In basketball shooters shoot, in politics liars lie.
Eventually these redactions will be made public, probably when someone gets indicted. Weâll wait.
âREDACTEDâ
HeheâŚI wish I was good with PhotoSop so I could make a bunch of photos of all the people indicted or even convicted and put a giant red âREDACTEDâ stamp across them. You been REDACTED, bitches!!!
Details about the nature of Manafortâs lie are scarce, but appear to involve an unknown person who âcontacted him regardingâ a redacted topic. The same day Manafort was supposedly contacted, Berman Jackson said, a meeting was held in part to resolve an unspecified âproblem.â
Who did Manafort meet with after the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016? He cancelled a trip to somewhere that had to do with Wikileaks? I have been searching but have not been able to find anything outside a pay wall. Can somebody help me out here?
Well, gee⌠how many âotherâ DOJ probes involving Manafort are there? The only big one missing in his indictments so far are the ones related to Trumpâs campaign, and specifically to Trump and Co. getting cozy with the RusskisâŚ
But if heâs no longer a cooperating witness, then what good is he? Has he still been giving âpersonal reportsâ to Deripaska about the details of the OSC investigations, like he has with Trump?
How are these âmutual defense pactsâ even legal, if it involves sharing sensitive and possibly damaging information between defendants (and possible co-conspirators)? I thought âgagsâ were a given up to a point.
People used to always say âI canât comment on an ongoing court caseâ⌠now they comment constantly, along with their co-conspirators, and do it all on TVâŚ? Fox is partly responsible for breaking through that ethical barrier, by encouraging these misfits and miscreants to air their âgrievancesâ on their ânewsâ channel⌠so they can muddy the waters and obfuscate the simple facts. And get Trumpâs attention for a possible pardon.
You had better be an awfully good minion. Trump doesnât hand them out for âlosersâ, and just being indicted seems to put you on his bad side anymoreâŚ
I found it. It was Cohen meeting with Felix Sater and trip to Moscow regarding Trump Tower Moscow, so I donât think that is the redacted topic.
From NBC News:
In fact, [Felix Sater] said, it is not a coincidence that, ⌠, Michael Cohen canceled a planned trip to Moscow on June 14, 2016 â the same day the Post broke the story that Russians had hacked the Democratic National Committee.
Taking the entirety of the corruption of Trump and his minions into account, and the two plus years they have spent trying to derail the many investigations regarding Russia and obstruction of justice, and their many more failures to do so, one thing stands clear: the American system still works.
For those of you who have overseas contacts, please reassure them that this is true.
This takes lying to a whole other level.
The discussion is from page 40 - 44 of the transcript. Much of it is blacked out. It involves a certain mystery âMr. Xâ.
As is typical, Manafort said one thing at the proffer stage, and then walked it back in a familiar pattern to mitigate and possibly exculpate Mr. Xâs liability exposure. The thing is that this Mr. X is cooperating with the FBI separately, and admitted to more than Manafortâs walk back. This is how, in part, that the special counsel knows that Manafort is lying on this particular topic.
I think a key point Jackson makes is, âAt no point has the defense told me in any pleading that the first version was mistaken.â So Manafort is lying and is lawyers arenât trying to cover for him.
I have no idea what this is about, but it feels like SDNY or EDNY talked to Manafort. It could be about the inaugural fund probe or Cohen related. Those would be my guesses.
Sadly, âMr. REDACTEDâ was not the followup hit Styx had hoped for.
Iâm an overseas contact, the jury is still out as far as I am concerned. The senate majority is failing, there is a new Trump selected AG and will soon be a new Trump selected DAG. Large parts of the media are still failing. The courts are getting stacked, and you have minority rule.
Iâm hoping for the best but things look very dicey indeed to me.
Totally OT, but I was wondering about this nuclear secrets business with Trump, Kushner, Flynn and Thomas J Barrack?!! Getting plutonium and uranium are less of a challenge than assembling the high-energy materials that go into making the bomb really go boom, which seems to be what these dorks were selling. Just seems wrong in so many ways, like they donât even appreciate what nuclear weapons do. Theyâre like a bad ad agency that doesnât try to sell the steak, but rather the sizzle (and treasonous sizzle at that).
Totally off topic but I thought Iâd share this anywayâŚfrom theonion.com:
I heard about that cabal of sub-geniuses trying to sell and transfer nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah boy⌠what could possibly go wrong with spreading the knowledge of how to make the bomb go BOOM in a place like the middle east?.
Manifort has always been the key.
Can we remove the name âtrumpâ from every trump owned (or licensed) building, and replace it with âREDACTEDâ instead?
Please???
I think a lot of people would be more in favor of âIndividual-1â since thatâs the name that shows up in the Michael Cohen indictments. Though REDACTED would by amusing in its own right.
âOnce upon a time in AmericaâŚâ the ravings of the lunatic fringe would have been just that.
No longer. On a positive note, hospitals across the world are sharing information that will cure diseases faster. So when you or your loved ones gets cancer, youâll have a better chance of surviving.
On the negative side, the evil morons are connecting and spreading their poison more easily as well.
Itâs relatively simple to figure that out. If you want that kind of history in your search, you can find it on the Internet. High School children can do it. What they lack are the elements to make it all go Big Boom. In theory, the US and other sane nations try to keep that material confined. I guess weâll see how successful this effort remains as we move down this path.