Kansas Crimson

ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:54 pm That’s a good point.

I wonder if there’s any info that would be damning enough to tip the scales for the maga heads? Anything at all?

Maybe some Access Hollywood type moment where a hot mic reveals Trump candidly admitting he...

...doesn’t think Hillary is such a bad person after all?

...is a closeted liberal?

...anything? Anything at all?

NiceDC wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:02 pm Michael Cohen has a much longer history with Trump, and being his personal lawyer, probably has more insight than anyone else. Running afoul of privilege comes into play, but man, at this point, Cohen might just want to burn the world down and let the court sort it out. It's not on Simon & Schuster to protect that privilege. If there's a manuscript on the table, and it's telling the world what went down, the courts aren't going to block that.

If, by chance, that's what this is, it could be a 10-20 million dollar deal. I don't that's what this is, but at this point, who the heck knows.

twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:37 am

NiceDC wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:02 pm Michael Cohen has a much longer history with Trump, and being his personal lawyer, probably has more insight than anyone else. Running afoul of privilege comes into play, but man, at this point, Cohen might just want to burn the world down and let the court sort it out. It's not on Simon & Schuster to protect that privilege. If there's a manuscript on the table, and it's telling the world what went down, the courts aren't going to block that.

If, by chance, that's what this is, it could be a 10-20 million dollar deal. I don't that's what this is, but at this point, who the heck knows.

If his book gets close to market without Trump losing his mind and suing for it to be blocked, then we know it's contents will be Trump supporting fluff.

NiceDC wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:45 am

twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:37 am

NiceDC wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:02 pm Michael Cohen has a much longer history with Trump, and being his personal lawyer, probably has more insight than anyone else. Running afoul of privilege comes into play, but man, at this point, Cohen might just want to burn the world down and let the court sort it out. It's not on Simon & Schuster to protect that privilege. If there's a manuscript on the table, and it's telling the world what went down, the courts aren't going to block that.

If, by chance, that's what this is, it could be a 10-20 million dollar deal. I don't that's what this is, but at this point, who the heck knows.

If his book gets close to market without Trump losing his mind and suing for it to be blocked, then we know it's contents will be Trump supporting fluff.

Nah. Trump doesn't get to just block negative books about him. Bolton's book got delayed because he sent to the White House to ensure nothing was classified, and the WH jerked Bolton's chain around. Mary Trump's book was enjoined for like a week while it went through the courts, but it actually it ended up getting released a month earlier because of the hassle.

Here, if it's a tell-all, Cohen and his publisher will quietly send to presses, and it will go through the same challenge as Mary Trump's book, and as there's no privileged between the publisher and Trump, then it will be allowed on the same grounds.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:53 am Why on earth would Cohen be pro trump at this point?

NiceDC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:19 pm Yooo...

https://twitter.com/MichaelCohen212/sta ... 4772145154

His site crashed with all the attention.

NiceDC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 4:11 pm He's self-publishing (sketch) so my guess is he's having it go from printers to your house soon.

Andrew Weissmann was one of the lead prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team. In his new book, Where Law Ends, Weissmann looks back on where the Mueller investigation succeeded — and where it fell short.

Weissmann points to March 24, 2019, as the exact date when he knew he would write the book. That's when Attorney General William Barr issued what was purported to be a four-page summary of the Mueller report. But Weissmann felt Barr's statement sounded like the work of a political fixer rather than a public servant.

"The four-page letter bore no resemblance to our report in substance or in conclusions," he says. "I spent 20 years at the Department of Justice and seeing the attorney general behave in this way ... is something that is really soul-crushing for many of us who are either at the department now or are alumni of the department."

"I realized at that point that it was going to be a real benefit to the American public to have an insider record, as candidly as possible, what had happened," he says.

Weissmann notes the Mueller investigation was fundamentally shaped by two powers the president held over the team.

"One is the ability to fire us, and the other is that the president had the ability to pardon people who ... we wanted to cooperate with us," he says. "Those two were destabilizing and posed real challenges to what we were doing."

Weissmann argues that at key moments, Mueller was timid when he should have been aggressive in getting information and testimony. And he says the report should have been far clearer in its conclusions about the president's conduct.