What the hell?!?

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House Democrats want to know why a major Russian money-laundering case was abruptly settled

Natasha Bertrand

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday asking why the Department of Justice settled a major money-laundering case involving a real-estate company owned by the son of a powerful Russian government official whose lawyer met with Donald Trump Jr. last year.

Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, on Tuesday tweeted an email chain from June 2016 in which he entertained accepting damaging information from a "Russian government attorney" about Hillary Clinton as part of the Kremlin's support for his father's campaign.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/why-was-russian-money-laundering-case-dismissed-house-dems-2017-7

Jesus H. Christ. If Hillary had done 1/1000 of the shit the Trump/Kushner Crime Syndicate is getting away with, they'd be remodeling a special Clinton Wing at Leavenworth. This is a bigger clusterfuck than even I imagined, and I imagined a colossal one. There isn't one Republican who isn't tainted by this whole mess. Their desperate measures to cling to and consolidate power before demographics overtake them is the most unpatriotic, un-American, treasonous thing since the Civil War. And from what I can see, most Americans couldn't care less. We're utterly lost.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Turns out republicans dont care about patriotism, constitutions, etc.

They care about power and are willing to commit treason to gain and keep it.

All of them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. +1. Right Wing Authoritarians and Followers. . . nt

[SamKnause]

2. Republicans and Evangelicals are out to destroy this country.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Trump needs to be impeached before he reaches the tenure to pardon stage.

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4. No kidding. That's what I'm afraid of. He'll just blanket pardon everyone around him, then

Pence will pardon him. I don't see any way that anyone suffers any consequences--especially with the current level of collusion in the Republican party. I've never seen anything as shameful in my lifetime. And my Social Security kicks in in August.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. We might be in luck if a president cannot pardon a perp while the courtcase is ongoing?

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Trump, and Pence, are involved in the Russian thing, so they cannot pardon

any co-conspirators, which include most of the major WH inner circle.
Right Trump and possibly Pence are unindicted co-conspirators.

Pretty sure Mueller and the other lawyers are all wise enough in legal areas to know they have to have a big net to make sure charges will stick, and am sure that some GOP Congress people have already become eligible to be in the net.

[onlyadream]

8. Any idea when that is? Nt

[grantcart]

9. When he took the oath of office

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Isn't it a privilege to outgoing presidents? Assuming they make it to the

end of their four year, or eight year term?

[SharonAnn]

19. I think they can pardon at any time, and any number of people.

[mtngirl47]

22. They can use the pardon any time in their Presidency, however

it is a political hot potato and doesn't win any votes. Therefore, the big rush at the end of the 2nd term.

Notable exceptions to this rule was when Ford pardoned Nixon; and when Carter pardoned the draft dodgers.

[Rollo]

5. Trump has fully embraced Nazi propaganda techniques, that's why...

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[SunSeeker]

6. K & R for exposure.

[NightWatcher]

7. The Russian lawyer didn't help trump jr out of the goodness of her heart. This is the quid pro quo

They help trump "win", the new AG will drop the case for money laundering.

[demmiblue]

10. K&R

[IronLionZion]

11. And Preet Bharara was prosecuting this case

so I'm sure it was just a strange coincidence he was abruptly fired.

Sometimes things happen, abruptly, with this administration. Snowflakes are just too triggered to keep up.

[oasis]

15. "Pay for play"..."drain the swamp". Deplorables should get their heads

out of Trump's giant ass and find out what's going on under their brown noses.

[mr_lebowski]

17. U sure about that? Where did you hear that?

[IronLionZion]

21. US Attorney for the Southern District of NY was prosecuting it

It was his office's case.

[PBass]

18. It's the SAME LAWYER.

The lawyer who met with Don Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, is the lawyer representing the case which Sessions settled for pennies on the dollar.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/12/doj-settled-massive-russian-fraud-case-involving-lawyer-who-met-with-trump-jr/

[spanone]

20. C.O.L.L.U.S.I.O.N.

[raven mad]

23. Sigh. And we thought the BFEE (not a friend) was bad.

Frankly, I think Shrub made it way too easy for us, he was such a prime, easy target. But this??? I've been way past WTF since January.