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sandoz
Jan 29, 2009


Turdfuzz posted:

yes truly shocking that the person who spams anime pics would spam cat pics yes i am shocked i am a moron

actually the good thing about cat pics person was moderation

unlike the thread this morning which has actually made me loving sick of seeing cat pictures jesus christ how did this happen

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Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
why would anyone even want energy at this time what the gently caress is there even to do at 7am that requires energy unless you are working overnights or an odd early morning shift like a utilities or sanitation worker

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

TMMadman
Sep 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/885084555421634561

Is it possible that Trump literally doesn't understand that there are very few truly anonymous sources? Like the reporters writing the story almost always know the identity of the source, but they just don't publish the name in order to protect them.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Main Paineframe posted:

anyone who willingly chose to work for him is in too deep, their careers are linked to his now

people with actual power could get away with it, but staffers? "I worked for the first president to ever get impeached, my main job was to hide his phone when he wasn't looking" isn't a great resume

I don't think Nixon had a cell phone

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

Smoking is better than drinking :coal:

i thoroughly examined this premise and have come to the conclusion of NO

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

TMMadman posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/885084555421634561

Is it possible that Trump literally doesn't understand that there are very few truly anonymous sources? Like the reporters writing the story almost always know the identity of the source, but they just don't publish the name in order to protect them.

well then those reporters are violating the constitution because it says right there i have a right to know who is accusing me so i can ruin their career

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar

euphronius posted:

he's one of the principle sources in today's nyt article

may as well loop ihavetheworstfuckinglawyers.jpg for the remainder of this term

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

Baloogan posted:

girls und panzer should do a season set in syria

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Louisgod posted:

may as well loop ihavetheworstfuckinglawyers.jpg for the remainder of this term

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


TMMadman posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/885084555421634561

Is it possible that Trump literally doesn't understand that there are very few truly anonymous sources? Like the reporters writing the story almost always know the identity of the source, but they just don't publish the name in order to protect them.

He's just thinking back to his John Miller days when he was the source but made them up

deathbysnusnu
Feb 25, 2016


TMMadman posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/885084555421634561

Is it possible that Trump literally doesn't understand that there are very few truly anonymous sources? Like the reporters writing the story almost always know the identity of the source, but they just don't publish the name in order to protect them.

When all of this poo poo finally shakes out, the HBO miniseries is going to be amazing in the sense that basically everyone in Trump's inner circle was leaking something pretty much constantly. I guarantee we'll hear that Preibus, Bannon, Jared, and Pence were all leaking stuff, the only high level guy who probably is zipping it is Sessions.

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


Agrajag posted:

i thoroughly examined this premise and have come to the conclusion of NO

do both and get faded as f

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
As Air Force One jetted back from Europe on Saturday, a small cadre of Mr. Trump’s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to give to The New York Times explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the Russian government. Participants on the plane and back in the United States debated how transparent to be in the statement, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Ultimately, the people said, the president signed off on a statement from Donald Trump Jr. for The Times that was so incomplete that it required day after day of follow-up statements, each more revealing than the last. It culminated on Tuesday with a release of emails making clear that Mr. Trump’s son believed the Russian lawyer was seeking to meet with him to provide incriminating information about Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

The Russia story has become the brier patch from which the president seemingly cannot escape. It dominated his trip to Europe last week and, after he leaves on Wednesday night for a couple of days in France, it may dominate that trip as well. Every time Mr. Trump tries to put the furor behind him, more disclosures thrust it back onto the Washington agenda.

Even before the latest reports, Mr. Trump’s head-spinning willingness on creating a joint cybersecurity team with Russia fueled criticism. Now people close to the president and to his legal effort are engaged in a circular firing squad, anonymously blaming one another for the decisions of the last few days.

:cawg:

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
Advisers said the president was annoyed not so much by his son as by the headlines. But three people close to the legal team said he had also trained his ire on Marc E. Kasowitz, his longtime lawyer, who is leading the team of private lawyers representing him. Mr. Trump, who often vents about advisers in times of trouble, has grown disillusioned by Mr. Kasowitz’s strategy, the people said.

The strain, though, exists on both sides. Mr. Kasowitz and his colleagues have been deeply frustrated by the president. And they have complained that Mr. Kushner has been whispering in the president’s ear about the Russia investigations and stories while keeping the lawyers out of the loop, according to another person familiar with the legal team. But one person familiar with Mr. Kasowitz’s thinking said his concerns did not relate to Mr. Kushner.

The president’s lawyers view Mr. Kushner as an obstacle and a freelancer more concerned about protecting himself than his father-in-law, the person said. While no ultimatum has been delivered, the lawyers have told colleagues that they cannot keep operating that way, raising the prospect that Mr. Kasowitz may resign.

:cawg: :cawg:

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

prefect posted:

Advisers said the president was annoyed not so much by his son as by the headlines. But three people close to the legal team said he had also trained his ire on Marc E. Kasowitz, his longtime lawyer, who is leading the team of private lawyers representing him. Mr. Trump, who often vents about advisers in times of trouble, has grown disillusioned by Mr. Kasowitz’s strategy, the people said.

The strain, though, exists on both sides. Mr. Kasowitz and his colleagues have been deeply frustrated by the president. And they have complained that Mr. Kushner has been whispering in the president’s ear about the Russia investigations and stories while keeping the lawyers out of the loop, according to another person familiar with the legal team. But one person familiar with Mr. Kasowitz’s thinking said his concerns did not relate to Mr. Kushner.

The president’s lawyers view Mr. Kushner as an obstacle and a freelancer more concerned about protecting himself than his father-in-law, the person said. While no ultimatum has been delivered, the lawyers have told colleagues that they cannot keep operating that way, raising the prospect that Mr. Kasowitz may resign.

:cawg: :cawg:

that's the good stuff

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


euphronius posted:

that's the good stuff

trust the process

pushpins
Sep 11, 2006


Title text (optional; no images are allowed, only text)
A well oiled circular firing machine

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

you don't often see a lawyer threaten to resign through anonymous sources in the front page of the nyt lol

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
Inside Mr. Trump’s team, the response to the developments has become a subject of intense dispute. Three people familiar with his son’s account said he pushed to offer a full explanation on Saturday when first contacted by The Times about the meeting, and said he agitated to be allowed to defend himself publicly. But three other people involved in the discussions offered a completely contrary version of events, insisting that the younger Mr. Trump adamantly resisted an expansive disclosure.

Elsewhere, Mr. Kasowitz was working separately to inform an article being prepared by Circa, a news outlet the White House considers favorable, instead of The Times. According to the person close to the legal team, Mr. Kasowitz was kept out of the discussion about Donald Trump Jr.’s initial statement and saw it only after it had been published online in the first Times article.

The original statement, drafted aboard Air Force One by advisers and then approved by Mr. Trump, said only that the Russian lawyer had discussed adoption policy during the meeting, without mentioning that the meeting had been offered as a chance to provide information about Mrs. Clinton’s dealings with Russia. Only after The Times followed up in preparation for another article did the younger Mr. Trump issue a second statement acknowledging that.

:cawg: :cawg: :cawg:

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


prefect posted:

Advisers said the president was annoyed not so much by his son as by the headlines. But three people close to the legal team said he had also trained his ire on Marc E. Kasowitz, his longtime lawyer, who is leading the team of private lawyers representing him. Mr. Trump, who often vents about advisers in times of trouble, has grown disillusioned by Mr. Kasowitz’s strategy, the people said.

The strain, though, exists on both sides. Mr. Kasowitz and his colleagues have been deeply frustrated by the president. And they have complained that Mr. Kushner has been whispering in the president’s ear about the Russia investigations and stories while keeping the lawyers out of the loop, according to another person familiar with the legal team. But one person familiar with Mr. Kasowitz’s thinking said his concerns did not relate to Mr. Kushner.

The president’s lawyers view Mr. Kushner as an obstacle and a freelancer more concerned about protecting himself than his father-in-law, the person said. While no ultimatum has been delivered, the lawyers have told colleagues that they cannot keep operating that way, raising the prospect that Mr. Kasowitz may resign.

:cawg: :cawg:

None of this will affect DJT in any way

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

tell me more...

Elephanthead
Sep 11, 2008


Toilet Rascal
Life under Trump, Pot is legal but the stores don't have any to sell you.

bean mom
Jan 30, 2009

Duel posted:

It was nice to look at cats while dredging through this thread of despair :shrug:

free powerball

again

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

euphronius posted:

you don't often see a lawyer threaten to resign through anonymous sources in the front page of the nyt lol

surprised he didnt already after the trump jr email tweets.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Citizen Tayne posted:

I don't think Nixon had a cell phone

Nixon resigned before he could be impeached

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot
also

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/...WT.nav=top-news

quote:

Natalia Veselnitskaya, Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr., Seen as Fearsome Moscow Insider

MOSCOW — When American prosecutors accused a senior Russian official’s son of laundering $14 million by investing in Manhattan property and other assets, she was called to defend him. When Moscow regional officials battled Ikea over the Swedish retailer’s expansion, she took on their case....

Ms. Veselnitskaya, 42, earned her status as the go-to lawyer for the Moscow regional government. For years, she has been a lawyer for the Katsyv family, whose patriarch, Pyotr D. Katsyv, was minister of transportation of the Moscow region for more than a decade, and whose son was caught up in the New York money laundering case.

The elder Mr. Katsyv is now a vice president of Russian Railways, a state-owned railroad monopoly that is the country’s largest employer and one long dogged by corruption allegations....

The elder Mr. Katsyv is now a vice president of Russian Railways, a state-owned railroad monopoly that is the country’s largest employer and one long dogged by corruption allegations.

The family’s trust in Ms. Veselnitskaya was rewarded in May, when she helped Denis P. Katsyv, Pyotr’s son, fight the money laundering claims in New York brought by the Manhattan federal prosecutor at the time, Preet Bharara. Mr. Bharara tangled with Ms. Veselnitskaya several times and protested at one point that she had been charging the government for a $995-a-night room at the Plaza Hotel.

The case was settled two months after Mr. Bharara was dismissed by President Trump.

In recent years, she had become the public face of Moscow’s efforts to reverse international travel and financial sanctions on key Russian figures linked to an alleged $230 million tax fraud....

Mr. Putin’s government has long been criticized as favoring an elite of loyal and trustworthy insiders who are permitted to manipulate the courts and government agencies to promote their interests — so long as they toe the Kremlin line. Ms. Veselnitskaya, lawyers and others who have followed her career said, was well versed in this game and wielded its weapons in the mad dash for real estate profits in the Moscow region that often pitted factions of current and former regional officials against one another.

She ain't some rando know nothing lawyer

this is going to be hilarrrious

Agrajag has issued a correction as of 14:05 on Jul 12, 2017

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


deadgoon posted:

tell me more...

Pittsburgh is good, friend. I'm there right now.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

A Handed Missus posted:

anime ATGMs for all!

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Main Paineframe posted:

Nixon resigned before he could be impeached

Bill Clinton probably didn't have one all the time either.

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012



AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011

zen death robot posted:

it's powerball and I could have just permabanned them again

At this point powerball is an account hopping alien parasite like in The Hidden.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
dont tell Agrajag but i love everything hes posting

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Elephanthead posted:

Life under Trump, Pot is legal but the stores don't have any to sell you.

Because some fuckass thought it would be good to have rurals run the cultivation.

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP



why do u want war baloogs

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Samurai Sanders posted:

Man reading articles saying nothing Junior did was actually illegal makes me wonder what even is illegal. Is running out into the street naked and firing a machine gun at houses still illegal?

If a Trump does it, it isn't illegal. Duh

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Lock her up

deathbysnusnu
Feb 25, 2016


Main Paineframe posted:

Nixon resigned before he could be impeached

Trump holds the world's highest score in blackjack because he won't stop saying hit me even after he hits 21. He won't resign. Imagine Watergate but Nixon was too loving stupid to listen to his lawyers or even put together a legal team.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Watergate but the water is piss

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bean mom
Jan 30, 2009


it must have been a personal hell for that many people to touch him

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