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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt looks like the (The Don) Trump fired Preet Bharara when he refused "to play ball".
Link to tweet
If you remember The Don promised to keep Preet on for his hard won reputation as a crime fighter who went after members of both parties.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)I sure as hell did.
cojoel
(957 posts)Invited by Chuck Schumer.
Persisted
(290 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)We the people, have no Governance in The White House.
Wounded Bear
(58,713 posts)FakeNoose
(32,767 posts)I believe Preet was fired even before Sally Yates. Is that correct?
At the time we didn't know about Trump's "loyalty" requests, but this all makes sense.
Cheeto 45 is batting .1000 now. Nobody who has any integrity is willing to work for him.
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)He did not go out like the others.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)Which includes everyone in the WH and his Cabinet, etc.
Wow.
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)be loyal to Obama and not to Trump.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,466 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)Dump would have demanded Comey and Bharara to sign a non disclosure. Everyone he came in contact with had to sign one; the ex's most especially. He thinks he can still get that kind of blind compliance, no matter what the subject, who is involved or how illegal it all is. He's 71 years old, with multiple DSM disorders, and he's never going to deal with his new reality. The only person on the planet this is a good idea for; Putin.
underpants
(182,883 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,466 posts)(a copper mug I've been seeing lately, but know NOTHING about it or the Moscow Mule)
The Legend of the Moscow Mule: The Copper Cup that Could
By Michael Cervin
Copper has been used for thousands of years as a drinking vessel. In ancient Ireland, people drank from a copper goblet called an escra, and the yogis of India used copper cups. The American colonists drank from copper mugs, including the Virginia tankard, dating from 1645, and the flaggon with its generous three-cup capacity. And, in the 1940s the Moscow Mule came to town, a cocktail with a kick that demanded its own copper mug.
Most cocktails require specific glassware for their drinks-the highball and the martini glass, for example-however, the copper mug for the Moscow Mule is a must. If the old stories about the genesis of the drink are correct (they are mostly unanimous with a few variations) then it goes like this. In the early 1940s, John Martin was the president of G.F. Heublein & Brothers, an East Coast food and spirits importer best known for introducing A-1 Steak Sauce to America. Sometime in the 1930s, Martin, in an effort to market the next cocktail craze, purchased a small vodka distillery called Smirnoff for $14,000. Yes, that Smirnoff. Back then, very few people drank vodka because most had never heard of it, let alone tasted it.
One day, while Martin was visiting his friend Jack Morgan who owned the Cock 'n Bull pub on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, he bemoaned the fact that he couldn't sell his vodka. Morgan complained he couldn't sell his ginger beer, a side passion of his that saw cases of it sitting in his restaurant's basement. And a third person (never identified in any of the stories) lamented that she had copper mugs that she either didn't want or need. Enter the brainstorm. Could all three benefit from combining their losses? The vodka and ginger beer were mixed with a dash of limejuice and served in copper mugs, imprinted with a kicking mule.
Today's Moscow Mule 1996 Moscow MuleIn one of the most successful marketing campaigns in cocktail history, Martin combined these three seemingly hopeless endeavors into one of the most popular drinks of the 1950s and early 1960s. Advertised as the Smirnoff Mule, magazine ads and posters across the nation showed celebrities Woody Allen, Monique Van Vooren, Julie Newmar, "Killer" Joe Piro, and Dolores Hawkins enjoying this tasty drink.
The result was that the Moscow Mule became a huge hit within a few years, helped by the Hollywood set and their affinity for the latest cocktail trends. Copper mugs were soon ordered across the country to support the lively libation.
https://www.copper.org/consumers/arts/2007/august/Moscow_Mule.html