Palace intrigue

[jimmyz]

[Spider]

So, once again, you've got nothing. Jesus, dude.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN1NY1TE

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/an ... f=hpsplash

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08 ... l-campaign

Oh shit lol

[Philly]

Back in February, I made a thread here arguing that libs and other anti-Trump people, as well as the news media, were dedicating entirely too much time and energy into an over-the-top fixation on the Mueller Investigation. I suggested that it would be a reasonable decision to ignore the day-to-day gossip, rumors, and speculations that the media was spouting about the very tight-lipped and disciplined investigation that Mueller was leading. We were 8 months out from a midterm election at the time I made that thread, and I thought that if people felt compelled to be more engaged with the current events regarding our politics, they'd be better served by getting involved in something related to the midterms, or participating in local civic matters, or organizing to build grass roots activism against all the horrible policies that our government has been implementing. There were plenty of ways to be plugged into current political affairs, and even if you were just knocking on doors for a local candidate or adding your voice to countless others at a mass demonstration, the tiny bit that you'd be able to do there was more meaningful than than the most one could possibly do about the ongoing Mueller Investigation, which was absolutely nothing.

Now, one day from December, it looks as if things may be heating up, and as an engaged citizen, I suspect it's time to, at the very least, check in on this matter and bring myself up to date.

So, between February and this week, was there any Mueller Investigation news that I'll regret having not been on top of as it occurred?

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Another interesting fact:

The Trump Tower was to be financed by Deutsche Bank, which has been convicted once or twice for laundering Russian oligarch money. The head of that banks global commercial real estate business is Retired Justice Kennedy's son. You will recall that shortly after being elected, Trump asked Justice Kennedy to say hi to his "boy," saying he was a good kid.

[Philly]

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It has been pretty slow. I largely stopped paying attention unless somebody was charged or convicted. Last one before this was Manafort, who got convicted of a buttload of financial crimes in August I believe. Other than that the midterms slowed the drip and it has been mostly press speculation.

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Deutsche Bank and Trump's former tax lawyer both raised on the same day as well - the 28th.

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