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artappraiser — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 01:48:49 +0000

In reply to 3 House Trump fans doing the Uranium and Anti-Mueller thing: Gaetz, Biggs, Gohmert

Meanwhile, some reality-based conservatives:

Like me, most Americans hope that our justice system is independent and free of political interference. My full statement: pic.twitter.com/R4WrhSPQz3
— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) November 3, 2017

Where are the signatures of the rest of the Republican Senate caucus? https://t.co/MketjXgzWJ
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 3, 2017

‘Concerned’ conservatives, aiming to build a Trump resistance, call for GOP to protect Mueller

By David Weigel @ WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 1

In February, with the shock of President Trump’s victory still fresh, a small group of libertarians and conservatives began meeting every two weeks to discuss their next moves.

Evan McMullin, the “Never Trump” presidential candidate, was in the room. So was Bill Kristol, co-founder of the Weekly Standard, who had drafted McMullin to run. The meeting grew to include conservative columnists like Mona Charen, Max Boot and John Ziegler, and former U.S. House members such as South Carolina’s Bob Inglis and Florida’s David Jolly.

On Wednesday, the Meeting of the Concerned will release its first public statement, asking congressional Republicans to preempt any presidential action against Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

“We hereby call on House Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader McConnell to make clear, both publicly and privately, that they support the Mueller investigation and regard any interference with that investigation, including dismissal of the special counsel or preemptive pardons of investigation targets, as completely unacceptable,” write the members of the Meeting of the Concerned in the letter, which was provided to The Washington Post on Tuesday night. “We further urge all Republican members of Congress to issue public statements on these issues as well.” [....]

This is devastating. @SohrabAhmari explodes the fake "call them as we see them" mantra or alibi of Trump apologists.https://t.co/McaRkhb6hS
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 3, 2017

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