CNN: WH Concealed Transcripts Of Trump’s Calls With Russia, Saudi Arabia

[mtw]

It has been a game of opposites when it comes to hiring by this administration.

[esva]

And she had female body parts!

[entrada]

Given that Trump just suggested they be hung or electrocuted as spies–which means that Trump and Congressional Republicans will use their bully pulpits to trash and destroy them–I think they want to watch what happens to the first whistleblower. If that person is outed, either by the New York Times, or Trump & Co, they’ll probably wait for a safer time.

[news247]

Maybe, just maybe, the ConFather is a mite sorry that he pissed off the entire US intelligence community.

Revenge is sweet indeed!!

[redemptionsong]

These are some dumb fucks.

That’s the issue with Trump disposing of his advisers as if they’re used tissues. He has few that are competent and trusted ones to guide him through his self-created morass. And his lawyers are of the same ilk. The competent ones have come to realize that Trump is corrupt and he corrupts those around him. The ones that remain are those like Ghouliani and his consigliere/public defender, Bill Barr.

But Trump doesn’t listen to anyone, anyway; except for the deranged voices in his head. Oh, and Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. Not exactly a “brain trust” you have going on there.

[tena]

Given that Trump projects about everything 100% of the time, what that really means is that he is worried about being hanged as a traitor.

He does not have the balls to have anyone harmed or killed.

[zenicetus]

Given that Trump just suggested they be hung or electrocuted as spies–which means that Trump and Congressional Republicans will use their bully pulpits to trash and destroy them–I think they want to watch what happens to the first whistleblower. If that person is outed, either by the New York Times, or Trump & Co, they’ll probably wait for a safer time.

Last I heard, the whistleblower is negotiating to testify before Congress. I think the idea is to keep his identity secret in a private session. If that goes smoothly, then others may start to come out of the woodwork.

[esva]

You know, it really could be that simple. Trump owes Putin mega bucks. Maybe this was the price of loan forgiveness.

[entrada]

I think I have the whole picture at this point finally and here it is: it was never about money or a Trump Tower Moscow. It was about Ukraine always. Putin put Trump in office specifically to deliver Ukraine to Russia. And that’s been the goal ever since.

I think it’s about all of the above. And from Putin’s view point, it is "to deliver Ukraine back to Russia. Back in the USSR days, I remember learning that “The Ukraine” was Russia’s breadbasket–an area with some of the best soils on earth for growing grain. Russia had possessed Ukraine since Catherine the Great until the fall of the USSR. Putin thinks it still belongs to them.

[littlegirlblue]

We already know the NYT has had its difficulty

You are mistaken.

[pluckyinky]

Here we go. Brennan knows some of these folks.

Yes, now is the time to come forward even if it’s solely out of self-interest/preservation. They have three choices: get on the bus, get thrown under it, or get run over by it. Someone on Twitter said they can do the right thing now or pay 6 figure attorneys fees later. I won’t pretend these are easy decisions, but the political environment right now is probably the safest it’ll ever be where the most protection will be provided.

[sandi]

Serious question, (before the preserve notice) if he wanted the notes hidden, why not simply delete them? Is there some bureaucratic procedure that things cannot be deleted unless moved elsewhere? Corollary, if so, do we think anyone actually completed the move? I.e., why not just say you are moving them, to get them deleted?

I’m confused by some of the subterfuge here.

ETA:

We need to know the names and actions of every single person involved in the chain of causation

[entrada]

He does not have the balls to have anyone harmed or killed.

Trump often speaks loudly and carries a small stick.

[news247]

Sounds good to me.

[grack]

There’s nothing more inconvenient that having the saw break on you halfway through a project.

And avoid the wi-fi versions. You wouldn’t want to get hacked.

I guess we should have saw that coming.

[news247]

Yes. Trump is a coward. I wonder how this plays out in his impeachment, especially when the ReThugs turn against him because public opinion has turned against him.

[squirreltown]

Yes. Trump is a coward. I wonder how this plays out in his impeachment,

It means he got rabbit in 'is blood. He’s a runner.

(just a metaphor bunnies, calm down)

[entrada]

These are some dumb fucks.

The earlier you flip, the better deal you get.

Yes, but you want to have a Goldilocks “flip”: early enough to get a decent deal from prosecutors and look like one of the good guys, but not so early as to be out there naked and alone, where Trump, Rudi, Lindsay, Nunes, et al, are trash talking you daily, destroying your reputation, and making you a possible target for some nuts in the Trump base.

There is safety in numbers–try to be, say, in the first third of people to flip.

[jtx]

Yep Putin doesn’t have Ukraine and Trump doesn’t have the Tower. Funny how that worked out.

[coimmigrant]

I’d love to see the committee call Cockholster’s translator,

At which time we would hear that conversations with foreign national conspirators, i.e. advisors, are protected by executive privilege.

Eugene Scalia, spawn of Antonin,

Being the scion of decipher, he would tell us the original intent of the Department of Labor was to coddle big business so it could use its vast resources to promote the general welfare of the working class.