I know. I was just celebrating the little victories.

I read earlier today about audible gasps when these people laid out their thoughts to the room, but had no idea how insane the details were.

Translation: SDNY has demonstrated that the Steele dossier -- or at least the Prague stuff -- is accurate.

I read earlier today about audible gasps when these people laid out their thoughts to the room, but had no idea how insane the details were.

Translation: SDNY has demonstrated that the Steele dossier -- or at least the Prague stuff -- is accurate.

The Cohen raid may also be why the Enquirer suddenly reversed course and gave Karen McDougal such a swift, clean out...Cohen’s documents may implicate them in a catch-and-kill arrangement.

The Cohen raid may also be why the Enquirer suddenly reversed course and gave Karen McDougal such a swift, clean out...Cohen’s documents may implicate them in a catch-and-kill arrangement.

Can you explain that one? "Catch and kill"?

Can you explain that one? "Catch and kill"?

Had not considered that.

The tabloid news company American Media Inc. agreed to let a former Playboy model out of a contract that had kept her from talking freely about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump.

The settlement agreement, reached on Wednesday, ends a lawsuit brought by the model, Karen McDougal, and protects the president from being drawn into a legal case involving efforts to buy the silence of women who had stories to tell about him during the 2016 campaign.

In August 2016, A.M.I., which owns The National Enquirer, acquired the rights to Ms. McDougal’s story about Mr. Trump — which it never ran — in return for $150,000 and commitments to use its magazines to promote her current career as a fitness specialist.

Her lawsuit said that A.M.I., whose chairman, David J. Pecker, is a friend of President Trump’s, misled her into signing the contract. It also claimed that Mr. Cohen had inappropriately intervened in the deal. A.M.I. had denied misleading her.

The deal and the extent of Mr. Cohen’s role in it are the subjects of a wide-ranging federal corruption investigation that is, in part, looking into his efforts to protect Mr. Trump’s presidential prospects in 2016.

A.M.I. indicated earlier this month that it would fight Ms. McDougal, asking the Los Angeles Superior Court to dismiss her lawsuit.

But that was roughly a week before federal investigators obtained email communications, audio recordings and other documentation from Mr. Cohen during their raid of his office, home and hotel room. Those materials included information about A.M.I. and the McDougal suit, people involved in the case said.

Her lawyer was on Maddow last night explaining the settlement. He explicitly said that the Enquirer settlement doesn't include Cohen or Davidson (the lawyer that falsely negotiated on McDougal's behlaf). So I assume that means she'll be testifying against both crooks.

Ha ha, no shit?

Everybody’s saving themselves.

And then presumably Trump could be fingered as an un-indicted co-conspirator in any SDNY charges brought against Cohen. (There are some good reads out there on the bold part, basically the political hit to Trump in this scenario would be enormous).