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Frownland 02-16-2018 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1926995)
And in reality, what's likely to happen? I'm not being facetious; I actually want to know if this means anything or if it's another non-event that Trump and his acolytes will sweep under the carpet of the White House?

World War III between the US and Russia.

OccultHawk 02-16-2018 03:03 PM

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is great at doing a bunch of worthless bull**** that adds up to nothing.

If this were a murder investigation it would go like this:

They found the victim shot
They identified the gun
The identified the owner of the gun
They found gunshot residue of the suspects hands
The suspect was found urinating on the grave of the victim
The suspect posts video footage of the victim dying on Facebook
Investigator interviews suspects mother
Investigator arrests someone who met the suspect three years ago
Media celebrates

Frownland 02-16-2018 03:04 PM

What did you expect to come of it?

Chula Vista 02-16-2018 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1926995)
And in reality, what's likely to happen? I'm not being facetious; I actually want to know if this means anything or if it's another non-event that Trump and his acolytes will sweep under the carpet of the White House?

Russia will, of course, not extradite any of the 13 who are citizens. I think this is simply a strong signal being sent to the folks involved on our end by the special counsel.

Note the wording of part of the idictment: "Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign."

Unwitting is a clear signal to folks like Kushner, Manafort, and Jr., that Mueller knows a ton, but is giving them some breathing room for now so they'll opt for a plea deal.

He's giving them some rope. Pretty sure none of them will be willing to hang themselves on "The Donald's" behalf.

Frownland 02-16-2018 03:08 PM

My guess is that Trump was the (or one of) unwitting one(s) given that he really isn't that smart.

OccultHawk 02-16-2018 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1926999)
What did you expect to come of it?

I expected Trump to be arrested when he admitted he broke the law by obstructing justice when he confessed on national TV that’s exactly why he fired Comey. That’s the ****ing starting point. You arrest the confessed criminal and go from there. You don’t spend months and months investigating **** that’s less serious than what the mother****er already confessed to.

Frownland 02-16-2018 03:13 PM

There's actually a reason for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_doubt

Have you ever heard of Al Capone?

Chula Vista 02-16-2018 03:21 PM

When trying to take down a sitting US President you better go slow and be 1000% sure what you have is going to be bulletproof.

Watergate break-in happened on June 17, 1972.

Nixon stepped down on August 9, 1974.

That's 26 months.

Mueller's investigation is only 9 months old.

https://media1.tenor.com/images/7da1...itemid=5543991

OccultHawk 02-16-2018 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1927002)
My guess is that Trump was the (or one of) unwitting one(s) given that he really isn't that smart.

Ya think?

Reasonable doubt?

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It was the first time that Trump had explicitly tied the Russia probe to his rationale for firing Comey. It was one of a series of explanations for dismissing the FBI director, some of which directly contradict those offered earlier by top White House officials.

Trump told NBC's Lester Holt: "And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said 'you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won'."
That’s obstruction of justice and against the law. When a Man breaks law and admits it he gets arrested unless the investigator is a pussy.

Trollheart 02-16-2018 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1927004)
I expected Trump to be arrested when he admitted he broke the law by obstructing justice when he confessed on national TV that’s exactly why he fired Comey. That’s the ****ing starting point. You arrest the confessed criminal and go from there. You don’t spend months and months investigating **** that’s less serious than what the mother****er already confessed to.

For a cynic you're surprisingly naive if you thought there was ever any hope of this happening. Even I, with my one piece of knowledge about US politics (there are two parties, right?) did not expect that to ever come to pass. Nor will it.


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