Discussion: Trump Defenders Downplay New Cohen Plea: It’s Just Perjury!

These latest developments are drawing us ever closer to Trump. I suspect that Mueller knows the entire story. He realizes you have be able to prove that story beyond a reasonable doubt, so he is tying up all of the loose ends and moving ever closer to the end.

Something happened on Air Force One today. We don’t know what it is yet, but we will. My guess is Trump melted down when he heard about Cohen’s plea.

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Does Putin have pictures of Graham having sex with Satin? I always assumed that Graham has been hiding the fact that he is at best asexual, and possibly a celibate homosexual, most of his entire life. However, times change, and most thinking people would probably forgive him for pretty much anything short of that.

Of course, most thinking people aren’t #Magat voters.

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Wait a minute. Wasn’t Graham here willing to impeach Clinton solely on the basis of alleged perjury???

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Ari Melber with a great quip:
“It would appear that [Tramp] has a Joint Defense Agreement with Vladimir Putin as well…”

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Events are developing at such a rate that any line these doomed politicians come up with will be “inoperable” within less than 24 hours.

And they are already starting out with complete garbage.

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Let’s cut to the chase. What did Trump promise Putin and his associates by way of US policy in exchange for a real estate deal and help winning the election?

ETA: Also, was the failed deal a vehicle for money laundering? I know the multiple casino bankruptcies probably were, but a large real estate deal could also involve large payments for various services not actually rendered, right?

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Or on whose behalf.

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There’s not that much.

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Far-right conspiracy site Gateway Pundit posited that the “Mueller-Rosenstein Deep State” intentionally announced the Cohen deal on the day Trump departed for Argentina for the G-20 summit in order to push him “off balance.”

When has he ever been balanced? He seems to be always unbalanced.

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Fair point.

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Ms Lindsey is a piece of work.
Like most Republicans, he is worried about the bad optics framing their corrupt party and was angling to deflect attention to Cohen and away from Donald Trump lying to the American people about Russia.
Today’s big news wasn’t about perjury.
It was about the Mueller’s investigation and where it is heading.
After months of vigorous repetitive denials, the big news was Donald Trump did have a business relationship with Russia and was working a large deal to build a giant skyscraper in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign…
You have to wonder why the Trump Corporation accounting firm in Chicago and Deutsche Bank group both got raided BIG TIME BY THE FBI today.

Pop the popcorn - the show is about to begin!

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By the time this Mueller probe is over, we are going to find out how many Republicans in Congress are wrapped up in this Russian Hacking investigation as for the reason they have been doing nothing but trying to obstruct at every turn. My suggestion to them is to come clean now before it’s too late.

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Other congressional Republicans took a stronger line against Cohen. Both outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Judiciary Committee member John Kennedy (R-LA) said that Trump’s former attorney deserved to be prosecuted for the crime of lying to Congress.

I’ll remember this when it’s revealed Trump perjured himself on his written answers to Mueller.

And the Party that was supposedly strong on crime is okay with “process crimes”? If the Republican Party of the ‘70s were adults (at least some were willing to hold Nixon accountable), this Party has since devolved into an inane bunch of drunken frat boys.

And, of course, they’re committing “process crimes” because the truth dare not be told.

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The words that they folks are using sure don’t match with Trumps own actions.

"Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain’t no video game.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, "
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I think it could be. Pitiful indeed.
And once again we are reminded of that fine line between pity and loathing.

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This is pretzel logic

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No indictments for collusion YET. Reminds me of the old joke about the guy who jumps off the Empire State Building and someone on the 44th floor asks him as he goes by, “How’s it going?” and he says, “OK so far”.

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What? No impassioned soliloquy from the Judiciary Committee’s finest thespian?

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Yeah, ain’t that just the kicker? Does he think we’re going to forget his part in that shameful bit of sanctimonious thuggery?

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“These are not crimes that had been committed prior to his appointment, they’re crimes that were committed as the result of his appointment.”

If you hadn’t asked them those questions, they wouldn’t have told you those lies!

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