How can anyone say there is "no evidence"?

[kentuck]

What is that awful smell emanating from Donald J Trump?

Pull down his pants and see if he has shat himself? Yep! There is shit in his pants!

But there is "no evidence" that he did it. That is just a fake news story made up by the liberals because they are still mad that Hillary lost.

It's a silly analogy but when I hear that Donald Trump did not "obstruct justice", I wonder what kind of evidence they are looking for?

When the President and his team are under investigation by the FBI for colluding with the Russians to influence our elections and the President then fires the FBI Director, what should we call it?

When the President asks that FBI Director for his loyalty before he fires him, but is refused, what would you call it?

When that President meets behind closed doors in the White House with the Russian Ambassador and the Russian Foreign Minister and tells them that the "pressure" is off him and the Russian thing, after he fired the "nut job" at the FBI, what should we call that?

I would say that there is ample "evidence" that the President shat himself.

[LaydeeBug]

1. Gaslight. nt

[kentuck]

2. People are very confused.

[LaydeeBug]

4. I can't see the image, but this was a well coordinated RUSSIAN coup

enabled by the kGOPee party.

[justiceischeap]

3. I've been thinking a lot about this lately

And I've come to the conclusion that the majority of the GOP love to look back for ideas (Make America Great Again)...they are so busy looking behind them that they can't see the huge ticking bomb in front of them.

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

[oberliner]

6. His people will defend him no matter what

There will always be an excuse. Especially if you can dismiss anything bad as "fake news". They will always have Hannity and Tucker to present hours and hours of excuses and defense. Along with the other Trump-bots on the various networks. And the pathetic hypocritical Republicans in Congress.

Always an excuse - always a defense - always a deflection.

[Amaryllis]

7. All the evidence is fake news, obviously.

For Faux watchers...not just alternative facts, but an entire parallel universe.

[L. Coyote]

8. Merkley believes there's "better than even odds" that Trump's advisors committed treason

http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/05/16/jeff-merkley-on-donald-trumps-fbi-overthrow-were-staring-into-the-abyss/

... since the election of President Donald Trump, Merkley has circled the White House like an angry horsefly.

Last November, he called Steve Bannon and other Trump advisers "white supremacists" before that epithet was commonplace. In February, he aided Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in reading into the Congressional Record Coretta Scott King's letter describing the racial intimidation of black voters by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. And last month, he spoke for more than 15 hours in an unsuccessful bid to block Neil Gorsuch's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a conversation with WW on May 12, he laid out his current thinking on our president and the fate of the nation.

.............

[Mr. Ected]

9. There's evidence everywhere, that's true

The media appears tentative in declaring its opinion on that evidence, though. They'll report it, but they won't ascribe concern or attempt to piece it together into a cohesive whole.

I suppose this will have to play out in the courts and in the chambers of Congress. The press is afraid of Republicans, perhaps because their profits depend on the Republicans and their masters themselves are Republicans.

Nice system we have over here. A free press that is fueled by $$$.

[gratuitous]

10. That, coupled with another persistent meme from the hive mind

Once you see it, you see it everywhere, and that's the notion that not only is there no evidence, but that somehow President Trump and his administration have been fully exonerated. There has been no investigation concluded, no final report issued by anyone - House, Senate, Justice Department, Keystone Kops - that gives Trump a clean bill of health, ethical, criminal or otherwise.

But from the comments sections (never read the comments) to so many stories, you'll see it over and over again. Parrot points from the hive mind.