Donald Trump has repeatedly denied knowing about the $130,000 payout to his alleged former mistress, the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. However, he’s new lawyer former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani went on Fox News last night in order to say that, in fact, Donald Trump paid back his lawyer Michael Cohen for the payout of hush money. Now the Trump administration is facing criminal charges. At a certain point, you have to ask, what are these guys thinking?
As I Clearly Said About Stormy Daniels
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Rudy was on a couple of days ago.
Obviously he was either drunk or overmedicated.
Or Rudy never received the memo to stay on point.
” I did not have sex with that woman” ring any bells?
Or one of my favorites
“Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.
January 1996; thought to be a reference to Paula Jones and her charge that President Clinton had sexually assaulted her, but Carville insisted he meant Gennifer Flowers”
Forgot to add this belly laugh
[On Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] If she gave him one of her cojones, they’d both have two.
Newsweek, May 2, 2008.
Rall
I found this in the Sputnick version from the 5th “”[Donald Trump] didn’t know about the specifics of it as far as I know but he did know about the general arrangement that Michael would take care of things like this.”
Surely a successful businessman wants to know where his money is going, right?”
You do understand that the rich and powerful have paid “fixers” so they don’t have to worry about the details. Many times they if they knew the specifics they would be legally liable and possibly bound for arrest. No one is that naive? You have tv shows like Ray Donovan, stories like Harvey Weinsteins of Johhny Depps.
Your agency keeps the “talent” away from the details because ignorance is not only bliss but a legal defense.
Nice move posting a recycled toon about Trump/Stormy who had rather dull normal sex and avoiding New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
“They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.” They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him.”
“State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called his Sri Lankan girlfriend his “brown slave” and wanted her to refer to him as “Master,” the woman says.
Harvard-educated activist writer Tanya Selvaratnam told the New Yorker magazine that her yearlong affair with Schneiderman “was a fairytale that became a nightmare” — and quickly escalated into violence in the bedroom, even as he begged for threesomes.
“Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him Master, and he’d slap me until I did,” Selvaratnam said.
Ex-girlfriend says Schneiderman beat, choked her after night of drinking
“He started calling me his ‘brown slave’ and demanding that I repeat that I was ‘his property.’””
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called his Sri Lankan girlfriend his “brown slave” and wanted her to refer to him as “Master,” the woman says.
Shades of Göran Lindberg.
As NYAG Schneiderman should have been thoroughly vetted to avoid issues such as this. We are speaking of FOUR ex’s he abused.
Those four are the only ones we know of.
If you screw with an attorney they will sue you into oblivion.
Those four had balls, and the two named had huge metallic ones.
In the end, the fault lies with Coumo’s admin being so incompetent they could not uncover his glaringly obvious racist violent kink.
Might be time to examine other people than Trump. A year and a half of Trumpmania with no traction. It starts getting dull and petty.
Will there be any good toon/commentary on the NK stuff? Moon wants Trump to have a real Nobel prize.Unlike Obama’s prize for being upper middle class partially Black.
> what are these guys thinking?
That they can run a dirty government the same way they run a dirty corporation. The real question is whether we’ll let them get away with it.
Reagan and Nixon both walked; neither Bush or Cheney have been brought up before the ICC and Oliver Fucking North just became the CEO of the NRA. My guess is that we will.
“That they can run a dirty government the same way they run a dirty corporation. The real question is whether we’ll let them get away with it.”
Have you been in an intermittent coma through the Clinton/Obama years?
Christ talking about selling out to big business.
Your problem is for some strange reason, maybe that lower half of the IQ range, you assume there are actually two parties and one of them is more pure than the other.
As for the will we allow it part
“Militant: Dig it, dope peddler. We’re out here building a new nation for black people. It’s time for you to start payin some dues, nigga!
Youngblood Priest: I ain’t givin’ you shit! I’ll tell you what you do, you go get you a gun and all those black folks you keep doin’ so much talkin’ about get guns, and come back ready to go down, then I’ll be right down front killin’ whitey. But until you can do that, you go sing your marching songs some place else. Now we’re through talkin’.”
“[Black Dynamite walks into the militant group’s hideout]
Black Dynamite: Excuse me, brothers.
Militant #3: [Gets up] The militants turn, startled. This is private. How’d you get in here?
Black Dynamite: I walked in.
Militant 2: So you one of them sneaky brothers, huh? Or maybe you an undercover pig. Or maybe you just a federal hitman.
Black Dynamite: If I was, you cats would already be dead. Now let me speak to the man in charge.
Militant #3: Sarcastically, I’m in charge.
[Exchanges hi-fives with the other militant]
Black Dynamite: If you were in charge, the people might as well surrender to whitey right now, because your survival skills ain’t worth a damn.
Saheed: Black Dynamite.
[Walks into the room]
Saheed: It’s been a long time, my brother.
Black Dynamite: [Exchanging hi-fives with Saheed] What it is, Saheed?
Militant 2: You know this Uncle Tom?
Black Dynamite: Listen sucka, I’m blacker than the ace of spades and more militant than you and your whole damn army put together. While you out there, chanting at rallies and brow-beating politicians, I’m taking out any money-fronting sucka on a humble that gets in my way. So I tell you what, when your so called revolution starts, you call me, and I’ll be right down front showing you how it’s done. But until then, you need to SHUT the FUCK UP when grown folks is talking.
Militant 2: I’m sorry.
Saheed: Yeah, we heard about what went down at the Hip Pocket. That was righteous.
Black Dynamite: That was personal, brother.
Saheed: Personal or not, you saved a lot of brothers and sisters. You need our help,
[pounds chest with right fist]
Saheed: we’re here.
Black Dynamite: I can dig it.
[Black Dynamite pulls the bullet casing from his pocket]
Black Dynamite: What can you tell me about this?
[Saheed takes the casing, sniffs the inside for gunpowder and licks the outer casing]
Saheed: I ain’t seen one of these in a while.
[Black Dynamite and Saheed walk out of the room]
Militant 2: [Whispers] I was gonna fuck him up.”
“”Amerika v. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)”
Look at ya
Yeah, take a look in the mirror now tell me what you see
Another satisfied customer in the front of the line for the American dream
I remember when we was both out on the boulevard
Talkin’ revolution and singin’ the blues
Nowadays it’s letters to the editor and cheatin’ on our taxes
Is the best that we can do
Come on
Look around
There’s doctors down on Wall Street
Sharpenin’ their scalpels and tryin’ to cut a deal
Meanwhile, back at the hospital
We got accountants playin’ God and countin’ out the pills
Yeah, I know, that sucks – that your HMO
Ain’t doin’ what you thought it would do
But everybody’s gotta die sometime and we can’t save everybody
It’s the best that we can do
Four score and a hundred and fifty years ago
Our forefathers made us equal as long as we can pay
Yeah, well maybe that wasn’t exactly what they was thinkin’
Version six-point-oh of the American way
But hey we can just build a great wall around the country club
To keep the riff-raff out until the slump is through
Yeah, I realize that ain’t exactly democratic, but it’s either them or us and
And it’s the best we can do
Yeah, passionely conservative
It’s the best we can do
Conservatively passionate
It’s the best we can do
Meanwhile, still thinkin’
Hey, let’s wage a war on drugs
It’s the best we can do
Well, I don’t know about you, but I kinda dig this global warming thing…”
TL;DR;WTF??!
I don’t see anything in your post remotely related to anything I’ve ever written. Then again, I stopped reading a fraction of the way through. I’ll address this tho –
“”That they can run a dirty government” … Have you been in an intermittent coma … ?”
That whiffing sound you just heard was my point going so far over your head you didn’t even feel the breeze. Clinton and Obama ran a dirty government like a dirty government should be run. The important distinction is that it’s *different* than running a dirty corporation.
1) Trump is used to lying to his business partners and then telling more lies when caught.
-> It’s an entirely different thing when the world press is watching.
2) He’s never held accountable because he’s got more lawyers than his business partners.
-> The Justice Department has far more lawyers; they’ve got far bigger subpoenas than Trump’s; and a far, far bigger legal budget than Trump’s. Oh, and they’ve they’ve also got judges. That’s got to be an advantage in court.
3) Trump is used to having Consigliori Cohen fix problems with NDAs with relatively small payoffs.
Stormy D had a decision to make. $130K vs. selling the movie rights for millions of dollars. How long did it take her to decide? And will she play herself in the movie?
Consigliori Cohen has a decision to make. Go to federal prison or rat out his Don. ( … and sell the movie rights for millions of dollars.)
It’s been clear for a few decades that His Hairness and the associates of the previous Herr Hair, don’t think much, if anything at all, … ever.
So, it is a total waste of time, at any point, to ask “what are these guys thinking?”
However, I have asked, have to ask now and “pledge” to ask again: what were the DNC, its super (stupid) delegates and their nominee “thinking” to manage to lose to the above-mentioned pack of mindless jerk wads???
Hillary was unbeatable the same way the Titanic was unsinkable. The engineer who designed the Titanic went down with the ship, and I assume he was quite surprised by the experience. It did, however, inspire other engineers to rethink their strategies.
To Crazy H,
I hardly said that HRC was unbeatable but only that she and the DNC proved to be rather more useless that initially assessed. (Certainly an achievement of monumental proportions!)
Further, I seriously doubt she and the DNC will rethink anything … except how to keep more corporate cash flowing and how to better suppress any and all momentary flare-ups of democratic thought/words/action within the party.
@falco,
I was *agreeing* with you.
At a certain point, you have to ask, what are these guys thinking?
Hmmm…just spit-balling here, but…
“We don’t give a shit”
“We can get away with anything”
“If the Dems press this we can dig up *their* skeletons and they know it”