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The Louisiana Republican said he thinks the charges related to the former president’s mishandling of classified documents after he left office are “almost a slam dunk."

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone capable of reading English should come to this conclusion after reading the indictments, just saying.

I'm glad the Senator from Louisiana can read! 👍

Sadly, it seems some of our other senators cannot.

These are all written as "speaking indictments" for good reason - they spell out the charges and reasons for them, simply and understandably, for anyone to understand. Yet most won't bother, and that's sad.

Classified Documents indictment

Superseding indictment adding to Classified Docs

D.C. Jan 6th indictment

Fulton County GA indictment

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They got Clinton for lying about cheeting on his wife, only after trying to get him for Whitewater but failed. Ken Star used his powers to investigate ANYTHING but only found a secret blowjob. If Clinton hadn't lied, there would have been absolutely nothing he could prove in court. Not saying that the Clintons were/are clean, just that there's nothing to pin a conviction on.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depressing fact, one of the guys who worked for Ken Star now sits on the supreme court, and also worked on Bush v Gore. There are two more Bush v Gore lawyers on the court as well.

And no, none of them worked for Gore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is quite depressing. Also, Bill Barr worked for HW Bush on the [Iran-Contra](William Barr Supported Pardons In An Earlier D.C. 'Witch Hunt': Iran-Contra https://www.npr.org/2019/01/14/684553791/william-barr-supported-pardons-in-an-earlier-d-c-witch-hunt-iran-contra) cover up. He was well schooled in blocking and delaying prosecutions of those in power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roger Stone, of recent infamy, was a Nixon toady, and actually the person you talked to if you wanted to talk to Nixon after Watergate. He led the Brooks Brother's riot, where a bunch of lawyers flew into Florida and demanded that vote counting stop. They succeeded.

He also had a "stop the steal" website ready to go in 2016, but to everyone's surprise, it wasn't needed.

These rat fuckers are an incestuous bunch, and really there aren't that many of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Incestuous" very accurate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course the Clintons are clean.

They've been under a microscope since Bill announced he was running against Daddy Bush.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My opion is colored by years of conservative upbringing, hard to fight against sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know I couldn't stand up to 11 hours of questioning like Hilary did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only thing I could do for 11 hours is sleep, and then I might have to get up to pee!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Georgia one is pretty dry compared to the Special Counsel ones.

I still read it ofc, but it was kinda dry.