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[Trump vs Swamp] The swamp strikes back
Washington Times ^ | 7.20.2017 | Wesley Pruden

Posted on 07/21/2017 4:43:14 PM PDT by libh8er

A lot of snakes and scorpions live with the alligators in the swamp, and there are even more dangerous monsters there. No swamp creature is deadlier than a Washington lawyer.

The president is beginning to understand why he should never have agreed to his attorney general appointing a special prosecutor. We’re supposed to call him a “special counsel,” which may sound more upright, more punctilious and less fearsome, but words don’t fool anyone who lives in the swamp. A special counsel is hired to destroy the prey, like the gunfighter hired in Cheyenne to chase the sodbusters out of the valley.

The difference between a Cheyenne gunfighter and a special prosecutor is that the Cheyenne gunfighter is assigned to provoke a specific sodbuster to draw on him. A special prosecutor can choose an alternate target, just so he hits somebody. Kenneth Starr was hired to investigate Bill Clinton’s investments in White River waterfront property and wound up in Bubba’s underwear, and everything went downhill from there.

Robert Mueller was hired to investigate Donald Trump’s Russian connections, to get an indictment for something. “The Russian scandal” is recognized now to be a dry hole. So Mr. Mueller and his crack team of previously unemployed swamp lawyers are moving on to play the voyeur among the president’s business ventures. Maybe there’s something there. If not in the president’s ventures, maybe something nefarious in the business of his children or other associates.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; gope; mueller; pruden; second100days; swamp; trump
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1 posted on 07/21/2017 4:43:15 PM PDT by libh8er
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2 posted on 07/21/2017 4:47:05 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Mueller is the face of the swamp


3 posted on 07/21/2017 4:51:25 PM PDT by libh8er
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Trump needs to be calling Mueller out via Twitter daily...let Sekelow help him craft the tweets - like the Podesta -Russia investment - or fire him and them. This is war.


4 posted on 07/21/2017 4:53:20 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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The president is beginning to understand why he should never have agreed to his attorney general appointing a special prosecutor.

Did Trump agree to that? And, of course, it was the Deputy AG who appointed Mueller, not the AG.

5 posted on 07/21/2017 5:04:17 PM PDT by Will88
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I WAN'T TRUMP!


6 posted on 07/21/2017 5:07:10 PM PDT by JPG (MAGA)
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I think Trump needs to do the following:

1. Change the scope of the investigation to include all supposed Russian influence, specify the Uranium deal, money to the Clinton Foundation, and money paid to BJ & Podesta.

2. Require Mueller to detail why he does not have a conflict of interest because of his Comey connection.

Then fire him. Trump Supporters will not care.

7 posted on 07/21/2017 5:08:28 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Trump the anti politician. About time!)
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"Robert Mueller was hired to investigate Donald Trump’s Russian connections, to get an indictment for something."

To me that's comment is not correct.

Original quote from Rod Rosenstein's statement on hiring Mueller:

"The letter announcing the appointment says that Mueller is authorized to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and...any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation."

Looking at Trump's business dealings through his years as a businessman is not within the scope or parameters of his assigned investigation.

8 posted on 07/21/2017 5:11:22 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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The last special prosecutor knew from the outset that Richard Armitage was the leaker of Valerie Plame and yet continued until he trapped Scooter Libby.
Mueller doesn’t care what they had in mind when they hired him.


9 posted on 07/21/2017 5:33:07 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Looking at Trump's business dealings through his years as a businessman is not within the scope or parameters of his assigned investigation.

Normal people wouldn't think so but to a lawyer "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation" is a hole that a Mack truck will fit comfortably through.

10 posted on 07/21/2017 5:33:08 PM PDT by semimojo
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You are absolutely correct. Rosenstein has taken a hands off approach to this thing but he created this monster, he has to rein it in.

Also I want to know what this thing is costing us. How do we find out?


11 posted on 07/21/2017 5:40:21 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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"Normal people wouldn't think so but to a lawyer "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation" is a hole that a Mack truck will fit comfortably through."

Way too much lee way to expand the scope, especially with liberal lawyers that have an axe to grind. Under that guideline, Mueller might as well go back and investigate the business dealings of Trump's father, and grandfather, how many diapers Donald soiled as a toddler during a 24 hour period, did any of his stool contain traces of Russian dressing, when, why, how, and to whom did he lose his virginity? Was it to a Russian?

12 posted on 07/21/2017 5:45:37 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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White water. The name of the development was White Wayer


13 posted on 07/21/2017 5:50:09 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds will parents sometimes foster first but not always)
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Precisely


14 posted on 07/21/2017 5:52:32 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds will parents sometimes foster first but not always)
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Johnson County War underway...


15 posted on 07/21/2017 5:53:30 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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Trump Supporters would applaud and then party for a couple of days.

It would be an object lesson for Sessions.


16 posted on 07/21/2017 5:56:51 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: libh8er

2016: “MAGA - A New Hope”

2017-19: “The Swampire Strikes Back”

2020: “The Return of DJT”


17 posted on 07/21/2017 5:57:34 PM PDT by mikrofon ('Starr' Wars)
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Trump has US...


18 posted on 07/21/2017 6:00:09 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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If Trump has the power to fire Mueller and close the investigation he better do so. Or the shi! that happens he will lose millions of his support. The lack of realizing this is war and currently we are about to lose. FIRE the Special Counsel.
19 posted on 07/21/2017 6:05:55 PM PDT by Logical me
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Special SWAMPCREATURE ALERT! The SWAMP is YUGE. Tippy-toe in, Bob. Intel agent? /s


20 posted on 07/21/2017 6:43:40 PM PDT by PGalt
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