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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 09:37 AM Aug 2018

Trump Threatens: If Sessions Doesn't Get to Bottom of Hillary Corruption, He 'May Have to...

Source: Mediate


Trump Threatens: If Sessions Doesn’t Get to Bottom of Hillary Corruption, He ‘May Have to Get Involved!’

by Colby Hall | Aug 25th, 2018, 9:15 am

Anyone expecting a Hollywood ending to the tortured relationship between President Donald Trump and the Attorney General he appointed, Jeff Sessions, is certain to be disappointed.

Saturday morning, Trump engaged in what appears to be one of his favorite pastimes: criticizing Sessions on Twitter, though this time he also cited his former political rival turned golf buddy, Senator Lindsey Graham.






Graham recently signaled to the White House that the GOP establishment would likely be okay with Trump’s firing of Sessions, but only after the midterm elections. This was a very different position for the South Carolinian Senator to take from his “there will be holy hell to pay” if Trump were to fire sessions. For good measure, Trump then passively threatened that unless the Department of Justice didn’t start investigating his political rival Hillary Clinton, he may have to get involved. (SPOILER: They already have)




In case one was wondering what had inspiring this maelstrom of tweets on a beautiful Saturday morning, Trump left something of a clue in his most recent tweet:






Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-rages-jeff-sessions-doesnt-understand-what-is-happening-underneath-his-command/
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Trump Threatens: If Sessions Doesn't Get to Bottom of Hillary Corruption, He 'May Have to... (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
Vindictive investigations of former political adversaries is Abuse of Power and a High Crime. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #1
Wow! llmart Aug 2018 #2
They've gotten to the bottom of it, many times C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #3
Trump commits an impeachable offense almost daily CanonRay Aug 2018 #4
You mean NOT abused his power jmowreader Aug 2018 #44
Of course, Hillary had emails from a shirtless Putin colluding about Benghazi. Funtatlaguy Aug 2018 #5
What does he think, in his wildest imagination, Croney Aug 2018 #6
That's what I want to know too Capperdan Aug 2018 #43
Big part of campaign strategy is ramping up irrational anti-Hillary message again wishstar Aug 2018 #7
Please DO get involved, your Excellency! Eyeball_Kid Aug 2018 #8
This ass in the WH is pathetic. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2018 #9
tRumps got an IQ lower than a snake's belly in a wagon-rut. nt elmac Aug 2018 #37
Yep, exactly!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2018 #40
Where did he get the number........... Historic NY Aug 2018 #10
Pulled out of his anus like just about everything else he spews out. mobeau69 Aug 2018 #20
Cue up the next National Enquirer headline Zambero Aug 2018 #11
Is this really putin duforsure Aug 2018 #12
its an abuse of power for a president to use DOJ resources against his ENEMIES beachbum bob Aug 2018 #13
Really...nothing like being prosecutor, jury, and judge, eh? SWBTATTReg Aug 2018 #39
K&R happy feet Aug 2018 #45
This is a conspiracy theory of Greg Jarrett of FOX News. kentuck Aug 2018 #14
He's using hatred for Hillary to stir up his base. watoos Aug 2018 #15
Neah neah-neah neah neah booga booga booga DinahMoeHum Aug 2018 #16
Precisely. maddiemom Aug 2018 #47
Graham is a slimy little egotistical shit. Always has been. pangaia Aug 2018 #17
How long did it take Hillary to write 675,000 emails? Flaleftist Aug 2018 #18
Slightly over 900 years. truthisfreedom Aug 2018 #22
Take a day off....400 emails underpants Aug 2018 #27
264 emails a day. LakeSuperiorView Aug 2018 #50
Hillary might consider retaining SCVDem Aug 2018 #19
He's unhinged. sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 #21
'This is what happens when a target gets buggy' M. Nance Botany Aug 2018 #23
Hey Shithead: Fire the FBI guy, and run it yourself. Make yourself the best FBI director ever! dalton99a Aug 2018 #24
Rightwing "reporter" originating innuendo, speculation and falsehoods. yallerdawg Aug 2018 #25
If he does this the country has to revolt, in a big way. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2018 #26
What'd I tell ya? 2naSalit Aug 2018 #28
If it wasn't already obvious before these tweets The Liberal Lion Aug 2018 #29
Comments and visuals are 2naSalit Aug 2018 #30
And he talked like he had been familiar with the term flipping Grammy23 Aug 2018 #33
Oh I Really Hope There Is A Hell colsohlibgal Aug 2018 #31
One day this creep will be in irons C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #32
as long as the fascists are in charge elmac Aug 2018 #38
Can a Supreme Court ruling supercede a state ruling? If NY were to convict the orange idiot, can th Meadowoak Aug 2018 #51
It is interesting that as the noose tightens around Trump's neck, he just can't stop trying to Nitram Aug 2018 #34
Personally? Got no 'injuns, Chief. Snellius Aug 2018 #35
Donald Trump has entered the childish world of PRETEND bucolic_frolic Aug 2018 #36
He won't do JACK SHIT. edbermac Aug 2018 #41
He is panicking orangecrush Aug 2018 #42
Send Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his crack team of PIs to Hawaii! That'll get 'er done. muriel_volestrangler Aug 2018 #46
If Donnie 2 scoops wants a text book example for obstruction of Justice in full public view Mad_Mongol Aug 2018 #48
There's going to be Hollywood ending, all right: "Bonnie and Clyde" LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2018 #49

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
1. Vindictive investigations of former political adversaries is Abuse of Power and a High Crime. . . nt
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 09:38 AM
Aug 2018

llmart

(17,622 posts)
2. Wow!
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 09:44 AM
Aug 2018

Ole' orange gasbag must really be crapping his drawers this morning. Still dragging the old "Hillary is worse than I am" meme.

Pathetic! SAD!!!

C_U_L8R

(49,384 posts)
3. They've gotten to the bottom of it, many times
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 09:45 AM
Aug 2018

There is no evidence. Your insane ravings are baseless.

CanonRay

(16,171 posts)
4. Trump commits an impeachable offense almost daily
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 09:48 AM
Aug 2018

Last edited Sat Aug 25, 2018, 04:31 PM - Edit history (1)

Yet none of it seems to matter. Abuse of power? Name a day in the last two months he has not abused his power.

jmowreader

(53,194 posts)
44. You mean NOT abused his power
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 01:35 PM
Aug 2018

Trump really needs to go to prison, and if he keeps on like this the day of reckoning is closer than he thinks.

Croney

(5,017 posts)
6. What does he think, in his wildest imagination,
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 09:49 AM
Aug 2018

those "disaster" emails could have said? That she was attempting to become President of the United States? 😱

Capperdan

(530 posts)
43. That's what I want to know too
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 01:29 PM
Aug 2018

What's the worst thing she could have said in those emails? Did she want to build a hotel in Moscow too?

wishstar

(5,829 posts)
7. Big part of campaign strategy is ramping up irrational anti-Hillary message again
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 09:51 AM
Aug 2018

Rep. Eric Swalwell said this week that Repubs on Intelligence Committee have already announced that as soon as they get back from summer recess they will begin hearings to "investigate" Clinton email investigation. So anyone not already disgraced and fired that was involved with the email investigation will be targeted for purge, but since most of them are already gone, Repubs will try to bring back central players like Comey for more interrogation just to keep their conspiracy theories ramped up with the base and they will force ouster of Ohr over his connections with Steele dossier.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,604 posts)
8. Please DO get involved, your Excellency!
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 09:53 AM
Aug 2018

Learn how to click a mouse on a computer, get an email account, and go to town reading Hillary's emails. Read every one, read every word. Get cracking! The world awaits your discoveries. Every email will be proof positive that Hillary is the wellspring of EVIL. She's worse than crooked! She's... Trumpy!

mobeau69

(12,374 posts)
20. Pulled out of his anus like just about everything else he spews out.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:28 AM
Aug 2018

He's actually cracked up.

Zambero

(9,990 posts)
11. Cue up the next National Enquirer headline
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:01 AM
Aug 2018

Trump "engages" Sessions with HRC: Foil for a foil. It doesn't get much "better" than this. When the walls close in, pull out all the stops in order to divert attention. Small minds demand it.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
12. Is this really putin
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:07 AM
Aug 2018

Wanting Hillary criminalized like he's done in russia, and another clear sign trump's putin's puppet? That would be another act of treason , aiding and abetting an enemy, helping them promote their agenda here to hurt Democracy by making the DOJ a political weapon. KGOP members of Congress should be scared as the investigation will exposed their acts of treason too. This is how putin did in russia . Next replace someone for the DOJ who'll make it The Department Of Trump Justice, then they'll replace military people in power positions with his loyalist and to do putins bidding which would be to protect him and trump.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
13. its an abuse of power for a president to use DOJ resources against his ENEMIES
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:09 AM
Aug 2018

solidifying the first article of impeachment

SWBTATTReg

(26,257 posts)
39. Really...nothing like being prosecutor, jury, and judge, eh?
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 12:31 PM
Aug 2018

Congress, do your duty to the country...remove this idiot.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
15. He's using hatred for Hillary to stir up his base.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:13 AM
Aug 2018

Hillary should go out in public and do some charitable or similar work, just to be seen in public doing good, something that Trump knows nothing about.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
17. Graham is a slimy little egotistical shit. Always has been.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:23 AM
Aug 2018

I laugh when some here praise him whenever he says something we 'like.'



 

LakeSuperiorView

(1,533 posts)
50. 264 emails a day.
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 11:59 AM
Aug 2018

That's 33 emails an hour, assuming an 8 hour day and no days off. From 2009 to 2016.

Averaging less than 2 minutes per email (even less if there was any vacation/weekends/holidays)...

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
19. Hillary might consider retaining
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:27 AM
Aug 2018

Michael Avenatti. He is having an excellent time dealing with the orange menace.

Constant harassment and threats from the pResident?

Time to go on offense and put an end to that. Start with his platform, twitter. They are allowing threats to be made on their site.

Stop!

Botany

(77,324 posts)
23. 'This is what happens when a target gets buggy' M. Nance
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:45 AM
Aug 2018

BTW exactly how do you look @ something that is not there? aka Looking @ Hillary's
email "crimes."

dalton99a

(94,129 posts)
24. Hey Shithead: Fire the FBI guy, and run it yourself. Make yourself the best FBI director ever!
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:52 AM
Aug 2018

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
25. Rightwing "reporter" originating innuendo, speculation and falsehoods.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 10:57 AM
Aug 2018

Find the BS at Real Clear Politics, which distributes conspiracy theory like it's credible news.

But this is how they feed the beast and sow their unending discord, confusion and propaganda.

Nothing works like fear.

2naSalit

(102,798 posts)
28. What'd I tell ya?
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 11:03 AM
Aug 2018

Wednesday or Thursday, when wagers started flying about a Friday meltdown, I figured that the weekend would produce a lot more material and that Mondy or Tuesday it will be time to don the plastic parkas and goggles while marching forward into the mire to take our country back from oligarchs and mobsters. We cannot let them take it from us.

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
29. If it wasn't already obvious before these tweets
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 11:08 AM
Aug 2018

then it is abundantly clear now: America has no real federal government. The belief that trump is a president is an illusion, an illusion being orchestrated by the republican party. In fact folks we are living in a fraud.

Grammy23

(6,122 posts)
33. And he talked like he had been familiar with the term flipping
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 11:48 AM
Aug 2018

for “years and years”. So in other words he has hung out with flippers for a long time, eh? How many of OUR friends and colleagues have flipped on their friends and colleagues?? Nice bunch of friends ya got there, Sparky. How many times has tRump flipped??

He gives himself away every time he opens his mouth.

colsohlibgal

(5,276 posts)
31. Oh I Really Hope There Is A Hell
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 11:24 AM
Aug 2018

If there is he is going there. What a despicable lying low life he is.

C_U_L8R

(49,384 posts)
32. One day this creep will be in irons
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 11:46 AM
Aug 2018

and he will tweet no more.

A nation will celebrate with great relief.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
38. as long as the fascists are in charge
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 12:25 PM
Aug 2018

he will be protected no matter what. He could pardon himself and the fascist supreme court would back it up. About the only thing that could get him locked up would be state crimes.

Meadowoak

(6,606 posts)
51. Can a Supreme Court ruling supercede a state ruling? If NY were to convict the orange idiot, can th
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 12:19 PM
Aug 2018

Supreme court over-rule it?

Nitram

(27,749 posts)
34. It is interesting that as the noose tightens around Trump's neck, he just can't stop trying to
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 11:49 AM
Aug 2018

deflect blame to Hillary Clinton. Fascinating psychopathy playing out in full view for the entire nation (and the world) to see.

bucolic_frolic

(55,143 posts)
36. Donald Trump has entered the childish world of PRETEND
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 12:04 PM
Aug 2018

He's no longer on top of this, if he ever was, and he has no ability to make this stick politically. The events of his lifetime of crooked deals are spinning out of control, and he is blustering as if he still has influence. In essence, he is gaming the refs, screaming for "fair and balanced" because he has committed all the fouls. It's what losers do.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,212 posts)
46. Send Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his crack team of PIs to Hawaii! That'll get 'er done.
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 01:58 PM
Aug 2018

It did just a swell job of proving the last lunatic conspiracy theory Trump tried to hang on a real leader.

(I googled 'Arpaio' just to check the spelling, and what do I find? https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/08/24/joe-arpaio-campaign-complains-cindy-mccain-blocked-him-twitter/1091742002/ What a whiny, classless baby he is.

Mad_Mongol

(86 posts)
48. If Donnie 2 scoops wants a text book example for obstruction of Justice in full public view
Sat Aug 25, 2018, 05:00 PM
Aug 2018

Hell, I'll cheer him on. I'll even take out ads on twitter to help spread the word.
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