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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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To: MAGAthon
Schneiderman and his pals were looking for their own "insurance policy" to take down President Donald Trump.

Mueller teams up with New York attorney general in Manafort probe

Connect the dots.

21 posted on 05/07/2018 10:23:57 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: doug from upland

I wondered why the MSM porn jocks were having a Stormy Sunday mass... They all had to know this story was about to hit the fan.


22 posted on 05/07/2018 10:25:46 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: FreedomPoster

Draining the swamp. It may be a drop at a time but at least it’s getting done and if luck holds out Trumps got a little less than 7 years left.


23 posted on 05/07/2018 11:18:18 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: teletech
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.

I imagine that shakedown meeting went like this.


24 posted on 05/07/2018 11:53:12 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: FreedomPoster

Oh look.... Schneidrman was meeting with Xavier Becerra of the US House Democrat’s Awan Brothers IT infamy.


25 posted on 05/08/2018 2:35:09 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: FreedomPoster

Wow, could Politico possibly spin and suck up to him more? God find, makes Schneiderface’s downfall that much more delicious.


26 posted on 05/08/2018 2:43:51 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: FreedomPoster; Fedora; LS

This is a riot to read given Schneiderman’s face planted himself...


27 posted on 05/08/2018 2:50:02 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Now to get Cuomo, Becerra, Brown. . .


28 posted on 05/08/2018 2:52:26 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: NoLibZone

...”The NY Ag was part of Mueller’s team.

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

O.K., then. Tells us a lot.


29 posted on 05/08/2018 3:50:21 AM PDT by jazzlite (i)
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To: MAGAthon
...”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’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...”...

“The Swamp,” is nowhere near a strong enough word to describe the criminal alliances who have come against our duly elected President and the people who elected him. Treason, also, is not a strong enough word to describe what they have been trying to do through our very own legal system. Hope all of them get exposed and taken down.

30 posted on 05/08/2018 3:56:29 AM PDT by jazzlite (i)
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To: FreedomPoster

31 posted on 05/08/2018 8:11:49 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Good stuff! Just saw that over at r/The_Donald


32 posted on 05/08/2018 9:01:50 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Thanks.

We have more great mimes/pictorials today than the liberals have had in weeks.


33 posted on 05/08/2018 9:31:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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