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Post by tigercpa on Oct 30, 2017 15:45:59 GMT
Looks like Tony Podesta / Podesta group may be next... I will admit that initially I didn’t expect this investigation to go anywhere. However, it now appears that there will almost certainly be more shoes to drop. As I said recently, I am now expecting there to be a pox on both houses. Keep in mind that there would be no special counsel if Trump had not fired Comey for ostensibly looking into Trump’s connections with Russia. Dripping with irony. Did you consider Trump planned the whole thing, including deliberately firing Comey to open the door to get the U1 investigation started? Maybe FBI agents came to Sessions and said - look at this airtight case we have already built, evidence already gathered?
For sure, it will lead where it leads...doubtful to lead to Trump and Russia.
Manafort and Podesta and bribes to influence the EU to admit Ukraine....50/50 or better odds on that.
And now, Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to federal agents. He was an unpaid foreign policy campaign adviser who stupidly lied to the FBI. He wanted Trump to meet Putin, Trump Team said no.
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Post by tigercpa on Oct 30, 2017 16:08:29 GMT
New York Times: "The indictment of Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates makes no mention of Mr. Trump or election meddling."
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Post by tigercpa on Oct 30, 2017 17:49:29 GMT
Multiple news reports Tony Podesta stepping down from Podesta group.
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Oct 30, 2017 18:09:41 GMT
I will admit that initially I didn’t expect this investigation to go anywhere. However, it now appears that there will almost certainly be more shoes to drop. As I said recently, I am now expecting there to be a pox on both houses. Keep in mind that there would be no special counsel if Trump had not fired Comey for ostensibly looking into Trump’s connections with Russia. Dripping with irony. Did you consider Trump planned the whole thing, including deliberately firing Comey to open the door to get the U1 investigation started? Maybe FBI agents came to Sessions and said - look at this airtight case we have already built, evidence already gathered?
For sure, it will lead where it leads...doubtful to lead to Trump and Russia.
Manafort and Podesta and bribes to influence the EU to admit Ukraine....50/50 or better odds on that.
And now, Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to federal agents. He was an unpaid foreign policy campaign adviser who stupidly lied to the FBI. He wanted Trump to meet Putin, Trump Team said no.
I didn’t consider anything. I will be content watching and waiting for the evidence to come forward. I am not overly consumed by Mueller’s investigation. However, you might be right in your speculation that Trump planned the whole thing, and has been feigning indignities. That would be yet another brilliant strategy from the master manipulator. Not. Lol.
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Post by tigercpa on Oct 30, 2017 18:43:24 GMT
CNN and MSNBC are doing endzone dances over this nothingburger.
Special counsel is allowed to be involved in the investigations outside his original scope of investigation - namely “Russian meddling of 2016 election”, which has had extremely limited scope of investigation from the beginning.
Even Mueller thinks that it’s a waste of time.
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Post by tigercpa on Oct 31, 2017 0:17:17 GMT
The charging document will always give you clues to the agenda...Manafort is just a path to the bigger fish - Podesta and the Clintons.
The DNC types are just trying to protect from the building storm, and right now, it looks like they are going to circle the wagons around Obama and leave the Clintons in the wind.
Hillary will be sacrificed to protect Obama.
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Oct 31, 2017 3:33:11 GMT
The charging document will always give you clues to the agenda...Manafort is just a path to the bigger fish - Podesta and the Clintons. The DNC types are just trying to protect from the building storm, and right now, it looks like they are going to circle the wagons around Obama and leave the Clintons in the wind. Hillary will be sacrificed to protect Obama. Wrong. The charging documents do not always give clues as to the “agenda”. However, it is very possible that Manafort will be offered a deal in exchange for his full cooperation, wherever that leads. However, Manafort’s cooperation might not be as valuable as you might think. The FBI had previously turned former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos in a secret plea deal several months ago. Papadopoulos is designated as a “proactive cooperator” in the plea deal. Did I mention that Papadopoulos was Trump’s foreign policy adviser? Where do you come up with such off the wall stuff like “Hillary will be sacrificed to protect Obama”? I hope that you will consider leaving your brain to medical science. Lol.
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Post by tigercpa on Oct 31, 2017 13:56:51 GMT
The charging document will always give you clues to the agenda...Manafort is just a path to the bigger fish - Podesta and the Clintons. The DNC types are just trying to protect from the building storm, and right now, it looks like they are going to circle the wagons around Obama and leave the Clintons in the wind. Hillary will be sacrificed to protect Obama. Wrong. The charging documents do not always give clues as to the “agenda”. However, it is very possible that Manafort will be offered a deal in exchange for his full cooperation, wherever that leads. However, Manafort’s cooperation might not be as valuable as you might think. The FBI had previously turned former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos in a secret plea deal several months ago. Papadopoulos is designated as a “proactive cooperator” in the plea deal. Did I mention that Papadopoulos was Trump’s foreign policy adviser? Where do you come up with such off the wall stuff like “Hillary will be sacrificed to protect Obama”? I hope that you will consider leaving your brain to medical science. Lol. Manafort was already flipped.
The big surprise yesterday was Podesta. He was completely unprepared.
After all these months of investigation, the much-anticipated Manafort charges turned out to be unrelated to Russian meddling in the 2016 election, let alone to any purported Trump-campaign collusion.
By choosing only Hillary supporters, Mueller made it impossible for Hillary to claim that this investigation was "stacked against her".
Yes, Papdopulous was an unpaid adviser who lied to the FBI about the dates of certain contracts and tried to get Trump to meet with Putin, but Trump explicitly declined. He lacked the goods, he tried to weasel his way into the campaign, but was fired. He was either a freelancer with no bona fides or was a FusionGPS plant. Papadopolous got "scooter Libbyed" and shot himself in the foot by talking to the FBI without a lawyer. (Rule #1, never talk to the feds without your attorney present, and even then preferably in his office and while being filmed.)
If GP and PM were had all the huge Russian conenctions, why were they fired from the campaign? Doesn;t make sense, IF the premise of colluding with Russia is valid.
The Dems were all excited about Mueller at first but now want him fired. Pelosi said she wants a *new* and more *independent* counsel to start a new *Russian* investigation.
Translation: Now that Manafort is leading Mueller to Podesta and Clinton (the real Russian collusion), they all want it to stop.
The review of cash transfers will place them in one of 2 categories:(1) those for tax avoidance, and (2) those for tax evasion.
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Post by tigercpa on Oct 31, 2017 15:59:59 GMT
And Rosenstein and Mueller were wise to put gag orders on everyone; otherwise the leaks to and by Congress would have been enormous.
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Post by tigercpa on Nov 1, 2017 0:21:32 GMT
Go back to the "job interview" for Mieller with Trump and Sessions.
It wasn't an interview...Mueller was told you have 2 choices:
1. Be a hero / prosecutor 2. Be a defendant and go to jail
And the strategy of hiring all Hillary / Podesta cronies was also brilliant. Keeps them in house so they cannot represent Hillary / the Foudnation / Podesta.
Trump was setting up the people who were trying to set him up, like Papdopoulus.
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Post by tigercpa on Nov 1, 2017 15:37:12 GMT
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Post by tigercpa on Nov 2, 2017 1:55:23 GMT
Well now, as many suspected. Conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact.
Twitter admits to censoring any negative content of Hillary or the DNC's leaked emails, and admitted to shadow-banning pro-Trump content, just like Facebook.
Twitter’s systems hid 48 percent of tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag and 25 percent of tweets using #PodestaEmails, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in his written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
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Post by tigercpa on Nov 2, 2017 12:09:23 GMT
wow, just 48 hours ago, Mueller was the straight-as-an-arrow, best LEO in the country.
Now, cries for him to be stopped are heard through the hallowed halls on DC.
I think the DNC swamp-dwellers are finally figuring out who is dropping all of the HRC/DNC/Fusion/Uranium1 stuff the past week....
Is Comey a Trump mole?
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