Turn on Ari right fugging now

[malaise]

Cohen's Russian money

[trueblue2007]

1. ARI is great.

[R B Garr]

2. Watching now!

This is a direct line, WOW.

[shraby]

3. Always watch him and he has a bombshell today.

[BigmanPigman]

4. It is on CNN and all over DU too!

Viktor Vekselberg:
who attended that Moscow dinner in 2015 with Flynn, Stein, Putin etc, was at LOSER45’s inauguration and also had electronics seized by FBI briefly at (NYC?) airport a month or so ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/politics/viktor-vekselberg-mueller-investigation.html

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2055323

[Kirk Lover]

9. It will all come out in the wash. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

5. It's only Tuesday.

[NightWatcher]

6. Who else needed this story today? I sure as shit did.

[Kirk Lover]

7. Avenetti is "breaking" this news. LOCK THEM UP. No seriously it's not a catch phrase...

these folks ARE ACTUAL CRIMINALS. Not some made up bullshit.

[malaise]

10. This is madness

Lock them up

[Kirk Lover]

11. I feel this is it. The storm has arrived and it's about to be a Cat 5 hurricane. What say you? nt

[malaise]

13. This is looking like a new category of hurricane

[Leghorn21]

8. Atlantic rptr spoke w/Cohen's lawyer about an hour ago:

Link to tweet

?s=20

Michael Cohen’s attorney, Steve Ryan, won’t discuss the $500,000 Michael Avenatti says Cohen received from Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg in 2017. “I understand the shorthand you’re using, but it wasn’t a payment,” Ryan says before hanging up.
4:20 PM · May 8, 2018

[peggysue2]

12. I'm convinced this is 'the thing' that will burn them all

Not porn stars or prostitutes or impregnated women convinced to have convenient abortions. Not pee-pee tapes.

But the FRIGGING RUSSIAN MONEY. Dirty money, blood money, mob money that was being made hand-over-fist. So much money they had to park it off-shore after a complex network of laundering facilities (think Taj Mahal, for one). Or that hinky deal in Azerbaijan, a high-rise that never opened, for which the Trumpster cancelled his branding license but still siphoned off $2.8 million. The list goes on and on and now we have Cohen, that 'coffee-boy' who handled the Trumpster's legal affairs, cited as someone who was accepting money from a Russian oligarch, setting up a slush fund from which to pay off inconvenient complaints and/or necessary expenditures for the Trumpster clan.

Follow the money. It's always the road to perdition.

[malaise]

14. True but without Stormy spilling the beans we may not have reached

Cohen and the money.
This is why he didn't want the money followed.

Down they go and he is going to take down the RNC with him.

[peggysue2]

15. Oh, Stormy Daniels . . .

definitely opened the can of worms. But I think the stuff that will bring these people down is much worse than paying off a porn star. Or a pee-pee tape for that matter.

Btw, I agree: The Trumpster and his acolytes will take down a huge portion of the Republican Party. Because they knew and benefited. And others, no doubt, who were in on the take. Think even this Cohen reveal is just the tip of the iceberg. And yes, not surprising that the Trumpster wanted his 'business dealings' considered off-limits.

Starting to all make a crazy sort of sense.

[BadgerKid]

16. Can you say 'tax evasion'? N/t