Nah, Trump won’t support Assange. He hates beards.
If Pamela Anderson bats her eyelashes at Trump he will.
She seems to be going with rage though.
Your mistake is in thinking that Trump ever repays his debts.
Can Assange help Trump now, is the right question.
Or - will Trump be worried about what Assange might say to prosecutors?
I would post this in an EE thread but we’re supposed to contain stuff in Politics. I like music parodies. “The Day Collusion Died.”
“…But February made them shiver
as it came clear he’d not deliver.
The news that they desired
was not to be acquired.”
KevinC
1876
Who knew that slimy grandstanding lawyers could be so scummy?
Skipper
1877
No joke. By the sounds of it, a real grade A scumbag.
Apparently he has released an encrypted cache of documents should something nefarious to him, the key will be released. (multiple times, but no key release as yet).
Whether this counts, who knows?
Timex
1880
I honestly feel like part of this is that a lot of these guys are just really old dudes now, and they aren’t as sharp as they once were, and so they’ve replaced any actual critical thinking with just dogmatic habit.
So, perhaps (and at this point I don’t know if I believe it at all), while at one point someone like Barr might have been motivated by some belief that certain policies would honestly be beneficial for folks, at this point it’s been distilled down into pure partisan hackery.
It’s become nothing more than a belief, based purely on past experience, that “my team is right”. That there’s no introspection about whether that’s actually true, that it’s just assumed true, regardless of actual actions taken.
Lots of old folks fall into this kind of behavior, although this is a particularly harmful and terrible incarnation.
antlers
1881
I think this is a really insightful perspective on Barr, from whom I’d hoped for better.
A look at the Middle East grift angle of the Mueller investigation:
I didn’t know this:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Saudi leaders not to follow through on a contemplated invasion of Qatar. Tillerson’s intervention was said to have enraged the UAE leadership, which began a campaign to have him removed as secretary of state. (Tillerson was fired less than a year later.)
After Tillerson’s ouster, MBZ was reportedly “gloating to every member in the Gulf ruling families that he was the mastermind behind firing Tillerson.” Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, an adviser to the crown prince, tweeted that “history will remember that a Gulf state had a role in expelling the foreign minister of a superpower and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”
kerzain
1884
Awesome. Maybe somebody who can give an authoritative shit will actually do something about it some day. In the mean time I’ll be over here raging about Smollett and Lori Loughlin.
Because it’s not just the GOP associated with Yanukovic:
Lawfare’s look at Bill Barr’s foot in mouth moment:
First off, if the attorney general of the United States has concerns about whether the rules and the law were followed in a high-profile matter, he certainly has an obligation to satisfy himself on that point. I had thought that was why the Justice Department had an ongoing inspector general review of the origins of the Russia probe. I had also thought that’s why former Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked a U.S. attorney to look things over. Barr today offered no information about why current reviews are inadequate to address whatever questions he may have.
