Rachel Maddow now

[dhol82]

Major story on trump, the mob and the WSJ!

[Irish_Dem]

1. Why am I not surprised?

This was probably one of the ways he intimidated people into dropping their lawsuits against him, or not suing him at all. In NYC they knew he had the mob on his side.

[dhol82]

2. Not sure why the WSJ is in on the fix

Murdoch?

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes I think so, Murdoch's media empire has to conform to his pro-Trump stance.

[dhol82]

4. Unfortunate.

Wonder the sons think about all this?
From what I have read they are not the freaks their father is.

[Irish_Dem]

8. The New York Times had an article this year about the Murdoch sons being

more modern, reasonable, and forward thinking. Don't seem to be the ideologue
that their father is. We can hope.

For Murdoch to insist that the WSJ staff ditch a story on Trump and the Mob
makes me wonder if Murdoch has some links to the mob as well.

[dhol82]

11. Not sure. I do not think he has links to the mob. He is rich enough to be a mob

Frankly, I thought that Murdoch had already turned over much of the news corporation to his sons.
Looks like he still wants his fingers in some of the pie.

[Irish_Dem]

18. I don't know if working in the newspaper business requires mob connections or not

Like real estate and construction do.

Yes the sons have taken over a chunk of the business, but yes I guess papa Murdoch still calls some of the shots. The boys are working more on moving to digital media, and modernizing the work place setting with HR policies, diversity, etc. At least that is what the NYT article said.

[forgotmylogin]

9. There was just that story about WSJ quashing a story about 45's mob ties?

And journalists quitting...?

[dhol82]

12. That is what we are talking about. Major story on TRMS!

Something to think about.

[dhol82]

13. Read the rest of the posts.

[forgotmylogin]

14. Sorry, my brain is not focusing.

It's all so convoluted.

[dhol82]

17. With this story, not surprising.

[forgotmylogin]

19. I love Rachel, but sometimes if you miss the beginning...

She stacks the blocks up so neatly - each episode is a continuous cohesive lesson in long-form TV journalism.

[dhol82]

21. :)))))))))

[Irish_Dem]

5. Ivanka went to Russia, went to Putin's office and got to sit in Putin's chair.

What an honor.

[dhol82]

6. That just freaked me out!

Can’t you just see her sitting in the chair dressed as a five year old with little ruffled anklets?
Creepy from the get go!

[Irish_Dem]

7. Exactly the picture I had in my head too. And Trump went to some lengths to make

the Ivanka in Putin's chair event happen. That is a whole other creepy thought.

[malaise]

10. Even if ReTHUGs remove corroborating witnesses

can't they still testify to back up Comey's testimony that the Con wanted his loyalty and wanted him to back off of Flynn.

[dhol82]

15. Let us not descend into conspiracy theories

Seriously don’t think, well so far, that Trumpco will be removing witnesses.

Mueller is good. I have faith that he will be able to provide cover for the truth to come to power.

[malaise]

16. Huh?

They have reassigned Baker.

[writes3000]

20. That lead off story was chilling. The Felix Sater story and the Ivanka/Kremlin piece were so telling

[Dawson Leery]

22. The WSJ has been turned into The Fox Print Edition.

[elmac]

23. anything to do with wall street

is evil pig fucking slime

[triron]

24. Scary!