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MountingEvidence https://www.dailykos.com/news/MountingEvidence News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:44:46 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:44:46 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Trump Actually "Thanks" the Latest Witness Against him https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/11/1/1896573/-Trump-s-Actually-Thanks-the-Latest-Witness-Against-him — Trump is really that clueless. Trump attempts to “rob a nation” on Fifth Avenue — and a government official confirms those facts — and the lawless one publicly thanks him for the testimony. Trump is apparently just that desperate for any glimmer of “good news” … (that he can put on auto-repeat): <h3><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/politics/tim-morrison-deposition-house-impeachment-inquiry/index.html" target="_blank">Impeachment deposition</a>: NSC official corroborates testimony linking Ukraine aid to investigations</h3> <div> <div> by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/manu-raju">Manu Raju</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/jeremy-herb">Jeremy Herb</a>, CNN — Oct 31, 2019 </div> </div> <blockquote> <div> [...] A top National Security Council official testified Thursday that he was told President Donald Trump wanted a top Ukrainian official to announce an investigation that would help the President politically before US security aid to Ukraine would be released, corroborating a key part of US diplomat <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/22/1894397/-There-s-another-word-for-this-Stalemate-besides-Quid-pro-Quo" target="_blank">Bill Taylor's testimony</a> that's central to the Democrats' impeachment inquiry, according to sources familiar with the testimony. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/politics/tim-morrison-leaving-white-house/index.html" target="_blank">Tim Morrison</a>, the top Russia and Europe adviser on the National Security Council, also told House impeachment investigators that he was advised by then-White House official Fiona Hill to stay away from the parallel Ukraine policy being pursued by Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, according to one of the sources. [...] <div>"I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed," Morrison said, according to his opening statement.</div> <ul> </ul> <div>Morrison, who will soon be departing the White House, was involved with discussions after the call about how to handle the transcript, the sources said. Ultimately, the call transcript was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-transcript-white-house/index.html" target="_blank">filed in a highly classified system</a>, a decision that's among the issues Democrats are seeking answers about in their impeachment investigation into Trump and Ukraine.</div> <div>[...]</div> </div> </blockquote> As one <a href="https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/mistakenly-thanks-impeachment-witness-sold-out-trump/22555/" target="_blank">news-commentator</a> put it, concerning Morrison’s legal assessment: <blockquote> Imagine if a witness testified in court that he saw you go into a bank with a gun in hand and hold the place up, and then come out with a sack of cash, and that in his view you had robbed the bank — but in his personal legal assessment, bank robbery isn’t illegal. You’d be crushed to hear this testimony, because it would send you to prison. Yet this is precisely what Tim Morrison just said about Donald Trump, and Trump is thanking him for it. </blockquote> <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;But the Crooked Democrats don’t want people to know this! Thank you to Tim Morrison for your honesty. &lt;a href="https://t.co/1AxrArFJ6c"&gt;https://t.co/1AxrArFJ6c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190113283078074369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;November 1, 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">But the Crooked Democrats donÃ¢Â€Â™t want people to know this! Thank you to Tim Morrison for your honesty. <a href="https://t.co/1AxrArFJ6c">https://t.co/1AxrArFJ6c</a>Ã¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190113283078074369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote></div> That must be why Morrison just quit his job — so he could give this “total exonerating” testimony: <blockquote> Donald Trump wanted a top Ukrainian official to announce an investigation that would help the President politically before US security aid to Ukraine would be released ... </blockquote> Ah sure, nothing to see here folks, move along now. Former National Security Council official Tim Morrison thinks Trump’s “<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/22/1894397/-There-s-another-word-for-this-Stalemate-besides-Quid-pro-Quo" target="_blank">International Extortion</a>” is No Big Deal. Whew! Glad that’s settled. Maybe those “Crooked Democrats” can stop now — you know, trying like hell to Uphold the Law. ‘Judge Tim’ has spoken. — — PS. That’s also why Tim Morrison also help to ‘hide the evidence’ on that Secret Server: Because in his view, it was all “perfectly” legal. No presidential abuse of power here. There is no nothing — nothing that the public should worry their little noggins about. They got this. <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819159806489591809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;January 11, 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!Ã¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819159806489591809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2017</a></blockquote></div> — — <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Donald Trump Jr. said at a New York real-estate conference in 2008See:Trump's oldest son said a decade ago that a lot of the family's assets came from Russiaby Brennan Weiss, businessinsider.com -- Feb. 21, 2018////////////James Dodson during an interview Friday with Boston’s WBUR described meeting Donald Trump in 2014See:Eric Trump in 2014: 'We have all the funding we need out of Russia'by Paulina Firozi , thehill.com -- 05/07/17" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/632194/large/Trump_Russian_Cash.jpg?1547486001" title="Donald Trump Jr. said at a New York real-estate conference in 2008See:Trump's oldest son said a decade ago that a lot of the family's assets came from Russiaby Brennan Weiss, businessinsider.com -- Feb. 21, 2018////////////James Dodson during an interview Friday with Boston’s WBUR described meeting Donald Trump in 2014See:Eric Trump in 2014: 'We have all the funding we need out of Russia'by Paulina Firozi , thehill.com -- 05/07/17"> <figcaption>More than an internet Meme — they actually bragged about this insider secret to prospective investors and reporters.</figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="table-wrapper"> <table style="text-align:left" width="760"> <tbody> <tr style="background-color:#fef8f2"> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/8/24/1881087/-It-s-more-than-a-Rumor-They-actually-Admitted-It">It's more than a Rumor -- They actually Admitted It</a></td> <td style="text-align:center"></td> <td>08/24/2019</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Well Duh. We really do live in Bizarro-world times. — — </div> rss@dailykos.com (jamess) AbuseofPower armsfordirt BillTaylor BizarroWorld CriminalConspiracy desperatetimes Extortion ExtortionNoBigDeal FionaHill HideTheEvidence ImpeachmentInquiry ItsTheCoverUp Justthefacts MountingEvidence NoNothing NothingtoSee PerfectCall PresidentialTweets PutinsAgenda RudyColludy RuleofLaw RuleOfTim secretserver TimMorrison TrumpBeingTrump Ukraine _1896573 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:10:41 +0000 One Month after Obstructing Comey, Trump gave the Order to Obstruct Mueller https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/1/25/1736100/-One-Month-after-Obstructing-Comey-Trump-gave-the-Order-to-Obstruct-Mueller — Hot off the presses as they say. The obstructing of the Russia Investigation by firing FBI Director James Comey last May, was not enough for Trump. He had to double down on his intention to end the Russia Investigation, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/25/1736061/-Trump-Ordered-Mueller-Fired-Last-June-Stopped-By-Threat-Of-WH-Counsel" target="_blank">by ordering</a> the White House counsel, to go fire (ie Obstruct) Robert Mueller too, only one month later. <h3>Trump called for Mueller's firing in June 2017, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/25/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller/index.html" target="_blank">source says</a></h3> <div> <div> by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/sophie-tatum" title="">Sophie Tatum</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/profiles/kara-scannell-profile">Kara Scannell</a>, CNN — Jan 25, 2018 </div> </div> <blockquote> <div> <div> President Donald Trump called for special counsel Robert Mueller's firing last June, according to one person familiar with the matter. White House counsel Don McGahn refused to order the Justice Department to fire Mueller because he disagreed with the President's reasoning, the source said. However, according to the source, McGahn did not threaten to resign directly to the President. </div> </div> <div>[...]</div> <div> </div> <div>Two people told the Times that Trump expressed concern over three possible conflicts of interest, including a dispute Mueller had involving Trump National Golf Club, the law firm Mueller previously had worked at and the fact that Mueller had recently been interviewed to head the FBI.</div> <div> </div> <div>The Times said the discussion over Mueller's potential conflicts of interest in June 2017 arose following reports that Mueller was looking into a possible obstruction of justice case.</div> <div>[...]</div> </blockquote> Thankfully, the White House counsel said Hell No! … to the direct Trump Obstruction order. Nevertheless, the charge of Obstruction of Justice doesn’t require the successful completion of the Obstruction — only the Intent to do so. from <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/obstruction_of_justice" target="_blank">law.cornell.edu</a> <blockquote> Obstruction of justice is defined in the omnibus clause of 18 U.S.C. § 1503, which provides that "whoever . . . . corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be (guilty of an offense)." Persons are charged under this statute based on allegations that a defendant intended to intefere with an official proceeding, by doing things such as destroying evidence, or intefering with the duties of jurors or court officers. A person obstructs justice when they have a specific intent to obstruct or interfere with a judicial proceeding. [...] </blockquote> It would seem from these recent CYA White House leaks, Trump had that bad Intent on overdrive. Trump is so cooked, legally speaking. … <figure class="image-captioned align-left"><img alt="CookedGoose_500.jpg" src="https://images.dailykos.com/images/481647/large/CookedGoose_500.jpg?1512700821" title="CookedGoose_500.jpg"> <figcaption>Well done, and crispy. (… and he doesn’t even know it.)</figcaption> </figure> rss@dailykos.com (jamess) DonaldTrump DonMcGahn Doublingdown HisOwnWorstAdvocate ImpedingJustice IntentToObstruct JamesComey MountingEvidence MuellerTime ObstructionofJustice OfficialInterference patternofbehavior RobertMueller TrumpRussiainvestigation yourefired _1736100 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:21:52 +0000 This Russian-Interference Stuff just got "Serious" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/9/17/1699334/-This-Russian-Interference-Stuff-just-got-Serious — If CBS News and Business Insider want to call this “Biggest News” concerning the Mueller Investigation, in quite a while — who are we to doubt them ... <h3><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-facebook-warrant-could-signal-a-turning-point-in-muellers-investigation/" target="_blank" title="">Why a Facebook warrant could signal a turning point in Mueller's investigation</a></h3> CBSNews — Sept 17, 2017 <blockquote> Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti <a href="https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/909441005426024449" target="_blank">says</a> reports that special counsel Robert Mueller got a search warrant for Facebook content could be "the biggest news" related to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-mueller-team-prosecutors-trump-investigation/" target="_blank">Mueller's investigation</a> since a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-conducted-raid-of-paul-manaforts-home/" target="_blank">raid on Paul Manafort's home</a>. [...] In an interview with CBSN on Sunday, Mariotti said that until now, Mueller and his investigators were looking into fairly "narrow" and "specific crimes." "Things like false disclosures on forms that Mr. Manafort or Michael Flynn made or Jared Kushner; things like obstruction as to the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-comey-donald-trump-relationship-timeline/" target="_blank">firing of James Comey</a>. For the first time here, what we've learned -- assuming that The Wall Street Journal's report about a search warrant is correct -- is that Bob Muller went to a federal judge and presented evidence and convinced the judge that a crime was committed involving foreign individuals contributing to a political election here in the United States through their actions on Facebook," Mariotti told CBS News' Elaine Quijano. [...] [emphasis added] </blockquote> <h3><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mueller-obtains-warrant-for-russia-linked-facebook-ads-and-accounts-2017-9" target="_blank" title="">Mueller just obtained a warrant that could change the entire nature of the Russia investigation</a></h3> by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/natasha-bertrand">Natasha Bertrand</a>, businessinsider.com — Sept 16, 2017 <blockquote> [...] Legal experts say the revelation [of the Facebook warrant] has enormous implications for the trajectory of Mueller's investigation into Russia's election interference, and whether Moscow had any help from President Donald Trump's campaign team. "This is big news — and potentially bad news for the Russian election interference 'deniers,'" <a href="https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/909051809657966592" target="_blank">said Asha Rangappa</a>, a former FBI counterintelligence agent. Rangappa, now an associate dean at Yale Law School, explained that to obtain a search warrant a prosecutor needs to prove to a judge that there is reason to believe a crime has been committed. The prosecutor then has to show that the information being sought will provide evidence of that crime. [...] "The key here, though, is that Mueller clearly already has enough information on these accounts — and their link to a potential crime to justify forcing [Facebook] to give up the info," she said. "That means that he has uncovered a great deal of evidence through other avenues of Russian election interference." [...] [emphasis added] </blockquote> As the evidence is piling up, the Trump-enablers are having some “<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/russia-probes-leave-trump-associates-struggling-with-huge-legal-bills/article/2634655" target="_blank">second thoughts</a>” about the course they’ve chosen. And the fact that they have been seemingly “hung out to dry,” by the Billionaire with a heart of stone. Tic-Toc. rss@dailykos.com (jamess) bignews CBSNews DenialIsNotanOption DonaldTrump electioncrimes Facebook FacebookWarrant foreigncontributions foreigninterference LegalHurdles MountingEvidence Recommended RobertMueller RussiaInvestigation RussianInterference StatesEvidence TurningPoint _1699334 Sun, 17 Sep 2017 23:44:27 +0000