***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[blastercombo]

These are the people in charge of killing people? LOL

 

[Belgium]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/06/...r-subpoena.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytpolitics
Giuliani Says Trump Would Not Have to Comply With Mueller Subpoena

Rudolph W. Giuliani, who recently joined President Trump’s legal team, said on Sunday that Mr. Trump would not have to cooperate with a subpoena if one were issued by the special counsel investigating Russian interference into the presidential election, adding that the president could invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

“We don’t have to” comply, Mr. Giuliani said on ABC’s “This Week” program. “He’s the President of the United States. We can assert the same privileges other presidents have.”

Mr. Giuliani, who was hired by Mr. Trump to help manage communication between the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and the White House, met with the special counsel’s office late last month shortly after being hired. He said that he and Jay Sekulow, another lawyer for Mr. Trump, were in agreement that the president should avoid speaking with Mr. Mueller.

“Not after the way they’ve acted,” he said, referring to a list of questions that the special counsel would like to ask Mr. Trump. Those questions were reported by The New York Times.

But he said he did not know whether Mr. Trump would invoke the Fifth Amendment.

“How can I ever be confident of that?” Mr. Giuliani said. “When I’m facing a situation with the president and all the other lawyers are, in which every lawyer in America thinks he would be a fool to testify, I’ve got a client who wants to testify.”

Mr. Giuliani’s television interview on Sunday was his first extended appearance since being criticized by Mr. Trump for not having his “facts straight” about payments made to a pornographic actress, Stephanie Clifford. Mr. Giuliani said on Sunday it was possible Mr. Trump’s personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, made additional payments to other women on the president’s behalf.

“I have no knowledge of that, but I would think if it was necessary, yes,” Mr. Giuliani said.

Mr. Cohen “made payments for the president, or he conducted business for the president, which means he had legal fees, moneys laid out and expenditures,” Mr. Giuliani said, giving his explanation for why Mr. Cohen would have made payments to Ms. Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels.

On Wednesday, Mr. Giuliani contradicted the president when he said on Fox News that Mr. Trump reimbursed Mr. Cohen for a $130,000 payment that Mr. Cohen has said he made to keep Ms. Clifford from making public a story about an affair she claims she had with Mr. Trump. When asked in April by reporters traveling on Air Force One whether he knew about the payment, Mr. Trump said he did not.

The Wednesday admission, which caught Mr. Trump’s White House staff off guard, caused an uproar, and prompted Mr. Trump to attempt to clarify the nature of payments he made to Mr. Cohen. The morning after Mr. Giuliani’s comments, Mr. Trump said on Twitter that Mr. Cohen “received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA.”

But just 24 hours later, he told reporters gathered outside the White House that Mr. Giuliani did not in fact know the particulars of the case, even after Mr. Giuliani told The New York Times Wednesday night that he had spoken with the president before and after his interview on Fox News, and that Mr. Trump and other lawyers on the team were aware of what he would say.

“Virtually everything said has been said incorrectly, and it’s been said wrong, or it’s been covered wrong by the press,” Mr. Trump said on Friday. “He’ll get his facts straight.”

Seeming to chastise Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Trump added: “You know what? Learn before you speak. It’s a lot easier.”

Some of Mr. Trump’s legal and political advisers believe Mr. Giuliani’s comments could put the president in legal jeopardy, since federal officials are required to report liabilities of more than $10,000 during the preceding year. Mr. Trump’s last disclosure, which he signed last June, does not mention any debt to Mr. Cohen.

On Sunday, Mr. Giuliani tried to clarify what Mr. Trump called a “retainer.”

“The retainer agreement was to repay expenses, which turns out to have included this one,” Mr. Giuliani said on ABC.

Mr. Giuliani also referred to the sum Ms. Clifford received as a “nuisance” payment.

“I never thought $130,000 was a real payment,” Mr. Giuliani said. “People don’t go away for $130,000.”

On the same show Sunday morning, Ms. Clifford’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, called Mr. Giuliani’s interview an “absolute, unmitigated disaster” and “one of the worst TV appearances by any attorney on behalf of a client in modern times.”

“He now expects the American people to believe that he doesn’t really know the facts,” Mr. Avenatti added. “I think it is obvious to the American people that this is a cover-up, that they are making it up as they go along.”

 

[aepps20]

Sounds about white.

The type of candidate I can respek. He recognizes that Coal related deaths are unavoidable in our Coal economy. LIBS don't understand. Once again Libs confuse unpolished Mine talk with racism. STOP PLAYING IDENTITY POLITICS.

 

[IATT]

 

[deleted]

LOL @ him living in his office

 

[IATT]

Smmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[IATT]

 

[IATT]

 

[ksteezy]

This cat loves spoon feeding propaganda to his mindless cult...they go nuts over the BS he says....guaranteed this man would say “we need to get rid of alllll blacks!” And you will hear cheers from all those clowns too..

 

[IATT]

In any other administration....

 

[IATT]

 

[Mark Antony]

Giuliani went ham again this weekend. Son was an awful idea.

 

[frink85]

Did trump go at Rudy in the past? Dude has got to be sabotaging Donnie

 

[chao7]

Did trump go at Rudy in the past? Dude has got to be sabotaging Donnie

Scorned for jobs in the justice department.

 

[IATT]

 

[Mark Antony]

Rudy legit had no reason to say anything beyond "I have no knowledge of that".

 

[dragicon]

Did Rudy just get diagnosed with some illness where the doctor told him he has one week to live? The dude is so reckless right now . I'm loving it though.

 

[ksteezy]

Lmaooooooo yo Rudy single handedly bout to take down Trump, NY coming through with the WIN

 

[IATT]

 

[ksteezy]

Dude was ready to blast this man over Mentos....wow...

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

Trump's sooo desperate right now he thought hiring an ace of an attorney in Rudy would be gamechanger but the dude's been doing the complete opposite

Trump bout to use Russian lawyers instead

 

[whywesteppin]

Rudy trying to get out faster than Scaramucci.

 

[IATT]

 

[gry60]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...b12522-4e51-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.01dbb6bf0fc0

National Security
Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits



Nick Miroff Email the authorMarch 28

Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration, which is seeking to reduce the number of foreigners living in the United States.

According to a draft of the proposalobtained by The Washington Post, immigration caseworkers would be required to consider a much broader range of factors when determining whether immigrants or their U.S.-citizen children are using public benefits or may be likely to do so.

 

[ksteezy]

I love Oliver