Discussion: Trump Said That He Knows Nothing About Oligarch's Payments To Cohen

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Trump Said That He Knows Nothing About Oligarch’s Payments To Cohen

“I have no idea where the $1M that appeared in my bank account came from. Maybe Michael Cohen, my former lawyer, knows. You’ll have to ask him.”

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So …
Trump knew.
Mueller knows he knew.

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Is Rudy saying the charges are 1/3 true? Proceed Mayor.

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"$500,000? I know nothing about a $500,000 payment given to Cohen.

The little SOB told me it was $50K."

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President Donald Trump told his lawyers that he does not know anything about payments to Michael Cohen from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.

Trump says lots of words. What percentage of them are true?

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than some stupid claim that is probably two-thirds false from this ambulance-chasing lawyer,” Giuliani reportedly said.

Only 2/3rds false? OMG

May be Avenatti hit a motherlode of truth–they feel compelled to not completely deny it. Of course it is Giuliani who seems to continue in accidentally letting things slip out on Trump.

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I for one am shocked, shocked that T would claim that he knows nothing about that payment. And I’m also shocked that there was gambling activity at that joint in Casablanca. No one could have predicted either one of these things.

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I really need Giuliani to go on TV and explain the latest revelations. I’m sure the late-nice got comics would pay him to do it.

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“Which is a hell of a lot more important than some stupid claim that is probably two-thirds false from this ambulance-chasing lawyer,”

I will relish watching that other ‘dropped shoe’ smacking Rudy’s head.

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The Rudy Giuliani Course in Honing Legal Arguments, Class Summary:

  1. Win on the legal merits.
  2. When you can’t win on the merits, bang the table.
  3. When you can’t win on table-banging or the merits, shout.
  4. When you can’t win on shouting, table-banging, or the merits, then call your opponent names.
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That assumes that Rudy would go on a program where someone was likely to be crass enough to bring it up and press him on it. No…if Rudy gets more air time this week, it will be Hannity all the way. Fox and Friends is out…their poker faces need to be saved for the boss.

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“Which is a hell of a lot more important than some stupid claim that is probably two-thirds false from this ambulance-chasing lawyer,” Giuliani reportedly said.

Critical legal issues representing harm to his client's Presidency are at issue and Giuliani addresses them with school yard taunts.
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He knew “nothing?” That’s a great summary of what he knows.

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He was not officially told .

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According to WaPo, about 30%.

So, realistically, maybe - maybe - 9%.

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Give it up, Donnie. John Banner has owned that role for years.

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No doubt, Rudy is a natural. He couldn’t organize a two car funeral, but he would have the audience laughing. Except of course for his good friend DT, sitting in the back row, arms folded with that stupid look on his stupid face.

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Appears Russian figure pays President’s lawyer thousands. Totally irrelevant to the Russia probe according to the President’s new lawyer who claims to believe his client.

GLWT

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“Rudy Giuliani reportedly added that the team is sure that Special Counsel Robert Mueller does not believe that Trump was involved in the payments and he is “chasing rainbows,” veering too far from the mission of the probe and its investigation into the Russia-Trump campaign interactions.”

Hmm seems to me payments to his personal lawyer from a Russian oligarch would be found right in the middle of the special counselors mission.

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