldie - the full version that is commonly shortened.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at July 25, 2018 01:19 PM (fA1SL)

198 Ever wonder if you ate an egg from a chicken you ate?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (Bdeb0)

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We like kid goats, braised in their mothers' milk...
Posted by: Ancient Heathens at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (UiRxW)

========

Time to rehash the "a chicken doesn't give milk" debate.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (/qEW2)

199 If the house flips -yeah there will be an impeachment. But it still has to go through the Senate for the trial. Only after the Senate convicts will PDT be removed.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (jxbfJ)

They'll be happy just to hang an impeachment on him. Just like Clinton.

Posted by: Steve Jobs at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (y8Foj)

200 48 Maxine Waters says God sent her to destroy Trump. I lol'ed. I don't think God needs any help. Maxine, on the other hand..........
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 25, 2018 12:54 PM (o2MD2)

...

You know, if we ever have to choose the form of the destroyer, Maxine Waters would not be the worst choice.

Posted by: Texas Dan at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (yL25O)

201 Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 01:19 PM (LOgQ4)

...iiiinteresting....

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (bUjCl)

202 If you take an Asian person and spin him around several times does he become disoriented?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (Bdeb0)

203 *yawn*

Posted by: wth at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (HgMAr)

204 Lanny Davis is the ooze that comes out of Gloria Alred when she's eaten too much salmonella.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2018 01:21 PM (9chmE)

205 So according to Lanny, Cohen is now "singing" to Mueller? About what? Playboy bunny payoffs? What the fuck does any of this have to do with Russia? Shut the fucking thing down!

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2018 01:21 PM (O2RFr)

206
Yeah people thought that about Bush too, until the press found that lever that finally worked: blatant, idiotic lies about Katrina
===
Against a president who never had an unkind word for anyone on the left?

Yeah, Trump don't play that stupid shit game

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 01:21 PM (TN1P5)

207 I see a RedTide (not a blue wave) ... but if they did impeach, the Senate would need 67 (i think) ... probably not possible except GOPe are also desperate scum.

If it gets even close to that, Trump might as well declassify everything that reveals what scum the DeepState mobsters really are. Burn the real witches.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2018 01:21 PM (bT8Z4)

208 Only after the Senate convicts will PDT be removed.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (jxbfJ)

McCain will recover in time to vote. Grahamnesty will. I think Collins will. There are others.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 25, 2018 01:21 PM (hNICT)

209 Fighting back only takes you so far. If the press finds something that resonates with the public, fighting back won't make much if any difference. Its just a matter of pushing and pushing and pushing until it works. If there's enough time, it usually works, eventually.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:21 PM (39g3+)

210 >>So according to Lanny, Cohen is now "singing" to Mueller? About what?

Nothing. Mueller hasn't been involved in this case for months.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2018 01:22 PM (/tuJf)

211 Lanny Davis' parents watched the movie, Eraserhead, and cried "Why couldn't we have had that baby instead?"

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2018 01:23 PM (9chmE)

212 198 Ever wonder if you ate an egg from a chicken you ate?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:02 PM (Bdeb0)

...

I work with a guy IRL who will not eat egg on a chicken sandwich (Chickfila has a breakfast sandwhich like this) because he thinks it's somehow gross and immoral. Not joking.

Posted by: Texas Dan at July 25, 2018 01:23 PM (yL25O)

213 oh, never mind, the long one is easy to locate; i thought you could unscramble the hash

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:23 PM (bUjCl)

214 33 The MSM has beaten the Trump hatred drum so long and so hard that nobody gives a fuck anymore. 2 years and they don't have jack shit. Nobody is listening.

Posted by: Xipe Totec
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Exactly! That's the very same thought I had when I seen it mentioned the other day. Meh, couldn't give a fuck less - know how's that GDP coming along Mr. President...

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 25, 2018 01:23 PM (ZgjWN)

215 199
If the house flips -yeah there will be an impeachment. But it still has
to go through the Senate for the trial. Only after the Senate convicts
will PDT be removed.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (jxbfJ)

They'll be happy just to hang an impeachment on him. Just like Clinton.

Posted by: Steve Jobs at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (y8Foj)

Then they are playing checkers, not chess. Because if the Senate doesn't convict guess what? They still have to say "President Trump". Not "Former President Trump" or "President Pence" (yet).

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (jxbfJ)

216 Even if the Dems take the House, I don't see an impeachment vote beyond a few ridiculous half-hearted attempts for show.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (39g3+)

217 If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (Bdeb0)

218 mueller's nat sec investigation sure seems to be spending a lot of time cooking up novel legal criminal theories:

conspiracy to commit privacy (lol)
logan act for incoming admins
conspiracy to uhhhh defraud the government

who is controlling this lunatic?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (GV6hq)

219 Isn't all of this about the upcoming election??? Won't tactics change some after the election??

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (DpEis)

220
Who has higher morals, President Trump or obama?

Posted by: Soothi at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (PeVdw)

221 work with a guy IRL who will not eat egg on a chicken sandwich (Chickfila has a breakfast sandwhich like this) because he thinks it's somehow gross and immoral. Not joking.
Posted by: Texas Dan at July 25, 2018 01:23 PM (yL25O)
Kind of like banging the cheerleader AND her hot MILF at the same time?

Posted by: JoeF. at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (y8Foj)

222 Now is the time for someone to dig up dirt on sessions. Surely, there must be a woman/man/animal somewhere in AL that can claim harassment and get Mr. Ethical to resign. Once he does that, PDT can use the Vacancies Act to move in someone to clean house (Mick Mulvaney is about ready to leave CFPB) and take over rosenchud's job as AG and mueller's boss.

Posted by: Ever at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (OLS0m)

223 because he thinks it's somehow gross and immoral.

Isn't there a Jewish thing with meat and milk? Maybe it's related.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (nIvDu)

224 "If the press finds something that resonates with the public, fighting back won't make much if any difference."

The press is resonating with an audience that already agrees with it. The Yeast and Left coasts and that rat infested shit hole on Lake Michigan.

They're going to have to come up with something pretty special to get the deplorables to let go of Trump.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (37IEG)

225 200You know, if we ever have to choose the form of the destroyer, Maxine Waters would not be the worst choice.

Posted by: Texas Dan at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (yL25O)

What do you have against me, anyways?

Posted by: Stay Puft Marshmallow Man at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (jxbfJ)

226 Spin Cycle has a "fun" Lanny Davis story.

Davis always called John Solomon at the AP in midmorning to check on the Senate hearing story and see if there was anything he should respond to... Now Solomon told him about the memo to Gore.

"How much time do I have?" Davis asked.

"Twenty minutes," Solomon said.

Davis bolted out of the veep's second-floor office, down the stairs, through a connecting corridor to the Hart building, and up another flight to Margasak's side. He emerged into the tan-carpeted hallway only after Margasak had finished typing his documents.

Lanny Davis ducked into a broom closet of a room in the Hart Building, a few steps to the left of the cavernous Thompson hearing room, where AP reporter Larry Margasak was banging away at a black laptop on a battered folding table.

"These were simply statements of federal law and not of DNC policy," Davis recited as Margasak typed. He peered over the reporter's shoulder.

"You want to say, based upon the understanding?" Davis asked.

"That's fine," Margasak said impatiently. "C'mon, Lanny."

Davis pointed to the screen and continued: "If you insert 'this is based upon' after the words 'soft money'..." He was injecting his verbiage directly into the wire story, the one that would set the tone for much of the day's coverage. A second AP reporter, James Rowley, looked on incredulously as his colleague took dictation from the White House spinmeister trying to save Al Gore's butt.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (2lndx)

227 Maxine Waters says God sent her to destroy Trump.
=======

That piece of rancid shit dirties His name when she speaks it.

She needs to go straight to hell.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (vg8iE)

228 "Congratulations to Robert Mueller's team for undermining attorney-client privilege, part of the foundation of our entire legal system!

/sarc
Posted by: pookysgirl at July 25, 2018 01:06 PM (XKZwp)"

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Who in their right mind would again trust a lawyer? It seems there is more honor among thieves.

Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (Mymqt)

229 This episode is destroying attorney/client privilege. There is a public interest in having open communication between client and attorney so that a vigorous defense can be provided. The point here is to keep innocent people out of jail. As a matter of policy, we want to minimize the number of innocent people rotting away in jail. Thus, attorney/client privilege. What this whole episode is doing is making it less likely that people will communicate openly with their attorneys.

Posted by: gm at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (r4E+a)

230 "One area where I'm actually worried Trump might (might) have done wrong concerns the threats some people claim they got about laying off "Mr. Trump." That could have been Cohen behind that -- and Cohen will say it was Trump ordering him to do that, even if Trump actually only said "make it go away" or something like that."

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right? so mueller has also constructed a new area of criminal law...

illegal contacting of lawyers

illegal contacting of witnesses.

just bizarre. What's this got to do with drunk hillary's campaign strategy of accusing a wealthy playboy of being putin's ...er...lover?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (GV6hq)

231 This seems kind of big.

No Detectable Lead Poisoning in Flint After All

http://tinyurl.com/y7ubn9el

Its pretty technical but basically the increase in lead was incredibly microscopic, not enough to have any negative effect, and barely measurable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (39g3+)

232 Finally found an IP address on my VPN that ace hasnt banned lol

Posted by: gm at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (r4E+a)

233 I'm actually fairly happy with the way that this is all playing out. In a less enlightened era, cadaver dogs would be out scouring the woods. There will have to be some harsh retribution, at some point, in order to send a message to lawyers of the future that this kind of thing has consequences. But the Donald has been pretty mellow so far. Hail to the chief.

Posted by: goon at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (PEcU2)

234 59 Cohen is a particularly stupid and unethical lawyer (who secretly tapes his own clients!), so I think it is almost a certainty that Cohen actually ordered those hamfisted threats to silence witnesses.

That's the next shoe to drop: Mueller probably has proof Cohen actually threatened witnesses. That is real jail time in pound-me-in-the-ass prison, and would certainly scare Cohen enough to make him do crazy stuff like leak this tape even though it will get him disbarred and he will never work again.
Posted by: wooga

He claimed he would take a bullet for Trump. He has no honor.

As it is, he's going to have his ass sued off by all three of his clients, and the lawyer's association is going to have to pony up to cover any shortfall. That's how it's done in Canada. I remember a case here when a lawyer used and lost some client trust money and each lawyer's annual dues went up to cover the costs that the Law society had to pay.

I wish Cohen had some actual mob clients.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (kfcYC)

235 Even if they had Trump on video slapping his balls onto some playboy bimbo's chin, who would care?

Posted by: Fritz at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (wjHbC)

236 199 If the house flips -yeah there will be an impeachment. But it still has to go through the Senate for the trial. Only after the Senate convicts will PDT be removed.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (jxbfJ)

They'll be happy just to hang an impeachment on him. Just like Clinton.
Posted by: Steve Jobs at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (y8Foj)

Yes. There's a strong stench of Clintonite revenge on this thing.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (RD7QR)

237 If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?

=

..you enter the twilight zone ?

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (bUjCl)

238 Yeah people thought that about Bush too, until the press found that lever that finally worked: blatant, idiotic lies about Katrina.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (39g3+)

Bush never fought back.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (kqsXK)

239 If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?
You go backwards.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (Evws/)

240 >>Maxine Waters says God sent her to destroy Trump.

Isn't it odd how Biblical the Left is getting?

Cory Booker just attempted to Psalms to equate fighting the Kavanaugh SCOTUS appointment as a moral duty to fight evil.

This...is not a good look for them. Really. LOL

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (W+vEI)

241 getting a lawyer to flip on a client, for what?

again, mueller's legal theory is that contact with an attorney is wrong?

honestly...to be realz here. I would HOPE that trump has some genuine skeletons in his closet. Who cares?

This is why I've always suggested special counsel 2.0 to go do the same to the clintons.

"oh you want to see that Trump paid some goombas off in 1992, well let's just see who on the Clinton dead witness list left notes"

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (GV6hq)

242 illegal contacting of witnesses.

Judge revoked Manfort's bail for that. The prosecution claimed he was trying to pressure/buy them into changing their story.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (39g3+)

243 Why don't you ever see the headline Psychic Wins Lottery?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (Bdeb0)

244
Who in their right mind would again trust a lawyer? It seems there is more honor among thieves.
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (Mymqt)

At least thieves are up front about what they're after--valuable stuff. They don't hide behind weasel words like integrity or "honor" while they rip you to shreds.

Posted by: JoeF. at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (y8Foj)

245 >>>239 If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?
You go backwards.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (Evws/)>>>

Actually, I think you'd just slow down.

Posted by: gm at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (r4E+a)

246

EM HUARACHE FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at July 25, 2018 01:28 PM (mPeei)

247 You know, if we ever have to choose the form of the destroyer, Maxine Waters would not be the worst choice.
Posted by: Texas Dan at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM

Not Ace's first choice, this week.

Posted by: J. Random Commentater at July 25, 2018 01:28 PM (ctuyM)

248 There's a version of the Aristocrats joke, that is so vile, when Gilbert Gottfried and Bob Saget heard it, they couldn't stop vomiting. It goes like this:

A guy walks into the talent agent's office, and says "have I got an act for you."

He proceeds to act like Lanny Davis.

And when he finishes, he says "The Aristocrats!!"

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2018 01:28 PM (9chmE)

249 "Who in their right mind would again trust a lawyer? It seems there is more honor among thieves."

--

it seems lawyers would be upset about losing client trust over this witchhunt.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:28 PM (GV6hq)

250 @219

Nobody is controlling this piece of shit.

He is unbound from oversight and unmoared from morals and decency.

The GOP controlled Senate could call him before the judicuary committee, and his supposed boss Rosenstein, to give an update on the investigation and demand that he put up or shut this witch hunt down but they are as traitorous as the Obama Administration.

The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 25, 2018 01:28 PM (2JcMg)

251 Why don't you ever see the headline Psychic Wins Lottery?

==

they don't advertise

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:28 PM (bUjCl)

252 Why don't you ever see the headline Psychic Wins Lottery?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (Bdeb0)

Or guy that invented Penis Enlargement Scams grows his penis!

Posted by: JoeF. at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (y8Foj)

253 245 >>>239 If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?
You go backwards.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (Evws/)>>>

Actually, I think you'd just slow down.
Posted by: gm at July 25, 2018 01:27 PM (r4E+a)

If it's a Tesla, it would need a charging .....

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (DpEis)

254 work with a guy IRL who will not eat egg on a chicken sandwich (Chickfila has a breakfast sandwhich like this) because he thinks it's somehow gross and immoral. Not joking.
Posted by: Texas Dan

Kind of like banging the cheerleader AND her hot MILF at the same time?
Posted by: JoeF

That's wrong?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (7/YOc)

255 Actually, I think you'd just slow down.
Not with high-beams!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (Evws/)

256 Huh. Looks like ISIS didn't get the memo that the Toronto shooter was absolutely, positively, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die, no-fingers-crossed NOT A TERRORIST!

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/Di8UGH2X4AACCxT?format=jpg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (+y/Ru)

257 Maxine's Hair has gone Native

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (bUjCl)

258 again, mueller's legal theory is that contact with an attorney is wrong?

Only guilty people need an attorney.

Posted by: FBI, LAPD, NYPD, etc at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (NWiLs)

259 I wish Cohen had some actual mob clients.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (kfcYC)

You can bet your ass if he does Cohen has more to worry about now than Shitheal Mueller.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (37IEG)

260 242 illegal contacting of witnesses.

Judge revoked Manfort's bail for that. The prosecution claimed he was trying to pressure/buy them into changing their story.

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so what? You're allowed to contact witnesses. Confront them even. As guili said, you do this for trying to kill witnesse (cough cough clintons).

Anyway...speaking of intimidating witnesses, I guess SWAT raids on potential witnesses and squeezing them is in no way intimidating.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (GV6hq)

261 Maxine Waters says God sent her to destroy Trump.

I'm curious if there is any level of crazy that will turn off her voters. Is there any statement too far for them to tolerate, or does this just make them like her more?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (39g3+)

262 238
Yeah people thought that about Bush too, until the press found that
lever that finally worked: blatant, idiotic lies about Katrina.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:16 PM (39g3+)

Bush never fought back.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (kqsXK)

Not even when he had Mayor Nagan by the short hairs about the city evacuation and all the buses. The media with their hysteria about cannibalism occurring in the stadium, etc.
With that said, Bush's legacy is a case study on why you can't take the high road with these cretins. If they want a fight - give it to them. Don't let it be a race to the bottom. Get to the bottom immediately and give it to them good and hard.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (jxbfJ)

263 Yeah, Trump don't play that stupid shit game
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 01:21 PM (TN1P5)

Exactly where I keep coming back to. Not only does he not play that game, he just does not lose.

I think much like the left believing their own polls in 2016, many believe that the President is a dunce and attack him as if he was one. That would be a grave error on their part. Read somewhere, maybe a summary of one of his books, that he always has at least two ways of winning in any negotiation. If the primary one goes south he has a fallback that is at worst a draw.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (kUmUV)

264 Never a bad time for Stephen Wright lines.

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (g0Lfb)

265 Manafort seems to fit the description of political prisoner.

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (DpEis)

266 Does Cohen actually plan to have a legal career after this? Just who would confide in him after he recorded his client's conversations and then turned on them?

If he really was a New York "fixer", then somebody is going to wait a few years for the furor to die down and then Cohen is going catch a sudden case of dead.

Posted by: West at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (7Fa8Y)

267 If I may, Horde, I will do this just once per thread.
For those who may have missed this on the GP Prayer list, this is me:

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Anything anyone can do would be greatly appreciated, and if you could share and spread this, even better. I am about 3 weeks from homelessness, and living in the car is not an option as I don't own one. Thank you for listening. My email is in my nic.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (b3Pum)

268 the idea of contacting witnesses=bad conflicts with the right to a fair trial, confront witnesses, and legal counsel.

at the end of the day, you just have to accept that defendants get the right to contact witnesses.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (GV6hq)

269 I'm curious if there is any level of crazy that will turn off her voters.
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There is.

She could say she supports the Trump agenda.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at July 25, 2018 01:30 PM (vg8iE)

270 Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (Bdeb0)

271 Maxine's Hair has gone Native

"Feral." The word is "feral."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (Boy/L)

272 The primary purpose of lawyers is to protect one's self from other lawyers.

Posted by: Roland THTG at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (xBSm0)

273 Lanny Davis is such a lying little sucker of cock. He makes ambulance chaser scum on TV look legit...

Posted by: Timon at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (7Rpy3)

274 Manafort seems to fit the description of political prisoner.

Seems to be like Dinesh Desousa(sp.)

Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (O2RFr)

275 oh, never mind, the long one is easy to locate; i thought you could unscramble the hash

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:23 PM

Nope. I can only hope that Pixy takes the IP number and multiplies it by some mystical number, then subtracts some number, to generate it. It does change with any change of IP address.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (LOgQ4)

276 Fighting back only takes you so far. If the press finds something that resonates with the public, fighting back won't make much if any difference. Its just a matter of pushing and pushing and pushing until it works. If there's enough time, it usually works, eventually.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:21 PM (39g3+)

True, but your predicating that the press carries the same weight that they did during Katrina.

The MFM is a national joke. Anyone, anywhere can say "fake news" and receive either a knowing nod or a screaming, spittle-flecked diatribe about Fox. Trump has completely revealed the press to be a bunch of ignorant, Democrat-felching propagandists. Hell, the whole "Russian hacking" thing is such a joke, I saw it used as a punchline in a Mother Goose and Grimm cartoon the other week.

I don't think the press is going to win this one. Not with Trump's base. With the NeverTrumpers and the water-balled RINOs, however, I'm not so sure.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (kqsXK)

277 255
Actually, I think you'd just slow down.
Not with high-beams!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (Evws/)
You should never drive through fog at the speed of light with your high-beams on!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:32 PM (37IEG)

278 Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'?
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I mean, I can see their reasoning....

Posted by: Shep! at July 25, 2018 01:32 PM (vg8iE)

279 Maxine Waters says God sent her to destroy Trump.

And you spent the first eighty-five years of this mission doing...what, exactly?

Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2018 01:32 PM (NpvYf)

280 If this is all they got then Trump is in fine shape. One thing that is predictable with CNN/#nevertrump/etc. is that they come out with their hardest punch right away - they never hold anything back. This will all fizzle just like every other BS attack. Seems very similar to the Stormy Daniels nonsense.

Posted by: Tommy at July 25, 2018 01:32 PM (yEAdf)

281 Keep in mind, the left's grand unification theory is that the Russians paid off Trump's bankruptcies by using shell companies and strawmen to overpay for his propeties.

"No way could he become a billionaire after 4 bankruptcies."

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at July 25, 2018 01:32 PM (TN1P5)

282 217 If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:24 PM (Bdeb0) [*I]

Nothing "happens". Unless you are using the high-beams. Then some drunk will cross into your lane and cause the universe to end!

Posted by: goon at July 25, 2018 01:33 PM (PEcU2)

283 Why isn't Manafort out on recognizance, or ankle bracelet ??

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:33 PM (DpEis)

284 >>>You can bet your ass if he does Cohen has more to worry about now than Shitheal Mueller.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:29 PM (37IEG)>>>

If Trump was actually in cahoots with Putin, the polonium would be coming out.

Posted by: gm at July 25, 2018 01:33 PM (r4E+a)

285 Looks like Cannibal Bob has some competition.

Chelsea Handler
@chelseahandler
Let's help this woman out for speaking up against children. Trump administration is saying 400 + kids aren't edible for reunification with their parents.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 25, 2018 01:33 PM (+y/Ru)

286 Why is it that doctors call what they do practice?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:33 PM (Bdeb0)

287 217
If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018
*
*
Either a black hole appears in the Solar System, or Democrats everywhere begin to honestly praise Trump and wish aloud they had voted for him.

I suspect the black hole is more likely.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 25, 2018 01:34 PM (YWG/U)

288 I can only hope that Pixy takes the IP number and multiplies it by some mystical number, then subtracts some number, to generate it. It does change with any change of IP address.

It's almost certainly a one-way hash, such that even if you know how its done you can't reverse the process to get the IP address back. (Because IP addresses are in a known format with limited characters, brute force would probably work, and for that knowing the process would help.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 25, 2018 01:34 PM (2lndx)

289 Nope. I can only hope that Pixy takes the IP number and multiplies it by some mystical number, then subtracts some number, to generate it. It does change with any change of IP address.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (LOgQ4)

magic

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:34 PM (bUjCl)

290 >>283
Why isn't Manafort out on recognizance, or ankle bracelet ??

Posted by: kraken

Perhaps the Keebler Oaf is a worthless piece of shit?

Posted by: Under Fire at July 25, 2018 01:34 PM (r9UYA)

291 Will Mueller also start prosecuting blackmail victims for paying blackmail to their blackmailers?

Well, paying blackmailers just enables them. Which makes the victim an accessory.

Posted by: rickl at July 25, 2018 01:34 PM (xjiRE)

292 I wish Cohen had some actual mob clients.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at July 25, 2018 01:26 PM (kfcYC)

Does Robert Mueller count? He was pretty tight with Whitey Bulger.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at July 25, 2018 01:34 PM (9BLnV)

293 Why is it that doctors call what they do practice?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:33 PM (Bdeb0)

they think they are perfect

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:34 PM (bUjCl)

294 If you take an Asian person and spin him around several times does he become disoriented?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (Bdeb0)

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Hah! Does that actually work? Maybe I'll give it a try.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 25, 2018 01:35 PM (/qEW2)

295 Anyway...speaking of intimidating witnesses, I guess SWAT raids on potential witnesses and squeezing them is in no way intimidating.

"Its okay if we do it"
--Prosecutors

Honestly I think Manafort is a bad sort, I have no dog in this hunt. I figure he's a corrupt thug type and don't care what happens to him. But the ethics violations and the sketchy prosecutorial behavior here is truly astounding.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:35 PM (39g3+)

296 Keep in mind, the left's grand unification theory is that the Russians paid off Trump's bankruptcies by using shell companies and strawmen to overpay for his propeties.

"No way could he become a billionaire after 4 bankruptcies."

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yeah, I've read that fan fiction.

or...it could be that trump, through moxie and 4th dimensional chess won the election and is now solidly pro-american nationalist who is confronting russia on the international stage...which the fake news ignores.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:35 PM (GV6hq)

297 If I have this correctly, an investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has now picked off alleged crimes from Paul Manafort from over a decade ago that requires the immunized testimony of the brother of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, a bunch of Russian firms that cannot be tried, a couple of Russian intelligence officers that the Deputy Attorney General says didn't involve contact with Americans, and a fixer lawyer who has tapes of Donald Trump saying to fix things with a bimbo.

No, I am not crazy.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 25, 2018 01:35 PM (Boy/L)

298 200You know, if we ever have to choose the form of the destroyer, Maxine Waters would not be the worst choice.

Posted by: Texas Dan at July 25, 2018 01:20 PM (yL25O)

So that's what happened to the Democrats!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Your Source for Genuine Heyhowarya Blankets! at July 25, 2018 01:35 PM (hLRSq)

299 Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:36 PM (Bdeb0)

300 Let's help this woman out for speaking up against
children. Trump administration is saying 400 + kids aren't edible for
reunification with their parents.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 25, 2018 01:33 PM (+y/Ru)
We're only returning the edible ones? That's stupid. We should obviously keep the edible ones and send back the inedible ones. Then we can use the edible ones to distribute to EBT recipients.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:36 PM (37IEG)

301 I care about Manafort because of what is being done to Manafort.

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:36 PM (DpEis)

302 295 Anyway...speaking of intimidating witnesses, I guess SWAT raids on potential witnesses and squeezing them is in no way intimidating.

"Its okay if we do it"
--Prosecutors

Honestly I think Manafort is a bad sort, I have no dog in this hunt. I figure he's a corrupt thug type and don't care what happens to him. But the ethics violations and the sketchy prosecutorial behavior here is truly astounding.

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right, I read draw and strikes version. Manafort was only on the campaign for 40 days, right?

his problem is that he's a lifelong rule bender, maybe even sleazeball...and so based on that...mueller's picking low lying fruit...even if the fruit is worthless to russia, if there were even any there there.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:36 PM (GV6hq)

303 Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:36 PM (Bdeb0)

yeah, that one is just you, dude

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:36 PM (bUjCl)

304 "No way could he become a billionaire after 4 bankruptcies."

Or running businesses in the private sector. How the hell does that work?

Posted by: The Esquires Clinton at July 25, 2018 01:37 PM (NpvYf)

305 Honestly though his career as a lawyer is over. There's no chance he keeps the job even if he's not disbarred. Who would ever trust him now?

Posted by:�Christopher R Taylor�at July 25, 2018 01:15 PM (39g3+)

At some point as a lawyer, I'd be very careful about making enemies out of multimillionaires like Hannity, never mind rhe billionaire President. Someone is going to go after his head, and unless he perjures himself not even liberals will rise to his defense.

Stormy is watching her marriage be ruined, her daughter barred from talking to her, and her huaband about to milk her cash pumped silicone udders before getting a younger woman. And she is still going to have it better than Cohen.

Posted by: trev006 at July 25, 2018 01:37 PM (S6rSu)

306 and, as draw&strike posits...maybe trump wants mueller to fuck over manafort.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at July 25, 2018 01:37 PM (GV6hq)

307 >>>Well, paying blackmailers just enables them. Which makes the victim an accessory.
Posted by: rickl at July 25, 2018 01:34 PM (xjiRE)>>>

But this isn't really blackmail. There was no threat to release if he didn't pay. She'd already sold it and he was looking to buy the rights. I have no idea how this could be considered questionable, even to a lunatic Democrat (redundant, I know).

Posted by: gm at July 25, 2018 01:37 PM (r4E+a)

308 Huh. Looks like ISIS didn't get the memo that the Toronto shooter was absolutely, positively, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die, no-fingers-crossed NOT A TERRORIST!

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/Di8UGH2X4AACCxT?format=jpg

-
Better link: https://bit.ly/2v0npXu

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 25, 2018 01:37 PM (+y/Ru)

309 Where's the crime?
Posted by: Octopussy at July 25, 2018 12:45 PM (UF4j7)

Fraud. By Cohen?

Posted by: Golfman at July 25, 2018 01:37 PM (Xm20F)

310 Trump administration is saying 400 + kids aren't edible for reunification with their parents.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

There's a sad story in there somewhere about poor Carlos, deprived of being reunited with his dozen 12 year old daughters on their way to the USA. I weep for this country.

Posted by: Latest Lefty Talking Point at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (LOgQ4)

311 Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (Bdeb0)

312 So the sleazy lawyer who violated attorney - client privilege to reveal information that is already baked in the Trump supporters cake is going to bring Trump down?

Posted by: SH at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (sX1BW)

313 299 Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:36 PM (Bdeb0) [*/I]

Because it's hard to roll and look and listen all at the same time.

Posted by: goon at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (PEcU2)

314 "Its okay if we do it"
--Prosecutors

I actually just heard that for the first time yesterday. The old "anything you say can and will be used against you..." only works one way. If you say something to the police that helps you it will not be admitted to the record because it is hearsay.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (kUmUV)

315 Lanny Davis is a sleazy Clinton fixer. This guy is as low as they go. Fuck him and all this dumb bullshit.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at July 25, 2018 01:39 PM (2sCft)

316 Anything lannydavis is involved is slimy and probably smells like ass. Maybe cohen better insist on double-bagging both ends.

Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2018 01:39 PM (zLDYs)

317 270�Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (Bdeb0)

Speakinf of pumping. I've always said conversations should be kept to a minimum until mid afternoon.

Posted by: trev006 at July 25, 2018 01:39 PM (S6rSu)

318 This whole Get Trump!! thing is getting to look like a Roadrunner/Coyote cartoon more and more: the more grandiose the plan, the more spectacular the backfire. They're currently donning the AMCE 1000 jet pack, with a 100 lb. anvil in tow.
*tweet*tweet*.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 25, 2018 01:39 PM (ty7RM)

319 You can trust us, Cohen, because you're the only dirty lawyer on the planet!

Posted by: Bob Mueller at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (NpvYf)

320 Mentor I don't have any money or I'd try to help out. I can only pray and hope.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (39g3+)

321 Who was the Jewish apparatchik that Hillary screamed about in one of her unhinged tirades???

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (DpEis)

322 311
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (Bdeb0)

Which brings up a valid question - who taste tests the cat food?
What does mouse taste like? (let me guess, chicken).I tried the dog biscuits one time to see why they were so batshit crazy to get them from me. Totally uninspiring.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (37IEG)

323 Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (Bdeb0)

there is chicken flavored cat food...

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (bUjCl)

324 Honestly I think Manafort is a bad sort, I have no
dog in this hunt. I figure he's a corrupt thug type and don't care what
happens to him. But the ethics violations and the sketchy
prosecutorial behavior here is truly astounding. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:35 PM (39g3+)
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Read up on the John Doe investigations in WI when prosecutors were going after Scott Walker.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (MIKMs)

325 TRUMP 2020: Banging Bimbos and Taking Names

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (+y/Ru)

326 At some point as a lawyer, I'd be very careful about making enemies out of multimillionaires like Hannity, never mind rhe billionaire President. Someone is going to go after his head, and unless he perjures himself not even liberals will rise to his defense.

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Let me get this straight, you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person?

- The Dark Knight

Posted by: josephistan at July 25, 2018 01:41 PM (7HtZB)

327 323 Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (Bdeb0)

there is chicken flavored cat food...
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (bUjCl)

There is beef flavored cat food, but cats don't normally eat cows in the wild.

Posted by: rickl at July 25, 2018 01:42 PM (xjiRE)

328 Big cats eat cows.

Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:42 PM (DpEis)

329 322 311
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (Bdeb0)

Which brings up a valid question - who taste tests the cat food?
What does mouse taste like? (let me guess, chicken).I tried the dog biscuits one time to see why they were so batshit crazy to get them from me. Totally uninspiring.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (37IEG)

That thought crossed my mind the other day feeding my cat. I looked at several open cans of food, and it all looked the same. But they know I'll never taste test it to see if it is. They hold all the cards.

Posted by: josephistan at July 25, 2018 01:43 PM (7HtZB)

330 because he thinks it's somehow gross and immoral.

Isn't there a Jewish thing with meat and milk? Maybe it's related.
Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2018 01:25 PM (nIvDu)

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I doubt it's related, except in the initial visceral impulse that led some religious leader to codify it. This guy probably couldn't justify why he feels this way, if he were willing to eat each separately.

The Jewish view is based on passages like Ex 23:19: You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

Later Jewish theologians extrapolated this principle to forbid any mixing of flesh with dairy, based on the principle of "building a hedge" around this verse.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 25, 2018 01:43 PM (/qEW2)

331 My cat would probably think that a mouse was some kind of laser-pointer trick, and ignore it.

Posted by: goon at July 25, 2018 01:43 PM (PEcU2)

332 Nood

Posted by: josephistan at July 25, 2018 01:43 PM (7HtZB)

333 Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll
squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:31 PM (Bdeb0)

That one bothers me less than the first guy who ate a squid or an octopus.

I suspect the conversation went like this -

Holds up squid.

"What the zug-zug is THAT?"
"I don't know, but it's all I caught today, so we're going to eat it".
"Hmm, I think maybe it would work with a fennel pasta and some lemon and herbs."

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:44 PM (37IEG)

334 Mentor I don't have any money or I'd try to help out. I can only pray and hope.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2018 01:40 PM (39g3+)

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That I will glqdly take, with many thanks!

Be well.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at July 25, 2018 01:44 PM (b3Pum)

335 Big cats eat cows.

=

that is correct; also buffalo

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:45 PM (bUjCl)

336 Big cats eat cows.
=====

Cat loooooves beef and the canned food variety pack only has a percentage of beef, most is turkey, chicken, tuna. Can't even eat a hamburger around him without serious attempts at beef theft/rustling.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 25, 2018 01:46 PM (MIKMs)

337 335
Big cats eat cows.

=

that is correct; also buffalo

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:45 PM (bUjCl)

You mean Bison of course, because you know we aren't calling them buffalo any more. I'll be glad when I die and I don't have to relearn names for things.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:46 PM (37IEG)

338 Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Posted by: wrg500 at July 25, 2018 01:38 PM (Bdeb0)

I think cats just enjoy hunting them, only eating them as a last resort (as when they guarded Egyptian granaries). If given a choice between that and a nice slice of steak or sushi, they'd take the latter.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 25, 2018 01:46 PM (/qEW2)

339 You mean Bison of course, because you know we aren't calling them buffalo any more. I'll be glad when I die and I don't have to relearn names for things.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at July 25, 2018 01:46 PM (37IEG)

African Buffalo. HA !

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2018 01:47 PM (bUjCl)

340 I'm just glad that Trump is not:
1) raping women
2) hanging around gay bathhouses in Chicago.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at July 25, 2018 01:48 PM (YIO84)

341 There are alot of good replies to this MFM b.s. tweet here about asshole's interest in ISIS. BTW, the shooter's brother is a pusher.

https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/
1022156384027193344

Brother info...
https://twitter.com/manny_ottawa/status/
1022095720180940800

Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2018 01:49 PM (Evws/)

342 170 160

If the house flips -yeah there will be an impeachment. But it still has to go through the Senate for the trial. Only after the Senate convicts will PDT be removed.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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Doesn't the house have to gain 2/3 approval for impeachment articles to go to the Senate who then has to gain 2/3 approval to actually impeach PDJFT?

It just isn't going to happen...

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 25, 2018 01:50 PM (ZgjWN)

343 Why isn't Manafort out on recognizance, or ankle bracelet ??
Posted by: kraken at July 25, 2018 01:33 PM (DpEis)

He is in the clink because of one of those 'new legal theories' Mueller's team is fond of. Namely, if we don't deliver a list of witnesses to the defense then anyone the defendant talks to is witness tampering. And that Obama appointee hack Amy Berman Jackson was fine with it.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert at July 25, 2018 01:51 PM (O9qtX)

344 185 173 @Forgot My Nic..how'd you know it was Indiana ?hmmm???
Posted by: runner

Because all us Cool Dudes live in Indiana. Duh.

Posted by: ScoggDog
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Yes, yes we do!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 25, 2018 01:52 PM (ZgjWN)

345 Maxine Waters says God sent her to destroy Trump.

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If Maxine Waters is an agent of the Lord, then I've been terribly misled, and I'm joining Team Satan.

Luckily, I'm morally certain this is not the case.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2018 01:52 PM (UiRxW)

346 I think cats just enjoy hunting them, only eating them as a last resort (as when they guarded Egyptian granaries). If given a choice between that and a nice slice of steak or sushi, they'd take the latter.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 25, 2018 01:46 PM (/qEW2)

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Some cats. My beloved cat Pantera (when she was alive) would always take a live meal when available. During the hunting months (for her, in CO, this was basically March to mid-November), her food bowl would literally gather dust, even if I put tuna in it.

She would eat 5-7 critters a day, and leave their stripped spines and skulls in a neat row on the doormat as a gift for me when I got home.

That cat was freaking awesome.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2018 01:55 PM (UiRxW)

347 Imagine how badly all these people want to stop Trump (and for that matter its citizens) from saving this country.

Posted by: Mega at July 25, 2018 02:03 PM (4wH3+)

348 Lanny Davis has been pining for Hillary's pussy since law school. He's never got a piece of that.

Posted by: BluesFish at July 25, 2018 02:04 PM (rhlEy)

349 Trump hires only top people

Posted by: Comrade at July 25, 2018 02:10 PM (1JLkt)

350 88 For once I have to agree with JackStraw. This is complete media-driven clickbait nothing.
The people who are on Trump's side don't GAF.
The people who hate Trump will still hate him.
This changes nothing.
***
It is going to change something come November! A lot of Congressional Democrats are going have lots more time to spend with their families. Well, except the ones who will only get to visit through a pane of glass during visiting hours.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 25, 2018 02:10 PM (Vs607)

351 Nood.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 25, 2018 02:14 PM (jK8Z7)

352 Again, everyone who goes up against Trump ends up self immolating. Who would ever hire a lawyer who secretly taped calls? Sounds like he is clearly violating client confidentiality. And of course the left is happy to abandon any civil rights concerns because Trump.

Posted by: IanDeal at July 25, 2018 02:20 PM (5mrLG)

353 Lanny Davis/cnn had no problem with the Gennifer Flowers tapes: Wherein Bill Clinton he tells her to lie. Clearly.

Posted by: Devan at July 25, 2018 02:23 PM (kC+1/)

354 I'm so sick of this crap.

Every single Trump voter/supporter I know (family/friends/co-workers, and that's @30 people) flat out DON'T GIVE A F*** THAT TRUMP BANGED HOT WOMEN.

For F*** Sake, we know the guy is a casanova when it comes to hot women. He's DONALD FREAKIN' TRUMP.

But DJT, to my knowledge, has never been caught in a public lie, nor does he have the reputation of being a liar or fraud in his business dealings. DJT may be bombastic as all hell, but a dishonest sneaky-shit like the swamp rats in DC? Oh hell no, he's been accused of being many things, a liar ain't one of them.

Seriously, F*** the fMSM and the DC Deep State traitors.

Posted by: Volchek at July 25, 2018 02:26 PM (qoKST)

355 Whatever their scheme, so far they haven't released much. They caught Trump on tape discussing possibly doing something legal -- to wit, buying someone's story through a third party (the National Enquirer) to keep the story quiet.

I thought they were talking about buying from a 3rd party who had already paid the skank for the rights to her story, no?

Posted by: Grump928(c) the cyclops at July 25, 2018 02:37 PM (yQpMk)

356 Or Trump and Cohen could be setting up CNN and the people who seized the tape. But Trumps not that smart, Kristol and Jonah told me so.

Posted by: ck at July 25, 2018 02:38 PM (GXRoa)

357 Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze
these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'?

A calf?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 25, 2018 03:03 PM (oVJmc)

358 Putin backed out of his invite to the white household in the fall

Posted by: Comrade at July 25, 2018 03:03 PM (1JLkt)

359
Davis said that the tape's release sends the message: "I am no longer
the previous Michael Cohen that you knew --taking a bullet for Donald
Trump, saying anything to defend him, being a good soldier. ... That is
over."

Davis said he was unable to say what Cohen's next move is: "I'm not
saying there are more tapes as telling as [this] one, ... but there are
more tapes. ... There is more to come."

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Translation: My client has decided to retire permanently by preemptively driving away anyone who might want to hire him in the future by very publicly proving he that he does not understand the word "confidential" and, by the way, this nothing burger is the most damaging thing he had on tape.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 25, 2018 04:18 PM (LQqiF)

360
Again, everyone who goes up against Trump ends up self immolating. Who
would ever hire a lawyer who secretly taped calls? Sounds like he is
clearly violating client confidentiality. And of course the left is
happy to abandon any civil rights concerns because Trump.

Posted by: IanDeal at July 25, 2018 02:20 PM (5mrLG)

He can, should, and likely will be disbarred for this.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 25, 2018 04:20 PM (LQqiF)

361 Only mobsters and crooks pay in pallets of cash.

On the positive side, Stormy has agreed not to enrich any more uranium for ten years.

Posted by: B. Hussein Double-O bama, Wire-Tapper for Jake Tapper at July 25, 2018 06:04 PM (Ndje9)

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