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Mueller HBO mini-series will be :emoji_fire::emoji_fire::emoji_fire:

I mean, it will be based entirely on fake news. But filthy America-hating libs are crafting an award-winning script for us.
 
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/381413-judge-hands-down-first-sentence-in-mueller-probe
Lawyer gets jail time in first sentence of Mueller probe
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan to 30 days in prison for lying to federal investigators, according to multiple reports, in the first criminal sentence to result from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

Van der Zwaan, who was also ordered to pay $20,000 in fines, pleaded guilty in late February to making “materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations” to the special counsel’s office and FBI agents.

According to the indictment, Van der Zwaan lied about his contacts with Trump campaign official Richard Gates and a Ukraine-based business associate of both Gates and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He then tried to cover his tracks by deleting emails that the special counsel's office had requested.

Press reports have identified the businessman as Konstantin Kilimnik, a former Russian intelligence officer and a longtime associate of Gates and Manafort.

The London-based lawyer has no known ties to the Trump campaign, but in a court filing last week, prosecutors allege that Van Der Zwaan and Gates knowingly had discussions with Kilimnik during the final months of the election. Prosecutors said the communication “was pertinent to the investigation.”

Kilimnik has denied involvement with Russian intelligence.

In a court filing on Monday, prosecutor Andrew Weissman said Van Der Zwaan, the son-in-law of a Russian oligarch, is in “an unusual position of having information related” to the Russia probe that “is not widely known — including information that he knows first-hand due to his role in the conduct the Office is investigating.”

Several other Trump campaign associates have also pleaded guilty to various charges stemming from the special counsel investigation, including Gates, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulosand former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn. They are all cooperating with prosecutors.

None of the charges so far directly relate to the issue of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. But according to a heavily redacted court filing released late Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave Mueller the green light to investigate allegations that Manafort colluded with Russia to swing the election.

Manafort has been indicted on numerous charges of fraud and money laundering and pleaded not guilty to all of them. He has not been indicted on any charges related to election interference.

The charges against Van Der Zwaan centered on work he did at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom on a 2012 report about the trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

According to Mueller’s team, Van Der Zwaan worked closely with Manafort and Gates on the report, which defended the handling of Tymoshenko’s trial by the Russia-aligned government of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. The State Department criticized the report as a deceptive assessment of the Yanukovych government's conduct and Mueller's team has accused Manafort and Gates of funneling $4 million to secretly pay for it.

Skadden, a powerful New York law firm, has said it fired Van Der Zwaan last year and is cooperating with the investigation.

Van Der Zwaan’s precise value to the Mueller investigation remains unclear.

But Weissman in his Monday filing asked Judge Amy Berman Jackson to limit public access to his case records, arguing that “requests filed by someone with non-public information could, themselves, suggest to third parties investigative facts that are otherwise not widely known.”
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You guys remember when Paul Ryan said it’s part of an American’s patriotic duty to plop out children in order to sustain social security
 
I important thing is why he means by military.

If he I talking about the National Guard, then it the ot that big a deal because past presidents have done that. The Bigot is just trying to appease his base.

If he is talking about Marines and Rangers to be stationed there long term, then yeah, this clown is wildin.
 
RustyShackleford said:
I important thing is why he means by military.

If he I talking about the National Guard, then it the ot that big a deal because past presidents have done that. The Bigot is just trying to appease his base.

If he is talking about Marines and Rangers to be stationed there long term, then yeah, this clown is wildin.
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I don't even think he's aware enough of the distinctions to make one.
Probably asking someone right now how many tanks and drones it would take to secure the border.
 
RustyShackleford said:
I important thing is why he means by military.

If he I talking about the National Guard, then it the ot that big a deal because past presidents have done that. The Bigot is just trying to appease his base.

If he is talking about Marines and Rangers to be stationed there long term, then yeah, this clown is wildin.
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I agree CLOWN Status over 10,000

















Clown status to not have done this earlier. Hoping the Army will patrol the border between LIBBIE CONJECTURE AND INNUENDO. Can't have that messing up all this winning .
 
Speaking of the wall, it reminded me of a wonderful old Trump quote from July 2017:

Question: You were joking about solar, right?
Trump: No, not joking, no. There is a chance that we can do a solar wall. We have major companies looking at that. Look, there's no better place for solar than the Mexico border -- the southern border. And there is a very good chance we can do a solar wall, which would actually look good. But there is a very good chance we could do a solar wall.
One of the things with the wall is you need transparency. You have to be able to see through it. In other words, if you can't see through that wall — so it could be a steel wall with openings, but you have to have openings because you have to see what's on the other side of the wall.
And I'll give you an example. As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don't see them -- they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It's over. As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall. But we have some incredible designs.
 
Biblethumpers at it again
"Nonini is a current GOP state senator."
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...sts-women-who-have-abortions-should-get-death
GOP Idaho candidate suggests women who have abortions should get death penalty
A Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Idaho said that women who have abortions should be punished, possibly with the death penalty, if the state decides to criminalize the procedure, according to the Associated Press.

Bob Nonini said at a candidate forum in Moscow, Idaho on Monday that he believed the women should face penalties if abortions are criminalized in the state, and nodded when asked if he backed the death penalty as a possible penalty.

The two other Republican candidates for the office — GOP businesswoman Janice McGeachin and former Idaho Republican Party Chairman Steve Yates — also said at the forum that they believed abortion was murder.



However, they did not say that women should be charged with first-degree murder for undergoing the procedures.

Nonini is a current GOP state senator. He did not immediately return the AP’s request for comment.

Idaho previously attempted to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but a federal court struck down the law as unconstitutional in 2015.
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