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question everything

(47,488 posts)
Thu May 30, 2019, 03:27 PM May 2019

Yes, I had hard time following Mueller, with his double and triple negatives

Thus I was grateful, yesterday, to Chuck Todd for putting clips of Barr and of Mueller to compare the nuances in their declaration. No collusion! vs. if we thought he was not guilty of conspiracy we would have said so.

Still, I think that Maher was right: so what if the DOJ says a sitting president cannot be indicted, even hinting - I think - that it would be unconstitutional. Go head, f**k the "rules" indict him.

Also on Chuck Todd, clips of a very young Lindsey Graham explaining why Clinton should be impeached even though it was not clear that he actually broke the law.

"You don't even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job. Impeachment is about cleansing the office, about restoring honor and integrity to the office."

The 2:39 mark


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Yes, I had hard time following Mueller, with his double and triple negatives (Original Post) question everything May 2019 OP
Mueller really can't bring himself to say Trump committed a crime Blues Heron May 2019 #1
From what I heard of what he said Proud Liberal Dem May 2019 #2
Dude was deliberately ambiguous. It was excruciating to watch him. Chin music May 2019 #6
Right. Also wanted to add that of course, for him impeaching Trump does not pose the threat question everything May 2019 #5
Rules are for Democrats. Chin music May 2019 #3
*Cough* Comey *Cough Proud Liberal Dem May 2019 #8
i can not imagine that the "original intent" of the founders was to make the president unindictable. rampartc May 2019 #4
If the founders had wanted the President to be unindictable they would have said so ElementaryPenguin May 2019 #7
Yet the courts found that Clinton was subject to Paula Jones' Civil Suit Proud Liberal Dem May 2019 #9

Blues Heron

(5,938 posts)
1. Mueller really can't bring himself to say Trump committed a crime
Thu May 30, 2019, 03:30 PM
May 2019

goes against his upper crusty sensibilities, so he hides it with the double negative. Put him under oath and have him answer the questions directly, no weaseling allowed.

question everything

(47,488 posts)
5. Right. Also wanted to add that of course, for him impeaching Trump does not pose the threat
Thu May 30, 2019, 03:35 PM
May 2019

of re elections. That both Nixon and Clinton were already in their second term so re-election was not a factor. Either way.

rampartc

(5,418 posts)
4. i can not imagine that the "original intent" of the founders was to make the president unindictable.
Thu May 30, 2019, 03:34 PM
May 2019

and I absolutely think we should test that in court.

at the very least it will prove that these azzwholes are "judicial activists" who really don't care what the founders are supposed to have intended.

ElementaryPenguin

(7,800 posts)
7. If the founders had wanted the President to be unindictable they would have said so
Thu May 30, 2019, 03:37 PM
May 2019

In the Constitution. But that's the last thing they would have wanted - a tyrant above the law.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,416 posts)
9. Yet the courts found that Clinton was subject to Paula Jones' Civil Suit
Thu May 30, 2019, 04:00 PM
May 2019

*while in office*

I understand that both are different- and occurred under different circumstances- you'd sort of think that if a President would be subject to one, they'd be subject to the other, perhaps moreso if it's a criminal matter?

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