Pretend Clinton did what Trump has done: Our view

[mfcorey1]

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

[mnmoderatedem]

1. well

you could spend the better part of forever saying "let's pretend Hilary or Obama had done what trump has done", on any number of subjects. And it would be a never ending reality of radically different outcomes.

[JHB]

2. We'd be at least a month into a Kaine presidency...

...with the Republicans howling for him to step down too.

[Orrex]

3. I happened to post about this yesterday on FB

The question was posted by a friend-of-a-friend: "What did Trump do today to piss Liberals off? Breathe?"

I answered that every day Trump does six or seven things that would have gotten Clinton assassinated, but his cowardly GOP enablers are like whatevs.


As noted upthread, we can speculate pointlessly all day about what might have happened if Obama or Clinton had done these things. It seems likely that this congress would have impeached any Democratic president who acted as Trump acts. Certainly the GOP would approve no cabinet nominees, and they would blame the resultant chaos on the Democratic president's "refusal" to nominate someone who represents the values of the American people blah blah blah. And the media would run with it, casting the Democrat as the out-of-touch elitist who can't even manage to staff their own cabinet.

I also rather suspect that Rightwing demagogues would "subtly" and steadily hint at the need for uprising or "some other action," culminating in an assassination attempt.

[coco22]

4. If it was Obama..

they would have impeachment starting by February.

[Else You Are Mad]

5. If Hillary had done what Trump has done...

The Democratic party would have forced her to resign before she was impeached and we would have Kaine as president right now. I doubt the Republicans have the backbone to do that.

[oberliner]

7. Do you really think so?

What would have been the tipping point?

[Else You Are Mad]

8. In this hypothetical...

The Democrats would be looking out for the next few elections so they would have to get Hillary out if she did everything Trump did. I probably am giving too much credit to the Democratic party.

The tipping point. Well, with Trump it is a culmination of everything he has done thus far.

[oberliner]

6. What would Democrats be doing?

How would our side handle a situation like that?

[Me.]

9. The Point Is

She wouldn't

[BeyondGeography]

10. There would be hellfire and damnation sermons in every drive-in church

across the land with hair spontaneously combusting in the aisles.

[samplegirl]

11. Don't have to pretend

The Bush years were right under our noses and they all walked.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. Difference is the Democrats would also be clamoring for investigations too.

The Dems don't want to be associated with corruption. It is not good for the country or the party.