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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1102287)	11/29/2018 5:23:18 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1587709

No. I want GM to go bankrupt like Republicans wanted to back then, and LOSE millions of jobs.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1102287)	11/29/2018 5:25:18 PM
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Cohen’s flip was against entire Trump family and ‘strongly implies’ Mueller is gunning for them: conservative attorney TOM BOGGIONI 29 NOV 2018 AT 11:59 ET rawstory.com Donald Trump, pointing at his sons Donald Trump, Jr and Eric Trump (Twitter) According to a series of tweets trying to make sense about the blockbuster guilty plea made by President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, the attorney who writes under the name “ Popehat” on Twitter stated President Donald Trump’s entire family should be concerned by what happened on Thursday morning. On the Twitter account begun by Los Angeles attorney Ken White — dubbed one of the “ 25 conservatives worth following” by Salon — the tweets suggest Robert Mueller is playing a longer game than just going after President Trump. “Okay. Let’s talk about a few reasons today’s Cohen plea is significant,” the first tweet begins. “First: it expressly contemplates Cohen’s cooperation, which Cohen’s previous agreement did not. Suggests that Mueller is satisfied that Cohen’s cooperating enough to give him an agreement.” The tweets go on to note that there was no reason for for Mueller to go after another guilty plea from the embattled ex-Trump attorney, but that there is the larger game afoot not named Michael Cohen. “It’s not primarily ABOUT Cohen. See, this is bouncing the rubble. It adds one more felony to those Cohen has already taken, with no real marginal effect. It will have an extremely negligible effect, IF ANY, on his sentence. So why bother?” the second tweet continues, before adding, “Well, normally a federal prosecutor WOULDN’T bother with a plea that has no impact. But here, the impact is telling the story of the investigation as a whole, and promoting the case that the entire Trump Organization was lying about its degree of involvement with Russia.” “Though Trump isn’t named explicitly, he and his organization figure prominently and obviously in the charging document and plea. That’s not something federal prosecutors do lightly. This strongly implies further action against someone,” he added. “The conclusion that the President of the United States knew that his personal counsel was repeatedly lying to the Congress of the United States about the President’s business is inescapable under these circumstances,” he concluded before leaving this tip for reporters: “Dogged journalists should look to see which other Trump figures said the same things under oath or in statements to investigators.” You can see the tweets below: OkayMaybeItsRICOHat@Popehat Okay. Let's talk about a few reasons today's Cohen plea is significant. First: it expressly contemplates Cohen's cooperation, which Cohen's previous agreement did not. Suggests that Mueller is satisfied that Cohen's cooperating enough to give him an agreement. /1 1,353 8:23 AM - Nov 29, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 645 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy OkayMaybeItsRICOHat@Popehat Replying to @Popehat Second: it's not primarily ABOUT Cohen. See, this is bouncing the rubble. It adds one more felony to those Cohen has already taken, with no real marginal effect. It will have an extremely negligible effect, IF ANY, on his sentence. So why bother? /2 602 8:24 AM - Nov 29, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 96 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy OkayMaybeItsRICOHat@Popehat Replying to @Popehat Well, normally a federal prosecutor WOULDN'T bother with a plea that has no impact. But here, the impact is telling the story of the investigation as a whole, and promoting the case that the entire Trump Organization was lying about its degree of involvement with Russia. /3 1,015 8:25 AM - Nov 29, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 252 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy OkayMaybeItsRICOHat@Popehat Replying to @Popehat Though Trump isn't named explicitly, he and his organization figure prominently and obviously in the charging document and plea. That's not something federal prosecutors do lightly. This strongly implies further action against someone. /4 853 8:26 AM - Nov 29, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 194 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy OkayMaybeItsRICOHat@Popehat Replying to @Popehat /5 Now, we don't have the written factual basis yet (the statement of supporting facts that Cohen agrees to). But reports of Cohen's plea suggest he admitted to these lies to help Trump and Trump's narrative, but notably NOT claiming that Trump knew he'd lie to Congress. 582 8:27 AM - Nov 29, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 83 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy OkayMaybeItsRICOHat@Popehat Replying to @Popehat /6 But the conclusion that the President of the United States knew that his personal counsel was repeatedly lying to the Congress of the United States about the President's business is inescapable under these circumstances. /end 1,308 8:28 AM - Nov 29, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 392 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy OkayMaybeItsRICOHat@Popehat Replying to @Popehat /7 Postcript: dogged journalists should look to see which other Trump figures said the same things under oath or in statements to investigators. 808 9:00 AM - Nov 29, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 128 people are talking about this

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1102287)	11/29/2018 5:28:05 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1587709

OOPS! Agreement between Manafort and Trump attorneys to share info may have doomed president: Constitutional law professor TOM BOGGIONI 29 NOV 2018 AT 12:28 ET rawstory.com Composite image of Donald Trump (by Gage Skidmore) and his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort (mugshot) According to a constitutional law professor, the joint defense agreement (JDA) agreed to by attorneys for Donald Trump and Paul Manafort may blow up in the president’s face, placing him in even greater legal peril. Writing in the Washington Post, University of California at San Diego law professor Harry Littman — who previously served as a U.S. attorney — stated that Manafort lawyer Kevin Downing, by agreeing to share information with Trump’s legal team, has opened himself up to a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller and can be compelled to divulge everything he has told them. “Following the implosion of Paul Manafort’s cooperation agreement with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III , a lawyer for President Trump casually announced that Manafort’s lawyers had been briefing Trump’s lawyers about his sessions with the Mueller team all along,” Littman wrote. “This revelation, far from routine, in fact is jaw-dropping — and it has significant legal and political implications.” “Once a witness enters into a cooperation agreement with the government — which he does for the very valuable consideration of a potential reduction in sentence — he has agreed contractually to a full, no-holds-barred provision of information,” he explained. “The universal understanding is that the witness will not run back and reveal the government’s case to potential suspects.” He then elaborated on what that means. “A witness is normally free to talk to defense attorneys if he chooses. A cooperator is not (and that holds whether it is expressly spelled out in the agreement),” he wrote. “Whatever Team Trump may assert, the conversations between some combination of Manafort, Trump and the lawyers for both of them were not privileged, and Mueller is entitled to know their contents.” Littman then explained how the JDA, which is entirely legal, has specific requirements that don’t apply in the government’s case against Manafort which now puts Trump in deeper legal jeopardy. “The JDA can operate only among parties who , in fact, have a common interest. A defendant cannot simply pick and choose people he wants to talk to and thereafter claim that a conversation is privileged,” he explained. “And when Manafort entered into the cooperation agreement with the government, he ceased to have a common interest with other defendants, including the president, as a matter of law.” “Thus, Mueller is fully entitled to subpoena Manafort counsel Kevin Downing and whichever Trump counsel spoke with him (one trusts it wasn’t Emmet Flood, who is too savvy for such shenanigans) and force them to reveal every word of the discussions,” he concluded. Littman added that the report also indicates more malfeasance by Trump. “The open pipeline between cooperator Manafort and suspect Trump may have been not only extraordinary but also criminal,” He suggested. “On Manafort and Downing’s end, there is a circumstantial case for obstruction of justice. What purpose other than an attempt to ‘influence, obstruct, or impede’ the investigation of the president can be discerned from Manafort’s service as a double agent? And on the Trump side, the communications emit a strong scent of illegal witness tampering (and possibly obstruction as well).” You can read his full analysis here.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1102287)	11/29/2018 5:30:38 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1587709

OOPS! Veterans Affairs Dept. tells Capitol Hill it won't repay underpaid GI Bill benefits recipients The news conflicts with a promise VA officials made to a House committee earlier this month that it would reimburse those veterans who received less than the full amount they were due. nbcnews.com

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1102287)	11/29/2018 5:33:15 PM
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OOPS! Did Michael Cohen just implicate Donald Trump Jr. for lying to Congress about the Kremlin? DAVID EDWARDS 29 NOV 2018 AT 11:37 ET rawstory.com Donald Trump Jr speaking at the 2016 RNC Convention in Cleveland that awarded his father the Republican Party nomination for President. President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Thursday may have undermined Donald Trump Jr.’s testimony to Congress that he had no knowledge of a real estate deal involving the Kremlin. On Thursday, Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. In the pleading, Cohen admitted that he “briefed family members” about the project. Former Defense Department special counsel Ryan Goodman pointed out that Cohen’s plea is at odds with information Trump’s son provided to a Senate committee. Trump Jr. testified that he “wasn’t involved” in the deal. And when asked if he was aware that Cohen had reached out to the Kremlin, Trump Jr. replied: “No, I was not.” It was not immediately clear if special counsel Robert Mueller’s office would also charge Trump Jr. for making false statements to Congress. Ryan Goodman ?@rgoodlaw What Donald Trump Jr told Congress about Moscow Tower deal Note Michael Cohen plea: "briefed family members...within the Company about the project" Don Jr to Senate: Sater worked on deal "in 2015" "I wasn't involved" Were you aware Cohen reached out to Kremlin? "No, I was not" 2,398 9:02 AM - Nov 29, 2018 1,501 people are talking about this

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1102287)	11/29/2018 5:35:24 PM
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OOPS! Mueller Witness Says Stone Told Him of Trump’s Perverted Sexual Behavior and Economic Crimes BY BRIAN KRASSENSTEIN November 29, 2018 hillreporter.com *Robert Mueller witness, Randy Credico, claims on Twitter that Roger Stone told him of ‘depraved sexual behavior’ and ‘venal economic crimes’ on the part of President Trump.Roger Stone attacks Credico on Instagram.Soon after making these claims Credico’s Twitter account vanishes.Credico tells HillReporter that the tweets were “all a joke” and that he’s tired of Roger Stone “fcking with” him.*As Robert Mueller makes his way through dozens of witnesses in his probe of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, some rather interesting characters appear to be coming out of the woodwork. Besides Roger Stone, who is infamous for his wild and often unethical style of politics, a man named Randy Credico has been another intriguing person of interest for Mr, Mueller. Credico, who has been described as an associate of Stone for many years, was involved in a text message exchange with Mr. Stone in 2016 which has caught the interest of both Mueller and members of the House Intelligence Committee. These text messages indicated that Stone was seeking a presidential pardon for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange. Additionally Roger Stone himself testified before the House Intelligence Committee that Credico was an intermediary between himself and Wikileaks, and that Credico had informed him of Wikileaks’ Clinton email release prior to the emails actually being released. While Credico exercised his 5th Amendment right before the House Committee, in August of this year his attorneys announced that Mueller had subpoenaed him as well. This is what makes last night’s tweets so much more intriguing. Last night Credico replied several times to Trump’s tweets with the following messages: Shortly after making these tweets Credico made another interesting tweet simply stating: “This is the kind of shit I’ve had to put up with for the last 14 months because of stone.. might explain it all”. The tweet then included the following image of a reply Stone posted to an Instagram photo of Credico, calling him “human scum serial liar and psycho’: To make matters even more interesting, while HillReporter began writing this story, Credico’s entire Twitter account was deleted. Considering the fact that Credico is now a witness in the Mueller probe, and that he posted a clear message to the president saying that he knows about both his ‘economic crimes’ and deviant ‘sexual behavior’, it makes the whole Randy Credico angle to this investigation even more interesting. Could Credico have tipped Mueller off to these crimes which he feels are “enough to put in prison… for the rest of [his] life,” or is he simply trying to be an agitator? Hill Reporter reached out to Credico this morning asking him about the tweets and why his account was deleted. He told us: “They’re all a joke, they’re all a joke, I closed that account down. After a year and a half of Roger Stone fcking with my head, lying about me, putting up stuff, me being a drunk and all of that, it was just like a taste of his own medicine.” Credico then went on to tell us that Stone’s behavior has taken a toll on him, saying “The latest, where he was trying to get this guy to write a story about me — Corsi — to cover his ass, I went through a year of all of this. It had a psychological toll on me. He put out pictures of me in a swimming pool, half naked, calling me a drug addict and alcoholic and all of that.” We also asked Credico whether he was still in talks with the special counsel’s office. He referred us to his attorney but did claim that “Trump’s name never came up,” during his talks with Mueller’s team. One of my final questions to Credico this morning was whether or not he believes an indictment of Stone is coming. His reply was brief: “I really don’t know. I can only recommend that he get himself the 12-step program to come to grips with whatever is eating him up inside,” suggesting that Stone has an alcohol problem. Credico’s Twitter account, which was deleted only minutes before the publication of this story, had been active for more than 8 years and had over 30,000 tweets to its credit.