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DonViejo

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Sat May 13, 2017, 08:39 AM May 2017

National Review finds a way to blame Hillary Clinton for the James Comey mess

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017 06:00 PM EDT
National Review finds a way to blame Hillary Clinton for the James Comey mess

When faced with a potential constitutional crisis, National Review pulls out the Clinton bogeyman and bashes away

JEREMY BINCKES

Let’s get this week straight. On Tuesday the president of the United States, Donald Trump, fired FBI Director James Comey because Trump wanted to end the agency’s investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and the Russian government to hack emails of Hillary Clinton campaign staffers — and because the FBI director may not have pledged loyalty to him personally.

So you can see how this is all Clinton’s fault.

Hold on to your hats because National Review’s Michael Barone is about to take us on a wild ride that somehow proves that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — whose now-famous memo was used by the administration as its pretense for firing Comey — couldn’t have been duped by Trump, because Democrats!

Who is Rosenstein? He started off as a career Justice Department lawyer and was appointed U.S. attorney for Maryland by George W. Bush in 2005. He was one of only three — out of 93 nationwide — U.S. attorneys kept on during the Obama administration. This could not have happened without the approval of Maryland’s Democratic senators, Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin.

Both of them are paragons of integrity with long experience in the swampland of Maryland politics. Mikulski was elected to the Baltimore city council in 1971 and to Congress in 1976. Cardin was elected to the state legislature in 1966 and to Congress in 1986. Both saw successive Maryland governors, Spiro Agnew and Marvin Mandel, ousted from office under criminal charges. Both surely wanted a competent and apolitical federal prosecutor and believed they had one in Rosenstein.


Did you catch that? Mikuski and Cardin are from Maryland. Two Maryland governors were “ousted . . . under criminal charges” in the 1960s and 1970s. Something is clearly afoot! Of course, there’s a bit of obfuscation here: Agnew was, quite famously, a Republican. A Republican vice president. Richard Nixon’s vice president, to be precise.

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National Review finds a way to blame Hillary Clinton for the James Comey mess (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
Bill Maher blamed it all on Bill Clinton last night. femmocrat May 2017 #1

femmocrat

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1. Bill Maher blamed it all on Bill Clinton last night.
Sat May 13, 2017, 08:46 AM
May 2017

He said this all started when Bill went on Loretta Lynch's plane and she had to recuse herself.

It's like the old six degrees of separation game.

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