At the moment, I’m reading through the just released Comey memos, but I wanted to take a quick break, and share some good news. It looks as though our long national nightmare may finally be coming to an end. The White House today announced that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani would be joining the President’s legal team, where he’d be leading the effort to bring the Mueller investigation to a successful conclusion. Giuliani, Trump said in a statement, would be working to get the whole matter “quickly resolved for the good of the country.” Echoing these comments, Giuliani told the Washington Post this afternoon that, as Trump had stated, he’d been brought onboard to “negotiate an end” to the Mueller probe. So, now, I think it’s safe to say, it’s just a matter of time. Within a few days at most, I predict all of the uncertainty and chaos of the past year will be behind us, and we’ll all be raising a glass to Rudy Giuliani… our nation’s greatest legal mind… the one man capable of sorting out the misunderstandings upon which the Mueller probe was constructed.
OK, as we all know, that’s never going to happen… This isn’t the kind of thing that one can negotiate an end to. We’re not talking about a first offense for possession of pot. The Mueller probe already has 19 indictments and 5 guilty pleas, and the charges include “Conspiracy against the United States.” You could be the best negotiator in the world… a veritable Donald Trump, if you will… and you still couldn’t negotiate an end to this. As Mueller has told us very clearly, he “like(s) putting people in jail“, and he’s not going to stop until the entire Trump crime family has been completely dismantled.
Some, however, seem to think that Giuliani might succeed where so many others have failed. [Trump’s last attorney, as you may recall, only lasted a day.] Fox News contributor Charles Lane, for example, today said, “Maybe there is honestly some new thinking in the White House about the best approach here, that maybe if you bring in Rudy Giuliani as a whole new face to sit down with Mueller and say, ‘okay let’s cut a deal of some kind here,’…You can’t rule it out.“
By that same logic, why not try something really new, like hiring a mime or a circus clown to negotiate with Mueller, or maybe an actor who played an attorney on television? [The last time I checked, Scott Baio was still available.]
But, yes, let’s suspend reality for a moment and try to imagine a world in which the team responsible for this video is the team to bring us closure it what’s probably the largest, most intricate criminal probe in Department of Justice history.
Here is a short video featuring the president of the United States and his new lawyer. pic.twitter.com/D2VOz4HxCy
— Old Rant Dump (@TrumpinTheShark) April 19, 2018
All kidding aside, there is one good thing about all of this. It’ll put Giuliani in a room with Mueller, where, one imagines, the two will discuss just how it came to be that Giuliani knew that the FBI would be reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server just before the election, and the extent to which Giuliani coordinated with anti-Clinton agents within the New York City FBI field office to make it happen.
Oh, one last thing… Speaking of the just released Comey memos, he was on Rachel Maddow’s show this evening discussing them. I particularly enjoyed this exchange, in which the former head of the FBI confirms that Donald Trump told him, shortly after taking office, that he and Putin had spoken in the past about Russian hookers. [As you’ll recall, Trump has said in the past that he and Putin had never spoken prior to his becoming president.]
It's fair to say that a congratulatory phone call between heads of state bragging about the relative value of each country's hookers is unusual. pic.twitter.com/HjvQXRicfd
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 20, 2018
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The FBI is not your friend, even if it occasionally fucks with your enemies.
Another set of memos that seem damning to the right and I just look and think, “wha???” The disconnect is real.
Re Trump and the Putin hooker comment, apparently Putin said that on TV in a press conference with the president of Moldavia. Trump simply watched it and imagined Putin said it directly to him. I’m wondering how many of Trumps own lies he believes… And this was after the inauguration, not before.
Also, Comey is pretty awesome. Imperfect but solid.
Maybe what Putin said on TV (I saw it in real time) are the exact words Agalarov said to convince Trump at the Moscow Ritz Carlton, and that’s how Trump knows Putin was sending a signal directly to him.
The president America deserves.
Slate: “Why Were Republicans So Desperate To Release the Embarrassing Comey Memos? Here’s One Explanation.”
Read more:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/why-were-republicans-so-desperate-to-release-the-embarrassing-comey-memos-heres-one-explanation.html
Why Were Republicans So Desperate To Release the Embarrassing Comey Memos?
1) There were redacted portions which proves Comey shared confidential material with persons who did not have proper clearance, which is a prosecutable offense.
2) In Comey’s own writing, he reveals that Trump asked him to find out if anyone in his administration/campaign had inappropriate contacts with the Russians and if he finds anyone to reveal that information. Hence, proof of no collusion or cover-up.
3) They were most embarrassing to Comey. Comey admitted in his recent TV appearance that he reopened the investigation of the Clinton emails only after he was assured that she would win the election – therefore tainting the FBI with partisan politics. He was incompetent and deserved to be fired and should be indicted for his crimes.
Some close to the president tell NYT that they believe Trump could try to replace Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani in the coming months.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/987333833891688452
Mueller is DYING to get fired. Then he’ll be a martyr! A hero! Otherwise, he’s just a loser who couldn’t find any crimes by Trump.
Ann Coulter
For a person who highly values morality and decency, you choose some strange bedfellows, EOS.
Here’s an even funnier headline/quote.
Giuliani predicts Mueller’s going finish his investigation in “a week or two” bit.ly/2vvpXAz
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-34-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-msnbc
citations needed is a good podcast, listening to it is better for u than watching msnbc.
Jean, you’re confusing EOS’s with his cosplay character. Leonard Nemoy wasn’t a Vulcan in real life.