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struggle4progress

(118,236 posts)
Sat May 11, 2019, 04:02 AM May 2019

Big unanswered question at the core of the corruption

By Greg Sargent
May 10 at 10:40 AM

... Countless Republicans have uttered the same talking point in every conceivable forum: No collusion, no obstruction ...

Yet at the same time, the full force of the administration’s legal resources — backed up by the Senate majority leader and virtually all congressional Republicans — has been marshaled against further fact-finding of any and all kinds, on just about every single remaining front where outstanding unknowns remain ...

There are, of course, legitimate reasons for exerting executive privilege. But Trump is mobilizing to use it, while threatening to defy “all” subpoenas, in a blanket fashion that is highly corrupt, including to stop former White House counsel Donald McGahn, who witnessed extensive obstruction, from testifying, as well as to keep the full Mueller findings secret. Why is all this happening? ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/10/big-unanswered-question-core-trumps-corruption/?utm_term=.c53ab2c7ad25

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Big unanswered question at the core of the corruption (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2019 OP
Rule of 8. lark May 2019 #1

lark

(23,065 posts)
1. Rule of 8.
Sat May 11, 2019, 08:18 AM
May 2019

Let someone hear a lie 8 times and they believe it. That is what drumpf is trying to do, get all the lies out all the time on Fox so his base knows nothing of the truth, only his self-serving Russian made versions.

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