Trump May Have Just Fucked Up BIGLY

[berni_mccoy]

This morning it was reported that a story was going to be coming out in the next couple of days as a smear against Mueller involving fabricated scandalous claims by former 'colleagues'. The reporter of that story had kept track of who an individual was paying and how much (he said he had the 'receipts'). It looks like he or someone else turned this information over to the FBI and now it's become part of the Mueller investigation itself.

That tells me one thing: someone in the Trump administration was behind this.

And it makes sense. Trump seems to project onto others exactly what is wrong with him and he seems to use tactics that he perceives as damaging and effective. For example, Trump almost lost his supreme court nominee due to allegations of sexual assault brought up against that nominee. At one point during the nomination process, Trump was even starting to distance himself from Kavanaugh. Trump may have thought it was an effective move and had hopes that it would derail the Mueller investigation.

What reporter would risk his own freedom by interfering with a Federal investigation by trying to smear the special prosecutor of that investigation? NONE. So that means it had to be one of Trump's cronies. The reporter who exposed this plot this morning knows who that person was. And that person is going to do the exact same thing that all the other indictees have done: sing like a bird.

If Trump had anything to do with it, Mueller is going to find out. And I'd put money on it that he did.

[brush]

1. They did it to Franken and thought they could pull it off against Mueller.

WRONG!

Mueller has too much power and can fight back. Plus there's the fear factor. Someone recruited got cold feet.

I know I wouldn't try lying against Mueller.

[lagomorph777]

30. GM tried this against Ralph Nader - and it blew up in their faces.

Same reason - it's ineffective against a boy scout.

[sdfernando]

32. Exactly!....and this is why Franken's own call to be investigated

should have been done and completed. It would have shown these allegations had no merit...Instead, Kristen Gilibrand lead the effort on the Democratic side to get Franken out. I don't know if I could ever vote for her because I don't trust her.

[MrModerate]

53. Exactly. That's why I would never vote for Gilliland unless . . .

She was running against Donald Trump.

[lark]

54. Hell,, I'd vote for any of my cats before I'd ever vote for drumpf.

They are far less destructive and when they were younger we called them the Destromites because they'd run through the house, up and over tables & furniture and anything in their way would go flying. They were still far less destructive, more intelligent & caring than him with nowhere near the hate, criminality and treason factor that defines orange assmouth.

[bitterross]

47. My thinking exactly. They got Franken so try to get Mueller.

I wonder if this trail also leads back to Roger Stone. Like the Franken one did.

[brush]

48. I wouldn't doubt it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Spanky has an enormous stake in smearing Mueller.

Could this be a foiled October surprise?

[malthaussen]

11. I've been wondering about the Surprise.

Not much time left in October for it. Unless Kavanaugh was it. But that was no surprise.

-- Mal

[berni_mccoy]

42. It's a poor attempt if that is what it is.

[gordianot]

3. Trump is the epitome of opportunism.

It is also probably his greatest weakness.

[AJT]

4. So this story is a fake plant?

So the Mueller story was supposed to be a plant?
That the whole thing about women being paid off is a lie to discredit the media who report it? That is how I read this.

Per Natasha Bertrand

wasn't going to report on this, but I think my fears are coming true. Based on information 
that I am privy to, I believe false accusations will be spread about Mueller in order to discredit 
him and possibly the journalists who are preparing this story. 

[berni_mccoy]

10. Yes, it has already been referred by the Special Counsel

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142190205

[More_Cowbell]

16. I think you're right; Jane Mayer (New Yorker) says it's a hoax

Here's Buzzfeed's story: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/robert-mueller-fbi-money-for-sexual-harassment-allegation

[lagomorph777]

31. A triple-negative double-agent quintuple-crossing hoax?

Too confusing to follow and therefore a big OOPS!

Sorry Trump, you failed again!

[Maeve]

37. Seriously! Let's see if we can untangle it

To make the media look bad, the RWNJ floats a story that they are bribing some women to lie about Mueller. In reality, the woman claiming to have turned down the bribe doesn't actually exist and is, in fact, a hoax. Then the RWNJ hints that they plan to reveal bad things about Mueller and their idea is that the fake woman will have been sent out to lure the media down a rabbit hole.

BUT Mueller's people sent the whole mess to the FBI before the hoax could be revealed? And Worl even got his mommy involved with her phone number? And this make WHO look bad????
Lordy, but the Three Stooges would have tossed this plot line as too silly even for them!

[Flavin102]

5. "troubling priest"

probably more of a "will no one rid me of this troubling priest?" motivation.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Sounds like something Roger Stone and his Crew would do.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Roger Stone and his crew have a lot on their plate at this moment

GOP activist, Jack Burkman, is the snake that got its proverbial tit caught in the wringer on this one. Looks like there will be some easy dots to connect.

[Nitram]

21. A snake with tits? Now THAT'S a mixed metaphor!

[Brother Buzz]

22. And they have a cloaca, too

I have been told a cloaca is simply a fancy name for anus.

And speaking of anus' and dots, it looks like Rick Gates is the connection between the orange anus and Jack Burkman.

[Nitram]

26. No, a cloaca is an orifice that combines the sexual and excretory functions.

And only mammals have....wait for it...mammary glands.

[enid602]

34. BA

In Buenos Aires a cloaca is a municipal sewer.

[dragonlady]

55. Also in Latin n/t

[Nitram]

56. Naturalists and physicians borrowed heavily from Roman and Greek mythology and vocabulary when

naming parts of the body. E.g. "mons veneris."

[cstanleytech]

23. Question is though is Burkman really the person behind it or is he simply

the front man meant to take the fall in the event that it was exposed for someone inside the Trump administration/family in order to protect them from charges of obstruction of justice.

[Brother Buzz]

29. That's a reasonable question...

and we might learn the answer when some of the dots are connected. Here's hoping Burkman's check cleared the bank and it was huuuge.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

44. Jacob Wohl has also been linked to this.

His company, Surefire Intelligence, has a shadowy hand in this, too. Wohl is a 20-year old disgraced former hedge fund manager, sanctioned by the SEC and banned for life from a securities exchange. He turned into a butt-trumpet when his life unraveled.

[Brother Buzz]

45. Both were not ready for prime time

I understand the orange anus already stopped payment on their post-dated checks.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

46. Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy

[elmac]

14. old republican tactic called ratfucking

and they are very good at it.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. Thanks,was going to use the same phrase.

But,felt it was someone else's turn.

[berni_mccoy]

20. Ok, correction, Trump Ratfuckedup Bigly.

[2naSalit]

7. Him or Jr.

If you haven't seen or heard 30 seconds (if you can stomach that much) of minime's campaign vitriol, you would think that the cheato himself was a weak example for Hitler and Mussolini where Jr. sounds like he's been taking acting lessons from them.

[Hassler]

8. The man* with the manure touch does it again. Jack Burkman catches the turd this time.

[George II]

9. Mueller's office cut it off at the knees by reported it to the Justice Department before....

....it came out.

[Leith]

13. chumpy Fucks Up Bigly Every Day

He gets out of everything by shouting that he didn't do anything, then shouting the same several more times, louder each time. The spineless media will chalk it up to one side says this and the other side says something else.

Just add this latest example to the list.

[ailsagirl]

28. I was going to say...!!!

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

Pretty disturbing attempt at obstructing justice.

[BamaRefugee]

18. Seen this headline 100 times, still he persists!

[Snake Plissken]

19. This has dirtbag James O'Keefe written all over it, and if it is him

I hope he goes to prison for a long, long, long, time.

[Lucky Luciano]

24. This totally stinks of Okeefe. nt

[3Hotdogs]

49. Nah, O'Keefe would'a had some woman dressed to the nines and coming on to Muller while the tape was

rolling.

[FakeNoose]

25. I don't believe any journos in "legitimate" media would go along with this

By legitimate I mean the nationally recognized news media that's not Faux News. The real credentialed journalists are all onto him now. This isn't 2015 any more. They won't be used by the orange asshole, they'd rather turn him in.

[moosewhisperer]

27. Roger Stone

This has Stone's fingerprints all over it. Seeing as how he'll be one of the next to be taken down by Mueller, it sounds like his desperate attempt to wriggle out of impending charges. Fucker.

[magicarpet]

33. It's Mueller's turn to be in the barrel,...

'Cept trDump's and Stone's ass are going to get fried and their gooses cooked.

[lame54]

35. Mueller on blackout till after election...

But smear campaigns against him before the election are fair game

[berni_mccoy]

36. I think Mueller will take that under consideration

When he goes after these enemies of the state.

[Caliman73]

38. One thing you can ALWAYS count on right wingers to do is overstep.

They work the long game. They are ruthless and cheat. They seem to out play liberals all the time because they do not play by the rules. They mess a lot of things up and leave a mess along the way. The problem with false entitlement however is that it almost ALWAYS leads you to overplay your hand, to overstep. Trump truly believes that he is "Teflon Don". Gotti was called "The Teflon Don" and he ended up dying in prison. Hopefully Trump will end up like Mr. Gotti.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

39. They were mentioning Rudy Guiliani. I wonder if the person worked at some company linked to him.

[wishstar]

40. Jack Burkman is the GOP activist rightwing nut who orchestrated this Mueller smear

This article explaining it all just came out in the Atlantic by Natasha Bertrand who covers all things Mueller/Russia related.

"A company that appears to be run by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist offered to pay women to make false claims against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the days leading up to the midterm elections—and the special counsel’s office has asked the FBI to weigh in. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” the Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told me in an email on Tuesday.

The special-counsel office’s attention to this scheme and its decision to release a rare statement about it indicates the seriousness with which the team is taking the purported plot to discredit Mueller in the middle of an ongoing investigation. Carr confirmed that the allegations were brought to the office’s attention by several journalists, who were contacted by a woman who identified herself as Lorraine Parsons. Another woman, Jennifer Taub, contacted Mueller's office earlier this month with similar information.


"Burkman, a conservative radio host, is known for spreading conspiracy theories. He launched his own private investigation into the murder of the Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, dangled uncorroborated claims of sexual harassment against a sitting member of Congress, and earlier this year offered $25,000 to FBI whistle-blowers for any information exposing wrongdoing during the 2016 election. He also promoted legislation that he authored—despite not being a member of Congress—that would ban gays from playing in the National Football League. And he’s hosted two fund-raisers for Rick Gates—the former Trump-campaign official who was indicted by Mueller late last year."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/special-counsel-refers-scheme-targeting-mueller-to-fbi/574411/

[berni_mccoy]

41. Seems like one nasty dude

[C Moon]

43. He's either going to sing like a bird, or go flying out of a tall building's window, first.

[3Hotdogs]

50. You're all gonna be surprised when you find out it was Mother's idea after all.

[BobTheSubgenius]

51. This idiotic exercise was the stifllborn brainchild of one Jacob Wohl.

You should look up the story. This kid makes James O'Keefe look like a Rhodes scholar.

[ecstatic]

52. Well, taking down Mueller over an accusation would be inconsistent

with trump's repeated claims about men being unfairly accused. I know his supporters are idiots who would go along with anything, but I think this would be way too soon an about face, even for them. Was he counting on us "evil" democrats to do his dirty work? Again, still would look hypocritical considering how he completely ignored the outrage over Kavanaugh. In order for his plot to have any chance of working, he would have needed to kick K under the bus (at the very least).