Mueller Now Investigating the Podesta Group for Russia Lobbying

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According to Monday’s NBC News report, Manafort organized a PR campaign for a pro-Ukraine nonprofit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU), which reportedly was backed by a pro-Russia party. The Podesta Group reportedly was one of many firms that worked on the campaign.
According to NBC News, Mueller's team began looking at Podesta and his company and is now pursuing a criminal inquiry into whether the company violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

The media doesn't like to talk about this, but Paul Manafort and the Podesta Group both worked to lobby on behalf of Russia -- so if Manafort's being investigated, why not the brother of Hillary's top adviser?

But now Robert Mueller's on the case to cover it up.

Maybe Mueller will give the Podesta Group a sweetheart plea deal like his FBI gave the Russian uranium racketeer.

The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal.
The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their "public service." The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests. The administration green-lighted the transfer of control over one-fifth of American uranium-mining capacity to Russia, a hostile regime --and specifically to Russia's state-controlled nuclear-energy conglomerate, Rosatom.
Worse, at the time the administration approved the transfer, it knew that Rosatom’s American subsidiary was engaged in a lucrative racketeering enterprise that had already committed felony extortion, fraud, and money-laundering offenses. Powered by The Obama administration also knew that congressional Republicans were trying to stop the transfer. Consequently, the Justice Department concealed what it knew. DOJ allowed the racketeering enterprise to continue compromising the American uranium industry rather than commencing a prosecution that would have scotched the transfer. Prosecutors waited four years before quietly pleading the case out for a song, in violation of Justice Department charging guidelines. Meanwhile, the administration stonewalled Congress, reportedly threatening an informant who wanted to go public.

Robert Mueller must resign. Immediately. Or be fired by Ron Rosenstein.

Who, frankly, given his high position in the DOJ throughout this period, is also up to his neck in this and must at least recuse himself.

Posted by: Ace at 01:43 PM

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1 Uh-oh...

Posted by: Podesta at October 23, 2017 01:46 PM (O5Q3r)

2 I feel like Trump is going to win this one bigly....

Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2017 01:47 PM (ayjN1)

3 The Podestas get 4 am no-knock smash the door raids when? Oh, yeah, never-never-never. They'll get Comey FBI style immunity deals and all the evidence will be shredded for posterity.

Posted by: geoffb at October 23, 2017 01:47 PM (zOpu5)

4 Let Martin Koslek interrogate them....

Posted by: 1921 C DRUM at October 23, 2017 01:47 PM (h7sWp)

5 ace, your copypasta skills seem a bit shaky. Hope the barrel isn't hungry....

Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2017 01:49 PM (ayjN1)

6 Just hysterical, pants-wetting right-wing conspiracy theories again. Nothing to see here. Go bowling.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 23, 2017 01:49 PM (NWiLs)

7 >>>ace, your copypasta skills seem a bit shaky

Drink water!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Bunch Em If You Got Em at October 23, 2017 01:49 PM (mZt6w)

8 Nothing bad ever happens to democrats. Ever.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 23, 2017 01:50 PM (l9m7l)

9 A hopeful wish?

1. Demunists throw Mueller under the bus after this.
2. Mueller retaliates and investigates the Demunists fully.

A guy can hope, right?

Posted by: Curmudgeon - 2017 GNAMM survivor at October 23, 2017 01:50 PM (ujg0T)

10 Aaaand the Podesta are still filing paperwork about past activities they did on behalf of Russia. Forgot to register as agents of a foreign country.
Paperwork, emails, whatever, amirite?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2017 01:50 PM (W+vEI)

11 They're just going to say "nothing to see here" and move on. We all know it. Why pretend it's going to be anything other than that?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 23, 2017 01:50 PM (wmaTe)

12 Not a smidgen of corruption

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at October 23, 2017 01:50 PM (Vzqe+)

13 Mueller is going to pin this on someone, and it won't be Mueller.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 01:50 PM (m9X4Y)

14 Yeah, Comey learned the art of "investigating" from Mueller.

Mueller already has his speech ready.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at October 23, 2017 01:50 PM (PFy0L)

15 Is this Podesta of the spirit cooking fame?

Posted by: IC at October 23, 2017 01:51 PM (a0IVu)

16 You want indictments of Hillary and Bill.

You'll take indictments of the Podesta brothers.

You'll get a low-level staffer doing six months in a country club.

Posted by: joncelli, going phalangist at October 23, 2017 01:51 PM (RD7QR)

17 Mueller, Comey, Rosenstein, Holder, McCabe, TFG, Bill and Hillary all belong in prison. Corrupt, treasonous cocksuckers, all of them.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 23, 2017 01:51 PM (NWiLs)

18 Well sprinkle me with brown sugar and call me breakfast. Shocked beyond words.

Posted by: cornbred at October 23, 2017 01:51 PM (Of32W)

19
What did Obama know, and when did he know it?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 01:51 PM (m9X4Y)

20 Can't talk to Congress, there's an ongoing investigation now.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 23, 2017 01:51 PM (BNwyJ)

21 Not a smidgen of corruption

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at October 23, 2017 01:50 PM (Vzqe+)

Well, indeed, "metric fuckton" =/= smidgen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon, survivor of GNAMM at October 23, 2017 01:52 PM (O848g)

22 No, no, John -- I need LOTS AND LOTS of extra sauce on this pizza. LOTS.

And you may need to throw some pepperoni, and possibly even some onions IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Tony Podesta at October 23, 2017 01:52 PM (wmaTe)

23 I feel like Trump is going to win this one bigly....

Posted by: blaster

He already has. It's gone from "Trump's with teh Russians!!!1!!11!!elevtnty!!" to "Uh, Rooskies may have been in the Hillary camp". Yet another massive backfire.

Of course one of the lobbying firms the Russians may have been in with was the one that now handles the Mitch the Bitch's Senate PAC, so expect this to die a swift, quiet death, because can't bring the whole system down, don'cha know.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at October 23, 2017 01:52 PM (AM1GF)

24 In before the MSM narrative changes to, "Well, Trump was just really good at covering his tracks, that's why Mueller hasn't found anything, so let's stop wasting time and money and call the thing off."

Posted by: Country Singer at October 23, 2017 01:52 PM (yzxic)

25 Or be fired by Ron Rosenstein.
-----

hahahahahaha

(breathe)

hahahahhahahahha

Yeah, that's not even in the realm of possibility in opposite, bizarro, mirro image Spock has a beard world.

Posted by: shibumi at October 23, 2017 01:52 PM (aT+Bx)

26 I agree. Mueller must resign. Immediately. Clearly, he is conflicted from his days with the FBI under Obama and Obama's DOJ.

He has to go.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 01:53 PM (wo3jg)

27 2 I feel like Trump is going to win this one bigly....
Posted by: blaster at October 23, 2017 01:47 PM (ayjN1)

The only way Trump wins this is if he fires Sessions, and puts a real Fire Eater in charge of DOJ.

Sessions is an insiders insider... he is a swamp creature...

The fact that all this is coming out in investigations by online journalists is telling...

The fact that even with all the evidence of Hillary and Obama and their Cabals crap that is already in the public domain, yet not a single charge has been filed... tells me all I need to know.

Posted by: Don Q. at October 23, 2017 01:53 PM (NgKpN)

28 >>Is this Podesta of the spirit cooking fame?

Yes, and the Wiki-leaked emails because he fell for a phishing scam.
John has some spirit-cooking type painting in his office. His brother is the one with the creepy art collection at home.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2017 01:53 PM (W+vEI)

29 19
What did Obama know, and when did he know it?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 01:51 PM (m9X4Y)

[Negligent wave] I never bothered Barry with that stuff. Too much basketball and Sports Center to be worried about other stuff.

Posted by: ValJar, more rodential by the day at October 23, 2017 01:53 PM (RD7QR)

30 Oh, and all of the former Obama underlings he brought on have to go too.

Conflict of interest.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 01:53 PM (wo3jg)

31

I really need to put Bailey's in my coffee a lot earlier in the day. It really helps.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 01:53 PM (m9X4Y)

32 He already has. It's gone from "Trump's with teh Russians!!!1!!11!!elevtnty!!" to "Uh, Rooskies may have been in the Hillary camp". Yet another massive backfire.

Of course one of the lobbying firms the Russians may have been in with was the one that now handles the Mitch the Bitch's Senate PAC, so expect this to die a swift, quiet death, because can't bring the whole system down, don'cha know.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at October 23, 2017 01:52 PM (AM1GF)

No it's gone from "TRUMP COLLUDED!!! EMULATIONS!! AHHHHHHHHH!! RUSSIANS!!" to silence.

No one will ever hear the follow up, everyone will remember that Trump hired prostitutes to piss on the constitution and steal the election.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 23, 2017 01:54 PM (wmaTe)

33 Why would anyone get into government service if you don't profit from it?

Posted by: any goverment offical at October 23, 2017 01:54 PM (DPvCq)

34 26 I agree. Mueller must resign. Immediately. Clearly, he is conflicted from his days with the FBI under Obama and Obama's DOJ.

He has to go.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 01:53 PM (wo3jg)

but Jeff Sessions said just last week, that only Mueller can decide if he has a conflict of interest...

/spit

Posted by: Don Q. at October 23, 2017 01:54 PM (NgKpN)

35 It is looking very difficult to justify Meuller being head of an investigation which is into things he seems to have been a part of or at least knew about and looked the other way about. And several of the people he hired to help out are even more deeply involved.

This is what a clean conscience gets you: OK investigate me, see what you an find. Cause it won't be me....

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 01:54 PM (39g3+)

36 According to NBC news?

I thought it was quite clear - Andrea Mitchell said so - that the story was an old one that had already been covered.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Show Your Team Colors with an Outrage Outlet Yell Leader Outfit! at October 23, 2017 01:54 PM (hLRSq)

37 >>The media doesn't like to talk about this, but Paul Manafort and the Podesta Group both worked to lobby on behalf of Russia -- so if Manafort's being investigated, why not the brother of Hillary's top adviser?

True enough. Look at this headline from CNN in August. Sounds bad for Manafort, right?

Now skip down to the 4th paragraph and what do you see almost as a toss in. Oh yea, the are also "examining" the Podesta group as well.

http://tinyurl.com/hb4za3c

Republicans get an investigation.
Democrats get examined.

Sort of like Lynch telling Comey to call the Clinton investigation a "matter".

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2017 01:54 PM (/tuJf)

38 Put Sheriff Arpaio and Sheriff David Clarke in charge. Nip it in the bud.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 23, 2017 01:54 PM (QLvwG)

39 Barky is going to be really upset to learn of this major scandal in his White House when he reads about it in the papers.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 01:55 PM (tbOMB)

40 I'm going to wear my fingers down to nubbins repeatedly typing that nothing is going to happen, so from now on consider it said whenever a subject like this pops up.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 23, 2017 01:55 PM (X6fMO)

41 >>>Put Sheriff Arpaio and Sheriff David Clarke in charge. Nip it in the bud.

Did it ever come out why he resigned?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Bunch Em If You Got Em at October 23, 2017 01:55 PM (mZt6w)

42 They're just going to say "nothing to see here" and move on. We all know it. Why pretend it's going to be anything other than that?

Leftists all over Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and everywhere else they post are busy reminding people that this is all old news and Republicans need to move on.

Not a single one of them are willing to admit there is new information, or that even without the new information, what we knew previously was damning.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 23, 2017 01:56 PM (jhqr1)

43 Like I've been saying, the only way any this shit comes to a head is if Trump acting as unitary executive starts directing the activities of the FBI, DOJ and CIA.

He should create a cabinet level Csar to take control of these agencies as they have all been corrupted, politicized and weaponized and are acting contrary to the interests of the American people and the President himself.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 23, 2017 01:56 PM (2JcMg)

44 40 I'm going to wear my fingers down to nubbins repeatedly typing that nothing is going to happen, so from now on consider it said whenever a subject like this pops up.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 23, 2017 01:55 PM (X6fMO)

I'm going to make a macro of "Nobody will do a day of time or pay a penny in fees." Easier that way.

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at October 23, 2017 01:56 PM (RD7QR)

45 Trump
Trump
Trump

Fire
Fire
Fire

Posted by: Hikaru at October 23, 2017 01:56 PM (XMDuf)

46 STOP THE HAMMERING!!!

STOP!
THE!
HAMMERING!!

AHHHHHHH

...Russians? Obama? huh? No, no, you must be thinking of Trump

Posted by: Lawrence O'Donnell at October 23, 2017 01:56 PM (wmaTe)

47 Worth remembering, failure to register as a lobbyist was the basis for harassing Oleg Cassini's brother Igor out of his job with Hearst - because the Kennedys were dicks.

One of if not *the* contributing factor to Igor's socialite wife Charlene committing suicide.

And lobbying for whom? That famous threat to national security known as the fucking DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Seriously.

If we can't take major political fixers working unregistered for FUCKING RUSSIA as seriously as a dress designer and columnist *maybe*, *potentially in future* working for the DR of all pointless shitting things, we don't deserve to prosper in our foreign affairs.

Posted by: Sporkatus at October 23, 2017 01:57 PM (HtLSE)

48 but Jeff Sessions said just last week, that only Mueller can decide if he has a conflict of interest...
__________________________________

File a complaint of COI with the jurisdiction where he is licensed to practice.

Losing a law license is very effective (sarc). Look how it hurt Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Alcee Hastings and Michelle Obama.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 01:57 PM (wo3jg)

49 Did it ever come out why he resigned?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Bunch Em If You Got Em at October 23, 2017 01:55 PM (mZt6w)

That I do not know. Horde-source?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 23, 2017 01:57 PM (QLvwG)

50 Way back when, 2016, maybe 2015, when they first started pushing the Manafort FARA problems, I and many others raised this same issue regarding Podesta, and they dropped the Manafort FARA mumbles like a hot potato.

Mueller here will do nothing, here, and it is only that Manafort FARA issue is raised again, must he also be seen be pursuing such a case against Podesta.

It's swamp rats all the way down. Kill it with fire.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 01:57 PM (tbOMB)

51 >>He should create a cabinet level Csar to take control of these agencies
as they have all been corrupted, politicized and weaponized and are
acting contrary to the interests of the American people and the
President himself.

Or have his cabinet clean out their respective organizations, such as what Pruitt is doing at EPA.

I hated all the czars with Obama, don't want any more with Trump.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 23, 2017 01:58 PM (W+vEI)

52 Didn't Hillary say this AM that this story had been "debunked?"

Yes, yes.

Debunked, as in the usage of decamped.

As in, "the media debunked that story to a location 1,000 feet below ground in an attempt to protect Obama and Hillary."

Posted by: RoyalOil at October 23, 2017 01:58 PM (sUh6s)

53 43 Like I've been saying, the only way any this shit comes to a head is if Trump acting as unitary executive starts directing the activities of the FBI, DOJ and CIA.

He should create a cabinet level Csar to take control of these agencies as they have all been corrupted, politicized and weaponized and are acting contrary to the interests of the American people and the President himself.
Posted by: Kreplach at October 23, 2017 01:56 PM (2JcMg)

And it'll take about 2 seconds flat for the court to issue an injunction while it makes its way through the legal system if Trump has the authority to install czars to take power away from agencies (which actually has some complicated case law that seems to come down to whether or not the president is a D or not)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 23, 2017 01:58 PM (wmaTe)

54 But Trump CALLED A SPECIAL FORCES CASUALTY'S MOM!!!!!!!!

AIEEE!!!!

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 01:58 PM (s5o+q)

55 It's swamp rats all the way down. Kill it with fire.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 01:57 PM (tbOMB)

Wow, nice hash, Flounder!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon, survivor of GNAMM at October 23, 2017 01:58 PM (O848g)

56 I really need to put Bailey's in my coffee a lot earlier in the day. It really helps.
Grain alcohol. In the words of Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes "today I go for the gusto".

I can't have booze in my coffee at work, because factory space downstairs OSHA rules grumble mumble.

Posted by: Sporkatus at October 23, 2017 01:59 PM (HtLSE)

57 Robert Mueller must resign. Immediately. Or be fired by Ron Rosenstein.

Who, frankly, given his high position in the DOJ throughout this period, is also up to his neck in this and must at least recuse himself.
Posted by Ace at 01:43 PM Comments

Well I want a puppy for Xmas but that aint happening either.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 23, 2017 01:59 PM (ZTRlp)

58 You want to end the prosecutor mania? Arrest Mueller. They can REEEE about prosecutorial immunity, but when he and Clinton are sharing a cell it will bring an end to the out of control prosecutor.

Posted by: trev006 at October 23, 2017 01:59 PM (jRA31)

59 Didn't Hillary say this AM that this story had been "debunked?"

Yes, yes.

Debunked, as in the usage of decamped.

As in, "the media debunked that story to a location 1,000 feet below ground in an attempt to protect Obama and Hillary."
Posted by: RoyalOil at October 23, 2017 01:58 PM (sUh6s)

In HillaryWorld, "debunked" is synonymous with "reported" along with "old news."

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:00 PM (s5o+q)

60 @3 "The Podestas get 4 am no-knock smash the door raids when? Oh, yeah, never-never-never. They'll get Comey FBI style immunity deals and all the evidence will be shredded for posterity. geoffb"

That, and Hillz will get to say: "This has all been investigated by a Special Prosecutor already,.. " etc, etc, lie, lie....

It's like in the old police procedurals. The real killer needs to position himself close to the investigation to keep track of it, or worse. At a minimum Mueller & Co are shot full of Clinton moles who will give them windows of opportunity to intimidate witnesses, destroy evidence, etc. This is starting to seem more Tom Clancy than Banana Republic.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at October 23, 2017 02:00 PM (0tN2W)

61 Completely OT, but again demonstrating a truth we all know. The gaming website NeoGAF is in full destruction after accusations of sexual assault by its owner.

They of course were pro-Zoe Quinn on Gamergate, and were trying to drive traffic to Hillary's election last year.

Posted by: buzzion at October 23, 2017 02:01 PM (cAnNx)

62 The only way Mueller resigns is if about ten million of us march on Washington and camp out on the Mall to demand it . . . and don't leave until it happens.

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:01 PM (s5o+q)

63 Well I want a puppy for Xmas but that aint happening either.
__________________________________

It might.

How old are you?

If you are under 14, the Podestas are giving away free puppies at the pizza place.

Sign up today for our Ping Pong Pedo list.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:01 PM (wo3jg)

64 >>58 You want to end the prosecutor mania? Arrest Mueller. They can REEEE about prosecutorial immunity, but when he and Clinton are sharing a cell Posted by: trev006 at October 23, 2017 01:59 PM (jRA31)

Who prison-rapes whom?

Posted by: Zod at October 23, 2017 02:02 PM (Bdeb0)

65 "The Obama administration also knew that congressional Republicans were trying to stop the transfer."

None of them cared enough about it to call out Obama and Clinton and take their case to the public, though.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at October 23, 2017 02:02 PM (2NqXo)

66 Sub-headline: Squirrel!

Posted by: ShainS at October 23, 2017 02:03 PM (sZbhL)

67 Like I've been saying, the only way any this shit comes to a head is if Trump acting as unitary executive starts directing the activities of the FBI, DOJ and CIA.

He should create a cabinet level Csar to take control of these agencies as they have all been corrupted, politicized and weaponized and are acting contrary to the interests of the American people and the President himself.
Posted by: Kreplach

And hire only from the Horde.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 23, 2017 02:03 PM (bKPAB)

68 Lock her up. RICO her fortune away.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 23, 2017 02:03 PM (hyuyC)

69 I HOPE THEY HANG PODESTA BY THE BALLS OR HE MYSTERIOUSLY SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE HEAD!!! THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT!!!

Posted by: Hillary! at October 23, 2017 02:03 PM (O5Q3r)

70 64 >>58 You want to end the prosecutor mania? Arrest Mueller. They can REEEE about prosecutorial immunity, but when he and Clinton are sharing a cell Posted by: trev006 at October 23, 2017 01:59 PM (jRA31)

Who prison-rapes whom?
Posted by: Zod at October 23, 2017 02:02 PM (Bdeb0)

Almost certainly consensual.

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at October 23, 2017 02:03 PM (RD7QR)

71 How is this within Mueller's original remit? Mueller has authority to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Podesta/Clinton stuff predates that, so why is not being handled by USDOJ/FBI in the ordinary course of business?

Posted by: RFR at October 23, 2017 02:04 PM (FuFVX)

72 @53

This is well within the scope and power of the President.

The President is the unitary executive, he can create any cabinet level position he likes.

He is the unitary executive in charge of all executive level agencies.

He could simply issue EO's directing all of this and nothing can be done to stop him other the random Hawaiian judges that is.

All kidding aside, this is the only way to cut through all of this bullshit.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 23, 2017 02:04 PM (2JcMg)

73 >>>I can't have booze in my coffee at work, because factory space downstairs OSHA rules grumble mumble.

Google FLASK TIE.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Bunch Em If You Got Em at October 23, 2017 02:04 PM (mZt6w)

74 >>so why is not being handled by USDOJ/FBI in the ordinary course of business?

It is and has been since August.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2017 02:05 PM (/tuJf)

75 I can't have booze in my coffee at work, because factory space downstairs OSHA rules grumble mumble.

Vodka in your oj. No smell.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 23, 2017 02:05 PM (bKPAB)

76 None of them cared enough about it to call out Obama and Clinton and take their case to the public, though.

Not the hill to die on. Overton window. We'll eventually win when the public gets tired of Democrats winning all the time. Blah blah blah.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 23, 2017 02:05 PM (jhqr1)

77 rickb223

AtC for Deputy DOJ. She will fluffy bunny them.

I think, and I do not want to know for sure, that fluffy bunny is equivalent to Death by Bungo-Bungo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 23, 2017 02:05 PM (hyuyC)

78 I'm old enough to remember when Sessions was the perfect choice for AG.

WTF happened?

Posted by: I. P. Freely at October 23, 2017 02:05 PM (+dsLj)

79
OT.

Using Sgt La David Johnson's widow for cheap political gain, and her allowing herself to be used, the twisting and misrepresenting of Trump's words to her, the pre-planned media capaign, the eagerness of anti-Trump
types to believe anything, the utter viciousness of it all, is pissing me off.

You know Trump didn't forget or mispronounce his name. The widow is simply lying, or is such a simpleton that she can be guided into altered memory by pressure from a group. You just know she got an extensive talking-to before the pre-.announced, scheduled call was made.

I get two things from this:
-Primitive tribal loyalty trumps any other consideration with these people. It's everything to them
-I have no doubt that they would kill us like flies if they could.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 23, 2017 02:05 PM (Xpjqs)

80 AtC for Deputy DOJ. She will fluffy bunny them.

And a dozen of us as her lead investigators.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 23, 2017 02:06 PM (bKPAB)

81 Google FLASK TIE.
You are a gentleman and a scholar. Also, it looks like I just found what to get like four people for Christmas gifts.

Posted by: Sporkatus at October 23, 2017 02:06 PM (HtLSE)

82 I don't think Hillary is the smartest woman in the world but she's definitely the luckiest.

She has been running the same scam for decades and as they say, guilty as sin and free as a bird.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at October 23, 2017 02:07 PM (hjrto)

83 If this were true, we'd be hearing the Democrats screaming that Mueller should be fired.....and then when Trump actually fires him (thinking that will get the Dems of his back)...the Democrats will scream for impeachment.

Remember when he fired Comey after the Democrats said he should go?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 23, 2017 02:07 PM (7uYFy)

84 I can't have booze in my coffee at work, because factory space downstairs OSHA rules grumble mumble.

Posted by: Sporkatus at October 23, 2017 01:59 PM (HtLSE)

Sure you can. You just can't get caught with booze in your coffee at work.

Posted by: Country Singer at October 23, 2017 02:08 PM (yzxic)

85 Let us know when it becomes as serious an issue as which shoes Flotus wears to board AF1.

Sincerely,

MSM

Posted by: Lily(former Bronco Superfan) now of AoSHQ assassin in the night at October 23, 2017 02:08 PM (VHUcw)

86 80 AtC for Deputy DOJ. She will fluffy bunny them.

And a dozen of us as her lead investigators.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 23, 2017 02:06 PM (bKPAB)

Dibs on Grand Inquisitor!

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 23, 2017 02:08 PM (NWiLs)

87 Unrelated (sort of) to Podesta news:

Woody Allen's next film rumored to have a sex scene between an older man and a teenage girl.

Wonder how he came up with that idea?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:09 PM (39g3+)

88 I predict the MSM will go full-on with the JFK files as a way to commemorate the death of a Democratic president and cover up the growing Uranium One/Podesta Group scandal, but mostly to cover up the growing Uranium One/Podesta Group scandal.

Posted by: MacGruber at October 23, 2017 02:09 PM (sWgE+)

89
You know Trump didn't forget or mispronounce his name.

Maybe he called him David. Might have thought La David was a typo. I've never heard of anyone named La David.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 23, 2017 02:09 PM (IqV8l)

90 The fbi informant on gag order should just spill the beans and take one for the team ... trump should pardon, who needs sleepy head sessions anyway

Posted by: E.T. at October 23, 2017 02:10 PM (P1GJy)

91 88 I predict the MSM will go full-on with the JFK files as a way to commemorate the death of a Democratic president and cover up the growing Uranium One/Podesta Group scandal, but mostly to cover up the growing Uranium One/Podesta Group scandal.
Posted by: MacGruber at October 23, 2017 02:09 PM (sWgE+)

When do those come out?

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at October 23, 2017 02:10 PM (RD7QR)

92 You just can't get caught with booze in your coffee at work.

An important distinction. I actually shouldn't worry, because I haven't washed my coffee mug in years, so nobody will ever inspect my coffee for any reason.

Posted by: Sporkatus at October 23, 2017 02:10 PM (HtLSE)

93 Robert Mueller must resign. Immediately. Or be fired by Ron Rosenstein.

Who, frankly, given his high position in the DOJ throughout this period, is also up to his neck in this and must at least recuse himself.

I know, I know, I'm the head cheerleader for the FBI sucks brigade around here but it's not like that makes me happy.

There's much tuttutting about how Americans do not trust any type of civil organization and my response to all of that is why should we trust them?

The FBI labs.

The DOJ and US attorneys offices engaging in nigh to whole sale abuses of office and malfeasance during prosecutions.

The revelations about how shot through with corruption and incompetence is the Secret Service.

Why on Earth would I trust the FBI or the DOJ or the Secret Service? They have proven untrustworthy.

Which brings me to the Menendez trial. Do I think a NJ Senator is corrupt? Oh. Gee. Let me think about that long and hard, hmmm, that's a difficult question, hmm. Do I think the US Attorneys office would TED STEVENS TED STEVENS TED STEVENS ahem sorry abuse its office and withhold evidence improperly? Hmmm. What a difficult dilemma!

I *want* to trust that when the FBI labs says something is a match it's true, not black magic.

I *want* to believe that the DOJ upholds the Constitution and doesn't view the Fourth Amendment as some pesky annoyance.

I *want* to believe that the Secret Service is the very best of the best who accepts risks that I cannot imagine.

But I can't.

Posted by: alexthechick - Breath deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at October 23, 2017 02:10 PM (mf5HN)

94 88 I predict the MSM will go full-on with the JFK files as a way to commemorate the death of a Democratic president and cover up the growing Uranium One/Podesta Group scandal, but mostly to cover up the growing Uranium One/Podesta Group scandal.
Posted by: MacGruber at October 23, 2017 02:09 PM (sWgE+)

But to do that would end the Kennedy Mystique (TM), yes?

I can't wait for the conclusive Cuban and Soviet links to be disclosed myself.

Posted by: Curmudgeon - 2017 GNAMM survivor at October 23, 2017 02:10 PM (ujg0T)

95 Don't worry, comrades -- I've already written the memo absolving Podesta. As we like to say here in Hillaryland: Conclusions first, facts later!

Posted by: Bob Mueller, Assquire at October 23, 2017 02:10 PM (qYCgM)

96 Gee, a couple bombshells already today...you think Drudge would ever change his headline to reflect that?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 23, 2017 02:10 PM (7uYFy)

97 Seriously, deputy dawg recused himself for nothing.

How in the actual Fcuk, did Sessions have any conflict at all, and how in the actual Fcuk do Rosenstein and Muller not have conflicts?

Posted by: simplemind at October 23, 2017 02:11 PM (CikiK)

98 If this were true, we'd be hearing the Democrats screaming that Mueller should be fired

Not until they find out whether or not there's anything likely to come from it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:11 PM (39g3+)

99 Maybe Trump did mispronounce his name. La David could be pronounced a dozen different ways.

If you want to laugh , pull up the YouTube of Key and Peele - Substitute Teacher. It's up there with the best of Dave Chappell skits.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at October 23, 2017 02:11 PM (hjrto)

100 You'd think with all these skeletons in the closet, they'd be grateful to scuttle away in silence. But Hillary's shooting her mouth off, Obama's shooting his off, and Mueller is actually leading the investigation into "collusion".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 23, 2017 02:11 PM (/qEW2)

101 88

I like what IowaHawk once said, "Being in the media means covering the important stories...with a pillow until they stop squirming"

Posted by: the real ch3 at October 23, 2017 02:11 PM (IG5KL)

102 Dibs on Grand Inquisitor!
Dibs on Witchsmeller Pursuivant!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at October 23, 2017 02:12 PM (mJ8mX)

103 The Podesta's did alot of bad stuff that was clearly illegal, but we gave them all immunity prior to testifying so they would give us dirt on Trump. What dirt did we get on Trump in exchange for the immunity deal? Uh.....we can't comment on an ongoing investigation.

Posted by: Robert Mueller at October 23, 2017 02:12 PM (BoMuO)

104 >>When do those come out?<<

Sometime later this week from what I heard.

Posted by: MacGruber at October 23, 2017 02:12 PM (sWgE+)

105 Nothing bad ever happens to democrats. Ever.

--

Nor do they recuse themselves when they should. Apparently. And nobody seems to care much about it either. They are never held to account. I keep hoping the sea change will happen and it never does. I keep thinking this has got to be it...and it never is. The latest revelations just dissolve, one into the next.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at October 23, 2017 02:12 PM (mQ0Mc)

106 "Mueller here will do nothing, here, and it is only that Manafort FARA issue is raised again, must he also be seen be pursuing such a case against Podesta."

They will not touch this because to do so is to touch Hillary, and they will touch any stories about Hilalry because to do so would be to condemn themselves.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Show Your Team Colors with an Outrage Outlet Yell Leader Outfit! at October 23, 2017 02:12 PM (hLRSq)

107
can't have booze in my coffee at work, because factory space downstairs OSHA rules grumble mumble. Posted by: Sporkatus at October 23, 2017 01:59 PM (HtLSE)

So put coffee in your booze problem solved

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 23, 2017 02:13 PM (lKyWE)

108 @97

The only conflicts were the one's in his head.

Sadly the man's proven to be a goof.

He's gotta go.

But unfortunetley the GOP swamp is protecting his sorry ass.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 23, 2017 02:13 PM (2JcMg)

109 The Sonobian panel on intercontinental and galactic stuff (SPIGS) needs to fully review all of the gerrymandering, shenanigans and hoopla surrounding
this clusterfuck.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 23, 2017 02:13 PM (WLK0w)

110 "...and they will not touch any stories about Hillary..."

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Show Your Team Colors with an Outrage Outlet Yell Leader Outfit! at October 23, 2017 02:13 PM (hLRSq)

111 so... Fox Investigates How The Chickens Went Missing

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at October 23, 2017 02:13 PM (EuPrx)

112
Just burying the bodies, boss.

Just burying the bodies.

Posted by: Robert Mueller at October 23, 2017 02:13 PM (NyJwR)

113 Seriously, deputy dawg recused himself for nothing.

How in the actual Fcuk, did Sessions have any conflict at all, and how in the actual Fcuk do Rosenstein and Muller not have conflicts?

Posted by: simplemind at October 23, 2017 02:11 PM (CikiK)

Dumbass Sessions still was thinking in terms of "comity of the Senate" or some such bullshit, I'm pretty sure.

Hell, he might STILL be thinking in those kind of terms.

Or, he may simply be an ineffectual idiot.

Or, twelve-dimensional chess.

::looks around for my Occam's Razor::

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:13 PM (s5o+q)

114 If anybody thinks the Podesta investigation is more than just a sham to give an air of impartiality, I have some sweet land in south Florida to sell you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 23, 2017 02:14 PM (BoMuO)

115 John Podesta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2016 national campaign chairman, may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin-financed company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/26/ exclusive-john-podesta-may-have-violated-federal-law-by-not-disclosing-75000-stock-shares/

On Jan. 18, 2011, a small green-energy company named Joule Unlimited announced Podesta's appointment to its board. Months later, Rusnano, a Kremlin-backed investment fund founded by Vladimir Putin, pumped $35 million into Joule. Serving alongside Podesta on Joule's board were senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and oligarch Ruben Vardanyan, who has been appointed by Putin to a Russian economic modernization council.

http://nypost.com/2017/07/05/ uncovering-the-russia-ties-of-hillarys-campaign-chief/

Uranium One sale to Rosatom approved in 2010 and in 2011, obama gave approval for Rosatom's Tenex subsidiary to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants in a partnership with the United States Enrichment Corp.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/ 355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 02:14 PM (tbOMB)

116 But but but but Mr. Of Spades, Trump or something.

Posted by: praddler at October 23, 2017 02:14 PM (MBds8)

117 So Mueller's doing this so he can issue absolution to the Clinton cronies.

Comey approves.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 23, 2017 02:14 PM (oVJmc)

118
Nothing bad ever happens to democrats. Ever.

The Harlem Globetrotters don't lose. It's not in the script.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 23, 2017 02:15 PM (IqV8l)

119 ::looks around for my Occam's Razor::

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

Sessions knew what a mess it was going to be and refused to be part of it? "Everyone knew."

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 02:15 PM (m9X4Y)

120 Google FLASK TIE.

They're stylish too!

Posted by: dananjcon at October 23, 2017 02:16 PM (WLK0w)

121 http://nypost.com/2017/07/05/ uncovering-the-russia-ties-of-hillarys-campaign-chief/

Uranium One sale to Rosatom approved in 2010 and in 2011, obama gave approval for Rosatom's Tenex subsidiary to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants in a partnership with the United States Enrichment Corp.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/ 355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 02:14 PM (tbOMB)

The Hill is reporting this!? Must have been all they could do!

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at October 23, 2017 02:17 PM (RD7QR)

122 so... Fox Investigates How The Chickens Went Missing
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at October 23, 2017 02:13 PM (EuPrx)

Trust No One But Me!

The Truth Is Out There, and I'll bury it as deep as I can!

Posted by: Fox Mueller at October 23, 2017 02:17 PM (s5o+q)

123 118
Nothing bad ever happens to democrats. Ever.
______________________________________

Uhh, we were Democrats.

Posted by: Seth Rich, Mary Jo Kopechne and Vince Foster at October 23, 2017 02:17 PM (wo3jg)

124 Drain the swamp!

Posted by: Fritz at October 23, 2017 02:18 PM (2Mnv1)

125 >>>The Uranium One scandal is not only, or even principally, a Clinton scandal. It is an Obama-administration scandal.

For Obama "the buck stops here" means "follow the money".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 23, 2017 02:18 PM (/qEW2)

126 Seriously, deputy dawg recused himself for nothing.

How in the actual Fcuk, did Sessions have any conflict at all, and
how in the actual Fcuk do Rosenstein and Muller not have conflicts?
==========
Two things of note:

1) I am aware of no other authority--other than Democrats--who said he ought to recuse. No Republican AG, former or otherwise, or any other such similar person has said the law required recusal. Odd, no?

2) If he really didn't have to recuse himself, why did he? Perhaps because of the hard choices DOING HIS FUCKING JOB would require?!!!

I mean, you can narrow down all the reasons and the "why" is the dog that didn't bark.
We all knew from the get-go that the "Trump-Russia collusion" was bullshit on stilts.
And there is no damned way Sessions didn't know the same.

So, #2 is the remaining reason . . . .

Posted by: RoyalOil at October 23, 2017 02:18 PM (sUh6s)

127 Blogo was a Dem.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 23, 2017 02:18 PM (WLK0w)

128 Nothing bad ever happens to democrats. Ever.

That's not exactly true, right now there's a Democrat senator on trial for corruption and child molestation. A Democrat mayor in Seattle lost his job and is under investigation for statutory rape. A Democrat mayor in San Diego lost his job and is facing criminal charges. The next great young hope of the Democrats -- Anthony Wiener -- is going to prison. Its not an absolute rule, but its too common that the most powerful tend to get away with it, too often.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:19 PM (39g3+)

129 This widow definitely has a Rachel Jeantel vibe to her.

She's right about one thing...

She has the right to see her husband's body - the one that spent a few days laying in the open in the West African jungle. Apparently, she's convinced that Trump is trying to pull something.

I remember when we got my late partner's body back from Spain after he passed away on a business trip. There was an autopsy, but otherwise he was handled by the funeral director there. His wife wanted to see the body too, but I talked her out of it. What was laying in that casket was not what she wanted to remember for the rest of her life.

Posted by: jwest at October 23, 2017 02:19 PM (coYZ7)

130 "Nothing bad ever happens to democrats. Ever."

The fact that Menendez still has not resigned is so ridiculous since it is so apparent they are trying to delay Christie from announcing a replacement. If were an R, press would be obsessed and other R's would be asked "Should he resign" non-stop.

Posted by: Benji Carver at October 23, 2017 02:19 PM (OD2ni)

131 Drain the swamp!
Posted by: Fritz at October 23, 2017 02:18 PM (2Mnv1)

I'm trending towards Nuke the Swamp With Extreme Prejudice. (From orbit! It's the only way to be sure!)

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:19 PM (s5o+q)

132 >>>Vodka in your oj. No smell.

Smells like freedom!

Posted by: OJ Simpson at October 23, 2017 02:19 PM (3I7wr)

133 She really does not want to see the body. Seriously.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:20 PM (39g3+)

134 I see the democrat deep state operatives desperately trying to cover this up, but there seems to be a deep throat spilling secrets to the news media.

The question then becomes, why is the media turning on the democrats? What has changed?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 02:21 PM (m9X4Y)

135 Sessions is going after MS-13? He must have heard that they like the demon-weed!

Posted by: Chris M at October 23, 2017 02:21 PM (eAZVt)

136 The Clintons were just doing what the Clintons do: cashing in on their "public service." The Obama administration, with Secretary Clinton at the forefront but hardly alone, was knowingly compromising American national-security interests

Barky was just doing what Barky does.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 23, 2017 02:22 PM (8gDQu)

137
87 Unrelated (sort of) to Podesta news:

Woody Allen's next film rumored to have a sex scene between an older man and a teenage girl.

Wonder how he came up with that idea?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:09 PM (39g3+)

Or Louis CK's new movie coming out next month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_You,_Daddy

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 23, 2017 02:22 PM (eXA4G)

138 134 I see the democrat deep state operatives desperately trying to cover this up, but there seems to be a deep throat spilling secrets to the news media.

The question then becomes, why is the media turning on the democrats? What has changed?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 02:21 PM (m9X4Y)

My SWAG is it's damage control. They're getting ahead of revelations that will come out later so they can say it's been investigated, move along, move along. But I'm kinda cynical.

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at October 23, 2017 02:22 PM (RD7QR)

139 The question then becomes, why is the media turning on the democrats? What has changed?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 02:21 PM (m9X4Y)

Obama asserting control over the democrat party. Out with the old - pelosi and clinton. In with the new.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 02:23 PM (tbOMB)

140 Sessions is going after MS-13? He must have heard that they like the demon-weed!

Posted by: Chris M at October 23, 2017 02:21 PM (eAZVt)

Somebody needs to tell Sessions that Obama was a lifelong choom-head, deeply into the Mara Juana (along with teh buttseks and dog-eating).

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:24 PM (s5o+q)

141 Or Louis CK's new movie coming out next month.

Knowing him, I doubt the film is remotely positive about the relationship.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:24 PM (39g3+)

142 Obama asserting control over the democrat party.

Obama's skill at turning a crisis to his advantage seems to be about as effective as Wiley Coyote's skills with Acme products.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 02:25 PM (m9X4Y)

143
Why would Sessions be recused from Uranium One investigation?

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 23, 2017 02:25 PM (lKyWE)

144 Obama's skill at turning a crisis to his advantage seems to be about as effective as Wiley Coyote's skills with Acme products.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 02:25 PM (m9X4Y)

Or his skill at racial healing.

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:25 PM (s5o+q)

145 22 No, no, John -- I need LOTS AND LOTS of extra sauce on this pizza. LOTS.

And you may need to throw some pepperoni, and possibly even some onions IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Tony Podesta at October 23, 2017 01:52 PM (wmaTe)

Make sure to skip the basil leaves.
I have that basil plant a three picture deal.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at October 23, 2017 02:26 PM (3I7wr)

146 142
Obama asserting control over the democrat party.

Obama's skill at turning a crisis to his advantage seems to be about as effective as Wiley Coyote's skills with Acme products.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 02:25 PM (m9X4Y)

Let's say we give him some rope.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 02:26 PM (tbOMB)

147 135 Sessions is going after MS-13?
_____________________________________

No. He got confused. He thought someone said "Let's get a PG-13!" so he agreed. "And maybe we can get some popcorn. Zzzzzzzz. . . "

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:26 PM (wo3jg)

148 Wake me when they are looking for guys to man the firing squads . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at October 23, 2017 02:27 PM (dqdMO)

149 Meh. Unsourced run-of-the-rumor-mill dezinformatsiya.

I don't believe a word of it.

Mueller is destroying evidence of democrat crimes and treason as fast as the shredders and burn-barrels can swallow it.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be mistaken about this, but I don't think we'll ever see anything out of Mueller unless he can Scooter Libby some innocent optimist who shows up with a cheap lawyer.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/7 at October 23, 2017 02:27 PM (8/cWV)

150 You know Trump didn't forget or mispronounce his name. The widow is simply lying, or is such a simpleton that she can be guided into altered memory by pressure from a group. You just know she got an extensive talking-to before the pre-.announced, scheduled call was made.

Someone promised her something. A house, a car, paid off debts, walkin' around money, something.

Also, five gets you ten that marriage had problems that are conveniently forgotten now.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at October 23, 2017 02:27 PM (AM1GF)

151 Nothing will come of this.

We know that a large fraction (80% ish) of the congress and senate trade on inside information. So almost everyone is in on this and will protect Clinton and Obama.

Trump does not have the resources (especially with the deep state lined up against him) to attack every issue so he has to pick and choose. He seems to be doing a good job so far.

Posted by: Off the reservation at October 23, 2017 02:28 PM (vWMNq)

152 @143

He shouldn't but apparently the stupid motherfucker is going to assiduously recuse himself from anything that might result make him have to break a sweat.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 23, 2017 02:28 PM (2JcMg)

153
I'm glad that the clinton-obama bribery scandal (COBS!) continues to have a little traction, but have my doubts it will blow up into anything. But it should, and how.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 23, 2017 02:28 PM (r+sAi)

154 Wake me when they are looking for guys to man the firing squads . . .

Posted by: Sharkman

If we go to kangaroo courts, I volunteer to be head kangaroo wrangler. The trials shall be models of efficiency. I would entirely horrify the Horde in the process more than likely, but still.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at October 23, 2017 02:29 PM (AM1GF)

155 I didn't think it was possible, but Tony Podesta looks like even more of a douchenozzle than his crypt-keeper brother.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at October 23, 2017 02:29 PM (rP4OC)

156 Someone promised her something. A house, a car, paid off debts, walkin' around money, something.

Doesn't even have to be that. Just a woman angry her husband is off in the military instead of at home looking for someone to blame and didn't like Trump to begin with. She's probably being fed lines but the animosity didn't have to be taught.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:29 PM (39g3+)

157 Wake me when they are looking for guys to man the firing squads . . .
Posted by: Sharkman

I'll provide my own rifle and ammo.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 23, 2017 02:30 PM (bKPAB)

158 89

You know Trump didn't forget or mispronounce his name.

Maybe he called him David. Might have thought La David was a typo. I've never heard of anyone named La David.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 23, 2017 02:09 PM (IqV8l)

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

I fear we may have another Cindy Shehag in the offing.

Posted by: Javems at October 23, 2017 02:30 PM (yOqwj)

159 "I like what IowaHawk once said, "Being in the media
means covering the important stories...with a pillow until they stop
squirming"

Posted by: the real ch3

ha ... not exactly funny, but here a former asst. DA went through 2 trials for murdering his wife, with kids in the house. Seemed guilty as hell to me, but not guilty the final verdict. But the prosecution was delayed for 8 years.

The problem with leaving the pillow on head after suffocating, is rigor sets in and the arms stay up as if the pillow was still there. That was the case with this guy ... but not enough evidence they say. (his very young kids' stories were his alibi, but they had conflicting stories) Case made national news a few times, including Greta.

anyway ... pro advice ... remove the pillow.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 23, 2017 02:31 PM (/aIFg)

160 Woody Allen's next film rumored to have a sex scene between an older man and a teenage girl.

Wonder how he came up with that idea?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:09 PM (39g3+)

Actually, if I read that right, Insty is talking about Allen's 1979 movie Manhattan.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 23, 2017 02:31 PM (X6fMO)

161 Ever since the Weinstein scandal broke and I started clicking on the stories, the ads on my browser now include Frederick's of Hollywood.

Like. . .

All.

The .

Time.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:31 PM (wo3jg)

162 Ever since the Weinstein scandal broke and I started clicking on the stories, the ads on my browser now include Frederick's of Hollywood.

Like. . .

All.

The .

Time.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:31 PM (wo3jg)

. . . not seeing the problem here.

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:32 PM (s5o+q)

163 Any mention of John's brother Tony as CEO of Joule Energy? It was a Russian front and it did give John 75k shares and 200K stock options. Unexpectedly, it went bankrupt the day after Hillary lost her election. What are the odds?

Posted by: Pudding Head at October 23, 2017 02:33 PM (YV+SU)

164 I like how Hillary's rationalization process for losing the election was the biggest act of prog projection ever.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (RDd1I)

165 The question then becomes, why is the media turning on the democrats? What has changed?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse

They're covering all the big, important stories of the day nonstop: Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment suit settled for $32 mil, Trump's Benghazi in Niger, and Trump being mean to a widow. Also John Kelly needs to apologize to that nice Congress lady. Other than that, nothing else is happening that's worth reporting!

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (2NqXo)

166 Puddin head, @115.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (tbOMB)

167 161 Ever since the Weinstein scandal broke and I started clicking on the stories, the ads on my browser now include Frederick's of Hollywood.

Like. . .

All.

The .

Time.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:31 PM (wo3jg)

Oh the burdens you must endure.

Posted by: buzzion at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (cAnNx)

168 People with liberalish tendencies must be persuaded to try to pursue their projects and agendas *outside* of government. It must be pointed out that even when you have the dream team of Obama/Hillary/Holder etc. it still ends up being a corrupt shitshow, motivated by the same greed they claim to despise.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (/qEW2)

169 Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:31 PM (wo3jg)

. . . not seeing the problem here.
____________________________________

These ads are NSFW.

Major violation of the Estrogen Protection Act of 1988, as amended in 1989, 1990, 1991. . . 2017. . .

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (wo3jg)

170 I'm very curious as to what O'Riley could do to a woman that was worth 32 million.

Posted by: jwest at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (coYZ7)

171 I don't believe a word of it.

Mueller is destroying evidence of democrat crimes and treason as fast as the shredders and burn-barrels can swallow it.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be mistaken about this, but I don't think we'll ever see anything out of Mueller unless he can Scooter Libby some innocent optimist who shows up with a cheap lawyer.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/7 at October 23, 2017 02:27 PM (8/cWV)

Absent my idea for the ten-million-Moron March on Washington, about the only other thing I can think of that might shift things would be somebody start whispering in Mueller's ear that he's the one man who could radically change all of human history for the better, just by pursuing all of the allegations (against Democrats!) to their end points, bring charges and get convictions against some of the biggest names in Democrat politics, and go down (instead of, perhaps, Trump) as the Great Restorer of the Rule of Law.

Don't see THAT happening though.

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:35 PM (s5o+q)

172 These ads are NSFW.

Major violation of the Estrogen Protection Act of 1988, as amended in 1989, 1990, 1991. . . 2017. . .
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (wo3jg)

Ah. Okay. And being at work, slapping on an ad blocker is probably not gonna happen.

Go click on about a hundred cute-puppy stories. Maybe you can get Google convinced that you have a new pet and get served Petco ads instead?

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:37 PM (s5o+q)

173 Have to admit, the pictures are definitely more interesting that Sonobi,.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:37 PM (wo3jg)

174
They're covering all the big, important stories of the day nonstop: Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment suit settled for $32 mil, Trump's Benghazi in Niger, and Trump being mean to a widow. Also John Kelly needs to apologize to that nice Congress lady. Other than that, nothing else is happening that's worth reporting!

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM

How is this Trump's Benghazi? Did Obama or Hillary ever pay a price for that? Then why should Trump? Besides,Obama sent them to Niger.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 23, 2017 02:37 PM (7uYFy)

175 Absent my idea for the ten-million-Moron March on Washington, about the only other thing I can think of that might shift things would be somebody start whispering in Mueller's ear that he's the one man who could radically change all of human history for the better, just by pursuing all of the allegations (against Democrats!) to their end points, bring charges and get convictions against some of the biggest names in Democrat politics, and go down (instead of, perhaps, Trump) as the Great Restorer of the Rule of Law.

Don't see THAT happening though.
Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:35 PM (s5o+q)

I can only see this happening if, and only if, the Demunists throw Mueller under the bus.

Posted by: Curmudgeon - 2017 GNAMM survivor at October 23, 2017 02:39 PM (ujg0T)

176 173 Have to admit, the pictures are definitely more interesting that Sonobi,.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 23, 2017 02:37 PM (wo3jg)

You will enjoy the gulags.

Posted by: Sonobi at October 23, 2017 02:40 PM (72PAC)

177 Let me know when any of these people are walking in orange jumpsuits, with black bags over their heads, while wearing an Oregon boot.

Posted by: Under Fire at October 23, 2017 02:40 PM (mcI77)

178 170 I'm very curious as to what O'Riley could do to a woman that was worth 32 million.

Posted by: jwest at October 23, 2017 02:34 PM (coYZ7)

I'm thinking partial nudity would be sufficient. By him, not her.

Posted by: joncelli: a man, a plan, a crossbow at October 23, 2017 02:41 PM (RD7QR)

179 Mueller will offer immunity to everyone involved.

Posted by: Grump928(C) repeats himself at October 23, 2017 02:42 PM (QQ+il)

180 Obama's skill at turning a crisis to his advantage seems to be about as effective as Wiley Coyote's skills with Acme products.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at October 23, 2017 02:25 PM (m9X4Y)

========

The Dems are skilled. But their techniques no longer work. They created crises by huffing and bluffing and now they are doing that against Trump Tower and they don't see it's not working anymore.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 23, 2017 02:42 PM (/qEW2)

181 166 Puddin head, @115.
------------------
Thanks Flounder. Pretty easy piece of investigating on this bread trail. What do place the odds that Mueller and Clinton Apparatchik crew are able to find it and do something?

Posted by: Pudding Head at October 23, 2017 02:43 PM (YV+SU)

182
Obama's skill at turning a crisis to his advantage seems to be about as effective as Wiley Coyote's skills with Acme products.

Or his skill at racial healing.

He's a follower of the Mugabe Method.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 23, 2017 02:43 PM (IqV8l)

183 Able to find it? Foregone conclusion. Do nothing about it? Also foregone conclusion.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at October 23, 2017 02:44 PM (tbOMB)

184 Trump needs to start lighting Mueller up on Twitter, and then fire him if he doesn't resign.

Posted by: TexasDan at October 23, 2017 02:45 PM (TqXWc)

185 All right, I'm going to get a drink and wash the sour taste of this day out of my mouth. See you tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 23, 2017 02:46 PM (X6fMO)

186 Welcome to the new age, to the new age
Welcome to the new age, to the new age.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at October 23, 2017 02:47 PM (/qEW2)

187
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
And laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Crying
Crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying

Posted by: Grump928(C) repeats himself at October 23, 2017 02:48 PM (QQ+il)

188 "bring charges and get convictions against some of
the biggest names in Democrat politics, and go down (instead of,
perhaps, Trump) as the Great Restorer of the Rule of Law.
Don't see THAT happening though.

Posted by: filbert

appeal to the more noble motive ... I like it, but it requires a noble person.

With the dirty tricks in Mueller's past, and friends in low places ... he is more likely interested in protecting "the family". Yeah ... the organized crime guys maybe, but his own family as well. Looking at the dirt he has hired, he has no intention of raining the swamp ... he came in as the hit man to take out Trump (to use Maxine's direct language) ... and Rosenstein gave him the unlimited power, no confining directives ... to look everywhere.

They are protecting their own legacy that has lots of skeletons ... no way they want to open those closets. Drain the swamp and the skeletons appear. imo

Posted by: illiniwek at October 23, 2017 02:48 PM (/aIFg)

189 I wonder how fucking Sessions can recuse himself from this russia bullshit on the flimsiest set of facts...when he then let people more involved with, biased by, and hindered by actual russia collusion ties take over the business?

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 23, 2017 02:50 PM (RDd1I)

190 For 32 million, Oreilly had to have denied her a job that was going to pay her 31.9 million . That's the only logical reasoning behind such a large settlement.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at October 23, 2017 02:50 PM (hjrto)

191 Ever since the Weinstein scandal broke and I started clicking on the stories, the ads on my browser now include Frederick's of Hollywood.

Like. . .

All.

The .

Time.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

You maybe have something you want to share with the group? NTTAWWT.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 23, 2017 02:51 PM (bKPAB)

192 189 I wonder how fucking Sessions can recuse himself from this russia bullshit on the flimsiest set of facts...when he then let people more involved with, biased by, and hindered by actual russia collusion ties take over the business?

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 23, 2017 02:50 PM (RDd1I)

Sessions has been a huge fvcking disappointment.

Posted by: Under Fire at October 23, 2017 02:52 PM (mcI77)

193 I wonder how fucking Sessions can recuse himself from this russia bullshit on the flimsiest set of facts...when he then let people more involved with, biased by, and hindered by actual russia collusion ties take over the business?
Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 23, 2017 02:50 PM (RDd1I)

This can happen EXACTLY because the entire major MFM consists of "Democrats with bylines."

The honest in-depth investigative reporting is all being done around the edges, by the likes of Daily Caller, not by the self-appointed big dogs of the news media.

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:53 PM (s5o+q)

194 well, sessions should require the entire "muh russia!" group apply the same recusal standards.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP code is at October 23, 2017 02:54 PM (RDd1I)

195 Sessions has been a huge fvcking disappointment.

Posted by: Under Fire

Too invested in the status quo. We need someone who'd dig in, no matter who, no matter what, "though the heavens fall".

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at October 23, 2017 02:54 PM (AM1GF)

196 Sessions has been a huge fvcking disappointment.

Posted by: Under Fire at October 23, 2017 02:52 PM (mcI77)

Sessions was the first congress critter to back Trump publicly, IIRC. I don't know whether Trump would have won without that. Imagining a world run by her thighness ...

Posted by: Off the reservation at October 23, 2017 02:55 PM (vWMNq)

197 Sessions has been a huge fvcking disappointment.

+++++++++

one benny of a trump presidency is hopefully career paths for bright young conservative lawyers will open up. GOP kids need some high $ lawyer jobs too.

Someone the next gen will be able to lean on for lawyer lawfare soldiers.

Posted by: Witwickian Sage (muh IP=BooBs) at October 23, 2017 02:55 PM (RDd1I)

198 Nobody NOODs any more.

Nood Megyn Kelly.

Posted by: filbert at October 23, 2017 02:57 PM (s5o+q)

199 At this point Sessions could personally shoot Clinton in the face with a shotgun and people here would bitch about how slow he was to pull the trigger

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 23, 2017 02:57 PM (39g3+)

200 A coal mine could be revived in King County(Near Seattle)

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7gvjaee

The explosions you are going to hear are not the dynamite going off in the mines.

Posted by: Under Fire at October 23, 2017 02:58 PM (mcI77)

201 Podesta creates some fiction on Manafort and is given immunity. Isn't that how it works?

Posted by: Ever at October 23, 2017 03:02 PM (QZdJj)

202 Rosatom = Red Atom.

Posted by: Beverly at October 23, 2017 03:03 PM (RlaEa)

203 Well, probably Rosatom = Russian Atom, but same thing.

Posted by: Beverly at October 23, 2017 03:04 PM (RlaEa)

204 I wish our President would rip the lid off this teeming mass of corruption and let the demand from the Citizens (remember us?) build to a crescendo for the Mueller/Rosenstein team to be fired.

Then can their asses.

Posted by: Beverly at October 23, 2017 03:05 PM (RlaEa)

205 at this point in time, what difference does it make?

i have ZERO faith that anything concrete will be done to prosecute anyone in the Obola regime, and the same amount of faith in the DOJ/FBI/CIA/NSA/"your agency here" their staff that any of them will fulfill their duties to anyone other than themselves and the deep state.

i have exactly the opposite amount of faith that, should i ever come to their attention, or incur the wrath of someone connected to the swamp that i would be prosecuted in any and every way imaginable with a level of zeal that would make the Inquisition look like a "Procrastinators r' Us" convention.

Posted by: redc1c4 at October 23, 2017 03:06 PM (BHU1I)

206 Yeah, but who cares. Nationalistic white supremacists worrying about their phallocentric toys of mass destruction. Who cares?

Trump, on the other hand, said, "Grab them by their PUSSIES!!!"

Posted by: Unhinged at October 23, 2017 03:10 PM (QCyzD)

207 Last time the Clintons headed an investigation, it ended with Sandy Berger stuffing classified documents in his pants.

Posted by: red speck at October 23, 2017 03:34 PM (6Krd7)

208 At this point Sessions could personally shoot Clinton in the face with a shotgun and people here would bitch about how slow he was to pull the trigger

Not me

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or great value tibet at October 23, 2017 03:48 PM (U4PcL)

209 I think it's pretty clear that if you are a criminal or a complete fuck-up, you are the best person to gather evidence or the crime or fuck up and to do justice. And get paid to do so.

Posted by: Jamie Gorelick at October 23, 2017 03:51 PM (hKi6n)

210 "of the crime" You don't pay me enough to spell check.

Posted by: Jamie Gorelick at October 23, 2017 03:52 PM (hKi6n)

211 Why does everyone keep calling him "Ron" Rosenstein?

Posted by: Jimmy Jaws at October 23, 2017 04:00 PM (mjnwi)

212 Ok, it is after 3PM Eastern time, Mueller can close this investigation now on Podesta.

He already spent more time than was allocated for this part of the "investigation".

Back to Trump/Russia. It has been nearly a year and no evidence, but soon, soon.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 23, 2017 04:02 PM (UsCnO)

213 64
>>58 You want to end the prosecutor mania? Arrest Mueller. They
can REEEE about prosecutorial immunity, but when he and Clinton are
sharing a cell Posted by: trev006 at October 23, 2017 01:59 PM (jRA31)

Who prison-rapes whom?

GREAT question. Hillary has the bigger dick. And she is mean. Mueller's butt and mouth must be nervous right about now.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 23, 2017 04:09 PM (UsCnO)

214 Call me cynical, but I for see clearing the decks and saying no wrongdoing on Podesta part, or sans that Hillary knew nothing and the Clintons did nothing wrong.

Posted by: Stve at October 23, 2017 05:23 PM (b7XQ3)

215 They're investigating Podesta. You know, just like Comey "investigated" Hillary.

Unless maybe they feel the need to write him a jaywalking ticket so they can claim this entire Coup Attempt was evenhanded.

Scum.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at October 23, 2017 07:50 PM (Ndje9)

216 Reportedly, Tony Podesta was lobbying for sanctions relief for Putin's Sberbank--without registering.

And John Podesta was business partners with Putin in Joule Energy. When caught, he merely transferred ownership to a family member.

However, I've never heard it said what kind of "energy"--guessing nuclear.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at October 23, 2017 08:04 PM (Ndje9)

217 ps: That's if Joule Energy was even a real company or just a mechanism to funnel cash to Clinton, Inc.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at October 23, 2017 08:08 PM (Ndje9)

218 Come and listen to my story bout a man named John
Poor electioneer, barely kept the power on
Then one day he was workin' it for Hill
and up from Moscow popped a lot of dollar bills!
Rubles, that is
Black bags, Kremlin specie

First thing you know, old John's a millionaire
Hillary says "John, you're gonna have to $hare."
"Come work at the White House with Barry and me,"
so he gave away his shares--to his own family!

Now it's time to say goodbye to John and Ms. Clinton
They would like to thank the Vlad for kindly chipping in.
You're all invited back next time when Hillary runs again
to sell Putin whatever's left of our uranium!

Take your medical devices off
Set a spell
Don't come back now, hear?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at October 23, 2017 08:13 PM (Ndje9)

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