@coldjoint,
Do please try to escape from your wiling confinemet on Conspiracy Theory Island.
Rudy Giuliani Is Now the Subject of Three Different Investigations: Report
By Matt Stieb
Rudy Giuliani began the week hot, with an advance piece of guerrilla marketing for a potential podcast that would “analyze the impeachment in every aspect.” But by the week’s end, the news cycle wasn’t looking as good: Late on Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Giuliani is under federal investigation for possible campaign-finance violations, as well as a failure to register as a foreign agent.
Aside from throwing off his prospective show, the timing isn’t great: The president’s lawyer is the subject of a criminal investigation and a counterintelligence investigation for his dealings in Ukraine. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan and the Justice Department in D.C. are looking into his business dealings in the country, while the FBI is evaluating if his actions have been willingly or unwillingly influenced by a foreign government.
The new investigation will determine if Giuliani violated laws against bribing foreign officials. Former federal prosecutor Kenneth McCallion told Bloomberg that it’s possible Giuliani could face an extortion charge for his role in pressuring Ukraine into investigating Hunter Biden and a conspiracy theory about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. McCallion added that a charge like that could implicate the president in a criminal activity, though he could not be charged while in office.
Unlike the prior investigations, in which no indictments have been handed down, four of Giuliani’s associates have already been charged with campaign-finance violations. Giuliani’s clients, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were indicted in early October for hiding the source of a $325,000 donation to the super-PAC America First. Then came the arrest of California businessman Andrey Kukushkin, who worked with Parnas and Fruman to move $10,000 of foreign money into Nevada politics in order to help a Russian businessman obtain commercial marijuana licenses. And on October 16, David Correia was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Nevada scheme. That prosecutors have pursued four of his associates for campaign-finance violations should concern Giuliani: “I would not be surprised if he gets indicted,” former SDNY prosecutor Mimi Rocah told Bloomberg.
Further bad news: Though the president has retained Giuliani as his personal lawyer throughout the Ukraine scandal, GOP lawmakers are reportedly pressing Trump to ditch him in order to create some distance between himself and Giuliani’s efforts to push the quid pro quo in Ukraine. “Rudy will be cut loose because he was rogue,” one Republican told Axios.
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Will Rudy go to jail for Trump or tweet like a bird to "make a deal"? lol
@coldjoint,
Doesn't do any good to post them to blind, deaf, braindead posters who face the wall and scream no, no, no, no.
Elise Stefanik's Democratic Opponent Raises $250,000 In Donations In 24hrs: UPDATED
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/elise-stefaniks-democratic-opponent-hits
@hingehead,
I’ve had similar face-to-face conversations with people, wherein they accuse me of “always” accusing them of being racist about Obama. While, the truth was, we’d
never had a conversation that included both racism and Obama. I could only conclude then (as now regarding the interaction between you and Baldimo) that it is all in their heads. It’s like a man going out in public shouting “I don’t beat my wife!”, when no one had asked if he did. Methinks they protest too much.
@snood,
snood wrote:I've had similar face-to-face conversations with people, wherein they accuse me of "always" accusing them of being racist about Obama. While, the truth was, we'd never had a conversation that included both racism and Obama.
Democrats did a good job of keeping their kookiness bottled up during Obama's first term. But as soon as he was reelected, suddenly there was all sorts of kooky ranting from the left about how Obama's failures were because Republicans are racists.
Most likely, these people that you talked to, their memories conflated non-Obama-related accusations of racism coming from you with all of the Obama-related accusations of racism that they received from other quarters.
From what I recall, every time you've falsely accused me of racism, it had nothing to do with Obama. But I'm much better at recalling facts than most people. It would be unfair to expect others to have the same high quality recall that I possess.
@snood,
snood wrote:
Methinks they protest too much.
If you think that's bad, don't ever suggest that gun ownership is a way of compensating for inadequate genitalia.
@snood,
It is perfectly reasonable for people to defend themselves from name-calling.
The fact that leftists only engage in name-calling because they are not capable of producing intelligent arguments is no excuse.
@oralloy,
For what reason are you addressing this to me?
@snood,
Partly because of your amused response when the subject of leftist name-calling was raised. Partly because it was the most recent post in that sub-thread about leftist name-calling.
@oralloy,
Izzy didn’t call any names. He simply suggested a possible connection between firearms obsession and insecurity about one’s genitals.
@snood,
That is incorrect. That is name-calling.
