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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeather Cox Richardson - May 11, 2020 - Letters From An American
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com"SNIP....
A number of Trump loyalists are now throwing their weight behind this Obamagate meme and are calling for prosecution of those members of the FBI and DOJ that investigated Russias involvement in the 2016 election. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) claimed that Flynn was entrapped and called it tyranny, saying that those responsible ought to be prosecuted. When asked about holding senior Obama administration officials accountable for the investigation that ensnared Flynn, Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee told a radio station, Nobody more than me wants to see these people prosecuted.
(Nunes, you will recall, did not disclose during the impeachment hearings that he had been in contact with political operative Lev Parnas, who is now under indictment for contributing Russian money to American political campaigns.)
But as Trumps people seek to prosecute officials in the Obama administration, Trump continues to maintain that he himself cannot be subject to oversight. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Trump can keep his financial records secret from Congress and state prosecutors. At heart, this is a question about whether the president is above the law.
And so, we struggle to preserve the rule of law in America, the fundamental principle on which this country was based.
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Heather Cox Richardson - May 11, 2020 - Letters From An American (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2020
OP
They are going after Obama with a new conspiracy theory to get at a strength of Biden's. The
applegrove
May 2020
#1
The problem is the Dirty Barr who has converted our DoJ into Barr's Dirt Services.
Hermit-The-Prog
May 2020
#2
applegrove
(118,677 posts)1. They are going after Obama with a new conspiracy theory to get at a strength of Biden's. The
Last edited Tue May 12, 2020, 03:08 AM - Edit history (1)
China one does not work. Calling Biden doddering does not work coming from Trump.so now this. I'd love to have Obama in the spotlight as a foil to Trump: the Obama Administration had principals and honesty and leadership, plus Obama's people were qualified. They cared about helping people not in the 1% too. Trump and his team just surf one conspiracy narrative after another hoping to hang ten.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,348 posts)2. The problem is the Dirty Barr who has converted our DoJ into Barr's Dirt Services.
The entire cult believes what they're told by the propaganda machine, regardless of facts.