If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama. He knew EVERYTHING. Do it @LindseyGrahamSC, just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2020
Courtesy of Politico:
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday brushed back President Donald Trump’s pleas for the Judiciary Committee chairman to haul in former President Barack Obama for testimony about the origins of the Russia investigation and the FBI’s handling of the investigation into Michael Flynn.
Just moments after Trump appealed directly to the South Carolina Republican on Twitter, Graham reiterated that he does not intend to call Obama before his committee — and he warned of the precedent such an action would set.
“I don’t think now’s the time for me to do that. I don’t know if that’s even possible. I have grave concerns about the role of executive privilege and all kinds of issues,” Graham said in a brief interview. “I understand President Trump’s frustration, but be careful what you wish for. Just be careful what you wish for.”
In recent days, Trump has mounted an aggressive campaign against his predecessor, accusing Obama of illegally targeting his associates during his final months in the White House. Trump has not cited evidence that Obama engaged in criminal wrongdoing, even as he continues to amplify the issue on his Twitter feed, dubbing it “Obamagate,” and accusing the former president of committing the “biggest political crime in American history.”
For the last three and a half years Lindsey Graham has been chugging down the Trump Koola-aid as if his very life depended on it, but clearly there are lines that even he will not cross.
Of course, that has not slowed Trump down even a little bit.
….Likewise, the @nytimes and @washingtonpost are a disgrace to journalism. They are all Fake News, and they know it better than anyone else. History is unfolding, and it is not a pretty picture for “journalism”.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2020
Could you even imagine how badly it would blow up in Trump’s face if they were able to convince Obama to testify?
Hillary Clinton sat for 11 hours without breaking a sweat and handed the Republican Senators their asses when all was said and done.
Does anybody really think that Barack Obama would be any less effective?
I think it more likely that Trump’s fawning minion is looking to protect him even yet. If President Obama got called to testify, just think what a Democratic majority and president could to Trump and his crime family. Don’t credit Mz. Lindsey for taking the high road. He’s not.
dumb, dumb,dumb.
It’s weird to see a picture of Graham without his face covered in djt’s semen.
Obviously, Mis Lindsey swallows. Leaving no tell tale trace.
LOL, be careful what you wish for is right, with all the crimes that trump has committed, they would have to create a new branch of Congress to just for the hearing/investigations.
Plus when they haul lardass donnie in front of a senate committee, perjury is a given.
Perjury? From this congress/senate even after November elections?
That will be the day.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/15/hackers-claiming-to-have-trump-documents-demand-42-million-ransom.html
What happened to Article II, a president can do what ever he wants defense that demented donnie uses as an excuse all the time?
https://www.lancastercourier.com/2020/05/15/biden-says-he-would-refuse-to-pardon-trump-and-slams-ag-barr-for-his-prostitution-of-the-doj/?fbclid=IwAR0ZaavAq7MozzcrxNEBk6WIWm68Wo_qCoIG-psSn_8N2WjwfuXvEHHJHO8
BIDEN / DECKWORT 2020
~vs~
#RacistRapist2020
Correction: Biden/Duckworth 2020
You really want to explode Death Party heads?
Biden makes Obama his Chief of Staff.
Then when RBG retires, nominates Obama to the Supreme Court.
Enough of this.
The Obamas seem to be quite happy involved in their own causes as regular citizens.
Add Hillary to that JOTSC & make ‘O’ Chief Justice.
Let her be a grandma, and lash out on twitter that she was so mistreated.
She was, haven’t we all, but let it do for effs sake.
Politics is a dirty business, and don’t think for one minute that her hands are sanitized.
Hillary would get a newly created position, The Empress.
O/T, but mar-a-lago is having its grand reopening this weekend; wonder if Air Force One will make an appearance in FL? He’s probably pulling out his orange hair wondering if he can just say he was quarantining and slip away?
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/ignore-trumps-bluster-obamagate-is-a-serious-scandal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Sometimes you have to take a real long look at what this country calls “leadership” any more.
https://secondnexus.com/nbc-hard-evidence-trump-obama?fbclid=IwAR014xycIj7Pb-nUdbVpJUFmDghi1Jmyi8FDeZGnwkBflruWdAf28-5PpMU
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/15/trump-criticized-for-super-duper-missile-comments-after-space-force-flag-unveiling-at-oval-office.html
“We should have started this a long time ago, but we’ve made up for it in spades. We have developed some of the most incredible weapons anyone’s ever seen. And it’s moving along very rapidly.”
“We have, I call it the ‘super-duper missile.’ And I heard the other night [it’s] 17 times faster than what they have right now,”
MY>Super-Duper Missile!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-new-weapon-twitter-viral-response_n_5ebfb855c5b60e483b73e0dc
$uper-Duped
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/gop-lawmakers-denial-of-aid-to-blue-states-will-come-back-to-haunt-them-in-the-worst-way-columnist/
https://news.yahoo.com/ahmaud-arbery-accused-killer-barred-173909587.html
“We cannot turn away a video that shows two white men casing a black man and killing him,”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gregory-mcmichael-ahmaud-arberys-killer-was-stripped-of-power-to-arrest-after-skipping-use-of-force-courses?source=articles&via=rss
https://news.yahoo.com/black-delivery-driver-filmed-himself-204522419.html
https://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-delivery-man-blocked-hoa-203300308.html
“I’m not aware of any accepted policy for referring someone that requires a police response to delegate that response to a former law enforcement officer who happens to live in the neighborhood,”
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/suspect-arbery-shooting-had-offered-help-police/gFMpkRpX0Zk5edjvXrE6sN/
In December, after English alerted Glynn County police to a potential break-in on the site, the local cops told him that Greg McMichael had offered to help keep an eye on the site. “Greg is retired Law Enforcement and also a Retired Investigator from the DA’s office,” Officer Robert Rash texted English on Dec. 20, according to the AJC report. “He said please call him day or night when you get action on your camera.”
The text raises further concerns about whether the close relationship between McMichael and the local police hindered the investigation. McMichael and his son were arrested nearly two months after the shooting, after the case had bounced between local prosecutors who cited a conflict of interest due to their ties with the McMichaels. Other police and prosecutors have told reporters that it’s very odd for police to enlist a retired officer for help. S. Lee Merritt, a lawyer for the Arbery family, said the text message “deputized a group of untrained men in the Satilla Shores community to hunt down suspected trespassers, causing the events of Feb. 23, 2020.”
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/15/wtf-is-obamagate-thats-easy-its-donald-trumps-reboot-of-but-her-emails/
Rucker pressed him: “What is the crime?”
Trump replied, “You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody.”
This was hilarious but telling. Trump didn’t think he needed to come up with an actual accusation, which is understandable. He’d never had to before! Insinuation and a pretense of outrage had worked well enough to send the press on a wild goose chase to generate fake scandals in the past.
Trump’s assumption that he doesn’t have to say what “Obamagate” is, exactly, for the media to run with it is sadly proving correct.
THIS>What actually happened is simple: Obama issued sanctions against Russian leaders in 2016 for interfering with the election. After that, Flynn, before taking office with the Trump administration, had a private conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, in which he assured Kislyak not to worry about the sanctions because Trump would get rid of them. Intelligence officials recorded this conversation, since they had Kislyak under surveillance. Obama officials were understandably concerned about what American was making such assurances to Kislyak and wanted to know who it was. That was their legal right and, more importantly, their patriotic duty.
The real scandal would have been if the Obama administration had ignored the fact that Flynn was behaving in a potentially treasonous manner.
There is no balance here. Obama was a lawful and diligent president who was trying to protect our country’s democratic institutions. Trump is a grifting, cheating sleazeball who is weaponizing the DOJ to try to steal an election and who openly invites foreign interference. Any story that doesn’t offer clarity on this contrast is misleading the public and cannot be considered legitimate journalism.
truth is that Donald Trump isn’t wrong to believe that he can keep saying “Obamagate” over and over and the news media will do the dirty work of creating a scandal where none exists. It’s always worked before. It is starting to work again. The only hope of saving our democracy is that the press finally stops letting its bizarre theology of “balance” lead once again to the promotion of conspiracy theories over facts._________________________
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/16/obamagate-and-lock-her-up-pointing-the-way-toward-heil-trump/
He started off last Sunday with an epic tweetstorm, 126 of them in all…”fascist bellowing” “The crime is very obvious to everybody.”
“Trump loved Flynn. It had been Flynn who led the delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention in chanting “lock her up” after mentioning the alleged criminal behavior of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.” – ” the words “fascist bellowing” on purpose, because that’s what it is: Trump supporters at public events and rallies loudly endorsing official lawlessness. It’s not a funny joke or clever verbiage. Trump and his followers have been routinely advocating the jailing of Trump’s political opponents without an investigation, criminal charges, trial or conviction by a jury of their peers. This is the way fascist dictators dispose of their political opposition. “Lock her up” is Trump’s “Heil Hitler.” – Mein Kampf: My Struggle