Posted on 02/03/2018 8:07:09 AM PST by Kaslin
One of the faux scandals to have emerged in this crazy past week was the revelation that in December, President Trump allegedly asked his deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, “Are you on my team?”
Opined a trio of reporters from CNN, presumably with a straight face, “The episode is the latest to come to light portraying a President whose inquiries sometimes cross a line that presidents traditionally have tried to avoid when dealing with the Justice Department, for which a measure of independence is key.”
Obama White House speechwriter Ben Rhodes was not directly referencing these reporters when he told the New York Times, “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old… They literally know nothing,” but he might as well have been.
Reporters under 45 or so have no real idea what happened in the Clinton White House. Those over 45 don’t really know either but, unlike their younger colleagues, they have no excuse for not knowing.
For the record, the Clinton White House ran an openly political Department of Justice (DoJ). Obama’s DoJ was equally as political. It is just that Obama was a little more discreet.
The Clintons, like The Great Gatsby’s Tom and Daisy Buchanan, “were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
The clean-up people rarely got the top jobs in the Clinton cabinet. Those jobs attracted too much attention. They got the number two spots or, in Webster Hubbell’s case at the Department of Justice, the number three spot.
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Gorelick also displayed blithering incompetence as an executive at Fannie Mae! Helped set off the 2006-2008 housing crisis.
I don’t think Trump understood what he was getting into when he took the path of office. You don’t ask them whose team they are on. They were appointed by Obama. That’s why it’s standard operating procedure to fire all of the prior administrations people on day one.
WHY did Trump allow Jamie Gorelick in his White House?
For which she received a $26 million dollar bonus.
Yup- thats Javanka’s ethics advisor.
RIGHT!! And didn’t she and Howell Raines get MILLIONS on BONUSES????
Poor judgement, or lack of attention to details about what his family members were bringing into the presidency
sorry to say
Yes something like that !
Yes and Raines was Barney the Homosaur( Frank) “special guy”, complete conflict of interest which for Rats is SOP.
Merrick Garland, Obama’s nominee for the US Supreme Court, was Jamie Gorelick’s rightt hand man at the Clinton Justice Department.
“Merrick Garland, Obama’s nominee for the US Supreme Court, was Jamie Gorelick’s right hand man at the Clinton Justice Department.”
and the MSM reported he was a moderate.
Very few people know Gorelick exists.
NPR: Attorney Jamie Gorelick: Merrick Garland Is ‘At Heart, A Public Servant’
March 16, 2016 5:33 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
https://www.npr.org/2016/03/16/470715885/attorney-jamie-gorelick-merrick-garland-is-at-heart-a-public-servant
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to attorney Jamie Gorelick, who worked closely with Merrick Garland in the Bill Clinton-era Justice Department, about his background and record.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Let’s learn more now about Merrick Garland by talking to someone who has called him a friend and colleague for more than four decades. In the 1990s, Garland was a prosecutor at the Department of Justice where Jamie Gorelick was the deputy attorney general. They’d known each other long before that - since college, in fact. I began our conversation by asking Gorelick why the Justice Department tapped Garland to manage the investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing.
JAMIE GORELICK: We asked him to do that job, and he volunteered to do it because we wanted a perfect investigation, a flawless prosecution. We wanted no one to have any question about the way in which justice was handled in that case. And he did that, bringing a perfect prosecution from the rubble of Oklahoma City and from the chaos of an investigation that had a thousand agents, six U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and state and local first responders and others.
I think that experience for him brought home what he already knew, which was that he was, at heart, a public servant and that the pursuit of the rule of law could have profound meaning for the country.
SHAPIRO: What I get from your description just then is that as a prosecutor, he might have been more meticulous than flashy. Is that right?
GORELICK: Merrick Garland is meticulous to the nth degree. He is extraordinarily careful, extraordinarily thoughtful and never self-aggrandizing, ever. So he is the opposite of a flashy prosecutor. He is the person you want in charge of a case that you want handled perfectly.
SHAPIRO: Are there issues where you think he might be in the majority of a 5-4 decision with the more conservative members of the court?
GORELICK: It’s certainly conceivable. He doesn’t make his decisions based upon party or politics. He looks at the facts and the law.
SHAPIRO: I feel like supporters of any Supreme Court nominee say that about whoever the nominee is.
GORELICK: Well, an advantage of having a nominee to the Supreme Court who has, you know, nearly two decades of opinions out there is that you can see the kinds of opinions he writes and the people who join him in his opinions.
SHAPIRO: And so if you were to compare him to a current or recent justice, to whom would you compare him?
GORELICK: That’s a really hard one. I don’t know that I would venture down that road. All I would say to you is to remind you of Chief Justice Roberts quote in which he said, “if you find yourself on the opposite side of an argument from Judge Merrick Garland, you really better think about your position.”
SHAPIRO: You’ve known him for decades and not only in a professional capacity. You’ve known each other since college. What’s he like off the court? What makes him tick?
GORELICK: He’s a very modest person. You could see in his emotion today that he’s a very real person.
SHAPIRO: He got a little choked up there in the White House Rose Garden.
GORELICK: He did. That’s the person I saw when we were watching the wreckage in Oklahoma City on the television. That’s why he said, please send me in; I have to be part of fixing this.
SHAPIRO: Apart from how seriously he takes things that are important to him, how modest he is in his approach to his stellar legal career, do you have a sense of what he does for fun?
GORELICK: Yes. They hike. They’ve been to maybe not all the national parks but many of them. That’s how they spend their family vacations. I know that he read all the “Harry Potter” books with his children.
SHAPIRO: (Laughter).
GORELICK: He can tell you what a horcrux looks like. What else - he drives a very old car. He’s red-green colorblind, so he has a list of which ties go with which suits.
SHAPIRO: Really?
GORELICK: Pretty much if you meet him, if you’ve worked with him, that is the person that you get. So on a personal level and on a professional level, he is the same.
SHAPIRO: That’s attorney Jamie Gorelick on President Obama’s newest nominee for the Supreme Court, Gorelick’s friend and colleague Judge Merrick Garland. Thanks so much for joining us.
GORELICK: Thank you.
from interview with xlintonista regime apparachik, jamie gorelick on her classmate, merrick, as they witness Murrah on TV:
GORELICK: He did. That’s the person I saw when we were watching the wreckage in Oklahoma City on the television. That’s why he said, please send me in; I have to be part of fixing this.
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sure nuff. he did
another in the long line of "fixers"
thank god for trump & gorsuch
Thanks Kaslin. The DNC's inherent corruption is always enabled b the Partisan Media Shills.
There you have it. Picking the Mistress of Disaster as an advisor would seem to be huge due diligence FAIL!
I truly believe she was there to queer the committee.
She also made a bundle -26 million - from Fannie Mae for 6 years during the reign of franklin raines.
Gorlick was the author of Fannie buying sub-prime loans and repackage them as security investments then had them passed down the line to the next sucker in the ponzi scheme.
She had her hands in FISA - regs for the Gorelick Wall...
She was just everywhere and left behind carnage.
Where she walked things died.
Cripes. I thought I had the 90’s and early 2000’s gremlins put to rest.
back to therapy, I guess.
As I recall, Jamie Gorelick resigned as Jared's lawyer after Jared became a person of interest in the Trump persecution.
Jared replaced Gorelick with another female Democrat lawyer who is also politically connected, but I can't recall her name.
Many people do not realize that senior executives at Fannie Mae received huge bonuses because F.M. was allegedly a “private” company.
Bill Clinton appointed Jamie Gorelick as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae.
Gorelick worked for four years at F.M., and was paid $26.5 million!
Fannie Mae & Sallie Ma are GSEs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-sponsored_enterprise
Fools the rubes(voters) into thinking they are something legitimate with a legitimated needed function. Not just money troughs (which is what they are!) for the well connected political class!
That's exactly what Fannie Mae investors kept saying as they watched their stock drop from $90 to 50 cents...
It didn't help.
As I recall, all the bond holders came out whole, but it required $125 billion of U.S. Treasury loans and guarantees.
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