Well, I'm going to be ridiculing your hubris, so that's just as well.

Edited by Stirlingsays (04 Jan 2018 4.50am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Trump attorney sends Bannon cease and desist letter over 'disparaging' comments - [Link]

One for the newly minted freedom of speech fans lol. Of course what's amusing is that bringing Wollf in and have him conduct 100+ interviews with people appears to have had the presidents approval at the time. How remarkably stupid to do such a thing if you want potentially very dodgy behaviour to go unquestioned. Bannon doesn't need to say another word. It's deckstairs on the titanic time so he can hardly be blamed for telling it like it is.

He appears to be employing people to simply tell him what he wants to hear, which is all well and good, but not with your own legal team where you might get brought down by your own behaviour due to the level of scrutiny involved in this role. And accusing someone of communicating disparaging information which at the same time saying they've 'lost their mind' isn't always a good move. If he takes legal action there will be of course be the discovery phase of evidence collection on both sides. This man doesn't need others to bring him down, it's always amateur hour with Trump.

Edited by wordup (04 Jan 2018 10.39am)

Clinton was a president and hence it's an accurate comparison on the behaviour of activists against them.

It isn't whataboutery as it's answering a 'whataboutery' point by making an actual comparison involving presidents.

Comey made a judgement on the Clinton emails that made no sense to me. Comey came across quite well in my view but that's just a view.

I don't comment that much on what Trump does unless it's actually under discussion. I spend most of my time criticising the hopelessly biased commentators against him.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Oddly I think they're kind of protecting him. All the talk about collusion and dumb things he says, and has pretty much protected him from what is likely to be a serious scandal involving money laundering for the Russians, that may have been going on for a decade.

The issue isn't really going to be what you like or don't like about the guy, but what the FBI can pin in terms of criminal charges - and thats looking very much like money laundering, tax and declaration offences relating to foriegn investments, and lying to the FBI / Under oath etc.

Its gone too far for the FBI not to press charges on something against very senior members of the administration - and I'd be astounded if there isn't anything to find in terms of financial misdeeds and illegal business practices.

My bet is that it'll be more about financial activity before even entering the primaries - and that the 'election stuff' turns out to be more something the Russians did in return for the laundering, rather than something more nefarious like 'treason'.

I suspect that he'll be hung out to dry, by others who had a more direct hand in the cookie jar. He's a 71 year old man, who even if the arrests were all done and dusted by tomorrow, could likely spend the next five years before a trial proper - with a number of options available to even avoid standing trial on grounds of ill health etc.

I'll be surprised, even if found guilty, that he'll spend any time in prison. He's the perfect 'fall guy', old, dumb and possibly 'mentally incompetent'.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Because this involves email hacking, many people miss the point that this is exactly the same was Watergate. Back then, Nixon had some goons break into the DNC's offices in the Watergate building to get dirt on the campaign; this time the Russians broke into the DNC's files electronically.

It's the same underlying crime and the same process playing out, even down to whether or not the President will have the Special Prosecutor fired. Back then, Nixon fired a number of number of Justice Department officials before he found one willing to fire the SP, but that was so shocking that it ultimately hastened his end. [Link]

Trump is on the horns of the same dilemma, and it's likely that Mueller hasn't been fired yet because it would take another "Saturday Night Massacre" at the DOJ to get it done. It's the same thing except, back then Congressional Republicans seem to give a s*** about the rule of law.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Pence is at the eye of the Flynn storm. He has issued multiple statements that we now know to have been impossible to be true at the time of the statement, and that it's inconceivable for Pence not to know that they weren't true. [Link]

He may not have been caught up directly in the Russia collusion - I'm sure that was friends and family only - but he has at worst enabled the cover-up when it came to Flynn. He nailed his colours to Trump's tiny, orange mast, and will have to live with those consequences. I don't think his patented, pious, indignant face is going to get him out of this one.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.