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    white Chris using racist language.
    lol triggered

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    How is laughing at your racism being triggered, white Chris?

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    First they said Trump could not fire him, now he can so they need money to keep the collusion fairy tale going on(¿?)

    Sick people.

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    First they said Trump could not fire him, now he can so they need money to keep the collusion fairy tale going on(¿?)

    Sick people.
    You don't make any sense.

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    First they said Trump could not fire him, now he can so they need money to keep the collusion fairy tale going on(¿?)

    Sick people.
    They don't know whether they are coming or going at this point. DNC's recent bankruptcy has them scrambling!

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    They don't know whether they are coming or going at this point. DNC's recent bankruptcy has them scrambling!
    Yet they keep winning those special elections.

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    Without mentioning Mueller, Trump lawyers urge high court to bolster his power to fire executive officials

    The Supreme Court is set to hear a seemingly minor case later this month on the status of administrative judges at the Securities and Exchange Commission, an issue that normally might only draw the interest of those accused of stock fraud.

    But the dispute turns on the president's power to hire and fire officials throughout the government. And it comes just as the White House is saying President Trump believes he has the power to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

    Trump's Solicitor Gen. Noel Francisco intervened in the SEC case to urge the high court to clarify the president's cons utional power to fire all "officers of the United States" who "exercise significant authority" under the law.

    "The Cons ution gives the president what the framers saw as the traditional means of ensuring accountability: the power to oversee executive officers through removal," he wrote in Lucia vs. SEC.

    "The president is accordingly authorized under our cons utional system to remove all principal officers, as well as all 'inferior officers' he has appointed."


    In addition to representing the administration before the Supreme Court,

    Francisco, a former law clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, could be in line to oversee the Mueller inquiry if Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein is fired.

    Atty. Gen Jeff Sessions has recused himself from the investigation.


    Peter Shane, a law professor at the Ohio State University, called

    Francisco's argument a "radical proposition," and one that goes beyond what is at issue in the case.

    The justices said they would focus only on how the SEC in-house judges are appointed. But Francisco is asking them to go further and rule on the "removal" issue.


    "The solicitor general is obviously trying to goad the court into a broad statement about the removability of all officers of the United States,"

    Shane said.

    "Were the court to make any such statement, it would surely be cited by Trump as backing any move by him to fire Mueller directly."


    http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-court-trump-fire-20180415-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter


    extreme ideologue oligarchy tool Francisco just one of 100s of attacks on US govt in the oligarchy's coup d'etat to create a one-party authoritarian govt, in classic fascism where the oligarchy/BigCorp power is amalgamated intimately to govt power.



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    Donald Trump's attorney seeks to go through seized evidence to pull 'privileged' materials

    Late Sunday night, Donald Trump’s new attorney, Joanna Hendon, asked U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood to grant a highly unusual request—

    let Michael Cohen pour through it all to pull any evidence they consider to be off-limits due to attorney-client privilege. From the Washington Post:

    She added that “the president respectfully requests” that the judge issue an order barring the taint team from conducting an initial review of the seized material and require the government to turn over a copy of that material to Cohen’s lawyers.


    Then, the president wants the court to direct Cohen “to identify to the president all seized materials that relate to him in any way and to provide a copy of those materials to him and his counsel,” according to the letter.

    Any disputes about what material was or wasn’t covered by the attorney-client privilege would then be decided by a judge, under the president’s proposal.

    LOL!

    They want the person under criminal investigation to have the ability to go through the evidence that was lawfully seized in a criminal investigation and keep it from prosecutors under a pinky swear it is covered by attorney-client privilege.

    On Friday, prosecutors went hard, telling Judge Wood that Michael Cohen may not be a lawyer at all. From CNBC:

    But the prosecutors say they have already conducted searches of Cohen's email accounts, "covert until this point,"

    which they say "indicate that Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that

    zero emails were exchanged with President Trump." [...]

    "(1) Cohen did not have an email address associated with the firm;

    (2) Cohen did not have access to the firm's shared drives or do ent systems—and vice versa;

    (3) Cohen's do ents were to be kept in a locked filing cabinet; and

    (4) Cohen did not have access to any of the firm's client files."


    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/16/1757379/-Hail-Mary-Trump-s-attorney-seeks-to-go-through-seized-evidence-to-pull-privileged-materials?detail=emaildkre



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    Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency

    I am

    unaware of anybody who has taken a serious look at Trump’s business who doesn’t believe that there is a high likelihood of rampant criminality.

    In Azerbaijan, he did business with a likely money launderer for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

    In the Republic of Georgia, he partnered with a group that was being investigated for a possible role in the largest known bank-fraud and money-laundering case in history.

    In Indonesia, his development partner is “knee-deep in dirty politics”;

    there are criminal investigations of his deals in Brazil;

    the F.B.I. is reportedly looking into his daughter Ivanka’s role in the Trump hotel in Vancouver, for which she worked with a Malaysian family that has admitted to financial fraud.

    Back home, Donald, Jr., and Ivanka were investigated for financial crimes associated with the Trump hotel in SoHo—an investigation that was halted su iously.

    His Taj Mahal casino received what was then the largest fine in history for money-laundering violations.


    Listing all the financial misconduct can be overwhelming and tedious.

    I have limited myself to some of the deals over the past decade,

    thus ignoring Trump’s long history of links to New York Mafia figures and other financial irregularities.

    It has become commonplace to say that enough was known about Trump’s shady business before he was elected;

    his followers voted for him precisely because they liked that he was someone willing to do whatever it takes to succeed, and

    they also believe that all rich businesspeople have to do shady things from time to time.

    In this way of thinking, any new information about his corrupt past has no political salience.

    Those who hate Trump already think he’s a crook;

    those who love him don’t care.


    I believe this assessment is wrong.

    Sure, many people have a vague sense of Trump’s shadiness, but once the full details are better known and digested, a fundamentally different narrative about Trump will become commonplace.

    The narrative that will become widely understood is that Donald Trump did not sit atop a global empire.

    He was not an intuitive genius and tough guy who created billions of dollars of wealth through fearlessness.

    He had a small, sad global operation,

    mostly run by his two oldest children and

    Michael Cohen, a lousy lawyer who barely keeps up the pretenses of lawyering and

    who now faces an avalanche of charges,

    from taxicab-backed bank fraud

    to money laundering and

    campaign-finance violations
    .

    Cohen, Donald, Jr., and Ivanka monetized their willingness to sign contracts with people rejected by all sensible partners.

    It was not a company that built value over decades, ac ulating assets and leveraging wealth.

    It burned through whatever good will and brand value it established as quickly as possible, then moved on to the next scheme.

    There are important legal questions that remain.

    How much did Donald Trump and his children know about the criminality of their partners?

    How explicit were they in agreeing to put a shiny gold brand on top of corrupt deals?

    Trump is raging and furious and terrified.

    Prosecutors are now looking at his core.

    Cohen was the key intermediary between the Trump family and its partners around the world;

    he was chief consigliere and dealmaker throughout its period of expansion into global partnerships with sketchy oligarchs.

    He wasn’t a slick politico who showed up for a few months.

    He knows everything,

    he recorded much of it, and

    now prosecutors will know it, too.

    It seems inevitable that much will be made public.

    it seems likely that, when we look back on this week, we will see it as a turning point.

    We are now in the end stages of the Trump Presidency.

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...M4MTQwMDA5MAS2

    Godfather Trash's consigliere "Tom" Cohen



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    DJr meeting with Russians was a set up. There goes that narrative.



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    whats that ticking sound?

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    DJr meeting with Russians was a set up. There goes that narrative.


    You can always tell it's bull when no one wants to claim credit for the article.

    lol

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    I like this part:

    "Here is what we now know, per intelligence gleaned form federal law enforcement sources with insider knowledge of what amounts to a plot by U.S. intelligence agencies to secure back door and illegal wiretaps of President Trump’s associates:

    •Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.

    •To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.

    •The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.

    •GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.

    •The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

    •The Justice Department and FBI helped set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trump’s associates appear compromised.

    •Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.

    •After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.

    •By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.

    •The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, even though the evidence is considered “poisoned fruit.”


    Manafort was wiretapped. Cater Page was wiretapped. Trump Jr. was wiretapped. Kushner was wiretapped. Gen. Michael Flynn was wiretapped. And likely there were others.

    And none of it was very legal."

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    •Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.
    What are these agencies and what prompted the formation of the task force, white Chris?

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    Chris really going for that #1 post spot on this thread.

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    "Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself."

    what was "probable cause"?

    Russian money had been pouring into Trump org for years,

    Manafort and friends paid by Pootin's puppets in Ukraine,

    Russian mafiya renting in Trump tower, etc, etc, etc

    with Trash, Trash org, Trash mafiya long-time connections to Russian criminal, money-laundering oligarchs who bought real estate from Trash at inflated (money laundering) prices.

    Flynn and NRA connected to Russia



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    What are these agencies
    It's at the beginning of the article. You can't read?

    “This was clearly a scheme using Justice (Department) resources and State (Department) resources to get the Russian lawyer into the United States,” one Justice Department insider said. “Who has the power to do this? Only the people at the very top.”

    Lynch. Comey. Andrew McCabe. Preet Bhahara. Sally Yates.

    And according to high ranking FBI sources, the Bureau played a definitive role in plotting this sweeping privacy breach. But the FBI had much help from the NSA, CIA, the Office of of the Director of National Intelligence, Treasury financial crimes division under DHS, and the Justice Department, federal law enforcement sources confirmed.

    and what prompted the formation of the task force, white Chris?
    Article clearly states it was spearheaded by Brennan and Obama racist Pavlov.

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    You can always tell it's bull when no one wants to claim credit for the article.

    lol
    staying anonymous so they dont get Seth Rich'd tbh

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    It's at the beginning of the article. You can't read?

    “This was clearly a scheme using Justice (Department) resources and State (Department) resources to get the Russian lawyer into the United States,” one Justice Department insider said. “Who has the power to do this? Only the people at the very top.”

    Lynch. Comey. Andrew McCabe. Preet Bhahara. Sally Yates.

    And according to high ranking FBI sources, the Bureau played a definitive role in plotting this sweeping privacy breach. But the FBI had much help from the NSA, CIA, the Office of of the Director of National Intelligence, Treasury financial crimes division under DHS, and the Justice Department, federal law enforcement sources confirmed.
    Thanks, unfortunately I had posted this several times in non conspiracy format.

    And it happened months before Christopher Steele was even hired.

    lol


    Article clearly states it was spearheaded by Brennan and Obama racist Pavlov.
    No, what information did the CIA receive that prompted them to reach out to the other agencies, white Chris?

    Be specific.

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    Thanks, unfortunately I had posted this several times in non conspiracy format.

    And it happened months before Christopher Steele was even hired.

    lol


    No, what information did the CIA receive that prompted them to reach out to the other agencies, white Chris?

    Be specific.
    The information was Trump was a serious threat to Hillary so they just made up.

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    The information was Trump was a serious threat to Hillary so they just made up.
    Seems like you just made up.

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    Seems like you just made up.
    The truth hurts I know.

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    The truth hurts I know.
    You supplied no truth or facts. Nothing substantiated.

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    You supplied no truth or facts. Nothing substantiated.
    You're right I should've checked with Kyle Griffin first.

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