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bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)FakeNoose
(32,802 posts)Happy Friday everyone - this has been our best week in almost 2 years!
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief
Sneederbunk
(14,310 posts)exboyfil
(17,865 posts)"You don't got the bookkeeper. You got nothing."
Well he does now.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Harker
(14,050 posts)I would've thought it would be "Mr. Nitti, sir."
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)jury under immunity which led to Cohen's indictment and guilty plea.
Were Trump's taxes revealed? Frankly do not think so.
Mueller not involved in this.
Sorry to say...
"Prosecutors in Manhattan, Mr. Lacovara said, could seek permission from the deputy attorney general to do what we did in Watergate, which was to prepare a road map of evidence bearing on the presidents culpability and send it to the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over impeachment.
Both the Manhattan prosecutors handling the Cohen case and Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating the Trump campaigns ties with Russia, are bound by Justice Department policies banning the prosecution of sitting presidents."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/politics/cohen-trump-indicted.html
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)It looks like the DOJ is narrowing in on financial misconduct and other issues and giving immunity to the evidence-holders. The potential of harm to Trump is high with this particular one, I'd think.
I'll bet they're looking at Trump's tax filings with regard to this.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)... Republicons can continue to support him, laying bare their hypocrisy for all to see.
Keep those brands welded, folks!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)after that criminal shit is well rubbed into the faces of the Korrupt KGOP Kultists, then bring forward the really colossally evil-awful shit showing how the ignoble republican misleader* teamed up with the russian mob for MASSIVE TREASON against the USA?
Could be.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
grantcart
(53,061 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,593 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)A mob boss surrounded by felons, couldn't see that coming!
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)Believe me
mecherosegarden
(745 posts)Cha
(297,780 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)OH shit! The long hidden tax returns about to see the light?!
I bet it's a direct line to many Russian mobsters.
Some people ain't no damn good
cungar2000
(98 posts)Nice call
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Great minds and all
NickPeace
(82 posts)Holy shite is right, WOW! 😮
GusBob
(7,286 posts)nice avatar
DU is a fast moving, fact-filled source of info., and always interesting! Im am humbled by the posters here, they have skills I can only dream of. Again, thank you for your welcome message. 😊
Botany
(70,604 posts)CNN: Trump says longstanding legal practice of flipping 'almost ought to be illegal'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/trump-flipping-outlawed/index.html
Good God in Butter!
The Orange A-hole should be going nuts
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)After all, he makes everybody sign a non-disclosure agreement. So he thinks that means they shouldn't be able to testify against him, even though crime is like the number one reason to void an NDA.
whopis01
(3,525 posts)Everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail.
Seriously? No acknowledgment that there is anything illegal leading to these jail sentences. Just everything is wonderful.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)Too many visits to the coin laundry on the corner, Donald.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)The Wall Street Journal reports that Weisselberg was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Michael Cohen in the criminal investigation into hush-money payments for two women during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Cohen this week pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges, including making illegal campaign contributions to President Donald Trumps campaign that were used to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal in exchange for their silence about affairs theyd had with the president.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/bombshell-trumps-financial-gatekeeper-just-granted-legal-immunity-cohen-probe/
Wounded Bear
(58,728 posts)Works every time.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Look for this whining bleat of an excuse coming soon to a Fox show near you.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Siwsan
(26,298 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)Hilarious toon -- I love the "GRRRR!!!"
SunSeeker
(51,744 posts)ScratchCat
(2,002 posts)That "Helsinki" was the last straw with those behind the scenes. Its almost like someone decided Trump had to go, and go as fast as possible.
c-rational
(2,596 posts)irisblue
(33,036 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,022 posts)Holy moly. Trump is gonna flip... and this isn't even Mueller's team.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)He's the top target.
U.S. courts cannot go after Putin. Well, they could but they're helpless with such a dictator.
C_U_L8R
(45,022 posts)spanone
(135,897 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)i think that could happen. or jarvanka will.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)for his protection.
trump will use anything, absolutely anything, he can get his hands on, - to try and politically run roughshod over all this via November bull rush [to bury the tons of negatives against him].
klook
(12,171 posts)as a "hostile foreign power" via a Tweet at 1:10 a.m. U.S. warplanes will drop payloads of flaming paper towel rolls on San Juan.
"They've tried so hard to make me look bad with all the fake hurricane news -- so unfair! Sad! Now they're gonna pay!!!"
FarPoint
(12,462 posts)This is marvelous. .
monmouth4
(9,711 posts)spanone
(135,897 posts)Chief Financial Officer!!!!
Duppers
(28,127 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)Mueller has got trump in his cross hairs. he's going straight to the top. i love it.
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)Kablooie
(18,641 posts)They wouldn't ignore so many criminals unless there was a much, much bigger fish they were after.
triron
(22,025 posts)honest.abe
(8,685 posts)Trump is going down.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)The noose is tightening on the entire Trump crime family.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Nevilledog
(51,216 posts)This grant of immunity is not coming from Mueller, it's coming from totally separate investigation by SDNY. Nice end around for Mueller to get info on Russian influence.
I am somewhat confused about why Cohen entered a plea that did not delineate either his cooperation or some type of agreement that no further charges would be brought. He's now in a situation of having prior felonies which can be used as enhancements.
dchill
(38,557 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)will have a press conference today. Would be beautiful if she does. It has been a great weak hasn't it friends?
blogslut
(38,019 posts)THE SEVENTIES
yonder
(9,681 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)monthly retainer fee for the hush money payments
elmac
(4,642 posts)and will the fascist supreme court back him up?
edbermac
(15,947 posts)blaze
(6,383 posts)Ha!!!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Given their "idiosyncratic" bookkeeping procedures the TO is going to have a practical challenge to simple keep operations going
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Gothmog
(145,650 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)You will always have the freepers.
All ten of them
IncaRoads
(97 posts)"What the Hell Have I?"
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malthaussen
(17,217 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Oh happy day
gordianot
(15,247 posts)gordianot
(15,247 posts)Trump never really owned the farm did he?
Different Drummer
(7,652 posts)gademocrat7
(10,675 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)..............was Trump's head exploding. Or possibly his colon.
Weisselberg knows where every dime of the Trump Crime Organization goes. If he testifies, Trump will die in prison.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)and Weisselberg knows ALL about the money.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)Blue Owl
(50,525 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,491 posts)mobeau69
(11,161 posts)Solly Mack
(90,790 posts)I was going to nap but I'll have to stop laughing first.
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)He knows where ALL the skeletons are buried along with the pilfered family silver.
homegirl
(1,434 posts)Joyce Alene
✔
@JoyceWhiteVance
You dont give Trump Org CFO Weisselberg & David Pecker immunity just to prosecute Michael Cohen.
8:04 AM - Aug 24, 2018
malaise
(269,212 posts)Down try go.
Loge23
(3,922 posts)Mueller's tossing back Goliath Groupers and Mammoth Marlins.
He's strapped in for the Big One.
The Great Orange Whale is his prey.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)do now?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Like Beavis, Butthead, Kushner, and Herr Orange.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)but at least one person does...give me an M,U,E,L,L,E,R....
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 24, 2018, 06:50 PM - Edit history (2)
Flynn
Gates
Pappadoupolos
Manafort
Cohen
Pecker
Weissellberg
You aren't granted immunity when you're not guilty of something. Weissellberg knows where the bodies are buried (figuratively speaking), and was probably intimately involved in all the shell companies, maybe tax evasion, illegal payments, who knows what else.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Cohens GUILTY PLEAS, Pecker and Howard IMMUNITY and now Weisselberg IMMUNITY?!?
Im going to frame this thread and hang it on my wall, I tells ya!!!
pecosbob
(7,545 posts)you can bet they'll get around to Weisselberg...and that one would be about Trump's taxes.
Az_lefty
(3,670 posts)gristy
(10,667 posts)We are past the end of the beginning. We are not officially in the beginning of the end.