Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

people continually say firing mueller would be a horrible move for him, that just seems like wishful thinking. i'm sure he'd get away with it, much like he has with every other act of malfeasance his entire life

only one way to know for sure!

For morbz

http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/ActorsB/833-19636.jpg

At the Drive-In somehow re-formed

surprised trump hasn't tried to claim credit for that too

AT LAST.

"A former senior official said Mr. Mueller's investigation was looking at money laundering by Trump associates," a source told the Times. "The suspicion is that any cooperation with Russian officials would most likely have been done in exchange for some kind of financial payoff, and that there would have been an effort to hide the payoffs, most likely by routing them through offshore banking centers." A separate investigation into Russia has also reportedly focused on potential use of offshore banking centers to launder money. In April, House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) visited Cyprus, which "has a reputation as a laundromat for the Russians who are trying to avoid sanctions."

I'm tired of "collusion" as shorthand for what may have happened b/w Trump and Russia; it allows Republicans to swat aside suggestions that Putin conspired to put Trump in the White House in exchange for favorable treatment. The real story is how deeply Trump was in debt and how badly he needed laundered Russian dough.

jings

Yes, exactly, Alfred.

Trump on phone to Rod Rosenstein in 5....4....3....2....

There is no way he is capable of letting this investigation play out.

Odds on the Deputy Attorney General NOT resigning by August 1?

seriously though what would be the next step if he did fire Mueller, in terms of getting someone to run an investigation without being (for lack of a better term) obstructed via getting fired?

I've never quite bought the idea that the transaction was like "Da, Donald, in exchange for favorable deeplomatic treatment. ve vill sow dissension in Democrat ranks by obtaining and releasing internal email chainz showing how much ze Klinton establishment fucked Bernie over. Zis will surely drive an unbridgeable wedge between centrist and left-leaning Democrats, thereby depressing left-populist turnout in key upper-Midvest states, ensuring your glorious viktory."

The number of people whose voting decisions were clearly, demonstrably influenced based on those pysops (and nothing else) seems like it would be negligible.

We need trunks full of rubles. Ballots in a landfill. Everything else is speculative.

how long did it take you to write that impersonation

Alfred - starting from your post at 11:18 ET? About one minute.

The subsequent nine minutes were spent fiddling with the spelling to make it sound more like Bad Spy Movie Russian Pronunciation.

Some artistry cannot be rushed.

Da!

Not good: 50% of the CEOs, execs, gov officials surveyed at the annual Yale CEO Summit give Trump an "F" so far https://t.co/97bDRCfgtF

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) June 15, 2017

the people who gradually wrecked the country don't approve of the man accelerating their project https://t.co/HwGL3Tsn9o

— slackbot (@pareene) June 15, 2017

the trolling

http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Putin-Russia-has-climbed-out-of-recession-11221596.php

Putin, speaking in a live call-in show that lasted four hours, likened Comey to NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been living in Russia since being granted asylum in 2013.

"It looks weird when the chief of a security agency records his conversation with the commander-in-chief and then hands it over to media via his friend," Putin said. "What's the difference then between the FBI director and Mr. Snowden? In that case, he's more of a rights campaigner defending a certain position than the security agency chief."

On an acerbic note, he added that if Comey "faces some sort of persecution in connection with that, we are ready to offer political asylum in Russia to him as well."

I mean it seems pretty obvious to me that the "secret" is that Trump is broke and in hock to the Russians for a lot more than anyone can fathom. Which is why he's extra tetchy about it.

yeah that's my guess too

every time I reread my pull quote I'm like

https://68.media.tumblr.com/d10dad5a286f4e243741ef380110ed44/tumblr_opg5ayfcDr1ryufxyo2_500.gif

"It looks weird when the chief of a security agency records his conversation with the commander-in-chief and then hands it over to media via his friend," Putin said. "What's the difference then between the FBI director and Mr. Snowden?

lol does Putin think Obama personally explained the surveillance program to Snowden, who then jotted down notes and sent them off to his buddy Glenn Greenwald?

Comey and Snowden as Moscow roommates, sharing a tiny apartment and having to divide chores = A+ sitcom pitch.

They're the original 'Odd Couple'!

lol would watch

"Aw, Jim, the faucet's leaking again!"

"Not as much as you did!"

(laugh track)

(fade to commercial)

Putin as landlord

"Do you think I leak as much as you do?"

"Hmm. Depends."

"That's not the kind of leaking I'm talking about!"

(audience groans, then after reflection, gives ovation)

Accidentally posted this on the Toronto thread, but:

Kind of tired of media proclamations parroting that he wasn't under investigation before but he is now. It was inevitable that he would be under personal investigation at some point. If his campaign and several associates are under investigation, it will reach the top, unless the prosecutor just decided, "hey, why bother, I'll just stop now, for no good reason, there may be something sketchy about literally everyone surrounding Trump, his campaign, his business but not Trump himself." He's currently under investigation for obstruction, but I would be shocked if it stays at that.

Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul only No's today in Senate vote for Russia and Iran sanctions https://t.co/W35bWsSDh4

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 15, 2017

Some artistry cannot be rushed.

― croque monsoon (Ye Mad Puffin)

My one quibble is that you should have typed "wiktory" instead of "viktory."

wait....they pray in the senate???

NYT reporting it was Rand Paul and Mike Lee who voted no.

Thanks, nickn. I will endeavor to raise my bad-imitation-accent orthography game in future.

I mean it seems pretty obvious to me that the "secret" is that Trump is broke and in hock to the Russians for a lot more than anyone can fathom. Which is why he's extra tetchy about it.

This seems about as compliant with Occam's Razor as you can get!

Alfred, i believe this is yr answer

@adamjohnsonNYC
that was yesterdays Russia sanctions bill, this is different, both Russia and Iran.

GOP really running with the Trump naivete defense. Maybe more criminals should try that one.

pore inacent prezidunt

there was that NY mob guy who would come to his trial in his bathrobe, so something we might look fwd to

i'm optimistic about certain things, i mean photos of Trump lately are looking a lot like "four years of being president takes a toll" only half a year in

imagine if he was trying.

trump doesn't even own a bathrobe folks

sorry

http://i.imgur.com/vWcnOvH.jpg

he rents them

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4BZnwTWIAAH26J.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4AvKJ4VYAABK3d.jpg

They're no Choom Gang

who knew murdering people was so hard! also I had no idea that was a crime

young Trump kinda looked like the old SNL writer Alan Zweibel, who is abot 1000000x smarter.

In the controversial Shakespeare production in NYC, Trump/Caesar greets Brutus and Cassius nude in his goldplated tub.

"Trump wasn't under investigation personally prior to Comey's firing on May 9. But he is now, according to the Post.
That's absolutely huge -- for several reasons.
First, it makes it virtually impossible for the President and his administration to dismiss this probe as a sideshow or small potatoes or a distraction somehow created by the biased media. (That doesn't mean they won't do exactly that, of course.) We are now talking about the President of the United States being investigated for possibly obstructing justice in relation to a criminal probe about a foreign government meddling in our elections for the purpose of defeating his Democratic opponent."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/politics/trump-obstruction/index.html

ITS YUGE

First, it makes it virtually impossible for the President and his administration to dismiss this probe as a sideshow or small potatoes or a distraction somehow created by the biased media. (That doesn't mean they won't do exactly that, of course.)

what is the point of writing something like this. It's not impossible, they are already doing it, and his base is going to eat it up as gospel, like they do everything else.