Same Cujo. Too much stuff coming too fast.
Accused Russian agent Butina expected to plead guilty in Washington
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1OC1AI
Same Cujo. Too much stuff coming too fast.
Accused Russian agent Butina expected to plead guilty in Washington
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1OC1AI
^ That hearing starts in a few minutes. Hope some interesting info comes out of it.
Got a feeling this is only the beginning of the avalanche of news to come.
@Clarknt67
Dec 11
If the Russians can bring down a $1.4B campaign with $4,700 and 13 trolls, maybe we should be welcoming them as our new overlords.
@aaronjmate
Whenever Russiagate peddlers are confronted w/ the actual facts, it doesn't go so well. Here's @RepJerryNadler asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai about "the full extent" of Russian meddling activity on its platforms in 2016. The answer: Russian-linked accounts spent $4,700 on ads.
It was a lot more sophisticated than buying adds.
For $5 Grand, you too can pick the US Prez. Step this way...
and keep your eye on this guy in the video:
WTF? Must be a Russian troll...
This whole narrative, that Russian influence/interference/collusion or wtf ever, put Trump in the White House is ludicrous. End of story...
Here's the real force(collusion/influence/interference) behind putting Trump in the White House:
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/pol...211098039.html
https://www.jpost.com/American-Polit...e-House-571400
https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2018/...can-president/
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bi...in-his-pocket/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/u...can-donor.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...le-east-policy
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/09/adels...y-palestinian/
https://politicalwire.com/2018/10/10...fluence-grows/
With plenty of help from nitwit US "Christian Zionists"
Last edited by SKkin; 14-12-2018 at 05:52 PM.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...van-sentencing'I can’t hide my disgust, my disdain’: judge lambasts Michael Flynn
In an unexpected moment, Judge Emmet Sullivan subjected Trump’s former national security adviser to a stinging rebuke
When a stone-faced Michael Flynn entered courtroom 24 in the US district court in Washington DC on Tuesday, it looked like a cozy deal arranged with prosecutors – no jail time in exchange for a guilty plea and full cooperation – was already sealed.
But no one was counting on Judge Emmet Sullivan.
While Mueller’s prosecutors had argued Flynn’s decades of military service warranted a lenient sentence for the three-star general even after he had admitted lying to the FBI, it was Sullivan who, gesturing to the American flag beside him, accused Flynn of selling his country out. Minutes later, he ponderously asked the government’s lawyers whether they had ever considered charging Flynn with treason. (No, they later answered.)
“Arguably,” Sullivan said, describing how Flynn had secretly been working for the Turkish government before he joined the White House, “that undermines everything this flag over here stands for.”
It was an unexpected moment that seemed to capture – perhaps for the first time – the depth of the betrayals at the heart of special counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation. So far, the cast of characters that have been ensnared by the inquiry, from Trump adviser George Papadopoulos to Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, have seemed relatively minor players on the world stage. But not Flynn, who had been entrusted with keeping the country’s most classified secrets and protecting its security.
“I am going to be frank with you, this crime is very serious,” the judge said. “I can’t hide my disgust, my disdain, at this criminal offence.”
Even the scene of the crime – the West Wing of the White House – seemed to gnaw at Sullivan, who repeated it several times, all the while emphasizing how unusual it was that the government and Flynn were asking him to bless a plea agreement even though Flynn had not completed his cooperation with the government.
Sullivan also quickly clamped down on any suggestion that Flynn’s admitted crime – lying to federal investigators – had occurred in part because the retired general had been lulled into thinking his interview with the FBI was simply a chat, and not part of a criminal investigation.
Never in his decades on the bench, Sullivan said, had he accepted a guilty plea from a defendant who was not really guilty. “I don’t intend to start today,” Sullivan said, and then had Flynn sworn in. “Any false answers will get you in more trouble,” he added.
Trump-Russia inquiry: who has Mueller charged and who might be next?
Months after Flynn led chants of “lock her up” at the Republican national convention, in reference to Hillary Clinton, it was the three-star general who was then forced – without hesitation or excuses – to admit to his crimes.
Even then, Sullivan told Flynn he ought to consider a delay in his sentencing because there were no guarantees, the judge said, that he would not be incarcerated. After a brief recess, Flynn, looking subdued and a little stunned, returned with his answer: he would take the delay and thereby possibly avoid a harsher sentence.
Then came more bad news for Flynn on what Sullivan had in mind. He was clearly keen to convince Flynn that jail time was still on the table.
“I didn’t say ‘wink, wink, nod, nod’,” Sullivan declared. “I’m not promising anything.”
Meanwhile the traitor in chief wishes him good luck in court. (on twitter, can't find the link)
What an odious creature.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...b04062cd79193a
Last edited by Cujo; 19-12-2018 at 03:07 PM.
“If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.
flynn thought he was going to walk out of court scot free.
nope.
the judge came down hard on him and essentially accused him of betraying the country.
not a good day for flynn or trump.
Flynn 2016: “If I did a tenth of what [Hillary Clinton] did, I would be in jail”; "Lock her up!"
Flynn 2018: 'Fuck!'
No Hillary investigation yet though? How about Slick willy and his kiddy fiddler mate Epstein? No investigation into his involvement with this gang of child sex traffickers? Nooo.
Whataboutisim...ims.
That has nothing to do with Lock Her Up Flynn / Mueller's investigation and both Clintons have been investigated repeatedly and extensively.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday against a foreign company embroiled in a secret subpoena fight believed to involve special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s far-reaching investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
For weeks, the court had kept secret the nature of the fight over evidence, leading to a guessing game about who the secret witness is — a government official, a private citizen or a company.
Officials have not confirmed who the prosecutors on the case are, but on the day the court order under appeal was issued, two lawyers were observed exiting a sealed hearing before Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — who oversees grand-jury proceedings — along with five prosecutors with the special counsel’s office, including appellate specialist Michael Dreeben.
Siding with prosecutors Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a vaguely worded judgment that revealed a few new details but still kept the key facts under seal.
“The grand jury seeks information from a corporation owned by Country A,” the three-page decision said. The company had sought to quash the subpoena by arguing it is immune from such demands under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and because complying with the subpoena would cause the company to violate its own domestic laws.
The appeals court disagreed, saying that in this case, prosecutors have met the burden of having reason to believe the evidence they are seeking relates to an act “outside the territory of the United States” but one that also had “a direct effect in the United States.”
A lower-court judge already had sided with the U.S. prosecutors and against the company, according to the ruling.
“When the corporation failed to produce the requested information, the court held the corporation in contempt, imposing a fixed monetary penalty to increase each day the corporation fails to comply,” the appeals court noted.
The court has not identified the company’s lawyers or the specific prosecutors fighting to enforce the subpoena.
The appeals panel held sealed oral arguments on the matter Friday, during a closed hearing that was so secure that reporters were removed from an entire floor of the courthouse, apparently to prevent them from seeing the attorneys on the case.
In its ruling, the appeals court was particularly dismissive of the claims that the unidentified country’s domestic laws barred compliance with the subpoena.
“The corporation has fallen well short” of meeting the legal requirement for such a claim, the court wrote. “The text of the foreign law provision the corporation relies on does not support its position,” and statements from one of the country’s regulators and the company’s own lawyer “lack critical indicia of reliability,” the ruling said.
For that reason, the appeals court concluded, “we are unconvinced that Country A’s law truly prohibits the corporation from complying with the subpoena.”
The framing of the debate suggests that whatever the company is, it is not one that has a significant business presence in the United States, because foreign firms operating in America typically comply with demands from U.S. authorities for evidence.
It was not immediately clear if the unidentified company might try to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for the firm could not be identified.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.d3f1937ac7d6
^Deutsche Bundesbank is my guess. Isn't that the bank that was loaning trump a ton of money?
No because DB has too big of an interest in the US so they would most likely comply. This is going to wind up being a Russian company most likely.
You missed this part....
The framing of the debate suggests that whatever the company is, it is not one that has a significant business presence in the United States, because foreign firms operating in America typically comply with demands from U.S. authorities for evidence.
Ah...I missed the "not" .....
Cambridge Analytica but they ground to a halt earlier this year.
Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow
For more than a year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office has questioned witnesses broadly about their interactions with well-connected Russians. But three sources familiar with Mueller’s probe told The Daily Beast that his team is now zeroing in on Trumpworld figures who may have attempted to shape the administration's foreign policy by offering to ease U.S. sanctions on Russia.
The Special Counsel’s Office is preparing court filings that are expected to detail Trump associates’ conversations about sanctions relief—and spell out how those offers and counter-proposals were characterized to top figures on the campaign and in the administration, those same sources said.
The new details would not only bookend a multi-year investigation by federal prosecutors into whether and how Trump associates seriously considered requests by Moscow to ease the financial measures. The new court filings could also answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What specific policy changes, if any, did the Kremlin hope to get in return from its political machinations?
MORE. https://www.thedailybeast.com/muelle...ions-to-moscow
The thing is it's not part of the Mueller investigation.
Judge Sullivan was able to read sealed and unredacted documents regarding Flynn which haven’t been made public. Sullivan probably has the whole picture of the influence peddling and payoffs now which went on with the Trump crowd.
Whatever the judge read, it certainly infuriated him.
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