Because he’s the angel of death, Donald Trump is pressuring schools to reopen in the face of the glowing Skeletor skull that is coronavirus. Just yesterday, Betsy DeVos, the administration’s education something-something, told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that the administration is “very seriously” looking at withholding federal funds from schools that...
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We all know that Trump’s big defense for his latest open corruption — i.e., that he’s actually trying to stop corruption — is laughable on its face. I mean, it’s a little like Carrot Top criticizing Gallagher for filling a weary world with bad prop comedy. But it’s worth reflecting...
Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Stone, Papadopoulos, Gates. That’s a lot of people fetching coffee, let me just say. Three more and they’ll have a pretty decent prison softball lineup. They’ll look sharp chasing down ground balls in their ostrich-skin uniforms and top hats, that’s for sure. Anyway, here’s a recent update...
After Paul Manafort’s sentencing yesterday Manaforts lawyer, Kevin Downing, addressed the waiting TV cameras outside the courthouse, pirouetting for an intended audience of one saying Judge Jackson had found “no evidence of collusion” which was not strictly true or even close to the truth. The assembled crowd responded indignantly with...
When Paul Manafort appeared before Judge T.S. Ellis last week, he was facing up to 24 years in prison, so the 47 months he actually got seemed like a slap on the wrist. Turns out it was. A recent analysis by USA Today showed that Manafort appeared to get kid-glove...
OK, I’ll deal with this right at the top, because I know how y’all absolutely dote on every golden drop that falls from my fingers to the keyboard. Judge Ellis is a wealthy, privileged, arrogant, half senile dick. Which gives him something in common with Paul Manafort. From pre-trial motions...
If you’re looking for justice for Paul Manafort you’ll have to wait for D.C. x Judge TS Ellis before giving Manafort his sentence noted he “lived an otherwise blameless life,” was a good friend and generous person to others. That doesn't erase his crimes however Ellis said. â Shimon...
Tellin’ it like it is. x #SarahKendzior delivers with a wallop. Wish everyone was as fed up. @amjoyshow @sarahkendzior pic.twitter.com/ncL3xRIBS6 â Mike Connor (@michaelhconnor) February 23, 2019 “He’s (Manafort) been indicted for crimes that he committed decades ago. Why didn’t they indict him before? Why did the media not go...
Q: What do Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Jerome Corsi, and Roger stone all have in common? I mean besides the fact that they’re all major, world class assholes, of course. That one was too obvious. A: They just don’t get it....
x THREAD: I'm just an advertising guy, but thought I'd put a marketing lens on the news of Manafort sharing “polling data” with a Russian operative. â David Measer (@dmeaser) January 9, 2019 Thread Reader App unrolling: THREAD: I'm just an advertising guy, but thought I'd put a marketing...
This is a quick hopefully audience-friendly guide to the main charges that will (and won’t!) play a part in prosecuting collusion with Russia. In particular, I want to highlight the requirements for proving each of these offenses, because that’s valuable for understanding Mueller’s strategy as the various parts of this saga start to...
It won’t be Michael Cohen. And it won’t be Michael Flynn either. Forget about Paul Manafort while you’re at it, and he can take Rick Gates and Don McGahn with him. Yeah, I know, their faces are all as universally recognizable as Fabio’s pecs, and they all have, like, kick...
Legendary reporter Carl Bernstein appeared on CNN earlier today and tossed out this little morsel: “According to sources familiar with aspects of the Mueller investigation, the special prosector has known for more than a year that Manafort visited the president of Ecuador in Ecuador — that the special prosecutor has...
OK, I give up, somebody is gonna have to explain it to my dumb ol’ ass. The Prosecutions court filing yesterday saying that Manafort had blown his pea deal by lying apparently caught everybody by surprise. But, because media pundits are paid to be big know-it-alls, they all have it...
Wipe that smirk off of your face right now. I am not denying, refuting, or admitting anything. I am simply enriching the texture of my previous narrative. I like the way that rolls off of the tongue, it sounds so much better than “I’m putting in some shit that I forgot yesterday.” Hey,...
Justin Miller, National Editor of The Daily Beast, has an interesting theory about Mueller’s Joint Status Report, which contains a tantalizing statement… (Bolds mine) “The government will file a detailed sentencing submission to the Probation Department and the Court in advance of sentencing that sets forth the nature of the defendant’s...
x Paul Manafort will have to wear his prison greens in court on Friday https://t.co/3384tDfkFJ â VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) October 18, 2018
First, drumpf pulled out the Al Capone reference, earlier this month applying the example of prosecutors putting the Chicago gangster in stir using the paper trail of his fraudulent tax returns as no one in his organization dared testify against the murderous thug, to his former campaign manager Paul Manafort… x...
No Russians. No Collusion. No Russians. No Collusion. No Russians. No Collusion. Since the day that Robert Mueller was appointed, this has been the Tantric meditative chant for Trump and his nitwit cabal. Geico used to run ads with the catch phrase, “So simple, even a caveman can...
NBC News reporter Cassie Semyon wasn’t going to let anyone scoop her on yesterday’s Paul Manafort guilty verdicts, so she did her best Jackie Joyner Kersee impersonation and sprinted out of the Courthouse in Alexandria Va. yesterday and into television news reporting lore, redeeming little blue dresses forever, and delighting colleagues and...
The bad news has come so fast and furious for Donald Trump in the past couple of hours, you could write an entire “We Didn’t Start the Fire” parody based on just what’s happened today. This is like police-carting-bodies-out-of-Jeff-Dahmer’s-apartment kind of stuff — that is, if two of those bodies had...
Rick Wilson felt bad about poor Paulie Numbnuts languishing in stir with only dry legal briefs to read, so he did the least he could do, send him a signed copy of his book Everything Trump Touches Dies to peruse as he awaits conviction and sentencing… x This just went...
Jill Wine-Banks brought up a couple of really good points — in my humble non-lawyer opinion — on MSBNC today with regards to the start of the Paul Manafort trial. If Manafort is broke, who is paying his legal fees? If Rick Gates has embezzled all of Manafort’s money from their business...
Business Insider “Paul Manafort spent thousands on his menswear collection, including a $15,000 purchase of a jacket “made from an ostrich,” prosecutors revealed in opening statements in his high-profile trialon Tuesday. Assistant US Attorney Uzo Asonye told a jury of six men and six women that Manafort funneled tens of millions...
Well, it's almost lunch time, so I'm ordering some delicious crow. But I'm ordering the diet plate, so it's only half a sandwich, with a side of hot and sour soup. In an article I posted about a week ago, I predicted the identity of whom I thought at least...
Is this more fun than the original barrel that all of those monkeys came in, or what? Ever since it was unveiled by prosecutors that there are up to five previously unnamed witnesses, ready to testify under immunity against Paul Manafort, “Name that Miscreant!” has become the most popular after...
As Sherlock Holmes was wont to say, “The game is afoot Watson!” While the last week or sao may have been a helter skelter, we've worked our way through the serpentine line, and now we get to take a ride on the 45 day roller coaster. Why 45 days? Because,...
By now, most Americans know not to take former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at his word. The Fox News regular and failed GOP presidential candidate, after all, is on his third religion and his third wife. (Callista Bisek, currently Mrs. Gingrich No. 3 and U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, was previously known...