Because super rich people especially ones like Trump are penny pinching assholes.With all the money trump has raised I don't even know why he has to beg the NRA for money. Trump wasn't going to pass gun legislation anyway.
Because super rich people especially ones like Trump are penny pinching assholes.
Anyway this is spot on:
Clearly working on that affluenza defense.
The 1st GOP congress member voted for the impeachment inquiry today so....And this is why I think Republicans will impeach him. Because he's NOT. GOING. TO. STOP. He's going to keep stepping on landmines, and they're going to keep having to excuse it, over and over and over.
The article didn't say that though — it's a misinterpretation by the tweet in the OP. (See my prev post.)
Use the Tor browser.I'd like to read the article before commenting, but I'm not paying the New York Times and I'm too lazy/don't care enough to google a separate source.
I'll just say I'm not surprised if the obvious conclusion is true, but I'm not a headline-only guy.
Gotcha. This is no time for amateur mistakes like this... :-(
I refuse to believe anyone alive is this stupid....yet here we are
He 100% believes he's untouchable.I 100% believe he is stupid enough to do this.
Also, after a life of bullshitting, bullying his way out of every shit he does... He probably believes he is untouchable (life has yet to prove him wrong, but I hope judgement is coming soon).
Commits crimes. Commits more crimes to help pay for the defense of former crimes.
Seems smart.
Yeah they seem fairly shady at the moment.Alright, I'm saying let's put a hold on sourcing NYT for a bit after how they've performed this week.
With the speed of the edit, I would think it was an editorial decision.Wonder if their lawyers told them in retrospect it was too bold a claim to make.
Isn't using the NRA as a slush fund the same day the Senate revealed they are a domestic Russian front kinda bad?
The NYT edit doesn't change the implied meaning of why Trump reached out. Based on Michael Cohen, the whistleblower complaint, and countless other scenarios we know Trump speaks fluent mobster.
Fighting the Mafia posed a uniquely hard challenge for investigators. Mafia families were involved in numerous distinct crimes and schemes, over yearslong periods, all for the clear benefit of its leadership, but those very leaders were tough to prosecute because they were rarely involved in the day-to-day crime. They spoke in their own code, rarely directly ordering a lieutenant to do something illegal, but instead offering oblique instructions or expressing general wishes that their lieutenants simply knew how to translate into action.
Those explosive — and arresting — hearings led to the 1970 passage of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, a law designed to allow prosecutors to go after enterprises that engaged in extended, organized criminality. RICO laid out certain "predicate" crimes — those that prosecutors could use to stitch together evidence of a corrupt organization and then go after everyone involved in the organization as part of an organized conspiracy. While the headline-grabbing RICO "predicates" were violent crimes like murder, kidnapping, arson and robbery, the statute also focused on crimes like fraud, obstruction of justice, money laundering and even aiding or abetting illegal immigration.
It took prosecutors a while to figure out how to use RICO effectively, but by the mid-1980s, federal investigators in the Southern District of New York were hitting their stride under none other than the crusading United States attorney Rudy Giuliani, who as the head of the Southern District brought charges in 1985 against the heads of the city's five dominant Mafia families.
RICO was precisely designed to catch the godfathers and bosses at the top of these crime syndicates — people a step or two removed from the actual crimes committed, those whose will is made real, even without a direct order.
Exactly, it appears, as Mr. Trump did at the top of his family business: "Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress. That's not how he operates," Mr. Cohen said. Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen said, "doesn't give orders. He speaks in code. And I understand that code."
What's notable about Mr. Cohen's comments is how they paint a consistent (and credible) pattern of Mr. Trump's behavior: The former F.B.I. director James Comey, in testimony nearly two years ago in the wake of his firing, made almost exactly the same point and used almost exactly the same language. Mr. Trump never directly ordered him to drop the Flynn investigation, Mr. Comey said, but he made it all too clear what he wanted — the president isolated Mr. Comey, with no other ears around, and then said he hoped Mr. Comey "can let this go." As Mr. Comey said, "I took it as, this is what he wants me to do." He cited in his testimony then the famous example of King Henry II's saying, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?," a question that resulted in the murder of that very meddlesome priest, Thomas Becket.
Good info. Thanks.RICO was literally created because of situations like this.
From after Cohen testimony
RICO was made for Trump. And something signed into law by Nixon and used to great degree by Giuliani makes it all the more poetic to be applied to Trump the second he's not in office...
Because he can't get elected if he gets convicted, so his legal defence is an election expense.
Lmao, he speaks of life as if it's an RPG
1st max out corruption to get $$$, then re-spec for int (((spell-casting to own the libs)))Lmao, he speaks of life as if it's an RPG
we gonna max out intelligence but only after CORRUPTION