What's Up WIth Bob?

[JackLuis]

Today Was The Day Robert Mueller Put Somebody IN JAIL

OH HEY WHAT IS UP, AMERICA? Robert Mueller just sent somebody to JAIL!

We told you last week about the handsome Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan, whose father-in-law German Khan just HAPPENS to be a big Russian oligarch who co-owns Alfa Bank, you know, the bank that really likes sending Snapchat Sexts with this one Trump Organization server FOR SOME REASON. Van der Zwaan got hisself in a wee spot of trouble, by lying to the FBI about the work he and his law firm, Skadden, Arps, did for Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, back when Manafort was helping a pro-Russian Ukrainian dictator dictate things in Ukrainian. He also may have destroyed (did destroy) some emails, in order to hide conversations he had with Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and “Person A,” who is Paul Manafort’s business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, who is literally a Russian spy. Did Van der Zwaan know Kilimnik was a Russian spy? That would be a big honking YUP, because Rick Gates told him!

By the way, this stuff? A lot of it happened during Trump’s presidential campaign, specifically in September and October of 2016.

 

[KeithD]

In relation to a connection between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I knew that was Wonkette before I clicked on it.

Today Was The Day Robert Mueller Put Somebody IN JAIL

 

[AlwaysHungry]

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Today’s Caitlin Johnstone article has been replaced with a statement from the Editorial Board of the National News Conglomerate, your trusted source for real news and authorized opinions. Obey.

Well, this is awkward.

Many of our readers have been pointing out the recent revelations that some rather significant falsehoods have been knowingly advanced by the British government about Russia and promoted uncritically by trusted media outlets of the western world. Following said revelations, there have been some attempts by the Foreign Office and those same media outlets to cover up said falsehoods.

Rather than double down and risk making a bad situation worse, we here at National News Conglomerate have decided to come clean with our readers about exactly what’s going on with this whole Russia kerfuffle.

It should here be noted that after typing the preceding paragraph, we here at the NNC Editorial Board have spent the last six and a half hours sitting around the conference room table chewing on our erasers and checking our Twitter notifications, not quite sure how to continue. This is the first time we’ve ever tried being honest with our readers about this stuff, and it’s just weird for everyone. We are sure you can relate.

So here’s the thing, see: it isn’t our job to tell you the truth. Large media corporations like ours are all owned by powerful billionaires, all of whom have a vested interest in preserving the establishment upon which they have built their massive kingdoms. Those billionaires hire executives to direct their media empires who are loyal to establishment interests, those executives in turn hire editors who are loyal to establishment interests, and those editors hire journalists who are loyal to establishment interests, effectively creating an environment wherein the only way to get ahead is to unquestioningly promote whatever narratives are being advanced by western intelligence/defense agencies and their plutocratic allies.

At this point in history, this means helping to advance a very aggressive agenda against the Russian government in the US and its client states.

A 2017 Department of Defense Risk Assessment by the US Army Strategic Studies Institute says that the US empire is in what it calls “post-primacy” and may currently be on its way out the door.

“In brief,” the assessment reads, “the status quo that was hatched and nurtured by U.S. strategists after World War II and has for decades been the principal ‘beat’ for DoD is not merely fraying but may, in fact, be collapsing. Consequently, the United States’ role in and approach to the world may be fundamentally changing as well.”

So when we told you, for example, that Russia was the only government with a motive to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter, we weren’t being entirely honest. The international allied intelligence and defense agencies of the western empire have every motive in the world to manufacture international support for sanctions and hawkish agendas which disrupt disobedient governments. In fact, the western alliance has far more motive to stage such an attack and frame Russia for it than Russia has for attempting to assassinate an ex-spy who has been strategically irrelevant for years.

This is also true of the alleged hacking of the DNC in the US and all the other Russia stories we’ve been circulating. We’ve been reporting these allegations as though they are unquestionable facts for many months now despite the complete absence of the sort of evidence you suckers should be demanding in a post-Iraq invasion world, when really the US-centralized empire stands far more to gain by them than Russia does. The western world is becoming increasingly galvanized against Russia and will soon be poised to collectively sanction Putin’s rogue state right off the world stage, leaving nations like China, Iran and Syria far more exposed to subversion and sabotage.

We’re writing all this not because we’ve suddenly become a bunch of peace-loving flower children, but because we think we guardians of the western empire are ready to enter into a more mature relationship with you, the public. Instead of trying to deceive you into consenting to CIA-hatched agendas with fairy tales about Kremlin agents under every bed and “won’t someone think of the children” hogwash, we’re just going to be honest with you about what war and aggression needs to happen in order for this empire to continue.

I mean, think about a world which the US no longer dominates using the carrot of military alliance and the stick of military demolition? Anything could happen! The Russia-China tandem will become more powerful and capable of enacting its agendas throughout the world, and then in a couple of decades, who knows? Those Yellow Hordes we’ve been warning you about for the last century could show up on your shores any minute!

So here’s what we are asking from you, our readers, in an attitude of mutual respect: let us do what we need to do, and don’t make a fuss. We might need to kill a few million Koreans and Middle Easterners and flirt with nuclear confrontation a bit. We’ll have to tighten up on free speech and increase our surveillance programs to make sure we keep domestic dissent under control, and to be honest we’ll probably need to have a world war with Russia, China and whatever other governments take their side… but if you don’t let us do that, the bad guys will win!

So just play along, okay? Let us have our proxy wars and cold war escalations, give us the surveillance and censorship and black site torture programs we’ve been trying to manipulate you into giving us, and this will all be over before you know it. Then we’ll control the whole world at long last, and there will be no mischievous governments or alternative media or thought crimes interfering in the maturation of our beneficent relationship with the unwashed masses.

Because let’s be honest, it’s not like you really have a choice anyway. If you don’t play along we’ll just be forced to brutalize your psyches with even more aggressive psyops while still doing what we want behind your backs. We will get our wars, we will get our internet censorship, we will get our social engineering projects, we will succeed in hoarding all the money to ourselves to deprive you of power and political influence while you suffer and die. And you slaves will learn your place.

So don’t ruin this for us, understand?

Thank you in advance,

The NNC Editorial Board

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[Hypoxia]

Y'all may have heard of or even swallowed a Moscow Mule.

The kewl tipple in DC now is the Moscow Mueller.

I'll let y'all guess the ingredients.

 

[JackLuis]

Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano reveals how Mueller is luring Trump into a trap

Since news of Trump not being a “target” of Robert Mueller’s probe leaked, conservative media has been crowing.

Not so fast, warns Fox News senior judicial analyst, judge Andrew Napolitano. The former prosecutor went on Fox & Friends this morning and, perhaps knowing he was speaking directly to the president, warned him against a false sense of security.

“A target means they are going to indict you, and before they indict you they give you an opportunity to come in and try to persuade them why they shouldn’t,” Napolitano said.

The hosts asked Napolitano how this was different than being a “subject.”

“A subject is somebody that is the topic of an ongoing criminal investigation that has not yet ended,” Napolitano said. “So as much as I want the president to be able to be president and not have this on his back, I would encourage him to not relax and not rejoice.”

"Grab your ankles Donny, this may hurt a bit!"

 

[JackLuis]

Mueller probing Ukrainian billionaire’s 2015 payment to Trump Organization solicited by Michael Cohen

Bob following the money? Maybe receipts and bank statments?

Special counsel Robert Mueller is probing a $150,000 payment to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, made by a Ukranian billionaire in September 2015 in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance by Trump.

Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen—whose office and residence were raided on Monday—“solicited the payment,” the New York Times reports.

Marcus Owens, the former head of the IRS Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division, called the payment “curious,” noting “it comes during a campaign and is from a foreigner and looks like an effort to buy influence.”

Earlier this year, Mueller subpoenaed the Trump Organization for documents relating to the donation, made by Ukranian steel magnate Victor Pinchuk. Mueller also solicited “an array of records about business with foreign nationals” from the president’s eponymous organization.

According to the Times, the line of inquiry is part of a broader look at foreign money flowing through Trump and his associates.

Also:
CNN legal analyst explains how Sessions could have stopped FBI’s Cohen raid — and why the warrant could ‘shock us all’

 

[phrodeau]

Top Presidential Adviser and conspiracy theorist Lou Dobbs insists that Trump needs to fire Mueller.

 

[Hypoxia]

Top Presidential Adviser and conspiracy theorist Lou Dobbs insists that Trump needs to fire Mueller.

Firing a special prosecutor really worked for Nixon. Did Dobbs advise Tricky Dicky too?

 

[AlwaysHungry]

You guys can forget all the BS with Mueller now. Trump has finally done something that merits impeachment. Sign me up, I'm ready to demonstrate for it.

 

[Schlank]

From what I understand Donald Trump has a history of laundering money for the Russians. An experienced prosecutor like Mueller (who took down mob boss John Gotti) will know a thing or two about tracking laundered money from its source and proving where it came from. Trump seems to becoming more nervous and more unhinged as Mueller looks more into Trump's financial dealings.

 

[phrodeau]

Trump had Comey fired, and Comey wrote a book.

Trump gets Mueller fired, and Mueller will write an encyclopaedia.

 

[Hypoxia]

Trump had Comey fired, and Comey wrote a book.

Trump gets Mueller fired, and Mueller will write an encyclopaedia.

Tromp must also fire Berman and maybe other SDNY federal prosecutors. First he has to fire Rosenstein and maybe Sessions, and maybe Francisco if the Solicitor General is honest, and maybe whoever inherits the job next but has a conscience, and on down the line till somebody scabs.

Will they all write memoirs? Publishers and news media will be greatly enriched. Donnie's shilling nicely.

Meanwhile, state prosecutors are sharpening knives. Stay tuned for blood.

 

[JackLuis]

Fox’s Andrew Napolitano crushes judge who criticized Mueller: His opinion means ‘nothing’

Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Monday dismissed a federal judge’s criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

During a Monday Fox News segment, Napolitano reacted to the news that Reagan-appointed District Judge T.S. Ellis accused Mueller of prosecuting former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in an effort to oust President Donald Trump.

According to Napolitano, Ellis’ rant means “nothing” because “it’s just [a] personal opinion.”

“There’s no evidence in the courtroom in front of him to justify that kind of an opinion,” the legal analyst observed. “It drew enormous headlines over the weekend because it’s a political narrative with which Trump and reporters agree.”

So it's like tRump's opinion?

 

[JackLuis]

Mueller ‘wrapping up’ witness testimony and will conclude with Roger Stone: report

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly “wrapping up” the witness testimony phase of his investigation.

Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino reported on Monday that Mueller was expected to conclude witness testimony with the appearance of Trump confidante Roger Stone.

Gasparino called Stone a “friend” and a “decent guy” who has told him that he did not collude with Russians to help the Trump campaign.

“Roger talks a good game, I can tell you that,” Gasparino said. “He’s a political dirt-digger, right? He’s a tough guy. I’ve never known him to do anything stupid.”

It was not clear from Gasparino’s reporting if Mueller would try to speak to members of Trump’s family like Ivanka Trump or Jared Kushner before concluding the testimony phase of the investigation.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Mueller’s investigation was expected to “go dark” in coming months in order not to interfere with the 2018 midterm elections.

Come on Bob, lay a big fat indictment out in September!

 

[Hypoxia]

Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino reported on Monday that Mueller was expected to conclude witness testimony with the appearance of Trump confidante Roger Stone.

And Charlie knows this, how?

 

[jaF0]

As stated before, Bob needs to get on with the gettin' on.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

As stated before, Bob needs to get on with the gettin' on.

Bob has now learned that gettin' on is dangerous, because then you are expected to actually present evidence (if somebody calls your bluff.) Bob was getting much better results with selective leaking of innuendo to sleazeball reporters, and Comey's J. Edgar Hoover Moment.

 

[Hypoxia]

Bob has now learned that gettin' on is dangerous, because then you are expected to actually present evidence (if somebody calls your bluff.)

Evidence is presented at trial, not before. Patience, grasshopper.

Bob was getting much better results with selective leaking of innuendo to sleazeball reporters

What leaking was that? If you mean the questions memo, that came from Tromp's lawyers. Please cite any leaks from Team Mueller.

and Comey's J. Edgar Hoover Moment.

Oh goody, more uTube crap to ignore. Try written words, guy. They last longer. But give us a hint. Is that a clip of Comey in drag? If not, then feh.

 

[AlwaysHungry]

Game Over, Trump: An Ancient Order Of Franciscan Monks Has Released A 13th-Century Tapestry Depicting Donald Trump Colluding With Russian Officials

 

[Hypoxia]

Game Over, Trump: An Ancient Order Of Franciscan Monks Has Released A 13th-Century Tapestry Depicting Donald Trump Colluding With Russian Officials

https://resistancehole.clickhole.com/game-over-trump-an-ancient-order-of-franciscan-monks-1825926817

So the source is resistancehole.clickhole.com -- and clickhole.com? "ClickHole is a satirical website from The Onion that parodies clickbait websites such as BuzzFeed and Upworthy. Wikipedia."

Ha ha. Ain't gonna click it, nope.

 

[JackLuis]

Robert Mueller issues grand jury subpoenas to Trump adviser’s social media consultant

U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued two subpoenas to a social media expert who worked for longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

The subpoenas were delivered late last week to lawyers representing Jason Sullivan, a social media and Twitter specialist Stone hired to work for an independent political action committee he set up to support Trump, Knut Johnson, a lawyer for Sullivan, told Reuters on Tuesday.

The subpoenas suggest that Mueller, who is probing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is focusing in part on Stone and whether he might have had advance knowledge of material allegedly hacked by Russian intelligence and sent to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who published it.

Looks like Bob is forming up the evidence.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump angrily insists Mueller probe is ‘unconstitutional’ in misspelled Twitter rant

President Donald Trump claimed the special counsel probe of his campaign ties to Russia was “totally unconstitutional” in one of his most outrageous tweets yet.

The president claimed Monday morning that he had the “absolute right” to pardon himself, and he followed up that baseless argument by questioning the constitutionality of the special counsel probe.

“The appointment of the Special Councel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!” Trump tweeted, misspelling “counsel” as he has repeatedly done on social media. “Despite that, we play the game because I, unlike the Democrats, have done nothing wrong!”

"The appointment of the Special Councel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Despite that, we play the game because I, unlike the Democrats, have done nothing wrong!"

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2018

Not done much right either!

 

[JackLuis]

Is Mueller taking legal short-cut in Russian troll case?

Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is denying a Russian company's claim that prosecutors are improperly trying to make it easier to win a case charging that Russian businesses and individuals illegally interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

A Russian corporation accused of funding social media ads and internet troll activity in the 2016 presidential election, St. Petersburg-based Concord Management and Consulting, contends that Mueller's prosecutors are trying to make an end-run around the high legal standard typically applied in criminal cases stemming from federal election law.

Usually, prosecutors have to prove that a defendant charged with a campaign-law violation acted "willfully," meaning that the defendant did the act on purpose and knowing that it would violate the law.

However, in the February indictment over alleged Russian troll activity in the 2016 race, Concord isn't charged directly with violating U.S. election law. Instead, the firm is charged with "conspiracy to defraud the United States" — a broad charge involving an alleged effort to impede the functions of one or more federal agencies. The indictment mentions the Federal Election Commission, the Justice Department's foreign agent registration functions and the State Department's role in visa issuance as activities that were impaired by the scheme Concord and the others allegedly carried out.

Another twist in the case is that Concord is a company not a person. So, even once Judge Dabney Friedrich concludes what mental state prosecutors have to prove, there will be the question of how to prove what a corporation was thinking. It appears prosecutors will argue that the company is basically an alter ego of Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a Russian businessman known as Putin's chef.

"Corporation are people, my friend" So who goes to jail when Corporation are convicted? Why not all of them?

 

[JackLuis]

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