Lets see if we can keep this thread a little more civil.

I found this interview very interesting.  A lot of soft balls thrown at Trump, he explained his back pedalling on his more extreme issues as a lot of his claims as opening bids for negotiation purposes.  Which .. whatever .. I still think that those are insincere claims he used to get elected.

He does now come across way more presidential then he did prior to the election.  A lot of his noise, yelling, and rhetoric has been scaled back.

Do respect this one though:

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Lesley Stahl: Are you gonna take the salary, the president’s salary?

Donald Trump: Well, I’ve never commented on this, but the answer is no. I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But it’s a -- I don’t even know what it is.

Donald Trump: Do you know what the salary is?

Lesley Stahl: $400,000 you’re giving up.

Donald Trump: No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/

What’s the point of this anyway? Just to provide the potential targets with advanced knowledge of evidence that might be used against them? 

I’m no lawyer but it doesn’t seem that trump has a leg to stand on here 

 

 

Hahahahaha. Now hannity denies  it!

2 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Hahahahaha. Now hannity denies  it!

Denies what? That his Lawyer is Cohen?

27 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Denies what? That his Lawyer is Cohen?

Sorry, yes, he denies Cohen is his lawyer even though Cohen's lawyer just told a federal judge that Hannity IS his client.  They tried to keep it confidential so Im guessing Hannity was fine with them using his name as part of their argument to let Trump see the seized material but once it became public, he was running for the hills.

7 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

The cynical view is that the image was released in an effort to make Trump look presidential.  We remember how iconic the image of Obama and Clinton watching the OBL raid looked.  And if you view it that way, then it calls into question the entire Syrian bombing and the timing to coincide with Comey and the Cohen raid.

If she was trying to make him look presidential then she should have chosen a picture of Trump when he wasn't looking clueless.

Edited April 16, 20187 yr by Jacquie

12 minutes ago, Jacquie said:

If she was trying to make him look presidential then she should have chosen a picture of Trump when he wasn't looking clueless.

They did their best. 

 

 

Digby Parton..... Hannity lawyer being Cohen

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Nobody would hire Cohen to do some routine estate planning. Cohen has a specialty. He's a fixer. And Fox News is run by sexist pigs. We know that.

One thing we know for sure now is that even if he wanted to, Hannity can't cross Trump, can he? Trump knows ...

In a sane world these clowns would all be gone by now. When this Trump dam finally bursts, look out. (probably why Ryan bailed).

Edited April 16, 20187 yr by Mark F

Cohen has three clients. Trump, Broidy and Hannity.  What did Cohen do for these clients? Well the first two, he paid off women that slept with them.  We don’t know what he did for Hannity but....seems like Cohen has a speciality. Lol

Hannity says that he just got advice on some real estate and he is not represented by Cohen, Hannity absolutely didn't want his name coming out today and now journalists are going to start digging to find out what did Cohen exactly do for Hannity

No, no....Hannity just got advice on Russian orphans.

I love... 

H: Cohen is not my lawyer. 

Also, H: Attorney client privilege! 

Hannity clearly got some legal advice at some point because he went from "he's not my lawyer and there is no privilege" to "he's not my lawyer but I assumed privilege" to "I might have given him a few bucks so ofcourse privilege exists".  And now he's just doing his usual over-bearing, obnoxious shouting down of anyone questioning him.

Imagine Hannity's reaction had it been, say, Anderson Cooper (which isnt even a great example since he's not a de facto spokesperson for Dems) connected to a Clinton lawyer under federal investigation?

Edited April 17, 20187 yr by The Unknown Poster

There have been various reports, indicating that Cohen liked to record some of his conversations with "famous people"    Stay tuned.

1 hour ago, JCon said:

I love... 

H: Cohen is not my lawyer. 

Also, H: Attorney client privilege! 

Well, too bad Cohen has named him as a client.....in a court of law.

According to the WH, this morning Cohen was "just one of many lawyers" working for Trump.   Nice try.

Edited April 17, 20187 yr by do or die

1 hour ago, do or die said:

There have been various reports, indicating that Cohen liked to record some of his conversations with "famous people"    Stay tuned.

Yup.  And one suspects the feds believe strongly Cohen has evidence of illegal activity by 1) himself 2) his clients.  To convince a judge and the DOJ to raid a lawyer and take documents, recordings etc that under normal circumstances would be privileged, its an enormously hard warrant to get and indicates they really believe there is important evidence of serious crimes.

Hahaha

So apparently the Syrain strikes did minimal damage to mostly empty buildings good thing the POTUS gave them a weeks warning.

And now they are blaming their ambassador to the UN for announcing Russia sanctions when trump changed his mind and pulled back. Nikki Haley not taking it laying down though. 

What a bunch of inept clowns in the White House. 

 

Why the heck is trump event commenting on this? Guilty conscience ?  

 

His tweets this morning are evidence why his lawyers don't want him to talk to Mueller, he would be in trouble after the first question, he just doesn't know how to tell the truth.

20 minutes ago, bustamente said:

His tweets this morning are evidence why his lawyers don't want him to talk to Mueller, he would be in trouble after the first question, he just doesn't know how to tell the truth.

I would say that Mueller would play him like a fiddle, drawing out incriminating evidence. But, in reality, Trump would start spewing incriminating evidence without Mueller having to do anything. 

 

The President is an idiot. Straight up idiot with no impulse control and desperately insecure.