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    Another opinion re: Comey Tetstimony

    Humbly submitted for your perusal..

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-machine-trump


    Make no mistake: Comey’s testimony was effectively the first hearing into what will surely become the impeachment of Donald J Trump. Such proceedings must ultimately take place in the House, but Comey has laid the foundations of the next several years of Trump’s Russian saga.

    How can you tell the impeachment machine is warming up? By watching the Republican senators in action.

    When faced with the news that their country was under Russian attack, these august members of the world’s greatest deliberative body rushed to defend their most precious possession: not American values, but their very own Donald Trump.

    Most of them were primarily concerned to get Comey to say that he wasn’t investigating Trump himself. Some of them insisted that Trump’s obstruction of justice was no big deal because the FBI was such an awesome institution it couldn’t be swayed by a few casual words from a former real estate developer.

    Except for the fact that Comey was sitting in front of them as an unemployed civilian, recently fired by Trump for that same Russian saga.

    Then there were a handful of Republicans who wanted to talk about Hillary Clinton’s emails. Yes, we’re looking at you, John McCain, the Senate maverick who hates Vladimir Putin but somehow hates Hillary more.

    The Republican reaction was as great a curiosity to behold as Trump’s infatuation with Putin’s Russia. As James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, told the Australian press this week: “I have had a very hard time reconciling the threat the Russians pose to the United States with the inexplicably solicitous stance President Trump has taken with respect to Russia.”

    We all have had a really hard time with this one. No wonder Clapper also said that Watergate pales in comparison to Trump’s collusion with Russia and the firing of Comey.

    And that’s where Trump made his biggest mistake. Because James Comey is an elite athlete of Washington and Donald Trump, well, isn’t.

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    Richard L. Wolffe is a liberal British-American journalist, MSNBC commentator, and author of the Barack Obama books Renegade: The Making of a President and Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House.

    'Nuff said.


    Here's you one by a liberal civil liberties lawyer that is an expert on the law. So being a liberal, he should be biased against Trump, but he also knows law. :)

    Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) A political liberal, is an American lawyer, jurist, and author. He is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law, and a leading defender of civil liberties.

    Alan Dershowitz: History, precedent and James Comey's opening statement show that Trump did not obstruct justice

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/al...rticle/2625318

    Dershowitz: Comey confirms that I'm right - and all the Democratic commentators are wrong

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/...are-wrong.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Richard L. Wolffe is a liberal British-American journalist, MSNBC commentator, and author of the Barack Obama books Renegade: The Making of a President and Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House.

    'Nuff said.


    Here's you one by a liberal civil liberties lawyer that is an expert on the law. So being a liberal, he should be biased against Trump, but he also knows law. :)

    Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) A political liberal, is an American lawyer, jurist, and author. He is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law, and a leading defender of civil liberties.

    Alan Dershowitz: History, precedent and James Comey's opening statement show that Trump did not obstruct justice

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/al...rticle/2625318

    Dershowitz: Comey confirms that I'm right - and all the Democratic commentators are wrong

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/...are-wrong.html

    Comey confirmed that under our Constitution, the president has the authority to direct the FBI to stop investigating any individual. I paraphrase, because the transcript is not yet available: the president can, in theory, decide who to investigate, who to stop investigating, who to prosecute and who not to prosecute. The president is the head of the unified executive branch of government, and the Justice Department and the FBI work under him and he may order them to do what he wishes.

    As a matter of law, Comey is 100 percent correct. As I have long argued, and as Comey confirmed in his written statement, our history shows that many presidents—from Adams to Jefferson, to Lincoln, to Roosevelt, to Kennedy, to Bush 1, and to Obama – have directed the Justice Department with regard to ongoing investigations. The history is clear, the precedents are clear, the constitutional structure is clear, and common sense is clear


    Ok, I'll concede this. BUT...

    Comey’s testimony was devastating with regard to President Trump’s credibility – at least as Comey sees it. He was also critical of President Trump’s failure to observe the recent tradition of FBI independence from presidential influence. These are issues worth discussing but they have been distorted by the insistence of Democratic pundits that Trump must have committed a crime because they disagree with what he did politically.
    Also...

    Richard L. Wolffe is a liberal British-American journalist, MSNBC commentator, and author of the Barack Obama books Renegade: The Making of a President and Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House.

    'Nuff said.
    Why, "nuff said"? Just because the guy is a liberal doesn't mean he doesn't have a valid point. Get past the "liberal" and "conservative" labels and consider the content of what's being said, like you want me to do with Dershowitz.

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    Trump's infatuation with Russia ? What about Obama's infatuation with Islam, the Muslim brotherhood whom he employed advisors from and involvement in the Arabic spring which destabilized Northern Africa and let Islamists take over, plus his involvement with Islamist groups in Syria, some of which have by now joined ISIS ?

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