Trump has no filter. Proving he tried to stop the investigation is going to be easy. The battle is going to be why he tried to stop the investigation For that we need to find out if he wanted the pressure off to help him advance a legitimate American foreign policy interest, or if he wanted the pressure off for some other reason. I want to know more about the money.
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Radicalcentrist: they are having this debate to try and reach Trump supporters in the belief that logic and rational thinking even common sense will change their opinion. .
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I don’t see how the former is a legitimate legal defense. Nor does it minimize the Russian meddling (whether or not it was decisive in the election is immaterial) nor the financial crimes should Mueller be able to document those.
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Not seeing why doesn’t mean an argument that he wants to reset Russian relations won’t resonate with the court, in this case the court is the Republican congress. If you go after a President you better go after him with everything you have. Here he has the judge and jury in his pocket. It is not obvious that Trump is going to lose. If things drag out to 2018 and we do our part, the nature of the congress could change for the better for us.
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That’s why the money laundering is the key, If Mueller can prove that (and my bet is that he will) that will be a heavy lift even for the Rs in Congress.
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A wide network of friends and hangers-on
The final group of potential witnesses includes Trump’s close confidantes from New York City and his various private clubs, who he is known to call up to grouse about his administration’s crisis du jour.
How about interviewing all the people in the weddings and parties he cases at his golf resorts? He probably grouse about all the unfairness and bad people to them, too.
"Who was that strange man with the weird hair and orange face, Michelle? And why was he carrying on about having to fire some dude named Comey who was trying to get him? ‘Life is so unfair’ . What a whiner.
“Well, Mike, I think it was the president. He also tried to fondle one of the bridesmaids boobs and ate a whole lot of the chicken wings and told me that he was working on making the country better again and he’d have it all done in two to three weeks.” Then, he just got into a golf cart with some creepy big guys with head sets and left.
“Yeah, what was all that about?”
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There are 31 million twitterbots that are witness to Trounce’s crimes and admissions as well and that’s just his own account.
How many were watching the Lester Holt interview?
Trounce spilled the beans and there is no unspilling them. His admission on national TV is enough. All the rest of the witnesses and fact collecting are just bolstering the case and corroborating everything into a perfect timeline.
Trounce is dead as a door knob and twice as useless.
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If that doesn’t sell it, Trump can try this
"Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green. "
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Putin was going to tinker with the election and US politics as he has done and will continue to do in many countries, and he had no need to collude with Trump’s campaign to achieve his objectives. Trump was already a friend in greed (if not in also in crime) having been used to launder billions of ill-gotten money in safe US real estate LLCs. Putin’s objective was to to be introduced to and compromise members of Trumps campaign, for much longer term purposes.
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The problem is, the more bad stuff to find, the longer it will take. If Trump had done, a bribe or two, you could probably wrap up the investigation in a matter of weeks. But here we have so many people in his organization with some ties to Russia and eastern bloc countries, so many shady transactions that could be considered emoluments or other types of financial crime, that it’s hard to imagine how a thorough investigation of it all could be completed in any reasonable time. Makes you wonder if there’s something of a deliberate “too big to fail” strategy here, but the invincible Trump’s Razor would say no.
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So far they are doing a great job of ignoring it.
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Follow. The. Money.
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Trump’s bribing days are long past. When he was just a civilian, he could bribe state AGs to get them to drop investigations. Now that he’s President, he just orders people to drop investigations and if they don’t he fires them. At least that’s how he thinks it’s supposed to work. He’s having a hard time coming to grips with the fact that he can’t fire Congresspeople or state AGs. He’s even finding out that he can’t fire some people in his own Executive branch. I imagine he’s beginning to long for the good old days when nobody paid much attention to what he did or how he ran his businesses.
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It’s like if everyone in the Corleone family was Fredo
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All that and destabilizing the U.S. political system to the point where it’s on the verge of collapse. All in a day’s work for the dedicated professionals at the KGB. The best part is is that they could fully admit it, and Trump’s base would still deny it has happened.
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Yes and clashes with his hair, also too.
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A wide network of hangers-on
Fixed it.
Friends? Trump?
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And yet they could have done nothing without the active and passive participation of the GOP.
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It’ll be the trial of the century. And P.T. Barnham couldn’t put on a better show than Mad King Mango.
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So when does Trump start pardoning people, and what happens then? How do we respond when the obstruction of justice takes its most literal, direct form, and what happens to our country?
Because we gotta know that’s coming. There’s no way Trump is going to allow his partners in crime – particularly precious Jared – to be prosecuted.
The absurdity and danger of this entire spectacle is breathtaking, but possibly the most mindbending aspect is that millions of Americans willingly handed over the nearly unchecked power to pardon anybody for crimes to a well-known grifter and wannabe mob boss.
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