Posted on 04/15/2018 4:40:49 PM PDT by bitt
“This great nation can tolerate a president who makes mistakes,” declared Senator Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican. “But it cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up.”
No, Mr. Hatch wasn’t talking about Donald Trump. It was 1999, and he was talking about Bill Clinton.
At that time, the American system — and the flawed yet sometimes heroic people their fellow Americans choose to lead them — underwent, and passed, a hard test: The president, his financial dealings and his personal relationships were painstakingly investigated for years. Prosecutors ultimately accused Mr. Clinton of lying under oath, to cover up a sexual affair. The House of Representatives impeached him, but the Senate declined to convict, and Mr. Clinton stayed in office.
The public, which learned in detail about everything investigators believed Mr. Clinton had done wrong, overwhelmingly agreed with the judgment of the Senate. It was a sad and sordid and at times distracting business, but the system worked.
Now Mr. Hatch and his fellow lawmakers may be approaching a harsher and more consequential test. We quote his words not to level some sort of accusation of hypocrisy, but to remind us all of what is at stake.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
But apparently DOJ is.
Funny, Obama always thought he was.
Right now the political/Media class in this country is using police state tactics, and a total contempt for the rule of law and intellectual honesty, to try an undo the results of a US election.They are currently demonstrating a complete contempt for the principals on which the Republic was founded
This is the greatest fundamental assault on the our Republic possibly ever.Powerful forces in our own government are simply ignore virtually every principal of our Democracy to push their extremist political agenda
And a large chunk of the “Conservative movement” thinks this is just “politics as usual”.
That is right. Neither are ex presidents who we intend to see living at GITMO very soon.
Apparently 0bama was. Apparently Clinton was.
we must be over the target, folks..
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"The President of the United States hasn't broken any laws. Your last desperate shot was Mueller, and he had nothing. The Friday @justiceoig release on McCabe has you scared. You know what's coming w the FISA report. The MSM lies are about to be laid bare."
Only Hillary and other Washington insiders are!
Right. Obama was NOT above the law. But he got away with it.
As far as I know, President Trump hasn’t been accused of breaking ANY law. This is all just partisan innuendo and pure BS.
And all this national turmoil over HILLARY? The woman that excoriated Trump over not saying he wouldn’t contest the results of the election?
Insanity. And desperation.
Hmm..looks like they are starting to set the table, has Mueller’s Rats started to leak stuff from the Cohen raid? That skank Mika B was shooting her mouth off today too.
He’s not above the law, but he’s above the Justice Department.
The public “overwhelmingly” wanted the perjurer to remain?
Maybe in New York City.
Elsewhere? Not so much.
Sorry NYT, there is no law in this country anymore.
What law do they allege he broke?
What crime?
Having sex in the oval office with an employee and perjuring himself about it?
Raping a woman 15 years earlier?
Taking bribes by using after hours trading to get rich, but only because you’re in the government?
We all know Mr. Trump has done none of those.
The people pointing a finger at him of course are guilty of all of them.
David Hogg is more rational than that editorial.
What is at stake is what they lost in Clinton not being anointed President. Clinton would have bombed the sh*t out of Syria much sooner and most likely a heavier "boots on ground" presence. So thus, they are hypocrites not mattering if it's Bill or Hillary Clinton. If Trump were a Democrat POTUS, this piece would be totally pro action.
Is the NY Times still in business?
That screed by the NY Slimes editorial board reads like they brought in a bunch of teenage sit ins for a go to work day school assignment.
THE PRESIDENT IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW
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