And what ? So what if Trump appointed Wray ? That just means that Wray was appointed by Trump, nothing else. Doesn't give Wray a pass on anything. How does that change anything I have mentioned ?
And I'll just throw in that you have not disavowed the Steele Dossier. You still believe it to be true.
WASHINGTON — When John H. Durham was assigned by the Justice Department in 2019 to examine the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, President Donald J. Trump and his supporters expressed a belief that the inquiry would prove that a “deep state” conspiracy including top Obama-era officials had worked to sabotage him.
Now Mr. Durham appears to be winding down his three-year inquiry without anything close to the results Mr. Trump was seeking. The grand jury that Mr. Durham has recently used to hear evidence has expired, and while he could convene another, there are currently no plans to do so, three people familiar with the matter said.
and before this latest new revelation was the indictment itself that was about the source of VV's favorite evidence, the Golden Shower incident. He obsessed for at least a year about all the stains on the sheets of the bed, on America and Trump. He bought into it hook, line and sinker. As did most everyone else here and still believes in the Dossier to this very day. Including yourself as you have yet to say that the dossier is nothing more than election fraud material. No one here has.
The FBI has some splainin to do, a lot. That and the agent who was walked out the door over suppressing Hunter's laptop by circulating that it was only Russian disinformation. Zuckerberg confirmed that the FBI told him to suppress the laptop story in FB as well.
The FBI is at the center of all of this and has obviously become an arm of the DNC. Taking sides of one political party to attack the candidates and various individuals of the other party and in particular a Presidential election. Two consecutive elections actually. What part of that is not a real threat to democracy ?
. But go on and believe that only Trump is the real problem we have regarding the election process in this country. yep.
- A majority of registered Republicans are conspiracy-following morons...
- There aren't enough morons to get elected when independents and Democrats can vote.
When he loses, it'll be because it was stolen by the radical left.
Jackass. Now voting for him means he represents your interests?
Ooops, not now.
Wait, now he does.
No, he changed his mind.
Uh oh, now he rethought things again.
Now what does he believe, I've lost track...
Greenland was one issue that absorbed the National Security Council staff for months. Mr. Trump later claimed the idea was his personal inspiration. âI said, âWhy donât we have that?ââ he recalled in an interview last year for the book. âYou take a look at a map. Iâm a real estate developer. I look at a corner, I say, âIâve got to get that store for the building that Iâm building,â etc. Itâs not that different.â
He added: âI love maps. And I always said: âLook at the size of this. Itâs massive. That should be part of the United States.ââ
But in fact, Mr. Lauder discussed it with him from the early days of the presidency and offered himself as a back channel to the Danish government to negotiate. John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, assigned his aide Fiona Hill to assemble a small team to brainstorm ideas. They engaged in secret talks with Denmarkâs ambassador and produced an options memo.
Mr. Bolton, concerned about expanding Chinese influence in the Arctic, thought that an increased American presence in Greenland made sense but that an outright purchase was not feasible. Mr. Trump kept pushing. He suggested taking federal money from Puerto Rico, which he disparaged, and using it to buy Greenland. On another occasion, he suggested outright trading Puerto Rico for Greenland.
After The Wall Street Journal reported the interest in Greenland, Denmarkâs government slammed the idea. âWhen it became public, they lost their political courage,â Mr. Trump said in the interview last year, as if the Danes had ever been serious about selling.
WASHINGTON â When John H. Durham was assigned by the Justice Department in 2019 to examine the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaignâs ties to Russia, President Donald J. Trump and his supporters expressed a belief that the inquiry would prove that a âdeep stateâ conspiracy including top Obama-era
officials had worked to sabotage him.
Now Mr. Durham appears to be winding down his three-year inquiry without anything close to the results Mr. Trump was seeking. The grand jury that
Mr. Durham has recently used to hear evidence has expired, and while he could convene another, there are currently no plans to do so, three people familiar with the matter said.
WASHINGTON â When John H. Durham was assigned by the Justice Department in 2019 to examine the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaignâs ties to Russia, President Donald J. Trump and his supporters expressed a belief that the inquiry would prove that a âdeep stateâ conspiracy including top Obama-era
officials had worked to sabotage him.
Now Mr. Durham appears to be winding down his three-year inquiry without anything close to the results Mr. Trump was seeking. The grand jury that
Mr. Durham has recently used to hear evidence has expired, and while he could convene another, there are currently no plans to do so, three people familiar with the matter said.
Delaying is all he ever had and it worked for over 40 years. Justice, time, money doesn't work like paper, scissors, rock. Time & money always beats justice.
Trump apparently got on a plane in NJ this evening, wearing a windbreaker and golf shoes - and landed in DC. Thereâs video of him getting off the plane, going straight to the limo, and then gone, probably to his golf course.
No pomp, no announcement, no suit/tie. Tomorrow might be interestingâ¦.
Hereâs how this guy happened to catch it on video⦠It starts innocently.
Trump's Russia conspiracy theory gets dismissed in court. Trump's claims generally don't survive a challenge to prove themselves with facts. This is the crux of the judge's dismissal of Trump's RICO case:
âAt its core, the problem with Plaintiffâs Amended Complaint is that Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm ⦠instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum,â he wrote.
(I've boldfaced the juiciest bits in this post).
Trump presented his Russia hoax theory to a court. It went poorly.
The background here is interesting, by the way. Trump presented his grand Russia hoax theory in the form of a lawsuit, alleging that Hillary
Clinton and others â FBI officials, attorneys, IT guys â had conspired against him in violation of racketeering statutes (a.k.a. RICO). The suit was filed in a specific courthouse in the Southern District of Florida, apparently with the hope that it would be heard by a particular judge that Trump himself had appointed.
It wasnât. Instead, it landed with District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks. When Trumpâs legal team quickly moved to have Middlebrooks removed from
the case, alleging bias, Middlebrooks responded by disparaging the transparency of Trumpâs effort.
âI note that Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the Fort Pierce division of this District, where only one federal judge sits: Judge Aileen Cannon, who Plaintiff appointed in 2020,â he wrote in denying Trumpâs request. âDespite the odds, this case landed with me instead. And when Plaintiff is a litigant before a judge that he himself appointed, he does not tend to advance these same sorts of bias concerns.â
Aileen Cannon, you may be aware, is the jurist who recently issued a ruling of remarkable favorability on Trumpâs behalf in the matter of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.
Middlebrooksâs blunt tone in assessing Trumpâs intent carried through to his dismissal of the lawsuit this week.
âPlaintiffâs theory of this case, set forth over 527 paragraphs in the first 118 pages of the Amended Complaint, is difficult to summarize in a concise
and cohesive manner,â Middlebrooks wrote as he began picking Trumpâs allegations apart. âIt was certainly not presented that way.â
In short, the theory that flourished in Trumpâs friendly ecosystem was that the Russia probe was a function of explicit dishonesty on the part of Clinton: that her allies sought to create a dossier of false reports about Trump and Russia and that they used stolen data to suggest a link between Trumpâs business and a Russian bank.
The suit was filed only after the latter allegation became a central part of special counsel John Durhamâs investigation. Durham, youâll recall, was appointed by then-Attorney General William P. Barr specifically to try to see whether a case could be made to cast the investigation into Russian interference as flawed or biased. Unfortunately for Trump, the case was also filed before Durhamâs case fell apart and before the lawyer targeted for prosecution, Michael Sussmann, was found not guilty by a jury.
âThe Amended Complaint cites copiously to the indictment of Michael Sussmann and a substantial portion of the Amended Complaint contains its
allegations,â Middlebrooks writes at one point. âBut nowhere does the Amended Complaint mention Mr. Sussmannâs acquittal.â)
As one would expect, the focus of the decision is on the legal merits of the case, which Middlebrooks found entirely unconvincing.
âPlaintiff cannot state a RICO claim without two predicate acts,â he writes, for example, âand, after two attempts, he has failed to plausibly allege
even one.â
Middlebrooks derides the sloppiness of the Trump teamâs presentation, the obvious challenges with the statute of limitations for any such suit and the
quality of the evidence offered. At one point, he notes that Trumpâs lawyers misunderstood an allegation centered on computer hacking. (âWhat
must be âoff limits,â â he explains, âis the area of the computer from which the information was obtained, not the information itself.â) At
another, he reflects on the circuitousness of Trumpâs assertions about the FBI probe into interference, code-named âCrossfire Hurricane.â
âPerplexingly, Plaintiff appears to argue that the Defendants obstructed investigation Crossfire Hurricane by contributing to the initiation of Crossfire Hurricane,â he writes. âThat Defendants could have obstructed a proceeding by initiating it defies logic.â
While the decision centers on the legal questions, it does also uproot the baseless accusation itself. A report from the Justice Departmentâs
inspector general cited by Trumpâs lawyers âcompels the opposite conclusionâ from the one Trump offers in his theory: The IG âconcluded
that the FBI operated Crossfire Hurricane âfor an authorized purposeâ and âwith adequate factual predicationâ that had nothing to do with any
Defendant.â
Whatâs more, Middlebrooks adds later: âPlaintiff does not plausibly allege that any or Trump Organization computer was hacked.â This
was an allegation Trump and his allies made repeatedly this year, elevating components of legal filings from Durham. Middlebrooks is correct: There is no evidence of any such hacking, much less Trumpâs broader claim that the Russia probe was to any significant degree downstream from Hillary Clinton.
âThe Inspector General Report specifically explained that the investigation was not predicated on DNC information or the Steele Dossier, but on a
tip from a friendly foreign government,â Middlebrooks wrote, articulating what is common knowledge in the world outside of Trumpâs
terrarium.
The judge made very clear that he understood Trumpâs suit for what it obviously is.
âAt its core, the problem with Plaintiffâs Amended Complaint is that Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm ⦠instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum,â he wrote.
The appropriate forum is cable news or Truth Social. You canât simply pluck a mushroom off a rotting log and transplant it onto a table and expect
it to thrive. It needs the right environment, one in which credulity and fealty are abundant.
yer kidding, right ? Who in their right mind wants all the shit that comes simply by being associated to Trump ?
Lawyers thrive on adversarial situations. Even lawyers for someone as famous as Trump aren't as visible to the public as Trump press secretary Sanders or SC justice Kavanaugh. They're not going to get hassled by the general public. Can you name without googling the #BillionDollarLawyer representing Trump in the 2020 election interference criminal inquiry in Georgia? Can you name without googling the lawyers besides Johnnie Cochran who represented OJ?
If Trump ever had a strong legal case and behaved like a responsible client, he'd have his choice of the best lawyers. Most successful lawyers don't become household names like Cochran did, but winners defending high-profile clients become huge amongst their professional colleagues.
Trump is an awful client. Trump stiffs his lawyers. He doesn't know how to shut up. And he keeps placing himself in legally perilous situations. He must have known that he was committing a crime when he tried to bully Raffensperger into throwing the GA vote for him. He must have known he could get into serious legal trouble for holding onto government documents, especially the ones with the highest security restrictions.
And the lawsuits Trump brings keep getting laughed out of court. I'll post something on that later today. Looks like yourTrump's take on the Russia investigation really is utterly whackadoo.
Yer kidding right? It probably has nothing to do with the fact he often stiffs his attorneys when it comes time to pay for services rendered. Isnât Rudi still waiting to get paid for all the underhanded sh*t that he did for Trump? Seems like Trump kicked him to the curb when he wasnât useful anymore like he does with everyone else. Donât you think that Rudi could really use that money now that heâs in all kinds of legal jeopardy for sticking his neck out for Trump?
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MAGA =
M ake A ttorneys G et A ttorneys
or M y A ttorney G ot A rrested
It's a special breed that would sign up to risk their reputation and livelihood for the promise of riches (that as you point never come). If they wonder how long it might take to get paid, they should ask anyone who's ever worked on a real estate project for him.
