And somehow on all of that, no charges.
I really hope that the Dems bring out Kushner and Jr. for public testimony. Will be amusing to watch 5 hours of, âI plead the fifthâ from both, and make the conspiracy that couldnât be proven because people obstructed clear to even the densest of people.
The two sidesâ accounts differ on what occurred at the meeting; Kushner says the discussion revolved around diplomatic issues, while VEB framed it in the context of potential investments, possibly including 666 Fifth Avenue.
Mueller says that the investigation âdid not resolve the apparent conflictâ in the two accounts [âŚ]
This makes it even more mystifying why Kushner was not subpoenaed. There really is one law for the rich and powerful and one law for the rest of us.
You questioned that before?
âAt the meeting, Kushner made his now-infamous pitch to use the Russian embassyâs secure room for a briefing by Russian generals on the situation in Syria.â
And the perfectly innocent explanation for this request â from a private citizen in 2016 â is what exactly?
(âWho among us HASNâT tried to sneak into a Russian embassy in the trunk of a car to use the Vlad line?â)
Wanted a custom matryoshka doll for his father-in-law to commemorate the historic victory.
Since his father-in-law was receiving regular briefings from the CIA and NSA now, didnât want to give him a heads-up that it was coming.
Your lips to the goddessâs ear.
Pelosi?
And I also hope that they use committee counsel to ask a one-hour round of questioning at the beginning of the hearing.
âWas Kushner involved in some sinister quid-pro-quo leveraging U.S. national security in exchange for the mixed-use potential of 666 Fifth Avenue? Or was he simply taking meetings with any operative whoâd call him up, Russian or otherwise?â
Arenât these the same things? Kushner was leveraging anything he could with anyone whoâd take his calls. Desperate people do desperate things. If he didnât make a deal with the Russians, itâs because he got a better deal with someone else. Iâm guessing tracking this down was outside of Muellerâs investigation, but Iâd look in the direction of Saudi Arabia.
Iâm honestly beginning to think maybe there was no deliberate obstruction or collusion, because Trump & Co. are too feckinâ stupid to rise to the level of deliberate espionage.
Works for me.
The obtuseness of the Trump campaign members continues to impressâŚhonestly, they couldnât have screwed up collaborating more if they were trying to. The Russians must have looked at them as amateurs and decided to work around them, extracting a bit of data from the one person they knew (Manafort) to support their efforts. Russiaâs team was sophisticated enough to do it all on their own, they didnât need Trump et al and probably planned to get something out of them later.
It would really be interesting to see what the grand jury thought about some of this stuffâŚMueller couldnât connect the dots due to a lot of interference, which means no evidence to prove the case, but thereâs a lot of smoke and a jury may have decided that it needed more investigation. This is where the Democrats need to focus, they should drag all these people in and grill them, hopefully something pops outâŚat the least they will appear to be the lying trash they are.
Anyone know why Manafort wasnât charged with obstruction?
Mueller really seems to have been leaning over to give the younger generation the benefit of the doubt.
Usually youâd arrest the kids and use that to pressure the higher-ups, but that assumes they care about their kidsâ fate.
âand only very good things!â
What a complete dork.
Thereâs a fantastic tool that you can use, if youâre part of or running an organization, to reach a decision short of consensus. Itâs great because everyoneâs opinion counts, they can explain their thinking and go on record. Itâs called voting. Donât want to impeach? If youâre in the House and think that way, vote against it. If it goes to a Senate trial and youâre not convinced, vote against conviction.
Did we get an answer on WHY all the lies?
Why is Josh taking everything within the Mueller Report as fact? It seems Mueller and his team couldnât make up their collective minds nor come to conclusions because there were so many people dissembling and outright lying. At best, this is Muellerâs team guessing or taking leaps of faith.
Also, the Mueller Report failed to elaborate the Kushnerâs and their loans from both the Middle East and China. Why?
Manafort claimed that he passed it along as a way to prove his value to oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a former client to whom he remains in debt.
And why does he think that it would impress Oleg? I assume that Putin found it of value, because Oleg would have little personal use for polling data. It is not like a Mercedes that he can drive. So, it must have had another type of value. This is a bread crumb waiting for a nugget more of information.