[KarlInOhio]

diGenova said Inspector General Michael Horowitz has determined all four FISA warrants against one-time Trump campaign aide Carter Page were illegally obtained.

Number of Obama era FBI employees who will go to jail (or even have to spend their life savings trying to stay free): ZERO!

I want perp walks. I want months of grilling in which one slight misstatement adds perjury charges. I want long prison terms. I want Democrats to fear to ever do this again. If you don't prosecute you invite double the next time the Dems win.

[Nothingburger]

I want the same things that all you hotheads want.

But everything has to be exactly right before you go to indictments, much less go to trial.

As an astute FReeper noted on another thread, indicting these evildoers and seeing them acquitted would be worse than not indicting them at all.

I agree.

I am no kind of cockeyed optimist, not even on weekends and holidays. But the level of defeatism I read on these threads is really getting to me.

The wheels of justice grind slowly, and we’re still at an early stage in what promises to be a long game. The fact that so little has been accomplished so far says less about the game itself than about the unrealistic expectations of some observers.

Make that “many observers.”

Trump has an exceptional sense of timing and misdirection. I wouldn’t be surprised if he viewed prosecutions at this time as having some backfire potential — i.e. better to run on his economic record rather than risk corruption trials becoming a distraction from his daily dismantling of Lizzie Warren or whichever mental patient the RATs nominate.

Then again, I don’t talk to DJT, so I don’t know what he’s thinking. But I offer the above scenario as an illustration of a policy that might not be to our liking but still has sound reasoning behind it.

Don’t get the impression that I’m happy with what’s going on or somehow underestimate the threat to our Republic and its Constitution. I’m just operating on a much different time horizon than what seems to be a majority of FReepers.

Well, that’s my view, expressed with force but without profanity. Go ahead and hate me for it — and hate me for refusing to follow the herd on these threads. Ask Jim Robinson to ban me for being a heretic.

But I will say this — it’s too early to say that Trump is beaten and America is beaten. So get a grip on your emotions, soldiers.

[Cboldt]

I want the public to wake up. The coup against Trump and his supporters is treated as a joke, a fantasy. The press was in on it, the press knew from the start that the "Russian collusion" accusation was a hoax perpetrated by the government, yet the press facilitated advaning it as a legitimate accusation and investigation.

I want the people to go after the institutions of the government the press with figurative torches and pitchforks.

[cnsmom]

The Democrats recycle their same playbook all the time. They must be punished for their actions or they country is doomed.