Claude Taylor gets mention in Newsweek

[MelissaB]

After Comey Firing, Trump’s Hour of Reckoning

...snip

Just after the Comey firing, CNN reported Tuesday that a federal grand jury had been empaneled in the Eastern District of Virginia to look into the Russian connections. That news had actually been broken some weeks earlier by a Washington Democrat named Claude Taylor, whose tweets about the grand jury were dismissed, even by the liberal news site Daily Kos. Taylor, who once worked for the Clinton White House, was tweeting Tuesday night about a scenario that could be even more dire: “A source with knowledge of the investigation says that nine sealed indictments came down in one case with sixteen more expected in others.” He also passed along rumors that the Trump family was moving money offshore—a completely un-checkable but wonderful image, redolent of “Baby Doc,” Muammar el-Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein and all the other tin-pot family dictatorships. No one ever imagined such types would set up camp in the White House.

Is Taylor a broken clock, correct two times a day only accidentally? Or a well-sourced gadfly? Time will tell.

To be sure, a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia is a long way from perp walks of one or more Trump associates in handcuffs. If Trump, as was rumored Wednesday morning, appoints Rudy Giuliani to head the FBI, that day will be delayed. But Congress must vet the former New York mayor, who has his own ethics issues. Giuliani hasn’t been on TV much lately—either because his lawyers told him to keep his head down, or because he was waiting for this moment. Perhaps both.

Link: http://www.newsweek.com/after-comey-firing-trump-hour-reckoning-606862

[L. Coyote]

1. And Newsweek fails to mention DU again.

[Zoonart]

2. Oh Shit!

If Trump, as was rumored Wednesday morning, appoints Rudy Giuliani to head the FBI, that day will be delayed. But Congress must vet the former New York mayor, who has his own ethics issues. Giuliani hasn’t been on TV much lately—either because his lawyers told him to keep his head down, or because he was waiting for this moment. Perhaps both.

[cannabis_flower]

10. I read this morning

That Trey Gowdy is being considered.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Giuliani maybe under investigation for leaking NY FBI office, maybe interfering with investigations.

[MelissaB]

12. More about Rudy here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029065525

Link to tweet

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. Let's remember "FitzMas."

Patrick Fitzgerald's work in "prosecuting" Dick Cheney for outing Valerie Plame ended in a "sealed indictment" that never became "unsealed."

Nothing will happen until those indictments, now reported by Taylor to be as high as 70, are unsealed, and arrests are made. Until then, we're walking a tight rope.

[L. Coyote]

4. Let's remember "FitzMas" and all the DU'ers who foolishly cheered a Republican investigator

investigating Republicans and who were so easily conned.

In fact, this is when we may most need to remember how untrustworthy Republicans are. Who will be the next Republican marched out as the hero investigator?

[Ellipsis]

5. Perhaps now the "Art Gypsie​'s" photograpy sales will double like his Twitter account.

[LaydeeBug]

6. Because *THAT'S* why he is doing this, right? wow.

[Ellipsis]

7. ...you blew way past that one.

I know lots of Art gypsies. It's hard work. He deserves it... Lighten up.

[LaydeeBug]

8. *nope*.

"will double like his twitter account"

[Ellipsis]

9. Literally in the last few days. It's admirable

You view doesn't matter to me nor him if you read his tweets. He posts truth and I've been reading his stuff for about a month. If he gets some acclaim in the process. I'm delighted.

*Prunes*