Investigating Trump sets a dangerous precedent

[RAB910]

[Pluvious]

1. Twitter link

Link to tweet

[Grokenstein]

19. THANK you.

Simply copypasting the URL is easy and provides direct access to the conversation; I don't know why so many posters adamantly refuse to do it (apart from instances in which they don't want to provide rightwankers with traffic).

[Pluvious]

36. My pleasure, friend... With my handy little...

… iPad, it’s a snap to select the text itself off the image (amazing, eh), then just copy, flip to Twitter app, and paste into search - and voilà !! There’s the tweet

[True Blue American]

41. Now tell me how to post a picture on DU.

I have no problem with videos.

[Pluvious]

48. Here at DU, images are a different challenge...

… I could write a whole document on it lol

Key points:

1. You’re not posting an image per se, but a LINK to a server’s asset, and some servers don’t like that, or require some arcane codes after the image’s name - which DU will strip off.
2. DU only supports a plain link, so if the image’s link works in its own browser window, DU might render it in a post (use preview option to test).

[True Blue American]

49. On other boards I save the photo

To pictures, click on my pictures, choose, it goes right on.

[Random Boomer]

44. Thank you

An image can be easily faked. For veracity's sake, I want to read the original Tweet and responses to it.

[louis-t]

2. "Dangerous" only to rich, white Republicans.

[RAB910]

4. I think it's safer to say this is dangerous to all Republicans

as they consider themselves above the laws (especially the ones they pass)

[dchill]

5. That IS more to the point.

[LenaBaby61]

40. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[calimary]

50. Works for me!

[sop]

3. "Feds Seizing Documents at Mar-a-Lago Unable to Find Trump's Health-care Plan"

"As of late Monday night, a Bureau spokesman indicated that the agents had also been unable to find a prescription-drug plan, an infrastructure plan, or the framework for a peace treaty with North Korea."

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/feds-seizing-documents-at-mar-a-lago-unable-to-find-trumps-health-care-plan

[magicarpet]

15. Look harder,...

...... it is right next to the file holding the Infrastructure Plan.

[MontanaMama]

25. Oh! And his health care plan.

Don't forget that little gem.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. They'll Both Be There!

In 2 weeks!

[Initech]

6. Conservatives are definitely scared of the FBI and IRS coming after them.

[Novara]

7. The amount of panic tells you everything you need to know

[Initech]

8. Especially after hearing the Fox News talking point about "87,000 IRS agents" the last couple days!

The free ride is over guys, time to pay up, suckas!

[Evolve Dammit]

17. exactly!

[Initech]

24. Oh I know several conservatives in my group who have definitely stolen money from their businesses.

Can't wait to see IRS agents knocking at their door!

[Evolve Dammit]

31. nothing "conservative" about that. Sounds like criminals. I hate the "conservative" label.

They are anything but law abiding and humane.

[orthoclad]

45. "Conservative" is so twen-cen

I prefer "Reich wing". "right-wing" may also be acceptable.

[Evolve Dammit]

46. Reich wing is perfect!

[Evolve Dammit]

32. nothing "conservative" about that. Sounds like criminals. I hate the "conservative" label.

They are anything but law abiding and humane.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. exactly!

[NewJeffCT]

20. What's funny

is that traditionally, the FBI has been a conservative organization, and that accountants (be they in the IRS or elsewhere) are generally pretty conservative as a group as well. So, you would think that conservatives would be supportive of these organizations.

[Tree Lady]

9. Which is why it has taken so long to do

You know if dems do anything at all they will do the same immediately not wait like us.

[RAB910]

11. plus after a year and a half- it's easy to call bullshit on Trump's claim that he was cooperating

it doesn't take a year and a half to return what you illegally took.

[Mr. Ected]

10. The only way that this would backfire is if fascists take over

And then they'd do it anyway.

Hold the criminals accountable while we still have laws and a democracy in place.

[Leith]

12. I get the joke and it's funny

But this is exactly what rethugs believe in all seriousness.

There are worse things that created precedents:
- Ken Starr and his kangaroo court, starting with a real estate investment deal that went bad, a suspicious suicide, and some sexual accusations.
- Ten separate investigations on the Benghazi attack by the FBI, 5 House committees, and the State Department.
- Watergate: burglary, clandestine listening devices, conspiracies. 22 convictions
- Iran-Contra: selling arms to an embargoed enemy country and giving the proceeds to a central American terrorist group. All convictions got off on a technicality or were pardoned.

Perhaps rethugs really are upset about such "insignificant, nothing-to-see-here" nonsense like Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Dennis Hastert that we evil Democrats investigated and punished. The accusations that rethug minions keep shouting in accusation at our side have their indicted and convicted counterparts with their own past. As Newt Gingrich taught them, it is better to name an enemy and accuse them - loudly and repeatedly - of what they themselves have done without regret.

Well well well... history really does rhyme!

[IronLionZion]

13. Dems are unlikely to keep documents at home

so if they raid Dems they might find a tan suit and some risotto recipes

[Traildogbob]

14. The title

Set me off. Glad it was what it was. So sick of GQP using that. If Dems do not crime, there are no issues. If crimes are committed follow the law, Apply to all. And If continuous abuse of meaningless investigations occur, there should be consequences. I like that. “Follow the law, applies to all.”

[DLCWIdem]

16. K & R

Yes Ari had a piece on his show last night about accountability notbeing dangerous and how it wasn't really a unique precedent

[lambchopp59]

21. Precedent:

"If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you," Gohmert complained.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

22. The old Nixonian adage...

[Justice]

23. Not a raid. Executing a search warrant

[Joinfortmill]

26. We ain't seen nothin yet.

[pwb]

27. Nah, we need to have this fight.

Bring it on puke punks. We have lots of cells empty with weed reform.

[The Wielding Truth]

28. Hahahahaha! We are living in a just world. Yes!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. No one is above the law

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

30. One law for the common man, another for the king/ And don't you know when kings can't win the game/

“One law for the common man, another for the king/ And don't you know when kings can't win the game/ It won't be long 'til all the rules are changed” — Robbie O’Connell, The Winning Side

With thanks to my sister, with whom I was discussing Nixon/Trump last night — when I wrote, “And then Jerry Ford pardoned the SOB,” she wrote back this quote.

We have to do better — don’t let anyone get away with saying “Our long national nightmare is over,” because it most emphatically is not, until generals and would-be kings hear the prison doors clang shut.

[pecosbob]

35. The English Civil War showed us that it can go both ways

Charles wanted absolute power and lost his head for it, but it was Cromwell's head that later adorned a pole on the roof of Westminster.

[stillcool]

34. Someone hasn't paid their dues

[C Moon]

37. I'm sure anyone who broke the law for tfg and has flown under the radar thus far....

is now having a tough time.

[peppertree]

38. As Thurston Howell might put it, what is the world coming to!

"I'll take this to the Supreme Court - no, higher! To the Newport Beach Country Club!!"

[uponit7771]

39. K&R,

[Aussie105]

42. And yet . . .

Republicans are shouting 'Not Fair!', and think that if they push hard enough, everyone will see it their way, that rules are an optional thing for them, and can be ignored or substituted with their own rules.

Dems of course, need to know and stick to the rules. In republican opinion only, of course.

As if their tears and demented cries of woe mean anything. Or will change anything.

Trump is a private citizen, if he holds classified documents at Mar-a-Lago he inappropriately removed from the White House when he was demoted, there will be hell to pay.

Please let it be so!

There are lots of unbalanced things in American society. Trump doing a perp walk will right one of those things.

[RAB910]

43. I think anyone defending Trump needs to be challenged as to why Trump won't share the warrant

what is Trump hiding?

[BlueWavePsych]

47. K&R