US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

at this point I hope he does do the state of emergency thing. it won't work, but at least it will end this nonsense.

budddwyer.avi is too much too hope for, babyhands etc

If he went to jail (I know) would he get secret service protection there?

Aryan Brotherhood's got his back.

they got to Whitey Bulger even in federal lockup; I'm sure someone would get to Teflon Donald

Did I see that John Dowd just got opened up to legal exposure? Lawyers with lawyers.

Such an emergency he’s waiting a day to declare it.

He has it on authority that immigrants will stop raping and killing for 24 hiurs

He’s going to declare the Purge

Trump won by such a sliver that if even 7 percent of 2016 Trump voters turned against him or stayed home he loses reelection easily

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 18, 2019 4:35 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can see those numbers very easily dropping even lower for him. Seems very unlikely they'd improve.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, January 18, 2019 4:36 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Then as now, it depends where they are.

quote from Natalie Brand on twitter: "A senior administration official told @MajorCBS that President Trump will present what the White House believes could be a deal to end the shutdown The deal was largely influenced by talks between VP Pence, Senate Maj. Leader McConnell and Jared Kushner"

sounds like something to skip

We get the 5 billion for the wall, Dems get free Blizzards from Dairy Queen

U.S. Senator Merkley seeks FBI probe of DHS chief for possible perjury

If this were a deal in good faith, they'd bring it to Pelosi and Schumer, iron out the details, and get it signed off, not go on television and unveil it like Monty Hall opening Door Number Two. This is just a weak attempt to muddy the waters and do some blame shifting, because Trump's painted himself into a fucking corner and they think maybe some tiny-hand-waving will distract people from that fact.

Yup

UPDATE: A spokesperson for the special counsel is disputing BuzzFeed News’ report. https://t.co/BEoMKiDypn pic.twitter.com/GWWfGtyhaE

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) January 19, 2019

As the saying goes, you want a scoop, but you don't want to be the only scoop.

But as others have noted already, weird for Mueller's team to wait almost a full 24 hours before issuing this carefully worded denial. Perhaps they saw people prematurely running with impeachment?

That is a p clear (and rare) denial from mueller’s team

goddamnit

My hunch is that the Buzzfeed story is substantially correct in outline, but not in all details, with more elements of ambiguity than the news story described. The precise wording of the release is what I'd call a non-denial denial.

Cohen actually delivered the money in a Target bag.

yes they do say "not accurrate" not "untrue". we'll see (hopefully).

I can’t speak to Buzzfeed’s sourcing, but, for what it’s worth, I declined to run with parts of the narrative they conveyed based on a source central to the story repeatedly disputing the idea that Trump directly issued orders of that kind.

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) January 19, 2019

To be clear: Mueller is not disputing that Cohen says Trump told him to lie. He’s disputing the line about corroborating evidence taken from Trump Org emails, texts, etc. Still a huge deal. But not a total refutation. In fact, Cohen’s 11/30 memo says Trump directed him to lie.

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) January 19, 2019

I hope you will curb your enthusiasm in the future, Pence 2019 agitators

DEEP THROAT IN CLOSE UP AND MAD.
DEEP THROAT
--you were doing so well and then you got stupid, you went too fast-- Christ, what a royal screw up--
PULL BACK TO REVEAL
DEEP THROAT and WOODWARD in the underground garage.
WOODWARD
--I know, I know, the pressure's off the White House and it's all back on the Post--
DEEP THROAT
--you've done worse than let Haldeman slip away, you've got people feeling sorry for him--I didn't think that
was possible. A conspiracy like this-- the rope has to tighten slowly around everyone's neck. You build from the outer edges and you go step by step.
If you shoot too high and miss, then everybody feels more secure. You've put the investigation back months.
WOODWARD
We know that--and if we were wrong, we're resigning--were we wrong?
DEEP THROAT
You'll have to find that out, won't you?--
WOODWARD exploding. WOODWARD
CUT TO:
--I'm tired of your chickenshit games-- I don't want hints, I want what you know!

Fuck

This is so annoying

you hafta put more body English into it, treesh

I’m not sure if readers of this website are clamoring for more words f

*from me tbh

When I’m falsely accused of a crime, I also like to lay low and mostly ignore it for a day, and then when a third party says they don’t have proof that’s when I go fully nuts

— Hayes Davenport (@hayesdavenport) January 19, 2019

STOP INTERRUPTING, LET TREEZY SPEAK

ahem

http://www.pupfans.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2016/02/pug-head-tilt-1024x576.jpg

Anyway it’s annoying mueller is throwing ice water on the buzzfeed story. And it’s annoying trump is touting it as a victory. It’s not like he was forthright about trump tower moscow—he lied to voters about it. he is bragging that there might not be ironclad evidence of him ordering cohen to lie to congress about it.

I thought for sure we had him this time. Well, next time for sure for sure. Without a doubt.

Relax, he's got a big speech to fuck up tomorrow...

Sorry, had to repost

Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily*
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

— jf (@BronzeHammer) October 2, 2016

Not so much a wriggle as an ooze.

Mueller seems like the type who wants the narrative, when it emerges, to be airtight, by-the-book, and beyond caviling. Of course, once it is released into the wild, the narrative will quickly flow downhill toward a more easily assimilated simplification, and each side will compete to direct it to the most convenient resting place for their purposes.

Sorry, had to repost

no

I just heard that Trump sent Melania to Florida on a government plane on the same night he refused Nancy Pelosi her flight. & he used a Boeing 757 not a C37 so it cost tax payers >$35,000, lovely.

https://m.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/01/18/trump-tried-to-withhold-federal-disaster-relief-funds-from-puerto-rico-report-says

well this mueller news really sucks

Yeah... most logical takeaway is that the story was flat wrong given Mueller actually responding at all.

Or maybe Whitaker made him release the statement?

good morning

Mueller better have something good coming.

I’m mad at him now.