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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis twitter thread explains why there is much fear and worry in Trumpland tonight
The twitter handle is @HoarseWisperer.... and they tell a very interesting tale over a series of tweets.
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shraby
(21,946 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Seriously, there have to be a lot of people in the White House freaking out.
brush
(53,925 posts)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.
Kablooie
(18,644 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)to quote Roy Moore
mercuryblues
(14,550 posts)to quote J.K. Rowling
shenmue
(38,506 posts)world wide wally
(21,757 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)he may have applied for political asylum.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)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)except he doesn't pay them for their work. Many refused to represent him because of that.
Wounded Bear
(58,754 posts)much like the banks, the good ones wont work with Trump.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)There is a huge difference between real estate lawyers and the people on Muellers team.
SunSeeker
(51,749 posts)onetexan
(13,072 posts)jmbar2
(4,911 posts)...and a new RWNJ conspiracy theory is born! Did Mueller have Beckler knocked off? Details at 10.
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)...so who knows.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Mueller set them all up, he knew everything before he even started interviewing people. Kushner must have shit himself in his interview.
writes3000
(4,734 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)And F.U., Fox News!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Note: Trump team knew Beckler had died. They didnt know he had failed to lock down their electronics and emails - and didnt 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 Muellers crew came aknockin.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)If this stuff is true, all holy hell should be breaking loose, obviously
CrispyQ
(36,543 posts)Joy Reid's show was amazing & horrifying today, if you can catch the show later or on the internet.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)wonder if the "big networks" discussed it all
like all the crap they ''forgot'' about trump during the campaign fiasco
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I hope everyone who talked to Mueller lied and that he'll nail their asses to the wall.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)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.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)twitter 'news'...well too bad for them...this sounds FUCKING AWESOME.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)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.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)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)Just add hidden tax returns, stir, wrap hot dog in orange peel, and bake in small container for 30 years.