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In other related news the Senate Intelligence Committee has released its initial findings.
o At least 18 states had election systems targeted by Russian-affiliated cyber actors in some fashion. Elements of the IC have varying levels of confidence about three additional states, for a possible total of at least 21. In addition, other states saw suspicious or malicious behavior the IC has been unable to attribute to Russia.
o Almost all of the states that were targeted observed vulnerability scanning directed at their Secretary of State websites or voter registration infrastructure. Other scans were broader or less specific in their target.
o In at least six states, the Russian-affiliated cyber actors went beyond scanning and conducted malicious access attempts on voting-related websites -
Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I didn't!
But somebody else did.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
HOLD THE DAMN PHONE.
Avenatti has released a "Preliminary Report on Findings" that appears to show that the account from which Cohen paid Stormy Daniels' hush money was "replenished" by a Russian oligarch who is close to Putin.
Saviour on a stick! As if Rudy wasn't bad enough.
EDIT: Please tell me you downloaded that, because it's 404ing now!
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Giuliani pleased with his media tour: ‘Everybody’s reacting to us now’
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A nice round up of Giuliani Week
Particular takeaway:
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you’ve said as a matter of fact on Hannity and BuzzFeed, you talked to the Washington Post about it.
GIULIANI: I don’t know how you separate fact and opinion.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Giuliani said he made @realDonaldTrump aware of paperwork that showed payments were actually reimbursements for Stormy.
How could Giuliani show paperwork to Trump? The only paperwork, from Cohen's end of the transaction would have been scooped up by SDNY in the raid on Cohen. Way to get Cohen to flip, or what.
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Hard News: The remarkable rise of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I am convinced this is why Trump and his family are freaking out about the Cohen raid and the possibility he could flip. The SDNY is sitting on the mother lode of evidence and Rudy has given them the connection between purported legal fees and payments by Cohen to third parties.
Presactly, Bungle. You start the fire, I'll bring the marshmallows.
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Holy shitballs! Rudy Giuliani went on Hannity and admitted that a) Trump knew about the Stormey Daniels payoff and b) paid Cohen back, in installments of $35K per month as a retainer after the election (which makes no fucking sense as a repayment of debt is not a retainer). Take shotgun and apply to foot. Avenatti says he's speechless, and then goes on to show he's far from it ;-)
Trump confirmed it in tweets. They reckon there is no campaign finance violation because it was Trump's money and the candidate is allowed to put in as much of his own money as he likes. Several commentators disagree (as do I but IANAL), especially as the repayment occurred after the election. Unless Trump and Cohen have a document in place (yeah, right) showing an agreement for a retainer, SDNY prosecutors are going to walk through this like tissue paper. Avenatti also points to the lie Trump told on Air Force One which was reinforced by Huckabee Sanders that Trump knew nothing of the payment.
This is what happens when you have a publicity-hungry clown of a lawyer representing an even more publicity-hungry clown of a client. I'm sure they both think this is a stroke of genius, but they've just blown up the putative defence that Down and Cobb had constructed, that the President didn't know anything.
In other news, Ty Cobb is out of the team, and Emmett Flood, who represented Bill Clinton, and worked in GW Bush's White House Counsel's office, is in. BUT he is part of the White House Counsel's Office again, and therefore the the Administration's attorney, not Trump's. Several legal commentators have noted that this may mean that client-attorney privilege may not apply between Trump and Flood, and that this may also apply to Cobb and any meetings Cobb was part of should Robert Mueller decide to subpoena him.
You can't write this shit. It's like Game of Thrones performed by the Keystone Cops.
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whatever the transgressions of his comments brigade, David [Farrar] is a decent guy.
Still retain this perspective, Russell? ;-)