2. The details of the story are BEYOND disgusting but pay attention to this detail that former Playmate Shera Bechard cites in her LAWSUIT against Broidy: "Bechard recalled Broidy telling her that he admired Trump’s "uncanny ability to sexually abuse women and get away with it.""
3. "Among Bechard’s allegations are that Broidy refused to wear condoms and didn’t disclose to her that he had genital herpes until years after their sexual relationship, according to a court filing. "
Not even going to comment.
4. The model also claimed that the Los Angeles money manager began hurting her during their sexual activities, and pushed her to drink excessively so that "she would be more compliant toward his physical abuse."
Repugnant, abusive, degenerate man. But FAMILY VALUES for the GOP!
5. "Bechard recalled Broidy telling her that he admired Trump’s "uncanny ability to sexually abuse women and get away with it.""
This is the cherry on top of the lawsuit cake Bechard baked. Naturally Broidy denies, as all these lying GOPers do.
6. So Broidy is literally claiming in a statement that "This person tried to extract money from me by making up false, malicious and disgusting allegations". Listen, you ugly flaccid piece of trash: Cohen knows EVERYTHING and he's cooperating. Get your story straight.
7. "I have acknowledged making the mistake of having an affair, and I entered a confidential agreement to protect my family’s privacy." SHUT UP, jackass. You did this to save your flaccid ass from public and private consequences! Nothing to do with family privacy!
8. Here comes the part we're more familiar with. Broidy sued Qatar earlier this year and a federal judge in Los Angeles threw out the claims last month. His claims? They hacked my computer and depicted me as trying to do pay for play with the Trump admin. Yeah, it is ALL TRUE.
9. Just to keep up with Broidy's multiple possibly criminal activities, don't forget my previous thread from Aug. 18 (that also cites the PREVIOUS one re: Middle East and Broidy's various shady dealings).
10. Things move so fast and so much stuff happens, that something from three weeks ago about DoJ "investigating whether Broidy sought to sell his influence within the Trump administration to foreign officials in exchange for tens of millions of dollars" seems a century ago.
11. In essence Bechard sued Broidy and disclosed all the disgusting details. While she tried suing Avenatti for disclosing details about her agreement with the omni present Keith Davidson, and that was dismissed, it's clear the Broidy part is detailed for a reason: it happened.
12. Broidy tried stopping those details from being disclosed, and he lost. This was simply about one thing: optics. He could still hope to look like "oh well I made a mistake, I'm sorry" re: the affair without these revelations. Now? He looks like a bag of white Republican trash.
13. Optics DO matter. That's why he was desperate to suppress any information about this. This paints an even worse picture of him, and he's already looking, bc of investigations, like a criminal. Grab snacks and a drink, bc Cohen knows a LOT of this, and he's cooperating.
14. Broidy, let's not forget, was vice Chair of RNC finances with Cohen. THAT is the key that Cohen holds (well, one of the many) in terms of valuable intel for Mueller. And don't be fooled: Cohen must be protected. What's said publicly? Hardly what's actually happening.
15. This is, quite literally, the you-know-what hitting the fan. Everything around Trump is starting to surface in all its ugly, criminal details. And he is going to be engulfed by that wave soon. #MuellerIsComing /END
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1. Simon Kukes, a Houston-based oil executive, sent an email to a Russian official in Moscow in July 2016, boasting of his connections to Trump campaign and requesting a face-to-face meeting. The official is Vyacheslav Pavlovsky, a former Russian ambassador to Norway.
2. NBC HAS THE EMAILS. Kukes wrote to Pavlovsky" I have been actively involved in Trump's election campagn, and am part of the group on strategy deveopment. I will be in Switzerland July 20 to Aug. 2. Let me know how you are doing and whether you want to meet." Oh. OH.
3. NBC obtained emails through a London-based investigative project funded by MIkhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian opposition figure. The Dossier Center gathers information to try to expose high-level corruption in Moscow. NBC reviewed the emails in conjunction with The Guardian.
1. MANAFORT AGREED TO PLEA DEAL WITH MUELLER. Politely bear in mind, no matter what we actually SEE of this, given the evidence Mueller has, there's NO WAY Mueller entered a plea deal without meaningful cooperation. The cooperation part? Can easily be sealed.
2. This means Manafort could easily do the same as Cohen. Just plead guilty to n. counts, and we don't see any "cooperation" agreement. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The two can easily be separated, with the cooperation agreement sealed for obvious reasons here.
3. I absolutely don't think the news about the "joint defense agreement" is current and I also think it is being put out for a specific reason. It's clear that there's been coordinated effort to make everyone think Manafort won't "flip" . That's the easiest way to protect him.
1. Manafort is INDEED in talks with prosecutors (MEANING MUELLER bc HE is the prosecutor in this case) about a possible plea deal. BLOOP, people. BLOOP!
2. Two people familiar with the matter "cautioned that the negotiations may not result in a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller". Naturally, bc there won't be a deal unless Manafort sings like the birdiest birdie that has ever sung.
3. "But the discussions indicate a possible shift in strategy for Manafort" No kidding. When the prospect of the rest of his life in prison materialized, Manafort finally saw that oopsie, he was cornered and if he ever wanted to enjoy life again? Best to talk to Mueller, stat.
1. Bruce Ohr is the Justice Department lawyer who was told by Christopher Steele that Russian intelligence believed it had Trump "over a barrel". Start seeing why Trump is going after him?
2. These details pertain to a breakfast that happened on July 30, 2016. Ohr described the breakfast to CONGRESS this week in a private interview. And that's how the GOP Trump lackeys went to tell Trump, he found out and decided he can't have a witness at DoJ.
3. So if Trump so much as THINKS of touching Bruce Ohr, that is direct obstruction of justice, and his tweets already constitute witness tampering. AND everyone in Congress who was present at the interview KNOWS that. Just so you know who to hold accountable.
1. What Cohen's actually explosive knowledge of facts covers, that can make the entire house of cards crash: the hacking and the Trump Tower meeting, both of which TRUMP KNEW about and in the hacking case, an event Trump even encouraged.
2. In the case of the hacking, there's a $50,000 mysterious payment Cohen made to an undisclosed tech company to help the Trump campaign, that awfully sounds like the arrangements the Steele dossier says Cohen made to pay off Russian hackers "without it being traced".
3. Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis specifically said on @maddow that Cohen has knowledge about the hacking that is of interest for Mueller. And the detail of the tech company payment emerged from the indictment. If the connection is accurate (and it seems like it is), this is huge.
Um... so there's news here. 1) McGahn was interviewed by Mueller and "cooperated extensively" with Mueller's team. And 2) there's no way saying that Trump tried to ensure control of the Mueller probe is in NO WAY favorable to Trump. That's obstruction.
2. McGahn shared "detailed accounts" about episodes pertaining to the obstruction of justice investigation, "including some that investigators would not have learnt otherwise". Read: McGahn delivered Trump to Mueller on obstruction on a silver platter. Bloop!
3. This adds up to the previous report that dozens of WH aides, some of which working for McGahn, were interviewed by Mueller AND delivered key evidence for Mueller's obstruction case. The danger for Trump is NOT Mueller, it comes from HIS OWN AIDES who WON'T go to jail for him.