Interesting. Trump pushes the line a bit, assuming he even knows where these lines are, and sees how you react. Do you play it straight? Or do you signal youâre open to some dealing? Bharara plays it straight and boomâheâs gone. Once a few folks get immunity and testify openly or Mueller gets one of the legal cases ready to go weâll hear how the conversation goes when you signal that youâre open to some horse trading.
âItâs my strong belief, that at some point, given the history, the President of the United States would have asked me to do something inappropriate. And I would have resigned then.â
Why? Tell him âNoâ and make him fire you⌠I donât understand this whole, gentlemansâ-agreement-resignation culture.
Can anyone comment on how secure our phone lines really are, knowing how security in general has been challenged? Weâve all gotten spam calls on our cells, but recently Iâve gotten calls that were displaying someone else number from the one they were actually using. T-Mobile verified it. Itâs getting to the point that I donât answer unless I know the number â and now even that isnât secure.
Smart phones just arenât very smart.
Point is, Trumpâs call might have more significanceâŚ
Yes, truly paranoid, I agree. But thatâs come by living through the last few years. What is truly unhackable?
Trump has no inner monologue and no moral compass; he would do anything, cross any line to enrich himself, exact revenge on his perceived enemies or otherwise harm an adversary. He expected Preet to be a pawn in his illegal/unethical game of payback or a tool to exonerate Trump. There are no boundaries in Trumpâs narcissistic, tiny, cluttered mind. He uses people like he uses Kleenex. When Mueller finally drops the net over Trump, the world will rejoice. He deserves a jumpsuit as orange as his fake tan.
Well, thatâs what he did when he was asked to resign.
Love this â the description could not be more perfect.
Yes, what strikes me too about this is how much power that Trump (or the office) has to instill fear, even among veteran prosecutors. The same fear and trembling that Comey exhibited. You would think there would be excited anticipation and a carefully laid trap to ensnare one of the slimiest traitors in history.
Only in the movies I suppose.
No doubt the Nasturtium Narcissist concluded that it would be a good idea to cultivate a relationship with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who, absent such a relationship, might be involved in prosecuting his confederates and partners in crime and even himself.
McConnell and Ryan will brush this all aside by saying Trump is a rookie and just didnât understand the laws or rules of the DoJ and US Attorneys. In the same breath theyâll say itâs time to reopen the Hillary email investigation and go over all the emails for a 6th or 7th time and talk about Hillaryâs tax returns. meanwhile, still no transparency or tax returns from TrumpâŚon any year.
Under RepublicansâŚrules donât matter. But when itâs Democrats or HillaryâŚthe Republicans know every rule in the book and even create new oneâs to justify spending millions that ekpp concluding Hillary was only guilty of some bad judgementâŚcertainly not a crook or a criminal or a traitor like Trump.
The abomination (aka The National Embarrassment) needs a time-out. He is ALL monologue. Moral compasses are for sentient beings. It just canât understand why its greed and delight in destruction is objectionable. I just hope its active vocabulary continues to shrink.
How can recording conversations with Trump ever be âa bridge too farâ. It should be standard practice for anybody (friend, foe or casual acquaintance⌠political figure, beauty pageant contestant or any appointed or elected person) that is in a position to be alone with him (scheduled or impromptu).
It seems to me that Trump would have found it to his advantage to keep Bhara on for a bit. As Trumpâs people had more access to security, they would have access to more info about how far Bhararaâs investigation had gotten into proof of money laundering and whatever else they had found in their investigation. It would give Trumpâs people a way to shape their defence. Who to compromise, and who other nations involved might do likewise.
Hmmm. Shorter Bharara: spoke to trump a few times, nice guy, never asked me to do anything untoward.
Seems more like Bharara is trying to make a name for himself - asserting that trump would have asked him to do something (what, exactly) with no evidence is absurd. Perhaps the phone call was to say âsorry, on further reflection weâve decided to get rid of everyone after all, nothing at all personal but best of luck with future endeavoursâ.
Being fired was a blessing.
Comey plays it straight and boomâheâs gone tooâŚ
I count at least 3 words that are not in trumpâs vocabulary: âsorry,â âreflection,â and âendeavours.â And the spelling of the last one would keep him from even reading it.
Bharara doesnât have to âmake a name for himselfâ either. His reputation is far more honorable than trumpâs.
Look up caller ID spoofing. Basically you can get a device or I think even use a 3rd party service to mask the actual phone number youâre calling from. Itâs used by telemarketers and scams (mainly credit card/loan and financial scams) so that you canât call them back or the ID doesnât display, so you pick it up âjust in case.â.
I agreeâŚand the media would have followed dutifully along exclaiming ââŚnever has a President of the United States done this before TrumpâŚbut itâs not illegalââŚ
And yet here he is virtue signalling saying how honourable he would have been in resigning if only, heaven forfend heâd been asked to do something illegal. Which he wasnât.