Quote (theCrossbones @ Nov 14 2021 12:10pm)
I love the "no collusion" thing..
1. It wasn't a criminal term.
2. Mueller is a giant bitch and wont prosecute anything.
3. The entire MAGA world completely ignores what a slimly douchebag Trump is and how all his little group is WAY past normal ethics behavior.
4. I guess shady behavior if not prosecuted is a GOP "win"? that's a low bar.
For all eternity it is now "fake witch hunt" and Russia Russia Russia.
Forgetting 100% what actually happened.
What was the "shady activity" at the bottom of all this? At the end of the day, everything in the steele dossier was completely fabricated and made up, and all that story shows is how incredibly corrupt Hillary's campaign, the DNC and FBI all were. So we can forget about that whole line
So how about the Michael Flynn stuff? All that showed is that when Obama publicly breached the norms and precedents of a presidential transition by trying to sabotage his successors administration on every front possible, a true spite move on the way out, Trump was sending out his representatives to try to smooth things over with foreign countries that Obama was trying to provoke. Any pretense that Trump was breaching norms by undermining Obama's policies during the transition is ethically and politically justified as tit for tat
deescalation to respond to Obama's move. And legally, there's no actual Logan Acts style law with any constitutional basis to assert a lame duck president's exclusive right to conduct foreign policy at the expense of the incoming president.
There was no "there" there. Trump had dick all to do with Russia, nobody was in any grand conniving plans. The closest anyone ever got to influencing them was basically the equivalent of a jehovah's witness showing up at Trump Tower to tell Jr about the glory of solving the magnitsky-adoption impasse under a false pretense, and that wasn't even on behalf of Russia, that was just American lobbyists who were true believers in the cause. The super secret diplomatic backdoor channel that Flynn used to contact his counterpart was the same kind of handshake that every incoming president has with foreign countries prior to taking office.
At every step of this story we saw blatant unethical behavior, lawbreaking and corruption by virtually every single top official and leader
aligned with the democrats. Unmasking, leaking, lying, false reports, pilfering the Ukrainian economy and overthrowing their government and profiteering from it, covering up their family crimes, taking overt bribes, etc etc. Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Page role played a le carre novel, Obama and Biden ordered the FBI to spy on Trump and concoct this hoax, Hillary purified her debauched essence to such a asymptotic degree she ascended to the astral plane as a being of pure corruption and was never heard from again, and throughout the whole thing Adam Schiff went on TV and repeatedly told us the burger totally had meat in it