Dear @LindseyGrahamSC,— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 15, 2020
I made you a Valentine's Day video.
Regards,
Don Winslow pic.twitter.com/oAp1L11o72
What do you think? On the level?
I don't like being teased. Failure to deliver the goods leaves a lingering bad taste in the mouth. Still, a person in Winslow's position has nothing to gain from pulling the old bait-and-switch, so I am going to allow myself to hope that he has proof, not just surmise.
It's pretty obvious that Team Trump has been using kompromat to manipulate potential critics and to enforce alliances. We need just one of these compromised actors to break down and admit the truth.
Winslow made news in October with his claim that Graham was being blackmailed.
Have you wondered why @LindseyGrahamSC has been defending @realDonaldTrump like his life depended on it? A friend in federal law enforcement told me about a certain threat @realDonaldTrump has made to Graham. It's personal. It's awful. And it's working very well.Most respondents presumed that the Big Damn Secret concerned gay sex or underaged sex or gay underaged sex. Others posited financial chicanery as the motive. To me, the wording suggests the possibility of an actual threat against someone's life, though not necessarily to Graham's life. (In a future post, we may go into the evidence suggesting that Trump's forces threatened the life of Ambassador Yavonovich.)
From an Inquistr piece published last December:
Others have made similar claims. Back in January, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle implied that Trump was blackmailing Graham with some kind of unknown dirt.
“It could be that Donald Trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about Lindsey Graham,” Ruhle said, via WFTL. “We’re gonna leave it there.”
Ruhle did not offer evidence to back her claim and did not give any hint about what the blackmail could be.
Other political opponents have hinted in more vague terms that Graham is being leveraged in some way. As Vox reported, Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar suggested that Graham was “compromised” into supporting Trump. The report noted that Graham had previously revealed that his email account was hacked by the Russian government, a revelation that has been used as the basis for claims that he is compromised into supporting Trump.Let's not get our hopes up. Whenever we tell ourselves "This latest development will finally topple this rotten presidency," we end up with spit decorating our faces. That said, everyone understands that blackmailing a senator -- or threatening a senator -- would be really fucking serious business. At the very least, we would have another impeachment.
If a new impeachment inquiry revs up, Nancy Pelosi must also include the obstruction charges outlined in the Mueller report. Her obstinate refusal to touch anything Mueller-related has allowed the Trumpists to promulgate the myth that the Mueller probe failed to find anything, that there was no there there.
(Do not count me among those who consider Pelosi a brilliant tactician.)
Incidentally, Winslow has also made some interesting noises about Barr. See here.
Matthew Chapman of RawStory: "On Thursday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner tweeted that the House of Representatives should 'make it rain subpoenas' -- and attach the threat of jail time to officials who refuse to honor them -- in order to find out whether Attorney General William Barr has quashed any Justice Department investigations into President Donald Trump. His tweet came in response to author Don Winslow, who asserts that sources in the DOJ tell him Barr has shut down six investigations into 'Trump and Trump related companies and surrogates,' and prevented two other investigations from beginning." --sI find this claim credible. It would explain why we've heard so little from SDNY.
The Twitter trail suggests that Kirschner (now an MSNBC legal analyst) is acquainted with Winslow. Thus, it is fair to posit that Kirschner may be one of Winslow's sources on Lindsey Graham, although Winslow's wording suggests that his main source of info comes from someone currently "on the inside."
4 comments:
Talk about teasing!!!
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A couple of things:
1. Graham and Barr are doing exactly what they want to do. Graham is part of the Republican Party that has only one principle, money for the rich. That's it, that's the list. Everything else is just for show. Barr, as you have repeatedly pointed out, is not a believer in democracy, he believes in an authoritarian state. Barr and Graham are achieving their goals.
2. About Israel, the key question is whether Judaism is a tribe or a religion. But the question goes way beyond Jews, the question of tribalism and its relation to other tribes is the real issue. Take the Seminoles for example, what is the relationship of that tribe to the larger tribe of United States? How does one become a member of the tribe? Is it only by birth or is it by identity? What of the Black Seminoles? Who decides who belongs or is a member of the tribe? Is the tribe inclusive or exclusive? Those questions just begin the inquiry into tribalism. This is an important issue and my cursory reading of Dugin leads me believe that his ideas of tribalism are inimical to a free and just society. Thanks for the reference.
3. There is a book I just added to by queue, "Real Enemies" by Kathryn Olmsted. Have you heard of it? It's about conspiracies. You might enjoy it.
4. And about Flynn, the worst thing that could happen to him would be for the government to drop the charges. Jeopardy has not attached and if a Democrat is elected, all the cases could be reinstated. The charge he pled guilty to was part of a plea bargain and the more serious charges were dropped. A real prosecution might see him spending decades in prison.
Al Franken said that Lindsey Graham "has a shoplifting problem."
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Wow, shoplifting can be a symptom of a bigger problem unless you are grabbing a loaf of bread because you are starving.
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