So...Papadopoulos has been wearing a wire for months (apparently)...

[lagomorph777]

and that will obviously freak out a lot of Turd's minions. But their next thought is going to be "I wonder who else is wired?" Suspicion and paranoia will destroy their cohesion.

[rickford66]

1. I believe I heard that as speculation, not fact.

[former9thward]

2. The OP apparently fitted him for it.

Given how certain the headline is.

[lagomorph777]

4. Did you miss the last word of the headline?

It was meant to be entertaining speculation, based on the phrase "proactive cooperator."

[Awsi Dooger]

3. That was easily the most significant thing I heard today

I trust Jeffrey Toobin's instincts. He was the one who isolated the possibility, based on wording of specific legal paragraphs. Toobin was confident that a wire was the most logical explanation, and that it happened recently and probably concluded only within recent weeks.

When I logged into Democratic Underground tonight I expected this to be the number one topic. I thought I was in the wrong place when it was buried in one mostly uninhabited thread.

[lagomorph777]

5. Papadopoulos is a bigger deal than Manafort and Gates.

The psych warfare aspect is incredible.

[Demtexan]

6. Let them be really stressed out.

Let the fights begin.

[Nevernose]

7. Manafort was tapped, too

We keep forgetting that tidbit. While he was campaign chairman, while he was arranging Russian crime, while he was helping Pence with the transition, while TrumpCo set up shop in the White House.

There might have been taps on Gates for even longer, and Gates actually officially worked with them until March.

Papa Doc wearing a wire might just be icing on the cake.

(Also: what kind of weird shit do I talk about that this dude’s name keeps autocorrecting to “Papa Doc?” And why does Apple like brutal Haitian dictators so much?)

[Corgigal]

8. And on Halloween eve

Scary shit. Lots of people trying to get some sleep tonight and rethinking all the conversations they had with everyone for the past few months.

Spooky.