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StevieM

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4. I worry that people won't be able to understand that it is possible for him to be
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:35 AM
May 2017

a partisan Republican who was willing to do anything and everything he had to in order to elect the GOP candidate, while also being decent in other ways.

If fact, he can hate Trump, and be willing to expose his crimes--after the election--while simultaneously abusing his power to make sure Trump won. The two actions do not contradict one another.

But way too many Americans will think that they do. In that sense, the GOP benefits from Russia-gate. It helps to obfuscate how they rigged the 2016 election in a manner that absolutely threatens our status as a democracy. Which means that they can get away with doing it again.

Seriously, what does Comey care if Trump is impeached and removed from office? The GOP will still hold the White House, Hillary was still humiliated and Neil Gorsuch is still on the Supreme Court.

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