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Pete Strzok has an interesting comment about Cawthorne (Original Post) Grasswire2 May 2022 OP
Why haven't we reinstated these tRump political career assassinations? ffr May 2022 #1
+1000 hamsterjill May 2022 #3
No shit. He and others are gone, but we still have DeJoy fucking up the USPS! FoxNewsSucks May 2022 #7
I naively assumed once the last of Biden's Board noms were in, DeJoy would be gone. NullTuples May 2022 #33
Well? AZ8theist May 2022 #42
+1 H2O Man May 2022 #12
He has already been a relatively poorly paid career civil servant. Marcuse May 2022 #15
Peter Strzok ought to be FBI Director. Grasswire2 May 2022 #17
Yes. He was on the fast track from what I understood. nt Ilsa May 2022 #26
Agree! mountain grammy May 2022 #24
It's important to note that the obvious honey pot description of how Cawthorn met his wife RockRaven May 2022 #2
then she dumped him because she got WHAT THEY WANTED ON HIM, KOMPROMAT Captain Zero May 2022 #22
I have never laid eyes on this transcript. ShazzieB May 2022 #34
Cawthorn blabs. We see that again and again. yardwork May 2022 #36
Somebody went through a lot of trouble to play matchmaker. Kid Berwyn May 2022 #4
That right there....THAT is what trump had on all the members of the senate and house that kissed BComplex May 2022 #5
Yep. BadgerMom May 2022 #8
Right. H2O Man May 2022 #10
Yep, Hoover started it KS Toronado May 2022 #13
It's interesting ..... H2O Man May 2022 #21
And J. Edgar learned it from the Mob, who did it to him. yardwork May 2022 #37
Right. H2O Man May 2022 #39
+1 uponit7771 May 2022 #11
And still does if so. KPN May 2022 #18
Agreed nt duhneece May 2022 #41
Tradecraft Kid Berwyn May 2022 #45
No such thing as a child prostitute. Nt Artistree22 May 2022 #25
Thank you, absolutely true. Kid Berwyn May 2022 #27
My reaction too. soldierant May 2022 #28
Exactly. They are sex-trafficked children. Period. nt SunSeeker May 2022 #31
that's one hell of a find. captures his soul perfectly. msfiddlestix May 2022 #38
Here's history that shocks every lawyer I've told... Kid Berwyn May 2022 #46
+1 dalton99a May 2022 #43
The MAGAmorphosis Kid Berwyn May 2022 #47
My exact reaction to that info. BadgerMom May 2022 #6
Recommended. H2O Man May 2022 #9
KnR Hekate May 2022 #14
You walk into a restaurant that smells like bad fish. dchill May 2022 #16
Excellent! justhanginon May 2022 #20
+1, uponit7771 May 2022 #29
+1, uponit7771 May 2022 #30
Exactly. niyad May 2022 #19
We would all like to know Wild blueberry May 2022 #23
What "new info"? NM Grins May 2022 #32
Presumably the old and very compromising video of him humping another man? meadowlander May 2022 #35
I just heard this--that he was set up w/the woman he married/divorced while visiting Russia-- for deurbano May 2022 #40
Kick dalton99a May 2022 #44

ffr

(22,672 posts)
1. Why haven't we reinstated these tRump political career assassinations?
Thu May 5, 2022, 02:20 PM
May 2022

We need people who can think and act, like Peter Strzok.

Putin had tRump remove the best and brightest people in our intelligence community & law enforcement, people who knew Putin was behind tRump's actions to tear down American security. It's time to take the gloves off, reinstate any of the people who had their careers assassinated by the GOP and let's roll on Putin's campaign!

NullTuples

(6,017 posts)
33. I naively assumed once the last of Biden's Board noms were in, DeJoy would be gone.
Fri May 6, 2022, 12:36 AM
May 2022

The USPS Board of Governors now has a Biden appointed Democratic majority.

They have the ability to oust DeJoy.

RockRaven

(15,009 posts)
2. It's important to note that the obvious honey pot description of how Cawthorn met his wife
Thu May 5, 2022, 02:22 PM
May 2022

is Cawthorn's own account. It's not some uncharitable spin from political opponents. If you read the interview transcript where Cawthorn recounts how he met his wife, just his own words, verbatim, it screams "RED FLAG! RED FLAG! RED FLAG! RED FLAG! RED FLAG!..."

Captain Zero

(6,824 posts)
22. then she dumped him because she got WHAT THEY WANTED ON HIM, KOMPROMAT
Thu May 5, 2022, 04:59 PM
May 2022

Hard telling what else, other info, she extracted from him before the divorce.

yardwork

(61,712 posts)
36. Cawthorn blabs. We see that again and again.
Fri May 6, 2022, 09:06 AM
May 2022

He may not be truthful most of the time, but he seems to have a strong internal urge to blab the truth about important things he's supposed to keep secret.

That's probably why the NC GOP is taking him down.

BComplex

(8,067 posts)
5. That right there....THAT is what trump had on all the members of the senate and house that kissed
Thu May 5, 2022, 02:50 PM
May 2022

his ass...um, I mean ring.

H2O Man

(73,622 posts)
21. It's interesting .....
Thu May 5, 2022, 04:45 PM
May 2022

most rational people, looking back on it, recognize that it was Hoover that had the problem. A kind of unattractive feature of his being, though one of many. Yet today's republican party is back at it.

Kid Berwyn

(14,971 posts)
45. Tradecraft
Sat May 7, 2022, 04:50 PM
May 2022

Publishers and blackmailers can make money through silence.



Rupert Murdoch, who has a long history of paying $millions to cover-up the sexual abuse and harassment of women at Fox News, is pictured with Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell below which points to them possibly being friends. But what is more interesting is that Jeffrey Epstein had Rupert Murdoch’s private contact details in his black book which was revealed in 2015 court proceedings.

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2019/08/13/was-rupert-murdoch-involved-in-the-jeffrey-epstein-paedophile-scandal-given-his-details-were-in-epsteins-black-book/

Kid Berwyn

(14,971 posts)
27. Thank you, absolutely true.
Thu May 5, 2022, 09:27 PM
May 2022

The image and caption were meant to sum up the unspeakable.

What bothers me most are the lives lost and injured by such as Roy Cohn, Jeffrey Epstein, Roger Stone and the organizations they served and profited.

soldierant

(6,927 posts)
28. My reaction too.
Thu May 5, 2022, 10:59 PM
May 2022

But Cohn was a pig (apologies to four-footed pigs, who are much nicer) and that would be wxactly what he said.

Kid Berwyn

(14,971 posts)
46. Here's history that shocks every lawyer I've told...
Sat May 7, 2022, 04:56 PM
May 2022

AG Bill Barr’s dad hired college dropout and future child molester Jeffrey Epstein to teach at an exclusive NYC prop school. Teach missspelled his own name, for some reason.



The ‘Epstein-Barr’ Problem of New York City’s Dalton School

JERRY LAMBE
July 13th, 2019, 10:50 am

Excerpt...

Epstein, who was charged last week by federal authorities in the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking with sex-trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex-trafficking, was a 20 year old college drop-out when he was hired to teach at Dalton by the school’s headmaster Donald Barr in the mid 1970’s. Donald Barr was the father of current United States Attorney General William Barr, who is currently overseeing Epstein’s prosecution.

According to at least one former student, Dalton alums have long joked about Barr’s hiring of Epstein..

“The joke has been [that] this is the Epstein-Barr problem at Dalton, said Harry Segal, a 1974 graduate who is now a senior lecturer at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College, in an interview with the Huffington Post. Epstein-Barr is a type of herpes virus best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis.

Scott Spizer, who graduated in 1976, said that Epstein was most remembered for his “persistent attention” on teenage girls in the hallways, recalled a night when the young educator showed up at a party where Dalton students were drinking.

“I can remember thinking at the time, ‘This is wrong,’” Spizer said in an interview with the New York Times.

Continues...

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-epstein-barr-problem-of-new-york-citys-dalton-school/


Kid Berwyn

(14,971 posts)
47. The MAGAmorphosis
Sat May 7, 2022, 05:09 PM
May 2022

Things get scary sick, fast.





The Final Lesson Donald Trump Never Learned From Roy Cohn

The unrepentant political hitman who taught a younger Trump how to flout the rules didn’t get away with it forever.


By MICHAEL KRUSE
Politico, September 19, 2019

One of Donald Trump’s most important mentors, one of the most reviled men in American political history, is about to have another moment.

Roy Cohn, who has been described by people who knew him as “a snake,” “a scoundrel” and “a new strain of son of a bitch,” is the subject of a new documentary out this week from producer and director Matt Tyrnauer. It’s an occasion to once again look at Cohn and ask how much of him and his “savage,” “abrasive” and “amoral” behavior is visible in the behavior of the current president. Trump, as has been well-established, learned so much from the truculent, unrepentant Cohn about how to get what he wants, and he pines for Cohn and his notorious capabilities still. Trump, after all, reportedly has said so himself, and it’s now the name of this film: “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”

What Cohn could, and did, get away with was the very engine of his existence. The infamous chief counsel for the red-baiting, Joseph McCarthy-chaired Senate subcommittee in the 1950s, Cohn was indicted four times from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s—for stock-swindling and obstructing justice and perjury and bribery and conspiracy and extortion and blackmail and filing false reports. And three times he was acquitted—the fourth ended in a mistrial—giving him a kind of sneering, sinister sheen of invulnerability. Cohn, Tyrnauer’s work reaffirms, took his sanction-skirting capers and twisted them into a sort of suit of armor.

Snip...

“I decided long ago,” Cohn once told Penthouse, “to make my own rules.”

He was acquitted in ’64, and he was acquitted in ’69, and he was acquitted in ’71, all the while thumbing his nose at the feds, but Cohn’s screw-you stance was a lifelong philosophy, entitlement plus boldness.

He was “an incredibly spoiled princeling of an only child,” Cohn cousin David Lloyd Marcus told me. “He always got his way,” recalled his favorite aunt. As an adult, the resting expression on his face, which was marred by a scar that ran like a scrape down the middle of his nose, was a mixture of “arrogant disdain” and a “whipped-dog look,” people observed, “caught somewhere between a pout and a challenging glare.”

Continues...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144



An important picture that ties things from commie-hunting Joe McCarthy era to Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump via Roger Stone and Associates and the late Jeffrey Epstein:



The Ghost of Roy Cohn

BY TERRY MELANSON · AUGUST 24, 2014

EXCERPT...

In an interview with former NYPD detective James Rothstein, this author discovered that such operations do exist and go far back into America’s secret history. Rothstein is no conspiracy theorist. He is a legend in American law enforcement and speaks from experience. Furthermore, he gave me two notable examples from his time as a detective. Rothstein had an opportunity to have a sit-down with infamous McCarthy committee counsel Roy Cohn. During this sit-down, Cohn admitted to Rothstein that he was part of a rather elaborate sexual blackmail operation that compromised politicians with child prostitutes (Rothstein, no pagination). Cohn told Rothstein that this operation was being carried out as part of the anticommunist crusade of the time (no pagination).

Rothstein also had an opportunity to speak to infamous Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis. During this conversation, Sturgis revealed one of the reasons for breaking into the Watergate. According to Sturgis, there was a “Pedophile Book” hidden away at the Democratic National Committee headquarters (no pagination). The book was supposed to have a list of pedophiles on the American political scene (no pagination). One can only imagine the power G. Gordon Liddy would have held over the government if he had such a book in his possession.

I asked Rothstein if Roy Cohn was a real anticommunist or just using the fear of communism to justify his sex ring. It seemed like a fair question. After all, Cohn had argued against homosexuals being schoolteachers when he himself was a homosexual. Perhaps Cohn’s hypocrisy extended to his anticommunism. Rothstein made it clear that Cohn was a genuine anticommunist (no pagination). Anticommunist sentiments aside, evidence suggests that the sex ring operation started by Cohn was used for more than fighting the threat of domestic communists. Fugitive ex-CIA officer Frank Terpil has claimed that sexual blackmailing operations directed by the CIA were intensive in Washington during the Watergate era (DeCamp 179). Terpil also asserts that his former partner, Ed Wilson, was coordinating one of these sexual blackmail operations (179). In a letter to author Jim Hougan, Terpil revealed Wilson’s modus operandi:

“Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasies in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming… were TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.” (Qtd. in DeCamp 179)

According to John DeCamp, a former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam War hero, Wilson’s operation was merely a continuation of the one set up by Cohn (179). When I asked James Rothstein if Palfrey’s outfit was a continuation of the sexual blackmail rings that began with Cohn, he answered in the affirmative (Rothstein, pagination). The NYPD veteran made it clear that Palfrey’s outfit could not exist in Washington unless it was a tool for the power elite and sinister factions of the intelligence community (no pagination). Somewhere in a Queens cemetery, the corpse of a high-powered attorney is smiling in his grave.

SOURCE:

https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2014/08/24/the-ghost-of-roy-cohn/



The same Roy Cohn who taught Donald Drumpf also schooled Roger Stone and Jeffrey Epstein...



... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epstein’s conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauer’s documentary comes near the end, when it’s no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isn’t a liar and a fraud, when it’s no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn “has been extremely loyal and extremely honest.” Were Cohn’s parties—was his protection—really that good?...

Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/



And DeSantis stands ready to fill the orange loafers.



dchill

(38,545 posts)
16. You walk into a restaurant that smells like bad fish.
Thu May 5, 2022, 04:28 PM
May 2022

You are seated, and the waiter says the special is fish.
You order the fish.
That's what believing Madison Cawthorn is like.

deurbano

(2,896 posts)
40. I just heard this--that he was set up w/the woman he married/divorced while visiting Russia-- for
Fri May 6, 2022, 12:14 PM
May 2022

the first time this week. To me, it's a giant disadvantage that we don't have the kind of 24/7 grievance scream machine identifying and amplifying intel on our opponents that they do. Like, they all have every detail (true or not!) of Hunter Biden's life memorized, while a current member of congress got publicly honey-trapped, and I'm just hearing about it now. (I didn't even know his wife was Russian.)

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