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struggle4progress

(118,370 posts)
Sun Dec 16, 2018, 10:36 PM Dec 2018

Entire campaign likely a criminal conspiracy

BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 12/16/18 AT 4:19 PM

Tim O’Brien—who penned a 2005 biography about Donald Trump—said Sunday that the emerging raft of legal documents reveal that Donald Trump's presidential campaign was likely a “criminal conspiracy" that commited "criminal acts."

During MSNBC’s Joy AM host Joy Reid asked O’Brien to comment on the growing scandals and investigations surrounding the president, including the special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, hush money payments and a defamation lawsuit by Summer Zervos.

“What we’ve learnt from this raft of legal documents that have landed in our lap over the last couple of weeks is that there’s the very real possibility that the Trump campaign was a criminal conspiracy from its beginnings and that bled into the Trump transition, where various criminal acts might have been committed,” O’Brien said. “Now you have the Trump White House dealing with the consequences of all these” ...

“When you have Rudy Giuliani as the carnival barker, distracting people, focusing only on campaign finance issues, focusing inaccurately on campaign finance issues. It distracts from the larger halo of illegality hanging over this entire Trump team,” O’Brien continued ...

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-biographer-presidents-entire-campaign-was-likely-criminal-conspiracy-1260835

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Entire campaign likely a criminal conspiracy (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2018 OP
That's 2naSalit Dec 2018 #1
He also said Trump has a "tell" -- dawg day Dec 2018 #2
The minute his giant orange ass came down the escalator thegoose Dec 2018 #3
trump and Russia has spent years planning 2016 Gothmog Dec 2018 #4

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
2. He also said Trump has a "tell" --
Sun Dec 16, 2018, 11:09 PM
Dec 2018

That whenever he appends "okay?" at the end of a brag, it's what he's most insecure about. "I'm really smart. I went to Wharton, okay?"

Interesting.

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