ABC reports a judge found prosecutors showed “sufficient” evidence Trump “intentionally concealed” existence of classified documents from his lawyer, putting him in an unwitting position to deceive the gov’t—more evidence supporting obstruction charges.
That’s how Mueller team convicted Paul Manafort, lying through his lawyer to the government.
might question whether any of his lawyers have the wits to even be in a witting position let alone an “unwitting” one given some of their recent filings. maybe they’ll argue that next as they fall on the sword for him.
David Horsey ‘toon and op ed yesterday Trash talk | The Seattle Times
from above somewhat relevant to thread topic
Carlson disparaged the extreme legal theories of Trump’s lawyers who were pushing falsehoods about a stolen election …
Tucker Carlson ‘enraged’ private texts revealed; ‘I love Trump’ | The Hill
uck and don sitting in a tree
k-i-s-s-i-n-g
It is astonishing that Carlson is where he is. He is a totally worthless human being and his work history is the evidence.
A lot of warm gulf air in my world today, It was warmer at 6am than midnight. Also it can’t make up its mind if it is going to be sunny or cloudy, so far no rain but the day is not over. Great day for doing garden work and pulling the creeping charley that is trying to take over the beds.
Back to work and Donald who? you all really need to get another obsession. ;-0
Jack
My read for the day is about SVB bank failure and it’s frantic attempts to save itself. You have 100 billion in assets and you can’t get a loan.
It is a long read and I’ve only read the first third of it, will finish tonight, btw Matt Levine has done a number of posts that do a good job of explaining the SVB banks problems. But they aren’t short.
Jack
Marcel Marceau’s 100 birthday
Keeping track of the other state and federal cases which are progressing at the same time. This is wild. I cannot remember any other important, or unimportant, person who is facing so many cases at the same time. And they are across the country. This is almost never spoken of other than a statement about how sfb is feeling bad. A normal person might crack and just offer to sit in jail to calm down. But, for someone who is out of his mind and a narcissist, he is planning is “perp walk”. Give him a tiara.
Spent the last two hours making Gobalki. Yum. But as with everything else that is “home cooking”, “country cooking”, “comfort food”, it is not quick and easy. No boxes of stuff. The only canned items was the tomatoes for the sauce, which is the only way in March on the Chesapeake Bay to get tomatoes that taste like tomato.
Something else is that I am still fighting long COVID, but still getting better a few minutes each day.
Is it just me or does Xi cozying-up to Putin make both look weaker?
Ah cabbage rolls, Those are a bit like my mexican friends made tamales in that any of my Polish friends would only do them for family get togethers due to the tremendous work involved and you can’t make just 2.
Jack
Bink – there is so much going on in the Sino-China mess. They have fought in the past and at times used the Communist Party crap as a common joint. That is where Soviet KGB agent puttie comes in. He wants to recreate the Soviet Union, and has run into a major snag. Many of the former parts of the SU are now in NATO or trying to be, along with no longer existing. He wants to be equal in power with Xi, but that would need a lot of blue pills to happen. Xi, though is not quite what he wants to be. There was a question of minor importance about his recent reelection happening, never in doubt though.
But, do the two have it to rule the world? We know what happened to Hong Kong and Singapore. Will PRC invade Taiwan? Yeah, that is a good one. Currently China is not playing nice with all of Southeast Asia. There is a reason Vietnam has spent many years cosying up to the United States. My guess is that at some point PRC will do something to Taiwan with some response by the U.S. Showdown? Yup. China cannot match the U.S. in power and knows it. Taiwan is different now than what Hong Kong was when GB turned it over instead of staying in power.
This would be one great area to specialize in (if I was fifty years younger). You have two dictators in power supported by toothpicks. Puttie goes with killing off the opposition, Xi has his methods, I would like to know how his predecessor is doing.
Yeah, in that it isolates China because you can’t make Russia look any weaker then they are. They are just lucky they don’t have any aggressive neighbors because their borders are basically undefended.
As to China if I was Putin I would be counting the silverware because China went home with something.
With Russia being so weak, that does give China an opportunity to expand in Asia. Who knows maybe China will decide to bring back the Mongol empire, basically from Poland to the Pacific. The rest of the century may get very interesting in central Asia.
Jack
BB
I actually look for China to say never mind on Taiwan and to start thinking about greater Manchuria , how ever far west they define it. China is interested in locking up raw materials for their manufacturing sector and Siberia is just one big place waiting to be exploited.
Jack
…with friends like those who have a habit of having people thrown out of windows, who needs enemies, eh?
Bink
Mafia Dons rarely have friends, they have associates.
Jack
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