Mueller has to move faster and faster because Trump is consolidating power and figuring out how to use it. This is a thriller I didn’t want to read, much less experience.
“The students are very pleased with the email releases they have seen, and are thrilled with their educational advancement opportunities.”
You won’t believe what they’re finding!
The Journal on Sunday said Smith’s work is of “expanding” and “intense interest to federal investigators” on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team
They’re following the money.
That part makes me laugh. Look at me, I’m talking all codey! Cheap spy-flick stuff, the swallows fly high at midnight and so forth.
Great scene in The Falcon and the Snowman like that. Sean Penn is doing all that spyolog and Timothy Hutton just about rolls his eyes out of his head.
Completely agreed.
And…
“Washington Scholarship Fund for the Russian students,”
snort
I saw it when it came out and never since, but damn he was perfect as the friend with bad judgment we’ve all had. A very broad character and yet totally believable.
“In addition to the $100,000-plus raised from “at least four” wealthy donors, Smith himself provided $50,000, the Journal reported.”
“That’s so PBS”
quickly ducks, as a frying pan flies over my head.
A Republican operative who committed suicide
To bad this doesn’t make them jump on the bandwagon and follow suit
There usually pretty good at that scenario.
I don’t see any reason why Mueller would not start arresting people the second after the polls in Hawaii have closed, particularly since Trump apparently intends to fire Rosenstein right after the midterms.
Just like Trump’s crack team of investigators in Hawaii.
Putin took United Russia and made it the dominant party, absorbing some and jailing the leaders of other parties. Trump now openly accuses the Democrats, or should I say “angry left-wing mob”, of whatever comes to his head.
I have two questions.
- Why would a billionaire care about an expiring 5 million dollar insurance policy and use that as an excuse for suicide? Money was the least of my Dad’s worries when he was close to the end. It was unimportant to him although he squeezed every nickel most of his life.
.the Chicago Tribune reported this:
Police found a receipt from a local Walmart time-stamped from the previous day, May 13 at 12:53 p.m. The receipt was for the purchase of “Helium Jumbo” and other items. Police also noted that the two helium tanks in the room were draped with vinyl-covered exercise ankle or wrist weights. The report did not offer an explanation for the weights. Police said that because they did not suspect foul play, they had not viewed any security video from the Walmart store to confirm that Smith bought the tanks himself.
Question number two:
Walmart has security footage covering all registers, many isles and the parking lot. Why the fuck not look anyway just for giggles and shits? Those grill sized LP tanks would be pretty easy to spot leaving the store. I imagine an elderly man in poor health used a cart to get them out of the store. He maybe even needed help getting them into the cart.
Ah yes, this “suicide”:
At the time, the newspaper reported Smith’s May 14 death came about 10 days after he granted the interview. Mystery shrouded how and where he had died, but the lead reporter on the stories said on a podcast he had no reason to believe the death was the result of foul play and that Smith likely had died of natural causes.
However, the Chicago Tribune obtained a Minnesota state death record filed in Olmsted County saying Smith committed suicide in a hotel near the Mayo Clinic at 1:17 p.m. on Sunday, May 14. He was found with a bag over his head with a source of helium attached. A medical examiner’s report gives the same account, without specifying the time, and a report from Rochester police further details his suicide.
In the note recovered by police, Smith apologized to authorities and said that “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER” was involved in his death. He wrote that he was taking his own life because of a “RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017” and timing related “TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING.”
Not that I want to believe in a possible conspiracy theory, but this is always sounded fishy to me.
Let American students rot.
Isn’t the saying that these things come in threes?
Or is it the hundred-thousands : - )
Funny. I was thinking about all this last night and Smith and his suicide came to mind. There was always something rotten about it.
Two things are possible
A) his finances were bad
B) considering his quests didn’t go anywhere, he knew someone was going to kill him.
Both?
ETA: Not that he was going to be killed. But his quests didn’t go anywhere.