This is exactly what will happen. He wants that base to defend him until the end.
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Michael Cohen testifies on Capitol Hill (over)
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This is exactly what will happen. He wants that base to defend him until the end.
Who shit in your cereal?
Bill Maher is a racist shit with no more information than any of us.
Yes, for sure one of the later Dems talked about it, AOC iirc, and Cohen was open about it although he wasn't involved with the Trump Foundation payments. Good for her though, she asked who would know, got the names, and asked if acquiring tax returns etc. would shed more light on this and he said yes. Sounded to my untrained ear like the springboard for another Congressional investigation. As it should be. That incident was certainly not the only one of course.
Trump supporters are cowards. The second secret service shows up to their face they will fold and quit to complain on Twitter.
Flipping through the news channels to see who is covering what only to find that Jim Jordan is live on Fox ranting and raving like a lunatic about how Cohen can't be trusted lol
He is also going after Cummings which is pissing me off.
He is also going after Cummings which is pissing me off.
You know that Cohen can be a total fraudster and also tell the truth about trump being a fraudster too right? Plenty of mobsters have turned on their bosses before right? Plenty of criminals have taken plea deals and been total untrustworthy sociopaths before right?
This was the scariest part for me. Cohen is afraid of what bill Maher is afraid of. It somehow keeps getting worse than I thought it could ever get and I'm a pessimist, damnit. Perhaps I lack imagination.
It's not like our military has a great track record with terrorists. Innocent civilians will likely suffer if they are needed.
His Dear Leader said in 2017 that Cohen "is a very talented lawyer" and "a fine person [whom Trump has] always liked and respected".
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/987679848284999680
What a fucking piece of shit.
This man had the audacity to throw a tantrum when Tlaib rightly called him out for what he is.
And to add to this he is now saying that SOME things Cohen said is true, but magically they only seem to be things that help the Republicans.
Probably. Or just find the entire thing on YT, and the final few Dems like AOC are near the end.
I also don't buy that Cohen is truly remorseful but you're missing the point of Cohen's speech (which was to paint a portrait of Trump's character while presenting himself as credible/sympthasiable to the general public) and Cummings' speech (which was to underline the importance of Cohen's public testimony and his portrait of the president - which clearly indicates that USA is at a precipice).
Lol, ok, because racists cant be right about anything. Broke clock twice a day, yada yada. If you start ripping arguments just based on who's saying them, you're not really listening, are you?
I'm not listening to Bill Maher, that's for sure. As for Michael Cohen's assertion, it's troubling because he knows the President better than almost anyone.
Domestic terrorists are a lot easier, as they typically have DLs, SS numbers, social media histories, criminal histories, tax records, known family... it's not like trying to chase down people in a place like Afghanistan, where they are phantoms by comparison.
And while I don't know this for sure I'd guess a domestic terrorist is FAR more likely to be identified/turned in by a citizen than an insurgent overseas.
Cohen was used by the SDNY today to help bring new investigations against Donald Trump.
That's what this amounts to. The DoJ got a big heaping list of witnesses, allegations and physical evidence from Trump's decade-long attorney under oath before Congress.
(They already had all that stuff- they just wanted to disclose it all to Congress and the public.)
That's what this amounts to. The DoJ got a big heaping list of witnesses, allegations and physical evidence from Trump's decade-long attorney under oath before Congress.
(They already had all that stuff- they just wanted to disclose it all to Congress and the public.)
Mother Jones and Infowars in the same sentence, huh?
What's wrong with MJ?
He was basically just shitting on the GOP for not having their priorities in check, echoing sentiments in this thread. Christie has been firing off lately, he even made an appearance on Maher recently to shit on Trump and the GOP. Should be on YouTube.
It's not the military I'm worried about. The amount of innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire and actual designated targets could wind up producing a tragedy that dwarfs even 9/11. It's scary stuff to think about.
I'm just saying, bill Maher has been spouting that trump wont leave for a long time now. Maher seems to have a bead on trumps slimy, racist mind. Say what you will of why hes able to channel that mans ethos so innately, whether or not maher actually knows anything, today, Cohen confirmed that fear, a man who served as the presidents right hand man for over a decade. That is quite frankly frightening as all hell and I dont give a good God damn who was afraid of what first because in the end, it doesnt matter. All that matters is that we listen and try to prepare ourselves for an all too possible future.
I was gonna post the Hot Fuzz shame.gif before I realized that it might be misinterpreted, but but yeah, what a shame. If a impeachment or demand for his resignation doesn't happen, sounds like he might still give us an opportunity for the pleasure of seeing his orange ass dragged out.
I just saw Cumming's closing comments.
What a moving speech. I felt like I was watching an important part of history happening. What a fucking excellent orator.
What a moving speech. I felt like I was watching an important part of history happening. What a fucking excellent orator.
If you're view is that this is a good bit of realpolitik that serves to undermine Trump then great, we agree. The point I'm making is not nobody should be fooled by it. The comments I was responding to called Cumming's speech 'some real shit' and said Cohen was 'barely keeping it together', which is a laughable take.
Are you serious? They will literally pick him up and cart him out.
I got the impression Cohen knows a lot more than the crimes he accused the Trump family of today. He might not have proof or is just trying to save his own ass from retaliation by admitting some of them and getting 3 years rather than none of them and 90 years, or all of them and a hit placed on him(still a possibility).
"Stop doing [list of things Trump has done since becoming President]. It's childish and denigrates the office, Donald."
Whoops, I was thinking MJ was something else, now I'm not sure what, but I thought it was a right-wing source.
I mean, I haven't even seen the clip and I'm not taken aback by Dems using this opportunity to score political points and be grandiose. That can be the case and this can simultaneously be about Cohen being genuinely apologetic for his own admitted wrongdoings.
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House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings says based on Michael Cohen's testimony it appears President Trump committed a crime https://cnn.it/2Xq1vdK
They could. I think it depends on who they're shooting at.
Hes literally pleading with a nation to get their shit together. I can feel him, watching an entire lifes worth of draining political work be fucking annihilated in no time flat must be amazingly hard to watch. I give him props for not exploding like a bomb and instead, saying exactly what the country needed him to say in that moment. People who use their voice for others like Cummings has/does are my heroes.
Ok so now I have had time to process all this. Fuck me, that was a slog and a half to watch.
During Tlaib's questioning I was almost shouting at my TV with excitement, I was like we all know what you are thing just say it, impeach him. Then that bullshit about Meadows which was awkward as all hell.
Felt like like it would never end, but Pressley, `Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and that incredible speech by Cummings made it all worth it.
During Tlaib's questioning I was almost shouting at my TV with excitement, I was like we all know what you are thing just say it, impeach him. Then that bullshit about Meadows which was awkward as all hell.
Felt like like it would never end, but Pressley, `Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and that incredible speech by Cummings made it all worth it.
Savanna Guthrie would be dying to interview them to better understand their plight
That depends on what you mean by realpolitik. There was a clear agenda behind this testimony, to bring forward to the public the wrongdoings that their President has been involved in and has been covering up delivered from the very man who assisted him in carrying them out. If you're suggesting this was for the sole benefit of the Democratic party or had partisan intentions, then I don't agree at all. While it does benefit them, it also benefits the US people in helping them understand the extent of corruption and the character of their President, who is not fit for his position and is causing lasting damage to the US' political landscape by normalising behaviour which up until now was considered unacceptable.
The most fucked up part of this bullshit is that Meadows probably genuinely believes he isn't racist. To him and many, many other right-wingers like him, a "Racist" is somebody who calls black people the n-word and wears a white hood. So as long as you specifically don't do that, you're not a racist.
Yeah. Imagine if any of the other folks came as prepared as Cortez with "hey, I searched 'Donald Trump scandal' on WaPo and NYT, and here are all the stories they've had. Maybe I should ask Trump's personal lawyer which ones are true and which ones aren't?", and if so, who / where could I get corroborating information.
Can people use their brains for once before they freak out about these fantasies?
Do you really think Trump supporters, which mainly consist of a bunch of rural white dudes, are going to grab all their guns, mobilize all the way to Washington, invade the White House to keep Trump in there should he lose in 2020?
people spent time trying to downplay AOC and I had no expectations for her, but I'll be damned if she wasn't the most productive congress member today. No grandstanding, just asking questions with purpose and getting the answers that she wanted.
She is legit
She is legit