Trump/Russia/SDNY investigation

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It was clear something big was going to drop once Trump was retweeting those "Britain First" videos.

The fact someone is leaking this stuff to the WH is a bit troubling. Flynn wants to cooperate so it wont be Flynn's team doing the leaking, so the likelihood is its someone senior inside the justice department.
I have absolutely no idea who might be doing that.

 

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Can we not post stuff from attention seekers like Siskind and Abramson.

Just on the above tweet which is misleading in itself. Manafort has tried a few times in the last couple of weeks to amend his bail conditions, so his bail terms were not "suddenly" renegotiated.
 

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They're so tired of winning that they won't even fight back when people want to throw them in jail.
 

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So what is Trump going to deflect to now?

He hasn't jabbed at North Korea in a week or two, seems a safe bet.
 

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So what is Trump going to deflect to now?

He hasn't jabbed at North Korea in a week or two, seems a safe bet.
He's going to tweet a lot about Hillary over the next 24 hours, I promise you that. Exclamation marks too.
 

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Is Dana Bash on coke or something? why is she talking about Big Macs?!
She's just giddy with excitement, like the rest of us. :D

That seems like a fairly minor charge all things considered, 5-8 years. Definitely sounds like a deal to me and if they've made a deal with him you can be damn sure they're going to be getting a fair return.
Especially if it turns out he's also bought his sons liberty in exchange for his information.
 

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Everything we are seeing today is a direct consequence of Trump firing Comey 6 months ago. As Rex Tillerson might say....what a fecking moron.
 
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Everything we are seeing today is a direct consequence of Trump firing Comey 6 months ago. As Rex Tillerson might say....what fecking moron.
To be fair the FBI were already investigating. I imagine Flynn and Manafort would have gone down anyway.
 

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To be fair the FBI were already investigating. I imagine Flynn and Manafort would have gone down anyway.
Mueller's scope is far broader than Comey's investigation. I'm not sure he'd have got to Papadoupoulos and Manafort like Mueller has.
 

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To be fair the FBI were already investigating. I imagine Flynn and Manafort would have gone down anyway.
Yes but Comey's interpretation of Flynn's involvment was much more favorable to Trump's side than how Mueller interpreted it. This means that the entire investigation could've spiralled into a completely different direction had Trump not fired Comey.
 

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Trump always abandons everyone but himself and his immediate family members, so Flynn is definitely doing the right thing.
Yeah I'm wondering if he talked to him about a pardon and Trump told him no. It seems like Flynn has been floating the idea of flipping for a while, I remember reports from back in April suggesting that he was open to a deal.
 

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Yeah I'm wondering if he talked to him about a pardon and Trump told him no. It seems like Flynn has been floating the idea of flipping for a while, I remember reports from back in April suggesting that he was open to a deal.
They aren't allowed to talk to one another since any communication on Trump's part could be easily interpreted as obstruction of justice. His lawyers wouldn't allow that sort of thing, although the lawyers on both sides almost certainly talked regularly.
 

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Amazing how low key she is. When was the last time you saw or heard from her?
I only hear her name when someone is making a joke about Drumpf not liking all his kids.

A quick Google search tells me she makes the news for her clothes now and then with the Daily Mail running a full story about her wearing bare legs at Thanksgiving.