Iād rather sit in prison and rotā¦
Best news of the day. I hope we can accommodate him.
Nicole, the critical stance and writing style in this post isā¦[chefās kiss to fingertips] magnifique!
Bear with me for a minute here, but sometimes I have to think these types are so addled that they believe their own drivel. Thatās part of what make them persuasive to other knuckleheads. He might actually be reluctant to say he ālied,ā when any crazy nonsense he can dream up to yell about political enemies assumes a kind of tenuous truth in his diseased mind. Thereās an inner 5-year-old there that comes raging out when people like this are called to account, yelling āno fair!ā and maintaining their half-believed-in innocence no matter how obviously guilty they are. I hardly have to mention he aināt the only one.
This feature is clearly an opportunity for the writers to cut loose and get their snark on.
āRemember, Jerry: itās not a lieā¦ if you believe it.ā
I can barely get past the fact that āDr. Corsiā is a Seer of this magnitude but he cannot see that he looks like an advertisement for someone on the cusp of cardiac arrest. He is far more likely to collapse grasping his chest in prison than rotting. Perhaps another midnight flight over Italy would help to sharpen his Seer Skills?
Watchword of the habitual liarātheyāre all method actors. Jason Alexander once said he was amazed how many people came up to tell him they were just like George, obviously not realizing George is not meant to be seen as very admirable.
An unusually tough competition this week. Well done Mr. Corsi.
Most of us would be delighted to leave him in a cell to rot. We would also be delighted to see the other, oh, 3-dozen-and-counting others in adjacent cells. Preferably in Guantanamo, for their own safety.
When do we find out Michael Cohen did indeed go to Prague? Canāt wait for that shoe to drop, unless Iāve missed something in all this. Would be icing on the cake and one more feather in Muellerās cap.
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html
Corsi spent the whole week trying to troll Trump into giving him a pardon and trying to evade the Special Counsel and start a political movement against him.
Mueller had the last word, however, when he got Cohen to plead guilty for lying to Congress. Corsi admitted on air that he lied to Congress. I have to say, as an aside, that Ari Melber conducted one of the best interviews Iāve seen of a self-promoting whack job. He didnāt get used the way that CNN gets played every time by these far right nutters.
Corsi came up with a rationalization that since Congress is a political body, lying doesnāt really exist because in the political sphere one can say anything. Mueller slapped that argument down. Mueller had offered to not prosecute him for lying to Congress in the draft plea deal. Iāll bet that Corsi is scurrying to get that deal again. Not sure if Mueller will offer it. The only value to Mueller of getting a plea deal in place for Corsi is that he wonāt have to waste legal resources prosecuting his crazy fat ass. Come to think of it, that probably is worth it for Mueller to lock Corsi into a plea deal even if he makes for a terrible witness b/c of his pathological lying (though Corsi lies with much more purpose and focus than even Trump).
Mueller had offered similar terms to Sam Patten, pro-Russian Ukrainian asset who pleaded guilty for FARA violations but who also lied to Congress.
Roger Stone is in an even more precarious position. Now that Mueller has established another ācollusionā track with the Cohen revelations, Stone doesnāt have the leverage with Trump to secure a pardon that he thought he had. He also doesnāt have any leverage with the Special Counsel. Stone, however, has now become the most important figure in one of the ācollusionā tracks: the coordination among Russia, Wikileaks and the Trump campaign on the use of stolen DNC/Podesta emails for the benefit of the Trump campaign. Roger Stone used his network to obtain knowledge of what the Russians had, to actually review and comment on the material and to strategize and identify ways to leverage that material to coordinate new attacks on HRC (e.g., health scare) as well as provide recommendations on how and when to use the stolen material (e.g., post Access Hollywood dump of Podesta emails). To me, itās the most clear violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act, and his network is the glue that links everything together, even if GRU and Wikileaks each had their own direct line to the Trump campaign and didnāt need Stone, they used Stoneās network to have some level of plausible deniability. Stone also had knowledge of other ācollusionā tracks, including the Peter Smith storyline with Flynn, and also the Cambridge Analytica thread with Kushner, Parscale, Bannon and the Mercers.
Stoneās best move is to agree to terms with Mueller to tell that expansive story. The problem with Roger is that heās a liar and few will believe him without documented evidence, much of which Mueller may already have. But there is value in having a first person storyteller recount what he discussed with Trump/Trump Campaign, GRU and Wikileaks.
Stone, in his recent leaks to WAPO, was all but cornering Trump into giving him a pardon. He told WAPO that Trump called him from a āblocked numberā (which of course also hurts Junior on the issue of lying to Congress as he denies that he talked to his father about the TT meeting even though there are logged calls to a āblocked numberā). He talked to Trump all the time and both were obsessed with Wikileaks. Itās simply not credible that they didnāt discuss Wikileaks or what Stone had learned from GRU, Assange or his network like Corsi.
So Iād give Stone and Corsi until about the 15th to come to terms with Mueller to plead guilty and cooperate. After that, I think Mueller indicts them both.
I donāt think that Corsi believes the garbage he spews. Heās a bullsh*tter. The relationship of what he says to some objective truth simply isnāt of any interest to him. Much like trump.
Well, I think this guy is a real moronāand a mega-liar to boot. But he does come by his Doctor title honestlyāA Ph. D. in political science from Harvard. So there is that.
I think they both still believe that they have a magic get out of jail free card in a Trump pardon. They may come to realize that there are limitations to playing that card, and they may not be lucky enough to get one dealt to them. What they arenāt accustomed to is actually having to suffer any negative consequences for their misdeeds, so you have to give them a little time to adjust to the concept.
Makes you wonder about the degree of rigor being applied to doctoral candidates at Harvard, and elsewhere, for that matter.
Maybe he cheated . . .
We should expect one of two defense claims when push comes to shove for Corsi:
- āIām just a circus performer/entertainer on tv and in print. Nothing intended for anything other than your amusement. ha ha.ā
- āMy client, your honor, is certifiably insane right now. Itās a case of punctuated psychosis.ā
Well, I say give Corsi a hand, i.e. a back hand!
I donāt get why any of these Trumpers think that Trump would ever give the a pardon if he wasnāt willing to pardon Cohen. Itās clear that Trump doesnāt want to pardon anyone where he thinks he would be implicated in their wrongdoing or in a larger conspiracy. In essence, Trump is wary of self-interested pardons, but is not at all shy about using the concept to coax people into lying or obstructing for him to keep the Special Counsel at bay.
My best guess at this point is that Trump, even in his great cloud of ignorance, may be the only one who realizes that there are potential consequences for issuing pardons that favor people who otherwise might testify against you. He might even realize, perhaps just very recently, that Mueller probably has him cold, and as much as he wants to wish it away, the best he might do is just not make it any worse.