President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

неуклюжий, нет?

 

Чуть больше, чем просто неловко, товарищ.

 

David Ignatius.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/17/why-flynn-revelations-are-so-important/


"The kicker: “In one of the previously redacted filings released Thursday, prosecutors said Flynn described multiple episodes in which ‘he or his attorneys received communications from persons connected to the Administration or Congress that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation.’ ”

This may be the most significant revelation since we learned of the president’s efforts to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Even Attorney General William P. Barr conceded in his infamous memo to the Justice Department, “Obviously, the President and any other official can commit obstruction in this classic sense of sabotaging a proceeding’s truth-finding function. Thus, for example, if a President knowingly destroys or alters evidence, suborns perjury, or induces a witness to change testimony, or commits any act deliberately impairing the integrity or availability of evidence, then he, like anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction.” Barr also told Senate Judiciary Committee members during his confirmation hearing that it would be illegal for a president to coach a witness or persuade a witness to change testimony.

The disclosure, of course, raises serious questions as to why Barr redacted material in the report relating to Flynn, and why evidence that Trump did precisely what Barr said was illegal did not convince him that the president had obstructed justice."

 

And I don't believe Blasey Ford ever changed her story. The story she told contemporaneously was the same story that she told to the Senate. Reade's contemporaneous telling was different than what she's telling now, and was actually years later. It wasn't that she went home and immediately told someone or a couple of people.

And while I believe that the trauma of a sexual assault impacts how women tell their stories, I think the point about Biden having been vetted so intensely is not that they would have found her story from her, but somebody somewhere in the Senate would have heard about what had to have been a fairly brutal sexual assault in a corridor. There would have been whispers and innuendo. How do you keep that secret? It's supposedly happened in a corridor.

And Reade's story has changed dramatically in the last year when she also became a Bernie supporter and developed some weird fascination for Putin. And now her new lawyers? One of them is a Trump donor, and one has connections to Russia.

 

What is it with conservatives and pleading guilty but still saying they were railroaded?

Yes, people plead guilty to crimes that they didn't commit all the time, but it's usually some poor soul with a public defender.

Flynn, Dinesh D'Souza and Terry Lakin could either afford the best defense money could buy or there would have been many people and organizations who would have been glad to bankroll their defense.

 

Nelson Mandela. Really.

 

Except for the fact that he loves this thing. It's killing libruhls and black people. Therefore, he and his klan are just fine with it. He is not troubled in the least by the death toll. His disdain for testing is yet another example that he cares only about how he looks.