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This twitter thread explains why there is much fear and worry in Trumpland tonight (Original Post) scheming daemons Dec 2017 OP
Pure music! shraby Dec 2017 #1
Omg, that is just... TDale313 Dec 2017 #2
They're all idiots. Most of us knew years and years ago that emails are forever and you don't... brush Dec 2017 #12
Maybe God does exist and he loves practical jokes. Kablooie Dec 2017 #3
God was in control. Sancho Dec 2017 #4
And God is a Black woman mercuryblues Dec 2017 #14
Yaaas shenmue Dec 2017 #5
So, is this Guiliani guy still in the Ukraine? world wide wally Dec 2017 #6
When he read about Mueller having the emails, NCjack Dec 2017 #29
aren't these the same people who think Hillary should be locked up because some emails went missing? Hamlette Dec 2017 #7
He would have better lawyers mercuryblues Dec 2017 #15
This... Wounded Bear Dec 2017 #20
I think Trump is just realizing SCantiGOP Dec 2017 #22
"They thought he was fishing, but he was just reeling in the fish." SunSeeker Dec 2017 #8
Last l yeah love that onetexan Dec 2017 #13
3...2...1... jmbar2 Dec 2017 #9
Died of prostate cancer. Hard to make that conspiracy theory work.... but these are crazy people scheming daemons Dec 2017 #10
YHWH really does have a sense of humor grantcart Dec 2017 #11
and now we know why Guliani has all but vanished....... sunonmars Dec 2017 #16
Thanks, SD! writes3000 Dec 2017 #17
Delicious! IluvPitties Dec 2017 #18
UNROLLED for easy reading: L. Coyote Dec 2017 #19
So.... is this being discussed today on m$m? Gabi Hayes Dec 2017 #23
Saw it on CNN & MSNBC this morning. CrispyQ Dec 2017 #30
read enough about that to make me post the enabling act picture/time machine thread Gabi Hayes Dec 2017 #31
Woof. Can't wait till the events unfold this next week. NightWatcher Dec 2017 #21
We can just assume that good portion of them LIED. It's worked so well for them so far... Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #26
And a full body kick BSdetect Dec 2017 #24
Just saw a post on another thread where the person said they don't believe in Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #25
Lmao. Thanks for the call out! No, I do not believe twitter news until it is confirmed by the news. Tipperary Dec 2017 #32
A big KICK, right in your traitorous chicken shit dumbfuck asses, muthafukkas!!! nt Leghorn21 Dec 2017 #27
After what we (the U.S.A.) have been through this year, it has been hard to muster a smile... Frustratedlady Dec 2017 #28
Ouchy. moondust Dec 2017 #33

brush

(53,925 posts)
12. They're all idiots. Most of us knew years and years ago that emails are forever and you don't...
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 04:57 AM
Dec 2017

put anything you don't want found in them.

You can't erase them. They are stored on some server somewhere, even on your own hard drive even though you thought you erased them.

Hamlette

(15,412 posts)
7. aren't these the same people who think Hillary should be locked up because some emails went missing?
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 03:50 AM
Dec 2017

of course they are. They have tried to turn it into a federal crime that she didn't/couldn't turn all of her emails over to Congress but they think their own email accounts are secret?

As a government lawyer for the better part of 41 years, we told staff to never email something that they didn't want on the front page of the newspaper. And I can't tell you how many times we were ordered to turn over our emails. Literally millions of them. To the public, to companies suing us, for almost any reason. The only thing we were ever able to protect were emails of a personal nature, like the ones of the FBI agent's affair recently given to Congress.

As incompetent as Trump is, you'd think he'd have better lawyers. But you don't know what the lawyers are saying to Trump et al right now: "You idiots, I TOLD you not to write shit like that in an email for just this reason!

mercuryblues

(14,550 posts)
15. He would have better lawyers
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 06:48 AM
Dec 2017

except he doesn't pay them for their work. Many refused to represent him because of that.

SCantiGOP

(13,874 posts)
22. I think Trump is just realizing
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 11:30 AM
Dec 2017

There is a huge difference between real estate lawyers and the people on Mueller’s team.

jmbar2

(4,911 posts)
9. 3...2...1...
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 04:25 AM
Dec 2017

...and a new RWNJ conspiracy theory is born! Did Mueller have Beckler knocked off? Details at 10.

 

scheming daemons

(25,487 posts)
10. Died of prostate cancer. Hard to make that conspiracy theory work.... but these are crazy people
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 04:27 AM
Dec 2017

...so who knows.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
16. and now we know why Guliani has all but vanished.......
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 07:00 AM
Dec 2017

Mueller set them all up, he knew everything before he even started interviewing people. Kushner must have shit himself in his interview.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
19. UNROLLED for easy reading:
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 11:08 AM
Dec 2017
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/942221228483469312.html

The Hoarse Whisperer @HoarseWisperer

Settle in, politikids. You're going to enjoy this... I've read the full letter Trump transition team attorneys sent to legislators re: Mueller obtaining their emails. It has a delicious reveal. 1/ politico.com/f/?id=00000160…

As we now know:

1) Mueller obtained ALL of the emails sent to/from Trump transition team accounts
2) The Trump gang only realized this after Mueller's team seemed to know all about their emails
3) This made them quite... upset

2/

4) Thier lawyers then wrote the letter in the link to congressmen complaining about just how upsetting all of this is.

Here's the classically amusing reveal in the letter...

3/

Earlier this year, Trump appointed the top attorney at the office responsible for providing all the electronics and email accounts the Trump transition team used.

That attorney's name was Richard Backler.

4/

Now, as background, Backler was a white collar criminal defense attorney before his appointment.

He helped rich criminals beat government convictions for a firm with a name you'll find familiar.

Bracewell & Giuliani.

5/

So, Trump appointed Backler and then Backler went and ensured Trump transition team attorneys that he would not allow his org (the GSA) to provide any of their emails to investigators.

One problem: Backler fell ill and ultimately passed away.

6/

So, until Mueller's crew started asking Trump aides about those emails, they had absolutely no idea Mueller had them because they thought Trump's guy on the inside was running interference for them.

Let that one sink in.

7/

Trump and his flunkies thought their friend at the GSA had locked their emails away *literally* in a vault no one could get to...

They thought their bodies were all buried.

8/

As a result, Trump's people walked into their interviews with Mueller and team with a completely false sense of confidence that he didn't know what he already knew in spades.

They thought he was fishing. He was just reeling fish in.

9/

Can you imagine the freakout that must have occurred in Trumpland when they realized their cleanup guy hadn't actually done the cleanup after all?

Alllllllll of the things they thought they had buried were not only not buried; Mueller had them in writing!

10/

While this is just conjecture, I suspect the entire Trump orbit just realized that Mueller has a trove that entirely hangs them out to dry AND brings them down for obstruction and lying to Mueller to boot.

11/

Trump appointed a Giuliani guy to protect him from Mueller...

...and then the guy went and died just as Mueller was coming a'calling.

Trump must be losing his freaking mind...

...even more panicked: Jared Kushner.

Mueller is gonna roast them all.

<end>

Note: Trump team knew Beckler had died. They didn’t know he had failed to lock down their electronics and emails - and didn’t know GSA staff had produced them all without telling anyone.

One more note: as the letter in the link lays out, Beckler was incapacitated by August. He was hospitalized when Mueller’s crew came a’knockin’.
 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
23. So.... is this being discussed today on m$m?
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 11:37 AM
Dec 2017

If this stuff is true, all holy hell should be breaking loose, obviously

CrispyQ

(36,543 posts)
30. Saw it on CNN & MSNBC this morning.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 02:12 PM
Dec 2017

Joy Reid's show was amazing & horrifying today, if you can catch the show later or on the internet.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
31. read enough about that to make me post the enabling act picture/time machine thread
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 02:54 PM
Dec 2017

wonder if the "big networks" discussed it all

like all the crap they ''forgot'' about trump during the campaign fiasco

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
21. Woof. Can't wait till the events unfold this next week.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 11:18 AM
Dec 2017

I hope everyone who talked to Mueller lied and that he'll nail their asses to the wall.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
26. We can just assume that good portion of them LIED. It's worked so well for them so far...
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 12:57 PM
Dec 2017

but they gonna get theirs. I'm buying champagne. I have a bottle in the fridge from election night but it's not my favorite.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
25. Just saw a post on another thread where the person said they don't believe in
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 12:56 PM
Dec 2017

twitter 'news'...well too bad for them...this sounds FUCKING AWESOME.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
32. Lmao. Thanks for the call out! No, I do not believe twitter news until it is confirmed by the news.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 02:58 PM
Dec 2017

I find it difficult to put faith in twitterers who go by handles like “Tea Pain” or “Hoarse Whisperer.”
But I certainly enjoy reading these posts that everyone believes as the gospel! Carry on.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
28. After what we (the U.S.A.) have been through this year, it has been hard to muster a smile...
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 01:24 PM
Dec 2017

You should see me now. My face isn't wide enough to hold the grin I can't wipe away. Just picturing them all squirming is the best Christmas gift I could get.

No wonder he's at Camp David. He can scream at the top of his lungs and no Democrat will hear him. I'll bet that place is a beehive of professional liars and scammers trying to figure out how to wiggle out of this mess.

Thank you, Robert Mueller and Thank You, Santa!

Proceed, Donald!

moondust

(20,017 posts)
33. Ouchy.
Sun Dec 17, 2017, 03:25 PM
Dec 2017

Just add hidden tax returns, stir, wrap hot dog in orange peel, and bake in small container for 30 years.

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