Trump's bogus Clinton allegations assault the rule of law

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Trump's bogus Clinton allegations assault the rule of law

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/04/opinions/trumps-bogus-clinton-allegations-eisen-wertheimer-opinion/index.html

By Norman Eisen and Fred Wertheimer

Updated 6:07 PM ET, Sat November 4, 2017

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Authors: Trump's calls for a DOJ investigation into Hillary Clinton's joint fundraising agreement with the DNC has no basis
The law allows candidates to set up joint fundraising committees with their parties -- as Trump himself did with Trump Victory, they write


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Let's begin with the "Tweeter-in-Chief's" response on Thursday to the claim that Clinton used a joint fundraising committee to control the DNC during the presidential primaries: "This is real collusion and dishonesty. Major violation of Campaign Finance Laws and Money Laundering - where is our Justice Department?"

The reality is that there was no violation of campaign finance or money-laundering laws here and there is no basis for a Justice Department investigation. The law allows presidential candidates to set up joint fundraising committees with their parties. Examples include Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee set up by Trump with the RNC that raised and spent over $100 million for his presidential race. If President Trump thinks this is a crime, then perhaps he forgot that he did it, too.

That is not to say that the DNC should not review the allegations. As a political matter, parties are supposed to remain even-handed during primaries. But even assuming the claims are accurate (and we note they are contested) that is an issue for political party governance, not for the Justice Department.

It would be bad enough if this were the only example of President Trump trying to go on the offensive by pushing an alternative and baseless Democratic or Clinton scandal -- but it is not. Before today, his diversion campaign centered on a seven-year old transaction involving the sale of a portion of Uranium One, a Canadian uranium company, to Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear energy company. ..................................

[DFW]

1. They assault all standards of decency, too

Although I realize that with Republicans, that is not a factor worthy of consideration

[Mr. Ected]

2. If FOX and RW radio continue to be afforded equality with the rest of the media

Then their 180 degree turn from reality will always be equal to the truth.

You can't separate the two.

Allow FOX and RW radio to lie to millions of people under the guise of news, and those people won't believe the actual truth, and will in fact rebel when the consequences of actual news conflict with their long-standing understanding of the 'facts'.

We have a First Amendment crisis on our hands, IMHO.

[PJMcK]

3. It's more than just one Amendment (n/t)

[Cosmocat]

5. Yep

With the internet and modern instant access it has gotten 10 times worse.

There really is nothing we can do if people willfully choose to live in an alternative reality from a government standpoint. You can't regulate this from DC or state houses.

The only way to try to get a handle on it is for some big money people to fund well organized and run operations to push back HARD. The Rs have hate framed liberal for decades now. We need to have people develop the talking points, group test them then have some of the discipline cons have in getting on board with chanting them.

We have a plastic spork at a chainsaw fight right now.

We have to get in the game.

[world wide wally]

4. Sue his ass

[Sunlei]

6. actually, IMO Hillary (as a private citizen) should sue. Not trump,sue the media reporting the lies.

Not to broad a scope & not all the lies at once. As a private citizen she may be able to hit back hard at these fake news medias?