No. The only thing Rosenstein can do at this point? Fire him. Which he won't. He would quit first.
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Trumps Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Info on Clinton
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oh shit lol
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Doesn't even have loyalty for his own son.
BoogieWoogie
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One theory I just saw going around is that Don Jr. had no idea what he was doing when revealing this, thinking that the only thing that could bust him was talking about sanctions, not information about Hillary. Sounds about right.
Nazgul_Hunter
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If you parse out the attempts to minimize blain in Jrs statement it sounds like the most cliche movie spy deal:
gets told to meet lawyer close to Putin for dirt on Clinton.
at meeting; said dirt was vague and no evidence shown.
abruptly shifts topic to a topic Putin *really* cares about.
JR. tells spy it has to wait until father is elected to do anything about that.
If thats how you wrote the scene setting up the collusion it would be too on the nose. You can almost see Jr. winking.
gets told to meet lawyer close to Putin for dirt on Clinton.
at meeting; said dirt was vague and no evidence shown.
abruptly shifts topic to a topic Putin *really* cares about.
JR. tells spy it has to wait until father is elected to do anything about that.
If thats how you wrote the scene setting up the collusion it would be too on the nose. You can almost see Jr. winking.
Autodidact
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We are dealing with dumb, dumb, dumb, DUMB people.
Never forget it.
Never view them as masterminds. They're hucksters for whom the stars aligned JUST right.
Apple didn't fall far from the intellectually stunted tree.
Dumb people that are used to paying their way out of court. I mean....they usually at least have lawyers to think for them.
skullmuffins
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Believably stupid (I wouldn't put it past him to totally buy into the Fox talking point that there would be nothing wrong with asking Russia to release damaging info on Hillary), but where was his lawyer on this???
Edit: also I'm reposting this because it's too good to get buried on the bottom of a page:
PhoncipleBone
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It's like the Daily News found the stupidest picture of Jr. they could. Bless them for that.
Ether_Snake
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So why is a Miss Universe judge inviting them to meet that person?
Also wasn't junior yesterday saying they found out the person who invited them was related to some anti-Trump oppo-research firm?
Also wasn't junior yesterday saying they found out the person who invited them was related to some anti-Trump oppo-research firm?
Turbo Killer
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Amazing picture, lol.
Yes, that was the original attempt to get in front of this story.
Guys, the presidents entire fucking family is just as stupid as he is.
Widdle Puppy
Banned
So is this going to blow up like the comey firing or should I expect it being swept under the rug come Tuesday?
Hellsing321
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God I hope Will Arnet plays Don jr. in the movie.
Intheflorsh
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Good stuff. Another chapter in Mueller's big ass dossier.
archreaper93
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Don't worry guys, it's totally a coincidence!
The more we see of this family the more it is clear they are only successful because they were born rich. These people have no common sense at all.
eBay Huckster
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that's an insult to my name
The Last Wizard
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Can be said for majority of rich people.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Some NYT comments sum up the Republican position on this. "What exactly did he do that is illegal? We should focus on the democrats links to blah blah blah".
This is going to blow up like the Flynn firing since that's the story this most closely resembles. There's no position to fire Liitle Donny from, but you can bet the Feds will be on his ass like white on rice.
SatelliteOfLove
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And their lawyers in this are some Lionel Hutz motherfuckers too.
Hopefully it sticks. Press, press, press...er, press.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Seems like that's the strategy for everything. There's no defending that Trump is a corrupt and immoral so they justify their support for him by saying that Clinton is an even bigger criminal so it's okay.
It's really odd you would think they would be able to see this is wrong AND advocate for something to be done about perceived wrongs on the other side but nope!
Fancyarcher
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LOL
The entire Trump family, is just the master of projection, amiright?
jack_package_200
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One day your stars will align too.
BlastProcessing
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"I've made a huge mistake."
People like Tillerson who is having his position coopted by Trumps son in law? People don't like nepotism and proper public servants don't like corruption.
Fancyarcher
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Happy nice things clearly. Thinking of America's "good" future of course.
TheLaughingStock
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Why would it be time to worry? Mueller gives his team's recommendation, other gov't officials will take over from there, and that's it. The NY AG has a hard enough time going after your typical elite white collar criminal/suspected felon. If you think they're going to succeed if Mueller doesn't give you the results you want, then just lol...
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It's likely that if Mueller team determines there was a state crime they will turn over the evidence to the NY AG. Hypothetically, they'd be handed the case on a silver platter.
It looks quite likely that they may be guilty of money laundering through NY based companies, and Mueller is smart enough to know that it will be harder to to protect his Trump or Trump Jr. from state charges.
Sho_Nuff82
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Reading the revelations and Jr's statement on the first page just after Springsteen's "fake news" concern posts had me dying.
Was this originally two threads merged together? Was the title changed?
Was this originally two threads merged together? Was the title changed?
Mr.Shrugglesã
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Holy shit please happen.
Bruce Springsteen, like his namesake is always an earnest cheesy decade behind whatever point he's trying to make.
Only real Bruce Springsteen got rich doing it instead of simply agreeing with people everyone else ignored.
Actually no that's generous. He's just an inauthentic and ineffectual and weirdly inconsistent troll. I doubt he's earning lulz or rubles.
I mean of course the NJ rock legend probably
Traumnovelle
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Don't diss the real Bruce ;_;
It never stops, right?
I can't even trEmendous
Permanently A
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the daily news is my favorite garbage newspaper
skullmuffins
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I really don't know what he & his ilk are purporting to expect out of newspaper reports since they're always decrying things as "allegations" but with no "evidence". Reporting can open the doors to investigators and raise public awareness, but legal "evidence" is going to come from subpoenas and grand juries and investigators.
What the heck is your standard for newsworthiness when an on-the-record statement from the president's son saying "Yeah I (and the campaign chairman and senior adviser) talked with this Russian lawyer because she said she'd give me bad info on Hillary" and "We talked about sanctions that really pissed off Putin" is somehow a nothingburger. JFC people.
My favorite part of news like this is it's like blood in the water for the NYT/WaPo competition. You already know all of the reporters working overtime and are hounding their WH sources.
I fully expect a Trump tweetstorm soon followed by a Haberman/Thrush piece on how Trump feels about his son being the news by like Wednesday at the latest.
Blackpuppy
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In a family full of Fredos... It must suck being the Fredo.
