When I first met Ryan Casey, he was chairman of the Lincoln County Democratic Party in Sioux Falls, South Dakota who had served as chairman of South Dakota's delegation to the 2012 Democratic National Convention. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and of Georgetown University, he was on his way to Seattle to study law at the University of Washington. Now he's an attorney, a commander in the U.S.
Russian Players by Nancy Ohanian: Trumpanzee, Michael Cohen, Sessions, Manafort, Flynn, J.D. Gordon, Carter Page, Wilbur Ross, Kushner-in-law, Fuck-Up Jr.I wasn't in the country when I first read about the relationship between Alpha Bank computers and Trump campaign computers. I can't remember where I was-- maybe even Moscow-- but I do remember thinking that that was the end of the road for the Trump campaign. Was I ever wrong.
If Russian agents hacked into voting machines in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina and Florida to hand Trump the 2016 election-- as I'm certain they did-- the proof won't be released for 75 years-- if ever. Chances are good, most of us won't be around to see it (which is the idea) so instead, we have to focus on how the Kremlin worked with the Trump campaign to influence voters.
As part of plea agreement...NBC News: "Manafort agrees to forfeit multiple properties and bank accounts, and cooperate with investigators, including participating in interviews, providing documents and testifying, and delay his sentencing until his cooperation is fulfilled."ABC News: Manafort will admit guilt to ten related charg
I never trusted that Michael Cohen was actually a "rat." I mean he could be, but I'll believe he really turned against Trump when I see it. Chris Hayes never seems to have bought in either, right? Lanny Davis is a classic piece of shit, the very worst of the garbage the dregs of the Clinton establishment vomits up from time to time. So anything he says... is never believable enough to trust.
Trump didn't take Mueller seriously-- just another prop in Trump world who he could write out of the script with some loathsome tweets... and move on to the next season. But even Trump must realize the problem is now about reality, not reality TV. I wonder if the thought of asking Putin for asylum has crossed his mind yet.
The war against dumb conventional wisdom, often bolstered by self-serving propaganda, will never end. Francisco Toro gave it a try at the Washington Post a couple days ago in regard to the agony in Venezuela, No, Venezuela Doesn't Prove That Socialism Will Bring About A Zombie Apocalypse, later prudently retitled "No, Venezuela Doesn't Prove Anything About Socialism." Toro, raised in Caracas and schooled in the U.S.
Over the weekend, the NY Times reported that Don McGahn, the top White House lawyer seems to be taking on the John Dean Watergate role in Putin-Gate. He voluntarily sat with Mueller's team for over 30 hours in at least 3 sessions over the last 9 months.
The Weekly Standard is a neo-con Republican publication founded by News Corp (Rupert Murdoch) in 1995. Many of their top writers are conservative ant-Trumpers. I'll bet some of them were watching Trump's favorite TV show Wednesday morning, Fox and Friends, when Brian Kilmeade explained how Omarosa "out-smarted" the obsessed Trump. Remember, while normal heads of state are dealing with issues of war and peace and issues impacting the lives of their countrymen, Trump is fighting childish twitter wars with random imbeciles like himself.
