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Opinion: Trump's obstruction of justice is far more extensive than Nixon's
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 12, 2018 | by Harry Litman, The Washington Post

Posted on 02/12/2018 12:24:45 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Harry Litman is proof there are more horses’ azzes than horses.


21 posted on 02/12/2018 12:31:52 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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This FISA scandal is bigger than Watergate because Watergate did not compromise the leading law enforcement agency of the US government.
- Dinesh D'Souza
22 posted on 02/12/2018 12:32:25 PM PST by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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Let’s turn this board into the Democratic Underground.


23 posted on 02/12/2018 12:32:39 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I read the whole piece and still have no idea what his legal argument is for a specific crime, except that he is hoping for obstruction.

However:
Ultimately, the political argument is just a way to dress up the grim fact that the Republican majority seems indifferent to the strength and severity of the charges that Mueller is developing. Its sole allegiance is to the preservation of political control, to which end Republicans have embraced an embarrassing series of diversionary tactics and bogus defenses of the president. Indeed, there seems to be nothing Trump could do that would justify impeachment in Republicans’ eyes.

Congressional Republicans are all in on defense of party over country. They are determined for temporary political gain to prop up a leader who is a rogue, a constitutional menace, and yes, a criminal no less than Nixon. They have lost all sense of constitutional duty. If they do not find a way to regain it, history will judge them harshly.

I give you Bill Clinton....


24 posted on 02/12/2018 12:32:43 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Indeed, there seems to be nothing Trump could do that would justify impeachment in Republicans' eyes.

Exactly. Now he gets it. Buh-bye!

25 posted on 02/12/2018 12:32:56 PM PST by montag813
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It really is unbelievable with these people. Here we are just a little over a year into Trump being President and that they very seldom (if ever) talk about anything but these nothing burger allegations of obstruction and these stupid and ridiculous comparisons with Nixon.


26 posted on 02/12/2018 12:33:00 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: ClearCase_guy

In only one place does it make sense.
The tide has started to turn with voters on who did what.
The MSM-DNC-Meda Matters can’t afford to let the message get to CA.


27 posted on 02/12/2018 12:33:02 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Now that a consensus is beginning to emerge that special counsel Robert Mueller has the evidence to make a compelling case of obstruction of justice against President Trump,

This opening line is completely unsubstantiated by facts, and the columnist goes downhill from there. All they have to go on is wishful thinking. You can't submit that as evidence in court.

28 posted on 02/12/2018 12:33:16 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This article doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Not legal, not logical. The “obstruction” meme was, what, something like 45 and then 120 days ago? I forget.

I’m not even going to explain why. Levin, Dershowitz, and Bongino have explained this multiple times, ad nauseum.


29 posted on 02/12/2018 12:33:23 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More nonsense from the CIA’s favorite propaganda outlet.


30 posted on 02/12/2018 12:33:44 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nixon=Obama.

Anyway, how does one obstruct an investigation that should never have happened in the first place? Where was the probable cause? Where was and is the evidence of collusion. Is collusion even a crime?

The American People (excluding the leftists) see this for what it is, a coup d’etat. The MSM has seen the polls and knows it has lost the narrative. Now cometh the wish casting.


31 posted on 02/12/2018 12:34:17 PM PST by FlipWilson (The)
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I blame the impotent Republicans for letting Democrats pull this crap for years and years without being drug though the mud and ridiculed. Obstruction of justice should not be even considerable as a charge unless there is proof of a crime. Unless, there is destruction of evidence - like Hillary destroying hard drives, sim cards, and cell phones. The corrupt Democrat playbook, frame someone with fake evidence in order to get appointment of a special counsel, set a perjury trap based on bs, then indict on obstruction of justice. This makes the KGB look like pikers. If we stand for this we are done as a nation.
32 posted on 02/12/2018 12:34:29 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The city of San Francisco should consider handing out the San Fransisco Chronicle to the homeless to be used as poop mats. You know like Doggy mats. I hear the city has lots of poop in the streets and what better use for the SF Chronicle than that. Win/Win.


33 posted on 02/12/2018 12:34:30 PM PST by vespa300
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good for a laugh. The author has a future at The Onion.


34 posted on 02/12/2018 12:34:51 PM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Nifster

This is wishful fantasy by the communists. The president cannot obstruct justice because the president isbthe head of the justice department..nixon was never impeached for anything especially obstruction of justice. Justice was in fact obstructed in not prosecuting hillary for destruction of evidence. Thousands of violations of the espionage act snd recieving bribes from russians to sell them iranium .


35 posted on 02/12/2018 12:35:05 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Opinion: Keep WaPo journalists away from all tools beyond their meagre capability to understand.

Such as wedges, screwdrivers, etc.


36 posted on 02/12/2018 12:35:14 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
. . .a consensus is beginning to emerge that special counsel Robert Mueller has the evidence to make a compelling case of obstruction of justice against President Trump . . .

Exactly where is that particular "consensus" emerging?

37 posted on 02/12/2018 12:35:19 PM PST by madprof98
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Congressional Republicans are all in on defense of party Country over party. country

You buffoon history will judge you harshly.

38 posted on 02/12/2018 12:35:25 PM PST by BoneHead
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To: sauropod

Me neither, but this says it all:

“regularly appears as a commmentator (sic) on MSNBC and other outlets.”


39 posted on 02/12/2018 12:36:26 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

40 posted on 02/12/2018 12:36:29 PM PST by caww
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