Panic Time! Turkey Launches Investigation Into Preet Bharara As Zarrab Debacle Spirals Out Of Control
This is what panic looks like.
This is what panic looks like.
Well, an eventful week ended on a sour note, which is a shame for the bulls because Thursday was a barnburner.Â
“…and as a reminder that failure to provide documents as demanded would count as obstructing a grand-jury investigation.”
Such documents should have been produced in response to the third request but were not. Likewise, other parties have produced documents concerning а “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite” which Mr. Kushner also forwarded.
And it just gets worse, and worse and…
“I know folks that lost tonight who were going against candidates I’d never even heard of.”
“This is serious business.”
“Will the next big reveal in this reality show spectacle come when one of his closest confidants surprises him in the final episode, not with a rose, but with a wire?”
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks”
“Conspiracy against the United States.”
“At this stage, only one thing seems really safe to say: this development means that Mueller’s investigation isn’t going away anytime soon.”
“It seems he is just always focused on Russia.”
“We are in for an epic clash between two septuagenarians who both came from wealthy New York families and attended Ivy League schools but couldn’t be more different — the flamboyant flimflam man and the buttoned-down, buttoned-up boy scout.”
For the first time, Mueller and his team have formally asked the White House to produce documents.
“President Trump’s actions appear aimed at destroying the fundamental independence of the Justice Department. All the while, he’s ripping the blindfold off Lady Justice and attempting to turn the department into a sword to seek vengeance against his perceived enemies and a shield to protect himself and his allies.”
“Kislyak must be one forgettable fellow.”
“It is not out of the question that these leaks originated out of the White House.”
“So pathetic. Attacking the DNC and Hillary Clinton is the Trump administration’s go-to, tired, weak maneuver. It cannot hide the mountain of revelations that is threatening to crumble on top of them at any moment. #SAD!”
“The deeper question is whether members of Trump’s administration can uphold the trust that has been placed in them as stewards of the government they have been chosen to lead.”
“It is obvious to all except the willfully blind that we now have a president who observes none of the norms, rules or expectations of his office and will pressure anyone at any time if doing so serves his personal interests.”
“The problem with dwelling too much on the covert forms of collaboration, which we have come to call “collusion,†is that doing so risks letting Trump at least a little bit off the hook for what is not meaningfully disputed: that the president publicly, knowingly, and repeatedly (if only tacitly) collaborated with a foreign power’s intelligence effort to interfere in the presidential election of the country he now leads.”
“The president’s refusal to affirm the intelligence community’s findings pushes that analysis toward the realm of political subjectivity. These data might also reflect Americans’ distrust of institutional authority more broadly—a tendency that pollster Guy Molyneux characterizes as one of the “least appreciated†characteristics of the American electorate.”
But, three weeks into Stone’s tenure, reports emerge that President Trump has soured on the investigation, apparently fixated on the fact that several of the sea turtles “look like Dems.â€
“Yet Trump, who denies everything, has managed to create a fictional narrative that not only justifies his dangling bluff but also gilds it as a moral victory: He tweeted about tapes to make sure “leaker†Comey would be honest when he testified.”
One of the reasons it’s so difficult to determine whether Donald Trump and members of his administration are “guilty” of colluding with a hostile foreign power is that it’s hard to distinguish between criminality and stupidity.Â
I imagine it’s just a matter of time before Donald Trump tweets that he’s “the most persecuted man since Jesus.”
“If Trump does fire Mueller, it would be a virtual admission of guilt in the eyes of huge numbers of Americans.”
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