The access apparently made all the difference.
After firing off a few pleading texts to President Donald Trump’s confidante Roger Stone, alleged child sex trafficker Joel Greenberg reportedly managed to nab a spot on a list of potential pardon recipients that reached the Trump White House.
I read the Daily Beast article, and honestly, they detail so much wrongdoing, I wouldn’t know where to even begin. I hope someone is seriously looking at reforming the Pardon process so this sort of blatant “pay to play” never happens again.
It’s interesting Stone and Greenberg didn’t trust each other, but I suppose career criminals are smart about those sorts of things.
In text messages to the Daily Beast, Stone confirmed that he had Greenberg prepare “a document explaining his prosecution,” but denied ever seeking a pardon on Greenberg’s behalf.
“I made no formal or informal effort in regard to a pardon for Mr. Greenberg,” Stone reportedly said, adding that he had not requested or received “a penny” from Greenberg. (But what’s a penny in bitcoin?)
Trump wasn’t just the father of the vaccine … He was the Deadbeat Dad in Chief.
Trump famously begrudges anyone making money off his name, and if they are he wants his cut. People were paying intermediaries to arrange pardons, and there’s no damned way Trump issued them without being funneled a piece of the action. No way at all.
Trump only realized the scale of his transition team’s operation later, when he saw a news story detailing the millions of dollars that his team had raised to pay staff. Far from being pleased, Trump was furious and wanted the operation shut down. “The money that people donated to his campaign Trump considered, effectively, his own,” Lewis writes. “He thought the planning and forethought pointless.”
According to Lewis, Trump accused Christie of “stealing my fucking money” and accused Steve Bannon of “letting [Christie] steal my fucking money.” When the pair pointed out that a transition team was required under federal law, Lewis writes that "Trump replied: ‘Fuck the law, I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money.’"
Cue up the final scene of "Reservoir Dogs."
Who is Mr. Pink?
The messages are set to disappear. So they screenshot them. chuckle. chuckle. And Republicon voters want these people to run the government? God help us! Without the educational and economic engines of the Blue states, America would be a footnote to history already.
Matt Gaetz is toast. Stick a fork in him. . . he is done.
Why on earth would Greenberg put so many details in a letter to Roger Stone, of all people? Did Stone push back by saying he wanted all the dirt (not that that would surprise me) before making a move? Surely Greenberg knows (or should know) that nothing ever stays between just two people. If these letters are authentic, then Gaetz is in deep yogurt.
I wrote a long post about this and then abandoned it because, truth is, I am just sick of these guys and all of their juvenile crime sprees.
Of course there had to be a reason for 2,353 Gaetz stories in the time space of a few weeks.
Does that 2,353 include this one?
Not to get ahead of things, bit it would be absolutely delicious if THIS is what finally nails Roger Stone after 50 years of corruption and his proverbial rat-f’ing.
If you’re already in hot water, getting back-and-forth on paper with a bigger fish?
I’m not saying these people play higher-dimensional chess, but it would cross my mind.
Actually, he is utterly rotten, way past the due date for jail, and wholly unsuited for any association by metaphor with the culinary world without a sickening in the belly.
That said, we could use a metaphor of feeding the GOP, spoon by spoon, this rotten garbage just to see how sick they become because of their complete refusal ever to take out their garbage, but instead to recycle such garbage into their proximal environment continually.
What this article tells me is that the FBI needs to dedicate a team to the Bitcoin public ledger, because it sounds like all the criming is out in the open, they just need to do the forensic accounting. Despite what people say, Bitcoin is not anonymous.
Kompromat, I presume. A way of ensuring that Trump and Stone own him after granting the favor.
GREAT MOMENTS IN POLITICAL STUPIDITY:
First, Joe Stalin believes Hitler will actually abide by a treaty.
Second, Hitler declares war on the U.S.
Third, Mao initiates the Great Leap Forward, causing the death of tens of millions
Fourth, the Fat Loser doesn’t pardon EVERYBODY.who ever met him.
OT, but related to this week’s Josh & Kate Podcast. It appears Ashli Babbitt is the new “meat” story. This story about an unfiled wrongful death suit has ricocheted from Daily Mail to the NY Post to Fox airwaves.
The lawyer says he’ll file in federal court, which means he has to sign a Rule 11 document that he is not bringing the case for an “improper purpose”. Making money is a proper purpose, right?
