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CNN's Avlon: Bolton Testimony 'Equivalent of Nixon Smoking Gun Tape'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/29/2020 8:02:22 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

How desperate is the liberal media to bring down President Trump? Desperate enough to resort to the most absurd analogies to make their supposed impeachment case against the president.

Take CNN "senior political analyst" John Avlon on this morning's New Day. Avlon actually offered the preposterous proposition that John Bolton's prospective testimony at the impeachment trial would be "the equivalent of Nixon's smoking gun tape."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: impeachment; johnavlon; johnbolton; richardnixon
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1 posted on 01/29/2020 8:02:22 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; ...

CNN makes absurd analogy: Bolton allegation = Nixon smoking gun.

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2 posted on 01/29/2020 8:03:50 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (To be added to my Liberal Media Criticism ping list, just ask in a comment or FReep mail.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In their dreams.


3 posted on 01/29/2020 8:03:54 AM PST by madison10
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Wake me up when these fools actually find a real impeachable offense.

Sorry the Dersh pretty much destroyed everything the House Managers brought, they have nothing. Even Bolton is a big giant ZERO


4 posted on 01/29/2020 8:03:57 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Lol! Reeks of desperation doesn’t it?


5 posted on 01/29/2020 8:07:01 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The boy's expression is interesting. He is clearly positively giddy with excitement but yet appears surprised ... perhaps by a back-door delivery he wasn't expecting on-air.

Just conjecture on my part ... I could be wrong but, following his beloved Democrat/Left view of justice, it's up to him to prove that I am wrong.

6 posted on 01/29/2020 8:07:11 AM PST by glennaro
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Okay LOSER!


7 posted on 01/29/2020 8:07:15 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hyperbole, thy name is leftist.


8 posted on 01/29/2020 8:08:41 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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When you’re a hammer, everything is a nail, and Watergate is the Left’s “nail.”


9 posted on 01/29/2020 8:10:09 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I caught the closing minutes of the Trump defense yesterday, and then the camera switched to a CBS panel, which discussed it all. One woman said that the Trump team was guilty of malpractice because they did not use up the remaining ten hours (since, of course, they could not really mount a defense against the democrat’s overwhelming case}.

The irony: CBS refused to show Pam Bondi’s take down of the Bidens. None of the networks did.


10 posted on 01/29/2020 8:10:50 AM PST by odawg
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The media is sick with TDS


11 posted on 01/29/2020 8:13:31 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The walls are closing in.


12 posted on 01/29/2020 8:19:53 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Maybe John Bolton wants to be the next John W. Dean (without going to prison like Dean did)...hero to the media for bringing down a Republican President.

Dean had a remarkably good memory but without the Oval Office tapes it would just have been his word against Nixon. Dean was also at the center of the cover-up. Bolton, it seems, is giving his version of some conversations he had with President Trump. The President should be able to bounce ideas off confidential advisors before making a decision. Trump didn't do anything illegal but the whole Ciaramella/Schiff gambit has been to remove him from office for having the wrong motive for a perfectly legal action, and Bolton may be useful to them in that regard.

13 posted on 01/29/2020 8:21:44 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

These people MUST be getting paid for what they say. No one could be this stupid in the same place.


14 posted on 01/29/2020 8:23:06 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I find it interesting that just like with the Kavenaugh hearing, new, fresh evidence appears out of nowhere right at the last minute.


15 posted on 01/29/2020 8:24:07 AM PST by hanamizu
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Apparently in 1999 neither side used all of their allotted time in the Clinton impeachment trial. This time around the House Managers did...but they were repeating themselves a lot. Forcing the Senators to sit and hear them drone on and on was cruel and unusual punishment.


16 posted on 01/29/2020 8:24:07 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I wouldn’t put it past Schiff to be smack dab in the middle of all this as normal. It’s convenient that Ukrainian naturalized twins are a) controlling foreign policy in Ukraine, a govt that has offered at least one of them a job 3 times; and b) in charge of auditing a book pre-publish, for, well, whatever they read it for with their little red pen in hand like a teacher grading papers. Bolton is supposedly wandering the streets of Qatar. Also convenient if true. And we still don’t know if any of this is a leak, or out of context, or a Schiff fantasy script. Schiff, who thinks he’s J Edgar because he once overprosecuted a drunk so he could use the time to rub elbows with every FBI agent that couldn’t avoid him.

And since when do govt employees write tell-alls before the smell of their bum is gone off their office chair? How can one say Books-r-Us, Inc. LLC is not trying to influence an election, or influence foreign policy, or the foreign policy of other nations towards the US, or staffing decisions or any of a dozen smarmy Ukrainianish things.

Smell That smell? It’s the smell of yet another Democrat ‘smoking gun’ that stinks of high mischief and treason.


17 posted on 01/29/2020 8:35:51 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Bombshell”, “Smoking Gun”, Wash rinse repeat. They have worn out their Thesaurus’.


18 posted on 01/29/2020 8:45:51 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Equivalent to Avlon smoking dope tape.
19 posted on 01/29/2020 9:04:52 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hitlery’s deleted emails and smashed digital devices and wiped server were worse than Nixon’s alleged 15 minutes of tape.

Suck it, msm


20 posted on 01/29/2020 9:25:47 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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