US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

So they just stopped reporting on the sexual assault suit filed against trump?

They stopped, but a bunch of other people started instead

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/michael-cohen-testimony.html

Mr. Trump and his allies have been preparing for days for Mr. Cohen’s testimony, which will take place over several hours while the president is in Vietnam for a summit meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. The president’s aides have been anxious about the effect that the testimony might have on him.

everyone got their iodine tablets ready?

The president’s aides have been anxious about the effect that the testimony might have on him.

Oh sweet tapdancing jeebus not this again.

CF. "Mueller dropped a legal bombshell on the administration by filing court documents announcing a plea bargain with Trump’s confidant’s lawyer’s friend’s associate Gorpman, and Gorpman’s testimony could spell major trouble for Bleemer, which must be terrifying for Trump..."

I will wake up when/if there are consequences, thxbye

I kinda like how people are saying nothing has happened when people are, you know, in jail and/or pled guilty and all.

I get what you're saying but nobody really gives a shit what happens to Manafort, Cohen, Flynn, etc.

i don't think that article is referring to _legal_ effects on trump. it's saying it will make him more insane/distracted than usual during the meeting with NK.

I get what you're saying but nobody really gives a shit what happens to Manafort, Cohen, Flynn, etc.

I care.

BREAKING: Mark Harris announces he will NOT run for #NC09 in the new election. Harris endorses Union County Commissioner @StonyRushing for the seat #ncpol @wsoctv

— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 26, 2019

aww

I'm sorry, his name is STONY RUSHING?

Brooksy Babbling

County Commissioner (Union County, NC)
Owner Take Aim Training Range

I wonder what kind of friendly advice Mark Harris got from his fellow North Carolina GOP politicians, operatives and big donors regarding his further candidacy.

"These shoes, of a concrete nature, etc."

Owner Take Aim Training Range

He might not win the election, but he'll burnish the brand identity.

the guy who harris endorsed in his stead was a vocal supporter of harris who claimed (as much of the rest of the NC GOP did, at one point) that harris was being unfairly smeared.

the rot goes all the way through, of course.

I kinda like how people are saying nothing has happened when people are, you know, in jail and/or pled guilty and all.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 26, 2019 1:10 PM (one hour ago)

if the mueller report comes out and trump escapes relatively unscathed, that's going to be a huge disappointment to a lot of people

Trump is quite probably insulated from a lot of the scope of Mueller’s investigations simply by being too stupid to ask for really incriminating actions to be specifically taken in order to collude. We’ve already seen how much evidence of criminal activity & conspiracy Mueller’s team is turning over to actual law enforcement, though, which is going to have more impact than a report which the GOP can ignore as much as they ignore all of Trump’s actual, daily, in-person and on-camera criming.

I have some friends who are baby boomers that keep telling me Trump is not going to make it to 2020, because Republicans will turn on him when the Mueller report is released. I tell them, this ain't Watergate, he is not getting impeached, and, to quote Ice-T, "shit ain't like that" anymore.

Keep your eyes on the Southern District of New York. Mueller gets the flash MSNBC coverage, but the SDNY is where the real trouble for Trump lies.

All I want out of this -- expect to get out of this -- is the quashing of indie enthusiasm for Trump, of course.

pbkr otmfm.

and welp i hoped he was gonna a take a bogus medical excuse to resign after really hard pressure in the first 3 months, and those days are lonnnnnngg gone, no pressure. president-for-life donny j kicked the shit outta not-prescient-for-life hunt3r. xp and i hope you got this alfred

As a baby boomer who watched the entire Watergate saga unfold, I can say that PBKR's friends are deluded, but understandably so. They have memories of a deeply polarized country, more so than even today, slowly but surely learning about presidential crimes that left the great majority aghast, until a president who had won a landslide victory just two years earlier resigned in disgrace. That's a formative memory. But situation this ain't that one.

This strikes me as a poor approach to things.

Hey @MichaelCohen212 - Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot...

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) February 26, 2019

(A relevant thread on the matter.)

Dear Representative @mattgaetz .... are you represented by federal criminal defense counsel? Let me tell you why I ask.

/1https://t.co/30Njk25F00

— EmergenHat (@Popehat) February 26, 2019

holy fuck, anyone can say anything i guess

Twitter Profile: Matt Gaetz, Florida man proudly serving the First District in Congress. “He’s a machine...handsome and going places” says @realDonaldTrump.

Florida strikes again!

Republicans are allowed to do that

speaking of giant dumbasses who always self-own, Jacob Wohl is now suspended from Twitter

Jacob Wohl openly admits he runs Twitter botnets to USA Today, is suspended hours later. Really makes you think. pic.twitter.com/IO4HOMGZlF

— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) February 26, 2019

rip big man, heaven needed one of history’s dumbest men

Wohl's already mouthed off, of course

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/02/26/jacob-wohl-spread-lies-mueller-rbg-twitter-just-banned-him/2995037002/

Wohl said when reached by USA TODAY that he had never created a false or misleading account. "I've had accounts for my businesses and my future think tank but that's about it," Wohl said, confirming that all of those accounts had been "nuked" this afternoon. "I've not created fake accounts or bot armies or anything like that."

When asked the name of the "future think tank," Wohl declined to provide it, saying he planned to use it in a "clandestine manner."

Among accounts that were suspended was that of Surefire Intelligence, Wohl's operation that played a role in his bizarre scheme to disgrace Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the days before the mid-term elections.

Wohl said that he was not bothered by the suspension, saying that he was trending on Twitter even as his accounts had been suspended. "I'm going to continue to own their platform and make them useful to me so it doesn't really matter to me, to be honest," Wohl said.

xpost

if only

this jabroni makes James O’Keefe seem like a savvy operator

he’s not mad, he’s laughing about it actually

to be honest," Wohl said.

wuht

jokes on me tho I guess O’Keefe actually managed to get some significant results

wohl may yet manage the significant result of going to jail for trying to frame a former fbi director for sex crimes, to be fair to the lad

LMAOOO

Mother of god what did he do what did he do

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 26, 2019

that which is not prohibited is now mandatory. now, if it IS prohibited, you can probly get away with it, plus $$$

"Mother of God what did he do" for March title.

I'm at the hipster coffee shop right now and I'm hearing a lot of whispers of "Jacob Wohl did nothing wrong" and "Jacob Wohl is sexy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLYY2A6ot1Q

lmao that he was behind Women For Schultz, this is all an elaborate bit right?

xp lol frogbs

god, was jacob wohl the guy who tweeted all those times about the liberal hipsters whispering conspiratorially? if so that was the first that had ever heard of him. what a wild ride

Yup, that was him.

Gosh, remember the days when one couldn't expect to become famous/notorious entirely on the basis of being a gobsmackingly-useless choad? Remember that?

the supreme court has roundly rejected tweeting restraint

[john goodman bashing in a corvette with a baseball bat] SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU COMPETE IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS https://t.co/cI51jpuF3A

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 26, 2019

also

UPDATE:

Me: Any response to those who say you’re witness tampering? @mattgaetz: I’m witness testing. We still are allowed to test the veracity and character of witnesses, I think.

Me: So you disagree with those who say you’re witness tampering?

Gaetz: Yes. https://t.co/aBRZAF314A

— Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox) February 26, 2019

House vote terminating emergency declaration passes

Any Republicans vote for it?

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