Indictment-O-Rama Megathread: Mueller indicts 13 Russians

[Yank2133]

Bob Muller doesn't **** around.

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/937800163808210944

[KingSweden]

Bob Muller doesn't **** around.

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/937800163808210944

You don’t become FBI Director for 12 years (longest since Hoover) by being a putz

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Bob Muller doesn't **** around.

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/937800163808210944

In fairness this is really just Manafort being an idiot more than anything else.

[junior chįmp]

Bob Muller doesn't **** around.

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/937800163808210944

Bob Muller is my God.

[Val]

Bob Muller doesn't **** around.

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/937800163808210944

Bob Muller is my God.

*Mueller
spell the Lord's name right

[junior chįmp]

Bob Muller doesn't **** around.

https://twitter.com/hsu_spencer/status/937800163808210944

Bob Muller is my God.

*Mueller
spell the Lord's name right

Apologies my Lord. Bobmen

[pbrower2a]

Paul Man-o'-Fraud apparently violated bail by having contacts with Russian connections.

LOCK HIM UP!

[junior chįmp]

Paul Man-o'-Fraud apparently violated bail by having contacts with Russian connections.

LOCK HIM UP!

Smite thee Lord Mueller!

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

When the Kush gets indicted, could the FBI barge into the white house and arrest him at work? Or would they have to arrest him at his home?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Team Trump's newest defense:
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-lawyer-claims-the-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-2514742663.html

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I read this as their admission that he's guilty of obstruction (in addition to collusion). Now they're just trying to limit the damage.

Someone remind me, please - how well did "it's not illegal if the President does it" work for Nixon?

[IceSpear]

Team Trump's newest defense:
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-lawyer-claims-the-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-2514742663.html

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I read this as their admission that he's guilty of obstruction (in addition to collusion). Now they're just trying to limit the damage.

Someone remind me, please - how well did "it's not illegal if the President does it" work for Nixon?

It worked in the sense that he avoided prison. Also, Trump has the luxury of his Mr. Burns-like minions protecting him in Congress.

I hate being a cynic. I really do. But Atlas needs to not get its hopes up on Trump leaving office or a Democrat beating a pedophile in Alabama.

To be fair, at least the former has a very slim chance of happening.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

His lawyer is basically saying "The President is above the law."

Amazing. He's committing everything he accused the Clintons of doing.

[KingSweden]

His lawyer is basically saying "The President is above the law."

Amazing. He's committing everything he accused the Clintons of doing.

We’re living through the Bizarro 90s.

[NewYorkExpress]

Team Trump's newest defense:
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-lawyer-claims-the-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-2514742663.html

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I read this as their admission that he's guilty of obstruction (in addition to collusion). Now they're just trying to limit the damage.

Someone remind me, please - how well did "it's not illegal if the President does it" work for Nixon?

Forget obstruction and collusion charges. I want Treason charges filed against President Trump. He gave aid and comfort to Russia, an enemy of the United States. That's the textbook definition of treason.

[Blue3]

Trump says TODAY(!!!) that he still so feels so bad for Flynn, that "it's like lying to the FBI might have even ruined his life"...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-he-feels-badly-for-michael-flynn/

[pbrower2a]

Trump says TODAY(!!!) that he still so feels so bad for Flynn, that "it's like lying to the FBI might have even ruined his life"...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-he-feels-badly-for-michael-flynn/

As if hitching his star to Donald Trump wouldn't tarnish him.

I wonder what the military thinks of former General Flynn now.

[KingSweden]

Trump says TODAY(!!!) that he still so feels so bad for Flynn, that "it's like lying to the FBI might have even ruined his life"...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-he-feels-badly-for-michael-flynn/

As if hitching his star to Donald Trump wouldn't tarnish him.

I wonder what the military thinks of former General Flynn now.

Contempt, one would think

[Tartarus Sauce]

Team Trump's newest defense:
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-lawyer-claims-the-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-2514742663.html

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I read this as their admission that he's guilty of obstruction (in addition to collusion). Now they're just trying to limit the damage.

Someone remind me, please - how well did "it's not illegal if the President does it" work for Nixon?

It worked in the sense that he avoided prison. Also, Trump has the luxury of his Mr. Burns-like minions protecting him in Congress.

I hate being a cynic. I really do. But Atlas needs to not get its hopes up on Trump leaving office or a Democrat beating a pedophile in Alabama.

It will be a boon for Democrats at the midterms though. Republicans will take an absolute beating with a pedophile and criminal president defining the party's image, much less the generational damage it will do for their brand.

Win-win, either he gets kicked out or he's a albatross around the GOP's necks for the next three years.

[Frodo]

Trump says TODAY(!!!) that he still so feels so bad for Flynn, that "it's like lying to the FBI might have even ruined his life"...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-he-feels-badly-for-michael-flynn/

As if hitching his star to Donald Trump wouldn't tarnish him.

I wonder what the military thinks of former General Flynn now.

More importantly, have the rank and file changed their minds about not only Michael Flynn, but also Donald Trump since the last time they were polled back in January (I think)?  

[Landslide Lyndon]

Team Trump's newest defense:
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-lawyer-claims-the-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-2514742663.html

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I read this as their admission that he's guilty of obstruction (in addition to collusion). Now they're just trying to limit the damage.

Someone remind me, please - how well did "it's not illegal if the President does it" work for Nixon?

It worked in the sense that he avoided prison.

Nixon avoided prison because Ford pardoned him, not because of his "ingenious" defense about the president being above the law. The concept "if the president does it, it's not illegal" was articulated by him in 1977 as an excuse for his actions, not as an actual defense during the Watergate hearings.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/deutsche-bank-is-said-to-have-received-subpoena-on-client-trump

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[Usili]

Didn't Trump say that him collecting the financial information was the red line? Should be fascinating though...

[riceowl]

Can someone summarize this thing for me, and why anyone is paying attention to it:

[Crumpets]

Can someone summarize this thing for me, and why anyone is paying attention to it:

All I've heard is that there was somebody fired from the investigation a while back because of texts that were critical of Trump, and whose expertise was counter-espionage.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Regarding the Tweet a few days ago about why Trump fired Flynn,can they trace the tweet to the phone used, and the tower it pinged off? If Trump's lawyer was nowhere near the tower...nuclear elmo time.