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Sep 13 2017 01:21pm


Has PaRD decided that Hillary was "the crook" in the 2016 election....yet?
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Sep 13 2017 01:29pm
Nope, most are still grasping with the concept that Trump won the election and that people actually have the audacity to disagree with them.

Could be awhile, because of Russia, KKK, Racism, Rigged Elections, etc, etc, etc.
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Sep 13 2017 01:36pm
To circle back to the OP (not that I don't find the occasional false equivalence/whistling past the graveyard amusing), it's getting harder by the day to distinguish between a Flynn scandal and a Trump scandal, and (potentially) a Flynn crime and a Trump crime. Here's a smattering of what Chief "Lock Her Up" has been up to these days:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/democrats-mueller-flynn-middle-east-trip-disclosure/index.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/12/michael-flynn-middle-east-nuclear-power-242643
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mike-flynn-s-son-subject-federal-russia-probe-n800741

Some people inexplicably pooh-pooh the inclusion of Trump's administration violating the Logan Act via Flynn's activities on a list of his crimes, but if Flynn was acting as an agent of Trump in any of these other dealings (re: Russia or otherwise) then when do they stop being solely Flynn's scandal and/or crime and start being shared by Trump himself?

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Has PaRD decided that Hillary was "the crook" in the 2016 election....yet?


Couldn't tell you. If you're interested you could always make a poll based on that and find out.
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Sep 13 2017 02:26pm
no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion <-- the little xheshe fluid person that calls themselves pollster is here
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

no one supports him
tax returns
he's incompetent!
russia collusion
evil mastermind
obstruction
he's a nazi!

on and on



obligatory: thanks for the fuckin laugh!!!!!
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Sep 15 2017 09:04pm

regarding Flynn Mueller etc








Obligatory: thanks for another fuckin laugh!!!
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Sep 15 2017 09:16pm


I guess that sooner or later we will get around to the point, that EVERYONE in politics is a crook. It's part of the job.

So vilifying one crook because your crook lost the race...is kinda silly.
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Sep 15 2017 09:21pm
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Sep 16 2017 12:53am
Quote (Ghot @ 16 Sep 2017 04:16)
I guess that sooner or later we will get around to the point, that EVERYONE in politics is a crook. It's part of the job.

So vilifying one crook because your crook lost the race...is kinda silly.


how convenient, whenever not even his cultists can escape the fact that he's a crook, trump is "just like any other politician", and whenever he's incompetent, class- and clueless, he's "an outsider / not a career politician"...

the fact that he did everything in his power trying to prevent an investigation into russia's meddling with the election speaks for itself.
if he truly was completely innocent, he would have embraced it. as a president it should in fact be one of his main focuses to have this investigated properly so it doesn't happen again - instead he makes bullshit claims about voter fraud and obama wire tapping him...
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Oct 4 2017 03:57pm
The Trumps have been busy committing a few more violations, so it's time to update the big board:

#31 - The RNC is using party funds to cover Don Jr.'s legal bills; this is obviously problematic as he was neither a candidate nor party employee in 2016. Should someone make an issue of this (and we should, always), it will likely fall to SCOTUS to interpret (read: clarify) its terrible McCutcheon decision and therefore determine whether the RNC is misusing their funds. This is definitely an improper use based on original intent. -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/19/rnc-taps-legal-account-to-help-pay-for-president-trumps-lawyers-in-russia-probes/?utm_term=.bab621b799f6

#32 - Trump is running afoul of PRA record-keeping laws by repeatedly deleting tweets that he later finds embarrassing. The WH has to preserve every tweet that Trump sends, especially since they argue that content posted to the @realdonaldtrump account does serve as official press releases. -- http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/27/trump-delete-tweets-legal-issues-243212
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Oct 4 2017 05:15pm
Housekeeping: it was pointed out to me that I hadn't reserved a spot for the FEC violation that Trump racked up post-campaign/pre-inagural. For the sake of simplicity I just made it #30, which brings us to a rap sheet that looks something like this:

#1-22 - Original list
#23 - Sexual assault (various women)
#24 - Obstruction of justice (destroying Trump Org emails)
#25 - Blanket reservation - daily violation of Emoluments Clause
#26 - Logan Act (Mike Flynn)
#27 - Blanket reservation - setting aside a possible spot for broad "campaign/Russia/WikiLeaks/foreign actor collusion"
#28 - Obstruction of justice (firing Comey to impede Russia investigation)
#29 - Witness tampering (Comey testimony tweet)
#30 - Problematic campaign contributions (FEC)
#31 - Misuse of party funds (RNC paying Trump Jr.'s legal bills)
#32 - Insufficient record-keeping (Deleting tweets violates PRA, NARA)
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