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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Fri Oct 4, 2019, 10:35 AM Oct 2019

I robbed the bank, so what? The bank is corrupt, the bank should be investigated.

That is literally Trump's defense strategy about Ukraine. What a dumb fuck.

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I robbed the bank, so what? The bank is corrupt, the bank should be investigated. (Original Post) shockey80 Oct 2019 OP

K&R, This and Trump is trying to normalize his crime so his minions say there's nothing wrong uponit7771 Oct 2019 #1

That is the EXACT SAME EXCUSE Scoopster Oct 2019 #2

I disagree JonLP24 Oct 2019 #3

uponit7771

(90,364 posts)

1. K&R, This and Trump is trying to normalize his crime so his minions say there's nothing wrong

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2019, 10:36 AM

Oct 2019

... in what he's doing.

Scoopster

(423 posts)

2. That is the EXACT SAME EXCUSE

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:51 AM

Oct 2019

...that Edward Snowden used when he broke the law, and millions of people to this day still prop him up as an example. Well guess what - when you prop up Snowden, you prop up Trump too.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

3. I disagree

Reply to Scoopster (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 4, 2019, 11:53 AM

Oct 2019

I think The Espionage Act is a bad law and the idea of using it to go after national security whistleblowers was started by the Bush administration. Though Nixon charged Ellsburg with The Espionage Act.

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