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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2018 - 08:40pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What? You can't get the news, up there in Canada?
Monday, a Federal judge is going to rule that Michael Cohen's seized documents are not protected by attorney-client privilege. The whole sordid story is going to unravel.
The appetizer, Il Plato Primero, will be the illegal payment to Stormy Daniels.
Il Plato Secundo will be Michael Cohen meeting with Kremlin spooks in Prague.
Il Plato Terzo will be Russian money funneled to the Trump election campaign.
Il Plato il Quarto will be Jared Kushner.
Ah, va bella.
A tutti bellisima.
A tutti posto.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Apr 15, 2018 - 08:56pm PT
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I predicted that he wouldn't last two years. I didn't think he would last 6 months.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Apr 15, 2018 - 08:58pm PT
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Can't wait till Stormy shows up in court tomorrow. Theater doesn't get much better.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 15, 2018 - 09:16pm PT
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Preet Bharara to Trump: 'Long live the crime-fraud exception'
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara responded to President Trump after he tweeted that the "attorney-client privilege is dead."
"Long live the crime-fraud exception," Bharara — whom President Trump fired last year after he refused to resign from his post — tweeted Tuesday.
The crime-fraud exception means that a client's communication with an attorney isn't privileged if it "involves communications in furtherance of a contemplated or ongoing crime or fraud," according to the American Bar Association.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 15, 2018 - 09:25pm PT
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We watched the one-hour interview of ex-FBI director Comey tonight on ABC.
I don't think any major new allegations were discussed, but the interview was a detailed history of Trump's disregard for normal presidential behavior, during his meetings with Comey.
It ended with Comey stating he could not say that Trump had not worked with the Russians during his election & that Trump was not morally suited to be president.
I predict another Trump "Tweetstorm" overnight.
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
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Apr 15, 2018 - 10:31pm PT
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"That's just that popular myth that anyone can make it on their own with hard work, individual initiative and free will. It's never been that way. Like they say, behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Or else daddy's coin. The money has to come from somewhere. Anyone who tells you they made it on their own is usually a liar."
My experience people whom really make it on their own don't have to/want to brag about it..... ^^^^^I'm guessing another silver spoon fed Trumpy type such as the old fat turd
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Apr 16, 2018 - 05:22am PT
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Nixon was very good as a president
Compared to W or Trump sure, otherwise, he was a bad president.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Apr 16, 2018 - 05:55am PT
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Slippery James Comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history by far!
Donald Trump
Going down as the worst POTUS in history will trump that by far!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 16, 2018 - 09:27am PT
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Reilly: So you geniuses think Macron, May, and Merkel are out to lunch for signing onto this?
The French and the Brits hardly have a good record when it comes to the Middle East. Ever read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are today not far from a disaster. -- TE Lawrence
I loved it when Trump when on about dastardly nations that would kill women and children with chemical weapons. Guess it's OK to kill them the old-fasioned ways. Or is napalm considered a chemical?
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Apr 16, 2018 - 09:32am PT
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Oh, man - it DOESN'T get more irnonic. The con man got conned by his conman lawyer. Here's the Wiki on the school Cohen got his law degree from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Michigan_University_Cooley_Law_School
According to Cooley's ABA required disclosures, 27.4% of graduates from the class of 2015 obtained full-time, long term, bar passage required employment 9 months after graduation.[7] 23.8% of graduates were unemployed 9 months after graduation.[8] 53% of graduates passed the Michigan bar exam on their first attempt in July 2017, below the 83% average for other Michigan law schools.[9] In 2017, the school was one of ten American law schools found to be out of compliance with the American Bar Association's requirement that schools only admit students who appear capable of earning a J.D. degree and passing the bar examination.[10] The school was recently ranked the worst law school in the country by Above the Law.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Michigan_University_Cooley_Law_School
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 16, 2018 - 09:39am PT
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Ever read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
Like I would have made this pilgrimage without having done so?
I was in good company...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 16, 2018 - 09:52am PT
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Like I would have made this pilgrimage without having done so?
It surely would have behooved the neocons to have read it before embarking on that catastrophe in Iraq. The second time I read it I substituted 'American' for 'Turk' and it was like reading the newspaper.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 16, 2018 - 09:54am PT
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No arguments there, Gary. We really should do the Arabs a favor and leave them to their
preferred pastime of killing each other, especially now that we don’t need their oil.
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The Pilsner Prophet
Trad climber
Albuquerque
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Apr 16, 2018 - 09:55am PT
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I'm to well informed to be fooled by this crap. This has nothing to do with climbing. Trump is a great president. He was never called a racist, bigoted, homophobic man until he ran for president as a Republican. The professional liars in the liberal alphabet networks liked him. Now they hate him. The hilda-beasts lies caught up with her, and she lost. She would show up for a campaign event, only a few hundred people would show up, and the media would try to make it look like enormous crowds. Then she would faint on the way out. Trump would show up to 10, 20, 30,000 seat venues and the media would concentrate on the very rare empty seat. Bill raped women, and the media oohed and ahhed over him. Now our great president is a mysogonist because of one unproven allegation of an extra-marital affair. No- the democrat party is circling the toilet. People are waking up. They (The media) keep pushing for Trumps impeachment, but they ignored barraqk's scandals. They (Media) are one of the most distrusted organisations in existence. Fox news and News Max are attracting record numbers of viewers. There is so much news available now om the internet. The economy has taken off like a rocket after the media telling us baruk's crappy economy was all we could look forward to because we had stolen the world from the real owners. The global warming scam is being exposed. Show me some proof it's real. Don't just say the proof is there-SHOW it!! My finger is getting tired. I think I'll clean one of my 4 dozen guns.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Apr 16, 2018 - 10:19am PT
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Funny troll Pilsner, made my morning
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 16, 2018 - 10:50am PT
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Tarbuster! That New Yorker article is interesting reading.
Here's a bit of it.
This is the week we know, with increasing certainty, that we are entering the last phase of the Trump Presidency. This doesn’t feel like a prophecy; it feels like a simple statement of the apparent truth. I know dozens of reporters and other investigators who have studied Donald Trump and his business and political ties. Some have been skeptical of the idea that President Trump himself knowingly colluded with Russian officials. It seems not at all Trumpian to participate in a complex plan with a long-term, uncertain payoff. Collusion is an imprecise word, but it does seem close to certain that his son Donald, Jr., and several people who worked for him colluded with people close to the Kremlin; it is up to prosecutors and then the courts to figure out if this was illegal or merely deceitful.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/michael-cohen-and-the-end-stage-of-the-trump-presidency
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 16, 2018 - 11:26am PT
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Didn't have to actively participate, just being aware of it is enough.
It seems not at all Trumpian to participate in a complex plan with a long-term, uncertain payoff.
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Apr 16, 2018 - 11:40am PT
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He was never called a racist, bigoted, homophobic man until he ran for president as a Republican.
the Federal Government begs to differ with you
Donald Trump was sued, twice, by the Fed Gov for refusing to rent his NYC housing to black people
I will not bother taking apart the rest of your uninformed, misinformed, and lazy intellect blather
it is obvious you have done zero research and simply repeat lies fed to you by other liars
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Apr 16, 2018 - 11:41am PT
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How Congress’s and Trump’s latest deficit binge paved the way for the next one
By 2022, the U.S. government is projected to spend almost as much money on interest payments for its massive debt as it will on the Pentagon. President Trump and Congress have not only massively expanded the U.S. government’s debt, they have broken free of multiple guardrails intended to keep budgets balanced, freeing future lawmakers to further expand the yawning gap between what the government takes in and what it spends.
So here is the truth about GOP economists, as stated by the Wa Post.
I'm particularly disappointed that John E, in his capacity as an economist, signed onto this "borrow money to pay rich taxpayers" scheme. I also view his repeated and frequent exhortations that he was not voting for trump, nor Hillary, and others should follow his lead----I'm sure that was a defined GOP strategy to persuade Hillary potential voters to protest, and thus pull support away from her.
All to generate business for his business, and put money in his pocket, no matter how it hurts the rest of the country.
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