Giuliani In Chains
Oh y’all, I’m real distracted today because things have been nutty and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna get a whole lot better for a couple of weeks. I’ll fill you in on the details later but it’s all good. Meanwhile, Big Bubba has been needing my help getting some documents in order and dancing the “Why Can’t I Make This Work? Strut” on his computer talking to his printer.
However, I haven’t forgotten the salon and I thought you might enjoy this one.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday.
Oh no, it gets better.
Giuliani said Parnas’ company, Boca Raton-based Fraud Guarantee, whose website says it aims to help clients “reduce and mitigate fraud”, engaged Giuliani Partners, a management and security consulting firm, around August 2018. Giuliani said he was hired to consult on Fraud Guarantee’s technologies and provide legal advice on regulatory issues.
See, if I was gonna have a company that helped someone reduce fraud, I’d call it No Fraud Guarantee. I mean, anyone who engaged the services of Fraud Guarantee is kinda asking for fraud, don’t ya think?
So, half a million bucks to guarantee fraud. Cool move, Rudy.
And the just as I closed the story: Rudy’s lawyer is leaving just two weeks after he was hired and said, “He 100 percent did not do anything illegal.”
The Democratic debate is 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern in Westerville, Ohio.
You can watch it on nytimes.com, The New York Times’s app, CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español and CNN.com.
Twelve Democratic candidates will debate: Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Kamala Harris, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Senator Cory Booker, former Representative Beto O’Rourke, Senator Amy Klobuchar, the former housing secretary Julián Castro, Representative Tulsi Gabbard and the billionaire Tom Steyer.
The candidates will have 75 seconds to answer questions and 45 seconds for rebuttals. There will be no opening statements. The moderators are the CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett and The Times’s National editor, Marc Lacey.
The New York Times will have live video of the debate, accompanied by live analysis from six reporters: Maggie Haberman, Lisa Lerer, Astead W. Herndon, Sydney Ember, Patricia Cohen and Elizabeth Dias.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/us/politics/when-is-oct-democratic-debate.html
OBSTRUCTION JUNCTION: What’s your function?
But as the House of Representatives barrels forward with the inquiry, the strategy of obstruction is falling apart.
Initially, it seemed that Democrats’ main response to the obstruction of the investigation would be to include an “obstruction of Congress” article as a part of the impeachment. This made sense on the merits — and such an article will likely still be included — but it could have meant that much of the evidence and testimony about the Ukraine matter would remain secret.
Instead, while Democrats can still charge Trump with trying to obstruct the investigation, they’re proving remarkably able to get the testimony they need, despite the obstruction.
The latest evidence that the White House and the State Department’s strategy was failing emerged Tuesday with the announcement that George Kent, a State Department expert on Ukraine, would testify that day before Congress. Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported that the administration tried to stop Kent from testifying, so the House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for him. Rather than defy a congressional subpoena, Kent defied the administration’s wishes.
Democrats’ efforts to subpoena testimony from witnesses from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation had previously hit a wall. The House is still in the process of suing for testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn, despite issuing a subpoena for his testimony months ago. Others who have testified on their knowledge of events described in the Mueller report have given incomplete or insufficient answers, hiding behind an absurdly broad assertion of executive privilege. Democrats seemed powerless to conduct a formidable inquiry.
But since the Ukraine scandal involves many officials without direct loyalty to the president, the White House is finding it much harder to suppress damaging testimony now.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/white-house-plan-to-thwart-the-impeachment-inquiry-is-crumbling-as-democrats-barrel-forward/
1Rudy’s lawyer… said, “He 100 percent did not do anything illegal.”
Nice try.
2But as many many many others will soon find out, that stink don’t wash off.
I think Fiona Hill will have something different to say about Rudy.
And didn’t he say the State Dept asked him to get involved because they didn’t want to use the FBI?
So, he was getting 1/2 million dollars from the 2 guys that got arrested and the State Department asked him to work for them?
How big of a conflict of interest is that??
3Conflict of interest? May I pose this question? Hand in hand on the deal.
4Well at least this disaster has been good for shredder manufactors.
5In the past 2 days it has been reported that the National enquirer has been busy shredding their donnie files that have been kept in a separate private safe and that deutsch bank has destroyed any and all of the demented ones tax returns files. A retired official of the bank was reported that he knew the bank had these records before he left.
Oops aren’t most shredders now made in china wonder if they were on the tariffs/ sanctions list?
Rudy bragging about how much he was paid by the arrestees is reminiscent of Milo getting paid by the Germans to bomb his own base in _Catch-22_. There was outrage and the threat of court martial until Milo disclosed the truly massive profit that The Syndicate made on the raid.
Rudy seems to have mistaken satire for textbook.
6Even more better NY found Turkey and high Rankin officials have been laundering BILLIONS of dollars to Iran.
7“Theres’ our fall guy.” -The Maltese Falcon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqOByzMoS_A
The leading pro-impeachment group in the country unveiled a new ad on Tuesday morning targeting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as a patsy for Donald Trump.
The Need to Impeach ad is part of a $3.1-million ad buy that the group has purchased to blanket the airwaves and social-media networks as a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry ramps up.
But whereas the previous spots went after vulnerable Republican senators, this one goes after the man at the nexus of impeachment politics—and it does so through Republican-friendly channels. The ad will run predominantly on Fox News, including the network’s morning show, Fox & Friends, of which the president is a religious viewer.
“Mitch is afraid to cross Donald Trump,” the spot goes. “Just look at what happened to Mitt Romney. So will Mitch defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic? Or protect Trump at all costs?”
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9_cBJ8-Nro
The notion that McConnell would bend his position on impeachment to the advertising whims of a group financed by Democratic presidential candidate and liberal donor Tom Steyer is, inherently, far-fetched. But the new spot doesn’t appear to be an effort to move McConnell towards supporting impeachment so much as an attempt to solidify a narrative that the majority leader has to make a choice between protecting the Republican Senate’s majority and standing by the president.
“I do think it is important to point out how scared to death McConnell is of Donald Trump,” said Kevin Mack, the chief strategist on Need to Impeach. “It seems like he is willing to sacrifice his own members to not incur the wrath of Trump.”
In addition to the cable-news buys, Mack said that Need to Impeach will also run preliminary digital ads in Kentucky to test out messaging among voters there. Two other ads will begin to run on Kentucky television soon, he said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-pro-impeachment-movements-new-play-frame-mitch-mcconnell-as-a-trump-patsy?ref=home
8Btw – this just in the emoluments suit thrown out in july is back in play.
9If I had a mean bone in my body – and I do – I would find it hilarious that, at the end, he will most likely flee to his buddy in Russia. When useful idiots are no longer useful to Putin? Death.
10Can’t help an OT comment: how ‘bout those ‘Stros!
11Oh hell yeah!
12@Sharon Greiff #9
13The suit was thrown by 3 thuglican judges decideing that the constition does not apply against demented donnie by denying “standing” by the states sueing not by a jury.
It has not been presented to a jury.
It was during discovery that the judicial insults interjected themselves to protect their tin god.
‘Huge Moment in the 2020 Race’: Ocasio-Cortez to Endorse Bernie Sanders for President
“This is a huge moment and Sanders cannot, and should not, be ignored any longer by those who continue to erase him, his candidacy, and his supporters.”
Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) will also endorse Sanders, reported CNN’s Greg Krieg.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/15/huge-moment-2020-race-ocasio-cortez-endorse-bernie-sanders-president
14The debate was glorious and disappointing at the same time. Unapologetic ideas across the spectrum. Check. Disappointing performances from some of the front runners. Solid shows from some.
15The extreme left wing endorsement, plus his old age and heart condition, will guarantee Warren’s nomination.
16Mr Pozner, father of one of the kids slaughtered in Sandy Hook, has just won a judgement against one of Alex Jones’ little friends (https://www.thewrap.com/father-of-sandy-hook-victim-awarded-450000-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-nobody-died-at-sandy-hook-co-author/), and article quotes one of his lawyers about how a Texas jury will judge Jones himself. Was that perhaps the voice of one Mark Bankston?
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