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If Trump Obstructed Justice, He Can’t Be Exonerated
New York Magazine ^ | March 25, 2019 | Jonathan Chait

Posted on 03/25/2019 11:14:13 AM PDT by edwinland

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To: JennysCool

If I recall, he said “find” not “hack”, and he was obviously joking.


21 posted on 03/25/2019 11:30:06 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Intellectual masturbation for liberals.

In America no one needs to be “exonerated”. We all enjoy the presumption of innocence, so the only thing that happens is you are charged with a crime, or you are not. There is no public notification of “not”. Nor do we charge people for “maybe”.

Rule of Law, bitches. Learn it, live it.


22 posted on 03/25/2019 11:32:04 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: edwinland
So Trump jokingly tells the Russians that the press will reward them? Not Trump if he is elected, but the press? The press that hates Trump and is doing everything in its power to help Hillary win?

How dumb is Putin supposed to be if he believed that?

23 posted on 03/25/2019 11:32:29 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: edwinland
He literally went on camera and asked Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, promising that Russia would be rewarded by the American media, and Russia responded to this request by attempting a hack to steal Clinton’s emails that very day.

Bull Excrement.

1) Trump didn't call for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails, he asked Russia if they had Hillary's emails by saying “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,”

2)By the time Trump made this tongue in cheek comment to Russia, Hillary's server was already shut down, and there were 30,000 missing emails. How can you "hack" what has already been shut down?

24 posted on 03/25/2019 11:32:58 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: edwinland

Mueller wanted to leave the door open for the Democrats to impeach, probably on the insistence of his Democratic lawyers.


25 posted on 03/25/2019 11:33:41 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Of course Trump colluded with Russia. He literally went on camera and asked Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails,”

Wow.

These people are really, really stupid.

Problem is: really, really stupid people are plentiful and buy this crap hook line and sinker.


26 posted on 03/25/2019 11:33:54 AM PDT by JPJones
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To: edwinland

It’s equally bizarre to spend two years claiming it is a crime and when the man hired to prosecute the supposed crime doesn’t bring charges claim that it means nothing.


27 posted on 03/25/2019 11:33:57 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: edwinland

There is no underlying crime. There is no obstruction


28 posted on 03/25/2019 11:33:58 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: bigbob

Excellent Bob! You have laid it out perfectly. Now if we can get the snowflakes to understand what you’ve said. Those people are really “slow”.


29 posted on 03/25/2019 11:34:13 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Yo-Yo

“He literally went on camera and asked Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, promising that Russia would be rewarded by the American media, and Russia responded to this request by attempting a hack to steal Clinton’s emails that very day.
Bull Excrement.

1) Trump didn’t call for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, he asked Russia if they had Hillary’s emails by saying “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,”

2)By the time Trump made this tongue in cheek comment to Russia, Hillary’s server was already shut down, and there were 30,000 missing emails. How can you “hack” what has already been shut down? “

Excellent additional points.


30 posted on 03/25/2019 11:38:22 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: JennysCool
The New Yorker takes itself too seriously...


31 posted on 03/25/2019 11:38:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: edwinland

Even better is that Russia’s hackers were trained at a Russian silicon valley facility that was FUNDED/SCAMMED BY CLINTON AND PODESTA

https://observer.com/2016/08/hillarys-secret-kremlin-connection-is-quickly-unraveling/


32 posted on 03/25/2019 11:39:45 AM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: bigbob

Walter Mondale called and he wants to posthumously charge Reagan for war crimes for: “the bombing begins in five minutes...”


33 posted on 03/25/2019 11:42:34 AM PDT by Theophilus (Make America Grateful Again)
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To: edwinland

“Of course Trump colluded with Russia. He literally went on camera and asked Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, promising that Russia would be rewarded by the American media, and Russia responded to this request by attempting a hack to steal Clinton’s emails that very day.”


This guy is either as dumb as a post, or is a malicious, partisan liar. My bet is on #2, as EVERYONE knows that Trump was being as sarcastic as Hell when he used those words.

Left unsaid is the fact that on Hillary’s server were national defense secrets and evidence of collusion with the DNC to deny Bernie Sanders the Dem nomination. No one in the media has talked about the SUBSTANCE of what the Wikileaks emails was, only about Trump’s alleged involvement with the leak itself. If it was really all about yoga and Chelsea’s wedding, who would care if it was leaked?


34 posted on 03/25/2019 11:45:11 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: edwinland

How can you obstruct justice if there was no crime committed?


35 posted on 03/25/2019 11:49:10 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: edwinland

“... insisting collusion is not a crime and then turn around and call the absence of crimes proof that there was no collusion...”

Pretzel logic.


36 posted on 03/25/2019 11:49:50 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I have it on good authority that Trump is going to fire Mueller this week. That will trigger impeachment. #ThisTimeItIsTrue


37 posted on 03/25/2019 11:51:19 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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When a headline uses the word “if,” it’s not actually news.


38 posted on 03/25/2019 11:51:28 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: edwinland; Yo-Yo

I would add to Yo-Yo’s excellent points that any writer who uses the word “literally” as an added emphasis shouldn’t be taken seriously as a writer.


39 posted on 03/25/2019 11:53:50 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

totally agree


40 posted on 03/25/2019 11:56:22 AM PDT by edwinland
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