Justice Department appoints special prosecutor for Trump/Russia

Tony Stark said:
I can see Trump trying to coverup a nonexistent crime. Maybe he decides to destroy documents, tamper with witnesses, ect not for any specific reason but because he thinks it is the cautious move. Or maybe he gets super paranoid and decides that unless he takes drastic measures, that he's going be framed by the special prosecutor.
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Which, ironically, may get him thrown in jail.
 
And Trump has responded to the latest developments in his usual calm measured way:

Trump: FBI inquiry is 'greatest witch hunt' in history

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at the decision to appoint a special counsel to oversee the inquiry into Russian influence on his election.
"This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history," he tweeted on Thursday morning.
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Of course it's not just a witch hunt, it's the greatest witch hunt....:rolleyes:

"With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign and the Obama Administration, there was never a special councel [sic] appointed," he tweeted on Thursday.
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But I thought Trump like getting stuff no one else got?

Oh and of course a certain William Clinton might dispute the whole 'greatest witch hunt' claim
 
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Argumemnon said:
Unlikely. Social and political conservatives can be decent people who care for others. I think logger's thinking of something far more extreme.
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Care for others in the abstract at least. Having tens of thousands die annually so that they can cut taxes on the rich clearly doesn't make them a bad person. Sacrifices must be made, by other people.
 
ponderingturtle said:
Care for others in the abstract at least. Having tens of thousands die annually so that they can cut taxes on the rich clearly doesn't make them a bad person. Sacrifices must be made, by other people.
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I can certainly see someone being able to make a good pragmatic argument why letting some people die might be "good", but saying that someone like that is "normal" in the modern world is ideological and nothing else.
 
Garrison said:
Of course it's not just a witch hunt, it's the greatest witch hunt....:rolleyes:
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Maybe some day he'll be saying 'It was the greatest impeachment in history' and I have a great,... really great cell. Better then any of the other prisoners'.
 
acbytesla said:
Maybe some day he'll be saying 'It was the greatest impeachment in history' and I have a great,... really great cell. Better then any of the other prisoners'.
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"It was the greatest impeachment in history and... at the time of the impeachment congress had its lowest ratings. It was dying, you know? Very low talent, low energy. And then it got the highest ratings in years. Years. And now... an inmate told me the other day, I was the best president ever, and I'm the best cellmate ever. Told me this, I couldn't believe it. You couldn't believe how smart these people in here can be, and they can appreciate talent when they see it."
 
Foolmewunz said:
First off, Trump won't be impeached this year, if at all. We aren't at Congress calling for impeachment yet. The investigation part will be most of this year, if you include whatever hearings and various other dog-and-pony shows they put together. If it even gets to a discussion of impeachment it'll be timed, oh so coincidentally like the Gowdy commission, for just in time for the mid-terms.

The GOP got Nixon out before the mid-terms. Ford had 2+ years. How'd that turn out for him? And Gerry was a nice affable guy. Pence is that guy with a broomstick up his ass who won't give you back your ball when it goes over the fence into his yard.
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I see no way that Pence will ever become an elected President. If or when Trump falls, he will kick and scream and take everyone down with him. Remember: Everybody within his realm ends up diminished.
Even if, in the end, only the 9% conspiracist fringe voters still stick with Trump to blame the evil establishment, those 9% will be missing from Pence's voting potential, and that'll cost him any hypothetical future.
More likely, he will drown in Trump's maelstrom and not even succeed the Don if Don gets the sack.
 
Spindrift said:
If the anchors managed to keep a straight face after he said that, they deserve an Emmy.
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God, that is almost exactly the line of argument that the Nixon Adminsitration took.
Looks as if Trump was not kidding when he said he wanted to be a President just like Nixon...except Nixon has a lot more brains, and actually,until his dark side took over,had a fairly impressive list of acheivements,unlike Trumpy.
 
dudalb said:
God, that is almost exactly the line of argument that the Nixon Adminsitration took.
Looks as if Trump was not kidding when he said he wanted to be a President just like Nixon...except Nixon has a lot more brains, and actually,until his dark side took over,had a fairly impressive list of acheivements,unlike Trumpy.
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Trump told Flynn to, "Stay strong," which is exactly what Nixon told Haldeman IIRC.
 
Hungry81 said:
No, but at this stage I think a reasonable person could admit she couldn't be worse than Trump.
And perhaps I was a bit harsh. I appreciate that Trump was an experiment from the right, but failed experiments need to be revaluated and discarded if there is no further benefit to them. Trumps a buffoon and he is making America a GREAT laughingstock.
I wouldn't want him negotiating a deal on a 2 dollar trinket at a flea market for me, let alone the fate of my entire country.
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No, you're wrong as usual. Your first clue would be the originalist justice we just got.
 
Stacko said:
Trump told Flynn to, "Stay strong," which is exactly what Nixon told Haldeman IIRC.
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not exactly.

On April 30, 1973, Richard Nixon fired his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, and called him later that day to say, “But let me say you’re a strong man, goddammit, and I love you.”
 
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