trump catch all - part 7

Trump would not be invited under any circumstances to this wedding. The wedding is not a state occasion and the Government has only a consultative role in the guest list, which is being drawn up by Buckingham Palace. No different to reasons that Pres Obama was not invited to Prince William's wedding. That wasn't a state wedding either. Very very few heads of state were at Prince William's wedding and the ones that were there were personal friends. The difference with the possibility of Prince Harry inviting the Obama's is that they are personal friends rather than having an invite because of the position he once held.

He is the laziest man I have ever seen. And I've seen some pretty lazy men.

This is not the job for him. He would have been better off retiring. Now Mueller has his nose all up in his business, millions of people around the world hate him, and he's become an object of ridicule around the world.

Karma's a bitch. He deserves every second of hatred thrown at him even before becoming President. 

Merry Christmas he says!!

When Trump forbade a Christmas tree — and other forgotten stories from the ‘war on Christmas’
By Avi Selk December 25 2017

Christmas 1981: No trees allowed
In the 1980s, his political rise still decades away, Trump bought an old apartment building across the street from Central Park in New York that he hoped to tear down and rebuild as a high-rent tower.

When the longtime residents wouldn't move out voluntarily, the New York Times wrote, Trump hired a management company that essentially ran the building into the ground.

And while Trump threatened to house homeless people in the building, the management company used creative tactics that included covering windows in tin and forbidding Christmas decorations in the lobby.

It was probably the least of residents' concerns, but Trump allowed no Christmas tree in 1981, the Times wrote, nor in the next year.
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Christmas 2009 to 2013 (as told by Trump)

From Donald Trump: Wishing everyone a wonderfulholiday & a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year. Let’s think like champions in 2010!
— Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) December 23, 2009

Wishing everyone a very Happy Holiday season!
— Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) December 23, 2010

My new book #TimeToGetTough is the best present of the holiday season. A great gift for anyone who cares about this country.
— Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) December 22, 2011

Via @examinercom: "The Miss Universe contestants glow with elegance during the Trump Holiday Party" t.co/tpKJKCQh
— Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) December 18, 2012

Young Entrepreneurs – the Holiday season is here but that is no excuse not to stay on top of your business prospects. Focus!
— Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) December 19, 2013
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While Trump continued wishing “happy holidays” for years, his first use of the word “Christmas” on Twitter appears to have been in 2011 — shortly after he expressed interest in running for president.
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More at link:
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/25/when-trump-forbade-a-christmas-tree-and-other-forgotten-stories-from-the-war-on-
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So much he his truths!

There is something in my head. Thinking I read something similar some where... I cannot recall it at the moment..

Could someone copy & paste this article about Flynn for me?

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-legal-team-readies-attack-on-flynns-credibility/2017/12/27/bc601324-ea78-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4796b65321c8

cycworker

President Trump’s legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wrongdoing, according to three people familiar with the strategy.

The approach would mark a sharp break from Trump’s previously sympathetic posture toward Flynn, whom he called a “wonderful man” when Flynn was ousted from the White House in February. Earlier this month, the president did not rule out a possible pardon for Flynn, who is cooperating with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Attorneys for Trump and his top advisers have privately expressed confidence that Flynn does not have any evidence that could implicate the president or his White House team. But since Flynn’s cooperation agreement with prosecutors was made public earlier this month, the administration has been strategizing how to neutralize him in case the former national security adviser does make any claims.


Flynn is the most senior former Trump adviser known to be providing information to Mueller’s team. The lenient terms of his plea agreement suggest he has promised significant information to investigators, legal experts said.


Earlier this month, he pleaded guilty to one felony count of lying to to the FBI, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Prosecutors said they will recommend a sentence from zero to six months in prison as part of his cooperation deal. Flynn’s son, who served as his chief of staff, also faced the risk of criminal charges, according to people familiar with the plea negotiations, but was spared.


Trump’s legal team has seized on Flynn’s agreement with prosecutors as fodder for a possible defense, if necessary. In court filings, the retired lieutenant general admitted that he lied to the FBI about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the December 2016 transition.


“He’s said it himself: He’s a liar,” said one person helping craft the strategy who was granted anonymity to describe private conversations.

Robert Kelner, an attorney for Flynn, declined to comment. Ty Cobb, the White House attorney overseeing the response to the special counsel investigation, also declined to comment.

Defense lawyers have said privately that Flynn will be unable to point to White House or campaign records turned over in the probe to bolster any claims of a criminal scheme. None of those records suggest a conspiracy by Trump or his inner circle to improperly work with Russians to defeat Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, according to people who have reviewed the documents.

The private talks about assailing Flynn’s credibility come even as Trump has signaled that a pardon is not off the table.

“I don’t want to talk about pardons for Michael Flynn yet,” the president said Dec. 15. “We’ll see what happens. Let’s see. I can say this: When you look at what’s gone on with the FBI and with the Justice Department, people are very, very angry.”

President Trump said on Dec. 15 that he doesn't want to talk about pardoning Michael Flynn yet, and criticized the FBI. (The Washington Post)
Some of Flynn’s family members appear to be counting on Trump to act. On Tuesday, one of Flynn’s brothers tweeted a message urging the president to pardon his former adviser, responding to a tweet by Trump alleging bias in the FBI.


“Mr. President, I personally believe that a pardon is due to General Flynn, given the apparent and obvious illegitimacy of the manner in which the so called ‘crimes’ he plead guilty to were extracted from him,” Joseph Flynn wrote. “I ask for quick action on this. Thank you and keep up the good work!”

Joseph Flynn did not respond to requests for comment.


Outside legal experts said that discussing ways to undermine a possible witness is a natural first step for defense lawyers to consider.

“It’s pretty predictable,” said Randall D. Eliason, a former public corruption prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington. “Defense will always argue that a cooperator who lied previously should not be believed, and that there is insufficient evidence of the conspiracy. It’s Defense Strategy 101.”

He added: “How effective it would be depends entirely on the strength of the other evidence that the prosecution can present to prove its case and corroborate Flynn.”

Barbara Van Gelder, a veteran white-collar defense lawyer and former prosecutor, called it “textbook” for the defense team to raise doubts about Flynn’s version of events.


“They will pull out all the arguments: ‘You pleaded guilty. You don’t have anything more than your word, and you probably got your son off with this. You got the deal of the century,’ ” she said.

Securing documents that corroborate the statements of cooperators such as Flynn is often key when the case comes down to dueling accounts, legal experts said.

“People’s recollections can be faulty but . . . you can’t cross-examine a document,” Van Gelder said. “It is what it is.”

Exactly what Flynn might offer Mueller about what he saw inside the Trump operation remains a mystery. Van Gelder noted that in the way the special counsel structured Flynn’s plea agreement, prosecutors avoided sharing the guts of their ongoing investigation.

“That is what I thought was the brilliance of the Flynn plea,” she said. “It said: ‘I’m giving just enough to have the judge sentence you within the guidelines, but not giving anything to anybody else.’ ”

White House advisers have noted Flynn did not plead guilty to being a co-conspirator in any criminal scheme, which they argue shows he is not able to provide evidence of a larger conspiracy.

Some legal experts said prosecutors could still rely on Flynn’s testimony to allege such a scheme. However, others said persuading a jury to charge a conspiracy that did not include a key witness would be more difficult.

If Mueller opted not to charge him in a conspiracy, Van Gelder asked, “how much of a crime is it, really?”

The problem is, it probably won’t be enough to make amy difference. It will require a huge swing to take the House because those districts are so gerrymandered. It will probably allow for a change in the Senate, but even then, all they can do is slow down the destruction. Even with a majority in both the House and Senate, they won’t be able to enact any new legislation that is veto-proof.