[lgjhn23]

The only “smoke” in this case is the smoke the RATs and low-info types are trying to blow up the Peoples’ azz. RATS = ISIS

[circlecity]

The only “smoke” is the fake news. Lots of bogus stories based on anonymous sources, not one of which has panned out or resulted in a shred of evidence.

[1Old Pro]

The smoke is unrelated to Trump and Russia. The smoke is a combination of the Democrat Party up in smoke and the media’s ethics up in smoke and it smells like a burn barrel filled with trash.

[taxcontrol]

I am of the opinion that it will only “end” when the evidence points to Clinton and other Dems

[ssaftler]

“The fact that we can find nothing means that there must be something there!” - DNC talking points 1/20/2017-1/20/2025

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It's not so much what you don't know that will get you in trouble. It's what you know that ain't so.

Mark Twain

[RC one]

This is my opinion on what this is all about. The Democrat party has to delegitimize Trump’s presidency because if they have to accept that he won legitimately, they have to accept that they have to change some things about themselves and they aren’t interested in changing anything about themselves. They are interested in weaseling their way back into power as quickly as possible so they can pick up right where they left off and continue doing all the ridiculous things that got them thrown out of power in the first place. They hope America will be so focused on Donald Trump and Russia, that they will forget just how bad the Democrats suck.

[Sequoyah101]

They are going to keep the accusations open as long as they possibly can even if they are not justified.

The reason we have to prove guilt is because it is impossible to prove a negative as in “prove you are innocent” or said another way, “prove you are not guilty”. It can’t be done.

e.g. Prove you did not do something on FR that is worthy of getting you banned. You can’t do it. No you can’t. Neither can Trump prove he did not do anything wrong.

Another example: Prove there is no man-made global warming or climate change or whatever you want to name it today. You can’t an that is the position we have been put into.

This is but one of the tools of the left. It isn’t fair and it isn’t right but it is what they do.

Trump has done too many things for too long in too many places to have not done something wrong sometime even if he did not mean to. Pretty much the same for all of us. It is likely each of us breaks some law each day that could get us in some kind of trouble. I feel just like Rumsfeld when I send in my taxes, the only thing I am certain of is that they are not correct. The code is just too complicated and too open to interpretation.

We have become just like the Soviet under Stalin when his chief of KGB said to him, “Show Me The Man, And I’ll Show You The Crime” - Lavrentiy Beria.

This little ditty is a good study by the Cato Institute: https://www.cato.org/policy-report/januaryfebruary-2010/criminalization-almost-everything

They will get Trump given enough time. If they don’t get him they will crucify him in the court of public opinion.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Fiddlstix]

[silverleaf]

This is a plan to tarnish Trump’s presidential victory and cripple his ability to deal with Russia

Trump knows it and so does Putin
So does Paul Ryan know this? Mitch McConnell? The GOP?

Never mind. They know.

So why are they cooperating

[Cementjungle]

Obviously there are two sets of crimes here.

First, there's the collusion with the Russians to steal the election. Second, since we can't find the proof of the collusion there must also be a conspiracy to obstruct justice.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Wuli]

What Warner did not see is that in the absence of any evidence it is his party that is manufacturing the smoke they then use to justify “looking into” the “Russian connections”.

As typical of “Liberals” with whom it is the severity of an allegation that is important regardless of the lack of veracity of any evidence. Also typical of the Liberals is their hypocrisy on the importance, in any matter of law, of something which has only their claims and allegations to stand on.

[Pagey]

Bttt!

[Tucker39]

Nobody is stifling or crippling Trump’s Presidency, although they’re trying desperately. God put Trump in the White House, and only God can remove him.

[mass55th]

"But there is a lot of smoke.”

Yeah, from whatever you Dems are smoking in the Senate Cloakroom.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“There’s a lot of smoke,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We have no smoking gun at this point. But there is a lot of smoke.”

fishing expedition
n.

An open-ended inquiry or investigation, often undertaken on the pretext of a minor or unrelated matter, whose real purpose is to uncover embarrassing or damaging information, as about a political opponent.

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