Trump/Russia 2016 election investigation (continued, now with Ukraine!)

ShivaX · 2019-09-30T19:23:33.672Z

John Harwood (JohnJHarwood)

if the United States were no longer a sovereign nation, this might be true twitter.com/carlquintanill…

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla

MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that Washington would need Russian consent to publish transcripts of phone calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

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MichaelD · 2019-09-30T20:02:51.518Z

magnet:

No, Mueller thought that there was not enough evidence to link Russian interference to the Trump campaign.

Apologies in advance for being pedantic. There was evidence of MANY links between the Russians and the Trump campaign.

What they did not find was sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was criminal conspiracy between the two. Possibly, they pointed out, because of missing or destroyed evidence.

ShivaX · 2019-09-30T20:06:01.026Z

MichaelD:

What they did not find was sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was criminal conspiracy between the two. Possibly, they pointed out, because of missing or destroyed evidence.

And if they had they still wouldn’t have said it anyway because of the rule against it.

ShivaX · 2019-09-30T20:54:32.424Z

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Dustin Volz (dnvolz)

NEW: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a senior State Department official said Monday, a disclosure that ties the State Department more closely to an ongoing congressional inquiry.

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Rick Wilson (TheRickWilson)

Holy shit Pompeo was on that call???

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Timex · 2019-09-30T21:03:07.569Z

I don’t see Pompeo cracking.

Mark_Asher · 2019-09-30T21:25:34.718Z

So now our Secretary of State is also complicit in asking a foreign government to interfere in our election? These people need to go to jail.

Timex · 2019-09-30T21:29:31.957Z

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Jared Rizzi (JaredRizzi)

Time to check in for a quick update of all the countries Trump asked for help to win in 2020: https://t.co/w7XatvJq8i

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Papageno · 2019-09-30T21:59:00.311Z

inactive_user:

We’re gonna need a bigger wall.

Does it make me officially an “old person” that I get the paraphrased allusion there?

antlers · 2019-09-30T22:00:50.372Z

I remember when Pompeo was first elected to Congress; his platform was basically “authoritarian moron”. He was one of the ones who really paved the way for Trump.

Papageno · 2019-09-30T22:03:34.546Z

Then Trump went out and outdid him, to the point that calling him a moron is an insult to morons.

If Trump hadn’t been born rich, he would have ended up managing an Applebee’s or something (at best).

ShivaX · 2019-09-30T22:07:47.486Z

Papageno:

Does it make me officially an “old person” that I get the paraphrased allusion there?

“First against the wall when the revolution comes”
Douglas Adams used it, but it was in British culture before that.

ReptileHouse · 2019-09-30T22:16:22.696Z

Sigh.

Roy Scheider is very disappointed.

edit: I can spell! Really!

Papageno · 2019-09-30T22:21:28.071Z

ShivaX:

Papageno:

Does it make me officially an “old person” that I get the paraphrased allusion there?

“First against the wall when the revolution comes”
Douglas Adams used it, but it was in British culture before that.

Yeah, I remember that from The Hitchhiker’s Guide… but was thinking of JAWS (1975?), as @ReptileHouse realized.

I guess it’s sort of a double allusion now that you mention it.

ShivaX · 2019-09-30T22:23:28.990Z

Adams is just the earliest popular thing that most people could find when attempting to figure out the origin of the phrase, but it was definitely used before that in common speech and of course it was used afterwards.

jpinard · 2019-09-30T22:26:28.235Z

Papageno:

If Trump hadn’t been born rich, he would have ended up managing an Applebee’s or something (at best).

No, he’d still be the dishwasher to this very day.

Nesrie · 2019-09-30T22:28:12.144Z

Used car salesperson, the kind that offers 28% rates.

RichVR · 2019-09-30T22:28:31.297Z

You give him too much credit. Many dishwashers eventually work their way up the ladder to chef. Shitgibbon would fuck up.

inactive_user · 2019-09-30T22:28:31.588Z

Papageno:

I guess it’s sort of a double allusion now that you mention it.

Look, I don’t just pull these shitposts out of my behind.

ShivaX · 2019-09-30T22:31:27.033Z

He’d sell used cars and then end up in court because of lemon laws.

kerzain · 2019-09-30T22:32:55.883Z

He’d sell time shares.