a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by someguyfromcanada
someguyfromcanada  ·  2363 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Robert Mueller’s Show of Strength: A Quick and Dirty Analysis

Lawfare has been a bookmark of mine for some time.

The case seems strong enough that Manafort's lawyer was forced to testify before the grand jury under the crime-fraud exception to solicitor-client privilege.

PDF Judicial Opinion

I suspect this is just the first salvo against Manafort. More interesting to me is the Papadopolous Agreed Statement of Facts. It shows that Mueller has several unnamed senior campaign people's balls in a vise. It reads very similar to what I could imagine being the text of further Indictments against Don Jr., Kushner and Manafort just for the meeting they lied about.





b_b  ·  2363 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Am I the only one who wants to see Ivanka go to jail? She never gets mentioned in any of this stuff, but she's clearly a criminal (see New Yorker reporting about Trump Towers in Baku and Batumi). Seems like she's deep into some oligarchs' pockets.

am_Unition  ·  2362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Linking to the piece you referenced.

Thank ya, hadn't read that one.

b_b  ·  2362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You shared this one ;)

am_Unition  ·  2362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

238 days ago was several years back

b_b  ·  2362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For sure. I think Ivanka gets a free pass because of sexism, that's all. "She's just a girl" is the implicit assumption when she constantly gets overlooked as a villain. I guess Tiffany will get the last laugh when all her older siblings are in jail, and she stays out because daddy is only proud of her "to a lesser extent."

kleinbl00  ·  2362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Remember - it was Tiffany's mom who leaked Trump's tax return... because it was her tax return.

Marla and Tiffany have for some reason become Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt in Heartbreakers in my head.

You are now aware that Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt once starred in a movie together.

b_b  ·  2362 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha. I never missed a JLH movie between the ages of 16 and 20, so I've actually seen it.

user-inactivated  ·  2362 days ago  ·  link  ·  
cgod  ·  2363 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm new to Lawfare but read a handful of other legal blogs and bet that I'll be adding it to my weekly diet.

Their podcast this week was decent as well.

The comment section of Popehat let me to it. The Popehat breakdown was pretty good if you haven't checked it out.

am_Unition  ·  2361 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for introducing me, I think it's one of the least biased sources I've come across in a while.