Then we trudge forward. We get discouraged and do right anyway. You are weary gr, remember, there have been many corrupt administrations and politicians in our history - this bad? no. But all those political machines that supervised lynchings, graft and voter suppression were laid in the dust in the end.
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Seems like the judge has a hemorrhoid over this case because he’s a law-following kinda guy (I’m guessing) but his team is clearly guilty and he’s one of the referees in the final. Sucks to be him.
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However, I totally agree that Faux News and the rest will use it to scream that it’s proof the “fake news” “liberal lamestream media” is all out to get Trump and his cronies with witch hunts and conspiracies etc. “They did this to manufacture their own news to report.”
[/quote]Because that stuff found in the storage unit was totally useless, didn’t produce any evidence of criminal acts, motive or intent, and we at FOX think that anyone associated with Trump should be free to do whatever they want without consequence, going back to birth and extending to death, infinity and beyond.
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Makes me wish I still lived in Arlington, but I’d probably be dismissed as prejudiced.
There is going to jurists who read magazines???!! UNFAIR!!
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...there's nothing illegal or vaguely improper for authorities to follow up on a tip from anyone, even a journalist.That's the key. But in a mobbed up environment, the crooks often think they are beyond being questioned by anyone. The lawyers the crooks use are similarly misinformed.
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Well we can all stop the Mueller investigation now. Finally, the truth is out, we now know it wasn’t Russia but these guys.
Most of us have felt this way. It sucks right now, no doubt about it. In the long history of the USA and the world, there have been horrible people doing despicable things but as long as we keep fighting we will win. There will be set backs, there will be decisions that go against us. We keep fighting. Know that you are not alone. We are all in this together. When we get down we rely on our fellows to help us back up.
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Agreed. My read was that the AP wanted confirmation of their reporting and met with the FBI/Prosecution, which may have then led to the discovery of the storage unit. But there’s also plenty of other lines in the article like
Pffiefer in his testimony said that it was either that meeting or other investigative efforts that led him to learn of the units. …
The agent said that the response from the officials was generally “no comment.” …
Pfeiffer said he did not remember such a remark being made.
So, like you said, the article makes it hard to tell what actually happened at the meeting and what resulted from it. I’m inclined to think an investigation of this caliber would not need the AP to lead them to a storage unit but that following a tip that leads to a subpoena would be SOP. Furthermore, Manafort’s lawyer is the one claiming there are notes memorializing that the FBI/prosecution confirmed the AP’s reporting, so I’ll take that with a grain of salt (doesn’t seem to jibe with the way the investigation has been conducted so far and also would be the mildest variety of ‘leak’).
I guess we’ll have to stay tuned and see what the cantankerous judge makes of this.
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Yes. It’s amazing how Republicans have landed on the outrage of the Trump campaign being investigated during an election. It really depends on whether Trump was doing anything wrong, which he was.
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Is reporters going to the FBI with their investigative findings a little weird?
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Seems like every road his lawyers have tried to travel have been blocked!
Interesting too is the fact that every time his lawyers aver to any action that could call into question Mueller’s motives, tactics, intentions, witnesses, subpoena details, grand jury selection/action and more…they have been shut down and hard!
Proves that Muelller and his team have crossed every T and dotted very I in a real attempt to offer no quarter at all in their pursuit of the truth. One can bet that every single indicted traitor so far has been subjected to the same level of excruciating detail to avoid any avenue of claimed malfeasance.
Go Mueller!
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No. They were almost certainly looking for confirmation of what they had learned and the FBI would be able to help with that confirmation.
It’s not unusual at all.
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I subscribe to Guns & Arugula magazine to mess with the algorithms.
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One of my FBI buddies once told me a truism that seems most apt today - that the hurdles for convicting someone in the US are so (justifiably) high, the reason so many criminals are caught, indicted and convicted is that they are invariably both arrogant and STUPID. That description fits nearly everyone on the Trump Campaign and this administration to a “T”.
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It was pretty obvious to me that he was working on his bicycle kicks.
This was going to be the year that Hamsteria made it into the World Cup. Sadly, a 7-yr old girl picking out her birthday present thought the center mid was “cute” and the goalie was “funny,” and the team never recovered from the losses.
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Very unusual for the FBI to announce details of an investigation that hasn’t produced any charges yet.
No charges had been made against Manafort at that time and no investigation had been announced either.
O yes. That’s absolutely true.
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Bigly. You forgot the illiterate Trumpian adjective.
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There’s a dance involved.
If either side is unfamiliar with the steps, yes, it could get weird — and cause trouble down the road.