45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 4)

[Byker28i]

Greg66 said:

minimoog said:

Just caught a glimpse of a tweet in passing but apparently Trump went on Fox & Friends this morning and admitted that Cohen had been representing him in the matter of Stormy Daniels, or some such. This would be in direct contradiction of his vehement denials thus far that he knew anything about a payoff or NDA.

Daniel's lawyer is understandably beside himself with glee.

Can anyone confirm?

This is from FoxNews’ website (reporting on that interview):

“Michael would represent me on some things ... like with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal he represented me, and you know, from what I see, he did absolutely nothing wrong,” Trump said. “There were no campaign funds going into this.”

At issue is a $130,000 payment Cohen made to the adult film star Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford. The payment was made in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. Daniels initially denied any involvement with Trump.

Trump said earlier this month that he did not know about the payment from Cohen, which is now being investigated as part of the probe led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York.

This of course has got nothing to do at all with any incriminating evidence that Cohen has, that Trumps desperately tryin g to get his hands on/destroy/keep quiet...

[minimoog]

Byker28i said:

Top pisshead. Latest is he crashed a govt car when he'd been drinking. Perhaps in trumps laddish world - it was just locker room banter - he's good fun to go drinking with?

Trump doesn't drink.

I suspect it was no more complicated than the doc gave him a remarkably glowing bill of health at his recent medical, and perhaps embellished his stats a little (he's known as a suck-up kick-down kind of operator), and that was sufficient for Trump to decide he was good to run a massive organisation responsible for millions of vets despite having zero managerial experience.

[Byker28i]

minimoog said:

Dal3D said:

“As a percentage of my overall legal work, [he did] a tiny, tiny little fraction,” the US president said of Cohen.

Well in that case there should be few if any issues of lawyer-client privilege, should there?

That backfired spectacularly. NY prosecutors cite Trump comments on Fox this am that Cohen did “a tiny, tiny little fraction” of his legal work as reason to expedite review of seized documents

[Halb]

Timmy40 said:

Like Pootle did in the Flumps?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=The+flumps+cloud...
M0%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi12cuCk9jaAhUBORQKHfkhCYIQ9QEIOjAF#imgrc=Tg7rrbULbap8AM:

Ah memories.

[Seventy]

Get the bunting out. Trumps coming on 13/7.

[Ructions]

Halb said:

Timmy40 said:

Like Pootle did in the Flumps?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=The+flumps+cloud...
M0%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi12cuCk9jaAhUBORQKHfkhCYIQ9QEIOjAF#imgrc=Tg7rrbULbap8AM:

Ah memories.

It was Perkin who was under the cloud.

[FerdiZ28]

Seventy said:

Get the bunting out. Trumps coming on 13/7.

Finally some sanity in No.10.

[andy_s]

FerdiZ28 said:

Seventy said:

Get the bunting out. Trumps coming on 13/7.

Finally some sanity in No.10.

By comparison...

[minimoog]

Meanwhile in the Cohen case, the judge has agreed to appoint a Special Master to ensure privileged docs aren't seen by the prosecution. She has nominated her own pick, a former judge not on either side's list of suggested candidates for the role. So the prosecution's own 'taint team' won't be used. This should allay fears of bias when the evidence seized from Cohen is examined. Obviously it won't be good enough for some, after all both Cohen and Trump think they should decide what the prosecution is allowed to see

[paulguitar]

Seventy said:

Get the bunting out. Trumps coming on 13/7.

Oh, FFS!

That's my birthday, what a fking insult!

[esxste]

minimoog said:

Meanwhile in the Cohen case, the judge has agreed to appoint a Special Master to ensure privileged docs aren't seen by the prosecution. She has nominated her own pick, a former judge not on either side's list of suggested candidates for the role. So the prosecution's own 'taint team' won't be used. This should allay fears of bias when the evidence seized from Cohen is examined. Obviously it won't be good enough for some, after all both Cohen and Trump think they should decide what the prosecution is allowed to see

I'm surprised by that, the prosecutors case for using a taint team seemed pretty solid.

Question is, by how much will this delay the case?

[Byker28i]

esxste said:

minimoog said:

Meanwhile in the Cohen case, the judge has agreed to appoint a Special Master to ensure privileged docs aren't seen by the prosecution. She has nominated her own pick, a former judge not on either side's list of suggested candidates for the role. So the prosecution's own 'taint team' won't be used. This should allay fears of bias when the evidence seized from Cohen is examined. Obviously it won't be good enough for some, after all both Cohen and Trump think they should decide what the prosecution is allowed to see

I'm surprised by that, the prosecutors case for using a taint team seemed pretty solid.

Question is, by how much will this delay the case?

Probably the question is, how much have they already downloaded from the electronic devices, just for safe keeping of course

[Byker28i]

The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to advance the bill to protect the special counsel. The vote was 14-7. Grassley, Graham, Flake, and Tillis voted with every Democrat to send it to the full Senate.

Orin Hatch, John Cornyn, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Been Sasse, Mike Crapo, and John Neely Kennedy voted against this.

[p1stonhead]

Oh my word he actually called Fox and had a proper ranty meltdown. Imagine any other president even getting to ten percent of this level of mental on tv!

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/989479385983062...

[Zod]

Byker28i said:

esxste said:

minimoog said:

Meanwhile in the Cohen case, the judge has agreed to appoint a Special Master to ensure privileged docs aren't seen by the prosecution. She has nominated her own pick, a former judge not on either side's list of suggested candidates for the role. So the prosecution's own 'taint team' won't be used. This should allay fears of bias when the evidence seized from Cohen is examined. Obviously it won't be good enough for some, after all both Cohen and Trump think they should decide what the prosecution is allowed to see

I'm surprised by that, the prosecutors case for using a taint team seemed pretty solid.

Question is, by how much will this delay the case?

Probably the question is, how much have they already downloaded from the electronic devices, just for safe keeping of course

They will have had everything within hours.

[Seventy]

coyft said:

He had a pre-arranged interview with Fox. The interview lasted about 30 minutes and a wide range of topics were discussed.

Full interview can be seen here http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/26/trump-c...

And it was hilarious!!

[p1stonhead]

coyft said:

p1stonhead said:

Oh my word he actually called Fox and had a proper ranty meltdown. Imagine any other president even getting to ten percent of this level of mental on tv!

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/989479385983062...

He had a pre-arranged interview with Fox. The interview lasted about 30 minutes and a wide range of topics were discussed.

Full interview can be seen here http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/26/trump-c...

and the whole thing was an utter car crash which made his lawyers cry themselves to sleep afterwards.

[paulguitar]

coyft said:

p1stonhead said:

Oh my word he actually called Fox and had a proper ranty meltdown. Imagine any other president even getting to ten percent of this level of mental on tv!

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/989479385983062...

He had a pre-arranged interview with Fox. The interview lasted about 30 minutes and a wide range of topics were discussed.

Full interview can be seen here http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/26/trump-c...

It is even more incredible that it was pre-arranged. He had to prepare and still came across as a total nutter on crack.

[frankenstein12]

minimoog said:

Trump's embattled VA Dept. pick Ronni Jackson has withdrawn his nomination.

Cant blame him TBH. Apparently he was good enough for Obama and plenty of people have come out to support him. It also seems a lot of the allegations dont seem to be backed up with facts or evidence.

Anyone who tries to take up that role will get allegations and full scale character assasinations as anyone who takes up any role in Trumps administration. Price you pay for being willing to work for him it seems.

[Gameface]

coyft said:

He had a pre-arranged interview with Fox. The interview lasted about 30 minutes and a wide range of topics were discussed.

Full interview can be seen here http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/26/trump-c...

How do you think he acquitted himself?