I shudder to think of the irrational, power hungry sycophants that still feel comfortable being Trump's lackey after seeing how Cohen got sold out so quickly for all his years of loyalty.
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I shudder to think of the irrational, power hungry sycophants that still feel comfortable being Trump's lackey after seeing how Cohen got sold out so quickly for all his years of loyalty.
When Trump is accused of racism - the wage increases and historic employment levels for POC will soften that accusation enough to win. It's not about winning POC or even white voters sympathetic to that struggle - they are already voting Democrat. It's about retaining the votes he had in 2016.
And I agree he didn't win by a wide margin, the electoral college screwed the Dems once again and allowed yet another monster to come to power. However, it is yet another depressing reason I predict Trump will win.
BTW - I pray to GOD I am wrong. This is crow I would enjoy eating all day long.
Yea back in the real world, saying publicly you knew nothing about a sex scandal like this and then a tape coming out where you were talking about payments to squash said scandal right before an election while you were campaigning and you were married would have been your end.
All this hair splitting over cash vs check is pretty ridiculous and is the kind of thing that allows trump to always get away with this kind of stuff.
People should step back and take a bigger picture look as to what this tape confirms and remember not more than a few years ago this would have been a career ender for anyone in any type of office.
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Wages are crawling while companies have spent alot of their money from the tax gains on corporate enrichment. This is far from what the tax bill promised and the tax bill is a loser thus far in polling.
The WikiLeaks pre Assange stuck in an embassay/their donations not being blocked and the WikiLeaks after might as well be two completely different orgs.
Did you really just use completely meaningless betting odds about an election in two years in which we don't know for sure who any of the candidates will be? Lol.
I've noticed that it's really important for sone people that the perception remain that Trump will win. They feel it's crucial for everyone to be scared so they vote. It's incredibly condescending and it doesn't even work - good news motivates voters. But don't try to suggest anything is going well to those folks. The sky is always falling because it must always be falling. Lies, misrepresentation, and ignorance are acceptable tools to use to make it seem that way.
Cohen made the mistake of thinking he was Donald's friend. He probably called him and said "My legal bills are going up, and you know I'm on the hook for stuff I did for you. " and he was like "who is this, again? I don't have time for unsolicited calls. Thank you."
But then... why go to such lengths to cover up the affairs? When Trump was single/recently divorced, he was bragging constantly about how much action he got. This is a total reversal.
These aren't rumors of abortions, rape or underage sex (though those all exist), this is consensual vanilla sex. There haven't been any embarrassing stories associated with the affairs either, so it must be about maintaining his marriage.
Think we can all assume Cohen might be angling for a pardon but a little bit of me wants to believe he's seen Trump throw many and I mean many people under the bus and he isn't going to succumb to it.
I guess we'll see.
He wants a deal or a pardon, that's the move here
Trump didn't do anything when he was toeing the line so this is the blowback
Trump didn't do anything when he was toeing the line so this is the blowback
No, I'm expecting something that says it's a possibility. Pretty much anything regarding his sexual indiscretions does nothing to anyone.
He can't get a pardon. Something about the state of New York doing this investigation and not the feds...or something like that. I dunno. Too much of a whirlwind.
What I think is happening is Mueller paid Cohen a visit and basically laid out his options and gave him a hard dose or truthiness and Cohen shit his pants. Remember -- he has a wife and a child.
Edit : yeah here is the article. Even with a pardon, Cohen is not off the hook. He is looking for a deal with the law at this point. https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17252554/trump-cohen-new-york-state-laws
It's a federal case so a pardon would be possible. It would remove any 5th amendment protection though so Trump's legal team might be weary.
This is what I was referring to : https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17252554/trump-cohen-new-york-state-laws
Am I mistaken? Or has something changed, lol...I'm having a hard time keeping up between a porn star, a playboy playmate and the President of Russia.....
It was weird hearing Trump speaking in his "real" voice rather than the TV pitchman act or the bumbling old man act.
New York law prevents charging someone with crimes for which they were pardoned for on the federal level. So if Trump pardons him he can't be charged for the same crimes by NY state.
It reminds me of the Hobbit where Bilbo tricks the trolls into arguing among themselves for so long that they turn to stone and he escapes unhurt. Dems fuck this kind of stuff up so often because of the bickering and infighting. All the ultra-sages and the super-wokes will savage eachother in purity contests while the right sticks together no matter what. Repubs stuck by a fucking pedophile and only just lost that election; dems would disown a candidate for making the slightest 'problematic' comment or mistake.
It all depends on how they lay out the charges. Everybody involved in these investigations seem mindful of pardons and double jeopardy so I wouldn't worry about that too much.
NY is actually looking to change that law as we speak. http://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...legislation-to-prosecute-despite-presidential
here is the status of it right now.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/s8236
its in committee. so by the time cohen is charged etc. they could still bag him at a state level or trump himself lmao.
It doesn't have anything to do with his marriage. It's because he's the President. He has to at least attempt to maintain the image that he's a Christian family man and a good husband. Melania dont give a fuck, she's the first lady, rich as fuck and one of the most famous women in the world. They're not married because they love eachother lol, it's a mutually beneficial contract.
Also, Cohen has yet to be indicted for anything anywhere. Just like Manafort, they could leave out multiple applicable charges to save for state prosecutors.
yep. so by the time they pass the law hes hosed even with a pardon.
I know, right? Almost sounded coherent and non-dementia-addled. That is what every hopeful democrat was hoping got elected when the unimaginable happened. Instead, all of our worst fears were validated time and time again. Either the dude has had a stroke lately, or it is all a weird act for the cameras to pretend to be handicapped mentally.
On a totally unrelated note, but still in Trump/Putin world - the founder of the feminist group Femen found in her apt dead by 'suicide' : http://thehill.com/homenews/398727-feminist-protest-movement-founder-found-dead-in-apartment
Putin is such a great leader to try to build relations with.
Putin is such a great leader to try to build relations with.
I'll save you the time and trouble: it's not.
It's mathematically impossible for him to be removed by impeachment, and it's not constitutionally possible for him to be indicted, especially with the current make up of the SCOTUS.
You've set the bar at an unattainable height and (along with countless others) are now poo-pooing on every new development for failing to take us there.
When people see what a great job Putin does for RUssia, they get so guilty for criticizing him that they kill themselves.
Is she independently wealthy? Because after all his marriages, I'm thinking he probably had a decent pre-nup, but then again his legal team isn't the best.
Correct. This mentality will cost Dems the 2020 election too if they don't at least attempt some sort of messaging that isn't shouting down people all the time. Also it's funny that you mention the infighting over pointless minutae when you have cnn doing just the same thing...
Mind, I never said a development that would do that by itself.
Developments like this are generally only useful for increasing liberal anger - but hey, that is politically useful.
That said, if you're not expecting anything of new developments, I'd argue you've set the bar too low. I've already seen Trump supporters talk about how his infidelity doesn't matter if he's doing a good job. The man literally switches his story day to day.
You know what has been hurting his brand? The Russia shit. Helsinki. Immigration.
This stuff? Not so much.
His pre-nups for his past wives were nuts. I'm sure being married to Trump is much more beneficial to her than divorcing him.
The cold, sad truth.
Trump has ushered in an era where objective truth barely matters. He will call out 'FAKE NEWS' and people will go about their day because that's how everyone of these scandals have turned out. It's been completely normalized at this point, and his tactic is working. Is anyone today still talking about the ridiculous Helsinki summit? It's already in the back of most people's minds because there's a scandal a day with this guy in charge. People have become acclimatised to this new status quo.
The man is virtually untouchable by scandals. People need to realize this. There isn't some shield that's slowly eroding with each and every scandal until the bubble finally bursts. It's a fallacy.
The only way to fix this is to spread the word and vote. Nothing matters more.
I don't know where you're getting this idea that a sitting President can't be indicted. That has never been settled in the courts or any law. It's a yet to be tested question currently.
Everyone is in survival mode at this point. Keep your head down and hope you don't get caught in the shitstorm or make your break before it's too late. Trump people are all hoping they can cling to a supposed strong man hoping he'll take them along when the flood hits. Rational people know that eventually he'll betray everyone, but they're afraid that the world is coming to an end and it's eat or be eaten.
These people don't want to try and fix things. They want to hoard and take what they can so they can hold on a few hours longer than the rest.
In short, they're scared, selfish, and most of all, stupid.
If there was only some way he could stack the courts to his advantage....
"Anything" includes a whole range of possibilities other than impeachment or indictment. I even went so far as to list several of them out in an earlier post.
And who, exactly, would be settling this hypothetical question, should it arise? What's the current political makeup of this group? What's about to happen to that political makeup pending a new appointment?
He's not getting indicted.
You're confusing him getting indicted with the administration and Congress respecting and following the indictment. If Mueller finds sufficient evidence of wrongdoing on Trump's part, he will obtain an indictment against him. That is not the "hard" part. After such an indictment is issued it would be up to law enforcement, the White House, Congress, and the Courts to follow through on it. I list Congress as they can make the situation easy by immediately impeaching Trump after being presented with said indictment, but assuming they don't, and assuming the Administration doesn't hand over Trump, then it would go to the Courts which would decide whether a sitting President can be indicted for crimes that likely occurred before taking office.
"Surely this is the lie that will end his presidency" he tried to say while keeping a straight face.
This man gets it.
This man gets it.
Just retire and run your ill gotten real estate empire you fuck
Gawd Hannity is legit the worst kind of slime
That Mueller would attempt to indict the president. It's not a widely held belief in the legal world that the president can be indicted.
I'm in the legal world, hence why I said it's an open question. There is no definitive answer as it's never happened before. The closest in modern history was Bill Clinton and the Court, at the very least, stated that he had to appear for his famous deposition clarifying that the President was not immune from such a process specifically when it concerns conduct which occurred before becoming President.
This question has never been tested because the common belief that any President about to be indicted would be impeached thus making the question moot. But, this current Congress and the prevalence of FAKE NEWS may make it so that any indictment wouldn't be respected and chalked up to partisan hackery. Thus, the question would finally be resolved then.
Again regardless of whether it's been tested or not I don't believe the consensus is on the "can indict" side and there's little reason at all to believe Mueller thinks it can be done. Maybe he does, but nothing he's said or done suggests any break with traditional thought there.
Again, the brand-damaging effects aren't coming from stuff like this.