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NYT now has the email to Donald Trump Jr. offering Russian aid to "incriminate"

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No, seriously, how is Jr. not being frog marched into the FBI building as we speak? There's nothing more to wait for at this point. Why aren't subpoenas and search warrants being executed right now? Mueller's silence seems insane at this point. He must be feeling like that NYT reporter.
 

jimmypython

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1 year? :O

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Not even Kojima could come up with something this crazy.

I am so glad Arrested Development was made before this shit. Otherwise the writers would lose their jobs and we would never get the show.
 

Elandyll

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Does it matter if it sways Republicans?

It seems like the feds could arrest Donald Trump Jr today if they wanted to, and either file charges or get him to turn against his dad.

If you're opposed to Trump, either outcome would be fantastic.

They might not have a direct evidential connection to the top dog yet
, but they could start going after his family at any time. That's huge, and Republicans in Congress can't do anything about it.

I think the whole current play, which is surreal to me btw, is to protect said top dog, because they know stuff is coming, and the sacrificial lamb (with his own agreement apparently) is Donald jr.
 
The tweets from Cernovich directly linking to these emails saying,"haha wow another nothing burger fake news story! Got em again!" With thousands of likes make me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
 

Mahonay

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I agree, I'm out normalizing it in any way, the media needs to pound away every day until there's nothing left. I'm just agreeing that all of this does jack shit to change the mind of his most die hard supporters, though it's not a huge deal because ultimately they're not the ones who get to determine if he's impeached or not.
Honestly, fuck his die hard supporters. They are lost causes. Period.

You are right though, what matters is what Mueller and the investigation are going to do to these idiots. I couldn't give a rats ass what Trump supporters think. They are garbage.
 

cackhyena

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The tweets from Cernovich directly linking to these emails saying,"haha wow another nothing burger fake news story! Got em again!" With thousands of likes make me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

I wish people like him, Hannity and Conway could be shot into the sun. No one will miss them.
 
There can't be that many people who had access to these emails. I hope at the end of all this we get to find out who was working on the inside leaking this info so we can give them a big, shiny medal. Then again, they'd probably need to go into witness protection. I guess it'll forever remain a mystery :/
 

Trojita

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Trump: "Jr. I'm going to have to have you take the fall for me. They can't arrest two people with the same name for the same crime. It's called second jooperdy, a term you've probably never heard before I said it."
 
The problem is that the media and the left has been painting him as the devil for like 2 years. It's been constant. The world was supposed to end on inauguration day if they were right.

6 months later and the world hasn't ended. We're still here. And the left and the media are still at it.

To put it simply, it's the modern version of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. So yeah, these people are done and will not believe you unless something catastrophic happens.

No, the problem is that they never gave a shit and no amount of evidence will convince them, regardless of when it was/is released or what it was/is.

And what a dumb, fucking thing to say, "6 months later and the world hasn't ended. We're still here." 6 months later and we've alienated our allies across the world, become a laughing stock, had the President called out by world leaders, pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, have disastrous legislation on track to pass, are seeing the President suck up to a country that meddled in our elections, and he is proving what everyone knew: he has no idea what he's doing.
 
No, seriously, how is Jr. not being frog marched into the FBI building as we speak? There's nothing more to wait for at this point. Why aren't subpoenas and search warrants being executed right now? Mueller's silence seems insane at this point. He must be feeling like that NYT reporter.

Why would Mueller be talking to anyone about anything in public? If anything, he'd probably have preferred if this stuff stayed under wraps and he could use it as a bargaining chip on Manafort.
 

Lambtron

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The tweets from Cernovich directly linking to these emails saying,"haha wow another nothing burger fake news story! Got em again!" With thousands of likes make me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Obviously the rest of us need to start taking Gorilla Mind.
 
BTW by trying to make the meeting about the adoption thing as his spin toward innocuous he actually probably cemented the fact that there would be a quid pro quo arrangement

Yes, exactly. The "adoption thing" is essentially them talking about U.S. sanctions on Russia that resulted in Russia banning U.S. adoptions. It's the same shit Flynn was involved in. And there's no way Trump didn't know about all of it.
 

mnz

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The tweets from Cernovich directly linking to these emails saying,"haha wow another nothing burger fake news story! Got em again!" With thousands of likes make me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Yeah I clicked through some of these rightwing accounts and they call it "basic campaigning". Uhm...yeah.
 
Because the NYT played Jr. like a fiddle. So he had no recourse, he even asked NYT to not run this story until he could make a statement first, which the NYT refused. He then released them, because he had no other choice.

Its enough to send McCain from "disturbed" to "deeply troubled".

Doing nothing would have made it possible to go for the FAKE NEWS, Falling NYT, etc. angle though.
When he posts it himself, he is confirming the NYTs report to be real and is just completely doubling down on "Yeah we did it, but we didn't get anything so it doesn't matter" angle. I'm sure that shit will work great with his base (who are already chanting Nothing Burger and trying to find the leakers on T_D. NSA and Comey are the big suspects, I kid you not..), but in an actual legal sense, he just made things much worse for himself.
 

greycolumbus

The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Trump: "Jr. I'm going to have to have you take the fall for me. They can't arrest two people with the same name for the same crime. It's called second jooperdy, a term you've probably never heard before I said it."

"Dad, don't talk to me like that. I'm not a woman."
 

ShOcKwAvE

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No, seriously, how is Jr. not being frog marched into the FBI building as we speak? There's nothing more to wait for at this point. Why aren't subpoenas and search warrants being executed right now? Mueller's silence seems insane at this point. He must be feeling like that NYT reporter.

These things move when they're ready to move. You don't announce anything unless you've prepared 100%; in other words, unless you're confident that you have enough to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt. It's clear there's a lot more they're investigating, so I think they plan to complete the investigation to whatever end.
 
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