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mcar

(42,278 posts)
Mon Mar 5, 2018, 05:25 PM Mar 2018

Pierce: At Every Corner, Mueller Finds More Corruption

It was about quarter-to-Frances McDormand on Sunday night when Oscar Twitter was interrupted by what back in the day would have been called a hail of writs from the office of Robert Mueller, Special Counsel. And, as LBJ once put it to a reluctant legislator, it’s like being out on the road in a Texas thunderstorm—can’t run, can’t hide, can’t make it stop...

Here’s what all this means. This means that Mueller and his staff have likely concluded now that the entire Trump For President campaign was a corrupt enterprise in one way or another almost since the moment it was first conceived and that the same can be said of the Trump presidency*. It’s the money. It’s the Russians. The whole damn dirty deal is one great writhing ball of poisonous snakes and Mueller seems to be perilously close to untangling it.

The subpoenas go back to 2015 and woe betide anyone, as the nuns used to tell us, who fed any subpoenaed material into the shredder. At least a few of those people on that list have already flipped or likely have announced their intentions privately to do so. All of them except Cohen will have left the White House when Hicks leaves in a few weeks....

He is looking at the Trump campaign and the Trump presidency* as one massive three-year money-suck, a fundraising mechanism to enrich its inside players and to monetize the political system, and then the presidency, for every last dollar, riyal, or ruble that can be squeezed out of both of those institutions. Mueller is finding corruption everywhere he looks. He is now a fireman in hell.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19086709/mueller-trump-subpoena/

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Pierce: At Every Corner, Mueller Finds More Corruption (Original Post) mcar Mar 2018 OP
"One great writhing ball of poisonous snakes" The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2018 #1
There is no place in this administration that there is not corruption. redstatebluegirl Mar 2018 #2
Rotten to the core mcar Mar 2018 #3
Excellent Read Me. Mar 2018 #4

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
2. There is no place in this administration that there is not corruption.
Mon Mar 5, 2018, 05:31 PM
Mar 2018

His family, his cabinet, his staff everyone.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
4. Excellent Read
Mon Mar 5, 2018, 05:43 PM
Mar 2018

“Footprints?”

“Footprints.”

“A man’s or a woman’s?”

Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered.

“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”

—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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