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Turning the Rule of Law on its head
The Daily Caller ^ | 5/29/2019 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 05/30/2019 4:37:22 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton called for an investigation into Robert Mueller for suggesting “wrongdoing by an innocent person without any foundation.”

Fitton’s Wednesday night appearance on Fox Business’ “Lou Dobbs Tonight” comes after the former special counsel delivered prepared remarks regarding his investigation.

“Well, I don’t know what reputation he had that deserved any credence until now, but it’s no longer there,” Fitton told Dobbs. “He’s really destroyed whatever reputation he’s had with this political attack on the president, turning the rule of law on its head, suggesting the president is guilty and, because he can’t prove otherwise, we should conclude that he should be impeached.”

Calling it “an abuse of power,” Fitton said that Attorney General Barr has been “too deferential” to Mueller and should have “shut down” the “report before it was even written.”

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1 posted on 05/30/2019 4:37:22 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist
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To: New Jersey Realist

It’s almost comedy, really. The USA is dead and the DOJ and their FBI killed it.


2 posted on 05/30/2019 4:38:48 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: New Jersey Realist

Mueller looks like he’s very ill and dying. Brain issue perhaps alzheimers. He lost whatever respect he used to have.


3 posted on 05/30/2019 4:42:19 AM PDT by Rapscallion (If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
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To: All
(HAT TIP CHRIS STIGALL)

Self-serving cronies Mueller and Comey pulling the same tricks:
<><> abusing their govt positions
<><> undermining our institutions
<><> in it for their own vanity and partisan wishes
<><> saving (Hillary); tarnishing (Trump)
<><> pumping themselves as straight-shooting paragons of virtue.

In sum:

Deep State Clinton investigation: “We have conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but we don’t believe she intended to."

Deep State Trump investigation: “We can’t find any conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but we’re certain he intended to.”

4 posted on 05/30/2019 4:44:40 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: New Jersey Realist

Still waiting for AG Barr to start issuing his first (of many) indictments.


5 posted on 05/30/2019 4:51:23 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: New Jersey Realist

The irony is, if Barr is serious about ferreting out abuses, Mueller should be called testify before the Senate and answer questions about his investigation. And his refusal to do would be, what?

Can you say: obstruction of justice?

Too bad Barr is a ‘friend’ of this creep.


6 posted on 05/30/2019 4:53:09 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ( (optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: New Jersey Realist
The really sad thing is that "obstruction of justice" can mean anything they want it to mean. Most of you are too young to remember the unrelenting Democrat/Media/Pro-North Vietnamese attacks on Nixon throughout his presidency. Even though President Nixon accomplished great things, the push to get rid of him was a daily, hourly thing that never stopped.

We had never had a phenomenon like that before - and since the Left controls history, that mess has been depicted as the "righteous people rising up and removing a criminal and corrupt President". It turns out that whatever incorrect things Nixon did by commission or omission, they paled in the presence of JFK, LBJ, Clinton, and Obama.

The attacks on President Trump are following the same playbook. It's up to us to stop them.

7 posted on 05/30/2019 4:55:28 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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Nearly two years ago I predicted that the whole charade had nothing to do with "Russian collusion" and was nothing more than a fabricated investigation whose sole purpose was to have President Trump fire Mueller so Congress could impeach him for "obstruction of justice."

Against the ridiculous wishes of many conservatives (including a lot of Freepers), Trump never took the bait.

The whole thing ended in a whimper.

Mueller's stupid public statement yesterday was the inevitable result of what would happen when President Trump didn't take the bait.

"My investigation was a complete farce, but I can't say for sure that the President didn't obstruct justice. Now I have to just go away and f#%& myself."

8 posted on 05/30/2019 4:55:33 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: New Jersey Realist

There is no rule of law

Rather there is a tyranny of lawyers.


9 posted on 05/30/2019 4:56:54 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: New Jersey Realist

Grahamnesty should subpoena Muler to testify and put him in the hot seat.


10 posted on 05/30/2019 5:15:03 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: New Jersey Realist
Congress doesn’t need any reason whatsoever to impeach Trump. Impeachment is a political process where Congress itself determines what rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.

That said, this supposed obstruction of justice is very weak. For example, Trump didn’t actually fire Mueller. Even if he had done so, their are many people who believe it cannot be obstruction when one is merely exercising their legitimate powers under the laws and constitution. For example, Trump cannot obstruct justice by firing someone who works for Trump in the executive branch. The DOJ works for the president BTW.

11 posted on 05/30/2019 5:19:22 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: New Jersey Realist

Trump-Trap is over.


12 posted on 05/30/2019 6:07:50 AM PDT by abclily
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To: New Jersey Realist

July 5, 2016 - James Comey: We found all kinds of evidence Hillary Clinton committed crimes but she didn’t intend to do so.

May 29, 2019 - Robert Mueller: We couldn’t find any evidence Donald Trump committed crimes but he definitely intended to do so.


13 posted on 05/30/2019 6:14:39 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: Rapscallion
Mueller looks like he’s very ill and dying. Brain issue perhaps alzheimers.


14 posted on 05/30/2019 6:48:53 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: bert

“There is a tyranny of lawyers.”

Excellent! My I borrow that for my tagline?


15 posted on 05/30/2019 8:50:04 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: polymuser

of course......


16 posted on 05/30/2019 9:57:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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