Timex
4490
Giuliani is going under the bus.
antlers
4491
Rudy’s “insurance” is more of that “packet” he gave to Pompeo and that Pompeo made the State Dept IG give to some House committee.; In other words, nothing. Rudy is a doddering old drunk well past the ability to distinguish truth from fantasy.
ShivaX
4494
Half of Law Twitter is dragging Joel and it’s glorious. He’s exactly what you’d expect Breitbart’s lawyer to be.
This is an excellent piece by Kevin Kruse recalling how GOP members of Congress resisted turning against Nixon, how many of them never did, and how they fared in the aftermath of his resignation.
Really, there’s not much difference between how the party reacted then and how they’re reacting now. The same ridiculing of the charges, the same placement of rabid members on the committee to disrupt the proceedings, the same insistence that the whole thing was a partisan hatchet job. It’s true some GOP committee members ultimately voted for some articles of impeachment, but they were clearly in the minority in the party. We’ll never know how the whole GOP caucus would have voted, but I would guess the majority would have stood behind their President.
Has anyone ever regretted buying an ambassadorship as much as Gordon Sondland is going to regret it? My god, what a dumpster fire.
Timex
4498
I told folks, Sondland’s gonna be the first guy to ever pay a million dollars for the privilege of going to jail.
KevinC
4500
It. Never. Stops.
It’s been an unending deluge of corruption and scandal for three years now. It’s exhausting.
Strollen
4502
You know Guiliani is looking smarter, and least he is making money working for Trump. I don’t think Cohen was paid all that well and geez Sonderland paid for the privilege.
I wonder sometimes if the sheer enormity of the corruption increases the chances of breaking through to Trumpers, or if after a certain point, it’s just even more evidence of Liberal Swamp Conspiracizin’, because it’s impossible that literally every Republican in power is corrupt, right?
Like, it’s the Mr. Burns immunity argument, but writ even larger.
Cohen did a lot of consulting gigs where companies hired him for stupid money and long term commitments, met with him once, then were done with him.
Remember this?
So what exactly were multi-national conglomerates with hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue, and hundreds of thousands of employees, paying Cohen to do? In a statement, AT&T—which is currently fending off an anti-trust lawsuit by the Department of Justice—said that its $200,000 in payments were made in order to gain “insights into understanding the new administration” and that they involved “no legal or lobbying work for us.” The pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG said its $1.2 million payment with Cohen was “focused on U.S. health-care policy matters” and, in any event, the deal was struck by its former C.E.O., with its new C.E.O. having zero “involvement” in it. (“Wow—he’s a doctor as well!!” Avenatti wrote on Twitter. “Very talented guy this Mr. Cohen.”)
SlyFrog
4505
No, it’s no matter what, “Blah blah blah the Clinton Foundation, blah blah blah Obama’s money to Iran, blah blah blah Vince Foster . . . .”
Sorta depends on what you mean by “Trumpers” but of course it does!
You’re right I had forgotten. But that was like 5,000,000 scandals ago.
Overall,my guess is that Tillerson lost the most money, working with Trump, since he foolishly followed the law and divested his Exxon holdings. But if Sonderland goes to jail, he may end up with the worse deal of them all.
Rudy had to kiss the Mob Boss’s ring and tell him he was joking when he said he had “insurance.”
I wonder if this is how it’s going to end for Trump, Rudy, et al?
schurem
4509
That’ll be nice, but I’m afraid this is more likely:
