Rusha (April 15th, 2018),WizardofOz (April 16th, 2018)
When Grossnik's bag of facts is empty, he just gets verbally abusive. It's how you know he knows he's beaten.
Let's say that I suffer from a delusion. I will call this delusion "Fact-check Syndrome." I respond by citing facts.
Most people online don't want to be corrected. They do not care about anything that does not agree with them.
Rusha (April 15th, 2018),WizardofOz (April 16th, 2018)
patrick jane (April 15th, 2018)
patrick jane (April 15th, 2018)
Cohen reached out directly to Vladimir Putin’s press secretary in January 2016 to ask for the Kremlin’s help in a deal to erect a building in Moscow, emails published by the Washington Post and New York Times showed.
Cohen told the Wall Street Journal Monday that he didn’t inform Trump about the emailed appeal for help. According to Cohen, he told Trump that he was working on a licensing deal for a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2015 and received Trump’s signature on a letter of intent for the project in October of that year. He also informed Trump when the project fell through in January, Cohen claimed.
He also told the Journal he didn’t remember hearing a response to his request from Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...l-trump-moscow
It's hard to remember when dictators call. Just slips the mind...
Let's say that I suffer from a delusion. I will call this delusion "Fact-check Syndrome." I respond by citing facts.
Most people online don't want to be corrected. They do not care about anything that does not agree with them.
Cohen has vehemently denied having traveled to Prague, and at one point offered up his passport as proof. But Mueller’s team reportedly has evidence that Cohen entered the Czech Republic through Germany, which he could have done without a passport because of the open borders in many European countries.
https://shareblue.com/michael-cohen-...teele-dossier/
Let's say that I suffer from a delusion. I will call this delusion "Fact-check Syndrome." I respond by citing facts.
Most people online don't want to be corrected. They do not care about anything that does not agree with them.
The matter now under investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), however, is a very live criminal investigation. Anyone potentially connected to it should be worried.
Much of the commentary about the SDNY investigation puts the cart before the horse. When Cohen’s law office, hotel residence, and home were searched pursuant to court-approved warrants this week, there were howls about a purportedly unconscionable violation of the attorney–client privilege. As I pointed out in the aftermath, however, whether this was an egregious constitutional affront or textbook investigative rigor depends on (a) exactly what was under investigation and (b) whether the materials sought from Cohen were, in fact, privileged attorney–client communications.
We did not know that at the time, and we are still not fully informed. Still, as an alum who spent nearly 20 years as an SDNY prosecutor, I’m always inclined to assume my old office is up to serious business. I also know well the ostentatiously careful steps the SDNY typically takes to avoid unconstitutional interference in the right to counsel — meaning to distinguish real legal assistance from schemes masquerading as attorney–client relationships.
In the earlier column, I observed that it would be outrageous to raid a lawyer’s premises if the only “crime” under investigation were a campaign-finance infraction — which is generally treated as a civil-law issue for the Federal Election Commission to sort out. I would feel the same way if it were essentially a campaign-law no-no inflated into an alleged bank fraud by some, shall we say, prosecutorial creativity (a euphemism for stretching the penal law to capture erstwhile innocent behavior).
That, however, is not what’s going on here — or, at least, I don’t think it is all that is going on here.
I believe that the government is investigating whether there was, in connection with Trump’s White House bid, a conspiracy to commit fraud and extortion for the purpose of silencing potentially compromising sources — specifically, people in a position to portray Donald Trump as a womanizer. Clearly, the prosecutors regard Trump and Cohen as potential co-conspirators. That does not mean a conspiracy will be proven, but the possibility is certainly being scrutinized. Here, it is important to bear in mind a distinction from the Russia investigation: This is not a counterintelligence matter; the SDNY is unquestionably conducting a criminal investigation, and a federal judge would not have authorized search warrants absent finding probable cause that federal crimes may have been committed.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/...ril-for-trump/
Let's say that I suffer from a delusion. I will call this delusion "Fact-check Syndrome." I respond by citing facts.
Most people online don't want to be corrected. They do not care about anything that does not agree with them.
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