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mfcorey1

(11,137 posts)
Wed May 17, 2017, 06:53 AM May 2017

Pretend Clinton did what Trump has done: Our view [View all]

Imagine what would have happened had a President Hillary Clinton abruptly fired the man overseeing an investigation of her campaign’s ties to a hostile foreign government.

Imagine if the firing came, according to The New York Times, weeks after Clinton had asked the man to drop a probe of a close associate who had lied about conversations with that nation's ambassador.

Imagine, further, what would have happened had she invited the ambassador and foreign minister of that hostile government to the Oval Office at the request of their autocratic leader, closed the meeting to U.S. journalists, and claimed to have been tricked when the foreign adversary's media arm released chummy photos from the meeting.

And then imagine that she had used the meeting to share classified intelligence with the envoys.

Republicans in Congress and conservative news outlets would undoubtedly be clamoring for investigations, if not impeachment. After all, Clinton's critics spent years trying to make a capital case out of the Benghazi tragedy, then pounded her careless handling of sensitive information through her use of a private server for State Department emails.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/pretend-clinton-did-what-trump-has-done-our-view/ar-BBBdHYT?li=BBnb7Kz

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well mnmoderatedem May 2017 #1
We'd be at least a month into a Kaine presidency... JHB May 2017 #2
I happened to post about this yesterday on FB Orrex May 2017 #3
If it was Obama.. coco22 May 2017 #4
If Hillary had done what Trump has done... Else You Are Mad May 2017 #5
Do you really think so? oberliner May 2017 #7
In this hypothetical... Else You Are Mad May 2017 #8
What would Democrats be doing? oberliner May 2017 #6
The Point Is Me. May 2017 #9
There would be hellfire and damnation sermons in every drive-in church BeyondGeography May 2017 #10
Don't have to pretend samplegirl May 2017 #11
Difference is the Democrats would also be clamoring for investigations too. Zing Zing Zingbah May 2017 #12
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