Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/could-michael-flynn-turn-on-trump

ryan lizza on the immunity story. i'm still unclear i guess on what exactly flynn wants immunity for - aside from the logan act, what laws has he broken? i guess that's what we don't know yet

"Although Flynn’s lawyer, Robert Kelner of Covington & Burling, refused to comment for the article, he tweeted out a statement teasing that “General Flynn certainly has a story tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit.”

"As an experienced lawyer, Kelner will know that the Justice Department would never grant immunity for testimony on these terms. Prosecutors would first require that Flynn submit to what’s called a proffer session in which Flynn would agree to tell everything he knows in exchange for the prosecutors agreeing not to use his statement against him. Only after the prosecutors heard what Flynn could offer in terms of evidence against others, and had an opportunity to assess his credibility, would they be willing to discuss any grants of immunity or a cooperation deal. At a minimum, the prosecutors would require Flynn’s lawyer to make a proffer outlining the information that Flynn could provide.

"The fact that Flynn and his lawyer have made his offer publicly suggests that he has nothing good to give the prosecutors (either because he cannot incriminate others or is unwilling to do so). If he had something good, Flynn and his lawyer would approach the prosecutors quietly, go through the proffer process in confidence, and reach a deal. Why? Because prosecutors have an interest in keeping their investigation secret, and Flynn’s lawyer knows that...."

https://www.justsecurity.org/39426/explainer-flynns-request-immunity/

We're applying logic and reason to these people because why?

threat of imprisonment sometimes brings clarity

I think I choose to believe Flynn's lawyer is also a dumbass

Hm hm hm:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/847936144499146753

BREAKING: US investigators are looking into whether Trump campaign reps helped Russian intel carry out cyberattacks

And hooray!

https://apnews.com/992ae77585fc4956b29328e49a926c62/Trump's-approach-to-intel-agencies-shows-anxiety,-distrust

Officials have expressed an interest in having more raw intelligence sent to the president for his daily briefings instead of an analysis of information compiled by the agencies, according to current and former U.S. officials. The change would have given his White House advisers more control about the assessments given to him and sidelined some of the conclusions made by intelligence professionals.

I just hope we get a new suffix out of this. So sick of -gates

my money's on -tape for Pisstape

Hope Donnie finds the remote in prison so he can watch his fav shows

I really don't think Trump's going to prison, getting impeached, any of that. And I'm at peace with that! The guy is dirty as hell, his team is all dirty as hell, and this constant drumbeat is going to give the 80% of Americans who don't pay close attention to the news the vague (and correct) sense they're all dirty as hell and make it hard for them to get anything done.

from this piece qualmsley posted in the russia trump poll thread - http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/31/the-political-walls-are-closing-in-on-donald-trump.html

Even if he survives, Trump’s leadership in Washington is in tatters. The Freedom Caucus doesn’t fear him. What’s left of the Republican moderates don’t respect him. The Democrats will have nothing to do with him. And his fair weather friend, Paul Ryan, is a disaster as speaker of the House who is fighting harder for tax cuts for the top one percent than for anything in the Trump campaign agenda and making enemies of the Breitbartians in the process.

there are people who didn't see this all coming! fuck those people.

i didn't see it coming tbf, mainly because i stopped trying to see things coming after last year.

I was thinking more of folks who thought this asshole and his family were going to get results

if he'd have appointed advisers who weren't first-timers or morons he might have had a shot (*might*) but that was never going to happen.

i like that knives are out for kushner now http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/jared-kushner-white-house-influence-236758

fingers crossed we get stronger nepotism laws and a steeper estate tax out of all this garbage. a 'trump-kushner tax' on insane inherited wealth would be a fitting legacy for this administration

ahh yes this is a good idea

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/326830-trump-tells-nbc-to-stop-covering-russia-story

honestly, I thought they were going to get a lot more of their agenda crammed through quickly with a republican congress, I did not realize how massively all involved would manage to screw it all up when they had everything they needed to be successful (except brains)

yeah I didn't sleep well for days after the election because of thinking just that. I knew he would suck, but I figured the party woulda found a way around his ineptitude.

knock on wood I guess it's still sadly early.

There was always the question of what Trumps agenda even was. I wouldn't be surprised if he had more commercials promoting a Democratic agenda than Clinton (for good reasons, imo, but that's another discussion).

even the Nunes maneuver hasn't succeeded like I thought it would (mostly cos the press found their stones and are shitting all over his bullshit behavior)

It's still early sure but midterms are tantalizingly close

Hoping ossoff clears 50% in GA so we can hail him president like what the media did to Scott brown

i'd call faster melting of the icecaps a result

That tends to happen each spring no matter who the president is, though.

yeah that's how you were freed from that glacier

Ok lol

lmao

clean hit

delicious

daaaaaaaaaaaamn

global warming's terrifying new math

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39906-as-trump-s-denialists-get-to-work-the-climate-is-changing-170-times-faster

damn son

Krauthammer himself has been a paraplegic since the age of 22. That’s an expensive medical condition. Probably he has group insurance through the Washington Post or another institution with which he’s affiliated, allowing him to spread the cost of his expensive medical care onto a risk pool that includes healthier, cheaper-to-cover people. Or perhaps he has a different arrangement. I do not for one moment resent that my insurance helps cover either childbirth or mechanized wheelchairs, even though I personally need neither service, and nothing Krauthammer says would make me reconsider.
It is callous enough that Republicans apply their every-man-for-himself logic to health care, and land on the belief that those fortunate enough to be blessed with good health should not be burdened with the cost of paying for the medical needs of others. But when the advocate of this argument himself has expensive medical needs, the callousness rises to a level of solipsistic barbarism. A paraplegic man resents having to pay for women who need help breastfeeding their babies. Why should those women have to buy insurance that covers wheelchairs?

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chait is stone cold

Conservatives will scream "wow, rude" if they acknowledge it at all, but it's such a direct hit.

Bring on the April thread already, US peeps

He got away with all his lies, people still elected him. Will he also get away without getting anything done? By blaming others all the time? I hope not but I fear yes. I am really happy living in good old europe these days. The usa give me the chills.

"Just another day in paradise, okay?" April 2017 President Trump and oppo dump thread

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