Re: "Psst... Rosenstein is a KGB Plant. Pass it on..."
 

Read the paragraph in its entirety. The line where he explains why he’s fucked is curiously omitted in the press.

Has the press been hanging with Barr too much lately?

ETA: It’s the last paragraph on P. 78 of the report. Focus on the sentence quoting Trump saying he is fucked because he won’t be able to get anything done in his presidency. That’s omitted obviously because it cuts against the narrative he was worried about criminal acts or conspiracies being uncovered.

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Don’t miss my point. I don’t think the media is out get Trump in its selective quotes at this moment. Everyone invested in that effort via this investigation just went down in flames (delude yourself otherwise if you like).

The press is just trying to keep this battle going as much as possible. It needs to keep the fight alive. There are shit tons of advance media sales on the line here, and Watergate II would’ve allowed them to jack the price XXX. Now they’re stuck hoping for XX. Screws up a lot of revenue projections.

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Hahaha! Yes, brilliant! Because NOTHING screams "exculpatory" more than a president firing the attorney general for failing to protect him.

Dude, you are bending over backward so far here, if you stick out your tongue you could lick your own ass. And while I can, in an abstract way, understand why you might consider that a worthy goal, it's just embarrassing for the rest of us to have to watch.

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I’ll say it again: Many posters here are the left wing mirror of my dipshit right wing friends.

(Those morons are currently crowing about Trump being a genius and “innocent.”)

I like arguing with Ty and Hank. I don’t think very highly of your analytical powers on politics, so I don’t really give a shit about an insult or a compliment you might offer. That’s why, if you notice, I generally don’t respond to you.

Re: "Psst... Rosenstein is a KGB Plant. Pass it on..."
 

When I was like 11 I was still very flexible, and I started getting boners (tmi?). I tried to suckle myself. All I could do though was touch my tongue to the head of my penis. It felt nice but not worth the effort, get that?


Why do you engage on this nonsense?

Re: "Psst... Rosenstein is a KGB Plant. Pass it on..."
 

That’s the whole point. If this idiot gets you lathered, you need to re-examine your emotional stability.

He’ll be done in 2020. Build some model airplanes in the interim. Masturbate more often. Buy a Craftmatic bed and make that pubescent curiosity re self fellatio a reality.

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This does not look good for Barr’s integrity: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/u...-excerpts.html

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Dude, if he attempted to obstruct, he had the requisite intent and thus did obstruct.

Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
 

Ah, yes, the media is only reporting on the details of a report of a major investigation into foreign influence on our election, the campaign’s knowledge of and desire to benefit from it and the president’s substantial attempts to interfere in the investigation of it while publicly denying there was any such interference for bottom line reasons. Otherwise, just nothing to see here.

If only you had as much concern for your reputation as Barr, you might not say much monumentally silly things.

Re: "Psst... Rosenstein is a KGB Plant. Pass it on..."
 

Floriferous insults are the best. Nothing better than a response like this, from someone who doesn't get the joke.

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You’re like a metronome.

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The issue isn’t the media reporting generally. The issue is the media reporting using quotes out of context to give a false and salacious spin to a more more complex exchange.

You knew that. I cited the exact line the media have been purposefully ignoring.

They do this to gin up ratings. To state as much is not at all controversial. They want the goriest battle.

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If you intend to do something you think is legal and it turns out it is actually illegal, do you have requisite mens rea? People like to say ignorance is no excuse, but thinking you've the legal right to do something is a defense to intent based crimes.

I think a similar defense was used by Cheney regarding torture. Didn't his office use the "John Woo gave us an opinion saying it was legal" defense?

If you use the broadest possible definition of obstruction, almost everything one does to avoid being charged or convicted can be deemed obstructive. You could make the argument that Trump, his lackeys, and even his lawyers, by playing the media, badmouthing the investigation and stonewalling on Mueller's demands for an interview were engaged in obstruction. Where'e the line? Is a target obligated to sit back and take it and not try to avoid being charged or convicted if he can do so? Because here, it appears to me that in stonewalling Mueller, Trump and his lawyers did the smart thing (and the only thing they could do with a chain-lying client). And it worked. To not have engaged in that obstructive behavior would seem to be malpractice on the part of Trump's lawyers.

Re: "Psst... Rosenstein is a KGB Plant. Pass it on..."
 

You're more a suburban garden gnome.

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He's fucking President. His adult children are fucking advisors the President. As a candidate, he had an army of top lawyers and experienced advisors available to him. As President, he has the entire DOJ ready to serve.

And folks want to let him off because he didn't understand the law he swore to uphold?

WTF?