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Francisco 2.0

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  1. 31 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

    There's still a lot of series left to be played, but yeah I was all in on the Bucks a little more than a year ago - long, athletic, young team with a budding superstar. Wow was I wrong on them and Greek Freak ain't Lebron.  Not even close.

    Milwaukee's body language was terrible.  They look/play like a team that knows as soon as the season is over, it's gonna get blown up.  

  2. 29 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    All bottles have been opened, ready for pouring.  I'd hate to have someone wonder whether it's worth breaking the seal on one, when we need to focus on having a good seat to watch the Republic burn to ashes.

    And again, y'all think I'm kidding.  I'm not.  The Republic survives.  Until it doesn't.

    PM me your address; I'll be down ASAP on the day of reckoning. 

  3. To be honest, I'm kinda surprised.  I figured he would just tweet out something like "I'm not paying taxes any longer, because Obama didn't" or Hillary or whatever. 

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/17/trump-tax-returns-extension-528945

     

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    Count President Donald Trump among the Americans who won’t meet Tuesday’s deadline for filing his tax returns.

    The White House confirmed Tuesday that the president has filed for an extension on his taxes, although a spokesman did not immediately respond to a follow-up question as to whether Trump had filed for extra time on his federal or state taxes. The extension deadline for both federal taxes and New York state taxes is Oct. 15.

    The White House spokesman also did not immediately offer a reason why Trump was unable to meet Tuesday's tax deadline, although White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a reporter that the president had "filed an extension ... as do many Americans with complex returns."

     

  4. 4 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    It bugs him to no end that he will never be as popular as Barack Obama.

    I'm really surprised he hasn't thrown out a line along the lines of "but Obama will never have as much money or property as me" or somesuch.

     

     

  5. 9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Only a Trumpkin could see increasingly interlinked evidence between Russia, Trump, and Fox and blow it off with "Riiiiiight".  Congratulations, you're a pawn.

    Maybe it didn't come across quite the way I intended...

    9 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Maybe I'm wrong but I think he's saying the far right sycophants will just spin the news that much more...

    This.

  6. Just now, Mdhorn said:

    The whores really came home to roost on this.  Seriously, WTF, they are full on treasonous sons of bitches.  Will be interesting to see if their followers are too.

    Riiiiiight.

     

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/sean-hannity-michael-cohen-client-far-right-response?mbid=social_twitter

     

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    “So it has gone from Russia collusion, to a St. Petersburg troll farm, to Stormy Daniels, to Michael Cohen, and now, Sean Hannity?” Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft asked rhetorically, reeling from a whirlwind day that began with Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, walking into federal court, and ended with the revelation that Cohen claimed Hannity as a client. “Where does it stop and what the hell does this have to do with the Russia collusion?”

     

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    Fellow MAGA pundit and troll Jack Posobiec called Hannity a casualty of the Mueller probe and Cohen’s incompetence. In fact, he added, people in his circles believe that Cohen is a greater danger to his other clients than to Trump. “Most [think] Cohen’s clients are going to kill him when their files all get leaked to the media,” he said, just minutes before the Hannity revelation went public. (“See what I mean?” he texted later.)

    Kurt Schlicter, a pro-Trump columnist for Townhall, agreed that Trump, Cohen, and Hannity were getting a raw deal. “I don’t think Trump did anything wrong, so I don’t think it’s dangerous. It’s very clear that there’s no Russia stuff. What happened with Stormy Daniels”—the $130,000 payoff, which Cohen said he paid out of pocket, and which critics suggest may constitute an illegal campaign contribution, à la the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter affair—“I keep trying to find the crime, and I can’t.” Even if some sort of crime had been committed, Schlichter suggested, Trump and Cohen would have to be “terrible crooks” to keep the evidence. “But if these guys are this crime family why do you think they’d keep something incriminating around? That’s just silly. More than that, I don’t think there’s anything incriminating. I think there’s stuff that might be embarrassing.”

     

  7. On  Shep Smith's show the news broke.  Someone got hold of Hannity's PR flack:

     

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    “We just spoke with his publicist here at Fox News who says that he says they’ve been friends for a long time, he never denied that he he was his lawyer, that he did some legal work along the way, and that’s the extent of that,” Smith reported.

    What a clusterfuck.  Highly entertaining as well.  

  8. Meanwhile:

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/13/michael-cohen-hearing-fbi-raid-522053

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    Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen went to court Friday trying to stop federal prosecutors from getting at private material — but wound up with a judge ordering them to disclose Cohen’s client list in public.

    U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood on Friday ordered attorneys for Cohen to hand over a list of Cohen’s law clients and proof of their relationship by 10 a.m. Monday, so she can decide whether materials seized from Cohen’s office by federal law enforcement agents last week should be protected by attorney-client privilege.

    That list will be a public record, Wood said, because the identities of an attorney’s clients are not subject to attorney-client privilege unless the mere name itself would reveal the kind of advice sought or given.

    Wood’s order raises the possibility of further embarrassing disclosures involving Cohen, who is already at the center of a legal dispute involving adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who is suing the president to void a nondisclosure agreement negotiated by Cohen concerning a sexual encounter Daniels says she had with Trump in 2006.

     

  9. 5 minutes ago, woohorn said:

    According to WSJ, "pregnancy" was late 2017.

    Wikipedia says Brody got RNC job April 2017, so quid pro quo evidence isn't great:

    "In 2016 Broidy served as a vice chairman of the Trump Victory Committee, a joint fundraising committee between the Donald Trump campaign and the RNC.[16] In addition, he served as a vice chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee.[17] In April 2017 Broidy was named a national deputy finance chairmen of the RNC.[18]"

    I just read the WSJ article.  Article  doesn't say when the pregnancy occurred, just that she received her first payment in December 2017.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-negotiated-1-6-million-settlement-for-top-republican-fundraiser-1523638726

     

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    President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by a top Republican fundraiser, according to people familiar with the matter.

    Michael Cohen, whose office, home and hotel room were raided by federal agents this week, arranged the payments to the woman on behalf of Elliott Broidy, a deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee with ties to Mr. Trump, the people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Broidy, a Los Angeles-based venture capitalist, works on the Republican committee with Mr. Cohen, who is also a national deputy finance chairman.

    The deal, which hasn’t previously been reported, prohibits the Los Angeles woman from disclosing her alleged relationship with Mr. Broidy in exchange for $1.6 million to be paid to her over two years in quarterly installments, these people said. The first payment was due Dec. 1, according to one of the people.

     

  10. As long as we are posting what-ifs.

    Assuming Broidy is taking the heat for this....what if Trump got this woman pregnant in the last year or so?  Her first payment was sent in December 2017.   If something like this happened, I can see the asking price for silence to be much, much higher than what Stormy received.  

    $1.6 million?  Did Broidy give it to Cohen...or was it acquired by different means?

    So many possibilities.  

     

  11. 8 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    It would be great if Cohen was already a fully cooperating witness at the time of the call.

    That statement by Cohen earlier this week that went like, “The FBI was extremely professional, polite, and courteous when they no knock raided my entire life.” Seemed very un-Cohen like.

    That's possible.

    You have to wonder if Cohen was instructed not to have any communications with Trump after Monday. 

    Then again, it doesn't appear that these folks are the sharpest intellects.

     

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