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RE: Trump Watch activated! - WBA-Josh - 19-01-2019
The Special Counsel’s Office has issued a rare statement about the Buzzfeed story.
“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate”
RE: Trump Watch activated! - WBA-Josh - 24-01-2019
Michael Cohen has postponed his testimony in February to the House Oversight Committee because of threats made against him and his family and comments from the President and Rudy Giuliani.
Today he has been subpoenaed by the Senate Intel Committee to testify in February.
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/01/24/politics/michael-cohen-subpoenaed-senate-intelligence-committee/index.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/24/michael-cohen-subpoena-testimony-1124009
RE: Trump Watch activated! - 0762 - 24-01-2019
This is a shocking revelation and again there is this huge suspicion of criminal undertones attached to this US President that has been likened by many critics to be like a Mafia organisation. Meanwhile the #### has still shut down govt ops and people's livelihoods - a disgrace!
RE: Trump Watch activated! - WBA-Josh - 25-01-2019
Roger Stone has been indicted on seven charges including Obstruction of Proceeding (Count One), False Statements (Counts Two to Six) and Witness Tampering (Count Seven).
He and his allies have no leg to stand on if they try to defend him as a “victim of the witch hunt” because it’s a Grand Jury indictment.
https://www.justice.gov/file/1124706/download
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/25/roger-stone-trump-ally-arrested-on-seven-charges?CMP=fb_gu
RE: Trump Watch activated! - 0762 - 25-01-2019
Aye! I just read this indictment against Stone and the "noose is slowly tightening" around the trumpet man's neck. Delighted!!!
RE: Trump Watch activated! - 0762 - 02-02-2019
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/inf-donald-trump-confirms-us-withdrawal-nuclear-treaty
This is more significant than 1st appears and I predicted this shit as soon as the "trumpet man" entered the Oval Office!!! Forget all the politics surrounding this latest confrontation - this is all about the arms industry and Trump pandering to the needs of his rich pals!! All I can say is: "COME ON MUELLER, GET A F###### MOVE ON AND NAIL THIS DANGEROUS BASTARD"!!!
RE: Trump Watch activated! - WBA-Josh - 12-02-2019
A BBC Cameraman was shoved and abused at a Trump rally last night.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/feb/12/bbc-cameraman-shoved-and-abused-at-trump-rally-in-el-paso?CMP=fb_gu
RE: Trump Watch activated! - 0762 - 12-02-2019
Reminds me of the things that happened all these years ago at the Hitler rallies in 1930s Germany. Scary stuff, same type of people, different era!
RE: Trump Watch activated! - 0762 - 15-02-2019
So the "trumpet man" now declares a "state of emergency" because of his tenuous stalled "wall project"!! Talk about "throwing the dummy out of the pram" eh! What a prat!
RE: Trump Watch activated! - WBA-Josh - 15-02-2019
Trump has been outplayed from December onwards. He could have had 1.6 billion dollars of funding that the Republican controlled House and Senate both passed. Pelosi and Schumer baited him into boasting that he'd shut down the Government and he'd be proud of it. 35 days of Government shutdown followed by a Committee negotiating a deal to avoid another shutdown and Trump is left with 1.3 billion dollars of funding for 55 miles of barriers. Now he is having his Francis Underwood moment from season 3 of House of Cards by declaring a state of emergency to raid other funds to fund his "glorious wall".
He could have avoided this in December by signing the bill passed by the Republican House and Senate and then continuing negotiations through Christmas and January but he didn't because of his pride and fear of upsetting his base and influential Conservatives like Fox News, Breitbart, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Newt Gingrich. Ann Coulter has turned on him anyway and given him heavy criticism.
This will definitely be challenged in the Supreme Court and if he loses he is back to square one. It also sets a dangerous precedent for future Presidents. What if the next President is a Democrat and they decide to declare a state of emergency for healthcare, education, Climate Change or gun control?
In the Paul Manafort case, the Judge has agreed with the Special Counsel's Office that Manafort lied to prosecutors during his cooperation. This will mean his sentence will go up.
There is also news of a meeting in New York in August 2016 involving Manafort, Rick Gates (Manafort's Deputy and co-operating witness in the Investigation) and Konstantin Kilimnik at a cigar bar. Mueller's team says it is important to their Investigation so I wonder what was discussed and what happened after. They left separately which makes it look even more dodgy on the surface.