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Lawrence Tribe also thinks "take her out" sounds ominous and MOB-like (Original Post) Grasswire2 Jan 2020 OP
Can you imagine if a Democrat had said 'take her out'?!? sandensea Jan 2020 #1
Trump could have fired her at any time for any reason... polichick Jan 2020 #2
Who killed her then? jberryhill Jan 2020 #4
Pretty sure she was hustled out of the embassy before they got to her. Kingofalldems Jan 2020 #5
How long after this conversation did that occur? jberryhill Jan 2020 #10
I know 'take her out' directed at people with zero authority means kill her. Kingofalldems Jan 2020 #11
rank and utter nonsense stopdiggin Jan 2020 #13
Why doesn't Parnas think so? jberryhill Jan 2020 #17
Oh, geez... more second-guessing and out-of-context reporting. grumpyduck Jan 2020 #3
Kick this one. Kingofalldems Jan 2020 #6
We all know dump has or has had mob influence in his life...he is a wannabe, they call him 'the UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #7
Everybody is going to have a different opinion. EndlessWire Jan 2020 #21
Trump is mob adjacent of course this was a hit. sarcasmo Jan 2020 #8
Totally agree. Kingofalldems Jan 2020 #9
of course. just like pizza parlor pedophiles. right? (nt) stopdiggin Jan 2020 #14
stop diggin' what, exactly? Grasswire2 Jan 2020 #15
comes from an old saying stopdiggin Jan 2020 #16
The first rule of holes jberryhill Jan 2020 #20
The gatekeepers. Kingofalldems Jan 2020 #12
Tribe also seems unfamiliar with Parnas' description of what went down. onenote Jan 2020 #18
Some people want us to ignore what Parnas has to say jberryhill Jan 2020 #19
Well EndlessWire Jan 2020 #22
So your position is that Parnas is lying jberryhill Jan 2020 #23

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
1. Can you imagine if a Democrat had said 'take her out'?!?
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 02:22 PM
Jan 2020

There's no way the media would have glibly assumed that he or she meant 'fire'.

They'd be screaming: " (blank) threatened ambassador's life!"

"Is the U.S. descending into third-world-style lawlessness!? This, and sports with Stu, at six."

polichick

(37,152 posts)
2. Trump could have fired her at any time for any reason...
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 02:23 PM
Jan 2020

so, he must’ve been referring to something else.

stopdiggin

(11,309 posts)
13. rank and utter nonsense
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 04:53 PM
Jan 2020

Trump removed this person (quite legally) some 13 months later.
Repeating nonsense time and time again .. does NOT make it any more true .. or plausible.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
17. Why doesn't Parnas think so?
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 05:51 PM
Jan 2020

Parnas and Bondy have given hours of televised interviews. Neither one of them happened to mention, “Oh, by the way, Trump ordered a murder that never happened.”

Because Trump can’t have someone killed unless they are in Ukraine?

Maybe they talked about it at Eric’s sixth birthday party. You were pretty convinced about that one too.

Parnas and Fruman, incidentally, weren’t the only ones there.

 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
7. We all know dump has or has had mob influence in his life...he is a wannabe, they call him 'the
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 03:41 PM
Jan 2020

boss'. I really can't believe so many would jump to he is ordering HER DEATH from this.

EndlessWire

(6,531 posts)
21. Everybody is going to have a different opinion.
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 09:51 PM
Jan 2020

But, I think the way I do, which is that he is giving permission to assassinate her if necessary, because he very recently blithely ordered the assassination of another country's official, and it was done. Because of the callous way he talked about her when he didn't even know her name. And because something was definitely up, else, why were they talking about her? And, why did those who were in a position to know hustle her out of the country so quickly?

Also, I believe that he was in on the Kashoggi murder. And I remember that he bragged he could shoot someone on 5th Ave.

The government of Australia wouldn't let him invest there because he was mob-connected in Atlanta. And, he had a Russian mob guy living in his Tower after the mob guy got out of prison. Because he had a mob guy partying at Mar a Lago. And because he is apparently a lover of Kim, who is partial to killing his enemies himself.

Because I believe he raped a little girl, and he's capable of vile acts.


















































































































































































































































































































































































































































onenote

(42,703 posts)
18. Tribe also seems unfamiliar with Parnas' description of what went down.
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 05:55 PM
Jan 2020

Parnas made it quite clear in his interview with Rachel that Trump's "get rid of her" command was directed specifically to his aide, Joe DeStefano. And that makes sense since DeStefano is the guy that carried out Trump's decision to fire Sally Yates, writing her a letter telling her Trump had fired her. So for Natasha Bertrand and Tribe to assume that Trump was talking to Parnas simply shows that they are shooting from the hip without actually knowing what Parnas said happened.

Parnas also made it clear in his interview that DeStefano responded to Trump by pushing back against firing Yovonovitch before Pompeo was confirmed as Secy of State. [Actually, Pompeo had been confirmed but hadn't yet been sworn in] Trump has the attention span of a gnat so the fact that Yovonovitch stayed in office for another 13 months isn't surprising. Nor is it surprising that DeStefano resigned the very same day that Yovonovitch was relieved of her position

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
19. Some people want us to ignore what Parnas has to say
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 06:43 PM
Jan 2020

Last edited Sat Jan 25, 2020, 08:02 PM - Edit history (1)


If you surround the truth with a phalanx of lies and exaggerations, you can get people to dismiss the truth amid the noise.

EndlessWire

(6,531 posts)
22. Well
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 10:08 PM
Jan 2020

"get rid of her" -- fire her

"I don't care"

"take her out" -- kill her if you have to.

And then someone somewhere was wondering who they should get to do it. Trump always requires layers of removal from his deeds. Finding the right way to do it could have taken that long.

C'mon. We all know what "take her out" means.





































 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
23. So your position is that Parnas is lying
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 11:23 PM
Jan 2020

And that Trump ordered a hit with several other people present, such as Jack Nicklaus III.

And, is there a reason for so much blank space after your content, requiring smartphone users to scroll for quite a bit? Or is that some tactical thing to make it appear there are no further replies?

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