'Uh-oh! We shouldn't have this!'

[struggle4progress]

RUSSELL BERMAN

In his interview with George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday, President Donald Trump tried to imagine a scenario in which someone involved with a presidential campaign would call the FBI if that person was offered dirt from a foreign government on the opposition.

“Okay, let’s put yourself in a position,” the president begins. “You’re a congressman. Somebody comes up and says, ‘Hey, I have information on your opponent.’ Do you call the FBI? … You don’t call the FBI.

“Life doesn’t work that way,” Trump added.

In 2000 .. Tom Downey, a former Democratic representative from New York who was helping his friend, Vice President Al Gore, run for the White House ... received a package in the mail. It contained ... a videotape ... of Bush practicing as if he were being interviewed ... He immediately called his lawyer ... Within 90 minutes .. the package .. was out of his possession ... The FBI investigation .. led to the arrest of Juanita Yvette Lozano ... Downey didn’t just turn over the package to federal authorities; he recused himself from the campaign ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/06/trump-fbi-foreign-election-interference-gore-downey/591748/

[ProudLib72]

1. That's interesting. I was reading just the other day that 2000 was almost 20 years ago

And since that time the Rs have abandoned all morals in the pursuit of power.

[Salviati]

2. Truth be told, they've abandoned all morals in the pursuit of power ever since Eisenhower.

Well, maybe not all of them, but the corruption metastasized after it wasn't fully rooted out under nixon, and it's been terminal for more like at least 40 years.

[ProudLib72]

3. Yeah, but they were keeping up the appearance of morality

By cozying up to the evangelical xtians.

[moondust]

4. "You don't call the FBI."

Everybody in the mob knows that, silly.

That's his mindset.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Yep, that was a very primitive instinctive response.

He just can't control himself sometimes. He has verbal diarrhea.

This is exactly why he does not hold traditional press conferences. His minders know he'll blow it every time.