4600

Not in frame . . . The Beast Kushbat

4601

So resign.

4602

Remember in A Few Good Men when that aide to the Colonel killed himself because he realized he had covered up wrongdoing? Not given orders himself, just that he was on the wrong side.

Yeah, fiction. In real life it’s squirm, squirm squirm.

4603

Really excellent pod on Ukraine/ DJT admin from Lawfare.

4604

So has it been confirmed yet that Putin will be on Dancing with the Stars next season? What a lovable rascal!

4605

No, no. The Masked Singer. He can be the Eagle.

4606

Trump today: “I knew many people were on the phone. Not only were many people on the phone, we had stenographers on the phone taking it down word for word,”

Oh really? Nice to have that confirmed. I believe there are a couple of House committees that will shortly be requesting those word-for-word transcripts.

4607

Insofar as Trump is capable of confirming anything…

4608

What I loved was Gulliani waving his phone around on TV talking about how “it’s all here”, referring to his work for Trump and texting the State Department.

Impeachment Inquiry committee: “We’ll take that, thanks.”

4609

In case you all forgot that the entire party is rotten

Relevant quote from the emails:

Natalia: Here is what has been happening.

  1. Rinat has told us that Senator Jeff Sessions is willing to start an investigation
    into how the Magnitsky Law came about. He would explore Browder’s role
    and presumably expose his misrepresentations to the US government,
    including Congress. If Sessions asks for an investigation, that fact alone
    would be explosive. It should produce a great deal of media coverage that is
    negative to Browder. We are now preparing a package of information for the
    senator’s staff and have been discussing the media issues internally.

Once again, it comes back to the stuff in the Steele dossier. The entire Republican party is compromised. The NRA was used to funnel money to party leadership, and in exchange they ease sanctions on Russian businesses. Quid Pro Treason, these motherfuckers sold out our country to Russia and sold their bullshit to racist morons via Fox News.

4610
4611

Roy Blunt is about as conservative a senator as you’re going to find.

4612

Oh look, here’s a familiar name back in the news:

U.S. prosecutors aren’t done with Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who figured prominently in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against Donald Trump’s campaign chairman.

In what could be an offshoot of Mueller’s work, federal authorities are seeking records seized from a U.K. company associated with Deripaska, according to documents filed in a London court this week. As part of the previously undisclosed inquiry, U.S. authorities are seeking evidence of “money laundering, tax offenses and fraud offenses” from 18 individuals and companies including Terra Services Ltd., a real estate firm that until last year was controlled by Deripaska, the filings say.

You might remember Deripaska from such roles as the Mueller inquiry, as well as building a spanking new aluminum plant in Mitch McConnell’s backyard in what I’m sure is purely a coincidence!

4614

Back she goes.

4615

Hmm. She got caught and she probably knows where a few bodies are buried. I’d be a bit worried if I were her. What use is she now to Putin?

4616

Someone has to see if the tea still works? Everyone has value!

4617

There are rumors she was cooperating with investigators. She’s as good as dead.

4618

It’s doubtful getting caught is a death sentence. They need to at least make it look like you’ll be rewarded if you are loyal to the end. So If she hasn’t cooperated with the US government then she’s probably ok.

If she cooperated then yeah I’m sure she’s not in for a good time.

4619

Pretty sure lots of loyal people who just happened to know things end up falling out of windows.

After all, she got caught and kind of exposed their whole back channel program with the NRA.

4620

Thankfully someone out there is looking out for the convicted Russian spies.