Abramoff: “They will come up with excuse..as to how..he did not know me"

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonian.com/inwashington/buzz/2006/abramoffpictures1.html

Lobbyist Abramoff Describes Pictures of a “Bearded, Fatter Me” With President Bush


Editor’s note: A version of this story was posted briefly on Monday of this week. Within an hour, Jack Abramoff contacted the author, Washingtonian national editor Kim Eisler, and asked that the report be deleted from the Washingtonian.com Web site because public disclosure of his communications would damage his status as a witness and undermine his plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Abramoff has pleaded guilty to three felonies and could receive 31 years in prison for his part in the lobbying scandal. US District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle will decide the length of Abramoff’s prison term. The link was taken down while Mr. Abramoff’s concerns were investigated, but Mr. Eisler found no confirmation that publication of the item would damage any aspect of the wide-ranging probe. Thus we are posting this updated story.


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In the photograph taken at the same event as the one published by Time, Abramoff said he and the President were discussing working out with weights.

Other photographs included a picture of Bush and Abramoff standing together with “Cheshire cat grins”; pictures of Bush and what Abramoff characterized as the “bearded fatter me”; a picture of Bush chatting with Abramoff’s twin daughters (“Oh, you are twins; I have twins,” Abramoff quoted Bush as saying); a picture of Bush, House speaker Dennis Hastert, and Abramoff’s children; and a picture of Laura Bush with Abramoff’s wife, Pam, and the twin girls, who had led the Pledge of Allegiance at the event (said Abramoff: “Laura went ga-ga over their being twins”).


A frustrated Abramoff, who feels he has been abandoned by many of his conservative friends, added, “They will come up with excuse after excuse as to how and why he did not know me. I could have spent four months alone with him in Bolivia and he would not know me.”

[Tin Man]

1. Sounds like he's getting pissed - hopefully, he'll release the pix

See Jack spill.

Spill, Jack, spill !!! :)

[sabra]

2. he saw what they did to Brownie....

[MadMaddie]

3. Eating their own....throw em to the wind when

they become a liability to the Power!!

He isn't a stupid man...I am betting he put info away for just an occasion like this!!

:popcorn:

[savemefromdumbya]

4. Bush didn't know Ken Lay (Enron) - either

yet on the smoking gun website you can see all the personal communications. Do you think Abramoff will just suddenly disappear?

[otohara]

5. Face It Jack - You've Been Dumped

happens all the time to many of the rich and powerful. He's an idiot if he really thought his so-called-friends would stick around, much less support him. They are only your friends when you are doing them favors.

[sabra]

6. problem is, it appears it does have some dirt on BushCo?

[otohara]

9. Then I Say Dish it Out

Jack - write a book - tell all. Cuz Bush ain't ever going to admit to knowing him.

[sabra]

10. it will/is coming out

pass the popcorn :popcorn:

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. What did he expect?

:shrug:

[Scout1071]

8. Well, well, well.

Look-ey here. Seems like Abramoff is starting to get a little testy with his former "friends."

[yellowcanine]

11. Jack off is feeling rejected by Bush? Could be bad for Bush. Someone

send that bowl of popcorn my way, please.

[earthboundmisfit]

12. "I could have spent Four months alone with him in Bolivia,"

"and he would not know me."
I may be reading something into nothing, but what a curious thing to say... Doesn't some of the world's finest cocaine come out of Bolivia?

[sabra]

13. you never know with Bushco? could be code?