I pronounce it “SCAN-dull-RAM-uh”, if you were wondering.
It hasn’t been a good week for Team Deep State or its captain, Special Counsel Mueller. I think it’s reasonable to say that the Trump-Russia Collusion story is in its early death throes. My own sense, a couple of weeks ago, was that the Cohen raid was a mistake. An overreach. It seemed desperate. Now we see that it really was an attempt to land a blow on Trump for something and that it was a bad look for Mueller. Since then, it hasn’t gotten better.
The biggest happening on this front was a federal judge rebuking the Special Counsel for basically lying about his entire reason for prosecuting Manafort.
A federal judge expressed deep skepticism Friday of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in the bank fraud case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, at one point saying he believes that Mueller’s motivation is to oust President Donald Trump from office.
Obvious coup is obvious, it seems. The judge could easily dismiss the case without prejudice and allow Manafort to have new charges filed by a US Attorney’s Office, but it would still be a humiliating setback for Mueller, who is obviously wasting our time with this neverending investigation.
“Well, what about Cohen?” you may ask. “He’s sure to flip on Trump!”
Yeah, just like Manafort and Flynn were supposed to, right? Judge Ellis had something to say on that too.
However, the Judge has his own theory:
Did the SC farm out the Cohen case because it wasn't within the SC's jurisidction, or….
Did it have SDNY handle the Cohen case because they "can't use this to further [the Special Counsel's] core effort, which is to get to Trump" pic.twitter.com/ttv7L5UjZh
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) May 5, 2018
Under this theory, Mueller isn’t handling the prosecution of Cohen because there’s nothing there that implicates Trump. It honestly makes sense to me, given that nothing Manafort has been charged with has anything to with Russia or the election. His proximity to Trump during the campaign itself seems to be the only reason for any of this.
This isn’t Mueller’s only looming potential setback to emerge this week either.
A federal judge has rejected special counsel Robert Mueller’s request to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media and other means to foment strife among Americans in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In a brief order Saturday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich offered no explanation for her decision to deny a request prosecutors made Friday to put off the scheduled Wednesday arraignment for Concord Management and Consulting, one of the three firms charged in the case.
And…
The 13 people charged in the high-profile indictment in February are considered unlikely to ever appear in a U.S. court. The three businesses accused of facilitating the alleged Russian troll farm operation — the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management, and Concord Catering — were also expected to simply ignore the American criminal proceedings.
Last month, however, a pair of Washington-area lawyers suddenly surfaced in the case, notifying the court that they represent Concord Management. POLITICO reported at the time that the move appeared to be a bid to force Mueller’s team to turn over relevant evidence to the Russian firm and perhaps even to bait prosecutors into an embarrassing dismissal in order to avoid disclosing sensitive information.
Oh, and sentencing for Flynn was delayed again. Fantastic timing, given that Congress also released the unredacted Comey testimony which stated that Flynn showed no physical signs of deception during his interview with the FBI following his phone call with Kislayek that wasn’t even illegal or improper in the first place.
Flynn didn’t lie, but Comey did: “Comey has denied telling lawmakers that the agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe Flynn had lied.” https://t.co/JGjGWASr9A
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 5, 2018
Forget everything I said about the likelihood that Trump will just pardon everybody. He might not even have to bother. The wheels are coming of off the Mueller probe and I think it’s safe to say that the end is in sight.
I mean, Clapper apparently leaked information to CNN and was rewarded for it with a job. Lisa Page and one of Comey’s minions resigned from the FBI. And all eyes are turning to the upcoming OIG report that may expose just how crooked the entire Obama-era DOJ really was.
The Democrats now get to head into the midterms running against a strong economy and maybe even a diplomatic victory in Korea. What they have to run on is banning the 2nd Amendment (good luck taking Congress on that platform) and impeaching Trump for…what has turned out to be nothing. Well, not totally nothing. There have been plenty of crimes, but they were committed by Democrats and their Deep State buddies.
“B-but, what about Stormy Daniels?” What about her? Nobody cares that Trump screwed her, aside from CNN. As mentioned above, if there were anything there that could get Trump in serious trouble, Mueller would be prosecuting him. Anyway, she’s busy having a feud with Roseanne over whether or not she ever got assfucked on camera. I’ll leave it to someone else to review her filmography for proof of whether it’s true or not. I don’t care.
Congress needs to put forward a resolution demanding an end to Mueller’s investigation. It has gone on for too long, gone too far outside of its boundaries, and (as I’ve repeatedly said) no findings that come of it will have validity anyway. It’s time for it to end and for Mueller to return to his retirement. No Democrat should even disagree with this. It has become a national embarrassment and is doing more harm than good even to the cause of Never-Trumpers.
Shut it down.
As long as that weasel shithead Rosenstein is able to continue doing the Deep State’s business by deflecting, obstructing, ignoring any demands put on him by congressional committee’s for documents they have every right to, this is all bluster.
Rosenstein isn’t going to last much longer, I don’t think. The only reason he’s clinging on is because he knows firing him while it still looks like Mueller might turn something up is politically dangerous for Trump.
Problem is that Mueller is under increasing pressure by Congress to show his hand and it’s pretty clear that it’s empty. I’m still trying to determine whether or not Judge Ellis has mortally wounded the investigation by giving Trump sufficient cover to end the witch hunt by calling it what it is.
Since this is open thread; Santino, is Toronto going to win at least one game?
Thus far I felt that both Portland and OKC were the year’s biggest disappointments, but the Raptors have just stunk up the joint big time.
I was on the Philly bandwagon early, but clearly, they are not ready.
Brad Stevens for coach of they year?
Although somewhat healthy now, the Warriors gotta win today or it could be trouble. I still think they can beat Houston.
Warriors/Cavs, the fourth edition……………………..I like it.
Does anyone really believe Trump when he says he did not bang Stormy? A great upheaval has been going on of late on some of the right leaning blogs I look at. On one side is the ,”we knew what he was when we voted for him” side who admits that he lies but unlike Clinton, does not lie under oath so it’s no big deal. On the other is the ,”Come on, if he lies about this, what else is he lying about? Since he lies to suit his agenda, can we believe anything that he says?” crowd, who… Read more »
Does anyone really believe Trump when he says he did not bang Stormy? No. The thing is that so long as he does what he was elected to do, I really don’t care. That’s a POV I see from a lot of other Trump voters. Seriously, why is CNN bothering with this? Democrats don’t care about a politician committing adultery. Is it about a political candidate insulating its activities by working through a lawyer? Well, they didn’t care when Hillary had Perkins Coie hiring Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to invent the Russia narrative. Republicans, particularly evangelicals, don’t care either.… Read more »
The desperation and craven pathetic tone here smacks of an inner fear that can’t be covered over by Fox News. I’m convinced that not only do most people reading this not believe it, I am almost positive YOU don’t believe it. A judge issued, at best, dicta in a Manafort hearing and trumpkin cucks are rejoicing like retards with a cup of ice cream? Lmao! Let’s say in your wildest (and unlikely) sweaty palm wet dreams the judge steers completely away from the facts of the case and issues mueller an unfavorable ruling, he’s introduced prejudice with his dictum and… Read more »
Seriously, why is CNN bothering with this? Because they are still butt-hurt over the election. Democrats don’t care about a politician committing adultery. I gotta say, 99% of this is Trump’s doing. Nobody cares (except Melania) about a 12 year old dalliance, but when you lie about it, when you try to cover it up with hush money, then lie about that, one lie begats another, then another and you paint yourself into the corner. Republicans, particularly evangelicals, don’t care either. I think they care in that spending all your time answering Stormy questions when you could be touting all… Read more »
Santino, is Toronto going to win at least one game? Ah man, this is when I question my sanity for loving sports so much. Thankfully I didn’t catch LeBron’s magic. I chose to stay up super late on my vacation to watch game 1 and 3 quarters of game 2. I gave myself a night off yesterday. I’m at a loss for words. I was always knew the road to the east crown would go through Cleveland, but this is capitulation. My guess, Toronto gets blown out of the water tomorrow night. Good thing is I’ll be in transit and… Read more »
It was a thing of beauty. This is why we are sports fans. Perfection is the holy grail of achievement, Lebron is the GOAT and it is pure pleasure to watch the best hone his craft. If you remember The Judge’s sports post a few months back, I told you guys that somehow someway he would put this young team on his back and carry them to the championships.
I love the Golden Knights. A franchise team that wins it all? The stuff of legends.
A judge issued, at best, dicta in a Manafort hearing and trumpkin cucks are rejoicing like retards with a cup of ice cream? Lmao! The judge called out Mueller for clearly working toward the objective of impeaching the president and wrongly recognizing no limits on his own authority. All those imaginary crimes that you think Trump is guilty of that you’ve been expecting Mueller to turn up? Yeah, not going to happen if he has to go outside of his authority from Rosenstein to do it. If you don’t understand how devastating this is to what you want, you’re going… Read more »
Oh, yeah. Adam Purinton was sentenced to life in prison.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article210281204.html
We had discussed that here last year:
http://www.ridiculousvikingstuff.com/2017/02/27/hometown-hate-crime/
Fixed it for ya.
Plead the Fifth?
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/05/06/giuliani-rejects-possibility-trump-ruling-not-exercising-fifth-amendment-rights/
The fat lady sings several different tunes:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/05/06/rosie-odonnell-used-5-addresses-4-names-sized-dem-donations/
Mac’s regrets, he’s had a few:
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/06/mccain-regrets-choosing-sarah-palin-2008/
Man tries to take selfie with a bear – https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/05e04d7e-1ae0-3fd5-8a4f-5f8e8aa7578b/ss_man-mauled-to-death-by-bear.html
It also looks like someone instinctively took pics so that we could enjoy the show. This is Darwin-award level shit.
I swear that I know people who are both self-absorbed and naive enough about wild animals to do this.
Good read here. Mark Penn, one of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s pollsters and advisors. He argues that Mueller’s entire investigation is so hopelessly tainted that seeking discovery through the courts would effectively end it. http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/384963-comey-mueller-and-the-poisonous-tree#.WuNlZs8U8ps.twitter The best way to end all this is not to fire Mueller and Rosenstein or wait for them to wrap it up but to challenge this entire process in court as irretrievably tainted. If Mueller does not agree to end the investigation in exchange for presidential interrogatories, then it may be time to try to block the whole thing in court, with full discovery into… Read more »
speaking of animals killing people/…
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-toddler-3-snatched-eaten-12495315
Wild animals will do what wild animals do. this can be applied to humans too.
speaking of scandals, you thing that mega corporation run by a uber liberal would be one of the greatest places to work right?
http://theinterrobang.com/amazon-warehouse-employees-pissing-bottles/
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/312942
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-share-their-horror-stories-2018-4
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse-jobs-worker-conditions-bathroom-breaks