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The relevant anti-extortion statute is https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/872 …. If Trump told staffers to extort, he too has committed that serious crime

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It's not that he's wrong, but you need a prosecutor to charge a crime.

I don't see the DOJ or house GOP Judicial Committee saying "We're going to ignore money laundering, violations of emolument clause, obstruction, failure to disclose Russian contacts in national security clearances, espionage, tax evasion, defamation of former president...

but THREATENING MORNING JOE with a National Enquirer story?!?! Fuck that shit. Game on!"

people.

I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding. He spent $2 million in legal fees trying to get away from this issue, and if it weren't an issue, why wouldn't he just solve it? I wish he would because if he doesn't, it's one of the greatest scams in the history of politics and in the history, period. You are not allowed to be a president if you're not a human being. Right now, I have real doubts.

humans I have known. Devoid of empathy, dead eyes, no soul.

Btw, in case the verbiage didn't ring a bell, that's copied from one of Drumpf's public "birther" statements. Fucking pig.

to name one story that would be worthy of blackmail.

There had always been talk of them being "together", so I'm talking about something other than that.

I remember the Edwards story well because all the regular media ignored that story and then HAD to cover it after the NE broke it

Purportedly, family members were getting calls before publication for apologies to head the story off.

If you meant other articles - they broke the Rush Limbaugh purchase/abuse of prescription drugs story back in the day.

tRump has led such an exemplary lifestyle that he will never be the subject of an Enquirer story. WHAT? His friend owns the paper? Well, there goes that theory. He must have had a flashback to one of Iwanka, or Maleria's facelifts, seeing the bleeding. He can only wish Iwanka's cosmetic surgeon could do as good a job as Mika's. Looks like that tRump ugly mouth is for life, can not be fixed.

I'm aware of the others, just wondering what would be SO bad to try blackmailing them

Sounds like the WH is placing some "leaks" to counter the blackmail angle.

It makes Jared look like the one who delivered the blackmail message.

After Scarborough said he had evidence. They're acknowledging a conversation but trying to place it in the most benign possible light.

if this is the thing that brought him down?

by his father-in-law. That's how gangsters operate; the bosses order underlings to do their dirty work. Why do you think we have RICO laws?

People assume Kushner is both competent and innocent, mostly based on his looks. The more we learn about him, however, it's clear he's just as nasty, corrupt, and bumbling as his father-in-law.

I'm going to enjoy seeing him in an orange jumpsuit like his father (and hopefully is FIL as well).

Mentally, they are very much the same, midgets.

The sweetest looking little devil!

Brother...........

his address is 666. The antichrist is supposed to out of nyc.

n/t

Who murdered Jennifer Levin. Not so much in physical appearance but in the cold vacant eyes.

Sounds to me like extorsion or blackmail.

He's the bag man.

apparent admission of blackmail. We are supposed to believe that Kushner is the person Joe Scarborough goes to when there's a bad story in the Enquirer.

It reminds me of the early 24 shows with
David Palmer's wife causing all sorts of trouble...
except it's just 45 and Jared this time!

Kushner reminds me if this little guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_Linus2.jpg

Isn't it time for NBC to release a statement? What did they do when they found out one of their reporters was being blackmailed by the president?

If rumors are true, he may be in a whole heap of trouble

thing I forget to mention to you, have you got a pen nearby?"

pleasure up and down my spinal cord, brain, and pinky toes!! YEAH BABY!!

...so little time.

Kushner is Cheeto's bagman, so he knows where all the bodies are buried. He knows names, dates, and who did what.
Get Kushner to talk and you've got the whole bunch of them, including the big guy.

This is so blatant and seemingly petty and childish that the sheer brutality is not appreciated. A few moments distraction before the next round. It is really not drip drip the dam burst some time ago. The real test is are we still a nation of laws?

Indeed: "The real test is ARE WE STILL A NATION OF LAWS?"

Bravo, gordianot.

...... If the news is so fake then why are they hiring "real lawyers?"

The Enquirer and Trump are giving Morning Joe great publicity, probably going to be great for their ratings and for MSNBC.

Blatant attempts at blackmail, blatant lying about whether it occurred by the President and highest level staff. Clinton was impeached for lying about a consensual relationship. Trump does worse things every single day.

A crime was being committed and I wouldn't doubt if a recording exists.
It's too important.

and he reported all the contacts to NBC executives. The harassment by Nat Enquirer and the WH contacts occurred in late April into early May and then. Enquirer printed their story this month

Her teenage kids! That's how low this scum will go.

Still, I reserve some of my sympathy when considering how friendly Scarborough et al were to Trump earlier.

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does it?

one has only to glance at the literature on display in the checkout line at the local grocery store.

Publix has started shielding the cover of the Enquirer like the covers they consider to be excessively revealing of boob flesh.

Obama's legacy? Oh, and play golf and try to make money off of their positions of power?

of the dump admin and their "accomplishments"

What crime WON'T they be able to commit with careless abandon?

"Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirer owner David Pecker to stop the story."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/what-happened-between-trump-morning-joe-and-the-enquirer.html

Sure sounds like a hostile threat! Wonder who the WH had to blackmail to get the daily beast article printed?

that whole family needs to be wearing orange jumpsuits