If they are willing to go this far, and even destroy Attorney-Client Privilege, we have to ask ourselves:
Why would the Swamp go to these lengths? Are they this desperate? What criminal activity in their own lives are they afraid of being exposed?
Posted on 04/16/2018 2:19:16 PM PDT by ethom
The prosecutor is overreaching. The American people elected our president based on his politics, not his personal life.”
Sound familiar? I’ve heard all of this before. Every charge above came directly from the liberal playbook defending President Bill Clinton two decades ago from the Ken Starr investigation. I was there. I’m a witness. Every liberal friend and colleague I knew back in 1998 used these words and phrases.
But it wasn’t just average everyday liberals. It was liberal celebrities and high-profile Democrat politicians, too. I know. I was a regular guest on Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect” back in the late 1990s. I debated the Bill Clinton-Ken Starr investigation nonstop. Liberal celebs called Starr a “pervert.” They said he had no right to “politicize our president’s sex life and make it into an impeachable crime.”
But wait, it gets better. A 1998 Village Voice headline labeled the Starr investigation “Sexual McCarthyism.” So liberals in 1998 compared a special prosecutor’s investigation into a president’s love life to Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunt in the 1950s.
Now let’s compare Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with President Donald Trump’s. Clinton’s scandal was the people’s business. It was worthy of an investigation. Clinton had an affair with a White House intern in the Oval Office. Then he lied about it under oath. That’s a crime. Clinton’s dalliance with an intern would today be called “assault” or “sexual misconduct.” The liberal feminist #MeToo movement would likely demand impeachment.
Today, Robert Mueller has turned an investigation of “Russian collusion” that never happened into a witch hunt involving the president’s past personal life. Mueller has even destroyed attorney-client privilege with a raid on Trump’s lawyer connected to the president’s alleged affairs with Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal and to Trump’s “Access Hollywood” videotape.
Unlike the Clinton scandal, all three incidents happened to private citizen Trump — before he was president. Everything was consensual. None of this involves the American people. It may be Melania’s business, but it’s not yours, mine or Mueller’s.
Yes, in a few rare instances attorney-client privilege has been broken. Maybe for a mob lawyer protecting a mass murderer … or a lawyer hiding evidence on behalf of a billionaire drug trafficker … or a terrorism case. But never before in American legal history has a lawyer been raided by the federal government on the basis of affairs, minor FEC infractions or a videotape of a private citizen bragging to a TV host about sleeping with beautiful women.
This is absurd. This is chilling.
The system is rigged. If this attack on attorney-client privilege stands, nobody can trust their attorney ever again. If the government can raid my lawyer’s office over minor infractions, gain access to my confidential, privileged conversations with him and try to pressure my lawyer to turn against me (for any reason), then America is lost. The judicial system is gone. If the ACLU and American Bar Association say nothing, we are a banana republic. Stalin would be proud.
We can all debate whether the Bill Clinton investigation was justified. Whether Ken Starr overreached. But today, there is no debate. Mueller’s investigation is a travesty. He is overreaching. The American people won’t stand for this. Mueller’s approval ratings are plunging. For good reason.
The left is nothing without its hypocrisy and double standards.
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This is about a desire to get Trump and neither the law nor ethics is going to be allowed to stand in the way of it.
The American people know what Mueller is up to and that’s why the Swamp is defending him.
It doesn’t matter that they elected Trump their President. And they want to nullify the 2016 election result come hell or high water.
More crucially, its no longer about Russia.
This is about a desire to get Trump and neither the law nor ethics is going to be allowed to stand in the way of it.
The American people know what Mueller is up to and that’s why the Swamp is defending him.
It doesn’t matter that they elected Trump their President. And they want to nullify the 2016 election result come hell or high water.
More crucially, its no longer about Russia.
Root is right.
And FYI, in the aftermath, Starr implied that he went overboard to make a point: the special prosecutor has too much power.
It was used against Nixon to torment him into leaving over things they do routinely. Just ask King Richard Daley and LBJ’s hit man Jim Wright.
Actually, it now appears that the purpose of the raid was to leak all of the information to the lugenpresse.
The FBI did more to dig up stormy Daniel dirt than it did in saving the lives of 17 students from a shooter
Not a chance.
If they are willing to go this far, and even destroy Attorney-Client Privilege, we have to ask ourselves:
Why would the Swamp go to these lengths? Are they this desperate? What criminal activity in their own lives are they afraid of being exposed?
Personally I don’t care what Pres. Trump did 10 years ago in his personal life that wasn’t unlawful. I still won’t take the word of a Wh@re & the media Wh@res that he did anything.Why did it take so long to find her? They need more evidence than her word...
Lucille is getting restless...
Exactly.
A quality screed, until this last line. Mueller's popularity should mean nothing, good or bad. It is law-breaking that matters, not the direction of opinion polls.
Democrats can.
McCarthy was right.
The issue isn’t the issue. The issue is revolution.
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