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"There's a pony in there somewhere". Trump con't

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AcrossthePond55 · 16/08/2018 00:12

Title based on what a college professor used to tell us when the going got tough.

"Just remember when you're standing shoulder deep in horse shit, there's a pony in there somewhere. So just keep digging".

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lionheart · 23/08/2018 18:59

www.politico.com/story/2018/08/23/donald-trump-impeachment-stock-market-economy-750277

'No, impeachment will not crash the stock market.'

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 19:08

Beauregard can bite back, he knows McConnell et al have his back and have told the Oaf so. Of course he should speak out to defend the Dept of Justice and all those who uphold the law. Other than that, I know his history, what he believes, what he is, what his aims are and how he is quietly carrying them out. So do McConnell, Hatch, Grassley, Ryan and the rest, that is why they have his back; he is one of them.

cozietoesie · 23/08/2018 19:08

.... A larger concern among some investors is that Trump survives but Republicans are so damaged by him that they lose both the House and Senate, putting market-friendly policies more at risk.

“If the scandal helps both the House and Senate to go Democrat to a point where they could reverse tax or regulatory policies, that would matter to the markets,” Paulsen said. “But this seems unlikely and even if both go Democrat it would mean gridlock for Trump’s term, not much different.”.....

cozietoesie · 23/08/2018 19:10

Or rather, mimi, Mary Blackshear is one of them. Grin

cozietoesie · 23/08/2018 19:11

PS - or one with their womenfolk, perhaps. Wink

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 19:14

No, impeachment will not crash the stock market
That cheer Oafy up no endGrin

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 19:29

She hardly took her adoring eyes of ole Beau during his Senate confirmation hearing, cozie, apart from the odd dagger at a nasty Dem. I think she is still a Sunday School teacher. They do not represent any aspect of Christianity that their Christ would recognise, but how righteous they are in their own eyes.

cozietoesie · 23/08/2018 19:39

She certainly received some ' Hail fellow, well met! ' (but very respectfully so) remarks from senators when I saw her at a senate hearing. Wink

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 19:44

On that MJ clip, Gump . I'm sick of Deutsch taking up airtime with his pity parade for Cohen to rehabilitate his image. His friend is a thuggish crook, his testimony against the Oaf is useful now, but he is still a thuggish crook. However, what he said about Cult 45 was spot on. Nothing will turn them. They believe every word from the Oaf, over their family, friends, priest, pastor. They believe him unquestioningly, unreservedly. And that is a huge and dangerous problem.

cozietoesie · 23/08/2018 19:56

.... “There’s a normal way to do this and then there’s the way they did it.”....Grin

Gumpendorf · 23/08/2018 20:14

An interesting viewpoint:

I've long said that Trump will only fear Mueller/DOJ more than he fears Putin if DOJ/NYS can BK Trump Org as easily as Russians can.

This Pecker development gets closer to doing that.

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1032706130097659904

I'm reading BK as bankrupt,

I agree and add Emily Jane Fox to the Cohen 'whisperers' as Mika B calls them, mimi

PerkingFaintly · 23/08/2018 20:17

Weird little snippet at the end of one of those articles: Giuliani is holidaying in... Aberdeen.

Guess he's actually out of town at a golf club...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/23/trump-michael-cohen-flipping-should-be-illegal-warns-against-impeachment
Speaking to Sky News on Thursday in Aberdeen, where he has been on holiday, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani

cozietoesie · 23/08/2018 20:28

Photographed at the Old Course. Grin

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 20:28

Trump International golf course is near Aberdeen, Perking. Maybe Rudy is getting a freebie vac.?
www.trumpgolfscotland.com

AsAProfessionalFekko · 23/08/2018 20:32

Little shit. I hope the Aberdeen chapter of the McFekkos are there to cheer him on.

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 20:37

The return of the lawguy:
Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
Jeff Sessions just arrived at the White House..............

Cannot confirm but I think this song was playing when he arrived.

Star Wars- The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
www.youtube.com

He's here for a meeting with President Trump to discuss prison reform, along with Jared Kushner and Mercedes Schlapp, a White House official confirms. To be a fly on that wall.
mobile.twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1032679937398988806

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 20:45

Hillary did it - Lock her up:
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Rep Duncan Hunter doing a Fox News interview at 7pm tonight.

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/06/senate-has-sessions-back-trump-attacks-his-own-ag-experts-say/677462002/

cozietoesie · 23/08/2018 20:46

AFTER the midterms. ......Could........

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 20:53

Zeke Miller
@ZekeJMiller
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he has appointed a senior executive with Ford Motor Company to be his special envoy for North Korea and the two will go to Pyongyang next week.
mobile.twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1032646930806071296

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ford-exec-stephen-biegun-named-as-us-special-envoy-to-north-korea/ar-BBMln1r

Wiki:
Stephen E. Biegun
Stephen E. Biegun (born 1963) is the vice president of international governmental affairs for the Ford Motor Company.[1] He has also served in government roles; he was a staffer on George W. Bush administration's National Security Council, reporting to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.[2] He has also acted as national security adviser for Senator Bill Frist, and was a member of John McCain's 2008 campaign for US President.

On March 1, 2018, it was reported that Biegun was a top candidate to replace Donald Trump's national security adviser H. R. McMaster.[2] On March 22, it was announced that McMaster would instead be succeeded by John R. Bolton.

Biegun received his B.A. in Russian and Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1984. He was the in-country Director for the International Republican Institute in Moscow, Russia from 1992-1994. He is a member of the board of the U.S. Russia Foundation, the Moscow School of Political Studies, the U.S.–Russia Business Council, and Ford Sollers, Ford's joint venture operating in Russia.[1]

ohmymimi · 23/08/2018 20:57

Walter Shaub
@waltshaub
Here's hoping OGE leading with "willfully omitting information on ethics disclosures" prods the media to do a better job covering Trump omitting his debt to Cohen from his June 2017 disclosure, in light of SDNY's criminal information confirming payments to Cohen started Feb 2017.
U.S. OGE
@OfficeGovEthics
There are criminal penalties for some ethics violations, like willfully omitting information on ethics disclosures, working on government matters when one has a financial conflict, and accepting money from private persons in exchange for doing government work.

I think some people don't realize it's a big deal, but it's a crime if done knowingly and willfully. (Check out 5 U.S.C. app. § 104 and 18 USC § 1001, and check out OGE's referral of Trump to the Justice Department, (link: www.newsweek.com/trump-stormy-daniels-payment-justice-department-930088) newsweek.com/trump-stormy-d…)
mobile.twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1032700707525328898
'TRUMP’S STORMY DANIELS PAYMENT REFERRED TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BY OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS'
www.newsweek.com/trump-stormy-daniels-payment-justice-department-930088?amp=1

cozietoesie · 23/08/2018 21:19

In a word - No. Wink

lionheart · 23/08/2018 21:19

This was difficult to forget/

www.nbc29.com/story/38946913/scheduled-sentencing-goodwin-ramos-08-23-2018#.W38T4vQoBSM.twitter

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -
'One of the three men convicted in the attack on DeAndre Shakur Harris will spend the next eight years in prison.

Jacob Scott Goodwin had claimed he was defending himself against Harris in the Market Street Parking Garage on August 12, 2017. The Arkansas man was found guilty of malicious wounding back on May 1, 2018.

Video footage from last year's Unite the Right rally showed Goodwin dressed in militia-style gear.

Thursday, August 23, a judge in Charlottesville Circuit Court sentenced Goodwin to a total of ten years, but two were suspended. He must also have 20 years of good behavior and serve probation.'

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