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In reply to the discussion: What Mueller Said About Don Junior Is Embarrassing [View all]smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)31. Come on, he's dumb as a brick, but he's not that dumb.
He knew exactly what he was doing. Fuck this fucking criminal family! I am so sick of them getting away with everything!
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We miss her voice. She would have had a great time skewering this hapless traitors.
Pepsidog
Apr 2019
#32
Correct - except when the mens rea the crime requires knowledge of the illegality
Ms. Toad
Apr 2019
#12
Don Jr. lying about and trying to cover up the meeting showed he knew it was illegal.
SunSeeker
Apr 2019
#23
I couldn't agree more. Don Jr. knew what he did was illegal. That's why he lied about it.
SunSeeker
Apr 2019
#21
I don't get how it's not illegal. Yes he is dumb, but he knew WTF he was doing. The bigger issue
UniteFightBack
Apr 2019
#8
It made me think the article from last week, pre report that suggested exactly that. I think it may
dewsgirl
Apr 2019
#11
Politics is forever frustrated by the fact that there are two sets of rules for the two parties.
rainin
Apr 2019
#20
I don't accept this reasoning, campaign veteran Manafort and Kushner are lawyers
wishstar
Apr 2019
#22
Exactly. If Mueller had questions about Don Jr.'s mens rea, why didn't he interview him?
SunSeeker
Apr 2019
#24
the trumpian efforts to get 'dirt' on hillary and the clinton foundation were predicated on STUPID
certainot
Apr 2019
#27
While most of us learned very early on the old saw that "ignorance of the law is not an excuse",
KPN
Apr 2019
#29
At Wikileaks behest, he also tweeted a link to search through the stolen emails.
cureautismnow
Apr 2019
#30
In my perfect world, Junior will step up and tell us he knew exactly what he was doing
Brother Buzz
Apr 2019
#36
It's not funny to African Americans who are never given this benefit of the doubt.
SunSeeker
Apr 2019
#42