Day 579 Tuesday August 21, 2018 999 Days to Go
Nine Hundred Ninety Nine Days to Go!
Nine Hundred Ninety Nine Days to Go!
You take one down, pass it around,
Nine Hundred Ninety Nine Days to Go!
Oh my.
In celebration of this momentous occasion I’d like to share with you a few headlines, that we’ll probably never see:
“Mueller Investigation Ends – No Collusion”
“Trump Arrested, Pres. Pence says, ‘Let him rot in jail’.”
“Dev Nunes and Trey Gowdy open investigation into Republican Obstruction.”
Okay, enough with the fantasy stuff. Now to reality. Or as Rudy would probably say, “Truth as we know it.”
What happened yesterday?
The Manafort jury deliberation continues. Speculation runs to two different conclusions:
1) The longer the jury is out, the better for the defense. They might have a hung jury due to one juror not being sure.
2) They haven’t been out that long and there is a lot of evidence to go through. Especially considering that they did not get to see the documentary evidence during the trial. Also, the judge’s instructions were oral and not written out in transcript form. If the jury is being careful this means it will take time to go through all the charges. The last thing they asked was what pieces of evidence went with which charges. Apparently, they have to figure this out for themselves.
Meanwhile, there is talk that Michael Cohen might be hit with tax fraud charges to the tune of twenty million dollars. I’ve also heard figures of two hundred million. Maybe, the two hundred is income and the twenty is tax on it. This relates to his taxi medallion business. A business which typically involves shady mafia type characters.
It has been reported that White House Counsel, Don McGhan, has spoken to the Mueller team for over thirty hours, that the president did not invoke Presidential privilege, and therefore McGhan told them everything. What he said is not known. However, others in the White House who have spoken to the Mueller team have been surprised by how much the Mueller team knows. They report that the Mueller team knows more about what was going on then they did, and they were there!
Oh, the president made a bunch of stupid tweets. Rudy said more silly stuff. He is being taken to the woodshed for saying, “The truth is not the truth.” Taken out of context it’s pretty funny. He also said to Chuck Todd, “Don’t do this to me.” However, if you listen to the interview and watch Giuliani it’s not as bad as it sounded. Poor fumbling Rudy. What he meant was that one person’s version of the facts may not be the complete truth or even true. He said, however, “The truth is not the truth” (in that instance). Chuck Todd put his head down and into his hand. Rudy mimicked Todd and said, “Don’t to that to me.” (I.e. Don’t make fun of me by putting your head down in your hand.)
Then there are the toss up races. Republicans are dumping lots and lots of money into trying to win them by putting in ground crews and running disgusting negative ads.
Then we get to Mr. Papadopoulis. He is due to be sentenced. Apparently the Mueller team is not happy with him. We thought he cut a plea deal. According to court papers it was not a standard deal, far from it. The special counsel has said that Mr. Papadopoulis has not been helpful. In fact, they say he lied repeatedly even when he knew differently, and he knew this would affect their investigation. (I had heard earlier that because of Papadopoulis lies the specail counsel did not get their hands on a witness before that person left the country.)
The special counsel has therefore recommended that Mr. Papadopoulis get six months in jail. To I guess think things over. No doubt we’ll be forced to look at his hot Russian wife pouting about his unfair treatment.
Speaking of hot looking wives, have you seen Wilbur Mills wife? My god, that little wimp, has a little blond cutie.
As soon as the jury is through with Mr. Manafort and this trial there’s another trial starting in September. This trial had like 200 pieces of evidence; the next one has over 1,000. I don’t remember what the charges are, I think it’s that he acted like a crooked scumbag, but I’m just speculating.
Now there’s another little thing to mention. The Dutch guy who pleaded guilty to lying to the special counsel and spent 30 days in jail. Remember he’s married to the daughter of a Russian oligarch. One of the oligarchs mentioned in the Steele dossier. He’s head of AlfaBank. The bank that Trump had servers talking to during the campaign. The article that I read that first kicked off my interest in all this. Trump has never explained what those servers were doing. The lawyer AlfaBank hired to clean everything up is now head of the criminal investigation unit at the FBI.
Remember that banks in Russia are not like banks in the U.S. They are essentially extensions of the Russian government and the oligarchs. AlfaBank and it’s leader have direct ties to Putin. Also, remember that there are many floors in Trump Tower that the condos were bought by Russians.
I’m not one to speculate wildly but is it too much of a stretch to think that a few guys in one of those Russian condos came down and set up the server for Trump? I mean, no one on his team is smart enough to have done it. Especially, because of the sophisticated and unusual setup.
Is it also too much to think that Putin doesn’t have a direct line into the FBI and all it’s criminal investigations?
Is there anyone in the Trump circle who hasn’t talked to Russians?
There are now 175 people asking for their security clearances to be revoked based on what Trump has done to Brennan. Make that 176! I want my security clearance revoked! (and as I’ve pointed out – I don’t have one! But that hasn’t stopped the president before; I hope it doesn’t stop him now.)
999 Days to Go
PS Tekrit circa 1914 (Source Nat Geo 1914)
PPS Cohen plea deal reached.
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