There is something crushingly ironic in a recent letter received by former Trump counsel Michael Cohen from current Trump counsel Charles Harder. Cohen has been getting the word out that he is writing a tell-all book in his latest effort to cash in on his scandalous career. He then received a letter from Harder that he will sue Cohen if he violates . . . you guessed it . . . his nondisclosure agreement (NDA). The same grounds that Cohen used against Stormy Daniels. Speaking of Daniels, she also received mail from Harder, who is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for attorneys fees used to represent Trump against her (also a threat made by Cohen in prior litigation). There are two critical differences in all of this. First, unlike Cohen, Harder is a competent lawyer. Second, Harder actually has a strong case against both individuals.
A friend of Cohen got the word out through the Daily Beast and other publications that “A lot of [the book] will be about looking at things he’s said and done with women and other [politically incorrect] things. It’ll be an insider’s look about what it was like to be alongside the president for 12 years.”
It is vintage Michael Cohen. Not only is he still trying to use anyone and anything to make a buck, but he is entirely discarding any ethical and contractual concerns over the interests of his former client. He presumably obtained this information when doing confidential work for his client since, given his notorious reputation as a legal thug, few people would be interested in Michael Cohen’s view of publicly available facts.
According to the Daily Beast, Harder is citing an NDA that Cohen signed. Most attorneys do not need an NDA since ethics rules are sufficient to prevent such disclosures, which is precisely why Harder needs to cite the NDA to Cohen.
Harder could simply take some of Cohen’s own words when he was threatening journalists, students, and others deemed a threat to Trump. For example in threatening a journalist, Cohen wrote:
“Mark my words for it, I will make sure that you and I meet one day over in the courthouse and I will take you for every penny you still don’t have, and I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know. Do not even think about going where I know you’re planning on going. And that’s my warning for the day.”
Cohen then morphs into a bad rendition of a mobster after being asked for a statement: He warns Mak to “tread very f–king lightly because what I’m going to do to you is going to be f–ing disgusting. . . . Do you understand me? Don’t think you can hide behind your pen because it’s not going to happen. . . . I’m more than happy to discuss it with your attorney and with your legal counsel because motherf—er you’re going to need it.”
Or he could just cite the NDA and wait for Cohen to be Cohen.
Harder also went after Daniels for what could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Daniels sued Trump over a tweet that ridiculed Daniels over her release of a sketch of a man who Daniels claimed approached her one day in a threatening manner after she went public. It was the subject of widespread ridicule, particularly after the sketch was shown to bear striking resemblance to Daniels’ former boyfriend. Trump tweeted that it was “a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!”
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As a public figures in a national controversy, Daniels was in a poor position to bring such a lawsuit. Moreover, this was a widely shared view. After she predictably lost the case, Harder hit her with an anti-SLAPP statute claim. Judge S. James Otero agreed and ordered that Daniels pay $292,052.33 in attorney fees and a $1,000 penalty sanction herself under the Texas Citizen Participation Act.
That looked largely symbolic until Daniels recently won a recent false arrest case. Harder jumped on the news with a new filing in federal court.
To Mr. Trump’s knowledge, Ms. Clifford does not possess any assets in this jurisdiction. Ms. Clifford is a resident of Texas and owns no real property in California. In contrast, she possesses substantial assets in the Southern District of Ohio in the form of the $450,000 in settlement funds being held by that court. Accordingly, Mr. Trump respectfully requests that the Court certify the Attorneys’ Fees Order for registration in the Southern District of Ohio.
He could win that case.
By the way, another figure Michael Avenatti is back in the news. Unlike Cohen who is still awaiting a compassionate release due to the pandemic, Avenatti was released for at least 90 days to go into home confinement in the home of a friend in Venice, California. Avenatti is due to be sentenced on extortion charges in June.
So, if you thought Trump NDAs, Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, and Michael Avenatti are so 2018, think again.
If Avanatti was such a snake why did a nice girl like Stormy Daniels hire him?
But the most severely screwed-by-lawyers clients in the country are the American people who paid for the cockroaches in the DOJ and FBI.
Young, I half-agree. William Barr is king of cockroaches.
Barr is the king now and the new king is very angry with some of his scaly subjects.
Jonathan Turley:
“It is vintage Michael Cohen. Not only is he still trying to use anyone and anything to make a buck, but he is entirely discarding any ethical and contractual concerns over the interests of his former client. He presumably obtained this information when doing confidential work for his client since, given his notorious reputation as a legal thug, few people would be interested in Michael Cohen’s view of publicly available facts.”
Extracting this:
“…given his notorious reputation as a legal thug…”
And he worked for Trump. Said ‘legal thug’ was in Trump’s employ.
New York apparently intends to tax Covid volunteers who worked for free in NY on a mission of mercy while their employers in other states paid them during their absence.
Great way to recruit more volunteers.
There are arguments against those ‘taxes’ being collectable.
For the moment I think that if these volunteers were really employees they should demand wages for every minute of work they put in. Complaints to state and federal drpartments of labor for wrongfully withheld pay might be a start..
Young, let’s see an article supporting that contention.
You mistake me for Google. Try it. It usually works.
Young, no such article exists.
Just read it. Can’t help your computer incompetence
The NY rule is that if you work 14 days in NY you pay taxes.
Thanks volunteers. Now bend over.
NY is known for these types of shenanigans. New Yorkers are moving out. I am not a NY resident but have a home in Manhattan and am considering sellling it. That is not an uncommon discussion among people living in Manhattan.
Rush got rid of his Manhattan property because the state and city wanted to tax his income as a resident even though he actually resided in Florida.
Google pix.11 tax volunteers That should help you lassie.
Then tell me again that no such article exists.
Young, if employers in other states are paying employee to volunteer in New York, then their taxes would be owed in the home states of their employers.
If you can’t honestly post an article (from a recognizable source) to support your assertions, that means your assertions are hollow.
S Warner– Don’t limit yourself too harshly. I suspect there are many very good sources you wouldn’t recognize. You don’t accept it because it is outrageous for NY to do it, but NY has been doing a lot of outrageous things lately.
The true measure of accuracy is not whether you actually recognize it. Most folks don’t care what you recognize, not even in the nail salon.
Young. The truth is you cant prove that tax lie. Again, if the employers of those volunteers are paying them to volunteer in New York, taxes would be paid in the home state.
It’s not like volunteers would have to fill out N Y tax forms to report their volunteer hours. And it’s ridiculous of you to even suggest that’s the case!
What’s more this false assertion calls into question your motives for even commenting on this blog. It’s like you’re just here to spread disinformation.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the biggest spreader of disinformation of them all?
Actually, Samaritan Purse volunteers were worried about the forms and taxes. The article mentioned that those taxes were waived for volunteers after a hurricane but no such waiver has yet been made for this crisis.
Young, we never saw any article. You ‘claim’ you saw it but won’t show us.
Seth– You are such a helpless little sissy. Here it is:
Exclusive: Volunteers Recruited From Out of State Must Pay NY Taxes
https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/exclusive-volunteers-recruited-from-out-of-state-must-pay-ny-taxes
There will be a waiver for out-of-state volunteers, just as there was after Hurricane Sandy. No need to get all worked up. Deep breaths.
“There will be a waiver for out-of-state volunteers, just as there was after Hurricane Sandy. No need to get all worked up. Deep breaths.”
These workers don’t know that for sure and they have to plan for things. Why would they know that there was relief for workers after hurricane Sandy? It is easy for you to say this. You weren’t risking your life for free and then had to worry about having to pay taxes. NY does crazy things. They placed Covid patients in nursing homes which cost a lot of lives.
You should be ashamed of yourself and your attitude. You should also be embarrassed. Maybe this is why you carry an anonymous alias.
YOUNG: FROM YOUR ARTICLE
There are thousands of emergency workers here who’ve responded to requests by Gov. Cuomo and Mayor Bill De Blasio for help. Many of them are collecting paychecks from companies back in their home states, which allowed them to come to New York to volunteer.
It’s why the Samaritan’s Purse vice president said he’s making a request on behalf of all out-of-state emergency workers.
“If we can find a way for the governor’s office to look at this tax issue the way they did during Hurricane Sandy,” Isaacs said, “that would be an enormous benefit.”
Gov. Cuomo waived the state tax on emergency workers responding to Superstorm Sandy for 90 days.
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CONCLUSIONS:
Yes, New York wants an income tax filing for individuals working more than 14 days per years in state. But whether that applies to Covid volunteers is seemingly doubtful. The article clearly notes that exceptions were made for Hurricane Sandy volunteers.
One must keep in mind that a huge number of professionals spend time in New York each year and make big money there. That’s especially true with performing artists. Just living part time in New York each year, an actor or musician could earn potentially millions in income. But many less famous but equally rich people make substantial income in New York while living mostly somewhere else.
But Young I appreciate your retrieval of this article. It makes it easier to know what you’re really talking about.
“There will be a waiver for out-of-state volunteers, just as there was after Hurricane Sandy. No need to get all worked up. Deep breaths.”
Another pompous as$. NY has gone after people who no longer reside in NY and don’t stay in NY above the 180 days. Some of them live and vote in other states. The State doesn’t prove their “guilt” rather the individual has to prove themselves “innocent”. These people have to pay huge legal fees so NY will at times conveniently settle a case that NY would have lost. But NY gets their money.
Paint Chips shouldn’t be permitted to own anything that permits it to write. The world would be a better place if he were permanently placed in a rubber room.
Seth’s Conclusions:
” The article clearly notes that exceptions were made for Hurricane Sandy volunteers.”
You really can’t reason very well, can you?
The same article says that no exception has yet been made for Covid volunteers.
That means no exception has yet been made for Covid volunteers and the tax is owed.
You shouldn’t grace us with your ‘conclusions’ when you received several hints and even a search term and still couldn’t find the article.
Finally you had to have your nose rubbed in it and still you came up, wet-nosed, and confused.
Estovir is right. Every time you touch a keyboard you look worse.
Young, if they waived it for Hurricane Sandy Volunteers, there’s not too much to worry about.
But I’m sure New York State has a lot to deal with now. That tax issue can easily wait until later in the year. But commenters like you are all about anger. And it’s typically geared towards Urban America or any Blue State.
Allan says, without having a clue: “You weren’t risking your life for free…”
No? Allan has no idea…
Allan, continues…: “…and then had to worry about having to pay taxes.”
Again, Allan has no idea…
Anonymous you can act like an as$. You can tell people how they should feel while they help others you sit at hope and do whatever. They did something to help people. What you can do can only be imagined.
Anon – “There will be a waiver”.
I hope that is true. But for the moment it isn’t and the liability exists.
Since there is a precedent one would have expected the waiver to be put in place immediately. If I worked there I would worry. A waiver or law isn’t on the books until it is on the books.
Knowing that the liability exists now and there has been no promise of a waiver other than from someone known as ‘ANONYMOUS’ on a blog site, I doubt I would volunteer to help in that state.
“But, but, ANONYMOUS told me there would be a waiver!”
I don’t think that citation will help much when the bill comes in.
Young obviously has too much time on her hands. Here she is…bellyaching and getting all worked up…about something pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things.
“I doubt I would volunteer to help in that state,” she says because the “waiver or law isn’t on the books.” Yet.
(It’s so not a perfect world — especially in the middle of a crisis in which people are dying. NYC has seen ~26,000 deaths in a short period of time, but gee, the waiver isn’t in place yet. Horror of horrors.)
Volunteering somewhere might be good for Young’s mental health.
A friend of mine with a plane flew several trips to an island nation with donated clothing after a hurricane. Sometime later he was charged landing fee taxes. They weren’t waived.
Again:
“Gov. Cuomo waived the state tax on emergency workers responding to Superstorm Sandy for 90 days.”
If ANONYMOUS had read the article it would know volunteer organizations are already worried about the additional tax burden.
Progressives never worry about taxes other people have to pay.
Young, here again we see you trying to actually ‘establish’ that I actually at work at a nail salon. It’s just sleazy little smear common to conservatives. Which makes me think you’re really just a stooge of an activist.
You mean you don’t work in a nail salon?
Why is it a smear to say someone works in a nail salon? Typical Progressive attitude, sneer and look down on ” the little people.”
Conservatives admire people who work, even those your type looks down on.
Funny that neither of you [Anon] grasps the fact that a tax waiver for Sandy years ago is not a tax waiver for covid. No wonder Estovir seems to think …. Guess the rest.
“Funny that neither of you [Anon] grasps the fact that a tax waiver for Sandy years ago is not a tax waiver for covid. ”
And Young can’t seem to grasp that there are more important things to worry about right now. And there will likely be a waiver down the road.
Young, you’re a sociopath. It’s coming out more and more. You’re no lawyer. Nor are you married to any doctor. You’re just a mean-spirited activist whose agenda on this blog is totally malicious.
Seth– You flatter me.
Did you catch the vitriolic attack on Samaritan’s Purse by the nosepicker currently employed as Speaker of the New York City Council? The problem with liberals is that they’re so horrible they lack the discipline to conceal it.
Absurd– Yes I saw. NYC government must have been recruited in Hell.
Is there a video?
NY Chief or commisioner of the health department admitted to sending covid cases to nursing homes without checking to see if the virus was still active. Charge him with negligent manslaughter or reckless indifference leading to death. His name is Zucker.
The official document is at: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/03/doh_covid19-_nhadmissionsreadmissions_-032520.pdf
Allan– They removed that post. Guilty minds, dirty souls, hiding evidence.
I have an original copy but it is not in text format so I can’t post it on the blog unless told how.
I copied what I believe to be the most important paragraph.
“No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NHs solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
NY and Democrats in partiucular hide their dirty deeds. There should be copies somewhere floating on the net.
Thanks for posting that. Incredible that anyone ‘serving the public’ could draft a regulation like that. It is certain to inrease the number of deaths. Now they hide it.
Yep, the post is still there, but the paranoid “Young” falsely states:
“Guilty minds, dirty souls, hiding evidence.”
Yep. Young: just another RW loon.
“They removed that post. Guilty minds, dirty souls, hiding evidence.”
Ah, no…
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/03/doh_covid19-_nhadmissionsreadmissions_-032520.pdf
DATE: March 25, 2020
TO: Nursing Home Administrators, Directors of Nursing, and Hospital Discharge Planners
FROM: New York State Department of Health
Advisory: Hospital Discharges and Admissions to Nursing Homes
Please distribute immediately to:
Nursing Home Administrators, Directors of Nursing, Directors of Social Work, Hospital
Discharge Planne
COVID-19 has been detected in multiple communities throughout New York State. There is an urgent
need to expand hospital capacity in New York State to be able to meet the demand for patients with
COVID-19 requiring acute care. As a result, this directive is being issued to clarify expectations for
nursing homes (NHs) receiving residents returning from hospitalization and for NHs accepting new
admissions.
Hospital discharge planning staff and NHs should carefully review this guidance with all staff directly
involved in resident admission, transfer, and discharges.
During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents
returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a
determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.
Hospital discharge planners must confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically
stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to
the transport of a resident to the NH.
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or
suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is
determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.
Information for healthcare providers on COVID-19 is readily available on the New York State
Department of Health public website at https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/information-healthcareproviders.
As always, standard precautions must be maintained, and environmental cleaning made a
priority, during this public health emergency.
Critical personal protective equipment (PPE) needs should be immediately communicated to your local
Office of Emergency Management, with the appropriate information provided at the time of request.
Requests MUST include:
o Type and quantity of PPE by size;
o Point of contact at the requesting facility or system;
o Delivery location;
o Date request is needed to be filled by; AND
o Record of pending orders.
Thank you for your ongoing support and cooperation in responding to COVID-19. General questions or
comments about this advisory can be sent to covidnursinghomeinfo “at” health.ny.gov.
Young says:May 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM
“Allan– They removed that post. Guilty minds, dirty souls, hiding evidence.”
What are you talking about? The “post” is still there.
You looked at the wrong link.
It is the government link put up before the link to the newspaper article.
Checked again and the “guilty mind, dirty souls” item comes up 404.
Thought it was obvious.
Do you get lost on your way home often?
Seems like you might.
Sweetie,
No, I didn’t look at the wrong link. And no, I don’t get lost on my way home.
The file is a pdf and who knows why you’re getting a 404, but I’m not.
Stop projecting. And stop being such a beaaatch.
Here’s the text, without the heading:
DATE: March 25, 2020
TO: Nursing Home Administrators, Directors of Nursing, and Hospital Discharge Planners
FROM: New York State Department of Health
Advisory: Hospital Discharges and Admissions to Nursing Homes Please distribute immediately to: Nursing Home Administrators, Directors of Nursing, Directors of Social Work, Hospital Discharge Planners
COVID-19 has been detected in multiple communities throughout New York State. There is an urgent need to expand hospital capacity in New York State to be able to meet the demand for patients with COVID-19 requiring acute care. As a result, this directive is being issued to clarify expectations for nursing homes (NHs) receiving residents returning from hospitalization and for NHs accepting new admissions.
Hospital discharge planning staff and NHs should carefully review this guidance with all staff directly involved in resident admission, transfer, and discharges.
During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.
Hospital discharge planners must confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to the transport of a resident to the NH.
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.
Information for healthcare providers on COVID-19 is readily available on the New York State Department of Health public website at https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/information-healthcareproviders. As always, standard precautions must be maintained, and environmental cleaning made a priority, during this public health emergency.
Critical personal protective equipment (PPE) needs should be immediately communicated to your local Office of Emergency Management, with the appropriate information provided at the time of request.
Requests MUST include:
o Type and quantity of PPE by size;
o Point of contact at the requesting facility or system;
o Delivery location; o Date request is needed to be filled by; AND
o Record of pending orders.
Thank you for your ongoing support and cooperation in responding to COVID-19. General questions or comments about this advisory can be sent to covidnursinghomeinfo at health.ny.gov.
Repost the link that you’re trying to access.
If Cohen Was Such A Low-Life..
Why Did Trump Ever Retain Him?
Hard to explain. Why do you have a job?
Young, you can’t explain why Trump retained Micheal Cohen? It’s not that hard to figure. Cohen fit Trump’s style. He wanted an unprincipled lawyer with no moral compass whatsoever.
Seth- What are the standards for working in a nail salon?
Young, you can’t explain it, right? Of course not, it makes no sense.
The idea that a president would continue retaining a 3rd rate, sleaze-ball lawyer only makes sense if the president ‘wants’ that kind of lawyer.
What color do you prefer?
A homosexual just kicked Adam Schiff’s butt to the curb.
Dahyum! I wonder if Peter Shill appreciates the irony
Under pressure from Trump spy chief, Schiff moves to release Russia investigation transcripts
“All of the transcripts, with required redactions can be released to the public without any concerns of disclosing classified material,” Grenell’s letter said. “In the interests of transparency and accountability, I urge you to honor your previous public statements, and your Committee’s unanimous vote on this matter, to release all 53 cleared transcripts to all Members of Congress and the American public as soon as possible.”
The acting spy chief added: “I am also willing to release the transcripts directly from the ODNI, as to ensure we comply with the unanimous and bipartisan vote to release the transcripts.”
Wash Examiner
Yeah, just read it. Great move. They are terrified of Grenell.
Estovir, what do you have here?? No date or even a mention of what transcripts these are. Just a vague article that could be from any day in the past 2 years.
Estovir, you’re such a worthless reporter I couldn’t tell what you’re babbling about. Here’s an excerpt from the real story as it appears in Politico:
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The intelligence community has completed a long-delayed review of transcripts connected to the House Republican-led investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, a development that could reignite the furor over the long-dormant probe.
Ric Grenell, President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence, informed lawmakers this week in newly disclosed correspondence that the White House has dropped its demand to review aspects of the testimony, which had led to a yearlong standoff with Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, who took control of the committee last year.
The move paves the way for as many as 53 transcripts from that investigation to be released publicly, more than two years after the probe concluded.
“After more than a year of unnecessary delay, the ODNI has finally concluded its protracted classification review of the Committee’s transcripts, and it also appears the White House has now abandoned its improper insistence on reviewing key transcripts, which the Committee appropriately rejected,” a House Intelligence Committee spokesman said in a statement.
The spokesman indicated that the panel would be reviewing the intelligence community’s proposed redactions: “Our review of ODNI’s newly proposed redactions will be as expeditious as possible given the constraints of the pandemic, and we look forward to releasing these transcripts, which relate to misconduct by the Trump campaign and the president himself.” Aides to Grenell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Edited from: “Dozens Of Russia Probe Transcripts Poised For Release After End Of Intel Review”
Politico, 5/6/20
Seth — Lassie, you need to have someone teach you how to do a search. But then, nail salon…guess they don’t teach that in beauty school, not in any event to their ‘manly’ students.
“Grenell Tells Schiff: Release The Secret Russia Probe Transcripts Or I Will”
https://www.lacortenews.com/n/grenell-tells-schiff-release-the-secret-russia-probe-transcripts-or-i-will
“Seth — Lassie, you need to have someone teach you how to do a search. ”
Young, is it possible that Paint Chip’s can’t do the search because his nails are too long and the nail polish isn’t dry?
Schiff Caves! Will release after Grenell threat:
https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/06/adam-schiff-transcripts-russia-house-intelligence/
Young, I wouldnt search for your paper. Never heard of it.
But I just discovered this story is playing big in conservative media. It’s being presented as a demand on Adam Schiff. But it really isn’t. Schiff wasn’t holding these transcripts. They were being reviewed by Intelligence.
The truth is this isnt really a major story. Only Politico and New York Post carried this story for mainstream media. And they dont have that much to report.
Here’s coverage by The New York Post
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NEW YORK POST COVERAGE
OF YOUNG’S BOMBSHELL STORY
Washington is poised to pore over private testimony from dozens of associates and adversaries of President Trump who appeared before the House Intelligence Committee to discuss Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
The trove of transcripts spans roughly 6,000 pages — or about five times the length of the Bible — and offers partisans a smorgasbord of potential gaffes, perjurious moments or unexplored lines of inquiry.
Richard Grenell, acting national intelligence director, informed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) that 53 until-now-secret interviews are ready for release.
“All of the transcripts, with our required redactions, can be released to the public without any concerns of disclosing classified material,” Grenell wrote to Schiff on Monday, the Washington Examiner first reported.
Interview subjects include Donald Trump Jr., former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former Trump attorney-turned-adversary Michael Cohen and Trump confidant and spokeswoman Hope Hicks.
Schiff’s committee probe ran parallel to an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, who found last year there was no evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
It’s unclear when the documents may be released.
Edited from: “Transcripts From House Panel’s Russia Investigation Ready For Release”
Today’s New York Post
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One can sense by the tone of this story, it’s not that big of a drama. That explains why it’s playing in rightwing media.
“One can sense by the tone of this story, it’s not that big of a drama. That explains why it’s playing in rightwing media.”
Better read a bit more. You are such a liar In September 2018 there was a unanimous vote to make the transcripts public. Schiff has tried to stop the release. Grenell has stated that if Schiff won’t release them he will. Schiff then said he will release them.
Right now we are waiting.
But I just discovered this story is playing big in conservative media. It’s being presented as a demand on Adam Schiff. But it really isn’t. Schiff wasn’t holding these transcripts
Peter Shill hates homosexuals. Why the homophobia, Peter? Get with the 21st Century.
Grennell is a homersexual. He is married, I believe, and he just showed Schiff who has the bigger cojones.
Ya know, Peter, it’s intolerant, judgmental, small minded bullies like you that caused the death of Matthew Shephard, with or without the crystal meth, ya know?
I’m just speechless you would cast aspersions at a rising star homosexual like Grenell. Anon/Book will be soooooo disappointed in ewe.
by the way, how you do manage a nail salon and troll this blog?
Does the IRS know about you double dipping?
Gay Ambassador Flies Rainbow Flag at Embassy in Berlin
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/7/24/openly-gay-ambassador-flies-rainbow-flag-embassy-berlin
“Grenell, the highest-ranking openly gay official in Donald Trump’s administration, shared a photograph of the flag on Twitter and Instagram, as well as a large rainbow-colored banner on the building.”
REGARDING ESTOVIR’S COMMENT:
Estovir is a rightwing stooge and puppeteer whose main thrust is bringing gays into every debate. It’s the only thing he knows!
Because…….some of the best lawyers are snakes.
You hire a lawyer to win. Have you not heard?
Rule 11; Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
Contrary to Turley’s attempt to make Trump appear powerful, the real gist of this story is that Trump is a sh*t magnet. His relationships with others dependent on non-disclosure agreements. An honest and honrable person doesn’t need them. Just another diversion away from the bigger political stories that are current. Have you seen the “Mourning in America” ad that is being broadcast by The Lincoln Project, shadowing a Reagan “Morning in America” political ad from years ago? The Lincoln Project is a group of prominent Republicans who find Trump repulsive. Then, there’s Trump’s responsive tweetstorm, in which he launched insults against everyone involved, including George Conway, whom he called “moonface”, as if Trumpy Bear himself isn’t fat. He even insulted Bill Kristol, a Republican who also opposes Trump but who isn’t part of The Lincoln Project.
Then, Trumpy Bear shows up at an Arizona face mask facility that sported prominent signs saying that face masks are required, Did Trumpy Bear put one on? Hell no. The color probably clashed with the dayglow orange of his skin, and that would make him appear weak in his narcissistic little mind. While he was there preening for the cameras, in the background was playing the song: “Live and Let Die”, and suddenly the volume was cranked way up, and you couldn’t hear what Trumpy Bear was saying. Do you suppose he got the message?
“An honest and honrable person doesn’t need them.”
Michael Bloomberg refused to release women accusers from their NDAs during his run for Democratic Presidential candidate.
Biden pilloried Bloomberg about those NDAs. “Let’s get something straight here. It’s easy. All the mayor has to do is say, ‘You are released from the non-disclosure agreement. Period,” Biden said in an edited clip preserved on his Twitter account. “This is about transparency from the very beginning. Whether it’s your health records, whether it’s your taxes, whether you have cases against you, whether or not people have signed non-disclosure agreements…You think that women, in fact, were ready to say, ‘I don’t want anybody to know about what you did to me.’ That’s not how it works. The way it works is they say, ‘Look, this is what you did to me’ and the mayor comes along and his attorneys say, ‘I will give you this amount of money if you promise you’ll never say anything. That’s how it works.”
That’s easy for Biden to say, when his own senate records are protected from release for 50 years. Not only personnel records, but any correspondence he may have had in regards to the allegations. Biden knows that they are protected from release, so he can safely say he wishes the world to see them without any risk to himself.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-dem-debate-bloomberg-nda-tara-reade-transparency
I do, however, agree with you that NDAs can be abused. Women should not accept NDAs in response for money. But once they do, they’ve made their choice. It’s not fair to promise something, take the money, and then release it anyway.
Biden doesn’t control Senate personnel records–they are confidential per statute, but he still demanded that they be released. His personal papers would not contain any such complaint, because she filed it with the Senate office, not with Biden’s office. Trumpsters are so willing to pivot away from Trump and the fecal matter stench that clings to him.
Reade admitted that the report she made said nothing about a sexual assault, so even if it somehow turned up, it wouldn’t support the new story about digital penetration. The much bigger question is: why didn’t she keep a copy, when she has a complete copy of her employment records? And, you have no credibility whatsoever when you cite anything from Fox Non-News.
Karen, as I’m sure you know NDA’s restrict testimony and not necessarily records. Your pretense that Biden is somehow benefiting from an institutional NDA through the Senate is false.
Backpedaling quickly now:
“Brzezinski: You were unequivocal in 2018 during the Kavanaugh controversy and hearings that women should be believed. You said this: “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights, the focus nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she is talking about is real. Whether or not she forgets the facts, whether or not it has been made worse or better over time.” [Reade is] going to be going on national television on Sunday. Tara Reade is coming forward in the glaring lights, to use your words—should we not start off with the presumption that the essence of what she’s talking about is real? She says you sexually assaulted her.
Biden: Look, from the beginning, I’ve said believing a woman means taking the woman’s claim seriously when she steps forward. And then vet it. Look into it. That’s true in this case as well. Women have a right to be heard, and the press should investigate claims they make. I will always uphold that principle. But in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters. In this case, the truth is: The claims are false.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/bidens-tara-reade-answer/610954/
A caveat. I have absolutely no idea if Tara Reade is telling the truth or not. It does point out the hypocrisy when compared with the Kavanaugh hearings, when all women should be believed, based on gender or assumed gender. There was some magical truth serum in that X chromosome. Since women got a double dose, and trans women can believe hard enough they can get that double dose, too, then women are more truthful than men. Who are bad. Especially if they are white. There is bad character on the Y chromosome, as well as the allele for pale skin. Double dose = bad man.
2020 – Forget all that. It only applies to Republicans.
Here Biden insists he has no NDA with anyone. That may be true. However, he gave his senate records to the University of Delaware, with the deal that they would not be unsealed until after the election. Although they would not contain personnel records, they would contain correspondence. Well, unless he shredded that and sanitized his records.
He essentially has a deal that protects his own records. It’s just not called an NDA. He is aware of the senate rules regarding the National Archives. He is also aware of the Univ of Delaware agreement. He is protected all the same. Could it be possible that a man with a public penchant for stroking women’s and girls’ hair, smelling their hair, squeezing their shoulders, coming around in back of them and pulling them to his front…has absolutely no record of any woman ever filing a complaint of inappropriate conduct? It is possible that all of those complaints took place in newspapers and public forums. But we’ll never know.
“Biden: There is no NDA signed. I’ve never asked anyone to sign an NDA. There are no NDAs, period, in my case. None.
Brzezinski: Your Senate documents at the University of Delaware were supposed to go public and then resealed. The access was changed. I know that you are saying any HR complaints would be in the National Archives. But why not reveal your Senate documents that are being held in Delaware? I know there’s 1,800-plus boxes. But if she believes and she alleges the complaints may be hidden there, why not strive for complete transparency? Why was the access to those documents sealed up when they were supposed to be revealed?
Biden: Well, they weren’t supposed to be revealed. I gave them to the university. The university said it was going to take time to go through all the boxes. And they said it wouldn’t be before 2020 that that occurred, or 2021—I can’t remember what year they said. But look, a record like this can only be at one place. It would be—it would not be at the University of Delaware. My archives do not contain personnel files; my archives contain documents … They are public records. My speeches, my papers, my position papers. And if that document existed, it would be stored in the National Archives, where documents from the office she claimed to have filed a complaint with are stored. That’s where they are stored. The Senate controls those archives. I’m asking the secretary of the Senate today to identify whether any such document exists. If it does, make it public.”
Fox keeps trying to churn the sh*t storm to pivot away from the mounting death toll, the daily increases in new COVID-19 cases, and Trump’s encouraging states to re-open in violation of the guidelines put in place by the CDC that he has successfully muzzled and/or controlled up to now. He openly said he knows people will die, but so what? He won’t wear a face mask and violates social distancing. He’s just itching for a vainglory rally because his tender ego is so deprived of the adoration and adulation he so desperately needs.
Kavanaugh was under consideration for a LIFETIME appointment to the most important deliberative body in the country. Trump’s fixer, Barr, managed to successfully get the FBI not to interview 25 or so witnesses who came forward, but you Trumpsters, egged on by Fox News, keep harping on a complaint that Reade waited 27 years to report. In an interview last year, Reade said Biden made her uncomfortable, but she failed to mention the alleged digital penetration. Her explanation for changing her story is implausible: she said the tone of the reporter from The Union made her uncomfortable, so she “shut down”. Why would any reporter getting a scoop on a presidential candidate be mean to the subject of an interview? However, after Biden became the presumptive nominee, she suddenly wasn’t shut down any more. Biden was extensively vetted before running for VP both times, and Reade’s story never came up then. Why now?
Reade claims she told Biden’s executive assistant and top aides Dennis Toner and Ted Kaufman about the alleged assault, all of whom deny she made any complaint. Conveniently, Reade cannot recall the exact date, time or location, except that it was in a Senate corridor, a place that is busy 24/7. Of course, the lack of a specific date prevents Biden from proving he was elsewhere. She also claimed that she told her brother, Collin Moulton, who told The Post that he only recalls Reade telling him Biden touched her neck and shoulders. Then, a few days later, he suddenly remembered Reade telling him Biden put his hand under her clothes. The “friends” of Reade who supposedly support her story refuse to publicly release their names. Reade allegedly told Lynda LaCasse about the alleged assault, but it was 2-3 years after the fact, which is not contemporaneous. Another colleague, Lorraine Sanchez claimed Reade told her she had been sexually harassed by a superior, but did not mention Biden by name or provide any details.
Reade also lied about losing her job, claiming in the interview with The Union last year that she was fired because she objected to serving drinks at a fundraiser. However, this year she claims it was in retaliation for filing the sexual harassment complaint.
Read was an unwavering supporter of Bernie Sanders. In 2017, she effusively praised Biden’s efforts on behalf of women, but then turned on Biden and contradicted all she said before. In 2017, when she was praising Biden, Reade was condemning Putin’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election, all of which changed when Reade began trashing the United States as a country of “hypocrisy and imperialism”. She then referred to Putin as a “genius”, who “is intoxicating to American women”. She described Putin as having “an alluring combination of strength with gentleness. His sensuous image projects his love for life, the embodiment of grace why facing adversity.” Now, in 2020, Reade denies supporting Putin and claims that her comments were taken out of context from a novel she is writing.
Biden, unlike Trump, has no history of a string of sexual assault allegations. The foregoing explains why Reade is simply not credible.
Biden, unlike Trump, has no history of a string of sexual assault allegations. The foregoing explains why Reade is simply not credible.
Keep on spinning.
Neither Avanetti or Cohen are at elevated risk of death from a coronavirus infection. There is no ‘compassionate release’ policy that should apply to them unless they actually do need to be hospitalized. Save compassionate release for the old men and the heavy men over 50.
DSS, that is the wrong question. What you should be considering is whether coronavirus is at elevated risk from Avenatti and Cohen 🙂
That sketch looked exactly like Stormy Daniel’s ex-boyfriend. She claimed that she was threatened, and cast blame on President Trump. It appears to have been a total scam. I wonder how her ex felt when his likeness was held up as threatening her over Trump.
I will say that the sketch was a testament to the artist’s skill and her powers of description, as it was such a good likeness of her ex.
This whole thing was a mess. It is also seedy to use your close association with anyone to then later pen a book that makes money off of embarrassing them.
These aren’t gripping, first hand accounts of surviving Iwo Jima. It’s just bashing a former friend for money.
Yeah, we wouldn’t want anything “seedy” happening around Trump. I mean whatever he does, these sleazebags keep getting dates with him or employed by him. The poor man has suffered enough!
Besides, it’s not like the president’s fixer would have something to say more compelling to today’s voters than another book about Iwa Jima.
Karen, you outdid yourself here.
Are you asking if infidelity is wrong and brings trouble? Of course it is. Was that a question?
Cohen has nothing to worry about now. I have the 2017 pix where he’s leaving a location with the Illuminati applied broken left arm and blackened left eye, all on the same day.
Making a list/checking it twice……..
She will lose a delicious, big chunk of her Ohio award once Trump’s judgment is domesticated in Ohio and collection is initiated. Good.
A friend of Cohen got the word out through the Daily Beast and other publications that “A lot of [the book] will be about looking at things he’s said and done with women and other [politically incorrect] things. It’ll be an insider’s look about what it was like to be alongside the president for 12 years.”
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You know i was wrong about Cohen. I thought he was a gumshoe type of lawyer who tried to do the right thing but stumbled doing his caustic representation schtick. Now it seems he’s revealed himself as the cad he is and which, to his credit, JT said about him all along. Tip of the hat, JT, you had him pegged.
If Cohen was a gumshoe type of lawyer, what does it say about his boss who retained him to pay off prostitutes with hush money?
Crawl back to your hole and keep drinking bleach and lighting your insides. Cleanse and redeem.
Hutom:
Not much, most clients just want results with little care about style.
Absolutely true.
So it’s really a financial decision. Stormy won $450,000 in her Ohio lawsuit, but Trumps’s lawyer is trying to claim roughly $300,000 of it. She still comes out ahead. If Cohen’s book is a bestseller, he’ll likely profit over any NDA liquidated damages; if it’s a flop, he’ll be in trouble. There will be no professional repercussions for him, as he’s already been disbarred.
Trump’s lawyers will also likely recover costs and fees associated with collecting the judgment. She could lose all of her award and still owe money to Trump.
and it will serve to re-remind the voting public which party supports victimizing women. For the Answer check under liberal regressive leftist, socialist or Anti Constitutionalist.
TRUMP needs to go full steam ahead with these and future law suits. He is in the right. Cohen is a not a nice person and he deserves everything he gets.
Also, it appears, not keeping score, but Trump seems to win a lot of legal cases against others. Example look how many cases he has won as President against the various nutty law suits launched by the DEMS, anti Trump groups and etc.
A Winner and always a Winner
If the book comes out in hard cover then I’ll throw the book at Cohen.
Pretty soon, JT will be so 2020. What a hack Trump cultist.
Why should Turley abide posters insulting him like this?
He should sue me.
He insults himself with the tripe he puts out every day.
He should sue me.
Have you asked your stakeholders their view of devoting household assets to legal fees in old age?
Don’t imagine that anything book says makes him look good in any respect. One could hardly do book more harm than he does himself. He is more artifact than poster. He shows clearly just how bizarre hatred for Trump has become.
If Ginsburg steps down and Trump gets to appoint another Court justice we will really get to see rug-chewing, frothing madness from the left.
“If Ginsburg steps down and Trump gets to appoint another Court justice we will really get to see rug-chewing, frothing madness from the left.”
Young if that happens watch the crazies on the left on this list put on a show. It might end up being the best sitcom of the year.
They will bats**t crazy….ehh..crazier.
Turley is consistent and is willing to put up with insults because he is a sincere advocate of freedom of speech. Abusive people like Anon prove that daily.
PS Predictable that like other Trump cultist, JT is among the few who sympathize with the Sleazebag-in-Chief in hoping Cohen is muzzled from telling us the inside story of the scumbag he worked for all those years. It’s not salacious garbage as if about a Hollywood mogul, but the current president of the US. Who besides a Trump sycophant – talking to you JT – wants his dirty dealings covered up?
BtB:
Another gracious comment from you.
About the level of courtesy and analysis that we have come to expect from you.
What’s amusing is that Prof. Turley couldn’t be more consistent in demonstrating what his vectors are:
1. he’s a votary of guild norms in law and politics such as they were when he entered the academy 30-odd years ago. Any thing that Trump says that Thomas Foley and George Mitchell wouldn’t have said bothers him. All faculty members are ‘colleagues’ to be treated decorously, even if they behave in ways that merit a trip to the wood chipper.
2. His default mode in pondering human society is to think in legal-formal terms.
3. His outlook is derived from secular social-contract models, but stewed through features of mundane life with which he is familiar. (An amusing manifestation of this was his indignation that an advertisement for above-ground pools was modified for marketing such pools in Saudi Arabia).
This is the person Gainesville fancies is in the business of promoting the President’s viewpoint. (Or that’s he was told to pretend by his handlers at Correct-the-Record). Projection or posing, you be the judge.
I am waiting for Michael Cohen’s book to be on the NYTimes best seller list as a FICTION best seller.
No luck. The NYT and CBS will label it super-dooper non-fiction double and triple checked by layers and layers of fact checkers.
Meanwhile, O’Keefe seems to have caught CBS posting ‘news’ from a Wuhan virus test site in Michigan by flooding the patient line with phonies who were not sick. May have delayed testing for a couple of real patients.
Liars. .
Young, again, you should post supporting articles to back up your assertions here. From the way you wrote this comment, it’s not even clear ‘what’ you’re trying to say. ‘People who know they don’t have the virus are standing in testing lines’..?? That’s what it sounds like.
Peter – this may help. It is by The Quartering.
https://youtu.be/nKqF5lX5aII
Thanks, Paul. Project Veritas site as well. But you know he won’t look. He does not want to see, like the priest who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope. As Estovir said, with every keystroke he hurts himself more.
Paul, ever notice how the foot-stomping little ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ guy disappears when evidence is posted?
All of the prolific commenters on the left always disappear when the evidence is posted. But don’t worry they reappear later saying the same garbage.
Young – yeppers 😉
https://www.weaselzippers.us/448369-report-cbs-news-faked-a-long-line-of-cars-to-make-coronavirus-tests-seem-hard-to-get/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/weasel-zippers/
“Factual reporting: Mixed”
Also, conservative in the extreme.
Are you telling us that the video doesn’t exist because a site is considered right wing by a left wing fact checker.
Ridiculous.
I think this anonymous is btb…stupid as a stump.
No, this Anonymous is Anonymous the Stupid. You can tell because it is “stupid as a stump”. It never says much of anything, but when it does it generally makes very little sense.
Yeah, “stupid as a stump” is about right for Young who doesn’t understand certain 404 errors.
Live by the sword…
Most everybody in this sordid story played a stupid game.
But only Pres. Trump had the resources to be a long term player.
Whatever Ms. Daniels thought/felt about past events, she did sign an NDA and chose (apparently at the urging of Avenetti) to ignore previous commitments (well paid for by Pres, Trump) and go for the big bucks.
Going to be painful.
Dude, the worm turns, LOL
Maybe Biden should have gotten NDAs from his earlier staff.
All so very sordid and only part of the total corrupt cabal of Trumpland.
feel free to leave the country, Airlines could use the money.