I keep seeing references on Twitter that Cohen took out a 2nd mortgage or home loan for $130k in order to pay the Stormy hush money. Has anyone else seen that in factual reporting and if so, could you please link that?
Post by aliciabella on May 3, 2018 11:39:29 GMT -5
Where Giuliani is an idiot is not recalling that Mueller seized all of Cohen's documents. There will be a trail in there of the reimbursement which I PROMISE didn't come from Trump's bank account. It was sent under the Trump organization hence funneling.
This also makes a stronger case for Mueller in regards to the confidential documents they are still litigating.
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?
Or are they purely incompetent fools?
Honestly I think it’s that there is so much criminal conduct that they just cannot cover it all up. To cover one crime up, they have to steal from a pile of dirt that’s covering up a different crime. Wash, rinse, repeat.
This is what organized crime looks like. And we are watching the unraveling of a crime syndicate in real time. The people involved may be smart or stupid, may have a plan or may not. It doesn’t matter. It is always going to look like a hot mess of criminality because it is.
Post by WanderingWinoZ on May 3, 2018 12:02:33 GMT -5
Was it just m e that missed this quote? What the fresh hell does this mean? Is Ivanka in trouble? Was this a personal jab at Jared?
During an interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening, Rudy Giuliani said the “whole country would turn” on special counsel Robert Mueller if he “went after” Ivanka Trump as part of his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. But Kushner? Not so much.
“Jared is a fine man, you know that, but men are, you know, disposable,” he said. “But a fine woman like Ivanka? Come on.”
WanderingWinoZ, I don't know if that's a direct jab at Kushner (it seems like it is, and Kushner seems very unpopular now in Trump's circle) but it seems to be more about protecting Ivanka. I was reading something yesterday about how Mueller has not contacted Ivanka at all - no requests for interview, no requests for documents, etc. so, either he has no interest in her (unlikely) or he's saving her for the end because contacting her would probably set Trump off and would probably ensure Rosenstein's firing (and then Mueller's.)
At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted, the person said.
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Two sources close to Trump's newest attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, say he learned that days after the raid the president had made a call to Cohen, and told Trump never to call again out of concern the call was being recorded by prosecutors.
So I haven’t read the last 60 or so posts but I want to share that the last two times I’ve gone to NYC some big Trump news has broken during my travel. I can’t remember what they were specifically now but each time I’ve FB posted that I should stop by the NYTimes office and bring them pizza.
All of that to say, I’m catching the 2:55 Amtrak to NYC today.
WanderingWinoZ , I don't know if that's a direct jab at Kushner (it seems like it is, and Kushner seems very unpopular now in Trump's circle) but it seems to be more about protecting Ivanka. I was reading something yesterday about how Mueller has not contacted Ivanka at all - no requests for interview, no requests for documents, etc. so, either he has no interest in her (unlikely) or he's saving her for the end because contacting her would probably set Trump off and would probably ensure Rosenstein's firing (and then Mueller's.)
Yeah, I think Rudy's comment was directed at responding to this piece from the weekend.
Nurse Cramer had stopped speaking to Nurse Duckett, her best friend, because of her liaison with Yossarian, but still went everywhere with Nurse Duckett since Nurse Duckett was her best friend....Nurse Cramer was prepared to begin talking to Nurse Duckett again if she repented and apologized.
I can’t even take 10 minutes to wash dishes before something else comes out?! And it’s not Friday yet! Tomorrow is setting up to be an awesome news day. Fingers crossed!