I dunno. That baby looks a little like Paula Jones.
Perhaps she left a little gift on Bubba's front door and Hillary found it.
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I dunno. That baby looks a little like Paula Jones.
Perhaps she left a little gift on Bubba's front door and Hillary found it.
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Possible, or maybe another of Webb's children. Who knows? Christmas must be so confusing to those people.
Possible, or maybe another of Webb's children. Who knows? Christmas must be so confusing to those people.
The interview with Sally Yates and Preet is very revealing.
Trump was trying to put Preet in his pocket by calling him for chit-chat and fired Preet he did not return Trump's last call due to impropriety. Trump "would have asked him to do something inappropriate" if he had continued is Preet's assertion.
@jem , what is your take on this as you have worked for a prosecutor? Are Preet's concerns valid?
To a layman it seems like Trump is the swamp. How can the country heal under such a man?
I would appeal to anyone to watch this documentary film in which you will see ordinary people treated like dirt and police corrupted to being bully boys for him. This is how he treated ordinary people in his mother's homeland.
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I think his safest bet is to step down before he's deemed mentally incompetent (I seriously think he's got early onset dementia), or worse yet dragged out by the feds.
Part of me wants to see him in trial, but part of me thinks the country would be irreparably damaged if a sick man is taken to court. How could the defense ever argue not mentally sound when the guy ran for and won for president? How could half the population ever cope with having been bamboozled by a crazy man?
I realize the latter is unlikely, not to mention that we can't afford to waste any more time on this circus (it's been almost 2 years of gridlock and campaigning).
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I do not want to act like I had enough experience to understand politics in a prosecutors' office.
As far as Preet being concerned about impropriety... the guy stood up to mob bosses. he was not afraid of Trump. If the president were saying something inappropriate ... he would tell him.
I suspect he just did not want to be fired in private. He wanted to grand stand. But, its possible it was more complicated.
As far as Preet being concerned about impropriety... the guy stood up to mob bosses. he was not afraid of Trump. If the president were saying something inappropriate ... he would tell him.
I suspect he just did not want to be fired in private. He wanted to grand stand. But, its possible it was more complicated.
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The guy was removed unceremoniously when he felt that had been led to believe that he was not just one more u.s. attorney who served at the discretion of the president. So okay, that hurts and he has bitching rights but that is about it.
Otherwise he is a full fledged self-promoter. He has gotten a million dollar book deal. He has started a political podcast. He has been hired as a legal contributor/commentator by- you guessed it- CNN. And he purposely has the pundits buzzing about which political office he will be running for- although it is not clear that he has any base with any real people. So all of his big cries about injustice are just because he thought he was above it all and it he wasnt- so just like Hillary- he has turned his loss into a big victim road show and book tour.
The reality is that Preet was once an aid to Chuck Schumer and Trump went through this brief period where he tried to be buddy buddy with Schumer so he buttered Schumer up by agreeing to his request to keep Preet. Then Trump fell out with Schumer and Preet made it clear that he did not have to return calls to the President so Trump told him to get out too when he replaced a whole bunch of other u.s. attorneys. So, just like Comey, Preet starts turning his dismissal into a made for TV melodrama with the president rather than just a matter of a loser being told to get the fuck out.
You can bet he would have a problem working for Sessions too. Yeh, don't cry for him. He is over in lefty hackdom now where he belongs. So he got a good book deal, and Comey got a good book deal. So the question is: do you think the statements they will make in their books are guided by the need to tell the truth or the need to sell books and to recast themselves as heroes rather than dismissed losers? No need to pull into a lotus position to think about this.
Well, I guess you are saying Preet was a big boy and knew where to draw the line which he did.
Being fired was a better move for him for sure as it gives him an air of integrity facing down a fundamentally corrupt president. We all know that in NYC developers needed to deal with the mob, it is part of the territory. In 1987 Trump was refused a casino license in Australia because of his mob connections. Trump's superpower is being shameless about exploiting personal contacts.
Schumer... I was reading the other version and it rings true because of Trump's inappropriate behavior with Comey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/us/politics/preet-bharara-trump-contacts.html
Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan, said on Sunday that President Trump tried to cultivate a relationship with him in the months before he was abruptly fired in March.
Mr. Bharara said the contacts with Mr. Trump made him increasingly uncomfortable because they broke with longstanding Justice Department rules on communicating with the White House. Mr. Bharara, who first publicly disclosed the contacts and his concerns about them after he was fired, said Mr. Trump’s communications were strikingly similar to those between the president and those described by the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, who was fired last month.
“When I’ve been reading the stories of how the president has been contacting Jim Comey over time, felt a little bit like déjà vu,” Mr. Bharara said Sunday on “This Week” on ABC.
In his Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday, Mr. Comey said he became uneasy with the president’s repeated conversations with him, including a private White House dinner in February. Mr. Comey said he believed that Mr. Trump, who requested his loyalty during the meal, was trying to “create some sort of patronage relationship.”
Mr. Bharara said he had a similar feeling about his conversations with Mr. Trump. “I was in discussions with my own folks, and in reporting the phone call to the chief of staff to the attorney general, I said it appeared to be that he was trying to cultivate some kind of relationship,” he told ABC News, calling the exchanges “a very weird and peculiar thing.”
The first contact between Mr. Trump and Mr. Bharara took place on Nov. 30, on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan. Mr. Trump, then the president-elect, praised his work and asked for him to stay on, Mr. Bharara said.
About two weeks later, Mr. Bharara said he missed a call from Mr. Trump, leading him to consult with his senior aides about whether it was appropriate to return the call. Because Mr. Trump was not yet president, Mr. Bharara said he believed it was fine to call him.
“He called me in December — ostensibly just to shoot the breeze — and asked me how I was doing and wanted to make sure I was O.K.,” Mr. Bharara said on Sunday. “It was a little bit uncomfortable, but he was not the president, he was only the president-elect.”
Mr. Trump called a second time two days before his Jan. 20 inauguration, in which the president-elect just wanted to “check in and shoot the breeze,” Mr. Bharara said. The final contact occurred March 9, a day before Mr. Bharara was among 46 United States attorneys asked to resign.
Mr. Trump was then president, so Mr. Bharara said he declined to return the call and reported it to the chief of staff of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Mr. Bharara refused to resign and was fired on March 11.
“To this day I have no idea why I was fired,” he said. “You know, it doesn’t bother me. I’m living a great good life, and very happily.”
Yup, "Mr Bharara was among 46 other united states attorneys asked to resign." Situation normal unless someone has led you to believe that you are special. Except Schumer had spoken with Trump and felt that he had assurances that preet was going to be protected. Note that neither preet and comey ever saw anything that caused them to resign to maintain their hoity toity allegedly stellar professionalism UNTIL AFTER THEY WERE FIRED. If they had not been fired they would still be there and okay with it, whatever "it" is.
Nope, he was mounting a case against Trump. I believe it was over his charity but honestly can't remember.