This is what kills me about the current hellscape we’re living in right now: none of these people are geniuses. In fact, they’re all really f–king stupid. They’ve made huge (some would say “bigly”) mistakes, they’ve broken the laws thousands of times over the course of three years, they suck at covering up their crimes, they’re sh-tty at explaining themselves and they’re all really awful liars. It should not be this difficult to throw these people in jail. They are literally incriminating themselves whenever they open up their Nazi mouths.
So, with that in mind, let’s listen to the president’s new lawyer/legal advisor Rudy Giuliani explain why Michael Cohen paying $130K to Stormy Daniels was perfectly legal and not any kind of federal crime involving campaign financing.
"Funneled through a law firm and the President repaid it." Rudy Giuliani.
With lawyers like these, who needs prosecutors. pic.twitter.com/736KctWnDb
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) May 3, 2018
Assorted quotes from Giuliani:
“…Having something having to do with paying some Stormy Daniels woman $130,000–I mean which going to turn out to be perfectly legal. That money was not campaign money, sorry, I’m giving you a fact right now that you don’t know. It’s not campaign money, no campaign finance violation…They funneled through the law firm and the president repaid it. Everybody was nervous about this from the very beginning. I wasn’t…when I heard Cohen’s retainer of $35,000, when he was doing no work for the president, I said, ‘That’s how he’s repaying it, with a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes, for Michael.’ [Trump] didn’t know about the specifics of it (the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels), as far as I know. But he did know about the general arrangement that Michael would take care of things like this.”
WELL. Well. Well. Take care of THINGS like this. Plural. How many women got paid off in 2015-16? Does Bob Mueller know? Does Michael Avenatti know? But I’m not going to get ahead of myself – what Giuliani admits to right here is actually several federal crimes:
4 possible felonies from Rudy Giuliani admission:
1. $130k payment to Stormy was in-kind coordinated contribution above limits
2. Cohen was a straw donor used to cover up true source of contribution
3. False statements on financial disclosures
4. False statements on banking forms https://t.co/KysAF3X4te— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) May 3, 2018
The Washington Post’s analysis said the same thing, which is that the Stormy Daniels payment was a de facto campaign contribution and when Cohen paid it – regardless of whether the $130K came from his shady law firm – it was an excessive loan TO THE CAMPAIGN and thus violated federal law. And now that Giuliani is on the record – AS TRUMP’S LAWYER – saying that Trump knew about the payment and paid the money back to Michael Cohen… that’s an even bigger campaign-finance violation/crime. Not to mention that if Giuliani is correct, that means Trump has been lying about this for months.
My bae Michael Avenatti – Stormy Daniels’ lawyer and American hero – tweeted this following Giuliani’s interview:
1/2. We predicted months ago that it would be proven that the American people had been lied to as to the $130k payment and what Mr. Trump knew, when he knew it and what he did in connection with it. Every American, regardless of their politics, should be outraged…
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 3, 2018
2/2. …by what we have now learned. Mr. Trump stood on AF1 and blatantly lied. This followed the lies told by others close to him, including Mr. Cohen. This should never be acceptable in our America. We will not rest until justice is served. #basta
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 3, 2018
I remember watching Avenatti in an interview about a month ago where he basically said that if we’re going to bring down Trump, it won’t be because of “collusion” and “treason.” Avenatti said that at the end of the day, most of these a–holes will go down from smaller crimes like this – picayune campaign finance shenanigans, tax fraud, lying to the FBI, that kind of thing. I’m fine with that too.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Today’s Twitter storm is a delight. Somebody, probably Rudy, wrote a script for him. But he still managed to use “roll” instead of “role” and he is claiming that she is violating their NDA but they didn’t have an affair. So, why have a NDA with her?
Violating the nda by talking about an affair that didn’t happen lol. Sounds like trump logic
Because they were sh!t scared the affect the affair would have had on the election outcome, in that it could have swayed voters against him. He was pushing Clinton’s affairs big time, if his own affair with a pron star when his wife had just given birth had come out at the same time I think the outcome of the election may have been different. Although I don’t think so, he’s always been well known as a cheater.
Yes, I understand all that, that wasn’t my question. I’m pointing out how bizarre and twisted this morning’s twitter storm is. In one sentence, he says there was no affair but the sentences around that discuss her violating a NDA by discussing this supposedly non-existent affair. If no affair, there was no need for a NDA to prevent disclosure of an affair. So, playing along with his claims, why have a NDA at all?
first it was “there was no payment and no affair”.
then “well, there might have been a payment but I didn’t know anything about it and there was no affair”.
then, “well, there was, in fact a payment, but I didn’t know anything about it and there was no affair”.
then, “well, I did know about it and I paid him back but there was no affair”.
then why did you pay her?! the man is so used to all of his butt-kissers/sycophants just accepting whatever he says…it’s astonishing how badly he lies.
You are correct, but what scares me is that his followers accept the party line without question. I hope sane voters show up in 2018 so that Congress can put a check on this lunatic, and I pray that he’ll get is a$$ handed to him in 2020. Somehow that seems too rosy a prediction though, given our current dumpster fire of a timeline.
He lies in the same way a pathological liar would- without a mental catalog of the ongoing lies, and completely without any compunction. He breathes, therefore he lies.
Trump would never admit he lied. Clearly some much more unsavory bit of news about this is about to drop and he needed to get in front of it. By admitting he knew about the payment he can also claim attorney client privilege over the documents the US attorney seized about the matter.
Double Post
He cannot claim attorney-client privilege because the privilege is voided during the commission of a crime. He and his lawyer worked together to violate campaign finance laws, ergo, privilege on this transaction is void.
When putin ordered the US puppet regime, it was lost in translation as a spinal tap version of the Sopranos!
I do not care for what crime he goes down, as long as he and his good for nothing grifter family does. Seriously if this dude were a democrat the deplorables would be outraged to the nth degree. Basta indeed.
Yes, I think we all agree with you, OSTONE.
“The $130K came from his shady law firm – it was an excessive loan TO THE CAMPAIGN and thus violated federal law.” Down here, there has been a number of politicians who have violated election donation laws, or even less, and guess what? They were skewered, swiftly and severely, and practically run out of town, their political careers finished. Others have been jailed for criminal activity and using their positions to commit their crimes. I realise Australia and the US operate under very different political systems, but in your democracy, is there no one, no safeguards, no protocol or law, to oust and punish, high-ranking public officials who do what the vermin at the top and their cohorts have done and continue to do? I also cannot wait to see the outcome of Mr Mueller’s investigation, but the filth should have been expunged long before now. This is not a criticism, but simply an observation, and I’m trying to understand your system.
Our system is “supposed “ to work that way too. This is not normal. Our Congress should already be typing up letters of impeachment. Trump and the Republicans have hijacked our Democracy. The Republicans are complicit is allowing Trump to act as a dictator. Our Constitution was written so that Congress as our representatives would act ethically and remove a criminal president. We the people cannot do anything except to kick the old Congress out and vote in a new Congress that will actually do their jobs. Voting is this November.
No, it’s been a gentlemanly agreement so far 🙁
The Repubicans are protecting him. Also some very powerful, extremely wealthy people, Koch brothers and Mercer family, have their loyal, ideologue politicians inside the party and in Vice President.
Basically we’re witnessing a political coup that’s been organizing to get positioned over 50 yrs. I say coup because, as you pointed out, they don’t operate within the accepted governing traditions or even the constitution. Their agenda is to undo all civil and labor rights on the federal level and thus nation wide. This would allow the white elites to acquire and concentrate even more wealth and power.
Whoa! Hannity was accidentally a journalist yesterday! Fox might have to fire him.
Sigh…Thanos snap your fingers.
🙂
It’s a “Confederacy of Dunces” on FULL display!!!!
Old, white men who were pretty stupid to start with. But their time is surely coming to an end, one way or another (heh,heh).
Oh, for the good old days, when the only thing a POTUS lied about was an Oval Office BJ!
Which I seem to remember he was impeached for. Anyway, if we’ve learned anything in the past nearly 18 months, it’s that one lie from a Democrat is removal-from-office bad, but over 3000 – as documented by the Washington Post – by the GOPOTUS all fine and dandy….
How does no one point this out more often? Giuliani keeps saying “irrelevant” when this kind of nonsense is what Clinton almost got impeached for and the Republicans built a cottage industry of outrage on for a decade. You set the precedent, Repubs!
Michelle Wolf got it right. The media should be blasting him for every untruth he has ever told, every. single. time. But they’d rather report on his deranged tweets as if there’s substance or validity behind them and not the bizarre ramblings of a man who is clearly unraveling before our eyes.
What Kitten said. The media comments about Wolf’s performance were asinine and embarrassing. She had it right: Trump enriches them, so they enable his lies and corruption, without regard to the many people who are suffering because of said lies, corruption, and, of course, harmful policies. Not to mention the cadre of young, right-wing judges McConnell is pushing through.
Yes, and their claims that Mueller has gone beyond the scope of the initial investigation is *rich*, considering Starr began by investigating Whitewater, and impeachment was brought to bear via perjury about a bj. -epic eye roll-
He was impeached for lying under oath about the bj, not for the act itself which wasn’t illegal.
As Trump and his crew may eventually lie under oath about some component of the Stormy Daniels shenanigans.
The point is, the Republicans worked themselves up into a moral outrage lather about Clinton and sex, and tried to impeach him for lying about it. So yelling “irrelevant” now is absurd by their own standards.
I mean, this is just so typical of the GOP! They’ve been disgusting liars as long as i con remember, but the lying didn’t seem to trip them up so much.
Haha, that interview was such a trainwreck!
Someone on Twitter pointed out: maybe no need for a Mueller interview of Trump; just send out every member of the campaign to a supposedly softball interview and they’ll say six incriminating things unprompted.
Hannity’s reaction was GOLD.
From what I’ve read elsewhere its not necessarily to do with any campaign monies used but more to do with the contribution the accusations would have had on the campaign and how people who have reacted/voted if it became pubic – if the affair was public before the election it would have ‘contributed’ to the outcome of the campaign. They are using the money to muddy the water with the voters to turn them against the DoJ, Mueller and the whole investigation.
Plus, Guiliani really does look like Uncle Fester.
Don’t insult Uncle Fester!
I had been avoiding listening to Ghouliani as long as I could, but I did watch a clip of this last night, and JEEBUS he sounds like a senile old man (which he prob is).
and his entire demeanor and body language when he was saying “That money was not campaign money, sorry, I’m giving you a fact right now that you don’t know. It’s not campaign money, no campaign finance violation…” he sounded like a kid who was trying REALLY hard to convince his parents that, though his teacher caught him, he wasn’t REALLY cheating.
all these people SUCK and need to go down.
It was public before the election. Stormy gave her initial interview years ago. Genie was already out the bottle at that point. The NDA was for her not to talk about it anymore and, in fact, she actually denied the story when it broke again but these dummies didn’t think that signing the NDA to seal the deal was necessary so here we are.
Guiliani basically admitted an in-kind arrangement Cohen paid Stormy and Trump “paid” Cohen so story wouldn’t leak during debate. Those funds are not considered personal, but campaign contributions. I learned this because Kellyanne’s husband, George tweeted it. lolololololololol.
George Conway HATES Trump.
Some discussions here yesterday about how partners came make a relationship when they have these different political views. Not sure how kellyanne and George make it work, my guess is this will lead to divorce for them. Either that or they don’t have much or a relationship in the first time
I’m guessing because either Kelly Anne is purely a sell out for the money and “fame” and actually agrees with him, or she simply doesn’t have a soul.
I won’t be surprised if it eventually gets her fired or breaks up their marriage though.
George Conway’s tweets are deliciously passive aggressive!
Avenatti always looks like he is having the time of his life with this. Trolling the president through the news like a pro.
I know, right? Did you see his photobomb of SSH and Kellyanne C at the WHCD? Priceless.
I loved it! When Suckabee noticed Avenhottie lurking behind them like a shark, she got a little flustered and glared at him. His confidence is as sexy as his gorgeous chiseled face
It will hard for him to top the Fruit Basket, though! What a gem!
I have to wonder if besides the usual suspects( 45 and some members of his family) Mueller has another high ranking Republician in his sights?
All this focus on getting 45 to talk to Mueller could be an elaborate ploy to divert attention. I could easily see someone being brought in who knows every detail about 45 and his dealings.
It would be game over for 45
My thoughts exactly. This is a sad attempt at distraction. My guess is that we’ll soon hear confirmation that Cohen flipped. Game over.
Are we sure Giuliani went to law school? Has anyone ever checked?
LOL ya know? I mean, this is NEXT-LEVEL STUPID on his part.
With a lawyer like this – who needs a lawyer?!
At one time, before his political career, he was the US Attorney of NY. Don’t know which district. So yes, at one time he was good.
Trump sure does hire the best people. BANG! Another member of the Trump team shot himself in the foot . These asswipes tell so many confusing lies, they can’t keep their fake facts straight
His lead counsel quit recently too. That Cobb guy. I saw somewhere it was attributed to him wanting to “retire”. Yeah sure. You always retire in the middle of representing the POTUS.
It is amazing how incompetent they all are.
Hahahaha! What a sh*t show! I wonder how long it will take for Rudy to get fired for this. Remember, Orangino only works with the best people. SMDH.
Also thanks Kaiser, I learned a new word today – “picayune”.
The hypocrisy and the lies are so frustrating! His supporters are either delusional, greedy or just plain stupid! How can anyone support this dumpster fire? I have seemingly intelligent family members that are still arguing that at least he’s better than Hillary. Even if that was true (which is isn’t!) how does that justify his disgusting and illegal behavior?!
*insert Leslie Knope I’m dying gif here*
I would laugh if they weren’t simultaneously destroying the rest of us and determined to make sure we are all poor while they line their pockets.
Also the idiot GOP nominated the dunce with a nobel peace prize and I want to punch every single one of them. (I would never but every day sends my blood pressure way up)
Indiana congressman Luke Messer started that move to nominate 45 for a Nobel as a campaign maneuver to appear more pro-drump. He is running against 2 others for the Republican senate nomination who are desperate to be appear close to drump. Messer also has worked for the Kochs and depends on their largesse for his living. He doesn’t have a residence in Indiana, his campaign ads are insulting to our intelligence, on and on. He also didn’t disclose his 2 DUI when running for a state senate seat left vacant by the death of an offucial who was killed by a drunk driver.
He is such a pathetic joke. So depressing that Indiana has so many representatives like him.
I have a few friends that have moved to IN for their jobs (all medical) and to say they loathe their state reps is putting it mildly. Beautiful state though
As a fellow Hoosier, agreed about Indiana politicians. I hate primary (and general) election time of year around here. Our choices are so bad and voting seems futile. Thanks for representing and explaining to the fine folks on here that Idiot Messer is an outlier in the state.
My husband is from Indiana and he never, ever wants to move back there. After visiting a couple of times, and listening to his family while biting my cheeks, I don’t blame him.
Please please vote, even if it seems futile!
That nomination is moot since the deadline to submit was February. They are just stoking the orange baby’s ego at this point.
Giuliani also said that if Mueller tried to interview Ivanka, the country would turn on him. What!?! She is an adviser to trump, she was in the NJ compound when trump decided to fire Comey, she was on AF1 when the letter about Don Jr’s meeting with the Russian lawyer was written (although she supposedly was on the back of the plane). Having her interview is not like having Barron interviewed.
I’ve been watching MSNBC clips and of course it’s all panels of lawyers laughing at Giuliani and talking about a possible subpoena. They were saying now Mueller was prepared for this from Day #1, how the fact that he mentioned subpoena was strategic and that he is already prepared for them to resist.
They place too much belief in the theory that Nagini is some beloved princess. She isn’t. The army of worshipful sycophants has diminished on her twitter feed and every one of her self-promoting with our tax money tweets gets bombarded with questions about why she is there and how much she is costing us.
So true. I love this clip of Paris Hilton being asked about Ivanka at NY Fashion Week in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7Be4i-_wk
Paris is full of the shade!!
The peasants will rise up to save the ice princess..lordy these people are living in a bizarro world I don’t even want to hear about..oh, and he insinuated that it would be okay to throw her hubby overboard (the ‘wonder boy’ that was in charge of everything?!)..it’s like a race to see who’s the most unhinged
@KNy — you are absolutely right that Mueller is already prepared. He has discipline, determination, and a very strategic approach. He will not do anything unless he can pretty well predict the outcome of that move and the ripples it will create.
If they still think that after Ivanka getting roasted for the last 2 years they haven’t been listening. We don’t like Princess Complicit
It was gross the way he was talking about Barbie…. that “fine fine woman”. But the best part was when he more or less said that Jared was “disposable”. That hasn’t been talked about but I think it’s important.
What lawyer ever refers to funds being sent to a law firm as “funneling”? That is a bizarre term to use.
The stupid money laundering kind.
Lol yup
lol…DYING…so true.
Cool Ghoul apparently thinks the year is 1948 when it comes to federal campaign guidelines (which are hundreds of pages of detail) and that there are no anti-money laundering laws.
But keep doing you, Rudy. Keep being your buddy’s Cool Ghoul, and book more TV interviews!
lol @ Cool Ghoul
Love it!
Couldn’t resist the reference…He’s trying so hard, bless his heart.
Funny how Ghouliani had to write the entire tweetstorm now up @emperorzero.
The best part of yesterday’s interview with Hamfistity is that Rude told him that EZ fired Comey because Comey wouldn’t tell EZ that he wasn’t a target of the investigation.
I mean…
WHAT THE ACTUAL F__K?????
Precious Hamfistity tried to walk Ghouliani back, encouraging the Ghoul to clarify with a subtle shaking of the head (no, No, NO!)
😂
Who in the White House decided it was a good idea to hire guiliani and then send him out on the news to answer questions? Was it trumps idea, or is someone trying to sabotage him and they said “yeah hire Rudy, he’s a smart well spoken guy”. Trump doesn’t even need to make himself look like an idiot, he has all these other guys around him to do it
I think he was one of the few (perhaps the ONLY) attorney who would agree to sign on. I mean, 45’s got a rep for 1) not paying 2) lying uncontrollably and being unable to keep the lies straight and 3) not listening to what his lawyers tell him.
why would any reputable lawyer sign on?
@waitWhat – Cue a spotlight-craving octagenarian who thinks he’s sharper than the other tools…
What could go wrong?
Who’s left to hire? Who would want that job? It’s like offering the position of Captain of the Titanic to someone after it’s already hit the iceberg.
Things are bad when mouthy Faux host is nearly speechless and trying to help his guest backtrack.
LMAO. This is all just too glorious.
This series of events is just incredible. I can’t believe how incompetent everyone is.
I think when they go on Fox, they get too comfortable. They know they are in a safe space and won’t be challenged. Like with Pruitt, they step in it because they are too relaxed and think they can say anything. Fools.
I read that Cohen’s phones were being tapped before, during and after the raid. There were calls to the White House during this time. He also had 20 cell phones, some of them very old, and none of them were scrubbed before being confiscated.
What fools.
The thing is, half of America doesn’t care. Before we had to huddle in our basement due to tornado warnings last night, I was trolling a quasi-friend’s friends on facebook because of the WHCD and how SHS was being treated so mean. Suddenly it turned into, “but her emails” “he created peace in Korea”, “abortions should be illegal” etc. The talking points from people who believe him is just frightening to me. They don’t want to know the truth.
I don’t understand how all the people complaining about how Sarah sanders was treated during the roast don’t see the irony of the situation? How friggin stupid are these people. They’ve all spent the last two or three years calling democrats names and bashing them left and right, but the moment a comedian says something about a smoky eye and the FACT that Sarah lies constantly, and suddenly everyone is on their high horse.
Kumail Nanjiani apparently had a little back and forth with Haberman at the NYT (the only reporter that 45 will talk to there, so she wants to keep her access) about the “savage personal insults against her appearance” etc and Nanjiani asked Haberman to please point out the line in Wolf’s speech that did so.
Haberman unfollowed him! she’s more concerned about access than truth. some “journalist” she is…and a coward to boot.
Ugh, she’s the worst. I was following her for a bit in the beginning because she did have access, but it’s corrupted her.
@Tania
But Mr Mueller cares. And that’s all that matters. Public opinion means nothing in a court of law.
Nails? Meet coffin.
This is hilarious. When Guiliani claimed the 130,000 is like a retainer, Mueller now has grounds to subpoena Cohen’s personal bank accounts to find a pattern of such records.
Ted Lieu’s twitter statement on this was very helpful. The Trumpkins have flooded the room with so many lies, I was truly confused by this new one from Giuliani.
I have to hand it to Avenatti for continuing to look like a real pro! (I especially like how he treats his client Daniels with respect–it is in stark contrast to the distain so many commentators and politicians show for sex workers.)
I love that I Twitter follow eveyone mentioned in this post.
Hmmm, yet Cohen himself said he was not repaid.
Cohen is being thrown under the bus, and if he thought having a relationship with trump would end any other way, he’s more stupid then I thought. The national enquirer is even running stories about Cohen now, I assume they have trumps permission
No doubt. Cohen was desperate for Trump to like him and now he is finding out what he should have known all along.
Exactly!!!!
Let’s check in with Kellyanne Conway’s husband and see what he has to say:
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d
I will never get enough of him shading Trump on Twitter.
My new favorite follow
It’s like this is Rudy’s revenge for not being made AG or SecState.
He wishes he were that smart.
Hey, remember when Clinton was caught lying about having an affair under oath and Republicans tried to impeach him?
They just put this guy up for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Every day I wake up and assume I’m just living out the worst part of a cocaine fueled mental odyssey.
All the table-flipping GIFs for this comment.
It is just INFURIATING.
This is so much horseshit.
No one said *EVER* that the $130k *came from* campaign funds, as they attempt to label this way, in a desperate attempt to obfuscate.
It doesn’t matter where the hush funds *came from*, the fact is that it was an “in kind donation” to benefit the campaign by preventing SD from divulging the details. OMG.
It is just perfectly fitting that this 3rd rate, low IQ grifter has such perfectly commensurate/ shitty counsel.
LOL all the way till the end of the day.
And Rudy G. basically admitted it was an in kind donation, saying flat out that Cohen “did his job” by shutting down Stormy’s story cause “imagine if this had come out” during the campaign. Idiot flat out said it benefited the campaign!
I seriously think this is so stupid it had to be intentional sabotage on Rudy’s part.
I think they are all such 3rd rate mafioso wanna-be-s, they are too stupid to see the consequences of their verbal diarrhea- this is why all his 2nd rate attorneys ( he has/has had no first rate attorneys, obvs ) are fleeing as quickly as they can.
To which I say: hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Good.
Thinking of another possibility — Sometimes you see who people really are when they are absent a strong team lifting them up.
I wonder if RG was such a star legal figure in the 1980s mainly because he had a highly competent (lesser paid) staff doing the heavy lifting, with him providing the bluster and bravado. Now he’s probably associated with a firm, but not receiving that type of assistance with his latest “client”. He may be winging it on his own inflated sense of skill and knowledge.
I feel like they really want to be Mafia bosses and have watched all the movies, thinking that’s all the research they need. It’s all flash and zero substance with these people (books being for libs and all)
WOW. So among other things, here’s what I think I heard Giuliani say in that interview: everyone else was worried and scrambling, trying to figure out how to say Trump repaid the $130k when smarty-pants Rudy saw that Trump pays Cohen a monthly retainer and said, “hey! Let’s just say he paid him back from the retainer!” I mean he literally says it just like that. Like he had a major “aha!” moment and was the smartest guy in the room for a second.
The Mooch: “Trump fired me more quickly than he fired anyone else!”
Rudy: “Hold my beer!”
Forever bae Avenatti on CBS. Yum
What’s great is that when we look back, we’ll realize that Fox News has inadvertently played a strong role (not ROLL) in 45’s downfall. The fact that they continue to f*ck up these softball interviews is impressive in the worst way possible. Maybe 45 should send one of his surrogates to be on Jake Tapper’s show next time instead.
I only saw a few clips last night, but the look on Sean’s face was hilarious.
It’s as if his inner monologue went like this: “Oh no, this is going to be actual NEWS…When we’re an entertainment channel. Instead of ‘E’ network for reality star celebrities. we’re the ‘F’ channel for extreme conservatives and other people who don’t like to think much. And we’re gonna he really F’d if he keeps talking…”
Between this and Trump’s embarrassing phone call to Fox & Friends the other day, Fox News is really nailing it. lol.
Before Trump became president, Ghouliani’s were the dentures I wanted most to fall out on national television. I was wishing for it so hard during the last RNC.
Maybe there’s a shift in Trump coverage in the media? In 2016, Buzzfeed’s Anne Helen Petersen wrote this article, https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/how-people-magazine-came-home-to-the-minivan-majority?utm_term=.ke1yX8AA6#.njWe4jzzY.
While not a cover story, this week’s People magazine ran this story, http://people.com/politics/psychiatrists-warn-donald-trump-danger-public-health/
Hey Kaiser!!!!!!! Can we please have a post dedicated to Michael Avenatti please? I’m begging here. Give the people what they want! Please include lots of photos.
The only sane explanation for this – is that after the Cohen raid, they know that Mueller already knows the truth. In some legal circles, they claim that getting the truth out in advance, even if it is very bad, is better than letting it bleed out at a later date (like as in a trial). However, this would be giving the tRump team a lot of credit for smarts. Doubtful, at best. In any event – it backfired!
That would have worked had Trump not already denied knowledge of his lawyer’s payments to Stormy both while he was on Air Force 1 and on Twitter. Or before Michael Cohen confessed to taking out a loan on his house to pay Stormy without Trump’s knowledge. Rudy is 4 months too late.
They nailed Capone for tax evasion. At the end financial crimes are the easiest to prove and brings on federal and state claims (so no they cannot be pardoned ultimately).
“funnelled through the law firm”?? so…laundered?
Morons. God, it’s just such a mess, ALL THE TIME.