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The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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Skeptic Ginger said:
I don't see how admitting you was biased against Clinton makes you look like you were pro-Clinton.
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It bears repeating that, despite Trump's firm belief that the FBI was acting against him, no actions by the FBI harmed his campaign, while a slew of FBI actions harmed the Clinton campaign. We all saw it as it happened : anything they did that we didn't see can't have influenced either campaign because the electorate in general won't have seen it either.

I'll weep no tears for McCabe, but what strikes me about this story is the pure vindictiveness it demonstrates, and that derives from Trump. Sessions was just obeying orders.
 
CapelDodger said:
It bears repeating that, despite Trump's firm belief that the FBI was acting against him, no actions by the FBI harmed his campaign, while a slew of FBI actions harmed the Clinton campaign. We all saw it as it happened : anything they did that we didn't see can't have influenced either campaign because the electorate in general won't have seen it either.

I'll weep no tears for McCabe, but what strikes me about this story is the pure vindictiveness it demonstrates, and that derives from Trump. Sessions was just obeying orders.
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Apparently, Sessions isn't terribly bright, either (A white supremacist who doesn't consider the consequences of his actions, who would have thought) - this will not help him with Minute Maid Mao in the slightest.
 
acbytesla said:
Honestly, I don't know. But a former federal official with knowledge of pension rules believes that McCabe only needs to work one more day to get his pension.
McCabe's team is confident that he had at least 20 years of law enforcement work under his belt — defined as carrying a weapon or supervising people who do — which made him eligible to retire on his 50th birthday on Sunday, with full retirement benefits.

With those 20 years, he would need to just go to work with the federal government for another day or so in any job he pleases, whether that's as a election security analyst for a Wisconsin congressman or a typist for a day, to get full benefits, said the former official who spoke to The Fix. The job doesn't matter so much as the fact that he's working within the federal government with the same retirement benefits until or after his 50th birthday. (Though this former official stressed that it would probably look more ethical if McCabe worked for at least a pay period rather than just one day.)
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Link to above:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nd-it-just-might-work/?utm_term=.6b08dd0f76b6

At least three other congressmen have also offered him a job.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/i...-gutierrez-offers-fired-fbi-mccabe-a-job.html
https://shareblue.com/tim-walz-andrew-mccabe/
https://twitter.com/RepRaskin/status/975095898408615938
 
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The Big Dog said:
he was fired pursuant to the recommendation of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz who was appointed by Obama.

Uh oh, that means what exactly in the skeptics calculus of Trump is teh liar?
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I have already stated. I have made no comment on McCabe himself. The behaviour displayed by Trump to sack the man just before his retirement when he could have done it months ago just to cause pain to McCabe is the behaviour of a petty minded bully.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Boris is a clever man pretending to be stupid. Trump is a stupid man pretending to be clever.
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I have come to the conclusion that Johnson is actually an expensively educated fool pretending to be a clever man with a bumbling idiot act.
 
About the McCabe firing: there was no need whatsoever to can him a day before retirement: if his actions qualified dismissal, his pension could be docked at any time.
The way things happen seem rushed and politically motivated.

I also strongly object to the talk of "he doesn't need the pension, he will get showered with money by the media".
To say that is wrong on so many levels.
For one, unless there is sufficient reason, he earned that pension through years of service - it is not the job of the media to pick up the tab of the government.
But more importantly, McCabe is a stand-in for other, much lower level government employees who might get in the cross-hairs of Trump and who, as a result of the example being made of McCabe, decide not to speak out against crime and corruption in the administration for fear of losing their pensions.
 
He's getting flustered

"Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added...does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!"

Apart from those that are Republicans of course.
 
Craig4 said:
There have been no credible assertions of wrong doing. Why would you think someone is guilty of anything absent a credible accusation?
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Because I don't have any evidence either way, I don't presume any position. There is simply no reason to contemplate the status of his guilt or innocence.

I have no idea if craig4 did or did not do anything wrong.
 
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BobTheCoward said:
Because I don't have any evidence either way, I don't presume any position. There is simply no reason to contemplate the status of his guilt or innocence.

I have no idea if craig4 did or did not do anything wrong.
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I assume you are familiar with the concept of presumption innocence.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
He's getting flustered

"Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added...does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!"

Apart from those that are Republicans of course.
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He is right. It isn't fair. There is no requirement to be fair.

I love watching privileged people wither under the stuff poor people have dealt with for years.
 
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