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Watergate prosecutor says Trump will ‘pay political price’ for resistance on Mueller report
The Independent via Yahoo ^ | 5/11/19 | Clark Mindock

Posted on 05/11/2019 5:19:16 PM PDT by Libloather

**SNIP**

Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor, told The Independent that any effort to keep Mr Mueller from testifying is likely to fail. And, the more it looks like Mr Trump and his team are resisting that effort – resisting the effort for Americans to hear “the truth”, as Ms Pelosi might put it – the more it will hurt the 45th president.

“I think ultimately Robert Mueller will testify, and that the more the president and his attorney general seek to delay or derail Mueller’s public testimony the more of a political price it will pay in the court of public opinion where people will be asking the logical question: what is the president hiding?” Mr Ben-Veniste said.

He continued: “Why does he fear Mr Mueller’s testimony before a congressional committee that obviously has the ability to provide bipartisan questioning?”

For her part, Ms Pelosi noted that those Watergate investigations into Richard Nixon also took time. Presidents aren’t impeached overnight, just like the Philadelphia 76ers didn’t build itself into a playoff calibre team overnight.

It takes time, and it takes a process.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benveniste; mueller; prosecutor; watergate
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To: Libloather

Trump holds all the cards. Once everything is declassified, they will all be running like cockroaches from an exterminator. All in good time. They take Trump for a fool. He will have the last laugh.


21 posted on 05/11/2019 6:10:25 PM PDT by Fungi
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they insist on comparing this to watergate....apples and oranges. By the same time frame, watergate was done and over with...wanna relive their glory days.


22 posted on 05/11/2019 6:17:00 PM PDT by basalt
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To: Libloather

The behavior by the deep state,media and the Rats is Watergate on steroids.


23 posted on 05/11/2019 6:17:47 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: basalt

where were all these watergate creeps when Obama used the IRS to fight his political opponents


24 posted on 05/11/2019 6:25:04 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: ronnie raygun

Stupid beyond all reason...


25 posted on 05/11/2019 6:27:48 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Libloather
He always was (and still is) a scumbag. I couldn't stand the guy at the time either


26 posted on 05/11/2019 6:30:22 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Libloather

Commies being commies


27 posted on 05/11/2019 6:33:17 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Libloather

so-called “experts” have been saying that DJT would pay the political price since he criticized john mccain for getting shot down.

it hasn’t happened yet.


28 posted on 05/11/2019 6:48:08 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Libloather

I wonder how many more he can get to stick their necks out before
DeClass brings down the house?

;-)

~Easy


29 posted on 05/11/2019 7:04:43 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Karl Spooner

Typical LIB lunatic under the cover of being an attorney . This nitwit oozes slime.


30 posted on 05/11/2019 7:12:57 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Libloather

One man’s opinion is not worth a nickle. These “experts” don’t know squat. The voters out here think seeing mueller would be a very dumb thing to do.


31 posted on 05/11/2019 7:13:21 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: Libloather

I hope the “ham sandwich” judge holds him in contempt before he testifies.


32 posted on 05/11/2019 7:22:27 PM PDT by Scram1 (an)
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To: Libloather

Little Dick here would look real good on his very own DC cherry tree...


33 posted on 05/11/2019 7:28:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: TigersEye

They’d ‘peach Trump for unobstructing Congress.


34 posted on 05/11/2019 8:27:23 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Chewbarkah

:)


35 posted on 05/11/2019 8:37:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Libloather
Watergate prosecutor says Trump will ‘pay political price’ for resistance on Mueller report

OOOoooohhh!


All of his grandchildren will be born naked.

36 posted on 05/11/2019 9:18:16 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: Libloather
... the logical question: what is the president hiding?” Mr Ben-Veniste said.

He continued: “Why does he fear Mr Mueller’s testimony before a congressional committee that obviously has the ability to provide bipartisan questioning?”

Another 'question': How much straw did it take to create this?

37 posted on 05/11/2019 9:19:30 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: shelterguy

The point is that the Dems want the public to believe that President Trump is stopping Mueller from giving testimony as a way of hiding the fact that it is the Dems who don’t want Mueller to talk.

Just like the issue of releasing the ‘report’ unredacted. The Dems want you to believe that the President won’t allow it to be released without redactions when it the Dems who don’t want the info that is redacted released.


38 posted on 05/11/2019 9:25:46 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Libloather

Anyone not notice this is the Soviet-Russian old guard of the democrat party coming out the woodwork?

What a joke.

Also I heard that Comey is a “Republican”, yet in his youth in college he was parading with known reds of the Obama clan


39 posted on 05/11/2019 9:33:35 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: plain talk

#5, Ask Richard which of his law firm’s staff he was sleeping with back in the 80s/90s.


40 posted on 05/11/2019 11:59:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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