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RE: Ben Stein nails it!
(01-27-2018 03:22 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote: (01-27-2018 08:27 AM)JMUDunk Wrote: (01-27-2018 01:36 AM)Attackcoog Wrote: (01-26-2018 10:54 PM)TechRocks Wrote: Quote:In September of 1967, I was a first year at Yale Law School, returning from a year recovering from acute colitis. My then gf, soon to be my wifey, and I went to a demonstration in the Graduate Student Commons in support of striking cafeteria workers. We were milling around, probably shouting slogans, and a hulking campus cop came up to my classmate, an extremely self-confident, smart fellow named Walter D. Waggoner. The cop said, “What’s your name, boy?”
Walter looked him dead in the eye and said, “I don’t have to answer your f–king questions.”
The cop stared and then walked away.
This all came rushing into my antique brain as I watched the news tonight that our President, Donald J. Trump, had been asked to answer Special Vishinsky Prosecutor Mueller’s questions about “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Putin’s Russia in the 2016 Presidential Campaign.
Incredibly, Trump, racing off to a conference of economic and finance bigwigs at Davos, Switzerland, said something like, “I’ll be glad to answer his questions.” Then he added, even more amazingly, “Under oath.”
One: There is no such crime as Russia/U.S. “Collusion.” The man who is running for President can talk to anyone he pleases. So can anyone who works for him. They can talk about anything except to disclose secret defense material. No one is even hinting that such a thing happened. So, there is no “there there” as my great, great Aunt Gertrude Stein said of Oakland.
For heads of state to talk to other heads of state or their deputies is how the business of the world gets done.
If you were to say it were illegal, you would have to say that all diplomacy is illegal. That’s a concept too Orwellian even for Trump’s haters.
Two: The Special Prosecutor is not a friend of Mr. Trump. He’s been in bed with Trump haters from the word “go”. He has no special place in history unless he hurts Trump very badly. He’s not going to just walk away from this without the trophy of inflicting heavy duty damage on Trump. That’s just not the way Special Prosecutors operate. Birds got to fly. Fish got to swim. Prosecutors got to prosecute. It doesn’t have to be the biggest possible fish, but it has to be somebody.
Mr. Mueller would not have asked to question Trump if he didn’t mean to harm him or someone close to him. Surely Mr. Trump should know this or if he doesn’t, there’s something seriously askew in his orange head.
There is just no upside in answering Mr. Mueller’s questions. It can only hurt someone close to Trump.
Three: Mr. Trump does not have to answer anyone’s f–king questions. He’s President. He can’t be cited for contempt. He can’t be indicted. He cannot be prosecuted especially for the non-existent crime of “collusion.” If he does not have to answer the questions and if the media will hurt him as much as they possibly can no matter what he does, why should he answer questions — especially under oath?
We already know that Mr. Mueller is looking way in the past at Mr. Trump’s business dealings years ago. What can this possibly have to do with his acts as President? Every day Mr. Mueller sends out more requests for interrogations. Mr. Trump, sir, this man wants to hurt you. Don’t help him. When you get back to D.C. from Davos, explain that you spoke too hastily, that you had not consulted your counsel. That you will have a look at written interrogatories and consider answering them with the help of your lawyers. Mr. Trump, this man, Mr. Mueller, is part of a conspiracy to drive you from office.
Take a tip from a man who worked for a President who was FAR too co-operative with the people sworn to kill him. Don’t answer his f–king questions.
https://spectator.org/dont-answer-his-qu...president/
Thats actually a really smart way to handle this. Lets be honest----there was no collusion and even if there was--its not against the law to gather negative truthful information on a candidate for president. If it was, every reporter in the main stream media would be in jail.
So, the whole purpose of the investigation is to taint. But beyond simply tainted the White House with a cloud of "scandal"---the special investigation has a secondary potentially even more damaging weapon---"secondary crimes" (see Clintons Blue dress).
Most of the time in these investigations--the original accusation turns out to be false--but the defendant gets tripped up by trying to cover up something else that is embarrassing and ends up getting charged with lying to the FBI and obstruction. However----if you dont answer any questions---then that potentially very deadly second avenue of attack is totally closed off to the Mueller investigation.
Mueller has nothing. Trump needs to go into Victory formation and just run out the clock. Dont pass the ball. Done run the ball. Dont give the defense the slightest chance of a turnover. Snap the ball--kneel down---and let the final seconds harmlessly expire.
And the added bonus is we all could witness, in real time, every prompter reading talking head on MSLSD and the VFNN explode, one half hour after the next.
What even is “collusion”? Is it using ROOOSKIE agents to spin wild fairy tales about trysts with peeing hookers? Is it selling off nuclear materials to ROOOSKIE financiers for millions in donations and half-million dollar per 20 minutes speaking fees? Or is it more like looking away when the ROOOSKIES decide to invade a neighbor and simply seize their land, murder their citizens and lay claim to their open water ports?
Would it look anything like that? Or is it a chance 20 minute senseless meeting with some lawyer chick set up by an oppo research firm like Fusion GPS?
Which of those is not like the other?
F Bueller and his hired henchmen. Stein is spot on.
It's cute that you all think this is almost over given the how political events have unfolded. Especially in the last decade.
it's not our fault you're team over country......
we don't give a shite anymore.....
if your party offered anything in return, maybe, just maybe, us centrists would yield.....
but nope.....dippos are simply dippos......and the pragmatic don't give two shites about feeeeewins.....
(This post was last modified: 01-27-2018 03:27 PM by stinkfist.)
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