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Norbert

(7,853 posts)
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 04:42 AM Mar 2019

J Edgar Hoover

Never been a fan of his and never will but...

Could you imagine what would happen if the orange shithead accused Hoover's FBI of treason for investigating him?

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J Edgar Hoover (Original Post) Norbert Mar 2019 OP
There is that. dchill Mar 2019 #1
Trump would have shown him the drag photos and J. Ed would have fallen in line. Itchinjim Mar 2019 #2
Must be what happened to Lindsey Sham. democratisphere Mar 2019 #3
Linda Graham? Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #6
Jedgar wouldn't have let him get 2naSalit Mar 2019 #4
Oh, he'd want 45 there so he could manipulate him. SharonAnn Mar 2019 #8
And when he couldn't manipulate them, he helped assassinate them. watoos Mar 2019 #10
Yeah, except 2naSalit Mar 2019 #11
J Edgar may counter with the Pee tape Norbert Mar 2019 #5
And probably..... MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #7
Hoover dirty tricks rmac3075 Mar 2019 #9
++++++ 2naSalit Mar 2019 #12

SharonAnn

(14,178 posts)
8. Oh, he'd want 45 there so he could manipulate him.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 06:33 AM
Mar 2019

J Edgar loved having intel on everyone, especially presidents, so that he could manipulate them.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
10. And when he couldn't manipulate them, he helped assassinate them.
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 07:14 AM
Mar 2019

J. Edgar was in Dallas at a meeting the night before JFK was assassinated. A limo driver who drove him to the meeting from the airport was a witness.

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)
11. Yeah, except
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 10:13 AM
Mar 2019

I think that, even as messed up as he was, he would have considered -45 too disgustingly filthy for the seat. Though I do agree that he would have loved to have had a puppet in the Oval Office.

He, at least, had some sense of humanity, not much but some... at least.

rmac3075

(38 posts)
9. Hoover dirty tricks
Fri Mar 29, 2019, 06:55 AM
Mar 2019

Everyone believes two things; one that Republican dirty tricks started with Nixon and second that Hoover was blackmailing everyone in Washington. There is a book called “The SS, alibi of a nation” Hoover and McCarthy were the alibi of the Republican “Red Scare” dirty tricks department and nothing has changed since then.

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