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Are Never Trumpers OK with the Destruction of Evidence by Mueller’s Team?
I just don’t get it. Never Trumpers have gone on and on and on about how Mueller was on to something, but just could not prove it. Mueller did not exonerate Trump, etc.
Well.
If Mueller was that and a bag of chips, and his crew were as pure a the driven snow, how on Earth can they justify the destruction of evidence? These people all managed to “accidentally” destroy evidence. Come on.
Maybe some of our legal experts in the community could weigh in on how the destruction of evidence is a crime.
I’d love to hear from the pro-Mueller crowd on this. Y’all have been so behind this man, and still think Trump colluded with Russia to fix the election, despite no strong evidence it happened. I dare you to explain how this sort of very strong evidence of malfeasance, this criminal activity by the team doing the investigation is OK and has no bearing at all on the investigation. Because my belief is that anyone investigator that destroys evidence is an investigator that is building a lie.
Change my mind.
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So this confirms my impression of Never Trumpers as people who uncritically repeat every lie that has ever been uttered about Trump. How else could you believe that Trump, the most effective conservative president we’ve had in a long time, is a “cancer” on the Republican Party?
Trump has some bad qualities. So did Reagan.
Contrary to his small government ideas, Reagan grew the federal debt and increased the size of government.
His hands off style resulted in illegal activities in his administration.
Violent crime increased on his watch.
He failed to get rid of the Dept. of Education, as he’d promised. Never Trumpers don’t want to give Trump credit for trying to build the Wall, so why should Reagan get credit for trying?
Trump has been criticized for being cozy with tyrants. So was Reagan.
Trump is often accused of being a racist, but it was Reagan who was actually hostile to civil rights initiatives. Trump has consistently reached out to minorities; Reagan never did. The Reagan presidency was a time infamous to resident aliens of color, who were stopped in the street repeatedly by immigration agents, their papers demanded and deportation threatened. Bounties were offered for people to turn their friends into immigration.
The point isn’t that Reagan wasn’t a great president. He was. But there is a lack of consistency in how some supposed Reagan supporters judge Trump.
As for Biden, Jesus Christ! Give me a break. Biden would do or say all of those things and worse if he thought it would win him votes. He even repeats the worst, low down, damnable, evil, and damaging to the country lie of all time, which is that Trump said that Neonazis were “fine people”. Only a piece of excrement would continue to say that.
It would appear that the only things separating Hoover’s FBI and the FBI of Comey, McCabe, Strzok-Page, et al. are the pink tutus.
I’m sure Strzok has a few pink tutus lying around.
Ah jeez, there went my lunch. Thanks.
He and Lisa Page were made for each other…
Gary Robbins, call your office.
Reagan should have responded more forcefully to the bombing of the Marine Barracks.
just sayin’
This is true. Best President of the century (so far).
Yes!
And frankly, should have gotten hostages back and putnished Iran.
I have favored a RICO approach for a few reasons. One, the “enterprise” term was intentionally open so that the parties could be a loose association, and not dodge any charges by lack of an official membership list and bylaws. (True, being part of our OWN government might cause hesitation, but it has not been a problem when considering corrupt foreign governments involved in the drug trade, who can be targeted.) The “Mueller Investigation Team” should be enough to qualify as an enterprise, and by hamstringing the elected federal executive, certainly affected interstate commerce in numerous ways. Two, the phone wipers were members of the Mueller Investigation Team, associated with and employed by the Independent Counsel. Three, the players clearly participated directly in said investigation. Check. Four, the dozen or so phone-wipers constitute a pattern of activity – clearly illegal acts of destroying evidence. Most importantly, each individual had a positive duty to protect the data, not simply a passive one. The repeated entering of incorrect passwords leading to the wipes were knowing acts, each time, while ignoring localized warnings as well as their sworn duty to act in accordance with accepted policies and procedures. In my opinion, we do not need to read minds or infer intent, or even show that what was wiped was illicit – the acts themselves violated the law, they knew they were violating the law, regardless of why they did it.
You have me sold