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[Winehole23]

had to get something done before AMLO takes over

[boutons_deux]

'Art of the Deal' ghostwriter: Weisselberg flip will end Trump — equivalent to Nixon tapes

Schwartz knows Trump and his business better than just about anyone outside of Trump’s family.

And, simply put, he thinks the recent immunity deal Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg struck with prosecutors will end Trump.

Tony Schwartz
✔@tonyschwartz

The other shoe has dropped —

the smoking gun equivalent to Nixon’s tapes.

Alan Weisselberg knows everything.

Trump will resign as I always assumed. Only matter of time now.
10:08 AM - Aug 24, 2018

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Weisselberg’s cooperation deal is “a potentially momentous turn of events for the president.”

it’s easy to see how Weisselberg’s cooperation will be a sufficient (if not necessary) condition leading to Trump’s eventual downfall.

In other words, this is a focking game-changer:

Weisselberg is deeply familiar with the Trump Organization’s financial housekeeping.

Trump — a man who rarely trusts anyone — confided in Weisselberg and relied on him to sign off on details of the company’s most significant deals.

Weisselberg oversees the trust that Trump set up to manage his interests in the Trump Organization while he’s in the White House, and

also had a prominent position inside the president’s troubled charitable foundation.

In short, he was privy to decisions at the Trump Organization that [Michael] Cohen was never allowed to take part in.

That kind of knowledge is gold to federal investigators.

Mueller’s team signaled long ago that it might take a closer look at the president’s business dealings as part of its examination of Russia’s assault on the presidential campaign.

It’s likely that the probe is exploring whether Trump or others on his business and campaign teams — including members of his family — discussed exchanging policy favors (lifting economic sanctions on Russia, for example, or shifting the U.S. stance on Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine) in exchange for financial or political quid pro quos.

Trump’s intersection with murky funding from overseas sources, including Russia, goes back years

(as I’ve detailed before in columns about the Trump SoHo hotel and Trump’s partnership with the Bayrock Group).

In a column about Cohen and Weisselberg in April, I noted that Weisselberg was a possible candidate for a subpoena given the fact that

Mueller had already subpoenaed the Trump Organization for business records —

and given the fact that Weisselberg has had a front row seat in deals involving transactions like the Trump SoHo.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

So what crimes/leverage can Mueller offer W to get him to flip?

[Brazil]

I find it troubling what you want USA to become

I find it troubling USA continues to produce illiterate and dumb as rocks grown ups like you

[StinkyWeezleteats]

Originally Posted by ducks
I find it troubling what you want USA to become

I find it troubling USA continues to produce illiterate and dumb as rocks grown ups like you

[FrostKing]

[RandomGuy]

Stop worrying about all that and go play with your kids, ducks. They miss you.

I kinda doubt that. Ducks is the kind of POS whose kids slowly start to ignore him over time, because they realize their father was a jackass.

[rmt]

The typical Republican candidate wouldn't brag about sexual assault, lust after a little kid on video, defraud a bunch of students with a fake university, hide his tax returns, suck up to Putin, be unable to get credit from American banks, be surrounded by a bunch of felons in his inner circle, appoint family to high positions, on the first amendment by trying to convince America the free press is the enemy of the people, endorse a child molester for the senate, give away classified information to Russia, etc. off with trying to normalize this pos.

I guess I'm not getting my point across - that Trump is not your typical Repub Christian/evangelical candidate.

[baseline bum]

I guess I'm not getting my point across - that Trump is not your typical Repub Christian/evangelical candidate.

Your point is crying about how unfair the media has been. Poor Benedict Donald never getting a fair shake.

[rmt]

I don't know man, immigration always seemed at the top of the list when I'd see voters in Clinton's rust belt firewall polled when reading fivethirtyeight.com in 2016. Am I remembering incorrectly? I could be. Pretending to crack down on illegals is pure mainstream Republicanism.

IMHO, it's not about immigration or race - it's pure economics. Most typical Americans aren't following politics like people on this board - they're the ones in the middle just living life - not the extreme ends. They're mostly concerned about their family and what affects them and most likely will vote their pocketbooks. However, I always qualify with - the Trump hate is strong - and then emotion overtakes common sense/logic.

[Reck]

Thinking Trump is any kind of Christian or evangelical or whatever.

I thought that was something they used as an excuse to vote for him. Not something they actually buy whole heartedly.

[baseline bum]

IMHO, it's not about immigration or race - it's pure economics. Most typical Americans aren't following politics like people on this board - they're the ones in the middle just living life - not the extreme ends. They're mostly concerned about their family and what affects them and most likely will vote their pocketbooks. However, I always qualify with - the Trump hate is strong - and then emotion overtakes common sense/logic.

Trump's entire campaign was about emotion and the feels. LOL trickle down upward wealth distribution being common sense.

[rmt]

Trump's entire campaign was about emotion and the feels. LOL trickle down upward wealth distribution being common sense.

I would think a lot of middle class Americans are feeling pretty good today - record high in S&P/Nasdaq/stock market - economy looking good - unemployment low - they're probably better off under Trump than Obama - that's what I mean about common sense (what directly affects them/their pocketbook being in better state) than immigration/race issues they see on TV.

[monosylab1k]

I would think a lot of middle class Americans are feeling pretty good today - record high in S&P/Nasdaq/stock market - economy looking good - unemployment low - they're probably better off under Trump than Obama - that's what I mean about common sense (what directly affects them/their pocketbook being in better state) than immigration/race issues they see on TV.

Middle class Americans don’t give a about the stock market you dumb gook.

[baseline bum]

Middle class Americans don’t give a about the stock market you dumb gook.

No . Most Americans, middle class included, live paycheck to paycheck. LOL Obama leading us out of Bush's Great Recession was meaningless but a strong economy now is all Trump?

[Winehole23]

No . Most Americans, middle class included, live paycheck to paycheck. LOL Obama leading us out of Bush's Great Recession was meaningless but a strong economy now is all Trump?

20% of the people own 80% of the stocks. so maybe half of that cohort is upper middle class. like, upper, upper middle class.

the other 20% of stocks would mainly be owned by middle class folks -- like public sector (state and local employee/police/teacher/FD) pension funds. which are just getting creamed right now by underinvestment by states, financial repression at the federal level and its corollary, high management fees in private equity.

wages have been flat for 40 years, while medical costs, college and rent have gone up a lot over the same period.

so yeah, it's the economy, dummy.

[Winehole23]

regarding blind political hate, it's true that only thing that has surpassed Trump hate and Hilary hate in my lifetime is Obama hate.

sorta goes with the territory, but it sure doesn't help to be black.

[Chris]

Thinking Trump is any kind of Christian or evangelical or whatever.

What is Trump's religion? Give us the skinny Reck.

[Chris]

Trump's entire campaign was about emotion and the feels.

Coming from a Liberal, this is hilarious

[Spurminator]

What is Trump's religion? Give us the skinny Reck.

Narcissism.

[Chris]

Watch ANTIFA get rolled in Philly with Hulk Hogan music

[Chris]

Narcissism.

Thanks Reck.

[rmt]

Trump's entire campaign was about emotion and the feels.

We were talking about the voters/electorate and how they vote - not the campaigns (and it's not like Hillary's campaign was not how deplorable Trump [and his supporters] were).

regarding blind political hate, it's true that only thing that has surpassed Trump hate and Hilary hate in my lifetime is Obama hate.

sorta goes with the territory, but it sure doesn't help to be black.

I dunno know. I don't think there were (hundreds of?) thousands of people marching/protesting the weekend after Obama was elected/inaugurated, were there? I didn't like Obama's policies, but he himself was not unlikeable - he was as smooth as silk - kinda reminds me of Jamaal Wilkes :-) for those of you old enough to know him.

[baseline bum]

We were talking about the voters/electorate and how they vote - not the campaigns (and it's not like Hillary's campaign was not how deplorable Trump [and his supporters] were).

Honestly I don't what the you're talking about in this thread. In the same post you were saying people vote logically based on the economy and then right after they vote based on emotion.

[Chris]

Honestly I don't what the you're talking about in this thread. In the same post you were saying people vote logically based on the economy and then right after they vote based on emotion.

Sorry to interject, but I don't think it's so black and white. Trump tapped in to all facets to win the election. A woman (or man) with little to no knowledge about policy can vote strictly based on her emotion. The Democrats are experts at tapping in to that emotion, but are failing to deliver on policy. Hillary's warmongering rhetoric with Russia during the debates withstanding.

[Winehole23]

Coming from a Liberal, this is hilarious

also, true.

Trump connected emotionally with voters. HRC not so much.