Trump's lawyer says collusion w/ Russia is conclusive

Yahoo News wrote:Michael Cohen Says Trump Knew About Trump Tower Meeting With Russians In Advance: CNN

Nick Visser, ,HuffPost•July 26, 2018

Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal attorney, said Donald Trump knew in advance about a meeting during the 2016 campaign in which Russians were expected to offer negative information about his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, according to a report by CNN.

Citing sources with knowledge of Cohen’s claims, CNN said the attorney is willing to share that information with special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russia’s attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election. The sources said Cohen does not have any evidence, including tapes, to back up his claims.

NBC News also reported that Cohen was willing to speak to Meuller about his claims, citing its own “knowledgeable source” on Thursday night.

The meeting occurred at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort. They met with a lawyer linked to the Kremlin and a Russian businessman who initially had offered to disclose dirt on Clinton.

Cohen claims he was in the room when Trump was told about that offer by Trump Jr., CNN said.

Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer and lead attorney on issues related to the Russia inquiry, said Thursday on CNN that Cohen was “just not credible.” He alluded that Cohen was “bitter” about not landing a job in the Trump administration and was “very, very jealous” of the president’s children.

“He’s been lying all week, or two weeks, he’s been lying for years,” Giuliani told CNN’s Chris Cuomo shortly after the report was published. “There’s no doubt in my mind that he’s just not credible. I wouldn’t accept him as a witness as a prosecutor.”

He continued to say he was “not worried” about Cohen’s claims “at all.”

Trump has repeatedly denied having any knowledge about the meeting and told The New York Times in July 2017 that he “didn’t know anything” about it. The Times also reported in June that Trump personally dictated a misleading statement about the purpose of the meeting, even after his aides repeatedly denied that he did so.

The meeting took place after a British publicist, Rob Goldstone, emailed Trump Jr. offering “very high level and sensitive” material linked to Russia that would be damaging to Clinton’s presidential campaign. Trump Jr. responded that if the information was good, “I love it,” and the two began to arrange the rendezvous.

The Russian lawyer at the meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya, has close ties to senior government officials at the Kremlin, The Associated Press reported earlier on Thursday. AP sifted through hundreds of documents that show Veselnitskaya served as a ghostwriter for top Russian government lawyers and worked with the staff of a senior official at the country’s Interior Ministry.

She has denied acting on behalf of Russian leadership during the meeting at Trump Tower, saying she operates “independently of any governmental bodies.” But Veselnitskaya said in April that she had been “actively communicating” with the Russian prosecutor general since 2013.

It’s the latest fracture between Cohen and his longtime client. Earlier this week, Cohen’s legal team released a secretly recorded conversation made in September 2016 in which the attorney and Trump discuss a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal. She has alleged that she had a months-long affair with Trump in 2006.

Doha Madani contributed reporting
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nicko wrote:
Mean while your economy grew over 4% !

nicko wrote:Mean while your economy grew over 4% !

nicko wrote:I thought he lowered Taxes and boosted the economy by 4% ?

Original Quill wrote:

nicko wrote:I thought he lowered Taxes and boosted the economy by 4% ?

Nup...the tax cut's already blown up in his face with his trade war and farm welfare.  He lowered corporate taxes, which under trickle-down theory, was supposed to result in more jobs...which, incidentally, we don't need.  We've got over-employment now.

What happened when he lowered corporate taxes--which I predicted on this very web site when the Tax Act passed--was that the money went to corporate buy-backs, and the rich got richer.  The problem now, what with over-employment (we are stuffed with low wage jobs, and two-jobs-per-person), is wages and benefits, which go into making employment more stable.  Trump does nothing when it comes to minimum wage, healthcare or longevity.  He considers wages and benefits, pandering to the riff-raff.

The economy has been booming for seven years as a result of Obama's efforts.  But watch and wait!  Trump, with his tariffs, trade war and farm welfare, will add to the debt even while destroying the growth.  If it can be fooked up, Trump will manage it.

Tax cuts boost the economy. Who knew? The American economy is booming, as figures released today show US GDP grew by a scorching 4.1% in 2017. Employment rates are the best they have been for decades, black and hispanic employment rates are the best they have been in decades. Each percentage point is equivalent to three trillion dollars, and ten million jobs.

Before his election, ‘experts’ predicted precisely the opposite.

• Moody’s said Trump’s policies would cause a “3.5 million lost jobs” and a “lengthy recession“.
  
  
• Billionaire Mark Cuban said he had “no doubt in [his] mind” that the stock market would “tank“.
  
  
• Citigroup said Trump winning could herald a “global recession“.
  
  
• Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers predicted a “protracted recession to begin within 18 months” of a Trump win.
  
  
• Forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers estimated a stock market crash of 8%.
  

People in the US will have had enough of experts now. They won’t have had enough of Trump in 2020…

https://order-order.com/2018/07/27/trumps-america-surging/


https://order-order.com/2018/07/27/trumps-america-surging/.

Didge wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Nup...the tax cut's already blown up in his face with his trade war and farm welfare.  He lowered corporate taxes, which under trickle-down theory, was supposed to result in more jobs...which, incidentally, we don't need.  We've got over-employment now.

What happened when he lowered corporate taxes--which I predicted on this very web site when the Tax Act passed--was that the money went to corporate buy-backs, and the rich got richer.  The problem now, what with over-employment (we are stuffed with low wage jobs, and two-jobs-per-person), is wages and benefits, which go into making employment more stable.  Trump does nothing when it comes to minimum wage, healthcare or longevity.  He considers wages and benefits, pandering to the riff-raff.

The economy has been booming for seven years as a result of Obama's efforts.  But watch and wait!  Trump, with his tariffs, trade war and farm welfare, will add to the debt even while destroying the growth.  If it can be fooked up, Trump will manage it.

I, like many Americans dislike Trump, but here are the facts:

Tax cuts boost the economy. Who knew? The American economy is booming, as figures released today show US GDP grew by a scorching 4.1% in 2017. Employment rates are the best they have been for decades, black and hispanic employment rates are the best they have been in decades. Each percentage point is equivalent to three trillion dollars, and ten million jobs.

Before his election, ‘experts’ predicted precisely the opposite.

• Moody’s said Trump’s policies would cause a “3.5 million lost jobs” and a “lengthy recession“.
  
  
• Billionaire Mark Cuban said he had “no doubt in [his] mind” that the stock market would “tank“.
  
  
• Citigroup said Trump winning could herald a “global recession“.
  
  
• Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers predicted a “protracted recession to begin within 18 months” of a Trump win.
  
  
• Forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers estimated a stock market crash of 8%.
  

People in the US will have had enough of experts now. They won’t have had enough of Trump in 2020…

https://order-order.com/2018/07/27/trumps-america-surging/


https://order-order.com/2018/07/27/trumps-america-surging/.

Which goes back to my same question everytime

Do people care more about what is in their pockets, than they do about human rights?

Answers on a postcard

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:

I, like many Americans dislike Trump, but here are the facts:


Which goes back to my same question everytime

Do people care more about what is in their pockets, than they do about human rights?

Answers on a postcard

Give it time.  All the doom prognostications will come to fruition if Trump is allowed to proceed.  /

Original Quill wrote:Bedding down with the mafia is something that someone should do only with high reservation...no matter how much bread is on the table.

It'll get you in the end...as Mr. Trump knows well.

NBC wrote:Senator says Russians made failed attempt to hack her computer

The alleged attempt is one of the first public acknowledgments of a cyberattack tied to the midterm elections.

Thursday, July 26th 2018, 11:05 pm EDT

Sen. Claire McCaskill alleged on Thursday that Russian hackers have tried to gain access to her office’s computer network but have not succeeded.

The alleged attempt is one of the first public acknowledgments of a cyberattack tied to the midterm elections. McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, is seeking a third term representing a state that voted for Republican Failing Cheeto-Faced Ferret-Wearing Shit Gibbon two years ago, and she is among the most at-risk Senate Democrats in the upcoming midterms.

“While this attack was not successful, it is outrageous that they think they can get away with this. I will not be intimidated,” McCaskill said in a statement from her office calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “a thug and a bully.”

Original Quill wrote:No, he isn't.  He's already in slide mode.  Only the Russians can save him.  They've tried...

NBC wrote:Senator says Russians made failed attempt to hack her computer

The alleged attempt is one of the first public acknowledgments of a cyberattack tied to the midterm elections.

Thursday, July 26th 2018, 11:05 pm EDT

Sen. Claire McCaskill alleged on Thursday that Russian hackers have tried to gain access to her office’s computer network but have not succeeded.

The alleged attempt is one of the first public acknowledgments of a cyberattack tied to the midterm elections. McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, is seeking a third term representing a state that voted for Republican Failing Cheeto-Faced Ferret-Wearing Shit Gibbon two years ago, and she is among the most at-risk Senate Democrats in the upcoming midterms.

“While this attack was not successful, it is outrageous that they think they can get away with this. I will not be intimidated,” McCaskill said in a statement from her office calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “a thug and a bully.”

After the kidnapping of little girls for his Russian friends, he doesn't stand well with women.  

veya_victaous wrote:it's not the majority his base is only like 30% but that is still enough to win an election without mandatory voting

Didge wrote:You never once claimed it was not democratic under Obama and this is what is wrong with the hypocrisy of some of the left

Didge wrote:The US is not a white nationalist state, more hyperbole to say the least, when the majority voted in a Black President