Indictment-O-Rama, Act 3: Cohen Up the River

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Absolutely nobody could have predicted this entire chain of ev-


https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793254986641764356

-ents. Oh.

Looks like were going to know now.

She was right about almost everything. We as a voting population were too stupid to listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE8XJEeOpyA

Wouldn't be surprised at all if Hillary had some extra info on Trump she couldn't disclose from her time at State.

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https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1070140375581515776

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1070140777337159681

One possibility - albeit not a likely one in my opinion - is that he is helping expose Russian agents working in the U.S. such as Maria Butina. I don't think such help would have to be redacted to this extent, but I'm not super familiar with what tends to get redacted in these kinds of filings.

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Somebody in the FOX graphic department weighs in:

Lol. The perfect combination of Fox News's Very Important Real News^TM coverage and the rogue millennial #resistance intern in charge of the graphics.

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Is there anything preventing states from prosecuting him now that he is president?

No, but it would very swiftly end up in the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh might have to recuse himself.

I think state prosecution is only likely to happen if Mueller is fired and/or impeachment fails.

Kavanaugh will never do such a thing. Partial evidence as to why he doesnt belong on the High Court.

I think John Roberts would tell him to do so. Especially if it looks like a split Court.

Even so, there's no enforcement mechanism if he were to say no, and I'm pretty sure Kavanaugh's number 1 qualification for this seat is that he world preside over Trump corruption cases and side with Trump.

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This seems so weird. Who on a jury would trust the testimony of A Russian spy, and if she tells the truth, how can we guarantee her safety. Her choice seems like it's witness protection or jail, and I just don't see why she would want to cooperate. That's a mark that will be on her for the rest of her life. Prison is temporary.

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Next month: Eric Trump publishes email chain to pre-empt NYT story on meeting with Jaysh al Fatah commander at Trump Tower.

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Rudy offers a compromise for having Trump sit down with Mueller

Giuliani: Trump will only sit for interview with Mueller ‘over my dead body’

Unorthodox, but sounds acceptable to me.

Trump could shoot him on Fifth Avenue and we'd test two adages in one go!

Next, Trump will offer the House a deal whereby they can have his tax returns if they pull them out of his cold, dead hands.

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Ethics official said Whitaker should recuse from the Mueller probe, but his advisers told him not to, officials say

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I think if Whittaker does something stupid, the House should immediately move to Impeachment.

Meh. I still think the best course of action with Whittaker is to just challenge his "appointment" as null and void until the Senate votes. There is no legal reason at all to believe that Rod Rosenstein is not the current acting Attorney General. It is up to the Trump administration and Whittaker to prove otherwise before anyone else should recognize anything he does in his capacity as acting AG.

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Supreme Court rules against foreign firm, in mystery case potentially linked to Mueller

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-against-foreign-firm-in-mystery-case-potentially-linked-to-mueller

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Sorry to steal Virginia's article-posting style, but I like it.

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F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia

From NYT:

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Bottom line, Mueller now oversees this investigation, even though it was started before he was appointed. We don't know its current status, as far as I can tell.

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An honest-to-goodness question whether the president United States is a Manchurian Candidate. Dear God the times we live in.

I'm sure the Trumpists will claim (if they haven't already) that this is yet more proof of a Deep State conspiracy against Trump.

I think we've already passed that and are already heading into "sure he was a Russian agent, but that's not illegal" territory.

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So uhhhhhhhh

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/carl-bernstein-draft-of-muellers-final-report-says-trump-helped-putin-destabilize-the-us

The weird thing is Jon Karl said he heard the report would be “anti-climatic” and I fail to see how any report that says this is “anti-climatic”

We've unfortunately conditioned ourselves to the point that, if Mueller's report does say that Trump helped Putin to destabilize the US, it will still be viewed as "anti-climactic" by many.

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https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1085721427402092

This video is 100% must watch right now.

I got a "Page not Found" error.

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And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go to?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? Am I wrong?
And you may say yourself, "My God! What have I done?"

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Now my question is: was Klobuchar colluding with Buzzfeed?

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I've heard inside information that makes me not trust Buzzfeed (their fact checking before they're willing to publish something is extremely minimal) so I'm not going to get fired up about this until legit newspapers, CNN, or something start confirming it. But I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this is true. And if it's true congress has a duty to impeach him.

What kind of "inside information" do you have access to? lol

Probably some Buzzfeed article: "25 times we totally didn't double-check our sources before going to print"

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A Belarusian model who claims to have evidence of Trump collusion has been yanked off her connecting flight (and apparently drugged) by Russian authorities.  Prostitution is the charge they’ve come up with.

RIP in advance.   I hear there’s a Nastya epidemic of lead poisoning going around, mainly at the bottom of elevator shafts.

Me: Huh, wonder what's on her Facebook page.
[Checks]
Me: Oh. I wonder what day Trump kicked off his campaign.
[Checks]
June 16th, 2015

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So... if Mueller is refuting this one line from this story, what might we infer about all the stories Mueller has not refuted?

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This seems to be the theory emerging from the smoke

https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/1086441563692191751

Can someone tell me what SDNY is?

Southern District of New York

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Everyone on cable is saying this is embarrassing for buzzfeed and a bad night for media/good night for trump.

So naturally, pittsburghsteel is on here arguing how it actually still means orange man done.

Are you trusting "everyone on cable" now? This is new.

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World's Greatest Lawyer strikes again:

Giuliani: Trump does not remember whether Trump Tower Moscow talks went through election

From CNN:

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Thus ends the era of "How the heck has Roger Stone not been arrested?"

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LMAO!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1088832908494888961

Self-parody!

Is it possible Trump has just been secretly replaced with a bad AI bot?

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Roger Stone appears to open door to cooperating with Mueller after dramatic predawn arrest

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Paul Erickson (Maria Butina’s bf) was indicted on money laundering and wire fraud today

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sd/pr/sioux-falls-man-charged-wire-fraud-and-money-laundering

I wonder if he flipped and they’re only charging him with non-Russia stuff.

I mean, I can think of few more unpleasant life experiences than having a court case trying to prove that your significant other didn't care for you at all and was using you to get access for a foreign government.