Mueller Investigation pt 6

[newyorkguy]

...Most Republicans do not accept that Trump is corrupt...

I think this is the big problem here. While I think most Republicans know Donald Trump is pretty much as corrupt as they come, most Republicans won't say that and most Republicans will not accept it, even when they know in their proverbial "heart of hearts" it's true. It's tribal, it's payback, it's cultural. It is.

 

[a_unique_person]

"Could make"? You mean the Executive branch could be less functional than it is now?

That was my thought. He spends all day on Twitter, watching fox, eating junk food, then he's off to play golf.

 

[a_unique_person]

Actually, the current Executive branch can be quite functional when it wishes to do so.



After all, just take a look at how Trump has radically changed the make-up of the court system with a large series of expedited appointees. Also, please review the recent Trump tax-cuts which got pushed through in short order.

That all happened because the Congress was controlled by republicans who just voted yes to everything without any real scrutiny. Tax cuts and judge's don't need to take a lot of thought for them.

Now look at something that takes some real work. Where is it? Health care, for example.

 

[Childlike Empress]

CJ Hopkins does his best to keep up-to-date: Obstructiongate!

[...] The point is, now they’ve got him! His justice obstructing days are numbered! Break out the pussyhats and vuvuzelas, because next stop is Impeachment City! So what if he’s not a Russian agent and didn’t conspire or collude with anyone? He got elected without permission, and insulted a lot of powerful people, and … well, who cares what they impeach him for, as long as they impeach him for something!

They kind of have to, at this point, don’t they? They just spent most of the last three years rolling out an official narrative in which the Russians are running around attacking democracy, poisoning ducks with Novichok perfume, fomenting populist uprisings in France, and just generally being the evil enemies that the Islamic terrorists used to be, before they turned into freedom fighters and helped us try to take over Syria.

If the Democrats don’t impeach Donald Trump, that official narrative might fall apart. Liberals might have to face the fact that Americans elected Donald Trump president, not because they were brainwashed by Russians, or had any illusions about what a thuggish, self-aggrandizing buffoon he is, but because they were so disgusted with the neoliberal Washington establishment, and the global capitalist elites that own it, that they leapt at the chance to vote against it, and probably would have elected anyone who promised to even marginally disrupt it … but there I go drifting off into my crazy conspiracist thinking again. [...]

 

[Venom]

Hopkins might have a point if his essay wasn't riddled with Gish Gallops about things outside the U.S. he apparently knows nothing about.

To pretend essentially that there are no other actors operating here than the Democratic establishment is attractive to the populist drones but completely dishonest.

 

[Belz...]

CJ Hopkins does his best to keep up-to-date: Obstructiongate!

There's no "gate" there. There's no controversy. It's plain that Trump attempted to obstruct justice.

 

[dasmiller]

There's no "gate" there. There's no controversy. It's plain that Trump attempted to obstruct justice.

Pish-tosh! Why, I think these obstruction-related accusations against Trump are every bit as groundless as those Watergate break-in cover-up accusations against Nixon. A -gate indeed!

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Trump Tweets

As has been incorrectly reported by the Fake News Media, I never told then White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller, even though I had the legal right to do so. If I wanted to fire Mueller, I didn’t need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself. Nevertheless,....

....Mueller was NOT fired and was respectfully allowed to finish his work on what I, and many others, say was an illegal investigation (there was no crime)

Do tell!

headed by a Trump hater who was highly conflicted, and a group of 18 VERY ANGRY Democrats. DRAIN THE SWAMP!

Snort.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

It seems like Trump spends his time watching TV instead of actually presidenting.

It also seems to be challenging to fly a kite at the bottom of the ocean.

 

[Trebuchet]

That was my thought. He spends all day on Twitter, watching fox, eating junk food, then he's off to play golf.

You say that as if it's a bad thing. Imagine how badly off we'd be if he was even half competent.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

[url#=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/opinion/mueller-trump-campaign-russia-conpiracy-.html]Law professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman explains the different standards of evidence for counterintelligence and criminal prosecution and how the Mueller report supports impeachment because of the former[/url]

 

[The Great Zaganza]

The Mueller report says next to nothing about Counter-intelligence, except by making it clear that everyone associated with Trump would never get a legit security clearance because of the obvious levels of compromise.

In fact, Mueller has stated in the report that everything of counter-intelligence relevance was passed along to FBI agents embedded in the Mueller team, who passed it on to investigators in the Bureau.
Mueller wanted to work as a criminal prosecutor, not as a mole hunter.

But the fact that Kushner still has a security clearance is indeed an impeachable offense.

 

[varwoche]

We've already seen, repeatedly, that Mr. You're Fired is actually too cowardly to fire people face-to-face. Still, he took the cake when he instructed private citizen Corey Lewandowski to fire AG Sessions if Sessions wouldn't recuse.

 

[Belz...]

We've already seen, repeatedly, that Mr. You're Fired is actually too cowardly to fire people face-to-face. Still, he took the cake when he instructed private citizen Corey Lewandowski to fire AG Sessions if Sessions wouldn't recuse.

Varwoche, would you do me a favour? Could you fire Kim Jong Un if he doesn't dismantle his nuclear armament? That'd be great.

 

[Drewbot]

We've already seen, repeatedly, that Mr. You're Fired is actually too cowardly to fire people face-to-face. Still, he took the cake when he instructed private citizen Corey Lewandowski to fire AG Sessions if Sessions wouldn't recuse.

Right, because Presidents fire people face-to-face all the time, and so do billionaires. Therefore Trump having someone else do it, is wrong.

 

[varwoche]

Right, because Presidents fire people face-to-face all the time, and so do billionaires. Therefore Trump having someone else do it, is wrong.

Trump normalization attempt on steroids, per usual.

How about you cite one instance of a POTUS instructing a private citizen to fire a cabinet member. Or one instance of a cabinet member learning they were fired via social media. Bet you can't.

Like many bullies, Trump is a rank coward at heart.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Scared people hiding scary people, as Michelle Obama put it.

 

[acbytesla]

Right, because Presidents fire people face-to-face all the time, and so do billionaires. Therefore Trump having someone else do it, is wrong.

Yep, it's wrong. If someone the Chairman of the Board hires a CEO or a CFO, he's the one who needs to fire them. In other words, one step down, then its their job. Otherwise, they are just gutless cowards. Which Trump has proven to be over and over.

 

[Upchurch]

Yep, it's wrong. If someone the Chairman of the Board hires a CEO or a CFO, he's the one who needs to fire them. In other words, one step down, then its their job. Otherwise, they are just gutless cowards. Which Trump has proven to be over and over.

Moreover, as varwoche pointed out, Lewandowski had no authority to fire Sessions. That's like the Chairman of the Board having someone who walked into the lobby go fire the CEO.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Right, because Presidents fire people face-to-face all the time, and so do billionaires. Therefore Trump having someone else do it, is wrong.

I know everyone's already pointed out your fail here. I just wanted to ask, do you understand what a Cabinet position is?