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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT editorial: The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/opinion/trump-michael-cohen-raid.htmlOn Monday, when he appeared with his national security team, Mr. Trump, whose motto could be, The buck stops anywhere but here, angrily blamed everyone he could think of for the unfairness of an investigation that has already consumed the first year of his presidency, yet is only now starting to heat up. He said Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a very terrible mistake by recusing himself from overseeing the investigation the implication being that a more loyal attorney general would have obstructed justice and blocked the investigation. He complained about the horrible things that Hillary Clinton did and all of the crimes that were committed. He called the A-team of investigators from the office of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, the most biased group of people. As for Mr. Mueller himself, well see what happens, Mr. Trump said. Many people have said, You should fire him.
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Among the grotesqueries that faded into the background of Mr. Trumps carnival of misgovernment during the past 24 hours was that Mondays meeting was ostensibly called to discuss a matter of global significance: a reported chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians. Mr. Trump instead made it about him, with his narcissistic and self-pitying claim that the investigation represented an attack on the country in a true sense.
No, Mr. Trump a true attack on America is what happened on, say, Sept. 11, 2001. Remember that one? Thousands of people lost their lives. Your response was to point out that the fall of the twin towers meant your building was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan. Of course, that also wasnt true.
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)BootinUp
(47,156 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)in the wh
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)He should have been in prison decades ago.
Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Although I wish they would tell us what they really think!
underpants
(182,824 posts)This is Yo Mama Been Bloggin's DU thread with a link to the extensive Rolling Stone Article.
Kick this thread
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10476309
Michael Cohen's bare-knuckled tactics earned him the nickname of "Tom," a reference to Tom Hagen, the consigliore to Mafia Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. He grew up on Long Island, the son of a physician who survived the Holocaust in Poland, and like Tom Hagen spent a childhood around organized crime, specifically the Russian Mafia.
In the 1990s, there was an informal group of federal and local law enforcement agents investigating the Russian Mafiya in New York that called themselves "Red Star." They shared information they learned from informants. It was well known among the members of Red Star that Cohen's father-in-law was funneling money into Trump ventures. Several sources have told me that Cohen was one of several attorneys who helped money launderers purchase apartments in a development in Sunny Isles Beach, a seaside Florida town just north of Miami. This was an informal arrangement passed word-of-mouth: "We have heard from Russian sources that
in Florida, Cohen and other lawyers acted as a conduit for money."
An investigation by Reuters found that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses have bought at least $98.4 million worth of property in the seven Trump-branded luxury towers. And that was a conservative estimate. At least 703 or about one-third of the 2044 units were owned by limited liability companies, or LLCs, which could conceal the property's true owner. Executives from Gazprom and other Russian natural resource giants also owned units in Trump's Sunny Isles towers. In an observation that several people I spoke with echoed, Kenneth McCallion, a former prosecutor who tracked the flows of Russian criminal money into Trump's properties, told me, "Trump's genius or evil genius was, instead of Russian criminal money being passive, incidental income, it became a central part of his business plan." McCallion continued, "It's not called 'Little Moscow' for nothing. The street signs are in Russian. But his towers there were built specifically for the Russian middle-class criminal."
orangecrush
(19,570 posts)kicked the thread you posted, that one and this one are great!
Hekate
(90,708 posts)calimary
(81,298 posts)So much good reading today!
orangecrush
(19,570 posts)appalachiablue
(41,140 posts)Beacool
(30,249 posts)Trump has got to be the biggest lowlife and dumbest person to ever occupy the WH. He's an intellectual mediocrity with no core values or a moral compass, a repugnant man is in the highest office in the land.
Hekate
(90,708 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)StarzGuy
(254 posts)...and I am an atheist. I just can't understand why this turd is still in the office all the while doing everything he and his minions can to destroy our country. Unless, of course you are a 1%'er then you will make out like a bank bandit. Oh, wait, they are actually bank bandits.
With Ryan's announcement that he's done and not going to run for office again in 2018 it is just another reminder that the rats (having done their job to screw anyone not a 1%'er) are jumping their ships taking a boat load of bootie at the expense of the American people.
I just got to laugh at the news video of a farmer complaining about what the trump administration and his supporters in the republican congress did with their so called tax reform give away to the rich and now with the new tariffs war with China costing him money and reducing his income from the sale of his farm products. Yet, he still supports trump. But, I did get a sense of wavering. If the trade war with China escalates and he further gets screwed then he might change his voting pattern away from trump. We shall see.
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)this Sunday, describes tRump as a Mob Boss. By extension we therefore have a crime family at the helm. Kakistocracy is indeed a reality.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)So he knows how to handle this one.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)calimary
(81,298 posts)The challenge, however is how many of us will stay awake and alert, and help nudge those not yet awake so they snap to, as well.
FakeNoose
(32,641 posts)They are all complicit, there's nobody left in the GOP. Just put them all in jail and ban the party.
elocs
(22,578 posts)but he called it when he dropped out of the Republican primary race:
[link:http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/scott-walker-drop-out-presidential-race|
Today, I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so that a positive conservative message can rise to the top of the field, Walker said in a brief appearance in Madison, Wisconsin, announcing his decision. With this in mind I will suspend my campaign immediately.
Walker went on to encourage other Republican candidates to drop out so voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive conservative alternative to the current frontrunner, Donald Trump, whose name Walker did not mention. Trump and Walker clashed in Wednesdays debate, with Walker attacking Trumps lack of political experience and business record and Trump arguing that Walker had mismanaged Wisconsins budget and economy.
But Trump was not the only one with a huge ego then because all of those other Republican candidates thought that they could be the one to win and so they could not bring themselves to drop out of the race to stop Trump.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)Calling out the malignant narcissist and pathological liar.
Paladin
(28,262 posts)Things really are looking up.