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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 09:16 AM Nov 2018

Trump Goes All-Caps on Mueller: 'TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!'

Source: Mediate



by Colby Hall | Nov 15th, 2018, 7:33 am

President Donald Trump criticized Special Counsel Robert Mueller Thursday morning in a tweet that described the investigation as a “total mess.” Trump’s criticism comes the day after a slew of reports were published that described a White House in turmoil and a sullen and angry Commander in Chief unhappy for a number of reasons.

Now that midterm elections have passed, it is thought by many that the Mueller investigation will ramp up in the coming days and weeks. President Trump is reported to have sat with his personal attorneys to respond to written questions provided by Mueller’s office.




He then followed with: “….care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!”




Mueller, a Republican, served under President Barack Obama for four years. He also served under President George W. Bush for eight, and has earned wide bipartisan praise from Trump acolytes like Newt Gingrich.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-blasts-mueller-investigation-a-total-witch-hunt-like-no-other-in-american-history/
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Trump Goes All-Caps on Mueller: 'TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!' (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2018 OP
Hmmm Roy Rolling Nov 2018 #1
Protest or project? Maine-i-acs Nov 2018 #33
Which hunt???? flakey_foont Nov 2018 #2
An oldie but a goodie underpants Nov 2018 #4
Witch Hunt? moonseller66 Nov 2018 #3
"They are screaming and shouting at people"??? PatSeg Nov 2018 #5
+1 n/t area51 Nov 2018 #6
Nothing leaks from the Mueller team, whereas the WH leaks like a sieve. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Nov 2018 #20
That's for sure PatSeg Nov 2018 #42
Just about any accusation tRump makes about others... appal_jack Nov 2018 #24
Yes PatSeg Nov 2018 #43
He's desperate now duforsure Nov 2018 #7
Agree.... ewagner Nov 2018 #8
No witch hunt Racerdog1 Nov 2018 #9
gone cuckoo MFGsunny Nov 2018 #10
Edgar Allen Poe wrote about this many years ago and it was called "The Tell-Tale Heart." Botany Nov 2018 #11
And Dostoeksky in "Crime and Punishment" mobeau69 Nov 2018 #15
I like Poe better because I can't spell Dostoevsky Botany Nov 2018 #17
Spoken like a truly innocent person! nt spooky3 Nov 2018 #12
6am he's 3 hours later then 2 years ago Sunlei Nov 2018 #13
I guess bigger than the actual witch hunts and killed innocent women AllyCat Nov 2018 #14
Deja vu....lines from that movie with tom hanks and jack nicholas.. Maxheader Nov 2018 #16
Tom Cruise :) blugbox Nov 2018 #32
gracias Maxheader Nov 2018 #44
De nada blugbox Nov 2018 #49
Barking at the moon EricMaundry Nov 2018 #18
The smell of Moron flop sweat in the morning. Delicious. n/t sarge43 Nov 2018 #19
Prove that you are not! I hear the Potomac is bracing this time of year. LakeSuperiorView Nov 2018 #21
Dr. Feelgood must have given him something to get him out of his exile... llmart Nov 2018 #22
*cough*Benghazi*cough* BadgerKid Nov 2018 #23
Just one thought BillyBobBrilliant Nov 2018 #25
Exactly whom are "they" screaming at, Don? flibbitygiblets Nov 2018 #26
Oh my... Blue Owl Nov 2018 #27
He has really come of the rails now. redstatebluegirl Nov 2018 #28
The most productive witch hunt in history RainCaster Nov 2018 #29
*cough*Whitewater*cough* n/t Vogon_Glory Nov 2018 #30
Time's up! k8conant Nov 2018 #31
So we are getting indictments today grantcart Nov 2018 #34
You're one scared MFer, aren't you? nt Ferrets are Cool Nov 2018 #35
WARLOCK modrepub Nov 2018 #36
Stop being the witch, Cheeto FakeNoose Nov 2018 #37
If I was a doctor there's not enough money on Earth to make me want to stick my hand up there... 47of74 Nov 2018 #39
Actually Don, it's a Whiny Little Bitch Hunt flibbitygiblets Nov 2018 #38
meh, predictable and repetitive Javaman Nov 2018 #40
I've got my popcorn ready... Juneboarder Nov 2018 #41
You sound scared bro BaronChocula Nov 2018 #45
What does he know about American history? Zilch.. nada... IcyPeas Nov 2018 #46
Salem Witch Trials niyad Nov 2018 #47
Senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, and The Witch Hunt niyad Nov 2018 #48
I just wanted to thank you for posting this. I've always wanted to know about this period in ... SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #52
you are most welcome. niyad Nov 2018 #55
Keep tweeting. dalton99a Nov 2018 #50
So says our chief liar in chief of the US. A pathetic loser. nt SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #51
Twitter needs to come up with something with more power than caps for Dopey Donnie rurallib Nov 2018 #53
Is anyone else bored to shit by Trump's tweets? John Fante Nov 2018 #54

Maine-i-acs

(1,499 posts)
33. Protest or project?
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 11:53 AM
Nov 2018

Esp. the first stinker of a tweet.
Sounds like Trump tantrums being attributed to his supposed enemy.

PatSeg

(47,399 posts)
5. "They are screaming and shouting at people"???
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 09:30 AM
Nov 2018

Sounds more like what is going on in the White House.

PatSeg

(47,399 posts)
42. That's for sure
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 01:07 PM
Nov 2018

and it probably drives him nuts that nothing is leaking from Mueller's team, so he has to guess what is going on.

 

appal_jack

(3,813 posts)
24. Just about any accusation tRump makes about others...
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 11:09 AM
Nov 2018

...is something nefarious that tRump himself is doing.

Cornered rat is acting cornered!

-app

PatSeg

(47,399 posts)
43. Yes
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 01:09 PM
Nov 2018

He reminds me of the lying, cheating husband who accuses his spouse of lying and cheating. Some people believe that everyone else shares their bad habits and misdeeds.

AllyCat

(16,177 posts)
14. I guess bigger than the actual witch hunts and killed innocent women
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 09:57 AM
Nov 2018

so that men had someone to blame their $hit on? Somehow, him being innocent and part of an investigation is worse? Hmmm...I dunno, maybe he's not innocent? Is that reasonable to say at this point? Or sane?

Maxheader

(4,372 posts)
16. Deja vu....lines from that movie with tom hanks and jack nicholas..
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 10:05 AM
Nov 2018

THE TRUTH! THE TRUTH!??

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!

 

LakeSuperiorView

(1,533 posts)
21. Prove that you are not! I hear the Potomac is bracing this time of year.
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 10:20 AM
Nov 2018

I doubt that tub of lard could swim one lap of a decent sized pool, although he should float like a cork, with all the adipose tissue he carries. Of course, floating would prove him to be a witch.

Anyway it turns out would be a win for the nation. A witch, a sink and drown, or a massive heart attack would be good for the country.

llmart

(15,536 posts)
22. Dr. Feelgood must have given him something to get him out of his exile...
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 10:34 AM
Nov 2018

'cause he's back tweeting again. There is no way in hell this is a sane human being.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
26. Exactly whom are "they" screaming at, Don?
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 11:22 AM
Nov 2018

Certainly not you, for you've been avoiding their attempts to interview you for several months.

So who are you talking about? Sounds like you might be describing a crime. Facts please!!!

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
28. He has really come of the rails now.
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 11:32 AM
Nov 2018

His handlers must have him locked in his room with the tv and his phone.

FakeNoose

(32,630 posts)
37. Stop being the witch, Cheeto
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 12:12 PM
Nov 2018

You're only happy when it's all about you. OK, this is all about you. You are the witch and you are definitely being hunted. For all the years you have broken the law and gotten away with it. For all times you have taken advantage of our system that heavily favors rich, white men, you had to take even more. You had to cheat to win. And you are going down.

Mr. Robert Mueller is a man who does not cheat, and he has paid his dues. He's doing his job and he's taking you down. Every day I say "Thank God for Robert Mueller."




 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
39. If I was a doctor there's not enough money on Earth to make me want to stick my hand up there...
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 12:16 PM
Nov 2018

Juneboarder

(1,732 posts)
41. I've got my popcorn ready...
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 12:42 PM
Nov 2018

This investigation can't unfold quickly enough. I can't wait to see the history books in years to come showing photos of the Cheetoh in prison garb, locked up for life!

niyad

(113,259 posts)
47. Salem Witch Trials
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:20 PM
Nov 2018

Salem Witch Trials


The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, a special court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallows Hill, while some 150 more men, women and children were accused over the next several months. By September 1692, the hysteria had begun to abate and public opinion turned against the trials. Though the Massachusetts General Court later annulled guilty verdicts against accused witches and granted indemnities to their families, bitterness lingered in the community, and the painful legacy of the Salem witch trials would endure for centuries.

Belief in the supernatural–and specifically in the devil’s practice of giving certain humans (witches) the power to harm others in return for their loyalty–had emerged in Europe as early as the 14th century, and was widespread in colonial New England. In addition, the harsh realities of life in the rural Puritan community of Salem Village (present-day Danvers, Massachusetts) at the time included the after-effects of a British war with France in the American colonies in 1689, a recent smallpox epidemic, fears of attacks from neighboring Native American tribes and a longstanding rivalry with the more affluent community of Salem Town (present-day Salem). Amid these simmering tensions, the Salem witch trials would be fueled by residents’ suspicions of and resentment toward their neighbors, as well as their fear of outsiders.

. . .

In January 1692, 9-year-old Elizabeth (Betty) Parris and 11-year-old Abigail Williams (the daughter and niece of Samuel Parris, minister of Salem Village) began having fits, including violent contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. After a local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed bewitchment, other young girls in the community began to exhibit similar symptoms, including Ann Putnam Jr., Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Walcott and Mary Warren. In late February, arrest warrants were issued for the Parris’ Caribbean slave, Tituba, along with two other women–the homeless beggar Sarah Good and the poor, elderly Sarah Osborn–whom the girls accused of bewitching them.


Salem Witch Trials: The Hysteria Spreads
The three accused witches were brought before the magistrates Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne and questioned, even as their accusers appeared in the courtroom in a grand display of spasms, contortions, screaming and writhing. Though Good and Osborn denied their guilt, Tituba confessed. Likely seeking to save herself from certain conviction by acting as an informer, she claimed there were other witches acting alongside her in service of the devil against the Puritans. As hysteria spread through the community and beyond into the rest of Massachusetts, a number of others were accused, including Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse–both regarded as upstanding members of church and community–and the four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good. Like Tituba, several accused “witches” confessed and named still others, and the trials soon began to overwhelm the local justice system. In May 1692, the newly appointed governor of Massachusetts, William Phips, ordered the establishment of a special Court of Oyer (to hear) and Terminer (to decide) on witchcraft cases for Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex counties.

. . . .




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niyad

(113,259 posts)
48. Senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, and The Witch Hunt
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:23 PM
Nov 2018

Senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, and The Witch Hunt

On November 14, 1908, Joseph McCarthy was born into a Roman Catholic family as the fifth of nine children in Appleton, Wisconsin. Although McCarthy dropped out of grade school at the age fourteen, he returned to diligently finish his studies in 1928, permitting him to attend Marquette University. Once accepted, he began his journey to become what many historians consider to be one of the least qualified, most corrupt politicians of his time. After receiving his law diploma at Marquette University, McCarthy dabbled in unsuccessful law practices, and indulged in gambling along the way for extra financing. Despite being a Democrat early in his political years, he quickly switched into the Republican Party after being overlooked as a candidate in the Democratic Party for district attorney. His dirty campaign to win the position as circuit court judge proved to be an ominous foreshadowing to his later era of “McCarthyism.”

To stimulate his political career, McCarthy quit his job as circuit court judge and joined the Marines during World War II. After his short military career McCarthy then ran as the Republican candidate for the Wisconsin Senate seat, where he used propaganda and erroneous accusations against his opponent, Robert La Follette, to promote his own campaign. Damaging La Follete’s reputation by claiming he hadn’t enlisted in the military during the war, McCarthy won the election and became Senator. As re-election began to loom closer, McCarthy, whose first term was unimpressive, searched for ways to ensure his political success, resorting even to corruption. Edmund Walsh, a close fellow Roman Catholic and anti-communist suggested a crusade against so-called communist subversives. McCarthy enthusiastically agreed and took advantage of the nation’s wave of fanatic terror against communism, and emerged on February 9, 1950, claiming he had a list of 205 people in the State Department who were known members of the American Communist Party. The American public went crazy with the thought of seditious communists living within the United States, and roared for the investigation of the underground agitators. These people on the list were in fact not all communists; some had proven merely to be alcoholics or sexual deviants. Regardless, McCarthy relentlessly pushed through and became the chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, widening his scope to “investigate” dissenters. He continued to investigate for over two years, relentlessly questioning numerous government departments and the panic arising from the witch-hunts and fear of communism became know as McCarthyism.

Joseph McCarthy then accused several innocent citizens, most notably Owen Lattimore, of being associated with communism. Along the way, he had Louis Budenz, the former editor of The Daily Worker, back his accusations with evidence that was circumstantial at best, for Budenz was only using information he had heard from other people as much as 13 years prior. Another victim of McCarthy’s spurious communist accusations was Drew Pearson, a critic who discredited McCarthy’s accusations regularly through columns and radio broadcasts. McCarthy made seven speeches to the Senate on Pearson, which resulted in the loss of sponsors to Pearson’s show. Also, money was then raised to help numerous men sue Pearson, all charges of which he was found innocent and not liable.

McCarthy’s downfall finally began in October of 1953, when he started to investigate “communist infiltration into the military.” This was the final straw for then president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who realized that McCarthy’s movement needed to be stopped. The Army fired back at the accusations, sending information about McCarthy and advisors abusing congressional privileges to known critics of McCarthy. Reporters, Drew Pearson included, and other critics soon hopped on board, publishing unflattering articles about Joseph McCarthy and his methods of seeking out the supposed communists in America.

. . . .

http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/senatorjosephmccarthy.asp

SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
52. I just wanted to thank you for posting this. I've always wanted to know about this period in ...
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:45 PM
Nov 2018

time about McCarthy and his garbage that he's pulled during this timeframe, and wondered (1) how did he come onto the public stage and (2) his downfall. Very FYI. Thanks again.

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
53. Twitter needs to come up with something with more power than caps for Dopey Donnie
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:45 PM
Nov 2018

cause over the next couple of months we can expect some real screaming from Dopey Donnie.

SUPER CAPS IS WHAT DONNIE NEEDS.

Twitter is creative - surely they can come up with something?!

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