I see the storm has just added the POTUS lawyer as defendant. Very interesting. Now where does that put attorney client privilege when your own neck is on the line?

Campaign contribution violation, terrorist threat violation, wonder where all these real crimes lead?

[!].....[!].....[!].....[!].....[!].....


Predictable as always and swinging in the 'WIND'...........

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Ah yes, speaking about puppets.

ROFLMFAO!!!!!

Another investigation, White House investigating loans to Kushner's business: official..

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is investigating whether two loans totaling more than $500 million to the family real estate business of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner violated any criminal laws or regulations, according to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

Cheers.

Oh my Rumpers goin to court And it isn't going to be a friendly chat like one with Mueller
https://apnews.com/a54c439f8af046cf9da54ec1ce33d8c8/Attorney-for-porn-star-seeks-to-depose-Trump-on-payment

Attorney Michael Avenatti is seeking sworn testimony from Trump and Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, about a $130,000 payment made to Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election as part of a nondisclosure agreement she is seeking to invalidate.

'Wrath of Don'

So Much mO POTENT and REAL, than dA 'Wrath' of

IMPOTENT and FAKE:

OH

SIGH

YAWN

et al

dA MOST POTENT and REAL Yap

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

OH

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Trump seems to find it hard to get lawyers working for him.

A little-known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team, as many top-tier lawyers shy away from representing him in a probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-lawyer/exclusive-spurned-by-top-lawyers-trumps-defense-elevates-washington-outsider-idUSKBN1H409J
In an interview, Ekonomou told Reuters that he “prosecutes a lot of murders for the D.A.”
When asked about his biggest cases of late, Ekonomou said, “That’s basically it. Nothing earthshaking.”

Oh no:(
Donald Trump's former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is on his way to Sweden. It reports Dagens Nyheter.
Bannon wants to meet Sweden Democrats when he comes here.
"We have studied the Sweden Democrats closely. They should be aware of that. "
"My main focus is to build a grassroots army here in the United States but you Swedes, your readers, are at the front of what's happening."
"I will spend a lot of time in Europe in May and during the summer, at least one week a month. I do not know exactly when I come to Sweden but definitely sometime during spring or early summer," he says to the newspaper.
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/steve-bannon-sverigedemokraterna-ar-en-laxa-for-hela-varlden/
The Sweden Democrats is a far right party very much like Front National in France and UKIP in Britain.
And Trump the Genius from Karlstad hand picked him as a White House Chief Strategist!

Another bit of news, that I feel sure, will get 45's attention. D.C., Maryland may proceed with lawsuit alleging Trump violated emoluments clauses

A federal judge ruled that the District of Columbia and Maryland may proceed with an unprecedented lawsuit against President Trump alleging that Trump’s business dealings have violated the Constitution’s ban on receiving improper “emoluments,” or payments, from individual states and foreign governments.

The ruling, by U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte in Maryland, marks the first time that a lawsuit of this kind has cleared the initial legal hurdle — a finding that the plaintiffs have legal standing to sue the president in the first place.

In this case, Messitte found that D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) and Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) have legal standing to sue Trump over the business of the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington.

As part of that ruling, Messitte said he rejected an argument previously made by critics of the lawsuit — that, under the Constitution, only Congress may decide whether the president has violated the emoluments clauses.

“In absence of Congressional approval, this Court holds that it may review the actions of the President to determine if they comply with the law,” Messitte wrote.

Oh my Rumpers goin to court And it isn't going to be a friendly chat like one with Mueller
https://apnews.com/a54c439f8af046cf9da54ec1ce33d8c8/Attorney-for-porn-star-seeks-to-depose-Trump-on-payment

Attorney Michael Avenatti is seeking sworn testimony from Trump and Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, about a $130,000 payment made to Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election as part of a nondisclosure agreement she is seeking to invalidate.

Man, they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to 'get trump'. This is much ado about nothing.


Why go on about it?

Are there ANY possible criminal charges from this on Trump or Cohen?

No?: then this a big fat hairy deal.

Yes?: Then Trump and Cohen should both claim the 5th.

And before you claim that the 5th Amendment does not apply to civil cases, sorry, but SCOTUS disagrees.

266 U.S. 34 (1924)
McCARTHY, UNITED STATES MARSHAL FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
v.
ARNDSTEIN.
No. 404, October Term, 1922.

Supreme Court of United States.
Petition for rehearing granted October 15, 1923.
Reargued November 27, 1923.
Decided October 20, 1924.

APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.

Mr. Selden Bacon for the National Surety Company.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. Saul S. Myers and Mr. Walter H. Pollak, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, for appellant; and Mr. Lindley M. Garrison, for the American Surety Company, submitted on the same brief with Mr. Bacon.

Mr. William J. Fallon, for appellee, submitted.

Mr. W. Randolph Montgomery, by leave of court, filed a brief on behalf of the National Association of Credit Men, as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court

...
The Government insists, broadly, that the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination does not apply in any civil proceeding. The contrary must be accepted as settled. The privilege is not ordinarily dependent upon the nature of the proceeding in which the testimony is sought or is to be used. It applies alike to civil and criminal proceedings, wherever the answer might tend to subject to criminal responsibility him who gives it. The privilege protects a mere witness as fully as it does one who is also a party defendant.

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If you want to get Trump out of office, great! Fine by me, I didn't vote for him... But look elsewhere than this.

Yes, the President can be sued while in office. We have Mr. Clinton to thank for that from a SCOTUS case when HE was getting sued over him being a horndog with Paula Jones. Mr. Clinton did not get impeached over that case. He got impeached (obstruction of justice and perjury) over lying under oath to a grand jury over that case. If Mr. Clinton had just stood up in front of the press and declared "Yes, I did have relations with her (and a few other women since then too), but it was consensual!" He would have gotten off scot-free as well as being at least slightly a hero in a somewhat sick way to a lot of men.

Mueller needs to either defecate or vacate. He has been going for almost a year, and has indicted a bunch of people already (a total of 101 counts across 19 people and 3 organizations). If he does have something on Trump, Mueller needs to turn it over to Congress so that Congress can start the Constitutional process of impeachment, 'conviction', and removal from office. If he doesn't, its time for him to quit. If he has nothing so far, but keeps going anyway then he is just playing politics. Mueller is authorized to investigate Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, and any links between the Trump campaign and the above Russian efforts. That is pretty much it... It is not an unlimited fishing expedition.

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https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE

#Texit

Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016.

Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power.

Don't you like him giving us the middle finger so sly.

Well that just changes everything.

Thank you. You have done us all a service.

har...

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MK of course you can take the 5th in a civil case. You can even take the 5th in voir dire or a deposition. In a civil case, unlike a criminal one, the Jury will get to hear you state it and they will form whatever opinion they will. So if you get asked 100 questions, 100 times the jury would get to hear, "On the advice of legal consul I respectfully decline to answer as I might tend to incriminate myself." Of course you will have to answer if the sky was blue before you came into the building or face contempt.

Here is collusion ...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/trump-aide-communicated-with-ex-russian-intelligence-officer-during-2016-election-idUSKBN1H42FC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Russian intelligence officer who worked with U.S. President Donald Trump’s former top campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates was communicating with Gates late in the 2016 presidential campaign, according to court records filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office.

“The fact that an official who had an important role in the Trump campaign alongside (Paul) Manafort was dealing with an individual who he knew was tied to Russian intelligence is a big deal, as is the fact that Mueller decided to put that card face up on the table at this time,” said a person familiar with Mueller’s investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

This will now have to go to completion if that is some years from now ...

No.....he's just saying "you snowflakes are number one with me...."

the jury would get to hear, "On the advice of legal consul I respectfully decline to answer as I might tend to incriminate myself."

more likely they'll just hear, I plead the fifth.

However this 'scream at the sky' will die a whimpering death along with all the other attempts to alter reality.

Mule-er is going to milk every last taxpayer dollar he can out of the 'great hunt for the wicked witch' to enrich his lawyer buddies.

Piggies at the trough as is usually the case.

Here's a link to the most neutral and honest assessment of where we are and how we got here I've ever read, and has been described as such by both Left and Right. It was originally penned in 1984 by Charlie Reese a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel.

Titled '545 versus 300 Million'.

"One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country."

The reasoning is flawless. Read it at your own peril.

https://toshmcintosh.com/2011/04/545-vs-300-million-by-charlie-reese/

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Mule-er is going to milk every last taxpayer dollar he can out of the 'great hunt for the wicked witch' to enrich his lawyer buddies.

Mueller's lawyers are DOJ employees, civil servants, hardly a way to get rich, how can you make this up?

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/28/politics/dowd-flynn-manafort-pardons/index.html

President Donald Trump's lawyer, John Dowd, floated the possibility last year with lawyers for former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that the President might issue pardons for both men, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing three individuals with knowledge of the discussions.

If it wasn't just internal talk then you have evidence of obstruction of justice.

Mueller will be all over this and the grand jury will be busy issuing true bills.

<ed>No wonder rumpers can't find a lawyer

I hope that Mueller keeps looking, but not because I've predetermined what he's going to find. Instead, much like what we're doing here, finding nothing can be just as important as finding something. If he is able to continue investigating unhindered, if it is not proven that Donald Trump had any part of any provable conspiracy to interfere with the election, then this will increase confidence in him and his administration. His approval rating is rising, a sign of increasing confidence. (Yes... I know the only important poll is the ballot box, but still...)

And, perhaps Mueller will find something unexpected... maybe a corrupt Democrat or two, who knows? I hope he investigates both sides of the aisle, and independents; everyone who needs to be. All leaders should be so closely scrutinized: it keeps them (more) honest. It's a small price to pay compared with the billions a disastrous corrupt administration can cost.

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All leaders should be so closely scrutinized: it keeps them (more) honest. It's a small price to pay compared with the billions a disastrous corrupt administration can cost.

A free press used to do that important function, now the alt right and Trump denigrates that function.

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