Glued to my seat, reading this incredible report, Lucian! Mueller was getting so very close to bringing Trump to his knees and in walks the bulldog whose jowls shake when he speaks. He declares a sitting president can’t be indicted and he says he used that in the Bush admin when he was AG then. So Barr-Nun saunters up to Trump and tells him he and he alone can save him from prosecutorial investigations. A done deal.
Truly, the Australian diplomat, who happened to listen to Mifsud’s declaration, is the true hero in this story. Had he not called his embassy who called the American embassy, who, in turn, called the FBI, all of those corrupt jerks would still be in power. Thank goodness fir small favors, as they say.
Mueller doesn’t get enough credit for his report. But now Barr and Durham are facing the music (🤞🏼) for their arrogance and their untruths.
Among many questions I have, why did DOJ not go ahead with prosecution of Flynn and Flynn's son after Flynn abrogated his plea deal? DOJ has never said why. Why wasn't Durham fired immediately when Garland took over DOJ? Incidentally DOJ is STILL paying him. For what? Why did DOJ decline to prosecute any of the 10 orangehead obstruction crimes delineated in Mueller? Again nothing from DOJ. Why did DOJ decline to prosecute individual one in the Daniels bribe crime? Again crickets. Why has no journalist ever hammered DOJ for answers? It's infuriating...
If I had to bet, I guess that the answer to all of your questions lies with one man - Merrick Garland, and his manic obsession with staying above politics, failing to understand that staying above politics is a political act in itself. And the result of it all is that widespread criminal acts have gone unpunished. Flynn is still on the Q lecture circuit. Durham is on his way to some hotshot law firm that will pay him millions. The Mueller Report is still unread and left to molder on the shelf. And Alvin Bragg is about to screw up the Stormy Daniels case. And why has no journalist hammered on this? Because the corporate media is at least as spineless as Garland, if not moreso.
It is Biden and the dems. Biden is doing a good job. Helping Mitch McConnell get re-elected with infrastructure spending. Not another Democrat leader insight!
Sorry, I'm just now seeing your comment. I live in Kentucky, and follow Andy Andy Beshear, pretty closely. Andy Beshear and Mike DeWine of Ohio, who is a sensible Republican, worked on making that bridge happen. Those two worked well together during the pandemic. Biden seems to be hell bent on finding common ground. He is diplomatic, but I wonder if people appreciate how hard that has to be when considering McConnell. Look how much power the guy has, yet my state is one of the poorest in the nation. You would think that would tell the voters that he's not looking out for us.
I think one journalist just hammered on it pretty damn well. All you have to do is share this article to others. There is a little arrow on the right, near the comment button.
No one in our Justice Dept., or anywhere else I've seen, has the backbone to do their job and indict these criminals. Screw this "above politics" bullshit. These people should be held to the highest standards of the law precisely because they are the politicians in our government, "in charge of the show", and are supposed to set the example for the country.
Some example. They are ripping apart the Constitution and making excuses for disgusting behavior. It makes me sick.
I asked Joe Silkshirt, my imaginary bureaucrat. He said, "Fire Durham? Nope. Pluses: we get him and his sheeple off the payroll, which is a drop in the bucket that makes the libs briefly happy. Minuses: We take eternal grief from the right wingnuts for firing him. Also, it's fun to watch him flail around. On the payroll, he makes the rest of us look busy and effective by contrast.
There is criminal conduct right in the DOJ but they are scared to fire let alone prosecute because of the grief insurrectionists will give them. Garland has to go.
Nah, I think you fire him, and then go after his license to practice law. And when the right wingers whine simply dig in (as they do) laying out how Durham abused his office for in service of the disgraced, twice impeached seditionist former president. Right wing whining only has impact when Democrats back down, and even then the whining doesn't stop. Had the Democrats gone after Starr and his lackeys (including Kavanaugh), we might have been spared a lot of grief. Even though there would have been extreme whining from Fox and Republicans.
It's so plain to see after reading this that tfg is a mobster, surrounded by a gang of wise guys drawn to him like flies to shit. And, just like everything we all have seen and read about la cosa nostra, his crime family interacts with other crime families on a global basis.
I read yesterday that the Manhattan DA "considered" indicting the asshole on racketeering charges years ago. No wonder he crimes with impunity; he's never, ever been held accountable for his illegal acts.
This website is a project of the Brookings Institution, their website, brookings.edu may also be woth some of your time.
But it's Saturday, and I plan to watch more of the 2nd season of Maverick on DVD and then the basketball game between the Fighting Illini and the Iowa Hawkeyes, a much needed and appreciated respite from"all national and international crises all the time" in the news!
“Who is the tall dark stranger there?/Maverick is the name/Riding the range to who knows where/Luck is his companion/Gamblin’ is his game.” (I know the rest of the lyrics if you're interested.)
I've tried and pretty much succeeded in stopping my reading of anything about the many legal cases involving Trump. I remember many saying that the year 2021 might see Trump in prison by 2021 end (rape, fraud, tax evasion, etc..); that his businesses would all go BK. Well, like the pardoned General (!) Flynn, Trump is still out there saying crazy crap. Plus: cheating at golf. I gave up reading about his vast legal problems. Only the Russian Trump stuff interests me, and this is a good article on the treasonous matter.
It is also revealing that the two prosecutions that Durham did bring had next to nothing to do with Mueller investigation itself and had he won convictions, would have done nothing to discredit the Mueller investigation in any case. Sadly for Durham, he lost both cases after short jury deliberations. It is also instructive that he lost his chief assistant who resigned as a result of his insistence that prosecutions proceed. I am sure you, like I wait with baited breath for Durham's final "report".
It is hard to zoom out and get perspective on all of this: Trump, (then and now), the January 6 insurrection, the current House majority bizarre "investigations", the nut-job performers we elected to the House, the coming attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the arrival of George Santos, the byzantine machinations of Republican operatives here brilliantly detailed by Lucian, the rising star of unabashed fascist Governor DeSantis of Florida. And more, much more.
"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought." - Rudy Dornbusch
What is happening here now is end-stage , Last Days of Rome stuff. I have a close friend overseas, a Dane, who says we have gone over the edge, and there is no coming back for us now. But we seem to accept all this as our New Normal. Why aren't we in the streets?
We aren't in the streets because we're sitting here doing nothing. Unless you share this article. There is a little arrow at the top near the comments button. Spread this truth around, tell your friends to read it...
Looking forward to more and more of the truth coming out. The only thing Durham has proven is how corrupt he and Barr are. I trust the DOJ has knowledge of whatever was relayed to these two crooks by the Italians.
Feels weird to ask, but does Mifsud actually exist? Or is that an alias for some Russian plant? I assume, sort of, it’s his true identity if he was interviewed by the FBI.
Or else he's Navalny's cellmate, if Navalny and Mifsud are still alive, which I doubt. Poison and pill-induced radiation poisoning are less messy than tossing someone out of a window.
I'm weighing in on the defenestration theory. it sounds like his wallet and passport showing up without him pretty much says "he won't be needing these anymore."
all VERY le carre. except that "you can't make this shit up."
Share the article so other people get a chance to read it. There is a little arrow at the top near the comment button. This is the kind of news people need to hear.
Jeez, Mr. T., this one was like a dissertation, for which I'm sure everyone here would reward you with a Ph.D.. What got my blood pumping was the possibility of a RICO charge. A few years ago Larry Tribe said that's what they ought to use to get him. And a couple days ago, in the Times, it was mentioned that RICO was being looked at. Even before I'd gotten much further I knew if that happened he would sue for defamation. Well, bingo. Further on in the story it was reported that a lawyer had warned the Times (but really, Bragg) that if a RICO charge was brought they'd be looking at a lawsuit for defamation. Putting aside that he's operated like a thug for years, I'd love to know how you could defame a man who'd been impeached twice; has his longtime money guy sitting in Rikers, as we speak; his former lawyer went to the jug AND testified against him; is on tape doing his impersonation of Mayor Daley telling a Georgia official to "find" 11,000+ votes; is clearly a traitor; has been accused of rape, more than once; palled around with Epstein; paid a $21 million fine for fraud with Trump "University"; can no longer, with his children, have anything to do with a foundation, having misused funds for personal use and I could go on, but everybody knows it'd be pretty hard (OK, impossible) to defame such a man. But I would love to see the defense ... probably with Hubba Hubba, I mean Alina Habba in the first chair. Whoops, this just in: A federal judge sanctioned her a million bucks for "bad lawyering" in the E. Jean Carroll matter. So no, you can't defame Donald Trump.
Thanks for the laundry list of some of TFG’s crimes. He could always get Sidney Powell to represent him. Unless she’s too busy defending herself against the Dominion lawsuit.
I remember reading, possibly back in 2017, that Ivanka Trump was a personal friend of Deripaska's wife or another Russian, and it was all tied in to the Miss World pageant or possibly the proposed Trump Tower Moscow.
Glued to my seat, reading this incredible report, Lucian! Mueller was getting so very close to bringing Trump to his knees and in walks the bulldog whose jowls shake when he speaks. He declares a sitting president can’t be indicted and he says he used that in the Bush admin when he was AG then. So Barr-Nun saunters up to Trump and tells him he and he alone can save him from prosecutorial investigations. A done deal.
Truly, the Australian diplomat, who happened to listen to Mifsud’s declaration, is the true hero in this story. Had he not called his embassy who called the American embassy, who, in turn, called the FBI, all of those corrupt jerks would still be in power. Thank goodness fir small favors, as they say.
Mueller doesn’t get enough credit for his report. But now Barr and Durham are facing the music (🤞🏼) for their arrogance and their untruths.
Had me on the edge, Lucian...thanks!
Among many questions I have, why did DOJ not go ahead with prosecution of Flynn and Flynn's son after Flynn abrogated his plea deal? DOJ has never said why. Why wasn't Durham fired immediately when Garland took over DOJ? Incidentally DOJ is STILL paying him. For what? Why did DOJ decline to prosecute any of the 10 orangehead obstruction crimes delineated in Mueller? Again nothing from DOJ. Why did DOJ decline to prosecute individual one in the Daniels bribe crime? Again crickets. Why has no journalist ever hammered DOJ for answers? It's infuriating...
If I had to bet, I guess that the answer to all of your questions lies with one man - Merrick Garland, and his manic obsession with staying above politics, failing to understand that staying above politics is a political act in itself. And the result of it all is that widespread criminal acts have gone unpunished. Flynn is still on the Q lecture circuit. Durham is on his way to some hotshot law firm that will pay him millions. The Mueller Report is still unread and left to molder on the shelf. And Alvin Bragg is about to screw up the Stormy Daniels case. And why has no journalist hammered on this? Because the corporate media is at least as spineless as Garland, if not moreso.
100%. And one more obscenity, why is DeJoy still in a job?
It is Biden and the dems. Biden is doing a good job. Helping Mitch McConnell get re-elected with infrastructure spending. Not another Democrat leader insight!
Biden is helping the American People with the infrastructure spending. Blame Kentucky voters for electing McConnell.
My point is Biden helped McConnell with the bridge opening which republicans voted against funding.
Sorry, I'm just now seeing your comment. I live in Kentucky, and follow Andy Andy Beshear, pretty closely. Andy Beshear and Mike DeWine of Ohio, who is a sensible Republican, worked on making that bridge happen. Those two worked well together during the pandemic. Biden seems to be hell bent on finding common ground. He is diplomatic, but I wonder if people appreciate how hard that has to be when considering McConnell. Look how much power the guy has, yet my state is one of the poorest in the nation. You would think that would tell the voters that he's not looking out for us.
My point was, Beshear and DeWine sought federal funding for the bridge. McConnell just picked up the credit for what the Governors did together.
Also Kentucky voters Will think mcconnel gave them the bridge. Biden has to go.
No shit.
I think one journalist just hammered on it pretty damn well. All you have to do is share this article to others. There is a little arrow on the right, near the comment button.
No one in our Justice Dept., or anywhere else I've seen, has the backbone to do their job and indict these criminals. Screw this "above politics" bullshit. These people should be held to the highest standards of the law precisely because they are the politicians in our government, "in charge of the show", and are supposed to set the example for the country.
Some example. They are ripping apart the Constitution and making excuses for disgusting behavior. It makes me sick.
I asked Joe Silkshirt, my imaginary bureaucrat. He said, "Fire Durham? Nope. Pluses: we get him and his sheeple off the payroll, which is a drop in the bucket that makes the libs briefly happy. Minuses: We take eternal grief from the right wingnuts for firing him. Also, it's fun to watch him flail around. On the payroll, he makes the rest of us look busy and effective by contrast.
Except that he is actually in gaged in criminal conduct allowed garland and has been from the start.
There is criminal conduct right in the DOJ but they are scared to fire let alone prosecute because of the grief insurrectionists will give them. Garland has to go.
Nah, I think you fire him, and then go after his license to practice law. And when the right wingers whine simply dig in (as they do) laying out how Durham abused his office for in service of the disgraced, twice impeached seditionist former president. Right wing whining only has impact when Democrats back down, and even then the whining doesn't stop. Had the Democrats gone after Starr and his lackeys (including Kavanaugh), we might have been spared a lot of grief. Even though there would have been extreme whining from Fox and Republicans.
Barr trump Dungham guiliani all deserve a Rico conviction,
It's so plain to see after reading this that tfg is a mobster, surrounded by a gang of wise guys drawn to him like flies to shit. And, just like everything we all have seen and read about la cosa nostra, his crime family interacts with other crime families on a global basis.
I read yesterday that the Manhattan DA "considered" indicting the asshole on racketeering charges years ago. No wonder he crimes with impunity; he's never, ever been held accountable for his illegal acts.
www.lawfareblog.com/trumps-obstruction-justice-mueller-now
^^^^
This website is a project of the Brookings Institution, their website, brookings.edu may also be woth some of your time.
But it's Saturday, and I plan to watch more of the 2nd season of Maverick on DVD and then the basketball game between the Fighting Illini and the Iowa Hawkeyes, a much needed and appreciated respite from"all national and international crises all the time" in the news!
What? You're going to miss balloon-gate? Lol!
"Just shoot me," I can't take much more of the feckless mass media.
Illini!
Hawkeyes! But it's a legit contest.
“Who is the tall dark stranger there?/Maverick is the name/Riding the range to who knows where/Luck is his companion/Gamblin’ is his game.” (I know the rest of the lyrics if you're interested.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptxwWt2JeGQ
Heroes and Villains - The Beach Boys
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9IWYsHL-p8
^^^^
Wow! Just listen, and in BELFAST no less...
Bronco, too?
I've tried and pretty much succeeded in stopping my reading of anything about the many legal cases involving Trump. I remember many saying that the year 2021 might see Trump in prison by 2021 end (rape, fraud, tax evasion, etc..); that his businesses would all go BK. Well, like the pardoned General (!) Flynn, Trump is still out there saying crazy crap. Plus: cheating at golf. I gave up reading about his vast legal problems. Only the Russian Trump stuff interests me, and this is a good article on the treasonous matter.
It is also revealing that the two prosecutions that Durham did bring had next to nothing to do with Mueller investigation itself and had he won convictions, would have done nothing to discredit the Mueller investigation in any case. Sadly for Durham, he lost both cases after short jury deliberations. It is also instructive that he lost his chief assistant who resigned as a result of his insistence that prosecutions proceed. I am sure you, like I wait with baited breath for Durham's final "report".
It is hard to zoom out and get perspective on all of this: Trump, (then and now), the January 6 insurrection, the current House majority bizarre "investigations", the nut-job performers we elected to the House, the coming attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the arrival of George Santos, the byzantine machinations of Republican operatives here brilliantly detailed by Lucian, the rising star of unabashed fascist Governor DeSantis of Florida. And more, much more.
"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought." - Rudy Dornbusch
What is happening here now is end-stage , Last Days of Rome stuff. I have a close friend overseas, a Dane, who says we have gone over the edge, and there is no coming back for us now. But we seem to accept all this as our New Normal. Why aren't we in the streets?
The Florida residents not in the Desantistan camp refer to him as the Ayatollah!
You xan tell your friend that we will be in streets when the Dems win both the House and Senate in 2024.
Excellent commentary.
Your first paragraph affirms there is a valid slippery slope as opposed to the invalid scary ones advanced by today's Rs and cons.
Your quote captures the resulting confusion and chaos.
Your final paragraph recognizes there is no bottom, only a probable end.
We aren't in the streets because we're sitting here doing nothing. Unless you share this article. There is a little arrow at the top near the comments button. Spread this truth around, tell your friends to read it...
Looking forward to more and more of the truth coming out. The only thing Durham has proven is how corrupt he and Barr are. I trust the DOJ has knowledge of whatever was relayed to these two crooks by the Italians.
Feels weird to ask, but does Mifsud actually exist? Or is that an alias for some Russian plant? I assume, sort of, it’s his true identity if he was interviewed by the FBI.
Thanks for the read, Lucian!
I Lucian's report:
"But the mysterious Mifsud, whose passport and wallet were found in Portugal in August of 2017 and who has been missing since then, ..."
But I suppose Misfud could have entered the "Putin witness protection program." He likely will not be seen again.
As in he was defenestrated?
Or else he's Navalny's cellmate, if Navalny and Mifsud are still alive, which I doubt. Poison and pill-induced radiation poisoning are less messy than tossing someone out of a window.
I'm weighing in on the defenestration theory. it sounds like his wallet and passport showing up without him pretty much says "he won't be needing these anymore."
all VERY le carre. except that "you can't make this shit up."
Share the article so other people get a chance to read it. There is a little arrow at the top near the comment button. This is the kind of news people need to hear.
Well, done as usual, Lucian! My question is will charges from the molar report be added to the ongoing investigations of the FBI into Trump? 
Mueller report,, of course!
My molars are killing me after reading Lucian’s article!
Needed no correction (!), but if you really felt you had to you could've clicked the tricon under the comment to enable the edit option.
Wow. Blockbuster!
Waiting for Gym Jordon and his gang to
get to the bottom of this actual weaponization
jk
With the WTF Group investigation?
Again! You've done it again! What a detective you are. World class, for real.
Jeez, Mr. T., this one was like a dissertation, for which I'm sure everyone here would reward you with a Ph.D.. What got my blood pumping was the possibility of a RICO charge. A few years ago Larry Tribe said that's what they ought to use to get him. And a couple days ago, in the Times, it was mentioned that RICO was being looked at. Even before I'd gotten much further I knew if that happened he would sue for defamation. Well, bingo. Further on in the story it was reported that a lawyer had warned the Times (but really, Bragg) that if a RICO charge was brought they'd be looking at a lawsuit for defamation. Putting aside that he's operated like a thug for years, I'd love to know how you could defame a man who'd been impeached twice; has his longtime money guy sitting in Rikers, as we speak; his former lawyer went to the jug AND testified against him; is on tape doing his impersonation of Mayor Daley telling a Georgia official to "find" 11,000+ votes; is clearly a traitor; has been accused of rape, more than once; palled around with Epstein; paid a $21 million fine for fraud with Trump "University"; can no longer, with his children, have anything to do with a foundation, having misused funds for personal use and I could go on, but everybody knows it'd be pretty hard (OK, impossible) to defame such a man. But I would love to see the defense ... probably with Hubba Hubba, I mean Alina Habba in the first chair. Whoops, this just in: A federal judge sanctioned her a million bucks for "bad lawyering" in the E. Jean Carroll matter. So no, you can't defame Donald Trump.
Thanks for the laundry list of some of TFG’s crimes. He could always get Sidney Powell to represent him. Unless she’s too busy defending herself against the Dominion lawsuit.
Which reminds me of two more obscenities. Why are DeJoy and Wray still around? How come no one in the WH Press Room is asking that question?
I remember reading, possibly back in 2017, that Ivanka Trump was a personal friend of Deripaska's wife or another Russian, and it was all tied in to the Miss World pageant or possibly the proposed Trump Tower Moscow.
The entire lot of Trumps are dirty. No exceptions. And being dirty is highly appealing to today's Republican base.
Wow.