Pecker Problems (Mueller+ Investigation Thread v. 21)

[Trotsky]

That's cool and all but what about your thoughts on Dred Scott?

I don't understand all these recent references to Dred Scott.

 

[tonni]

ECHO...ECHo...ECho...Echo....echo....

Should've made the font gradually smaller if you wanted an echo effect....

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Congress pays 16 million for sexual harassment cases, crickets
Trump pays a pornstar for something 10 years before he runs and it’s death sentence, to the brain damaged

I hereby condemn Congress.
Now let's get back to the SUBJECT

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Can someone explain why Manafort wasnt charged onall 18 counts.

If you could simplify it in one sentence or two. But def not 3 sentences. Thanks

One lone holdout.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

a real cock

Don't be a Dick

 

[tonni]

Don't be a Dick

I bet he has a cousin named "Johnson Pecker"

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I bet he has a cousin named "Johnson Pecker"

Name's Johnson. Johnson "Pecker" Johnson.

"Pecker" Johnson is right!

 

[Hollywood Jack]

I thought I read the juror on Fox said others werent convinced at first either then the prosecutors brought in multiple boxes of evidence that wasnt presented at the trial which pretty much solidified Manafort was guilty beyond all doubt.

I don't know. Didn't hear that myself. Bringing in evidence that wasn't presented at trial seems highly unusual to me, but then again, this isn't a typical case, is it?

 

[PolishHeadlock]

While everyone is discussing Cohen flipping and Manafort being found guilty.

@Trotsky

 

[woodguyatl]

No, they'd just be DOING their jobs properly.

You realize that Trump could, at any moment, order and investigation right? Instead, he prefers to complain that they aren't investigating.

 

[woodguyatl]

I don't know. Didn't hear that myself. Bringing in evidence that wasn't presented at trial seems highly unusual to me, but then again, this isn't a typical case, is it?

According to the juror (a huge Trump supporter) that is speaking, they thought Gates was full of shit and not credible. They did, however, go through the boxes of evidence that were submitted in court and found him guilty.

 

[Trotsky]

@Trotsky

Welp, in wanting to know what the relevance was, I googled the case name, to see if the Twitterer in Chief had a faux pas or something, and happened upon this nugget of brilliance.

http://www.lifenews.com/2018/08/06/...-be-hated-as-much-as-the-dred-scott-decision/

Were its effects not so unspeakably evil and ongoing, one could rightly dismiss Roe v. Wade as one of the most embarrassing legal decisions ever made by any court. With a vote and a pen-stroke, seven of the so-called greatest legal minds of their generation disregarded the most elementary findings of the natural sciences and the most basic principles of human rights, winning for themselves the dubious distinction of enshrining in law the murderous dominance of the powerful over the weak.


Of course, we’d been there before. Over 100 years earlier, seven other equally “brilliant” legal minds managed to overlook the self-evident common humanity of our African-American brothers and sisters, ruling that no person of African descent could claim U.S. citizenship. It took decades more of unimaginable suffering by black Americans and a bloody civil war resulting in some three-quarters of a million deaths before the U.S. would even begin clawing its way out of the pit in which the infamous Dred Scott decision had mired the country.

It is inevitable that one day our descendants will regard Roe v. Wade with much the same horror with which we now universally deride the Dred Scott decision. Truth has a way of bursting even the most unbreakable bonds. Nevertheless, it brings one near to despair to consider how many more innocent babies must die, and how much more of the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary pro-life Americans must be expended before that day may come.

So thanks for that.

I love me some white conservative crocodile tears in appropriating Dred Scott into whatever fuck-witted jurisprudential argument they want.

 

[ScottE]

I don't know. Didn't hear that myself. Bringing in evidence that wasn't presented at trial seems highly unusual to me, but then again, this isn't a typical case, is it?

It's isn't that unusual. It was the result of the judge admitting the items into evidence but not wanting to give the prosecutor the time required to go ever everything in court. So they convicted despite being presented a number of hurdles that may have otherwise prevented it, namely the juror that refused to participate in discussing 10 counts and having to sort evidence on their own.

 

[woodguyatl]

He funded most of his campaign, I doubt everything being said
Cohen plead guilty to a non crime thanks to being represented by a Clinton attorney

Campaign funding has to be disclosed in Federal Filing so this one is easy to prove.

Actually, he spent $322 million on his campaign including $66 million of his own money. To me that isn't "mostly." This is available in public campaign disclosers. He claimed to have donated $100 million of his own money but, again, the legally required disclosers show that he did not.

From Reuters:

"U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pumped a total of $66 million of his own money into his campaign - far from the $100 million he frequently boasted he was going to spend, according to campaign finance disclosures filed on Thursday night."

"In total, Trump raised $339 million and spent $322 million - a far cry from the $565 million spent by Clinton, according to the latest Federal Election Commission disclosure reports. Trump spent $94 million in the final days of the campaign, compared with the $132 million spent by Clinton."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-own-cash-on-election-campaign-idUSKBN13Y0AE

 

[AndroidRage]

My apologies, it was queequg or some shit. You can see how your handle can be confused with that one.

Like how yours can be confused with cleetorus?

 

[ScottE]

Does funding his own campaign include pulling money from his "charity" foundation? Because that's apparently on the table in NY as well.

 

[Higus]

Campaign funding has to be disclosed in Federal Filing so this one is easy to prove.

Actually, he spent $322 million on his campaign including $66 million of his own money. To me that isn't "mostly." This is available in public campaign disclosers. He claimed to have donated $100 million of his own money but, again, the legally required disclosers show that he did not.

From Reuters:

"U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pumped a total of $66 million of his own money into his campaign - far from the $100 million he frequently boasted he was going to spend, according to campaign finance disclosures filed on Thursday night."

"In total, Trump raised $339 million and spent $322 million - a far cry from the $565 million spent by Clinton, according to the latest Federal Election Commission disclosure reports. Trump spent $94 million in the final days of the campaign, compared with the $132 million spent by Clinton."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-own-cash-on-election-campaign-idUSKBN13Y0AE

Iirc, he begrudgingly put his own money in the campaign. He wasn’t planning to spend more than a few million, but other larger donors insisted he put some skin in the game to show he was serious. He was really annoyed by that.

 

[franklinstower]

a real cock

Hes a prick, a real knob.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Campaign funding has to be disclosed in Federal Filing so this one is easy to prove.

Actually, he spent $322 million on his campaign including $66 million of his own money. To me that isn't "mostly." This is available in public campaign disclosers. He claimed to have donated $100 million of his own money but, again, the legally required disclosers show that he did not.

From Reuters:

"U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pumped a total of $66 million of his own money into his campaign - far from the $100 million he frequently boasted he was going to spend, according to campaign finance disclosures filed on Thursday night."

"In total, Trump raised $339 million and spent $322 million - a far cry from the $565 million spent by Clinton, according to the latest Federal Election Commission disclosure reports. Trump spent $94 million in the final days of the campaign, compared with the $132 million spent by Clinton."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-own-cash-on-election-campaign-idUSKBN13Y0AE

"His own money". Yahright

 

[Ophydian]

Iirc, he begrudgingly put his own money in the campaign. He wasn’t planning to spend more than a few million, but other larger donors insisted he put some skin in the game to show he was serious. He was really annoyed by that.

Let’s be serious here, Trump never really had his own money. He basically use the proceeds he received from his Russian banksters.