
LOL Faulty logic. |
Prosecutors don't get to write the statutes, and the statutes didn't exist to give the kinds of convictions people wanted (although they did collect about $200 billion in penalties and settlements). When DOJ tried to find an avenue, the initial court rulings went so poorly that DOJ decided it was better in the long run to abandon those prosecutions (which were unlikely to succeed at that point) rather than risk a broader challenge to the statutory system that might jeopardized future financial crime prosecutions. |
Barr shut down the investigation. There are way too many loose ends, way too many redactions, way too many unanswered questions. Just wait, people will talk. |
Evidence? Links? |
The end of the investigation was widely signalled but still seems strange. What was Flynn cooperating about? What about Corsi? And Prince? Also, Trump was never interviewed, nor was It or Kushner. I'm interested in the report. Right now, things seem incomplete. |
Why are there former prosecutors of financial crimes with many, many scalps to their names who disagree with you? The truth is, whatever awfulness Trump has displayed in his life in much less an aberration than is frequently portrayed. Most of those in positions of responsibility have in recent decades have similarly chosen to ignore difficult issues. The legal profession is no different and those tasked with pursuing the criminality of the powerful have been especially remiss in honoring their responsibilities and instead have been reliable in enriching themselves based upon their (past) positions. You can claim that the financial crisis 'lacked the statutes', but there is such a broad and deep trend of their suddenly 'not having the statutes' that I'm very reluctant to take to you seriously. |
That's not actually a substantive response. |
+1 The 2008 financial crisis ruined millions of lives, trillions lost, countries sent to recessions. SDNY didn't prosecute anyone responsible for that disaster. SDNY didn't even investigate Michael Cohen's taxi medallion business until Mueller made a referral. It's a purely political hit job. |
If you think that's not 'a substantive response' wait until you see what the future has in store for us after the decades of morons in power turning a blind eye to each others' turpitude. Trump is a symptom, not the disease. And don't expect those who got $$$ from making a mess of things like, inter alia, financial crimes prosecutions, to fix things. |
Um, yes they did prosecute people in connection with the financial crisis. |
+1 Anyone who wants to make people like DJT and friends less powerful shouldn't count on that job being done by the bozos, like DOJ or FBI or CNN or SDNY or the DNC or the GOP or the NYT, etc., who hatched the world that made DJT and people like him so powerful. Those three- and four-letter acronyms aren't high-minded actors, they're entitled tools who are mad that someone usurped them. |
But we have been hearing he will be impeached "any day now" since the election. When is "any day now" going to happen? |
I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any Trump ties to Russia… except for the Flynn things
and the Manafort thing and the Tillerson thing and the Sessions thing and the Kushner thing and the Carter Page thing and the Roger Stone thing and the Felix Sater thing and the Boris Ephsteyn thing and the Rosneft thing and the Gazprom thing and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing and the Azerbaijan thing and the “I love Putin” thing and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing and the Sergey Kislyak thing and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing and the Russian Business Interests thing and the Emoluments Clause thing and the Alex Schnaider thing and the hack of the DNC thing and the Guccifer 2.0 thing and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing and the Russians mysteriously dying thing and Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing and the Wilbur Ross with his Cyprus bank thing and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing and the election hacking thing and the GOP platform change to the Ukraine thing and the Steele Dossier thing and the Leninist Bannon thing and the Sally Yates can’t testify thing and the Sally Yates firing thing* and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing and Trump’s reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing and Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing and Trump warning the Russians and Syrians before the Bombing thing* and the Trump refusing to provide Flynn's foreign ties documents to Congress thing* and Flynn's illegal Turkish lobbying was paid for the Russians thing* and Flynn's illegal lobbying for Russia thing* and the Trump asking Comey for a "loyalty oath" thing* and Trump lying to the world about Comey saying he's not being investigated thing* and the Trump firing Comey thing* and the Trump or stooges lying to the world about why he fired Comey with 3 different lies* and Trump hosting Russian foreign minister and ambassador one day after to demonstrate his authoritarian street cred* and the finding out that Trump actually tried to fire Robert Mueller in June 2017 thing and the claim by trump that the Russia investigation is over some unrefunded golf club fees to Robert Mueller thing... And the Maria Butina / KGB / NRA thing and the slavish affection Trump showed to Putin Helsinki thing And Trump saying he believed Putin over ALL the US intelligence agencies thing So there’s probably nothing, all of this must be normal, just a bunch of separate dots with no connection whatsoever. |
You mean Kareem Serageldin? One guy with a Muslim name? DOJ and SDNY looked the other way at the crimes of politically connected bankers. Crimes that were pretty likely much more serious than this nebulous 'Russian collusion'. |
Look up 'confirmation bias'. |