TPM Breaking: And there it is, the other quid pro quo.

[Dennis Donovan]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-big-dirty

The Big Dirty
By Josh Marshall

October 18, 2019 4:54 pm

And there it is, the other quid pro quo. Notorious Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash would help Rudy and DiGenova and Toensing cook up dirt on Joe Biden. In return, they’d work with Trump to get US corruption charges against Firtash tossed. Firtash has been fighting extradition to the US on federal corruption charges since 2014.

From Bloomberg …

Associates of a Ukrainian oligarch fighting extradition to the U.S. were working to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden last summer in an effort to get Rudy Giuliani’s help in the oligarch’s legal case, according to three people familiar with the exchanges.

Dmitry Firtash, charged with conspiracy by the U.S. and living in Vienna, shuffled lawyers in July to add Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, vocal supporters of President Donald Trump who had worked with Giuliani. Around that time, some of Firtash’s associates began to use his broad network of Ukraine contacts to get damaging information on Biden, the people said.

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[magicarpet]

1. Rudy is such a slimy viper snake full of venom.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. Why the need to insult venomous viper snakes with such vile comparisons to Rudy?!?!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[magicarpet]

7. Oops,... vipers are cute and lovable,.... sorry

[erronis]

11. That's a nice way to resolve issssuessss. (ssssnake reference.)

[Blue_true]

22. He is worst than that.

He has zero morals, about where Trump is in that regard.

I don't know how true it is, but it was written that when 9/11 first started, Rudy was in bed with his mistress getting a quickie before going in to work.

[Traildogbob]

37. Bag of vipers

Stephanie Miller and Jim Ward always joked about the mob leaving "bags of vipers" to attack their enemies. Gooliana is one viper in the massive bag Putin and his mob leaders have thrown into our nation. When ya get bitten by those nasty fangs of Gooliani there is more danger of infection other than just venum. Have ya seen those bottom fangs?😱

[CatWoman]

2. k; r

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. you gots to do dirty work to manufacture 'dirt'

[tableturner]

4. K and R......

[EleanorR]

5. And Toensing's kid was hired by the DOJ

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The son of one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal defenders has a new gig in Trump’s Justice Department. Brady Toensing—whose mother Victoria Toensing and and step-father Joe diGenova are key players in the rapidly growing Ukraine scandal—joined the DOJ in June as a senior counsel in its Office of Legal Policy.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/brady-toensing-justice-department/

[erronis]

12. Hate to think that these snakes have some roots in Vermont. The magapathogen spreads everywhere.

I know vaccination might be possible.

But the best disinfectant is bright light. Sunlight and transparency.

Barr'ing that, chlorine bleach.

[dchill]

14. "magapathogen" - brilliant. And exactly on point.

[MontanaMama]

20. "MAGApathogen"

Just excellent. May I use it?

And, you got my mind a workin’...MAGAdiseased. MAGAdemented. MAGAbraindead. MAGAstoopid. MAGAmoran. The mind reels.

[Captain Zero]

30. MAGA pro quo

nt

[erronis]

25. Please steal, reuse, etc. I'm thinking that just magapath will work fine.

"maga" for the maggot in the WH.
"path" for a pathogen, or also pathetic.

MAGApathetic.

[MontanaMama]

34. Oooh! MAGApath

for sociopath!!! Genius.

[uponit7771]

16. WOW !!! How could the DOJ pay that kid more than 50 cents an hour he's totally unqualified for

... whatever I think their kid is qualified for / sarc

[crickets]

35. Ah, nepotism. It's OK if you're a Republican! nt

[kentuck]

8. Why doesn't the Committee subpoena Toensing and de Genova ?

They can't claim executive privilege.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Couldn't they claim

attorney client privilege?

[DallasNE]

10. This Sounds Like The Barr Operation

But it is all entwined anyway so does it really matter. Barr, as AG, will give it a better appearance than Giuliana as well. Never mind that it will be fully cooked.

[pangaia]

13. Where are Livia Lone and Lisbeth Salandar when we need them ??

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...and Mikael Blomkvist, and John Rain and Dox?

[Hekate]

15. I am out of expletives

KnR

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. I sure wish the media would stop saying "dig up dirt" ...like there was something to

actually dig up.
They should say "manufacture lies about..." instead.

[Cosmocat]

18. YEP

Their way of providing cover to Rs.

[pandr32]

36. Or "manufacture dirt"

I agree that "dig up" implies it is buried somewhere.

[Hassler]

19. Colludy Rudy Jailiani: Lock. Him. Up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Dinner at the White House WHILE facing corruption charges. . . . nt

[flibbitygiblets]

23. Just HOW MANY people were trying to dirty up Biden? Dump must really be afraid Biden will beat him.

Has anyone heard of Trump sending his goons to dig up dirt on anyone of the other dem POTUS candidates?

[rickyhall]

24. Why is Guli not jail?

[McCamy Taylor]

27. They will try to flip him on trump and Putin. And he will rat them out to save himself.

[rickyhall]

28. Oh, yeah.

[McCamy Taylor]

26. Did they really think the CIA/NSA/FBI and Pentagon would not be all over this like a hobo on a you

know what? Maybe the fact that the CIA looked the other way for the Bush Family and the Pentagon looked the other way for Cheney/Halliburton made them think they would look the other way for Trump. What idiots!

[Captain Zero]

32. Uh, a hobo on a you know what? No I don't know. Clue?

Never heard of that turn of phrase...first letter of the answer for clue #1 ?

[Mike Nelson]

29. Ah-ha!

... Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing are involved. Sure sign of bottom-feeding corruption. Case closed. Lock those two up and throw away the key!

[madaboutharry]

31. DiGenova and Toensing are a horror show.

They are two of the most vile people. It would be rich to see them both disbarred for their corruption.

[TygrBright]

33. "The"other? More like "YET ANother quid pro quo..." n/t