Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

i just think ultimately Yam is counting on someone to do the Gene Wilder "this is a beautiful man" speech from The Producers trial.

He will then be found incredibly guilty.

It looks fairly likely that Ukrainian intelligence cooked up the ledger that got Manafort axed - though Manafort had been taking money via other means so it's not exactly the strongest argument.

the "Tweet more" thread title choice is beginning to look good again

Nabisco winning life once more.

Seriously, though, this is definitely the most-read email ever sent by a music publicist

— Nitsuh Abebe (3.6) (@ntabebe) July 11, 2017

xpost a power that hacks your country's political party systems and attempts to breach the election machines* and attempts to influence said country's election

i knew that was coming, ok

(so, aspiring to be the ascendant postwar USA)

*I'm not sure this has been documented; to breach the voter rolls, yes.

could someone define "a hostile foreign power"?

Iran, North Vietnam

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:20 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

voodoo

I see this ending w/ Trump taking hostages in the White House

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, July 11, 2017 4:16 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://metrograph.com/uploads/films/tumblr_mo599ax6Fe1qa9p3xo9_1280-1466712445-726x388.png

BUT HER EMAILS! BUT HER EMAILS!

can't be stressed enough that Don Jr is only part of the puzzle. Kushner and Manafort were there too, and they were cc'd on the email, so there's quite a likelihood that they have emails of their own. Also, this took place in June! Months before the election. They had plenty of time to do stuff even more nefarious.

Po-des-ta! Po-des-ta!

"in other news: WTF there's gonna be competing GOP healthcare bills now?"

It sure seems like Republicans are realizing this is a law change that no one really wants and treating it like some date they got instead of the date they wanted but they decide to put on som e AXE boy scent anyway but won't be buying dinner

Oh this is good

NEW: Goldstone says his emailed reference to “crown prosecutor” was referring to Veselnitskaya, a private attorney. “It’s a language thing"

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) July 11, 2017

i thought his iphone spoke many languages tho

poorly

It sure seems like Republicans are realizing this is a law change that no one really wants and treating it like some date they got instead of the date they wanted but they decide to put on som e AXE boy scent anyway but won't be buying dinner

also at the end of the dinner the date dies

Adam Schiff on TV last night emphasizing that on June 9 2016 the Russians had already hacked the DNC but were sitting on what they turned up, had not yet repurposed or weaponized that intel. Seems like we are perhaps narrowing that window of days when go-ahead was given (bought?) to leak emails....

It sure seems like Republicans are realizing this is a law change that no one really wants and treating it like some date they got instead of the date they wanted but they decide to put on som e AXE boy scent anyway but won't be buying dinner

also at the end of the dinner the date dies

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 11, 2017

and the corpse turns into nude Mitch McConnell.

Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017

^I love that he made an extra tweet because the really incriminating bit didn't fit on the first one.

you do have to appreciate his commitment to transparency

Some useful background on the lawyer here :

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/articles/2017-07-11/trump-s-low-level-russian-connection

Raises the idea that Trump Jr was trying to collude with someone less powerful and connected than he imagined them to be.

maybe he posted the first batch, paused, had second thoughts, called his reasonable-facsimile-of-the-best people on the phone, reached only voicemail, drummed his fingers on the table for a minute and then went "nahhhh i was probably right the first time" and posted the rest

Trump Jr. is practically George 'I cannot tell a lie' Washington imo. A true patriot.

^I love that he made an extra tweet because the really incriminating bit didn't fit on the first one.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:53 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you do have to appreciate his commitment to transparency

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:55 PM

"Now, I'm going to lay out a case for how the prosecution should proceed in a court of law when they press charges..."

"Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints) my strategy of hoping-against-hope that somehow a magic fairy will swoop in and make it all stop"

maybe he posted the first batch, paused, had second thoughts, called his reasonable-facsimile-of-the-best people on the phone, reached only voicemail, drummed his fingers on the table for a minute and then went "nahhhh i was probably right the first time" and posted the rest

nope, he posted the first batch at 11:00 and the remaining image at 11:01. he was very prepared to post the entire thing as quickly as possible! lol

Raises the idea that Trump Jr was trying to collude with someone less powerful and connected than he imagined them to be.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:56 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IIRC, the predators still go to jail even after Chris Hansen reveals that the girl was actually a 21-year-old actress the whole time.

A round of applause for the dominatrix who clearly told Donald Trump Jr. to release proof of Russian collusion to prove what a loser he is.

— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) July 11, 2017

Statement from @VPPressSec on Donald Trump Jr meeting and @VP's knowledge pic.twitter.com/iYiyoWfHRx

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) July 11, 2017

Xps Oh, sure. Nobody is disputing that. It's just even more funny if he was being played by a near-nobody.

Family full of AJ Soprano's upthread so OTM

Weird move for Trump Jr to post these emails himself. I guess he thinks this makes them seem less incriminating?

i guess he thought that the NYT was going to publish them at some point anyway, so why not get out ahead of the news and...incriminate himself?

the russian lawyer's given an interview where she says she was approached for the meeting rather than the other way around.

“They wanted it so badly.” Russian lawyer tells NBC about efforts by Don Jr., Jared and Manafort to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. pic.twitter.com/pgwQV8G3FK

— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) July 11, 2017

Deathbed musing for Trump kids: was it somehow nobler to be bad at being bad?

I would actually bet a small amount of money that, at some point in the future, Junior still manage to somehow deny the existence of these emails he has scanned and tweeted.

so the NYT definitely were about to publish these emails, right

that's the only way this makes sense

It's not that the emails weren't scanned and tweeted but that something something Loretta Lynch

He doesn't seem to have his father's talent for getting away with things.

"After being told that The Times was about to publish the content of the emails, instead of responding to a request for comment, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out images of them himself on Tuesday."

from the times article

this will only become truly fun when
a) trump, still in office as POTUS, pardons his son and others
b) pence, after trump's premature exit from office, pardons the trump family
c) the winner of the 2018 election, whether dem or republican, pardons the trump family

So this is actually against the law and not just frowned upon, right? It's illegal for campaigns to accept contributions from foreign entities and this includes resources -- such as information -- in addition to money, right?

xpost That'll show them. Only Don Jr. brings down Don Jr.!

not pardoning is not an option, because as tom brokaw has painstakingly reminded us, repeatedly, america needed to heal after nixon and ford's pardon was the only possible option

http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=299219&d=1320033757

It's illegal for campaigns to accept contributions from foreign entities and this includes resources -- such as information -- in addition to money, right?

as of yet there's no evidence that they actually received any information

it's also illegal to solicit contributions/information

the quality of the information they received doesn't matter

this will only become truly fun when
a) trump, still in office as POTUS, pardons his son and others

seems unlikely that any trial would conclude while Trump is still in office but idk

how do you not just let the NYT publish the story and then claim the story was fake like you always do

Quite remarkable how much all of this, at every level, orbits the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.