Discussion: The Mystery Of The Fake Invoices That Keep Popping Up In The Manafort Trial

[serendipitoussomnambulist]

I wonder whether he was laundering the suits, the ostrich feathers and the expensive lawn care into cold cash.

[atldrew]

Isn’t that exactly the point?

[xpurg8d]

These mystery invoices bear the stamp of a “Loyal Bank” in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

This right here tells me Spanky hisownself is somehow implicated. LOYAL is his thing.

[david_e_brown]

@junebug

I doubt Trump ever intended to submit to an interview with Mueller.

I wouldn’t be surprised to have him agree to an interview over the objections of his lawyers.

He’s had more than a few sips of his own Cool-Aid, to the point where he is so egotistical, in his narcissistic bubble, that he believes he can persuade anyone to adopt his point of view, especially since he has been able to convince himself that what he spews is true, since it’s the only point of view that enables him to live with himself.

[alliebean]

@david_e_brown

I wouldn’t be surprised to have him agree to an interview over the objections of his lawyers.

I think this is right. I think he’s going to sit.

[ottnott]

@irasdad

Isn’t there a Georgetown cocktail party somewhere missing an obnoxious ass

Forget it, Jake…

[darrtown]

@junebug

do you think the interview will happen? I don’t.

If it does trump cannot help but screw himself.

[darrtown]

@david_e_brown

He’s had more than a few sips of his own Cool-Aid, to the point where he is so egotistical, in his narcissistic bubble, that he believes he can persuade anyone to adopt his point of view, especially since he has been able to convince himself that what he spews is true, since it’s the only point of view that enables him to live with himself.

Except that this time trump would be attempting to convince a law of his point of view which just cannot work. He could maybe convince a person but no amount of tweeting, bellowing, obstructing, or bullshitting on his part is going to change something written in the Federal Code. And he is a serial liar. It’s all he knows how to do. This time he is out of his league. Especially of this meeting is under oath.

[alliebean]

@darrtown

This time he is out of his league. Especially of this meeting is under oath.

Without question. For this to matter, though, he’d have to know and understand this. It’s because he doesn’t that he’ll go through with it.

[tena]

He’s in a no win situation with regard to sitting down with Mueller. Either he doesn’t do it and deals with the - fallout - the suspicion that he might be guilty, or he can sit down with Mueller and start talking and destroy any remaining doubt on the question.

[billyjoe]

[darrtown]

If there is such a sit down …what I’d give to be a fly on the wall listening. Or maybe I could just send in the drones instead of being that fly on the wall…

[seveneagles]

And what about the extraordinary parts in their hair?

[alliebean]

I think where many well informed legal analysts are struggling is that it would be colossally stupid for Trump to sit because he can’t keep his mouth under control and his legal team (and everyone else knows it). It’s hard to reconcile that terrible decision in a world where most would heed the advice of their lawyers and simply not do it (because if you have something to hide, you shouldn’t do it).

This is not that world.

[captain_america]

@tena

Either he doesn’t do it and deals with the - fallout - the suspicion that he might be guilty, or he can sit down with Mueller and start talking and destroy any remaining doubt on the question.

[haddockbranzini]

@irasdad

Isn’t there a Georgetown cocktail party somewhere missing an obnoxious ass for other guests to avoid?

Nope. Georgetown cocktail parties are never missing obnoxious asses.

[tena]

For Trump, life must lately be rather the same experience that Schrodinger’s cat has inside the box.

[thunderclapnewman]

@junebug

I don’t buy Cilizza’s theory.

Neither does anyone else with a brain.
He is the ne plus ultra of brain-dead “conventional wisdom.”

[captain_america]

If you recall Laugh-In, I would die to have Muller ask Trump, “Do the name Ruby Begonia ring a bell?”, and watch Trump freak out.

[moreyampersand]

The stupidest and most hubristic thing, that’s what Trump will do. It would probably help if everybody Tweets saying he’s scared to talk to Mueller because Mueller is such a tough cookie.