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Money quote: “If there is strong suspicion that Manafort has committed fraud crimes unrelated to the 2016 campaign, then fine, investigate him. But investigate him as you would any other white-collar fraudster who (a) has counsel willing to honor your lawful demands to produce evidence and (b) has, at least ostensibly, been cooperative. Paul Manafort is not Osama bin Laden, so there’s no reason for Bob Mueller to make like the commander of Seal Team Six.

Why is this worth pointing out? Because someday, maybe, we’ll get around to asking: What would have happened if Hillary Clinton’s very real email scandal — with its mountainous evidence of felony mishandling of classified information and destruction of government records — had been investigated with the no-holds-barred vigor Mueller and his band of Hillary donors are applying to the surmise of Trump collusion in Russian espionage?”

1 posted on 09/23/2017 4:31:50 AM PDT by BurgessKoch
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This is ‘Swamp Justice’. We’re in ‘Banana Republic’ country now.


2 posted on 09/23/2017 4:37:15 AM PDT by CMailBag
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Must read at the source and thanks! For posting!


3 posted on 09/23/2017 4:46:09 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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When the swamp was not drained and in fact swamp facilitators were put in charge of key parts of the government by Trump himself, all was lost. Nothing ever changes in DC.


7 posted on 09/23/2017 4:47:11 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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There is no excuse for the use of these kinds of tactics. This is intimidation/terrorism, pure and simple.


9 posted on 09/23/2017 4:52:11 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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12 posted on 09/23/2017 4:56:51 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (World's Most Powerful Nation Falls To Invasion Of Mexican Peasants!)
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Manafort doesn’t appear to be an idiot. If he had/has any business records at his residence by the time the Gestapo raided his house - with all the warning signs that they were coming - then he is by definition an idiot.


13 posted on 09/23/2017 4:58:10 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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If AG Sessions still had an active brainwave he would be investigating Mueller for conflict of interest, misuse of public funds, and exceeding his authority as special prosecutor.


15 posted on 09/23/2017 5:02:16 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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The FBI is being/has been turned into a partisan political weapon for use against the trump administration. Time to start de-funding.


16 posted on 09/23/2017 5:04:52 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Dump Flake)
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No HONEST person is fooled by what is actually going on!
21 posted on 09/23/2017 5:12:47 AM PDT by Savage Beast (To the insane, the sane appear insane. MAGA = Renaissance!)
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What Mueller and the FBI did was make the former KBG look like a bunch of sweethearts.

Mueller is a POS punk that has made a lifetime of living off taxpayers. The swamp builds him up to be such an honorable man. There’s nothing honorable about this man and there’s nothing honorable about this entire investigation.

If these sorry ass POS swamp creatures think they’re going to hold Donald Trump to a higher standard than they do their Hillary Clinton and barack obama, they need a lesson that we won’t stand for them overthrowing our government.


22 posted on 09/23/2017 5:14:55 AM PDT by boycott
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Imprison Mueller for Election Fraud
and violating the 4th Amendment.

Republican silence ... crickets ...


23 posted on 09/23/2017 5:15:27 AM PDT by TheNext (Taxes are Hate !)
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Why is this worth pointing out? Because someday, maybe, we’ll get around to asking: What would have happened if Hillary Clinton’s very real email scandal — with its mountainous evidence of felony mishandling of classified information and destruction of government records — had been investigated with the no-holds-barred vigor Mueller and his band of Hillary donors are applying to the surmise of Trump collusion in Russian espionage?”

POST OF THE DAY!

25 posted on 09/23/2017 5:19:25 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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The left is totally out of control.


26 posted on 09/23/2017 5:20:56 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live
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McCarthy reveals why Mueller did this; he just doesn’t realize it:

“After he had already surrendered 300 pages of documents to investigative committees?”

I’d say the raid was Mueller’s way of telling Manafort to stop all this cooperating with Congressional investigators, especially giving them documents. The other reason is to get headlines that imply Manafort must be guilty of something, and that imply Mueller is doing something, with the added bonus of intimidating Trump supporters who might fear gestapo attention. My expectation is that Mueller will end up issuing a report that says Manafort and Trump are guilty, just not of any actual crimes.


30 posted on 09/23/2017 5:31:05 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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31 posted on 09/23/2017 5:31:49 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (World's Most Powerful Nation Falls To Invasion Of Mexican Peasants!)
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Intimidation tactics - sounds so very similar to the ones used in Wisconsin with the "John Doe" midnight SWAT raids against supporters of Gov. Scott Walker (R) by a VERY LEFTist Democrat District Attorney, John Chisholm, of Madison County, WI.

The raids happened in 2013, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that there was no basis for the raids and that the defendants were free to continue their civil suits against the officials who harmed them.

Is this the same playbook? Is not this, ARMED government agents forcibly entering residences, one of the listed grievances for the US Declaration of Independence?

33 posted on 09/23/2017 5:35:39 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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With each passing day I’m getting more convinced that Manafort is going to walk on any charges that might be filed against him. There have been so many problems with the tactics used against him — dating all the way back to the FISA warrant originally used to conduct the surveillance on him — that most of the evidence used to prosecute him may never stand up in court anyway.


36 posted on 09/23/2017 5:48:49 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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A special counsel needs to be appointed to investigate Mueller for malicious prosecution/prosecutorial abuse. Someone like Joe DiGenova, not a milquetoast.


40 posted on 09/23/2017 5:55:47 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.))
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Mueller using people to cover up what a mess Bill Clinton, Bami did for 16 years...

They tell us everyday, if you watch and listen to a liberal, what they have done, what they are doing and what they are going to do...they have done it all...

And on the Sessions thing, it could be that man is quietly sitting back building a case that will take the whole of the Dem party down forever...ever think about that...yeah he's working on ‘immigration’ an important thing, but unless we are right there knowing what is going on, we don't know...that's the problem, quietly going around as business as usual and then one day the Government explodes...

51 posted on 09/23/2017 6:08:45 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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If there are unlawful acts by Mueller, then he can justifiably be removed.


52 posted on 09/23/2017 6:09:04 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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