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Claude Taylor just tweeted out and Gives a timeline for when Trump is Gone (Original Post) brettdale May 2017 OP
Actually, he just answered a question. L. Coyote May 2017 #1
Yes Me. May 2017 #2
so lets see what we have here brettdale May 2017 #5
Was that a yes? tazkcmo May 2017 #11
He never pretended to be one of the "top players working for Clinton." pnwmom May 2017 #15
From Keith Olbermann: BTW in 1993 when CT was apparently disqualifying himself as a source of raw in Madam45for2923 May 2017 #20
Be Realistic SoCalMusicLover May 2017 #10
You must have missed the Scooter Libby prosecution. virtualobserver May 2017 #12
Exactly What Happened To Scooter? SoCalMusicLover May 2017 #16
only because he was willing to be the fall guy virtualobserver May 2017 #24
Don't forget Fitzmas and the Rove indictment... Cooley Hurd May 2017 #13
Were you realistic during Watergate, too? When a rookie reporter named Bob Woodward pnwmom May 2017 #17
Totally Understand Me. May 2017 #18
Why do you so enjoy snickering at fellow DUers? I don't see any harm in discussing rumours or bettyellen May 2017 #3
Hmmm. No link so that one can check what he said... JHB May 2017 #4
Still waiting for an answer on your other post...... panader0 May 2017 #6
STOP. PsychoBabble May 2017 #7
And you know that is wrong how, exactly? mcar May 2017 #8
August. Achilleaze May 2017 #9
That Is Exactly What I'm Thinking Me. May 2017 #22
18 months from now there'll have been an election and a new Congress Spider Jerusalem May 2017 #14
And Taylor wasn't basing his "prediction" on mysterious sources. He was just giving his opinion pnwmom May 2017 #19
Even With A New Congress.... SoCalMusicLover May 2017 #21
Are we all "Dorothy"? hlthe2b May 2017 #23

Me.

(35,454 posts)
2. Yes
Mon May 15, 2017, 05:52 PM
May 2017

Your frantic efforts to discredit really are funny. And should all this prove out will you be among the first to admit you're wrong?

brettdale

(12,356 posts)
5. so lets see what we have here
Mon May 15, 2017, 05:55 PM
May 2017

A guy who has padded his CV, makes out that he was one of the top players working for Clinton, (in reality he was working in Office Administration) making these huge claims that Trump is in the Russia Mafia.

He is the left's version of Alex Jones.

pnwmom

(108,950 posts)
15. He never pretended to be one of the "top players working for Clinton."
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:07 PM
May 2017

This was decades ago, when he was the Director of Volunteers, overseeing a small paid staff and 3,000 volunteers around the world.

Also, he worked on multiple Democratic campaigns.

He's had plenty of time and opportunity to make connections with people who have remained in the political and intelligence worlds.

 

Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)
20. From Keith Olbermann: BTW in 1993 when CT was apparently disqualifying himself as a source of raw in
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:10 PM
May 2017

Keith Olbermann May 06 · 09:47:45 PM

BTW in 1993 when Claude Taylor was apparently disqualifying himself as a source of raw information per this diarist’s odd priorities because he only made $35,000 a year in the Clinton Administration, I was only making $125,000 as a sportscaster at ESPN.

As always there’s a lot of stuff online and all of it should be taken with a grain of salt. Mr. Taylor would even agree with that. But if he says there are two grand juries including one in the DC area, and five days later the FBI Director matter-of-factly confirms the bureau is “cooperating” with two prosecutors including the one for the Eastern District of Virginia, and John Dean — who knows more about grand juries and presidents than everybody else in this country combined — thinks there’s nothing else they could be cooperating about in Virginia except a Grand Jury, I think it contributes to Taylor’s credibility on this story, and I’ll disseminate it as I did.

I would point out that one of the stories I was proudest of during my years at Countdown was “The Nexus of Politics And Terror” about the odd coincidences of timing among Bush terror warnings and stories, and Bush political vulnerabilities. Without checking my files I’m not sure exactly where I got the raw timeline data for that one — which was met by abuse and doubt from the Bushies (until Tom Ridge later confirmed its essential point). I think the site was called Daily Close or something like that.

Lastly if anybody knows why your salary from 24 years ago is relevant, please post below. I’ll check back in a couple of days. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/5/1659292/-No-Claude-Taylor-and-company-are-not-reputable-sources-on-Trump-Russia

 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
10. Be Realistic
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:00 PM
May 2017

I've been on DU since 2004. I've seen stuff like this time and again. For his entire 2nd term, I read how Shrub's days were numbered. How members of the White House would be brought up on charges. How possible WAR CRIMES were committed, and that if he did make it through his term, there was still a great chance Shrub or his minions would be indicted down the road. I guess I missed that.

If people want to get all excited about the latest miracle that's about to happen, go right ahead. The OP is not the only one who thinks this is a pie in the sky fantasy, which will never develop.

If it does, I will be among the first to say I was completely wrong. But if it doesn't, will all those who said that THIS TIME IT'S REAL, going to come and say they were wrong, and they won't get carried away the next time some "dream scenario" is rumored?

If there was any there....there.....the mainstream media, Dumb as they are, would have picked this up. Hell....they report plenty of stories that turn out to be false, so the fact they won't touch this one, means it is not even potentially real.

 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
16. Exactly What Happened To Scooter?
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:07 PM
May 2017

Oh yeah....served no jail time at all.

Scooter was the fall guy....everyone knew it. Where were the indictments for Rove & Cheney, which had been talked about for months here?

Nobody cared about Scooter, the real culprits got away with it, and Fitzgerald's supposed investigation resolved nothing about what truly happened. And that was nothing compared to what Drumpf is accused of, which is why nothing will happen.

 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
24. only because he was willing to be the fall guy
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:12 PM
May 2017

this is a much more complicated situation with no willing fall guys

pnwmom

(108,950 posts)
17. Were you realistic during Watergate, too? When a rookie reporter named Bob Woodward
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:08 PM
May 2017

was writing, with Carl Bernstein, stories about his meetings with a source called Deep Throat?

Me.

(35,454 posts)
18. Totally Understand
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:09 PM
May 2017

Fitzmas didn't nearly live up to hope. That said. As I wrote on another thread when the Morning Joe people are quoting FBI sources and saying there more than one there there, I'm thinking there is a there there.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
3. Why do you so enjoy snickering at fellow DUers? I don't see any harm in discussing rumours or
Mon May 15, 2017, 05:54 PM
May 2017

Speculating about his ouster. Better than pretending there could be nothing to see here, or that this is just partisan bullshit. That's really not helpful.
I love that people are talking impeachment. More senators should follow suit!

JHB

(37,148 posts)
4. Hmmm. No link so that one can check what he said...
Mon May 15, 2017, 05:54 PM
May 2017

This may impact my evaluation of this claim. (/dramatic stroking of beard)

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
14. 18 months from now there'll have been an election and a new Congress
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:05 PM
May 2017

a new Democratic Congress, more to the point, if Trump's terrible polling continues to drag the Republican Party down with him. It's pretty safe to say that a Democratic Congress would pursue impeachment if a Republican wouldn't. Saying "18 months" doesn't require a crystal ball or mysterious "sources".

pnwmom

(108,950 posts)
19. And Taylor wasn't basing his "prediction" on mysterious sources. He was just giving his opinion
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:09 PM
May 2017

in answer to a question.

 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
21. Even With A New Congress....
Mon May 15, 2017, 06:10 PM
May 2017

There will NEVER be enough repub fraudsters on board to vote for impeachment. Ya see....when it's a Democrat like Clinton, there are Dems all too willing to vote for Impeachment.

But repubs STICK TOGETHER. Blood brothers til the end. They'll never trash one of their own. NEVER.

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