Thursday, May 3, 2018

Dangerous liaisons

What's really going on:

Rudy Giuliani, who was turned down 4 times by Trump for plum jobs, took his revenge by becoming Trump's lawyer and throwing him under the bus.

Choderlos de Laclos got nuttin' on us, baby.

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  1. Looks a good theory.

    Though, as I understand it, Cohen to pay for Stormy could be an electoral crime, but Trump paying her up wouldn't, so I guess Giuliani was trying to correct that mistake.

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  2. It would still have been a minor violation in that he did not report it.

    An alternative explanation would be: Didja see how cleverly Giuliani diverted the press from that latest Pruitt scandal?

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  3. Harry, yours is the simpleton's (or Trump Deranged) take on it.

    For everyone else,there's this.

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  4. Those of us who remember the '90's are more than a little amused by the sudden desire for things to get along quickly on the part of the Right. As it stands, I don't recall Starr managing any indictments in his first year on the job - a job, mind you, that had already been done by someone before him.

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    1. Hey, how come up you are in this blog too?

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    2. I was a lurker at BJ for a long time - going back at least to 2000. Mr. Eager was, at the time, a regular commenter there. There was some sort of kerfuffle involving doctored/deleted comments that led to the exodus of Mr. Eager and a number of other regular commenters at the time, and they briefly formed something called the "post-Judd" alliance. They were (almost) all interesting, although only this one was less than right-wing in its bent, and only this one really seems to get updated anymore.

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    3. Interesting! As Skipper mentioned, there is greatguys.blogspot.com, from people from back then. I am not from those times, but I write there too now and then.

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  5. Trump's 2 chances are 1) create a political firestorm to make the investigation impossible; or 2) spin it out forever. The one thing he cannot abide is regular order.

    Hence the Rudy circus

    Recall that in Teapot Dome, Fall was convicted of taking a bribe from Sinclair but Sinclair was acquitted of bribing him. Likewise, in Iran-Contra Inouye messed up regular order so badly that most of the prosecutions wee short-circuited.

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  6. I had abandoned Judd before the kerfuffle, whose details I don't know.

    Regrettably, 2 of the post-Judd alliance are now dead.

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  7. Trump's 2 chances are 1) create a political firestorm to make the investigation impossible; or 2) spin it out forever.

    Wrong. His third option is to keep cattle-prodding TDS sufferers. When that collusion investigation house of cards finally comes crashing down, it is going to leave a lot more wreckage than if he had sat back quietly.

    You are making the same mistake as all the other TDS sufferers: a conclusion in the complete absence of evidence, while ignoring the real corruption.

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  8. They were (almost) all interesting, although only this one was less than right-wing in its bent, and only this one really seems to get updated anymore.

    Great Guys is still around.

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    1. Ah, good to know. He was the pilot, right?

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    2. I'm not one of the Great Guys, but I am the pilot.

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