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Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 06:51 PM May 2017

Remember Bill Clinton visiting with Lynch on the plane?

There was zero suggestion that he was trying to influence the investigation, but that created such a firestorm that Lynch had to recuse herself. And remember the outrage from the Republicans? That incident was poor judgement, but there was simply zero evidence Bill was doing anything wrong. The Cons wanted Bill strung up for this. If Lynch would have later said he was asking her to drop her investigation Hillary would have been forced out of the election, period.

What Bill did is not 1/100th as serious as what Trump did. This is a felony. And there are people sitting in prison right now who were convicted on much much less than a memo from a regular FBI agent, much less one from the director of the FBI. Goose...cooked.

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Remember Bill Clinton visiting with Lynch on the plane? (Original Post) Johnny2X2X May 2017 OP
The republicans lost their mind..now with trump crickets FloridaBlues May 2017 #1
Stunning Hypocrisy Johnny2X2X May 2017 #2
I believe they actually met for a few minutes on the tarmac. grantcart May 2017 #3
didn't remember that Johnny2X2X May 2017 #5
I think you are correct grantcart May 2017 #8
I do, and it was still a stupid move by him. Cooley Hurd May 2017 #4
Stupid, but not criminal Johnny2X2X May 2017 #6
"Optics" - hearing that term alot lately about Drumpf too. Cooley Hurd May 2017 #7
Bill was stupid, Trump was criminal Johnny2X2X May 2017 #9
I remember Comey being DIRECTLY influenced by Trump wellst0nev0ter May 2017 #10

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
2. Stunning Hypocrisy
Tue May 16, 2017, 07:13 PM
May 2017

I pray that their quotes about the Clintons from around that incident are played on TV endlessly. They were so outraged then, now, we shall see.

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
6. Stupid, but not criminal
Tue May 16, 2017, 07:21 PM
May 2017

Nothing criminal about it. Just terrible optics. And nothing that approaches what Trump did.

The Right freaked out over that too.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
7. "Optics" - hearing that term alot lately about Drumpf too.
Tue May 16, 2017, 07:24 PM
May 2017

Optics are optics, but stupid is stupid. Big Dog was stupid.

 

wellst0nev0ter

(7,509 posts)
10. I remember Comey being DIRECTLY influenced by Trump
Tue May 16, 2017, 09:45 PM
May 2017

but not raising a stink about it like he did with the Clinton-Lynch rendezvous.

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