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Time to move on from what

NCD — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:06:04 +0000

In reply to Confessing a crime is usually

Time to move on from what deceitful claptrap Trump and the Republicans blathered yesterday.

Today is a new day, they have new lies to tell.

Confessing a crime is usually

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:52:00 +0000

In reply to on that press briefing, here

Confessing a crime is usually on the record whatever pre-conditions. I can't imagine what the fuck the press thinks they're doing, but they had no problem splattering Hillary's stolen emails on page 1 and speculating about whether her email server was a crime for over a year, but a candidate who sends or lets his son go to a foreign power to steal an election is embargoed information? Well fuck me running, these people are too stupid to give a pencil.

[and if they don't report it, at what point do they become accessory to a crime, guilty of obstruction of justice, or other relevant statute? A gaggle of 20 journalists secretly joining a criminal to yuck it up over a crime - is that what the Constitution allows?]

on that press briefing, here

artappraiser — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 04:46:34 +0000

In reply to Donald admits he knew but WH

on that press briefing, here is what the Times is saying & doing about it:

Excerpts From Trump’s Conversation With Journalists on Air Force One

By THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 13, 2017

The following are excerpts, as prepared and released on Thursday by the White House, from a conversation aboard Air Force One between President Trump and members of the press corps as they flew to Paris on Wednesday night.

The conversation was initially thought by the journalists to be off the record. However, the White House changed the terms of the exchange after Mr. Trump asked the pool reporter, who works for The New York Times, why it was not covered and she informed him that the journalists believed they were not allowed to use the material.

Note: Asterisks and ellipses denote sections of the president’s conversation that were left out by the White House [....]

Donald admits he knew but WH

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:48:00 +0000

In reply to "throes", dammit - our

Donald admits he knew but WH say press conference off record? I'm sure that will fly with prosecutor. "Oh, you're taking your confession back - OK, we'll just scratch it out"

[Politico has more if you don't trust Palmer]

Gingrich and Giuliani run attack ad on Mueller.

"throes", dammit - our

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:38:02 +0000

In reply to "But the only remedy would be

"throes", dammit - our writing and journalism has also taken a big hit.

"But the only remedy would be

NCD — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:22:51 +0000

In reply to Presidential Pardons and Obstruction of Justice

"But the only remedy would be (right now) for ~~Congress~~ Republicans to impeach him."

I think we have established that the GOP is totally OK with compromising the highest office in the land to the influence of a hostile foreign nation if that's what they need to maintain their power.

You can't rescue a party from a base that rejects the country's founding principles. Their non-response - make that support - for treason demonstrates American democracy is in its death throws.

Those were comments recently at WaPo.

Our institutions, our rights, freedom and democracy, can only be saved by voting Republicans out of power.