Discussion: NBC: In Meeting With Russian Lawyer, Manafort Took Notes About 'Donations'

Beer for me. I may have to break out the good stuff for this.

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Under code word “piggy bank” was the name Vladimir Putin

Under the code word “pay him back” were the words lift the Russian sanctions so piggy bank can access his billions
in Panamanian banks.

Under the code word “money laundering” were the words, use the Russian banks and some Trump Towers in different cities like Toronto and condo’s in Florida.

Under the code words “avoid federal taxes” were the code words don’t ever release the tax returns or we are so screwed.

Is the NYT’s David Brooks still describing all this a 'nothing burger".

Under the code words “David Brooks” were the code words and die hard Republican buffoon.

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@spencersmom

“No leaks. . . . This is how we know we’re a real family here.” That’s what that idiot said.

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Take the slow grind, that will injure D2S ego & brand absolutely thoroughly.

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What a grand and honorable man, that Ryan!

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Whispers from whom? I’ll believe it when I see it. (And oh brother, would I love to see it!)

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This holds up, I remember the Russian lawyer describing Manafort as being “on his phone” the whole time when she was interviewed a couple months ago. This will wind up being one of the worst, most wide-scale, and stupidest crime in modern history.

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Unfair: Fine people are being accused without benefit of a trial!
The leaks are the real problem!

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He knew full well what Russia had been doing to the Democrats and, even more critically, our elections and the democratic system of this country. But yeah, it’s all good because “we are a real family.”

I’d need to buy and drink all the beer sold at the nearby beer store if the man ends up in the big house. And I’m not even a drinker…

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A father that will make his children proud, if this goes the way it seems to be going.

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The timing of the leaks is interesting. Overly-sprayed buffoon has been palling around with Grassley, exchanging pleasantries about ethanol before his spawn is about to testify before Grassley.

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McConnell and Ryan are losthsome, but they are not so stupid as to get entangled in any Trump/ Russia scheme. Beyond not being so stupid, they both loathe Trump and thought he would lose, so there was no longterm political motive for them to get mixed up in Trump’s trash bin, either.

As to the comment about Mensch and Taylor being right all along. Not so. With respect, I think anyone who starts crediting them is just doing what the right wingers do: falling for crackpotitis.

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This report looks to be addltional to the manafort…info…translations etc…

Sent from a friend in Bangladeshi. …

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Chief of staff of the RNC. Previously VP of the RNC during the convention and this Trump Jr. meeting.

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And don’t forget Shitgibbon’s repeated assertions before the elections that he would not concede if the result went against him. Makes perfect sense now.

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This is nice, but I’m getting a bit worried Manafort is going to sit down to a nice cup of polonium-infused tea one of these days.

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I don’t think that statement is holding up, especially with regards to Ryan. The leaked audio of him, McCarthy and rest of the leadership discussing Trump and Rohrbacher being on Putin’s payroll…and the alarm with which Ryan immediately moved to shut down that discussion and swear everyone to secrecy is pretty good indication that he at they very least knew illegal money was making its way into republican campaigns.

Ryan is not a strong fund raiser, which is one of the main functions of a Speaker for his party. Indeed, he tried to make it a condition of taking the job that he wouldn’t have to hold fund raisers. That condition was immediately blown off, and he got saddled with the duty anyway. Some easy Russian money flowing into everyone’s coffers would have been seen as a godsend by Ryan, who was and is still struggling with many other traditional aspects of the job.

I think there is a better than 50/50 chance that Ryan has his hands dirty with Russian money, or at the very least, knowledge and complicity of Russian money.

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Not quite true. Recall that Obama spoke with McConnell back in September about the Russian “invasion” and McConnell told him not to mention it prior to the election. It is one of the few things I can’t quite forgive Obama for…

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No, I did see further down that this is on anonymous authority.

I can’t imagine what the final report on all these investigations is going to look like. One won’t be able to tell the players without a printed program in front of them.

But I do wish they would get on with it and ‘rid us of this troublesome’ individual.

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