Posted on 05/14/2017 11:58:29 AM PDT by upchuck
[Schumer] said on Sunday that Democrats would consider refusing to vote on a new FBI director until a special prosecutor is named to investigate President Donald Trump’s potential ties to Russia.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said his caucus has not yet made a decision on whether to withhold their votes, but added that the issue is being looked at as a way to ensure there is a thorough investigation of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
“To have that special prosecutor, people would breathe a sigh of relief because then there would be a real independent person overlooking the FBI director,” Schumer told CNN’s “State of the Union” program.
It is extremely disturbing to me to see democrats and some republicans plot against President Trump to trip him up on something stemming from baseless charges.
By now, it is evident there is no collusion between Russia and Donald Trump in interfering with the 2016 election. If here had been any evidence, it would have surfaced long ago.
What the plotters are now attempting to do is to hamstring the President’s actions and at the same time set a trap for him to be accused of obstructing justice.
I remember that Nixon was never accused of ordering a break-in of a democrat Watergate office, rather he was accused and driven from office based on the ‘cover-up’.
Using a similar play, the democrats plot to set a trap for obstructing justice, nothing to do with the underlying charge or the veracity of that charge.
It reminds me of a friend who received a $512 parking ticket while attending a concert. He had received the ticket for parking in a ‘handicapped parking only’ area that was marked by orange traffic cones.
The parking spaces were not permanently marked, the traffic cones were put up after my friend had arrived early to park. Whoever put up the cones in my friend’s space and the spaces in a line with it, was a moron or sadistic. My friend had paid for parking, took the parking receipt to traffic court and was successful in his argument that the time on the receipt and the time of concert event trapped him, and that the parking spaces were not permanently marked.
THat is exactly the reason! Nothing more complicated.
K
Do you really want the uranium contract exposed? Or Podesta’s stock deal? Or Hitlery’s worldwide shakedown for her sham foundation?
Be careful where you tread, Chuckie Schmukie
right, there's plenty of known corrupt deals with the russians by podesta & hildabeast.
go for a special prosecutor.
comey never gave the foundation immunity.
Let them roast in hell until then, when it will get worse.
That's only part of it. Besides dragging it out forever, the special prosecutors job is to find a scapegoat to destroy even if no one broke any laws.
” We have a majority - 52”
There are no more than 30 senators who support the Presidency of Donald Trump and there may not even be that many.
If they ever get a Bill of Impeachment in front of this Senate, he’s gone. It will only take 25 House Republicans to defect, and if they can cook up even minimally convincing fake charges it might not be that hard to do.
It's truly wonderful to feel appropriate, thank you :)
Republicans control both chambers of the U.S. Congress. They hold 52 seats in the 100-member Senate, enough to approve a FBI nominee provided that no more than two Republican senators break ranks. In the event of a tie vote, Vice President Mike Pence would cast the deciding vote.
“The key is getting some of our Republican colleagues to join us,” Schumer said.
Now that is a great IDEA! LOL
Never happen. There are already too many secret Democrats or leaning in the Admin. Clark needs to stay here in WI - he’s the only person attempting to stop the Milwaukee inner city crime blight from spreading into the suburbs and beyond.
“To have that special prosecutor, people would breathe a sigh of relief because then there would be a real independent person overlooking the FBI director,”
Over looking the FBI director...
This is really what chuckie wants.
Not going to happen smuck
Smuck going to take his votes and go home...
Excellent question, apparently you can't. From the article:
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on Sunday there may come a time when a special prosecutor is needed but not now.
“Right now, it is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. So you don’t need a special prosecutor,” Graham said on “Meet the Press.”
Special prosecutor based on what evidence? I guess its the ‘seriousness of the charge ‘ that deserves an investivation?
“Nuke option!!!”
Bad Idea in exremis. When the Dems take control, and want to have enforced euthanasia on certain age groups or something similar - who will stand in their way?
Without any resolution, and lasting until the day a Democrat is sworn into the presidency (shudder); then it will be declared complete.
It would mean that you could lose a few Republicans and still win big. The vote could be 47-5.
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