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LonePirate

(13,408 posts)
1. What were Flynn and Gates cooperating with if no more indictments are coming?
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 05:17 PM
Mar 2019

Something reeks about this whole "report" now.

RHMerriman

(1,376 posts)
2. Good question... we probably need a Congressional investigation
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 05:17 PM
Mar 2019

Good question... we probably need a Congressional investigation to get to the bottom of it.

One should wonder about those who see this as a great win for the Trump Administration... this is about as bad as it gets when it comes to "exoneration" ...

Mueller punted to Barr, and Barr punted to Congress. Neither one was a profile in courage, obviously.

The only patriots in all this are the Democrats in Congress, and given the insight into how Trump does business, they have plenty to go after.

Bottom line, Trump hired a national security advisor, campaign chair, deputy campaign chair, personal attorney/national party finance co-chair, and a dozen other losers who have consistently proven themselves untrustworthy for the positions they were given - and the GOP as an institution and organization have accepted that bottom line, which indicts them as just as much as it has Trump, Pence, McConnell, etc.

Comes down to the reality that Trump is surrounded by crooks that he hired... "I'm not a crook" didn't work for Nixon; I don't see that as really a winning slogan for Trump.

Using Nixon as the template, it's worth remembering Nixon won re-election in '72, despite multiple scandals and the debacle in SE Asia; and yet he didn't finish a second term.

Keep the faith, and keep up the fire

myohmy2

(3,139 posts)
4. a very good question...
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 05:22 PM
Mar 2019

...and don't forget, two years of daily tweets screaming 'no collusion' and 'witch hunt'...

...it seems like there's been an awful lot of cover-up of 'nothing'...

...trump's a Republican, Mueller's a Republican...

...coincidence?

...MAGA MAGA...

...

 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
5. Also if you're innocent why rail against the investigation? You rail because you dirty. Even if he
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 05:22 PM
Mar 2019

didn't collude you still know you got nasty shit stashed under your bed and we knew that Mueller found some of it.

TruckFump

(5,812 posts)
7. My late husband was a US Atty before he came over to do defense work.
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 05:27 PM
Mar 2019

Our firm did a ton of criminal defense work. Trump acted guilty. I should know. Thirty-five years of legal work, the kind of bullshit trust was spewing -- smelled totally like guilt.

TruckFump

(5,812 posts)
6. Listening to Ari Melber on MSNBC right now...making a TON of sense.
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 05:25 PM
Mar 2019

Barr did not quote in full any part of the Mueller report. It's like the cherry picked the least awful stuff about Trump.

Paraphrase.

TruckFump

(5,812 posts)
11. Milk it for all he could so the opinion is that Trump did nothing wrong.
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 05:33 PM
Mar 2019

Sooooooo...when the facts come out...everyone is already done with this because Barr said, basically Trump was not guilty.

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