I continue to hope that Trump won't be impeached because, amongst other things, that would make him a martyr of the hard right and lessen or even reverse the electoral damage they are starting to accrue — andrewk
"People in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values." — andrewk
think that if Mueller finds evidence of severe wrongdoing on Trump's part, they will offer him a way out, if they can keep it under wraps... — creativesoul
Keep it under wraps? Are you suggesting that Mueller would involve himself in a cover up? — Metaphysician Undercover
Besides, collusion is a vague term. It's not an official crime. — frank
In reality...there’s already overwhelming evidence of the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia. As details of Trump’s Russia connections have dribbled out over the last year and a half, each revelation has led to a familiar, numbing cycle of shock, impotent anger, and, finally, resignation.
Try to remember, if you can, how astonishing it was on Jan. 6, 2017, when America’s intelligence community made public its finding that Russia had intervened in our election to help Trump. Imagine if we’d known then just a fraction of what we know now: like the November 2015 email exchange between Felix Sater, a Trump associate and convicted felon with ties to Russian organized crime, and the Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, recently the subject of an F.B.I. raid. Sater boasted, “Buddy, our boy can become president of the U.S.A. and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this.” We still don’t know what Sater meant by this. Republicans have shown a staggering lack of interest in finding out.
Imagine if, as we were learning about Russian measures last January, we’d also found out about the Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s offer to deliver briefings to a Russian oligarch to whom he was deeply in debt. And if we’d known that one Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, had been in frequent communication with someone who claimed to be from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and that the F.B.I. suspected another campaign adviser, Carter Page, of being a Russian agent.
...When intelligence agency veterans — including James Comey, the former director of national intelligence James Clapper and the former C.I.A. director John Brennan — speak out with alarm about Trump, the media debates their propriety, while Republicans frame their contempt for the president as evidence of a deep-state conspiracy. When a brave comedian, Michelle Wolf, jeered at the administration’s indecency at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the Washington establishment had a fainting fit at the violation of its safe space.
Under Trump, the central battle in our culture is between truth and power. The truth hidden among the propaganda in the House Intelligence Committee’s majority report is that power is winning.
He is fumbling all about the place because he knows he is caught. The whole investigation is falling apart and has been for some time. — Dalai Dahmer
Ii has been a case of investigating a person rather than investigating a crime. — Dalai Dahmer
No crime has been identified.
Crime is what is supposed to be investigated which goes for every individual. — Dalai Dahmer
This whole farce, remember, is an "insurance policy" in case Hillary lost the election. — Dalai Dahmer
That is how thuggery works. Family members are threatened and incomes are threatened.Müller's investigation has so far resulted in 22 plea deals and indictments. Hardly a farce. — Benkei
Right. So suspicious behaviour should be ignored because we cannot link a specific crime with it? I really hope you never get into law enforcement with that idea of what investigations are supposed to accomplish. — Benkei
Keep watching. You'll see. — Dalai Dahmer
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