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"News Analysis": Trump weaponizes 'deep state' to investigate his investigators
NBC "News" ^ | May 23, 2018 | by Jonathan Allen

Posted on 05/23/2018 12:01:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer
While experts on the Constitution say his latest moves may be legal by themselves

Full stop.

they express concern that Trump is operating outside of normal behavior for a president in the post-Watergate era

Yes, he is way outside of normal behavior for a president, responding to an extraordinary attempted election-nullifying attack on the Executive branch by intelligence agencies at the direction of a previous Administration.

and that, taken together, his attacks on various institutions and players over the course of his presidency could amount to an effort to obstruct justice.

LOL! Odd definition of justice that is, if defending his presidency against a coup attempt by the opposition party is obstruction.

NBC, co-conspirator, objects to attempts to thwart their overthrow of an elected president.

41 posted on 05/23/2018 12:59:01 PM PDT by dead
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’re approaching a moment of investigative singularity. Mueller will direct his gang of thugs to investigate these Tweets by Trump as obstruction of justice. Trump will direct the IG to investigate whether Mueller’s investigation of his Tweets is politically motivated. Mueller will investigate whether that order was obstruction of justice. And so and and so forth . . . maybe just put John Brennan and Roger Stone in a room and let them settle the matter mano a mano.


42 posted on 05/23/2018 1:22:43 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Jonathan Allen was chief of staff of Debbie Wasserman.


43 posted on 05/23/2018 1:29:15 PM PDT by nhwingut (Trump Pence 16 - Blow Up DC)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I love this... Trump is “Weaponizing” the DOJ and FBI by legally investigating what all evidence leads any sane and honesty observer to be a highly illegal and highly unconstitutional series of actions by the “Deep State” to actuate a coup against the legally elected president. Whew. What is all this coming to?


44 posted on 05/23/2018 1:41:16 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Compared to what Obama did, what Trump is doing is hardly weaponizing anything.

Go Trump. Drain the Swamp.

45 posted on 05/23/2018 2:47:48 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Talk about virtue signaling.

What's good for the goose (Trump) is good for the gander (Obama's Deep State weaponized intelligence agencies). NBC doesn't think so.

Why does NBC think it's okay for Trump to be spied on to delegitimize his presidency or to get rid of him completely before his term is up but it's not okay for Trump to want to know who is doing the spying on him?

Really weak on the logic, NBC. Your double standards are obvious.

Your faux outrage is not attractive. It doesn't pass the smell test.

46 posted on 05/23/2018 3:21:22 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Red Badger
CLUTCHING AT STRAWS IN A HURRICANE!

In a crossfire hurricane, you mean.

Bagster

Lesser Oracle

47 posted on 05/23/2018 3:23:52 PM PDT by bagster ("I love ideas.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Related.....

Every Day is “Opposite Day” in the Fake U.S. News Media

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3657646/posts


48 posted on 05/23/2018 3:34:13 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jane Long

Paying attention to the US “news” media is like wanting to swim in a fetid, clogged cesspool. Why bother?


49 posted on 05/23/2018 3:44:08 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: DoughtyOne; Liz; GOPJ
The problem is that things that are normally respected are disrespected in this administration

"things that are normally respected"

Is it "normal" for the FBI (and probably the other spook agencies) to spy on one side a political campaign, while whitewashing crimes of the other party?

50 posted on 05/23/2018 5:47:39 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ex-spurts on the Constitution?

Like Prof. Hussein?


51 posted on 05/24/2018 2:00:04 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The flailing is getting more erratic....


52 posted on 05/24/2018 2:01:40 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrite<i> Yet anoths who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: TigersEye

there is no such thing as two-tiered anarchy.

I’d guess not. Just wait until the left and Islam get to sort it out in a European country.


53 posted on 05/24/2018 2:08:28 AM PDT by Paladin2
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54 posted on 05/24/2018 6:08:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: All
Obama, himself, hatching a plan to destroy an American using fake evidence?......but what's coming is far, FAR worse than any of us may have thought.

NOTE WELL: @SaraCarterDC points out that FISC apps for the original & subsequent warrants may reveal 'the smoking gun.'

@SaraCarterDC notes that each new app must include the earlier supporting intel. IOW, an 'evidence' trail of compounded 'intel'.

Now the law says that Obama's authorization & Lynch's certification - if made - had to be issued to the FISC under seal.

However, given that the Obama crooks had failed to get a FISA the first time, earlier in 2016, it's reasonable to
conclude that Obama's authorization/Lynch's certification (if made) was included as part of the Oct FISA app.
(hat tip REX blog)

55 posted on 05/25/2018 5:26:10 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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