OT the PIT - reincarnation

And the more I watched today it sure did seem like he/the people doing the report did interfere with the 2018 election

I assume you are talking about Trump reportedly telling one of his aides to fire Mueller and the aide didn't follow up on it?  If that isn't it what are you referring to?  Not arguing just wanting to know.

Trump has been very public in firing people.  When he fired Comey there was an official press release and a letter to Comey signed by Trump. 

 

So if he wanted to fire Mueller he wouldn't have just relied on one of his aides to deliver the message.  The one area I thought Trump came dangerously close on obstruction was taking part in crafting the press release Don Jr. sent out regarding the meeting with the Russian attorney which contained false information.

Agree. While I understand the specific wording of he wasn’t “exonerated”...if all those Trump hating dems couldn't/wouldn’t/didn’t prosecute him, thats good enough for me to say the whole thing was a deep state witch hunt.

Ha Ha Ha!

Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, a fierce critic of President Trump, said Wednesday that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's House Judiciary Committee hearing was a "disaster" that set back impeachment efforts.

“Much as I hate to say it, this morning’s hearing was a disaster," Tribe tweeted. "Far from breathing life into his damning report, the tired Robert Mueller sucked the life out of it. The effort to save democracy and the rule of law from this lawless president has been set back, not advanced.

Lest anyone forget:

On Thursday, Leeann Tweeden, a radio host and former model, came forward with the accusation that Senator Al Franken of Minnesota had kissed her against her will during a 2006 United Service Organizations trip to Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In a story posted to the website of Los Angeles’s KABC station, Tweeden shared her experience with Franken. She also shared that photo. “I couldn’t believe it,” she wrote. “He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep.”



I felt violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated.



How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it’s funny?



I told my husband everything that happened and showed him the picture.



I wanted to shout my story to the world with a megaphone to anyone who would listen, but even as angry as I was, I was worried about the potential backlash and damage going public might have on my career as a broadcaster.

That is what I’m referring to. I agree there’s something a bit odd about it but he probably got some advice that a public firing of Mr. Mueller would guarantee his downfall.

I wasn’t aware of the Don Jr thing until now. I suppose it is a question whether it knowingly contained false information.

TRO

It is hard to believe Trump would have been so stupid to collude with the Russians given the extent that the NSA listens in on everything.
Trump may be arrogant enough to think he is beyond their ability to get him but that is a pretty big bet to make.
I do think Trump knew at least some aspects of what Cohen was doing on but was smart enough to have sufficient distance and deniability.

Robert Mueller told lawmakers on Wednesday that Russian interference in US political campaigns continues unabated to this day — and will likely continue through the 2020 election.

GOP Texas Rep. Will Hurd had asked: “Did you think that this was a single attempt by the Russians to get involved in our election or did you find evidence to suggest they’ll try to do this again?” during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee.

“It wasn’t a single attempt. They’re doing it as we sit here and they expect to do it during the next campaign,” he said.

So now Israel is Nazi Germany:

The Michigan congresswoman was speaking against a House resolution passed Wednesday that opposes the movement because it “does not favor a two-state solution and that seeks to exclude the State of Israel and the Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life of the rest of the world,” the text of HR 246 states.

Tlaib started by saying she would not allow Congress to attack the right to “boycott the racist policies of the government and state of Israel.”

“The right to boycott is deeply rooted in the fabric of our country,” Tlaib said. “What was the Boston Tea Party but a boycott? Where would we be now without the boycott led by civil rights activists in the 1950s and ’60s, like the Montgomery bus boycott and the United Farm Workers grape boycott?”

She continued that some of the country’s “most important advances in racial equality and equity and workers’ rights” have been achieved through constitutional, collective action.

“Americans boycotted Nazi Germany in response to the dehumanization, imprisonment and genocide of Jewish people,” Tlaib said.

The so called community strikes again:

Rapper Taymore “Tay-K” McIntyre was sentenced Tuesday to 55 years in prison for his role in the 2016 shooting death of a Texas man during a robbery gone wrong.

McIntyre, who was just 16 at the time, was tried as an adult. He was convicted Friday of murder and was sentenced to 55 years in addition to a $10,000 fine for charges related to the death of 21-year-old Ethan Walker.

He was also found guilty on three counts of aggravated robbery and sentenced to 30 years in prison for one charge and an additional 13 years each for the two remaining charges, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. These sentences are set to run concurrently with his murder sentence.
Prosecutors said that McIntyre, now 19, was the mastermind behind the robbery, organizing it and recruiting the man who ultimately shot and killed Walker.
During the trial, prosecutors attempted to shed light on McIntyre’s violent tendencies, pointing to two separate incidents he is wanted in that allegedly occurred while he fled from authorities in the Walker case.

According to the Star-Telegram, McIntyre cut his ankle monitor while on house arrest and fled to Elizabethtown, New Jersey where his record label was said to be based out of.

He reportedly was involved in Arlington robbery that left one person severely injured in May 2017. He also faces a capital murder charge in San Antonio for the fatal April 2017 shooting of a photographer.

McIntyre became known for his 2017 single "The Race" which appeared on Billboard's Hot 100. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, it was based off his escape from house arrest. He was arrested by U.S. Marshals the day after the video for the song was released.

F U SF, you can have the city you continue to vote for:

www.yahoo.com/news/mayor-london-breed-tours-chinatown-013828342.html

Maybe I am wrong but I think the DNC is terribly misreading and mishandling this. They wont let go no matter how closed the case is.

www.wsj.com/articles/house-judiciary-panel-prepares-lawsuit-to-enforce-subpoena-of-don-mcgahn-11564001645

I dont think this is helping them at all. Maybe with the fringe base but not beyond that.

Some things never change:

In 1911, Booker T. Washington wrote:

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

The Democrats want everyone to ignore the fact that all of this happened under Obama.  Hell, Joe Biden was recently quoted saying that the Russians wouldn't dare try and do something like this when Obama was in office.  Naturally the person doing the interview didn't point out to him that when all this happened Obama was the President.