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Post-Watergate reforms may frame DOJ decision over prosecuting Trump
The hill ^ | 06/17/2022 | John Kruzel

Posted on 06/17/2022 12:58:00 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The break-in at the Watergate complex 50 years ago today led to a sweeping government ethics overhaul that included a push to insulate the Department of Justice (DOJ) from politics.

In a historical twist, this nearly half-century-old corrective may help frame the DOJ’s fraught decision over whether to criminally charge former President Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election results.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: decision; doj; trump; watergate
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1 posted on 06/17/2022 12:58:00 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Horse hockey


2 posted on 06/17/2022 12:59:39 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Watergate was the left’s revenge on Nixon for outing their hero Alger Hiss.


3 posted on 06/17/2022 1:01:10 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess that is why the DohJ felt so free to prosecute Hillary.


4 posted on 06/17/2022 1:01:20 PM PDT by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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To: Vaquero

Or it could be the lack of a crime or supporting evidence of a conspiracy to commit one guiding it.


5 posted on 06/17/2022 1:03:47 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BS


6 posted on 06/17/2022 1:04:48 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hill joins the gaslighting... it helps a lot if there is a crime before you prosecute someone..


7 posted on 06/17/2022 1:04:56 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Prosecuting him for what?

Being the object of false accusations?


8 posted on 06/17/2022 1:05:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Crime is Crime is Crime.

Which of the 57 Comandments were broken?

Yeah I know there used to be Ten, but legal inflation y’know


9 posted on 06/17/2022 1:06:25 PM PDT by algore
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Interesting how every Demon has forgotten the election of 2000...you know when AlGore was positive he was robbed and took it all the way to the Supremes? And how Hitlery is still positive she was robbed in 2016? And is STILL claiming such?

Naw, none of that counts. rat bastids!


10 posted on 06/17/2022 1:07:56 PM PDT by blu (Bagster's ping on the side oh, and FJB!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They will not stop until they get some wacko to assassinate Trump

Mark my words, they will do their best to make the Summer of 2024 as violent as “68” was when Kennedy and King were assassinated.


11 posted on 06/17/2022 1:07:58 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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Hey, John Kruzel, you low IQ ahole....President Trump didn’t try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

It actually WAS overturned in the wee morning hours of November 4th by the demon crats in a widespread conspiracy to deny President Trump his rightful victory, along with an assist by the GOPe and the media.


12 posted on 06/17/2022 1:09:14 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wondered why Watergate was back in so many news stories today.


13 posted on 06/17/2022 1:10:59 PM PDT by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They should be careful what they wish for. Eliminating Trump would pave a Golden road for DeSantist.


14 posted on 06/17/2022 1:11:24 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I'll ask my question again:

If President Trump incited the MAGA crowd to riot, then why were the first people inside the Capitol the guy in the Conan suit, the BLM/ANTIFA photographer, and a lady with a bullhorn giving instructions through a broken window to people wearing gas masks?

-PJ

15 posted on 06/17/2022 1:16:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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That is one can of worms that none of those bastards want to go near.


16 posted on 06/17/2022 1:17:53 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Help me here.
Was Trump pushing for Pence to outright make him President as democrats seem to say
OR
Was he pushing for Pence to call for investigation of certain states results due to suspected vote counting irregularities.

Big difference


17 posted on 06/17/2022 1:18:46 PM PDT by dmet
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill Fag .

https://thehill.com/author/john-kruzel/


18 posted on 06/17/2022 1:24:46 PM PDT by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: dmet

Garland must be impeached not for future decisions to go
after Trump, but for not enforcing laws protecting SCOTUS
from terrorists who want to intimidate their deliberations
and decisions. Very dangerous to justice.


19 posted on 06/17/2022 1:25:33 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (f)
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Post-Watergate reforms may frame DOJ decision over prosecuting Trump

Fixed it for them. The DOJ doesn't care one iota about justice - they only want to protect the Deep Swamp and all the swamp critters.

20 posted on 06/17/2022 1:25:49 PM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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