“Six women accused Judge Alex Kozinski of inappropriate behavior, which included pulling up pornographic images in the office and telling one former clerk that she should work out naked, according to a report.
Heidi Bond, who clerked for Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, said he once called her into his office to ask whether a pornographic photo was photoshopped.”
““In an ideal world, you would have both character and [the right policy positions], but we don’t live an ideal world—we live in a fallen world,” Robert Jeffress, a pastor of First Baptist Dallas and a Trump adviser, told me. “That’s not to say character isn’t important. It’s certainly important. But it’s one of many factors you have to look at … character, competence, policy. Depending on where the country is at the time, you have to determine which of those is most important.”
Character still counts, in other words, but its market value has plummeted.
At a time when sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men are rocking many of America’s institutions, some Christians lament this deemphasizing of morality. “This really is a moment in which we ought to be having a conversation about how much character counts in all walks of life,” said David P. Gushee, a Baptist pastor and professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University in Georgia. “Instead, it is mainly a moment in which our side points to the character flaws of their side, and so on.”
Why did the values voters surrender on the character question? Gushee blames “hyper-partisanship”—and, indeed, it’s hard not to see Trump-era tribalism at work here. But leading conservative Christians told me the reasons extend beyond the latest election.
Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said that many of his fellow evangelicals have simply lost faith in the caliber of America’s political leaders. “In the 1960 presidential election, the voters basically assumed the basic moral probity of both Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy,” he told me. “Forty years later, voters came to understand that one was a serial philanderer and the other was a paranoid leader who was a habitual liar … We live in an entirely different information environment, and I do think that changes a lot.”
With modern technology and media making it more common than ever for politicians’ private transgressions to be exposed, Mohler said, conservative Christians are adjusting their expectations accordingly. And while Mohler couldn’t bring himself to support Trump in 2016—he’d been an outspoken critic of Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, and felt it would be hypocritical to give Trump a pass—he says he understands how other evangelicals justified their vote for the Republican nominee. “I’m not going to throw them under the bus,” he told me. “They’re not wrong that important issues are at stake.”
David Brody, a correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network who has co-authored a forthcoming “spiritual biography” of Trump, said many outside observers fail to grasp the desperation and urgency felt throughout much of conservative Christianity.
“The way evangelicals see the world, the culture is not only slipping away—it’s slipping away in all caps, with four exclamation points after that. It’s going to you-know-what in a handbasket,” Brody told me. “Where does that leave evangelicals? It leaves them with a choice. Do they sacrifice a little bit of that ethical guideline they’ve used in the past in exchange for what they believe is saving the culture?
Of course, it could be argued that the culture suffers when a man of unbridled appetites and unimpressive impulse control is placed in the Oval Office. (In fact, many on the religious right advanced this very argument when Clinton was president.) But Brody says that encroaching secularism, combined with a perceived liberal hostility toward people of faith, has prompted many conservative Christians to support any politician who will protect their traditions. “Donald Trump always talks about bringing back ‘Merry Christmas’ and everybody laughs. But it’s not just about saying ‘Merry Christmas’—it’s about the idea behind it,” Brody said. “They are voting for a person who will be a placeholder for their values. They’re not voting for a person who is going to be Mother Teresa.””
“Donald Trump’s first year in office has been, to put it mildly, a rocky one. But it can be argued that he’s ending it on an upswing.
Congress is likely to soon pass a tax reform bill. Robert Mueller’s “Russia Squad” is getting its first round of bad press. Judge Roy Moore is favored to win next week’s Senate election in Alabama with Trump’s support. The Supreme Court has acquiesced to Trump’s travel ban for now (while it waits for the lower courts to rule). The Supreme Court also offers hope to social conservatives in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, facilitated by Trump’s appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the bench. The economy is booming. Blue-collar wages are on the rise.
Meanwhile, many of Trump’s enemies are still harboring their go-nowhere fantasies of impeachment. This isn’t to say that Trump’s presidency couldn’t still end in his removal from office. But even if it does, that day is still a long way off, and will likely depend on massive Democratic gains in next year’s midterms.
There’s more. The recent revelations concerning sexual harassment and abuse have somehow worked to Trump’s advantage despite his own sordid history and the allegations against him. Numerous big-time Democratic lawmakers and Trump antagonists who have long portrayed themselves as champions of women have been revealed to be not only serial harassers but also hypocrites.
Right now, good fortune seems to be on the president’s side. It could all come undone in a heartbeat, but it’s fair to say that the president seems to be racking up wins.”
We should be praying for all these people. “Doing what is right in your own eyes,” is so tempting when you think you know what is right and others do not. Does the end ever justify the means?
He has shown you oh (wo)man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you: to do justice, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Love your neighbors as yourself.
“Another example, though less popularly known, is the prosecution of Arthur Andersen accounting firm and Enron executives. Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell has a column in The Hill about those prosecutions and lead prosecutor Andrew Weissman:
Weissmann, as deputy and later director of the Enron Task Force, destroyed the venerable accounting firm of Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs worldwide — only to be reversed several years later by a unanimous Supreme Court.
Next, Weissmann creatively criminalized a business transaction between Merrill Lynch and Enron. Four Merrill executives went to prison for as long as a year. Weissmann’s team made sure they did not even get bail pending their appeals, even though the charges Weissmann concocted, like those against Andersen, were literally unprecedented.
Weissmann’s prosecution devastated the lives and families of the Merrill executives, causing enormous defense costs, unimaginable stress and torturous prison time. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the mass of the case.
Weissmann quietly resigned from the Enron Task Force just as the judge in the Enron Broadband prosecution began excoriating Weissmann’s team and the press began catching on to Weissmann’s modus operandi.”
“Much has been written about the prosecutorial prowess of Robert Mueller’s team assembled to investigate allegations of Russia’s involvement in the Trump campaign. Little has been said of the danger of prosecutorial overreach and the true history of Mueller’s lead prosecutor.”
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“Yet Mueller tapped a different sort of prosecutor to lead his investigation — his long-time friend and former counsel, Andrew Weissmann. He is not just a “tough” prosecutor. Time after time, courts have reversed Weissmann’s most touted “victories” for his tactics. This is hardly the stuff of a hero in the law.”
AJ @ 1:31 So Trumpers are now taking the side of Wall Street executives against the prosecutors who pressed charges against those who participated in the Enron scandal which cost thousands of people their jobs and their life savings?
Aren’t you guys always hollering “Lock ‘em up!”, “Burn it Down!”, “Drain the Swamp!”, etc.
Here’s the deal. FBI agents investigate and sometimes arrest criminals. Prosecutors prosecute criminals and/or make their lives more difficult. Criminals and some of their lawyers don’t like prosecutors. I am sure there is a long list of drug kingpins, embezzlers, counterfeiters, sexual predators and other criminals (and some of their lawyers) who don’t like Mueller, Comey and Wray.
As just one small example, Hillary Clinton hates Comey at least as much as does Trump.
Yes Ricky. Not the side of Wall St. execs, but the side of justice and what’s right. When prosecutors use unfair tactics to get those verdicts, and get their decision thrown out by the Supreme Court, they do a disservice to all, including all those victims. It matters.
And more questionable connections on his team are out today.
“Meanwhile, at least two Mueller investigators’ past legal work for Clinton-tied figures is getting a second look as Republicans hunt for signs of bias.
Aaron Zebley, another former partner at WilmerHale and a former chief of staff to Mueller when he served as FBI director, represented Justin Cooper, a key figure in the Hillary Clinton email controversy.
Cooper is the longtime Bill Clinton aide responsible for helping set up the now-infamous private email server. Cooper later admitted to “two instances where he destroyed [Hillary] Clinton’s old mobile devices by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.”
Jeannie Rhee, another former partner at WilmerHale, represented ex-Obama National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 racketeering case, and Hillary Clinton herself in a lawsuit seeking access to her private emails.
“You’ve got Donald Trump being persecuted by Hillary Clinton’s fan club—that’s inequitable,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News on Friday. “Many of the members of Mueller’s team donated to the Clinton campaign. We have a lot of highly qualified federal prosecutors in the Justice Department and we could have found a bunch of them who didn’t donate to either candidate. But that didn’t occur, and that’s troubling.” “
So yeah, Mueller’s former chief of staff is the guy who helped get off the guy that helped Hillary destroy evidence. But now suddenly I’m to believe that justice matters to these people?
Not.
There’s far too many of these incestuous relationships among Mueller and his circle.
We saw all these kind of attacks on Kenneth Starr and his team when they were investigating Bill Clinton in 1998.
I would like everybody’s thoughts on the questions I asked back @12:49.
It is important to go back and review the biographies of the four men. What is the character of Trump? What is the character of the three respected public servants who are being attacked by The Trump Cult?
Here is the thing that no one is saying: The vast, vast majority of Americans with post-graduate degrees (including lawyers) realized that Trump was a charlatan, an imbecile and completely unfit to be president about two weeks into the campaign. It would be extremely difficult to find qualified investigators and prosecutors who hadn’t made anti-Trump statements. The majority of lawyers I know are conservative Republicans. They (like our fellow Texan Tillerson) recognize that Trump is a moron.
I think I stopped watching women’s tennis about the time Margaret Court retired. I did stop watching men’s tennis at exactly the time that the foul New Yorker McEnroe came to prominence.
Ricky@12:49 I think I’ll stick with the guy who teamed up with Mike Pence to attempt the uphill battle to drain the DC swamp. You know Mike Pence, right? Experienced public servant, faithful husband of one wife, loving father, born again defender of religious liberty and life of the unborn, consistent Republican Conservative. ;–)
Debra, The focus of Mueller is not Pence. I would expect good behavior from Pence, but as many people have discovered, you can get into trouble when the boss is dishonest.
So help me out: What does: “Drain the Swamp” mean?
Debra, I read your answer @ 3:07 again. I am picking myself up off of the floor. You would really trust Trump over the other three guys to fulfill the five functions I described @ 12:49??
I understand you voted for Trump. I understand you may vote for him again. But surely you wouldn’t trust Trump with your child? I didn’t say that Pence would be there constantly as a chaperone.
Trump’s staff are completely misguided. Let the poor guy sleep in, watch TV and play golf. Let aides meet with foreign leaders and Congressional leaders. Let Trump go speak to one of his cult rallies whenever he wants to travel. He really doesn’t need to spend much time in the West Wing.
Who knows, HRW? Maybe Moore will give pedophilia a bad name even as Trump seems to have generated a rave of outrage against those who commit sexual assaults.
Conservative Byron York has been very favorable toward Trump. Here he confirms what I have been saying. By attacking Mueller, Trump and his cult are simply following the same playbook used by Bill Clinton against Kenneth Starr.
New: Firing Mueller would be disastrous; discrediting him is impeachment politics. https://t.co/EPfSISJONm
Wandering Views 
Robert Mueller: Straight arrow, war hero, faithful public servant, the husband of one wife.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller
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That was then. This is now. At least the war hero and wife part are still true.
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The 9th Circuit is a joke. Maybe Trump can fix that when he picks this guy’s replacement. Gotta start somewhere….
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/prominent-judge-is-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-six-women/ar-BBGqczF?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=mailsignout
“Six women accused Judge Alex Kozinski of inappropriate behavior, which included pulling up pornographic images in the office and telling one former clerk that she should work out naked, according to a report.
Heidi Bond, who clerked for Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, said he once called her into his office to ask whether a pornographic photo was photoshopped.”
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Interesting…….
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/the-vanishing-values-voter/547772/
““In an ideal world, you would have both character and [the right policy positions], but we don’t live an ideal world—we live in a fallen world,” Robert Jeffress, a pastor of First Baptist Dallas and a Trump adviser, told me. “That’s not to say character isn’t important. It’s certainly important. But it’s one of many factors you have to look at … character, competence, policy. Depending on where the country is at the time, you have to determine which of those is most important.”
Character still counts, in other words, but its market value has plummeted.
At a time when sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men are rocking many of America’s institutions, some Christians lament this deemphasizing of morality. “This really is a moment in which we ought to be having a conversation about how much character counts in all walks of life,” said David P. Gushee, a Baptist pastor and professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University in Georgia. “Instead, it is mainly a moment in which our side points to the character flaws of their side, and so on.”
Why did the values voters surrender on the character question? Gushee blames “hyper-partisanship”—and, indeed, it’s hard not to see Trump-era tribalism at work here. But leading conservative Christians told me the reasons extend beyond the latest election.
Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said that many of his fellow evangelicals have simply lost faith in the caliber of America’s political leaders. “In the 1960 presidential election, the voters basically assumed the basic moral probity of both Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy,” he told me. “Forty years later, voters came to understand that one was a serial philanderer and the other was a paranoid leader who was a habitual liar … We live in an entirely different information environment, and I do think that changes a lot.”
With modern technology and media making it more common than ever for politicians’ private transgressions to be exposed, Mohler said, conservative Christians are adjusting their expectations accordingly. And while Mohler couldn’t bring himself to support Trump in 2016—he’d been an outspoken critic of Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, and felt it would be hypocritical to give Trump a pass—he says he understands how other evangelicals justified their vote for the Republican nominee. “I’m not going to throw them under the bus,” he told me. “They’re not wrong that important issues are at stake.”
David Brody, a correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network who has co-authored a forthcoming “spiritual biography” of Trump, said many outside observers fail to grasp the desperation and urgency felt throughout much of conservative Christianity.
“The way evangelicals see the world, the culture is not only slipping away—it’s slipping away in all caps, with four exclamation points after that. It’s going to you-know-what in a handbasket,” Brody told me. “Where does that leave evangelicals? It leaves them with a choice. Do they sacrifice a little bit of that ethical guideline they’ve used in the past in exchange for what they believe is saving the culture?
Of course, it could be argued that the culture suffers when a man of unbridled appetites and unimpressive impulse control is placed in the Oval Office. (In fact, many on the religious right advanced this very argument when Clinton was president.) But Brody says that encroaching secularism, combined with a perceived liberal hostility toward people of faith, has prompted many conservative Christians to support any politician who will protect their traditions. “Donald Trump always talks about bringing back ‘Merry Christmas’ and everybody laughs. But it’s not just about saying ‘Merry Christmas’—it’s about the idea behind it,” Brody said. “They are voting for a person who will be a placeholder for their values. They’re not voting for a person who is going to be Mother Teresa.””
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Winning…..
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-trumps-good-fortune/
“Donald Trump’s first year in office has been, to put it mildly, a rocky one. But it can be argued that he’s ending it on an upswing.
Congress is likely to soon pass a tax reform bill. Robert Mueller’s “Russia Squad” is getting its first round of bad press. Judge Roy Moore is favored to win next week’s Senate election in Alabama with Trump’s support. The Supreme Court has acquiesced to Trump’s travel ban for now (while it waits for the lower courts to rule). The Supreme Court also offers hope to social conservatives in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, facilitated by Trump’s appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the bench. The economy is booming. Blue-collar wages are on the rise.
Meanwhile, many of Trump’s enemies are still harboring their go-nowhere fantasies of impeachment. This isn’t to say that Trump’s presidency couldn’t still end in his removal from office. But even if it does, that day is still a long way off, and will likely depend on massive Democratic gains in next year’s midterms.
There’s more. The recent revelations concerning sexual harassment and abuse have somehow worked to Trump’s advantage despite his own sordid history and the allegations against him. Numerous big-time Democratic lawmakers and Trump antagonists who have long portrayed themselves as champions of women have been revealed to be not only serial harassers but also hypocrites.
Right now, good fortune seems to be on the president’s side. It could all come undone in a heartbeat, but it’s fair to say that the president seems to be racking up wins.”
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James Comey: Scholar, courageous public servant, Republican, Sunday School teacher, the husband of one wife.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey
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Chris Wray: Scholar (editor of the Yale Law Journal), Republican, US Attorney, respected public servant, the husband of one wife.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_A._Wray
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We should be praying for all these people. “Doing what is right in your own eyes,” is so tempting when you think you know what is right and others do not. Does the end ever justify the means?
He has shown you oh (wo)man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you: to do justice, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Love your neighbors as yourself.
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It’s a spiritual truth; when you harbor deceit in your midst, it’s easy to make poor choices.
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Donald Trump (from the perspective of a Christian writer minus the last 18 months of buffoonery plus the typical Trump language warning):
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/if-we-lived-in-a-truly-christian-nation-donald-trump-would-not-be-winning
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There are the biographies of the four men (Mueller, Comey, Wray and Trump). If you want to view the Wikipedia biography of Trump, here it is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Of the four:
1. Who would you trust to drive your daughter across town?
2. Who would you trust to serve as the Trustee for your child’s inheritance?
3. Who would you trust to be your child’s mentor and advisor if you died suddenly in an accident?
4. Who would you trust to make sane and rational decisions?
5. Who would you trust to be truthful and honest if he was a witness in a trial involving your family?
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Like I said, that was then.
This is now, and opinions vary.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/10/a-warning-about-robert-mueller-from-a-civil-liberties-lawyer-he-tried-to-entrap/
https://news.wgbh.org/2017/10/17/silverglate-how-robert-mueller-tried-entrap-me
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More on his “team” as well.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053100491.html
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https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/10/a-warning-about-robert-mueller-from-a-civil-liberties-lawyer-he-tried-to-entrap/
“Another example, though less popularly known, is the prosecution of Arthur Andersen accounting firm and Enron executives. Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell has a column in The Hill about those prosecutions and lead prosecutor Andrew Weissman:
Weissmann, as deputy and later director of the Enron Task Force, destroyed the venerable accounting firm of Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs worldwide — only to be reversed several years later by a unanimous Supreme Court.
Next, Weissmann creatively criminalized a business transaction between Merrill Lynch and Enron. Four Merrill executives went to prison for as long as a year. Weissmann’s team made sure they did not even get bail pending their appeals, even though the charges Weissmann concocted, like those against Andersen, were literally unprecedented.
Weissmann’s prosecution devastated the lives and families of the Merrill executives, causing enormous defense costs, unimaginable stress and torturous prison time. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the mass of the case.
Weissmann quietly resigned from the Enron Task Force just as the judge in the Enron Broadband prosecution began excoriating Weissmann’s team and the press began catching on to Weissmann’s modus operandi.”
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Then and now does hold true for some of his team too.
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http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/356253-judging-by-muellers-staffing-choices-he-may-not-be-very-interested-in
“Much has been written about the prosecutorial prowess of Robert Mueller’s team assembled to investigate allegations of Russia’s involvement in the Trump campaign. Little has been said of the danger of prosecutorial overreach and the true history of Mueller’s lead prosecutor.”
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“Yet Mueller tapped a different sort of prosecutor to lead his investigation — his long-time friend and former counsel, Andrew Weissmann. He is not just a “tough” prosecutor. Time after time, courts have reversed Weissmann’s most touted “victories” for his tactics. This is hardly the stuff of a hero in the law.”
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AJ @ 1:31 So Trumpers are now taking the side of Wall Street executives against the prosecutors who pressed charges against those who participated in the Enron scandal which cost thousands of people their jobs and their life savings?
Aren’t you guys always hollering “Lock ‘em up!”, “Burn it Down!”, “Drain the Swamp!”, etc.
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Here’s the deal. FBI agents investigate and sometimes arrest criminals. Prosecutors prosecute criminals and/or make their lives more difficult. Criminals and some of their lawyers don’t like prosecutors. I am sure there is a long list of drug kingpins, embezzlers, counterfeiters, sexual predators and other criminals (and some of their lawyers) who don’t like Mueller, Comey and Wray.
As just one small example, Hillary Clinton hates Comey at least as much as does Trump.
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Yes Ricky. Not the side of Wall St. execs, but the side of justice and what’s right. When prosecutors use unfair tactics to get those verdicts, and get their decision thrown out by the Supreme Court, they do a disservice to all, including all those victims. It matters.
And more questionable connections on his team are out today.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/08/more-clinton-ties-on-mueller-team-one-deputy-attended-clinton-party-another-repd-top-aide.html
“Meanwhile, at least two Mueller investigators’ past legal work for Clinton-tied figures is getting a second look as Republicans hunt for signs of bias.
Aaron Zebley, another former partner at WilmerHale and a former chief of staff to Mueller when he served as FBI director, represented Justin Cooper, a key figure in the Hillary Clinton email controversy.
Cooper is the longtime Bill Clinton aide responsible for helping set up the now-infamous private email server. Cooper later admitted to “two instances where he destroyed [Hillary] Clinton’s old mobile devices by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.”
Jeannie Rhee, another former partner at WilmerHale, represented ex-Obama National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, the Clinton Foundation in a 2015 racketeering case, and Hillary Clinton herself in a lawsuit seeking access to her private emails.
“You’ve got Donald Trump being persecuted by Hillary Clinton’s fan club—that’s inequitable,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News on Friday. “Many of the members of Mueller’s team donated to the Clinton campaign. We have a lot of highly qualified federal prosecutors in the Justice Department and we could have found a bunch of them who didn’t donate to either candidate. But that didn’t occur, and that’s troubling.” “
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So yeah, Mueller’s former chief of staff is the guy who helped get off the guy that helped Hillary destroy evidence. But now suddenly I’m to believe that justice matters to these people?
Not.
There’s far too many of these incestuous relationships among Mueller and his circle.
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We saw all these kind of attacks on Kenneth Starr and his team when they were investigating Bill Clinton in 1998.
I would like everybody’s thoughts on the questions I asked back @12:49.
It is important to go back and review the biographies of the four men. What is the character of Trump? What is the character of the three respected public servants who are being attacked by The Trump Cult?
Here is the thing that no one is saying: The vast, vast majority of Americans with post-graduate degrees (including lawyers) realized that Trump was a charlatan, an imbecile and completely unfit to be president about two weeks into the campaign. It would be extremely difficult to find qualified investigators and prosecutors who hadn’t made anti-Trump statements. The majority of lawyers I know are conservative Republicans. They (like our fellow Texan Tillerson) recognize that Trump is a moron.
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I think I stopped watching women’s tennis about the time Margaret Court retired. I did stop watching men’s tennis at exactly the time that the foul New Yorker McEnroe came to prominence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/06/06/john-mcenroe-to-margaret-court-you-cannot-be-serious-with-these-homophobic-comments/?utm_term=.c6d99bc1d002
Some things in life you get right. Even at 75, I think Court could whip McEnroe. Maybe not in tennis, but in an actual fight.
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Ricky@12:49 I think I’ll stick with the guy who teamed up with Mike Pence to attempt the uphill battle to drain the DC swamp. You know Mike Pence, right? Experienced public servant, faithful husband of one wife, loving father, born again defender of religious liberty and life of the unborn, consistent Republican Conservative. ;–)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence
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Debra, The focus of Mueller is not Pence. I would expect good behavior from Pence, but as many people have discovered, you can get into trouble when the boss is dishonest.
So help me out: What does: “Drain the Swamp” mean?
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Debra, I read your answer @ 3:07 again. I am picking myself up off of the floor. You would really trust Trump over the other three guys to fulfill the five functions I described @ 12:49??
I understand you voted for Trump. I understand you may vote for him again. But surely you wouldn’t trust Trump with your child? I didn’t say that Pence would be there constantly as a chaperone.
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Trump’s staff are completely misguided. Let the poor guy sleep in, watch TV and play golf. Let aides meet with foreign leaders and Congressional leaders. Let Trump go speak to one of his cult rallies whenever he wants to travel. He really doesn’t need to spend much time in the West Wing.
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Another good article from Maggie Haberman:
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Douthat with a very good piece on the Supreme Court case involving the Christian bakers:
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Electing Roy Moore is winning? If that’s winning I’d like to be on the losing side.
If baking cakes for a gay wedding is a sign you support gay marriage, what do Roy Moore voters believe and support?
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Who knows, HRW? Maybe Moore will give pedophilia a bad name even as Trump seems to have generated a rave of outrage against those who commit sexual assaults.
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Conservative Byron York has been very favorable toward Trump. Here he confirms what I have been saying. By attacking Mueller, Trump and his cult are simply following the same playbook used by Bill Clinton against Kenneth Starr.
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