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{CC}StealthBlue
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ZeromuS
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TheTenthDoc
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On June 09 2017 01:29 Logo wrote: The weird thing about the GOP's line of defense here seems to be that the two statements: 1. Trump saying "I hope" 2. Trump saying he fired Comey because of Russia investigations Require different criteria for interpreting Trump's words to get Trump out of the situation. In one case you have to take the words quite literally (I hope) and in the other you need to hand wave the words as being less literal. Unfortunately, the capacity for recognizing cognitive dissonance is an exclusion criteria for serving in Congress (be you D or R or I). | ||
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
On June 09 2017 01:27 TheTenthDoc wrote: The memos clearly show Trump wanted the investigation to stop sooner rather than later. And then fired Comey. There's no space "I wanted the investigation to conclude naturally" if you take them as fact. 100% confirming Trump explicitly told Comey he wanted the investigation over with is a big deal for building a link of "Trump unhappy investigation isn't over-> fire Comey." Without the former, we just have a firing and then potentially Trump being (incorrectly) happy the investigation was going to be over sooner. There's plenty room for alternative reasons for the termination. You're just hyper-focused on one possible explanation. | ||
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On_Slaught
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Dangermousecatdog
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On June 09 2017 01:30 xDaunt wrote: And the obvious rebuttal is "where is the gun?" You are aware he was literally...fired. Edit: Also Why is McCain talking about e-mails? As if somehow James Comey is still investigating them as opposed to being fired. WTF is McCain even asking? | ||
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Wulfey_LA
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EDIT: what? WHAT? I think McCain is trying to say that Comey should have closed out the Trump investigation ... because he closed out the Clinton investigation? This is the logic of a 3 year old who saw another three year old finish their ice cream. | ||
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Plansix
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On June 09 2017 01:32 xDaunt wrote: There's plenty room for alternative reasons for the termination. You're just hyper-focused on one possible explanation. To be fair, that is the explanation that Trump gave for the firing during a TV interview a couple days later. | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
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CobaltBlu
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Kipsate
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ZeromuS
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On June 09 2017 01:33 Dangermousecatdog wrote: You are aware he was literally...fired. Yeah its smoking and in his hands .... because he didn't follow through on the hope | ||
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ZeromuS
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On June 09 2017 01:33 Kipsate wrote: where the fuck is Mcain going Clock running lets go | ||
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Dromar
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Tachion
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Nevuk
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On June 09 2017 01:24 biology]major wrote: It's an important point of discussion. Just because you don't want to hear the truth that Lynch's justice department was impartial, and then lead to comey doing the press conference which then lead to the letter pre election week, which then impacted where we are now in a significant way, doesn't mean its not worth bringing it up. Comey has a chance to shed light into their bs meeting on the tarmac. Stop selectively choosing which of these partisan hacks to focus on, let's find out about all of them. I mean sure, it is a problem. It just seems somewhat unrelated to the actual reason Comey is here to the point that attempting to redirect attention to it so often is clearly an attempt at misdirection. | ||
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