I am not caught up as of yet with here and Twitter. It seems to be though that Rudy must have really failed on his first day of work with Mueller - you know his BFF. Mueller must have told him to go back to 1984. Rudy in talking to Mueller probably figured out 45 is really screwed so they are litigating and gaslighting via the press because it is all they can do at this point. Just like 45 obsesses about the pee tape, the fact that this was brought up perhaps intentionally means something bad is there and they are trying to deal with it on tv.
Post by sporklemotion on May 3, 2018 8:43:21 GMT -5
“Tump” is cracking me up. I’m surprised that DT hasn’t gone after Kellyanne for the repeated trolling by het husband, given what he did to McCabe. I get that she is WAY more loyal, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s gotten dressed down in private.
My theory: Trump didn’t pay Cohen the $130k. That money came from the Russians (or maybe but less likely a corrupt GOP donor). But either it was laundered through Trump to Cohen to make it look like legit payments to Cohen or it never went through Trump and they are trying to say that other payments from Trump to Cohen during my that time were to pay back Cohen for this purpose.
That’s a factual scenario where I could see it being advantageous for Trump to claim he paid Cohen, because it’s so much worse if the Russians did.
"They always have weird code names," Comey told "PBS NewsHour." "It was 'Sandcastles,' and so I said 'Beyoncé!' And I was the only one in the room who had any idea what I was talking about. People were like 'What?' I said, 'We built sandcastles' - Honest to God, I sung like that."
"Sandcastles" is the eighth track on Beyonce's sixth and most recent studio album, "Lemonade."
Here’s some commentary. The TLDR is that she thinks they are trying to manipulate the media because they know something else is coming. This link has all of Trump’s tweets embedded as well.
Post by katieinthecity on May 3, 2018 9:03:44 GMT -5
I don't understand the claims that a long interview with Mueller would be a "perjury trap". WTF is a perjury trap? Don't lie and you won't commit perjury! It literally makes no sense. Not that anything does anymore.
I don't understand the claims that a long interview with Mueller would be a "perjury trap". WTF is a perjury trap? Don't lie and you won't commit perjury! It literally makes no sense. Not that anything does anymore.
Right? I like the argument that is basically admitting that Trump is a known liar and so can't be trusted under oath.
After the raid on Cohen's office, it was only a matter of time before the truth came out about the Stormy payoff. No one really believed that Cohen paid the money out of his pocket without telling Trump.
This is Trump's attempt to get ahead of the story by admitting something closer to the truth.
If it seems incredibly stupid and ill-advised, just remember Don Jr. tweeting his emails so the NYT couldn't break the story.
Stormys lawyer thinks that THIS is the bombshell that will bring trump down.
If only. His supporters still will.not.care. Nor will the GOP.
It’s maddening.
There have been so many "bombshells" in the past year or two that should've brought any other person down in a heartbeat. Trump's somehow made of fucking Teflon.
I think the only thing to bring him down will be a literal bombshell, blowing up directly in his face.
thread about how Rudy's yammering seems to have tied Trump's hush money payment directly to his campaign.
But just because they cared about it affecting the campaign, doesn’t necessarily mean they used campaign money for it, right? That’s when it would really be a thing?
"They always have weird code names," Comey told "PBS NewsHour." "It was 'Sandcastles,' and so I said 'Beyoncé!' And I was the only one in the room who had any idea what I was talking about. People were like 'What?' I said, 'We built sandcastles' - Honest to God, I sung like that."
"Sandcastles" is the eighth track on Beyonce's sixth and most recent studio album, "Lemonade."
Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
I believe when Rudy talked to Hannity he described it as Trump "funneled money" to Cohen over a period of time to reimburse him. the panel on Last Word were all saying just the use of the phrase "funneled money" is pretty concerning. Rudy's such a moron.
"They always have weird code names," Comey told "PBS NewsHour." "It was 'Sandcastles,' and so I said 'Beyoncé!' And I was the only one in the room who had any idea what I was talking about. People were like 'What?' I said, 'We built sandcastles' - Honest to God, I sung like that."
"Sandcastles" is the eighth track on Beyonce's sixth and most recent studio album, "Lemonade."
The other quotes from that interview are pretty hilarious, too.
I find it true to the overall Comey dichotomy that he likes both Beyonce AND Taylor Swift.
The Washington Post’s Robert Costa: When was the president told about these payments?
Rudolph W. Giuliani: He wasn’t since it was somewhere between 10 and five days before the election. And he wasn’t told. But even if he was told, he wouldn’t have remembered it, like I wouldn’t have remembered it. When, when he paid out of his own personal funds — and if you listen to Cohen’s statement, it was very careful, he said, ‘I wasn’t paid from the campaign and I wasn’t paid from the Trump Organization.’ Absolutely true. He was paid by Donald Trump’s personal funds. And he was paid out of personal funds, which covered that, and possibly a few other things that, you know, would be considered incidental. This is not the kind of money that you would absolutely think of as the settlement of some kind of substantial case. It’d be more the kind of money that you’d think of to be used to pay for a harassment case, which is the way they always thought of this. They never thought of it as true. And I don’t think it’s true. And I’m absolutely positive it’s not true.
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Costa: When, specifically, were the payments made?
Giuliani: Well, the original payment from Cohen was sometime right before the election. The repayments took place over a period of time, probably in 2017, probably all paid back by the end of 2017. That and probably a few other situations that might have been considered campaign expenses.
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Costa: When did the president, though, recognize that these payments to Michael were going to Stormy Daniels?
Giuliani: Don’t know that. Probably now, when I told him.
Costa: But the president said on April 5 that he didn’t know about the payment.
Giuliani: Absolutely true.
Costa: Does that mean he didn’t know about the payment when it was made to Daniels, or that he didn’t know about it on April 5?
Giuliani: Both. I think. I never asked him that. So you probably should be careful. I don’t know the answer to that, except to say that when I talk to him, it seems to me that he was getting the full picture for the first time.
I'm just so confused. Do they think this is damage control? Are they intentionally trying to muck things up to create even more confusion? Scatter crumbs in all directions so mueller's team is too busy to find what really matters?