Discussion: Nadler Reports That He Has Received Tens Of Thousands Of Docs For Probe

Hmmmmmā€¦no wonder Spankee is freaking out.

Iā€™ll bet his best buddy Rosemary from Deutsche Bank gets orders from her higher-ups (HQ) to make nice with the investigations or else. Theyā€™re reeling from other scandals and are trying to clean up the bankā€™s reputation. What Iā€™ve read is that they were totally freaked out when they discovered the last round of loans to Spankeeā€¦

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One of the true-isms of working in public service is that ā€œconservativeā€ people are always saying that we need to run our organizations like businesses. We would be in prison if we did.

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Is this the same Rose Mary who gave us the 18 minute gap in the Nixon tapes? s/

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Again, Bannon perplexes me, as he sent over ā€œthousandsā€ of documents. What side of the street is this guy working?

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Ha, Iā€™d missed thatā€¦!

What a hoot. Karma is laughing, I suspect.

His own. Heā€™ll mow down anybody who gets in his way. Or just for fun.

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Iā€™ll be around all day to accept the apologies from the folks who have been screaming about Nadler being useless, that heā€™s making responses to his committee optional, that heā€™s taking too long, etcā€¦

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If theyā€™ve requested a subpoena, by all means please accomodate them.

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It occurs to me that not everyone in the WH in a position to hand documents over to Nadler is a fan of Trump.

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Oh, Iā€™m sure there will be some holdouts. But the folks who donā€™t have the personal backing of the WH are likely to fully cooperate here to hope to avoid any troubles of their own. And it sounds like thatā€™s what has happened.

And since the requests really overlapped, Nadler will likely find most of the materials from the holdouts anyway (since e-mails tend to have a sender and a recipientā€¦).

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Volunteerism is nice, but I simply donā€™t understand why Nadler or his contemporaries in the House do not start with a subpoena and skip the Kabuki theater which is a DC hallmark.

Are we serious about this or not? This era of the 'sternly worded letter is a sad joke.

I presume these are thousands of non-incriminating documents, and the others will not be forthcoming absent a subpoena and a search warrant.

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Naw. Deliberately withholding would just get them into a deeper stew. And since multiple people got requests for the same documentation, itā€™s highly likely that Nadler gets what he needs from one of the others, then goes after the person who withheld it.

Bannon might be a jerk, heā€™s not an idiot.

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In ordinary times, Iā€™d think so. But I donā€™t know if anything holds true in criminal proceedings related to this president. Itā€™s like a contest of stupid. Though Iā€™ll grant you, Olā€™ Skinbags there is not the dumbest among them by a long shot.

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I think everyone involved is looking at Manafort. And the fact that heā€™s been in prison for the last 9 months already, with no pardon.

Naw, theyā€™ll be looking after their own skin. Had Trump pardoned Manafort, different ballgame.

*Note that this doesnā€™t apply to the Trumps/Jared.

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Very good point. Letā€™s hope it convinces them to deliver all the goods that will cook their respective geese thoroughly, stat.

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Because he just got tens of thousands of documents in two weeks.

If he started out with subpoenas, by the time those ran through all the legal proceedings and inevitable court challenges and whatnot, it would be several months at least before he would get anything.

There still will need to be subpoenas for the folks who either didnā€™t cooperate in this round, or withheld.

But this way the committee has a lot of material to work with while they go chasing things, rather than nothing.

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ā€¦some who have requested a subpoena from the Committee before they are comfortable supplying the information requested.

Surely, we can give the people what they want, eh?
Ever the showman, DT should appreciate that.

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IMO part of his theory of overload, same thing that happened when donald was first in office. Just bury the committee with a literal ton of stuff to have to go through. Kind of like the MO of donaldā€™s style ā€˜Baffle them with bullshitā€™


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Bannon piles up junk, wastes the time to go through it, he has complied and thus is off the hook. Isnā€™t it a win for him? Just his style as I see it.

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