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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy guess..Trump was told that tweet was a big admission of a crime
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White House staff notified him....they huddled and brain stormed on how to get out of it....lawyer or someone in the huddle came up with the idea of "lawyer tweeted that one." They all said "lets go with that one". It is pure BS that a lawyer would walk around with the president's phone and tweet things not thought through....specially one that is an incriminating one. Pure bs
That is my educated guess as to what happened.
DangerousUrNot
(431 posts)Despite the story, I think we all know the dumb ass tweeted it.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Find out where Don-the-Con's lawyer was at that time. If he was even in the White House, where was Donnie? Was Donnie in the residence, the Oval Office, sitting on the can (eating all that McDonald's crap is a unnatural super laxative)? Then find out where the lawyer was. Everyone's placement is a matter of record in the White House. No one just wanders around unknown and unseen.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)Trump fired it off and somebody said, you know you just verified your obstruction of justice.
So the grown-ups came in the room and once again had to clean up little Donnies mess.
DangerousUrNot
(431 posts)If they have cameras in the White House, they could match up the footage with time of the tweet and
Got em!
Siwsan
(26,295 posts)It looks like it was sent right about lunch time. trump * was probably getting cranky, waiting for his massive McDonald's delivery to arrive.
catbyte
(34,458 posts)eats TWO Big Macs and TWO Filet-o-Fish sandwiches for lunch, all washed down by a large Diet Coke. GACK!
Forget Mueller. I'm betting on clogged arteries getting him first.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)Siwsan
(26,295 posts)It certainly isn't going to mitigate any of the calories, sodium or fat grams in that flatulence feast.
HuskyOffset
(890 posts)I seem to recall that the order was two Big Macs, two Filet-o-fish, and a *malted*
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Pallet upon pallet of artery hardening, heart attack fuel airlifted to Donnie boy each day at noon. Followed by two-scoops, of course.
But his "doctor" says he's the healthiest man he's ever seen. If his "doctor" is as incompetent as his lawyer seems to be, Donnie is fucked.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)The junkie doc said he only had five minutes before Donnie's boyzz picked it up. All the doc did was sign it.
Doodley
(9,138 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)In the wake of so many lies, what is one more to them?
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Don't know jack shit about the law. Yeah, let's go with that. Theses tweets are only binding sometimes, and certainly not when some lawyer steals my phone.
dchill
(38,547 posts)Genuine Tweet, fake Tweeter.
no_hypocrisy
(46,207 posts)He just exposed himself to potential disbarment. Several ethics violations by stating he said it, not Trump.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)He's now made for life...
Nice work if you can get it.
Trump must go down.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Don-the-Con is finally going to get his comeuppance. The Trump brand is done, for the entire family. JarJar - in all probability - is going to be in prison for quite some time, leaving poor, poor Ivanka with a useless clothing line, and tons of bills to pay. JarJar is going to lose his monstrosity of a building on Fifth Avenue, losing billions. Why, Jared and Ivanka might have to sell their precious art collection (the one they never reported to the FBI and IRS)!
The entire Trump family might actually have to WORK for a living! I hope Donnie can scrape along on his Social Security check. You know, the one that's going to get smaller and smaller, right along with the rest of ours.
My point being, there is no 'Trump Empire' to hitch your star to anymore. If that was his lawyer's intention, he's dumber than Donnie. Donnie will declare bankruptcy, again, but things aren't going to quite be the same for the white trash with cash Trump family, and even though I know I shouldn't revel in others' misfortune, I'm going to love every second of their misery.
tomp
(9,512 posts)...pretending to be the president. that's kinda like fraud, and there also must be some sort of security restriction on using his phone.
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)lastlib
(23,309 posts)just a guess.......
jimlup
(7,968 posts)I doubt very seriously any lawyer would ever recommend that the even the Orange naked clown king thing pResident tweet ANYTHING
BadGimp
(4,019 posts)- The Lawyer said he dictated the tweet to the Whitehouse Social Media staffer.
- The Social Media Staffer sent the tweet. To do that he did not need to use the President's phone. He merely logged into the President's Twitter account, and make the post.
- There is a strong digital data trail that can be uncovered that will point to precisely who sent the tweet and from what device/where. So if Mueller ever wants to investigate this he can uncover the truth.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)at the time the tweet went out.
catbyte
(34,458 posts)doesn't have Internet access?!?
Suuuuuuuuure, riiiiight. Yeah, that's the ticket!
It means if they can prove it came from there. He sent it.
SeattleVet
(5,480 posts)admitted to the world that he is guilty.
That's even more damning than him doing it to himself!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)How stupid do they think their base is?
By Hunter -- Dec 03, 2017 · 10:34 AM PST
Donald Trump, aka the Garbage Fire masquerading as a president, has been made fully aware that ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn has cut a plea deal and will be cooperating into the special counsel investigation of whether the Donald Trump campaign illegally conspired with Russian espionage or propaganda efforts during the 2016 elections. We know this because Garbage Fire is melting down on his weekend Twitter feed even more than is typical. Most of it is an extended condemnation of our nations FBI, which is not expected behavior of any president, in any era.
But the most curious part of his reaction is being widely interpreted by reporters, lawyers and pundits alike as being an admission on Trump's part that he indeed knew Michael Flynn had committed prosecutable crimes before he asked then-FBI director James Comey to stop pursuing Flynnfiring Comey soon after that conversation
So Trump had been made personally aware that Flynn had lied to the FBI, as he met with the director of that FBI to encourage leniency.
As this blockbuster Trump admission ricocheted around press rooms, the White House quickly attempted to walk it back by claiming it was Trump's lawyer, John Dowd, who authored the tweet. This was intended to immunize Trump. It did not work, because having the President's personal lawyer assert, in the voice of his client, that his client knew of a committed crime before asking that the FBI curtail their investigation does not seem to be as innocent-sounding as they had presumed.
So the White House rapidly moved to revise their statements again; this time, Dowd gave a confusing mea culpa in which he attempted to explain that the White House did indeed know that Flynn had lied to the FBI, but Trump was somehow under the impression that the Justice Department wasn't going to be bothering to press charges against Flynn so something. As Axios says in their own reporting, this explanation is "just plain suspicious and weird."
So then. The question of the day is: Just what the hell is going on here?
First things first: Even Dowd's latest excuse does not exonerate the White House. Dowd's claim is that Trump knew Flynn had committed a potential federal offense when asking the FBI director to back off on pursuing him, but Trump was already under the impression that the FBI wasn't going to charge Flynn to begin with. So he's arguing that Trump had no reason to ask Comey to "back off" Flynn, but did so anyway.
Second: The White House is probably lying. Trump almost certainly did indeed send the tweet himself. It is in his voice; it is consistent with his usual belligerence and exclamation-point-based random Twitter outbursts. The rapid White House effort at damage control suggests they did not, in fact, plan the wording in advance but were caught off-guard by it. The best evidence the tweet was not written by Trump is that all the words are spelled correctly, but Trump has indeed managed that before.
The best evidence that the White House is lying about who authored the tweet, however, is that the White House lies about everything, all the time, on a daily basis. They lie in every press briefing; they lie repeatedly when summoned to television-land, and in readily provable ways; they entered office lying about the size of the president's this and the success of his that and are widely recognized at this point to be willing to lie about anything, for any reason, if they believe the dodge will get them through another day of gubberminting.
It is not likely Dowd authored the tweet, crafting it to sound exactly like a blustering Garbage Fire. It is more likely Trump authored the tweet, and Trump's staff and his personal lawyer immediately launched a defensive effort to pretend Trump did not ...................................
Farmer-Rick
(10,212 posts)My favorite part:
The best evidence that the White House is lying about who authored the tweet, however, is that the White House lies about everything, all the time, on a daily basis. They lie in every press briefing; they lie repeatedly when summoned to television-land, and in readily provable ways; they entered office lying about the size of the president's this and the success of his that and are widely recognized at this point to be willing to lie about anything, for any reason, if they believe the dodge will get them through another day of gubberminting.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)An experienced litigator does not used the word pled as a past tense of plead. Trump wouldn't know that the street slang is ungrammatical.
rzemanfl
(29,570 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)More than a few trials, most involving criminal activity.
Of course, I am kinda old.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Resign and dotus' lawyer. He will be called to testify, I bet.
catbyte
(34,458 posts)the rest of us are as stupid & gullible as their pathetic cult.
jmowreader
(50,566 posts)As far as I know, his only communication medium is the personal Twitter account he has.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I'll bet it would be easy enough to find out.
Mira
(22,380 posts)"Dont piss down my neck and tell me its raining.
orleans
(34,075 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)This story is ever bit as absurd as the one where it was the lawyers fault for being in the way of Dick Cheneys shotgun.
Stinky The Clown
(67,819 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)MFM008
(19,820 posts)Supporting morons believes this compulsive liar.
honest.abe
(8,685 posts)and Im also sure that bogus explanation wont work with Muellar's team.
Takket
(21,635 posts)Isn't it INCREDIBLY unethical for a lawyer to fake having been responsible for the existence of evidence that can be used against their client? I would think that would be grounds for disbarment.
MojoWrkn
(139 posts)than "pleaded?"
Galraedia
(5,027 posts)O_o ...So your lawyer who is suppose to have enough knowledge of criminal law to practice it just incriminated you on Twitter? Wtf?