Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly honed in on both the meeting and the varied explanations the Trump team has offered about it as he investigates possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as possible obstruction of that probe by the President.
“I love it!”
The US sanctioned 18 Russian oligarchs responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky in a Russian jail. Magnitsky was investigating $230 million in tax fraud. In retaliation, Russia banned Americans from adopting Russian orphans.
So it could be said (in a round about way) that asking to lift those sanctions is ‘about adoptions’.
LOL…opioid face…
There’s a fair amount of Horshack in there, too.
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Trump: This is my daughter Ivanka, my son Fredo, and my other son Fredo.
H/t to the Bob Newhart Show
He’s never really paid a price that wounded him. He smirks his way past the contractors he’s stiffed, the customers he shafted, and no matter what has happened to him, he’s still allowed to rub elbows with people he aspires to be like and pretend that he’s really one of them. What you and I would consider devastating failures appear to not faze him because he just says, “That didn’t hurt me – I meant to do that.” If I thought he had a conscience, I’d agree with you, but I don’t think he’s troubled at all by any of the failures we’ve seen. Hell, even the news about consorting with a porn star while his wife is caring for the newborn is a feather in his pea-sized hat because in his mind it “proves” he’s manly.
The price wasn’t steep enough, but mostly it wasn’t permanent enough. He continued skating and got away with it.
Jr.'s full of shit. Why else did Trump, right before the meeting happened, start going off about having a “big announcement” about Hillary’s corruption, and right afterwards literally ask the Russians during a rally to “release her emails?”
I believe ‘honed in on’ was the correct usage, but I have those kinds of conundrums all the time when writing.
Would you want to be him right now? Think he’s in a good place? You’d still be you, but you’d have his legal liabilities. You up for that? I’ll give you the $10 billion he said he had in the beginning too. Whattaya say? Keep in mind this guy and his team of killers are on the trail. I just don’t think he’s this invulnerable figure some folks make him out to be.
Yeah. Not seeing a lot of talk about that right now, but it’s a vivid recollection.
The comparison to the character Fredo is such a sad way to remember a great actor, John Cazale. But, if the foo shits . .
Eric is Merle.
That is truly a face that needs a fist in it. And I’m a pacifist.
No, I would not. I hope he can’t sleep and has chronic indigestion and any number of other things making his “golden years” miserable, and I hope they continue and worsen till the day he dies. Right now, I’ll grant you, he’s at the beginning of seeing what paying a price really is, but I don’t think up until this point he ever really suffered.
I would not want Robert Mueller to be looking at me, but then again, I’ve tried to live a life that would preclude that happening. Spanky and I were born only a few weeks apart, him with a silver spoon in his mouth and me sleeping in a motel room dresser drawer until my gas station attendant father and waitress mother could find a place where they could put a little bed.
Yet I live a serene and happy life, with children who love me (and I love them), a husband who still makes me laugh every day, and enough money from a life of work and saving for retirement that I don’t have to worry if someone’s going to take my car or turn out the lights. My health is good, I have friends, and I enjoy a lot of activities. The pResident has none of those things. He has only worries.
Good. He earned them. But I think this is really the first time in his life that he’s experienced much that troubles him. That’s why I believe he’s never “really” paid for his transgressions. It’s good that he’s paying now, whatever happens. Because he can never, ever, go back to the way things were when he felt good. Friends, enemies, business associates, and people he’s screwed know too much about him now. He can’t sit down at a table full of billionaires and pretend that he’s some big dealmaker because the emperor has been stripped in public.
Edit to add: My husband and I almost always hold hands when we walk. Always have. Now we have the added incentive of helping to balance one another, in addition to the affection it conveys. No one is interested in providing affection or balance to the guy in the White House. No one.
That’s obstruction if I ever seen it, and that attorney will have a hard time asserting any a-c privilege when Mueller points out that he’s already decided it was a chargeable crime for the attorney to do it and now just wants to know who instructed him to do so.
Because, see, that’s why they had the attorney do it…they’re stupid enough to think they’re smart enough.
Not to mention that he’s still doing fucking business!!! The ZTE bribe! The stupidity hurts.
Gotta say, today has been a day of wicked body blows for Team Trump. Still making my way through the docs.
