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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlanespotting: Michael Cohens Amazing Journey (Re:Steele dossier) Louise Mensch
https://patribotics.wordpress.com/2017/02/26/planespotting-michael-cohens-amazing-journey-louise-mensch/blm
(113,042 posts)She relies on logic and facts and that made me an instant fan.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)whereabouts Aug. 16-22 (SOMEthing like that), and she's been tracking planes and the numbers on the planes and tracking down where his tweets emanted from on certain days and - she's totally cray! Unstoppable!
According to her, Cohen has now produced like, four different stories vis-a-vis his trip to Prague, as cited in the Steele Dossier...okay, I'll go read her latest epic tale on him now! (she intimated yesterday she was putting together a new article on this Cohen fustercluck) -
blm
(113,042 posts).
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)big grain of salt, and hey, we all get to decide what makes sense to us, eh? There was a thread on here yesterday suggesting that Louise and other "citizen investigators" need to be careful...ie, should they get body guards? They are digging deep DEEP, and hopefully...will remain safe.
Now blm, here is something I came upon a couple days ago that maps out all the American and Russian players...it's excruciatingly dense for a simple brain like mine, but - well, you may want to give it a look:
The Matryoshka
"This is merely a consolidation of others investigative work. All credit to @Khanoisseur, @20committee, @Funder, @LouiseMensch, @pwnallthethings, the infamous Jester, and James S Henry.
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When attempting to navigate the web of Donald Trumps business dealings and relationships with the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian mafia, however, a cast of questionable players is never more than 2 degrees of separation away from him or the Trump Organization. As weve covered extensively in previous posts, there is no doubt that Trump is financially beholden to Russian influence, which makes allegations surrounding his potential treason against the United States even more worrisome. Considering all link analysis here has been done using news media sources, one might question just how deep the rabbit hole goes using classified sources the US Intelligence Community is investigating currently."
Much much more at:
https://wearethisamericancarnage.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/the-matryoshka/
blm
(113,042 posts)wiggs
(7,811 posts)work for Trump. Let's not forget that he said it's not possible for a husband to be accused of raping his wife. It's not rape, he said. And when a reporter was going to write about Ivana's rape accusation against Trump, Cohen left a recording:
From there, Cohen threatened the reporters with legal action:
"I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don't have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know," Cohen said. "So I'm warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?"
"You write a story that has Mr. Trump's name in it, with the word rape, and I'm going to mess your life up for as long as you're on this frickin' planet you're going to have judgments against you, so much money, you'll never know how to get out from underneath it," he added.
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"Though there's many literal senses to the word, if you distort it, and you put Mr. Trump's name there onto it, rest assured, you will suffer the consequences. So you do whatever you want. You want to ruin your life at the age of 20? You do that, and I'll be happy to serve it right up to you," he added.
Man...what a den of snakes this appears to be.
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-wife-ivana-2015-7
roamer65
(36,745 posts)They must be getting to close for comfort.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)closer and closer.
republicans squirming away from the light of truth
wiggs
(7,811 posts)If SHE knows this much, just from analyzing tweets and FAA records...imagine how much the FBI and CIA know.
wiggs
(7,811 posts)should be easy for him to produce a photo or receipts or ANYTHING showing definitively that he could not have been in locations the Steele Dossier suggests he was to pay off hackers. HE HASN'T DONE THAT.
Wonder if he's been interviewed by the FBI and wonder what story he told them? Are his activities as Trump's lawyer protected by client/attorney privilege?
wiggs
(7,811 posts)that the Patriot Act and DHS would confer the power to start raiding homes and businesses for information and witnesses. No one would be able to say they had been contacted...but for all the abuse of power that may have come from the Act, this is what it was built for...to get to the bottom of potential threats.
they already have FISA warrants...what other kinds of widespread info gathering has gone on? I bet they have 90% of what they need to blow it all up, but given the seriousness of the allegations and associated consequences I should think they would wait on announcing conclusions until their conclusions were airtight.
If they get to that point, unbelievable scandal.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)Not just her, all those keeping up this fight. Obviously she is getting close to something.
bigtree
(85,986 posts)...great cliffhanger.
Looking forward to the next episode. She's on to something big, I think.
wiggs
(7,811 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)She doesn't come across as insistent about anything, only factual.
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DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)who has a lot more Ukranian connections that anyone thought.
Link: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/it-s-all-so-confusing-the-michael-cohen-file
triron
(21,995 posts)wiggs
(7,811 posts)in the MSM spotlight constantly, but it should keep going here, every day.
The article talks about Trump's lawyer's flimsy alibi and apparent lies meant to convince everyone that he couldn't have left the country to pay off the Russian hacker alleged to have ALTERED THE ELECTION. This article (one of four in this series re Russia)l shows that he COULD have...and that, astonishingly, he hasn't presented any convincing evidence that he couldn't have in order to dispel suspicions. It is still an open question.
This is more important than Flynn's call (though related), more important than lies about rallies and margins of victory, more important about mere financial conflicts of interest...because it calls into question not only Trump's allegiances/vulnerabilities but also his election in the first place. There is no bigger, more complicated, messier, smokier issue out there that has the potential to change everything if it catches fire.
If it stays ugly and smokey and contained, a few people like Flynn and Trump's attorney get thrown under the bus. if the bus catches fire...everyone goes.