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Flashback: Will This Man Take Down Donald Trump? (Schneiderman article from 2/2017)
Politico ^ | February 03, 2017 | DAVID FREEDLANDER

Posted on 05/07/2018 8:03:59 PM PDT by FreedomPoster

“I like you. You and me, we’re going to be best friends.” It is early January, and Eric Schneiderman is sitting in his 25th-floor office above Lower Manhattan, doing his best Donald Trump impression, puckering his lips into a duck face, scrunching up his nose and lowering his voice into something that resembles the president’s outer-borough growl. Schneiderman is recalling his meeting with Trump in 2010. Back then, Schneiderman was running for attorney general of New York, and Trump was still in his pre-birther, reality TV host phase. Trump had donated money to one of Schneiderman’s opponents in the Democratic primary. Schneiderman managed to pull off a come-from-behind victory, and after the race, he went to Trump Tower to ask for a donation for the general election. Trump coughed up $12,500 to the Democrat, and Schneiderman went on to beat his Republican opponent and win. But Trump and Schneiderman did not become best friends. That meeting was the beginning of a long and increasingly bitter saga between the two.


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Very long article from a year ago predicting Schneiderman was going to take it to President Trump.

WRONG! LOL

In case Politico takes the article down, it is archived here: http://archive.is/QmyFq

Lovely to see the boys at Politico being shown by events to be so wrong.

1 posted on 05/07/2018 8:03:59 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
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To: FreedomPoster

My money is President Trump taking Eric down.


2 posted on 05/07/2018 8:06:18 PM PDT by teletech
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To: FreedomPoster

No.


3 posted on 05/07/2018 8:07:45 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: teletech

It could be a message to Mueller.


4 posted on 05/07/2018 8:08:27 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: teletech

He resigned today


5 posted on 05/07/2018 8:08:40 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: teletech

“My money is President Trump taking Eric down.”

Could well be. President Trumps tweet from 2013 indicates that he knew something about Eric.


6 posted on 05/07/2018 8:09:26 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: FreedomPoster
"Schneiderman managed to pull off a come-from-behind victory, and after the race, he went to Trump Tower to ask for a donation for the general election. Trump coughed up $12,500 to the Democrat, and Schneiderman went on to beat his Republican opponent and win. "


7 posted on 05/07/2018 8:10:55 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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My money is President Trump taking Eric down.

And be sure to put your money on JUSTIFY to win the Derby.

8 posted on 05/07/2018 8:12:54 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Does Politico have a twitter page? Anyone with a Twitter account want to post this on their page?


9 posted on 05/07/2018 8:22:13 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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What is it with New York Democrats. First Spitzer, now Schneiderman.....Who’s next Schumer? Odd bunch. One guy aka “Doggy” is known to lick the soles of shoes during intimate acts. A freaked out woman was told by the cops that it may be weird but it was not a crime.


10 posted on 05/07/2018 8:50:49 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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11 posted on 05/07/2018 8:51:55 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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Great save and post to Free Republic.

Schneiderman is no longer employed as he has resigned.


12 posted on 05/07/2018 8:52:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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the Politico article is written by DAVID FREEDLANDER, presumably the same guy mentioned in the following, who writes for most of the FakeNewsMSM:

12 October 2016: Progressive Army: Ten Explosive Leaked Podesta Emails
by Salam Morcos and Raven Payne
5. Clinton Campaign pitched a story to the Daily Beast to attack Bernie Sanders

The Daily Beast published LINK an article titled: “Vermont’s Black Leaders: We Were ‘Invisible’ to Bernie Sanders.” The article, according to a leaked email LINK, was pitched by the Clinton campaign to attack his record on issues that matter to African Americans. “This was a part of the Daily Beast story that we worked around aggressively, so I think [the narrative has] been pitched, but they may have other ideas of where to goGwith [sic] this,” wrote campaign staffer Christina Reynolds.

The Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief John Avlon responded to our request for comment and denied any collusion with the Clinton campaign:
“The Daily Beast is non-partisan and does not collude with campaigns. While all sources are, of course, confidential, the freelancer who authored the story, DAVID FREEDLANDER rejects the suggestion that the campaign had anything to do with the story’s inception or execution, and this email in no way states otherwise.”
http://progressivearmy.com/2016/10/12/ten-explosive-leaked-podesta-emails/

same thing the Clinton campaign and FakeNewsMSM are still doing to President Trump.


13 posted on 05/07/2018 9:02:43 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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The NY Ag was part of Mueller’s team.

“Mueller teamed up with New York attorney Eric Schneiderman general in Manafort probe.”


14 posted on 05/07/2018 9:04:50 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Mueller, Obama, Hillary and Holder each made millions selling US uranium to Putin.)
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Yes, he did.

And, now he is out.


15 posted on 05/07/2018 9:10:04 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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Trump plays Battleship with Mueller?


16 posted on 05/07/2018 9:15:21 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Grampa Dave

Resigned? Is that all? Mr. Slappy Beaty McChokey should be innjail.


17 posted on 05/07/2018 9:25:13 PM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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amazing how Freedlander writes this up. guess Schneiderman didn’t object, yet it is so damning given his AG position. no shame:

Then came November 8. Schneiderman had spent the evening at various VIP suites at the Hillary Clinton election night party, when it started becoming clear that his tormentor was not only not returning as a constituent, but was about to become the leader of the free world. A Democratic official turned to one of Schneiderman’s aides and said: “I guess it’s going to be up to you guys now.”

The next morning, as the office’s lawyers stumbled into work in a fog of exhaustion and worry, Schneiderman called a meeting. In the room were his senior staff and some of the bureau chiefs. There were tears. There were lawyers who couldn’t believe that Donald Trump—Donald Trump!—was about to become the next president of the United States. Schneiderman urged calm. Don’t just rush out and do. Take a deep breath, he told them. Let the moment wash over you. We can’t do everything at once, so prioritize...


18 posted on 05/07/2018 10:07:09 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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"What is it with New York Democrats. First Spitzer, now Schneiderman.....Who’s next Schumer?"

Don't forget David Patterson who succeeded Spitzer when he resigned. Patterson had his own set of scandals: "...interfering in a domestic abuse case involving an aide, plus being accused by a state ethics commission of not intending to pay for tickets for the World Series for his son and his son’s friend and then lying about it." As well, he admitted shortly after becoming Governor, that he and his wife had both been screwing other people. Then it was also reported that he had been seen snuggling with a woman who wasn't his wife, in a New Jersey steakhouse. Then a State Trooper inadvertently walked in on Paterson hugging a woman — both were fully clothed — in a closet at the governor's mansion.

Sleezeballs all of them.

19 posted on 05/07/2018 10:19:52 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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I’ll bet anything he gets criminally charged. These women are also going to take him to the cleaners. His whole life is in ruins.

There’s only one thing to do... REHAB!


20 posted on 05/07/2018 10:21:50 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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