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Trump Is Not a Target and That’s Big: Game over? (John Podhoretz)
Commentary ^ | April 3, 2018 | JOHN PODHORETZ

Posted on 04/04/2018 6:28:44 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

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To: RatRipper

If the Dems take the House and Senate Trump will be impeached, no matter Mueller’s reports. An indictment or a finding of misfeasance would make impeachment less a partisan thing on the surface, but make no mistake, lose Congress and ompeachment follows. Congress defines high crimes any way it wants.


21 posted on 04/04/2018 6:56:43 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: PJ-Comix

Correct he is a never trumper..


22 posted on 04/04/2018 6:57:06 AM PDT by Dog (..."I'm just a cook....")
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To: PJ-Comix

Latest word was Mueller is headed to the U.A.E. to see if he can hang something on Trump from that direction...

All Mueller is saying is ‘I don’t have a crime to investigate’...’But I’m doing my best to find one’...


23 posted on 04/04/2018 7:01:12 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: jiggyboy
-- Could be a trap. You're not a target, so come on in and let's have a little chat. --

Comey pulled the same dishonet "literally true" crap when he told Trump, three times, that Trump was not a target. Comey admitted under oath that what he said could be taken as misleading, because of couse the scope of the investigation would necessarily involve looking at Trump personally. There was dissent in the IC about whether or not to tell Trump the truth rather than mislad him with a literal truth, and they decided to mislead Trump.

This is another iteration of exactly the same thing.

24 posted on 04/04/2018 7:02:12 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: dennisw
"....WHEN DID ERIC HOLDER EVER RECUSE HIMSELF?..."

There's a big difference you failed to mention.

Eric Holder is not "oh so ethical".

You can either have an Eric Holder type or a Jeff Session type as AG.

Do you want radical liberal who will disregard the Constitution, break the law, lie to Congress, run guns to Mexico and is a corrupt POS?

Or do you want a ethical, conservative who is principled, who follows the law and who will do this the right way and not screw it up by rushing to judgment before evidence and indictments are obtained and allowing the bad guys to go free?

It's one or the other. Which kind of AG do you want?

25 posted on 04/04/2018 7:02:51 AM PDT by HotHunt
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Podhoretz is yet another Nation Review Trotskycon.


26 posted on 04/04/2018 7:05:31 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Raycpa

Would “man of total integrity” Robert Mueller lie to a target of his “investigation”? Hmmm??? Always be mindful... the Mueller’s and (anti-?)Justice Dept prosecutors of the world will punish you for lying to them… but are free to lie to you with impunity... anything to keep that banana republic 97% conviction rate intact! And the prosecutors(err...persecutors?) get to decide what your “lie” is... ask General Flynn.

Donald Trump committed a serious and possible capital felony... wanton obstruction of Hillary. For this there MUST be “justice” (public execution preferred)! The harsher the better! No one must ever be allowed challenge the “Swamp” ever again!


27 posted on 04/04/2018 7:06:42 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The biggest threat to your sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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COMEY: Was it unanimous? One of the members of the leadership team had a view that, although it was technically true, we did not have a counterintelligence file case open on then-President-elect Trump.

His concern was, because we're looking at the potential -- again, that's the subject of the investigation -- coordination between the campaign and Russia, because it was President Trump -- President-elect Trump's campaign, this person's view was, inevitably, his behavior, his conduct will fall within the scope of that work.

And so he was reluctant to make the statement that I made. I disagreed. I thought it was fair to say what was literally true: There is not a counterintelligence investigation of Mr. Trump. And I decided, in the moment, to say it, given the nature of our conversation.


28 posted on 04/04/2018 7:07:28 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: PJ-Comix

The dossier was about inflicting political damage.
The Mueller investigation is about inflicting political damage, and making support of Trump into a dangerous, expensive proposition.
If Mueller had evidence of a crime by Trump, we’d have heard the leaks splashing like Niagara Falls.


29 posted on 04/04/2018 7:08:46 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: PJ-Comix

But Mueller has been at this now for nine months ...


That is what makes this a big deal, pure and simple. He’s saying they’ve found no criminal dirt on Trump - after nine aggressive months.

i.e. It’s time to pull the plug.

Next time a special prosecutor is assigned, there needs to be a time limit, with an option to add time if evidence warrants it. There also needs to be a specific list of goals so they can’t start an investigation about russian collusion and, at the deadline, say they have found evidence of collusion with France so they need to keep investigating.

And, truth be told, the longer this drags on at this point, the more it hurts the D’s.


30 posted on 04/04/2018 7:10:07 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Flick Lives

“everyone is guilty of committing 3 felonies a day.”....

And that’s just for thinking about a crime, can you imagine if a crime was actually committed?


31 posted on 04/04/2018 7:11:41 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: xkaydet65

Remember the impeachment of ‘98. Impeachment by the House is the first step. Getting the Senate to buy in is like cramming an elephant into a mini van.


32 posted on 04/04/2018 7:13:38 AM PDT by lurk
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To: PJ-Comix
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III said..."

He is a liar. Target...Subject....person of interest...BS.

33 posted on 04/04/2018 7:14:01 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The fruit of the poison tree should invalidate any of the mule's findings, right ?)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

The wall could have been finished with what we’ve paid this army of lawyers, who will all donate money to the Dems. It’s another money laundering liberal farce.


34 posted on 04/04/2018 7:15:48 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: PJ-Comix

Shut it down.


35 posted on 04/04/2018 7:18:16 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: PJ-Comix
I read one article that qualified "at this time". Amazing how the various media twists variations of the same article. At least we have these sources for a sanity check. Either way I like to follow LS's line of thinking. He's been well on track since predicting election results months before the carnage from November 2016.

What times we live in!

36 posted on 04/04/2018 7:18:55 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: PJ-Comix

And based on Muellers comment if I were Trump I would refuse to ever talk to this turd


37 posted on 04/04/2018 7:19:54 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: PJ-Comix

It ain’t over!! Trump is not a target AT THIS TIME!!!


38 posted on 04/04/2018 7:21:32 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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Weak Republican Party.


39 posted on 04/04/2018 7:23:36 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: xkaydet65

You are probably right: impeachment is assured if the Rats win the House back. Since Mueller has found nothing, that is likely the reasoning behind the recent string of Rat/Media pronouncements that “Trump is the worst {you fill in the blank}”.

But I think the public understands the game now and they realize that Trump, in the face of an unprecedented level of Establishment/Uniparty headwinds, has actually been one of the best, if not THE best, President ever in terms of real accomplishment of behalf of the PEOPLE.


40 posted on 04/04/2018 7:24:09 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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