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JohnnyRingo

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8. Like asking the Godfather for a personal favor.

Reply to discocrisco01 (Original post)

Tue May 18, 2021, 07:32 AM

May 2021

Nunes went to Trump with his hat in hand and asked to use the power of the DOJ to settle a personal score. Trump sent "some of his boys" over to Twitter to lean on them.

The price of course, was unconditional loyalty and willingness to serve in any future needs.

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The Trump Justice Department tried forcing Twitter to reveal the identity of a Devin Nunes parody ac [View all] discocrisco01 May 2021 OP

OMFG. Petty assholes! What an abuse of power by DOJ! SunSeeker May 2021 #1

Charge, convict, and jail all who signed off on this in chain of command. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2021 #7

Widdle snowfwake Devin The Unmitigated Gall May 2021 #2

Another good example of better to shut up rpannier May 2021 #3

go fund me for the cow :) orleans May 2021 #4

It's really hard to take out revenge on a digital cow. KY_EnviroGuy May 2021 #5

Now we know why DOJ could never finish Rump's tax audits. They were chasing Captain Zero May 2021 #6

Like asking the Godfather for a personal favor. JohnnyRingo May 2021 #8

All the cancel culture, big tech censorship, free speech warriors AZProgressive May 2021 #9

Exactly. Republicans are always projecting. SunSeeker May 2021 #10