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Trump didn't obstruct justice or collude with Russia -- So why impeach?
Fox News ^ | August 4, 2019 | Deroy Murdock

Posted on 08/04/2019 2:26:56 PM PDT by Kaslin

Notwithstanding the catastrophic congressional appearances by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's nervousness about impeachment, 118 die-hard Democrats (plus renegade former Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan), are hell-bent on prying President Trump from the White House, long before Election Day 2020. But for what?

"Trump-Russia collusion” turned out to be a bad acid trip, although the attendant hallucinations still reverberate among fervent Democrats. As for obstruction of justice, there was none. Somebody should explain this to these Trump haters — perhaps with crayons and butcher paper.

Here’s what impeachment-grade obstruction looks like.

On June 17, 1972, the so-called White House "plumbers" illegally broke into the Democratic National Committee’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in the Watergate office complex to spy on President Richard Milhous Nixon’s opponents.

Nixon and his top aides unlawfully funneled “hush money” to these criminals, in cash, so they would clam up rather than sing. Nixon and his top aides also pressured the CIA to tell the FBI, in Nixon’s words: "Stay the hell out of this."

Nixon six times asserted his presidential right to executive privilege and hid incriminating materials from scrutiny (not least Oval Office audiotapes of Nixon conspiring with his henchmen). This cover-up prompted Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974.

In contrast, Russiagate involved no underlying crime. According to Mueller's report: "The Special Counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes."

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KEYWORDS: declassification; deroymurdock; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fbi; fisa; impeachment; jamescomey; lisapage; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; peterstrzok; presstitutes; robertmueller; smearmachine
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To: Kaslin

Because the dems are sore losers.


21 posted on 08/04/2019 3:29:48 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: SunkenCiv

Stopped reading immediately after “Harvard Law Prof”.


22 posted on 08/04/2019 4:05:53 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: Kaslin

they’re not gonna attempt impeachment ... just yammer about it up until election day ... the Dems don’t have the votes in their own caucus to do it, and if they did, they’d be almost guaranteed to lose the House and the Presidency in 2020 ...

however, the big downside of all that yammering with no actual action is bound to disillusion a certain class of voters, reducing their enthusiasm for the Dems in general ...


23 posted on 08/04/2019 4:07:21 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Kaslin

He beat their Goddess, Hilliary!!


24 posted on 08/04/2019 4:18:10 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

He beat the Polyester Pants off of Hillary


25 posted on 08/04/2019 4:46:13 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Kaslin

Because they need something to incite their rabid base?


26 posted on 08/04/2019 4:53:37 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: Kaslin

27 posted on 08/04/2019 5:07:34 PM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: Kaslin
Trump didn't obstruct justice or collude with Russia -- So why impeach?

Not in any particular order, nor a complete list:

1. They hate him.
2. He took down 2 political "dynasties": a. Bush b. Clinton
3. He made Seobarkah's birth certificate an issue: National media picked up on Trump questioning Barry's citizenship/B.C. March 2011. April 27, 2011 Barry is forced to release the (forged) long form bc because of Trumps national pressure. [1]
4. October 24, 2012, Trump offered to donate five million dollars to the charity of Obama's choice in return for the publication of his college and passport applications. [1]
5. Trump has been a thorn in the swamps side since at least 2011.

28 posted on 08/04/2019 5:26:04 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: ClearCase_guy

GOP should just vote present if impeachment comes up in the House. Give the Dems their impeachment party in the Senate. It won’t end well for them. Guaranteed.


29 posted on 08/04/2019 5:30:23 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Kaslin

Their logic goes another way.
According to them Trump has to be impeached and that is why collusion.
It is not as if Trump has to be impeached because of collusion.


30 posted on 08/04/2019 7:17:57 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: SunkenCiv

How do you get to be a Harvard Law Professor when you can’t think straight???


31 posted on 08/04/2019 8:15:32 PM PDT by Aria
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To: Aria
Race-norming and racial preferences in admissions and financial aid.

32 posted on 08/04/2019 8:23:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: drypowder

“the accused horse thief didn’t actually steal any horses..”

However he thought about stealing horses; or, the prosecutors suspected that he was thinking about it. Guilty!


33 posted on 08/04/2019 9:22:02 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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To: Kaslin

Because “we think the People screwed up and we want to give the people a chance to pay for it until we can get the People to vote for our guy...because the People are so stupid they don’t know what’s good for them...but we really want the People to vote for us....”


34 posted on 08/05/2019 5:29:43 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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