Again, I left out Armenia because I was speaking within the contextual parameters of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran … all Islamic nations. These nations have large Armenian populations. Incidentally, I have visited them.
Trump Taxes: Justice Dept. Asks Judges to Block Subpoena Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum October 11, 2019 Trump Taxes: Justice Dept. Asks Judges to Block Subpoena excerpt: "The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to stop the release of President Trump’s tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, arguing that local prosecutors should have to meet a very high legal bar before investigating a sitting president. The filing meant Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department was lending support to his attempt to block a subpoena issued to his accounting firm for eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns. The district attorney’s office issued the subpoena in late August as part of an investigation into hush-money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. But in its filing, the Justice Department, which is led by Attorney General William P. Barr, stopped short of endorsing Mr. Trump’s most sweeping argument: that sitting presidents are totally immune from all criminal investigations."
Barr is supposed to be independent of Trump but sounds like he's his personal defense attorney. Giuliani is supposed to be Trump's personal attorney but is acting like an unregistered shadow U.S. government foreign agent, but under the guise of an attorney to hide behind attorney-client privilege. Yovanovitch was an actual ambassador qualified to handle foreign affairs but was essentially fired by Trump with the help of Giuliani. All of this while Trump complains about the swamp and an alleged 'deep state' in the government. .
The Ukrainian guys who got arrested after lunch with Giuliani are on record for having attended Trump's election party. They've been in the shadows for some time. It sounds like a conspiracy, because Manafort was involved. Congress needs to reopen Manafort's files.
Acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan steps down, Trump says – live President says official is departing to ‘spend more time with his family and go to the private sector’ Gripas/Reuters Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco (now) and Joan E Greve in Washington (earlier) Fri 11 Oct 2019 20.09 EDT First published on Fri 11 Oct 2019 08.57 EDT Acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan steps down, Trump says – live
Blog posts about Trump saying he doesn't know the two Ukrainians who were arrested after having lunch with Giuliani in spite of having a beautiful picture taken of the four together: Trump: "I don't know Epstein but I have a picture with him". "I dont know Weinstein but I have a picture with him" . " I don't know Stormy but I have a picture with her". First it was "I don't know these people." Now it's "I don't know these people but I might have a picture with them." Next it'll be "I know these people but I wasn't involved with them." Then it will be "I was involved with these people but nothing illegal. Totally perfect." Trump: Who is Giuliani? Don't know the guy. I might have a picture with him, but I don't know him. I don't know them... but I think I have a picture with them... and my lawyer has lots of pictures with them... and my sons have pictures with them... but I don't know them. You'd have to be a trump supporter to believe this (facepalm).
Trump paraphrase: I didn't know Stormy Daniels. We'll, ok. I did know her. But I didn't know about the hush money to her. Ok, I did know about the hush money, but later. I didn't reimburse Cohen for the hush money. Well, ok. I did reimburse Cohen in a sneaky way. But it was all legal and perfect. I hardly knew Cohen (now that he's in prison).
An invite-only party and Trump claims he didn't know them. Indicted Giuliani associate attended private ‘16 election night party for ‘friend’ Trump Lev Parnas' relationship with the president might have begun years earlier than previously reported. By DARREN SAMUELSOHN and BEN SCHRECKINGER 10/11/2019 05:16 PM EDT Indicted Giuliani associate attended private ‘16 election night party for ‘friend’ Trump excerpt: "Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the latest scandal that threatens his presidency on Thursday by saying he didn’t know either of the foreign-born Rudy Giuliani associates that his own Justice Department had just indicted for alleged campaign finance violations. But that’s not what one of the men said three years ago — while attending Trump’s invite-only 2016 election night party in New York. In fact, Lev Parnas described himself to a foreign correspondent at the cash-bar event in midtown Manhattan as a friend of the president-elect who didn’t live far from his South Florida winter home. Parnas arrived at Trump’s November 2016 election night party, which was held in a ballroom at the Midtown Hilton, with two other men in suits and their heavily made-up wives, according to a forgotten but newly relevant dispatch from the event published at the time in Le Figaro, France’s oldest daily newspaper."
Rudy Giuliani’s Two Indicted Associates Could Have a Lot to Say By John Cassidy October 11, 2019 7:22 P.M. Rudy Giuliani’s Two Indicted Associates Could Have a Lot to Say excerpt: "But humor and Schadenfreude aside, this is a deadly serious matter. While there is still a good deal of murk surrounding the activities of Fruman and Parnas, we do know that they were two very busy and well-connected fellows. In addition to doing some of Giuliani’s bidding in Ukraine, as he sought to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his son Hunter, Parnas got hired by a law firm run by two other Trump supporters and frequent Fox News guests, Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing. According to the Wall Street Journal, the law firm “hired Mr. Parnas in July to serve as an interpreter related to their representation of Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch, who was detained in Vienna, in 2014, on corruption charges filed in the U.S.” Meanwhile, Parnas and Fruman were also representing, and acting at the behest of, at least two Eastern European parties who haven’t yet been identified. The indictment says that their political donations, some of which were routed through shell companies to hide their identities, “were made for the purpose of gaining influence with politicians so as to advance their own personal financial interests and the political interests of Ukrainian government officials, including at least one Ukrainian government official with whom they were working.”"
The more Trump haplessly tries to make Biden look corrupt by pursuing a truther narrative, the more he makes himself look corrupt and impeachable. It's evidenced by the various polls including one by Fox News whose polls Trump says 'suck'.
Giuliani is an incompetent lawyer which is why Trump in all his wisdom fired him and got a man who could handle this witch hunt from the crooked left. That can easily be the accepted truth as soon as he says it. It's very common for criminals facing charges or just rich pricks to insist the lawyer is an idiot when they hear facts or they can't do the impossible. He's fired a lot of lawyers and he sues everyone for any reason. Most people can't afford to keep loosing in court and he can. Justice is not free in America. A court case even can cost six or even seven figures. There is also a lot of lawyers who deal with rich and crazy elements of society knowing the court case pays. It's interesting he's trying to treat the Constitution as a frivolous law suite.
The constitution is a frivolous law suite, if you consider that 40% of the country would love nothing more than for Donald Duck to say screw you congress and screw you justice department, and declare martial law. What fucking good is rigged elections, Fox News suddenly pretending to be real news, a shredded constitution, a congress that has not represented anyone but the top 10% of the wealthiest, and a judicial system that has even begun to compel people to testify against themselves? Donald Duck is prepared to incite civil war, because we no longer have a functional democracy, when nobody in the country is willing to even admit that 40% of the country no longer wants a democracy. Fuck em all, if Americans are so stupid as to keep voting in rigged elections knowing only the top 10% of the wealthiest ever get what they want, and then declare civil war, then I can only conclude that it is natural selection ensuring the marching morons kill each other. Fuck you America, give me back my vote and constitution, or I will personally encourage your marching morons to eat each other alive, because they do nobody any damned good, not even themselves. You might be able to stop Donald Duck, but he has already shown how easy it is to walk all over the republican party and congress. By the time you kick him out of office, assuming you do, you will have to spend the next four years just cleaning up his mess, because it is much easier to destroy our government than to hold what pathetic remains are left together. Voting the fucking bums out of office, cannot save you from your own stupidity, and will only enrage his followers.