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Who will crack first when squeezed? (Original Post) SHRED Mar 2017 OP
Carter Page. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #1
I thought of him also SHRED Mar 2017 #8
Good guess. Warpy Mar 2017 #12
Page would be my bet to be the patsy. Volaris Mar 2017 #24
I have visions of Dolt 45* cowering all alone in ths WH bed & being surrounded by the ghosts of catbyte Mar 2017 #2
Naw, that's why he stays up all night long, one witless tweet after another Warpy Mar 2017 #14
We're rapidly approaching Richard-Nixon-wandering-through-the-White-House-mumbling catbyte Mar 2017 #20
LOL...I almost did a coffee spit-take. Nice post! titaniumsalute Mar 2017 #31
Sean Spicer too nt maryellen99 Mar 2017 #3
Let's not forget Scooter Libby. He lied his ass off and he's free as a bird. ffr Mar 2017 #4
The Big Baby Me. Mar 2017 #5
all the rats will turn on each other! putitinD Mar 2017 #6
Reince has been pretty quiet lately C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #7
Roger Stone. roamer65 Mar 2017 #9
Roger Stone reminds me a lot of G. Gordon Liddy. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #16
Flynn is a military guy so he cracks last. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #10
Point taken SHRED Mar 2017 #13
Stone is a nut so he might not crack either. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #15
Putin has more than a few eyes and ears on each of them. briv1016 Mar 2017 #11
It would be high irony if one or more sought sanctuary in Russia like Snowden eleny Mar 2017 #18
Who says anyone will crack? Xolodno Mar 2017 #17
Flynn has already acquired two lawyers from Florida. kentuck Mar 2017 #19
Nunes will crack first. He is implicated in the NCjack Mar 2017 #21
I think you're right. Flynn will sing too because he needs his pension and will try to be shraby Mar 2017 #25
I am hoping to see.. coco22 Mar 2017 #22
No. Scream and rant and rave and let the cray-cray out, sure. Volaris Mar 2017 #26
After today? I'd have to say Nunes. That was pnwest Mar 2017 #23
Stone. nt Kahuna7 Mar 2017 #27
Manafort is my guess pfitz59 Mar 2017 #28
Carter Page ashredux Mar 2017 #29
Stone DeminPennswoods Mar 2017 #30

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,856 posts)
1. Carter Page.
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:22 PM
Mar 2017

He's a little fish; he seems flakey; and he probably knows just enough to be worth cutting a deal with.

catbyte

(34,452 posts)
2. I have visions of Dolt 45* cowering all alone in ths WH bed & being surrounded by the ghosts of
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:24 PM
Mar 2017

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, whispering to him that he's just no good. Or maybe Barack & Joe snuck in and are making "wooooo woooooooo wooooo" noises through the heating ducts.

Warpy

(111,342 posts)
14. Naw, that's why he stays up all night long, one witless tweet after another
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:47 PM
Mar 2017

with him as the center of the universe. If anybody tries to haunt him, he'll interpret it as approval, it's what narcissists do.

As the nest of Russian compromised bad guys gets stripped away, he'll get more and more isolated, and that's when it will get intensely weird.

catbyte

(34,452 posts)
20. We're rapidly approaching Richard-Nixon-wandering-through-the-White-House-mumbling
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:57 PM
Mar 2017

to-portraits-of-dead-presidents territory. Or maybe we're already there. I'll bet his Secret Service detail is getting an eyeful.

ffr

(22,671 posts)
4. Let's not forget Scooter Libby. He lied his ass off and he's free as a bird.
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:29 PM
Mar 2017

Just need the president who you're being asked to turn evidence against to back you up. tRump won't give up his loyal brotherhood. That is, not unless someone else turns up something that they can't lie their way around.

C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)
7. Reince has been pretty quiet lately
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:35 PM
Mar 2017

He may be out making exit strategy.
But I don't think he's as dirty as Manafort.
Give that guy some limited immunity
And he might start singing.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,856 posts)
16. Roger Stone reminds me a lot of G. Gordon Liddy.
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:47 PM
Mar 2017

Like Liddy, Stone was a ratfucker from the Nixon administration; and like Liddy, Stone is kind of nuts. Liddy refused to testify to the Senate committee investigating Watergate, and I could see Stone doing something like that, too.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)
15. Stone is a nut so he might not crack either.
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:47 PM
Mar 2017

Manafort and Carter Page are seemingly normal and would react to pressure like a normal person would.

briv1016

(1,570 posts)
11. Putin has more than a few eyes and ears on each of them.
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:41 PM
Mar 2017

If he thinks any of them might turn, they'll disappear. (Or "fall" out of a window which appears to be the current trend.)

eleny

(46,166 posts)
18. It would be high irony if one or more sought sanctuary in Russia like Snowden
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:51 PM
Mar 2017

But there is that falling out of windows thing to consider.

Xolodno

(6,401 posts)
17. Who says anyone will crack?
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:48 PM
Mar 2017

Mark Felt was the one who brought down Nixon and he wasn't part of the inner circle...just someone who happened to know where all the dead bodies were buried and was pissed he was passed over. Ironic.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
21. Nunes will crack first. He is implicated in the
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:59 PM
Mar 2017

transcripts that he took to Trump. Of all of them, Nunes is a weak and rat out all of them.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
25. I think you're right. Flynn will sing too because he needs his pension and will try to be
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 06:29 AM
Mar 2017

able to keep it.

coco22

(1,258 posts)
22. I am hoping to see..
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 12:01 AM
Mar 2017

Roger Stone crying,I also want Bannon and Trump Junior to be strongly involved..

Volaris

(10,274 posts)
26. No. Scream and rant and rave and let the cray-cray out, sure.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 06:30 AM
Mar 2017

Conspiracies and plotters and Obama and Hillary and Media and Ebil Liburls around every corner? Oh, hell yes.

Crying? No. Not from a man who has a tattoo of Richard Nixon between his shoulderblades. That guy is just too much of an outright sociopathic asshole for tears.

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
30. Stone
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 07:15 AM
Mar 2017

I think the clearest coordination evidence is on him what with his know interactions with Assange and Guccifer 2.0. An earlier post likened Stone to G Gordon Liddy, but Liddy was in the Army and then became career FBI. He had that "name, rank, serial number" mentality. Stone is just a dirty trickster and loyal only to himself.

As an out-of-the-box-thinking candidate, Nigel Farrange. He's been around Trump and recently visited Assange. I doubt the British establishment has much use for him and GCHQ probably wouldn't mind putting the squeeze on him.

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