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When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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Yo, Donald…

This is what happens when you use as your fixer some thug/schmoe who went to the worst law school in the country:

President Trump’s personal attorney Michael D. Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, according to three people familiar with his practice, and allies of the president are worried that the recordings were seized by federal investigators in a raid of Cohen’s office and residences this week.

…

“We heard he had some proclivity to make tapes,” said one Trump adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. “Now we are wondering, who did he tape? Did he store those someplace where they were actually seized? . . . Did they find his recordings?” [Via The Washington Post]

So. On one side you have an A-Team-led set of investigators.  On the other you have Michael D. Cohen, Esq.

Damn straight I’d be worried if I were one of the Trumpenvolk.

As I’m not…

Moah popcorn, plz.

Thread for the threadbare!

Image:  Lucas Cranach the Elder, Ill-Matched Lovers/The Old Fool, 1530s

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  3. 3.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    Is there going to be a missing 18 minutes of tape this time too?

  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    Not one but TWO Comey stories up right now on Fox Snooze dot com:

    2) Comey still skeptical of Clinton email investigation’s handling

    1) Comey lobs bombs at Trump, hints at classified info on [Loretta] Lynch

    Followed by a number of Hannity ‘hot takes’ on Comey, Clinton, Lynch, more

    No note of Trumpov concern about pee story, hookers, overall theme of Trumpov as lying, Mob-style scum

  5. 5.

    hellslittlestangel

    Cohen: Hey, some of those audio files are missing. Too bad, pal. I was under no obligation to preserve them.
    Mueller: That’s alright. We rebuilt the file allocation table and recovered them all.
    Cohen: So you can just — what?

  8. 8.

    Schlemazel

    @hellslittlestangel:
    I have done computer forensics work in the past & people were amazed that files they had deleted could be recovered. Seriously folks, if you have something to hide spend 30 minutes googling information about secure file deletion. There is no excuse considering the money & mob guys this clown worked with.

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    That is a rather terrifying painting. Hope Omnes and Billin don’t see it; they’ll never sleep again.

  10. 10.

    hueyplong

    Why would someone spill to outsiders his/her concern about tapes? I can’t think of a reason, unless it is that the person wants them found and has some inkling that they weren’t gathered up in the recent raid. But then, I’m attempting logic when talking about a Trump employee, which is a fool’s game.

    Somewhere Mr Cohen is having one of those Manafort internal conversations about whether he fears prosecution more than Russian bearers of tea and/or umbrellas. Not sure Trump can trust Cohen to be as knowledgeable/smart in that contemplation as Manafort appears to be.

  11. 11.

    oatler.

    You and your Cranach the Elder porn. When are we going to get the Arnolfini Shotgun Wedding money shot?

  14. 14.

    laura

    Thanks entire GOP any every fool that was fine with less vetting and experience than it takes to get hired by McDonald’s, and this crime-foof and his kids all thought it was the swellest idea ever. And journalists and courtiers and their owners thought it’d be A-OK to ignore the smoldering dumptster.

    This one’s gonna leave a mark. A big, greasy, orangish skidder.

  15. 15.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @David Fud:
    As someone said downstairs I hope the pee tape doesn’t exist, if only for the sex workers in it that might be put in danger due to it’s reveal.

  18. 18.

    TenguPhule

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    As someone said downstairs I hope the pee tape doesn’t exist, if only for the sex workers in it that might be put in danger due to it’s reveal.

    They’re either assets in good standing with the former KGB or dead.

  19. 19.

    randy khan

    @hellslittlestangel:

    Cohen: Hey, some of those audio files are missing. Too bad, pal. I was under no obligation to preserve them.
    Mueller: That’s alright. We rebuilt the file allocation table and recovered them all.
    Cohen: So you can just — what?

    To reprise a comment I just made on LGM, I’d say there’s less than a five percent chance he was smart enough to throw away or destroy the drive with these files. I’d say it’s about 20 percent chance he just put them in the trash and did nothing else, and maybe 40 percent that he remembered to empty the trash.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Scary as clowns, though.

    ETAPS: Did you see that early morning picture — from NotMax? Can’t remember — of the Hat-O-Mat? Now THAT’S fuckin’ terrifying.

  28. 28.

    David Fud

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: Audio tapes would be a bit less invasive, but… 1) once one sees/hears it, such a thing cannot be unseen/unheard; and, 2) I would hope that the lack of video would help with the safety problem you note; and, 3) Putin likes for the U.S. to have chaos, so he is almost certainly hoping for the maximum damage to us via damaging Trump at this point, undercutting him as much as possible. I doubt he would destroy witnesses if it came to light.

    Of course, I am not a spook, so my thoughts on Putin could be totally wrong.

  32. 32.

    raven

    WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly issued an executive order on Thursday demanding an evaluation of the Postal Service’s finances, asserting the power of his office weeks after accusing Amazon, the online retail giant, of not paying its fair share in postage.

    In the executive order, issued just before 9 p.m., Mr. Trump created a task force to examine the service’s “unsustainable financial path” and directed the new group to “conduct a thorough evaluation of the operations and finances of the U.S.P.S.”

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Report is Dolt 45 “poised to pardon” so it is not yet a done deal.

    Ploy to distract the media and temporarily make something besides the Russia story a top headline, plus gauge how a pardon is reported (and by whom). Ooh, shiny!

  42. 42.

    JPL

    @Mnemosyne: On Rachel just now, they think it is a way of showing others under indictment that they too will get pardoned.
    Scooter had his law license restored and can vote, so it does seem strange. It’s nothing more than a signal.

  43. 43.

    GregB

    This week in Republican governance.

    Republican Congressman Blake Farenthold abruptly resigns in shadow of sexual harassment allegations.

    Former Republican Congressman Steve Stockman found guilty on 23 felony charges.

    Missouri Governor Eric Greitens accused of sexual assault charges by female acquaintance.

    10 Louisiana Republicans fail to vote against human/animal sex.

    President Trump accused of fathering child with house keeper.

    President Trump pardons felon Scooter Libby.

  47. 47.

    SFAW

    @raven:

    Another example of Fuckhead using his office to go after political enemies.

    Thank FSM we have adults in Congress who will rein him in, just the way all the “serious” people in 2016 said they would.

  50. 50.

    MJS

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Or he’s stupid enough to think that if he establishes a pattern of ridiculous pardons, by the time he gets to Manafort, et al, the media may just shrug their shoulders and say, “Hey, it’s what he does. What are you gonna do?”

  51. 51.

    Felony Govt (Formerly Old Broad in California)

    Scooter Libby? That’s a blast from the past. What’s that all about? Is he just stretching his pardoning muscles?

  52. 52.

    Corner Stone

    @GregB:

    10 Louisiana Republicans fail to vote against human/animal sex.

    Who amongst us has not engaged in a little “Death Roll” sex fantasies?

  53. 53.

    Mnemosyne

    @JPL:

    I wonder if it’s also meant to curry favor with Dick Cheney and his cronies, since Dick was always pissed that W only commuted Libby’s sentence and didn’t pardon him.

  60. 60.

    Mike in NC

    Trump has always bragged (hard to believe, I know) about only hiring the best people. The reality, of course, is that he goes to the lowest bidders, quality be damned.

  63. 63.

    hueyplong

    @Mike in NC: Don’t forget the part where he stiffs those low bidders, thereby encouraging lower and lower quality in each subsequent hiring.

  66. 66.

    danielx

    @raven:

    Right. Maybe they’ll comment on how USPS is required to fund pensions for 75 years, which has some small effect on finances?

  68. 68.

    sdhays

    @GregB: That’s certainly a…bold position to take in an election year. It makes you wonder how many will vote against it in the state House.

  71. 71.

    Corner Stone

    Mmmaaaannnn!!!!
    “Stormy Daniels’ ‘Make America Horny Again’ shows postponed, canceled”

  72. 72.

    TriassicSands

    So. On one side you have an A-Team-led set of investigators.

    Fake news! A-Team? C’mon, Tom, they’re all “hardened Democrats” whose only purpose in life is to persecute and ultimately “get” the beleaguered president of the United States. Given that Trump is the state, anything that is bad for Trump is by definition a disaster for the country. This poor man gave up a lucrative career cheating other people out of their money and suing anyone who crossed him to serve as president in an effort to use that office to further enrich himself and his family. What could be more American than that? His integrity is unquestioned* and what Mueller and his so-called A-Team are doing would horrify the framers who set up a country of, by, and for propertied, white men. Give Donald “L’etat c’est moi” the First a break. He’s not hurting anyone.**

    * He has none.
    ** Apart from about 7-1/2 billion people who aren’t rich or members of his family or autocratic thugs leading repressive regimes.

  77. 77.

    Mandalay

    @GregB:

    Former Republican Congressman Steve Stockman found guilty on 23 felony charges.

    Nobody could have predicted that Stockman is the real victim here…

    Former U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman — a political maverick once viewed as a champion of right-wing causes — was convicted Thursday of masterminding a wide-ranging fraud scheme that diverted $1.25 million in charitable donations from wealthy conservative philanthropists to cover personal expenses and campaign debts…

    ….Stockman told reporters he had been targeted for speaking out against the Internal Revenue Service and was a victim of the “deep state” that allegedly exists within federal agencies.

  82. 82.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Jeffro: What does 2 even mean? Comey is skeptical of… what? How his office bungled the investigation and was prejudiced against Hillary in its public statements?

  83. 83.

    efgoldman

    @khead:

    I want to know why Conor McGregor hasn’t been deported yet.

    Stupid question.
    Nice white guy with a brogue, AND he can afford the best lawyes

  84. 84.

    donnah

    Avenatti on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show tonight is hilarious. The breaking news about recordings that Cohen kept and were confiscated by the FBI has Avenatti joking that he’s smarter than Cohen, adding that he’s not bragging; that most people in the world are smarter than Cohen.

    The noose around Cohen’s neck is tightening and pretty soon he’s gonna drop.

  86. 86.

    PeakVT

    Soon to be heard in FBI headquarters….

    “Says who? Play that last bit again, would you?”

  87. 87.

    J R in WV

    @GregB:

    This week in Republican governance.

    Republican Congressman Blake Farenthold abruptly resigns in shadow of sexual harassment allegations.

    Former Republican Congressman Steve Stockman found guilty on 23 felony charges.

    Missouri Governor Eric Greitens accused of sexual assault charges by female acquaintance.

    10 Louisiana Republicans fail to vote against human/animal sex.

    President Trump accused of fathering child with house keeper.

    President Trump pardons felon Scooter Libby.

    And it isn’t even Friday yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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