JUburton wrote:

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:also on Morning Joe, Mika says KAC hates her job

“This is a woman, by the way, who came on our show during the campaign and would shill for Trump in extensive fashion and then she would get off the air, the camera would be turned off, the microphone would be taken off and she would say ‘bleeech I need to take a shower’ because she disliked her candidate so much,”

I've heard similar from someone who used to work for her. i think this makes it worse, tbh.

jerseyhoya wrote:

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:well if Joe Scarborough is to be believed, he claims he has sources that the FBI is close to revealing criminal acts by Trump

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/mornin ... nows-that/

They have already found the string and they are pulling on it, based on my contacts inside the FBI and they are starting to tug on that string, and they are going to keep tugging, keeping going, and it’s accelerated because of the way he fired Comey, and he knows it,

Nothing in the article says anything about criminal acts by Trump

Morning Joe says FBI close to exposing the president: ‘It’s a criminal issue — and Trump knows that’

slugsrbad wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Which school graduated the biggest asshat?

VT: Steve Bannon
UVA: Richard Spencer

You're really selling yourself and Richmond short.

jerseyhoya wrote:Nothing in the article says anything about criminal acts by Trump

I hear it by the way; but I will send.
There’s not a one of them but in his house
I keep a servant fee’d. I will tomorrow—
And betimes I will—to the weird sisters.
More shall they speak, for now I am bent to know,
By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,
All causes shall give way. I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
Strange things I have in head, that will to hand,
Which must be acted ere they may be scanned.

JFLNYC wrote:The article says "criminal" three (3) times, including in the headline:

Morning Joe says FBI close to exposing the president: ‘It’s a criminal issue — and Trump knows that’

jerseyhoya wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:The article says "criminal" three (3) times, including in the headline:

Morning Joe says FBI close to exposing the president: ‘It’s a criminal issue — and Trump knows that’

If you watch the clip or read the article none of the quotes say anything about the criminal acts being committed by Trump.

jerseyhoya wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:The article says "criminal" three (3) times, including in the headline:

Morning Joe says FBI close to exposing the president: ‘It’s a criminal issue — and Trump knows that’

If you watch the clip or read the article none of the quotes say anything about the criminal acts being committed by Trump.

JFLNYC wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:The article says "criminal" three (3) times, including in the headline:

Morning Joe says FBI close to exposing the president: ‘It’s a criminal issue — and Trump knows that’

If you watch the clip or read the article none of the quotes say anything about the criminal acts being committed by Trump.

It doesn't name anyone. It's a tortured and unreasonable reading to take that story as somehow exculpatory of Trump.

jerseyhoya wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:The article says "criminal" three (3) times, including in the headline:

Morning Joe says FBI close to exposing the president: ‘It’s a criminal issue — and Trump knows that’

If you watch the clip or read the article none of the quotes say anything about the criminal acts being committed by Trump.

It doesn't name anyone. It's a tortured and unreasonable reading to take that story as somehow exculpatory of Trump.

I didn't say that it's exculpatory for Trump. I said they don't say Trump was the one breaking the law. That seems like a pretty important detail. There are a lot of people on the internet getting way out over their skis on this.

The Russia investigation could end up being highly damaging to the administration politically, undercover illegality that sends people to prison, undermine trust in his judgment in hiring subordinates, and do many other bad things - and still not come close to touching Trump legally.

jerseyhoya wrote:The Russia investigation could end up being highly damaging to the administration politically, undercover illegality that sends people to prison, undermine trust in his judgment in hiring subordinates, and do many other bad things - and still not come close to touching Trump legally.

CFP wrote:

PSUsarge wrote:Not sure if this is the correct venue for the conversation but there is some political impact --- do we have any thoughts on this ransomware / cyberattack outbreak? Is Trump going to make a statement on this thing or what?

If he makes a statement it will probably be along the lines of this one, which didn't end well:

It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said what system are you going to be—“Sir, we’re staying with digital.” I said no you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.

thephan wrote:Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen is a real piece of work. The summary is that he will not meet with his constituents, but has not problem hunting down his citizen opposition and dropping letters to their employers. Targeting citizens sounds like something out of Germany about mid-twentieth century.

Above the word local, there’s a hand-written asterisk in the same blue ink as Frelinghuysen’s signature. At the bottom of the letter, scrawled with a pen, is the corresponding footnote: “P.S. One of the ringleaders works in your bank!”

Attached to the letter was a news article that quoted Avelenda. She says her boss presented her with both the letter and the news article. She was not fired, but she says she had a lot of explaining to do.

“I had to write a statement to my CEO, and at my level as an assistant general counsel and a senior vice president, at this employer it was not something that I expected,” Avelenda said. “I thought my Congressman put them in a situation, and put me in a really bad situation as the constituent, and used his name, used his position and used his stationery to try to punish me.”

“The Congressman wrote a brief and innocuous note at the bottom of a personal letter in regard to information that had been reported in the media. He was in no way involved in any of the bank's business and is unaware of any of the particulars about this employee's status with the bank.”