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boop the snoot posted:From what I’ve heard, it’s a campaign finance issue because the hush money was used to keep Stormy Daniels quiet during trump’s run for president, that he repaid back to Michael Cohen. The campaign finance issue is because campaign dollars were used to pay hush money to a porn star. It was deliberately obfuscated poorly to hide the fact, but that's why this is a problem. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 19:16 on May 3, 2018 |
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Also, don't forget, Trump's newest lawyer Rudy Guiliani flat out called the arrangement between Cohen and Trump to pay off Daniels "funneling" as if it weren't any more obvious they were trying to hide what was happening.
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May 3, 2018 19:11
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Kush is having to amend disclosure forms again. He's over 40 amendments now.
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May 3, 2018 21:45
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psydude posted:This wouldn't do anything because social security is a flat tax on wages earned by W2 employees. Anyone making that much money is making it from investments or business profits. Tax all dividends/capital gains as regular income. That solves basically all problems.
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May 4, 2018 14:02
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:The Cheeto in Chief is really mashing that tweet button this morning. He’s in trouble.
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May 4, 2018 16:04
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BigDave posted:Is that a corgi herding sheep?! Corgis are herding dogs. That’s why they were bred.
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May 4, 2018 19:19
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Elon Musk is the son of apartheid emerald magnates and owes all of his starting fortune and success directly to that. His own hubris and ego has led to the death/injuries of factory workers due to blatant osha violations and his stupid cars continue to kill people while his company continues to lose billions of dollars. 100% of musks push for anything is to make his life avoiding anyone other than fellow 1%ers with ease.
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May 5, 2018 21:00
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Musk:tech bubble::Trump:real estate He’s a blowhard that used his family’s blood money to build his companies that do nothing but burn investor money. Teslas aren’t even close to the best EVs on the road, cost 2-3x as much, and have a tendency to kill their drivers.
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May 5, 2018 21:13
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The bolt blows the equivalent tesla out of the water. Basically all of the big auto manufacturers have EVs and hybrid options that are better than anything Tesla has to offer minus a 21” lcd in the middle of your dash that controls everything. Tesla has never made money and will likely be defunct in a couple of years after the current tech bubble pops. Due to the locked down nature of the cars, any on the road right now will be bricks in 2-3 years. Elon musk is sue happy as gently caress and deliberately targets any journalist that says a negative thing about his cars. Jeremy Clarkson and the BBC got sued after a review of an old Tesla on Top Gear. It was a bit of a gag in the grand tour tesla episode this year that every part of the review had to go through the legal department before Clarkson could say it on air, but in this case the joke is also reality.
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May 5, 2018 21:57
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I’m talking about the deaths due to “autopilot.” Teslas have a horrible safety record. I’m not saying that others haven’t had bad poo poo happen, but their response is usually recall and correction rather than to get into big public slapfights with regulatory bodies.
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May 5, 2018 21:59
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I’m not saying other car manufacturers are completely innocent. Far from it. Other car manufacturers generally have union shops, though, and aren’t afraid to paint things in yellow despite safety requirements because it might upset the boss.
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May 6, 2018 16:11
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I’m not saying that other auto makers are good. They’re poo poo. Tesla is a special breed of poo poo. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/04/18/tesla-osha-investigation-worker-safety
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May 6, 2018 16:31
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Casimir Radon posted:If he goes to prison he'll lose access to whatever pathetic rich guy poo poo he's doing to his head. Propecia isn’t exactly expensive.
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May 6, 2018 20:16
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So the Be Best pamphlet that came out today is an almost verbatim ripoff of the obama era ftc brochure on the same subject except there’s a picture of Melania on page 2 now and slight wording change on a page towards the end. The graphics, fonts, layouts, and everything else are identical.
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May 7, 2018 22:45
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They presented it as completely original work product and make no mention anywhere that it is a reproduction.
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May 8, 2018 00:10
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So wait, the dogs only are good for sniffing out weed? Like they weren't trained for anything else or is detecting any other drug via dog a load of bullshit?
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May 8, 2018 14:13
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mlmp08 posted:Presumably all those false hits on weed once it's legal would mean that they wouldn't be admissible as drug dogs anymore, cause they'd get hits all the time on legal weed, which would be a 4th amendment nightmare, even if the cop was looking for a different drug. There's already a threshold of false hits dogs must meet in order to be certified for LEO work, otherwise crooked officers would just train dogs to hit on literally anything and everything so they could search whenever they wanted. ah I didn't think about false positives for legal weed. That makes more sense.
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May 8, 2018 14:21
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Israel is about to get "invaded" by iran and we're going to go to loving war or something god damned stupid.
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May 8, 2018 20:01
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company-payments.html Goes a lot further into all the most recent money laundering activities of michael cohen on behalf of trump. Close to $5m in the couple of months leading up to the election and right after. e:  this story will be updating at the bottom.
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May 9, 2018 01:26
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orange juche posted:Holy poo poo if any of this sticks to trump, i.e. anything on record of trump ordering the actions, trump is sunk. sir, I'm afraid nothing matters and neither will this unless both houses get flipped in the mid terms this year.
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May 9, 2018 01:30
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So if anyone hasn't been keeping up, Cohen created an LLC for the purpose of receiving bribes for trump which he then used to pay off various porn stars for silence and abortions. He funneled almost $5m from a sanctioned Russian oligarch, AT&T (they confirmed they paid $200k for "insight" - they were also working on the purchase of time warner at the time), and a pharmaceutical company among others.
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May 9, 2018 01:36
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Cohen went to Cooley school of Law. If you're curious about the quality of Cooley, they're on page 8/9 of the US news law school rankings in the category of "ranked but not published" yet have tuition and fees higher than some of the schools at the top. They are also in a legal battle (which they are losing) with the ABA over their accreditation.
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May 9, 2018 01:53
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psydude posted:Hahaha man he's so hosed. Well, you are if you don't get a dog in that post. But here's the fun part about America - if Trump had lost the election none of this would have ever came to light. Cohen is hosed and will probably flip, but I'm not holding my breath at this being the mattering point for Trump yet. Trump costing boeing $20b today and tons of American jobs is a bigger deal than any of this cohen poo poo to republicans. edit: you linked to the gallery not the image here you go: 
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May 9, 2018 01:56
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orange juche posted:So he's literally Lionel Hutz then? says who!? psydude posted:Phone posting. Tried putting an attachment in and it isn't showing up so oh well. I have it in my post if you wanna copy/paste. regardless you tried and I think that should count.
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May 9, 2018 01:58
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:So there's a bunch of news about where the money was coming from, but we only know about the $130k that went out. So far. no we know where more of it went. 1.6m went to pay another porn star off including an abortion. cohen moved a lot of bags around for trump.
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May 9, 2018 01:59
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orange juche posted:drat, Stormy sold herself way short if Trump was willing to pay 1.6m in hush money to another porn star. stormy didn't also need an abortion. Also that 1.6 probably wasn't all to the porn star, some of it went to the fall guy republican donor.
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May 9, 2018 02:06
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Cohen was notorious for recording everything to the point that people would try to catch him in hallways to talk to him so they would have a better chance of not being recorded.
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May 9, 2018 02:14
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Vasudus posted:that's uh To some extent it doesn't matter one bit what cohen says or does. He had all of his poo poo seized when raided by the FBI. If there are any recordings of salacious dealings the FBI and the NY AG office already have it.
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May 9, 2018 02:23
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Blankenship conceded by walking to the podium, throwing his hands up in the air, and walking off in a huff.
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May 9, 2018 03:10
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That Works posted:Hahah for real? Dude was walking around in the leadup to the results saying he didn't give a gently caress because he's off probation in a couple of days and gets his guns back and can cross state lines again so either way he's a winner.
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May 9, 2018 03:17
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CommieGIR posted:Department of Labor is loosening child labor regs to allow teens to work full time jobs at 15 in hazardous environments. 
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May 9, 2018 03:20
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Novartis, the pharmaceutical company, has confirmed that they gave $1.2m to Essential Consultants, LLC for insight into how to best influence policy with the new administration. The contract was set up with $100k/month payments for 1 year. No one met with Cohen in person until month 3, at which point Novartis decided Cohen couldn't do anything for them. They continued to pay out the rest of the contract, however, despite claiming that Cohen could do nothing for them.
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May 9, 2018 17:59
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Nick Soapdish posted:The only way they could terminate it was for cause and being completely useless isn't cause. A contract for nothing is not a valid contract. The whole "oh we could only get out for cause" thing is an excuse to try to waive away the blatant bribe.
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May 9, 2018 18:08
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Nick Soapdish posted:Interesting, thanks law talkin' guy I may not be entirely correct, and someone more experienced will probably come along and say something better on point, but if Cohen really was useless as they claim, the only reason they kept making payments was to keep this out of court and the public spotlight. I'm sure for a pharm giant $1.2 million to avoid saying you got hustled by the president's idiot lawyer is an easy write off. They absolutely did not keep paying because they were bound by some "for cause" clause.
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May 9, 2018 18:12
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That Works posted:Former coworker of mine got laid off from Novartis (R&D) last year after his group got downsized. These payments would have covered the annual salary for him. Guess how mad he is right now. They could have kept your friend's poo poo going regardless of this as well but they might not make quite as much profit as they could by downsizing and trying to bribe the president.
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May 9, 2018 18:14
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Man when does avenatti sleep The NDA lawsuit/defamation suit against cohen is pending depending on how many charges get filed against him by the FBI in NY. The defamation suit against trump is pending the same, iirc. All the tv appearances and such are just building his case in the media since trump and crew’s MO is to try to control the narrative first and foremost. He’s pushing all this because he wants Cohen and Trump to just settle so he and stormy can get loving paid on the media circuit, books, videos, etc.
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May 10, 2018 02:51
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https://twitter.com/LeanneNaramore/status/994626363675103234
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May 10, 2018 18:35
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Soulex posted:Some of those who work forces Beat me to it. Was gonna just quote myself from a few pages back. I have some cop friends irl and they are all decent people, but there are definitely a gently caress ton of white supremacists in all aspects of the leo community. It doesn't help that Jeff Sessions is currently in charge of policing in the country.
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May 10, 2018 18:49
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I can see that song being true about the DoD and State, County, and City police departments. The FBI was investigating themselves for white supremacist penetration before Trump took office, and had been for years.
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If you wouldn’t be laughing your rear end off after watching multiple hummers loving crater you aren’t someone i want to know.
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