He stopped everything because he was being outed as a racist?
I guess the R word is worse than the N word.
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Michael Cohen testifies on Capitol Hill (over)
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He stopped everything because he was being outed as a racist?
I guess the R word is worse than the N word.
Who works under a NDA.
Real easy to speak for her when she is afraid of losing her job.
I'll bet she was threatened with a firing from the Trump org job she has if she didn't.
That's what Frank Luntz brought to American politics.Talking points. Short, sweet, memorable and easily repeatable.
Don't forget that anyone in Trump's good graces has like a 30% chance of being named a senior level cabinet secretary. She's probably on the short list to replace Wilbur Ross after standing up for Trump yesterday.
Don't worry they are all about decorum. /s
Her response..
Yeah, then she's a moron because Trump is a notorious liar and has a history of racist act, behaviours and statements. Working for him as a PoC in a non labor, high paying position and being used as a prop by a congressman with a history of racist comments, doesn't seem right for someone claiming they are highly educated and not low-info.
I stand by my claim, add she may have been paid to do so, or is a brainwashed moron.
For someone so highly educated, she should know what the definition of "prop" is. And yes, they used her as a prop.
Cool story but being used as a ridiculous prop was literally irrelevant to the claims or the integrity of the person making them.
We already knew that, but is are there going to be any consequences for him?
this is garbage, and a distraction
wish people wouldnt even address it
Trump got dunked on a whole lot.
Trump might employ hitmen.
Examples of racist remarks.
Evidence of the checks he paid Cohen in regards to paying off Stormy Daniels. Paid while President in 2017.
Probably more, but that's what I could catch.
Lynne Patton is highly educated and doesn't think she is a prop?
They spent a bunch of taxpayer money to fly 17 thousand miles (back & forth) for authentic Vietnamese food.
Hard to tell for us. But yes, i certainly got that impression.
That is sad. They seem extremely malicious and constantly ready to twist and turn the news on events to actively lie to people. Willingly.
This isn't journalism, these are people who act like journalists to try and stop inevitable change. Scared xenophobic inhumane asshats.
It seemed to me that the committee might go after Weisselberg (Trump Org CFO) next and also get serious about subpoenaing Trump's tax returns. At the very least, these were the two things that Cohen was signposting repeatedly during the hearing.
Of course, I'm hoping that we'll also see Trump's SAT scores at some point simply for the lulz.
They're probably inflated anyway. Even if they are on the low side. I've have yet to see any sign of intelligence from him.
I doubt he knows ANYthing.
Well, this was just Cohen. There is more. So hopefully at the end of it all, the orange fuck goes away.
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That doesn't seem like a big deal to me. The country is so divided that I highly doubt even watching the totality of this would change many people's minds on Trump. If you didn't think Trump was a racist or liar before, this wouldn't sway you, like the R reps, you'd just argue about Cohen's trustworthiness and completely ignore the fact that his previous lying implicates your hero. If you thought Trump was unfit for office before, well, this didn't really bring up anything you didn't know. The main thing is if they can get some legal traction from this. And maybe the soundbites reach those who are undecided and somehow otherwise ignoring everything that's happening, but I'm not sure how far down the sand your head has to be to have just missed everything that has already happened in this administration.
The Republicans were one-note in their attack on Cohen and their utter lack of even addressing trying to get to the truth, which is disgusting. But I also think the Democrats didn't do themselves many favors by constantly fishing for unrelated things which they had to know would go nowhere. Though I did chuckle that the pee tape got brought up.
The other thing about Cohen being a scum... this is true. However I thought Cummings made a great point about redemption at the end there and that if we don't believe that people can change, then why even bother trying to rehabilitate people or send them to prison? Sure, if he wasn't cast off he's likely have never changed, but if what has happened to him has indeed changed him, then good. He's still going to pay for his crimes (maybe not as much as people would want).
lmao, Twitch chat can be awful some days, and incredible on others. The hive mind in a chat can come up with some seriously funny stuffI killed me every time the chat went "NEW LORE" every time Cohen dropped new tidbits.
This line of questioning to ERA is a bit redundant. We don't know. We're not there and we don't make the decisions. Yes, we hope something colossal will come down and squash these republican roaches but this all just happened yesterday. None of us have the answers so everyone will have to wait and see together.
From what I've read, they know he is a racist and a liar, but he gets their policies done, which is all that matters. They will point to how all politicians do bad things and quote scripture that showed how in ancient times, they worked with bad people to get good things done.
There is no saving the true Trumpers who don't give a shit about the man, just what he can do for their beliefs.
The absolute massive shock "...WOW" of a 750k book deal pales in comparison to whatever backended deal these GOP republicans made to corporate america and russian interests.
It all boils down to one of the most basic themes of human beings - Fuck You, Got Mine.
Everything about the Republican party is so frustratingly hypocritical. Yeah as if any congressperson has a leg to stand on when it comes to book deals.
If I were lazy and pulling from the conservative playbook I would accuse congress of trying to violate someone's freedom of speech by trying to get them under oath say they will not write a book about their experience, but also I'm eating breakfast so you know, got a lot on my plate at the moment.
And if your initial inclination is to think "wait a minute!" to that, there is almost certainly some statute of profiting off crimes concern they could lean on and also not a lawyer and also as mentioned too lazy to suss it out. However this is what actual freedom of speech concerns look like and not because you got yelled at for dropping the N word on the bus.
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npr had the whole thing on the radio live where I live
I'm not sure how they could do better than that
there's lots of other stuff to cover sound bites have to end somewhere
Rather it's so that Trump can say to people, "I served my country in Vietnam."
Maddow had some good stuff tonight about takeaways from the questioning. Recommend watching that.
How do we explain Meadows' best friendship with Cummings?
We'll have to wait and see. Republicans supported Nixon until the tapes came out and there was no more defense. It took years for him to go down.
I mean, she's an employee that willingly works for him.
This has to be satire...
But well, at least one person got persuaded by Trump, that he is the POTUS who has done the most for black people...
I always get the impression that part of it is feeling like the "model minority" and feeling like they're rebelling against what's expected of them.