(04-19-2019, 09:39 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(04-19-2019, 09:32 AM)TJBender Wrote: For starters, Hillary should have been prosecuted for any number of reasons. I'm sure Trump realizes, despite his grandstanding, that spending time and resources going after her now will fire up his already fired up base and alienate most everyone else. It's not going to happen, but it should.

The difference between Trump defending himself from false charges and me defending myself from them is that I can't pick up the phone and direct my subordinates to fire the people investigating me. That's the big red line, and that's what needs to be explored. If there's nothing there, there's nothing there, but I would certainly like to know if the President tried to abuse his powers to interfere with an investigation of himself. I don't see how someone looking at it from 10,000 feet couldn't be asking that question. It's the only thing in the shreds of report and numerous summaries I've read that still bothers me, and I'd like to see both Judiciary Committees look into it and see what's there.

You also don't get investigated by people with conflicts of interest whom are being directed by political opponents with an ax to grind either.

Reasonable suspicion. n. That thing that's created when senior members of your campaign quietly have a meeting with members of a foreign power that's in the process of illegally influencing an election. Also, that thing that happens when your campaign somehow knows of damaging information about another candidate before it's released by an organization considered criminal by the US government.

Did the whole thing start as a partisan investigation? Yes, I don't think anyone doubts that. But let's presume that a Bugatti Veyron is stolen from a dealership down the street. There are suspects in custody, none of whom is me, and it appears I purchased the car legally from them. Then someone finds out that I had met with the suspects at Starbucks a couple of weeks before the car was stolen. A crime was committed, no one doubts that, and no one doubts that the end result of the crime is me getting a Bugatti Veyron. In the case of the Presidency, that might not be enough given how many different factors are at play, but the revelation that I met with the guys who stole the Veyron before it was stolen creates reasonable suspicion to start investigating me.

The difference is that anyone investigating me is never getting that Veyron back. As soon as I hear I'm a person of interest, I'm taking that thing out to US 90 east of Pensacola and flooring it. I'll either be dead from wrecking the car at 225, under arrest for going 225, or some combination of both. Either way, I highly doubt the dealership will ever see their Veyron again.

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