seems as if the fish are the ones complaining loudest…
Whatever happened to “It would be irresponsible not to speculate”?
Only in this case it would be irresponsible not to investigate.
Be careful, Mueller. Trump might have some fire and fury and frankly strength left over.
No, it’s definitely a fishing expedition, it’s just that this is a routine and normal part of the investigatory process. Given what we know would be remarkable if anything particularly suspicious, but stranger things have happened. Just great that we’re finally getting to the bottom of things. Firing Comey looks like a better and better decision every day.
Have to ask…
But have we ever had a President with just 7 months in office have THREE different grand juries (D.C., VA, and NYC) investigating his administration?
So, what is it…you didn’t read the article, or your reading comprehension skills are just so bad that you didn’t understand it?
Because you aren’t addressing anything in the article, merely placing your reflexive troll response to a headline. Which is yet another attempt at thread hijacking.
Flagged.
So Trump has accomplished more than any other president in his first 200 days.
Firing Comey looks like a better and better decision every day.
Yes, Trump is certainly resting on his laurels about that good decision. Maybe he will tweet about it this morning?
This is his M.O. these days. In the guise of offering his trademark calm, rational assessment from a “different perspective,” he makes blandly outrageous and baseless assertions such as this: “Given what we know would be remarkable if anything particularly suspicious…” and then sits back, hoping for an argument or three to which he will add more blandly outrageous responses for as long as he can keep the pot boiling. He knows if you avoid the ad hom, you can threadjack with less fear of being zapped.
He has never offered a rational assessment. He has always presented Moscow talking points and fake news, combined with whacko “well you DON’T know that oxygen really exists, you’ve never actually seen it” attacks.
He is, and always has been, a troll. But for some strange reason, TPM refuses to do anything about him.
Why bitch about fake news and bot attacks…or Josh’s latest bee in his bonnet, a semi-fake twitter account…when they are actively giving a platform to one, every single day?
@daveyjones64, @mattinpa, maybe we should stick to the topic at hand and let @uk_observer flail away.
Being sarcastic, if that wasn’t clear. He pretends to. Once Trump was elected Ukie’s had to take more and more outlandish positions and offer more and more arguments based on rawly baseless assertions like the one I pointed out. He’d be useful as practice for a middle-school critical-thinking program. But around here he’s just threadjacking bait.
It seems you missed the title of the article.
I am sure Frank Nitti claimed Elliot Ness was engaged in a fishing expedition when he got Al Capone. Following the money is how you prove the crime. It is very unlikely any of the conspirators is going to talk. Well in this case Trump looks fully capable of spilling the beans on himself but in most cases. . . .
DO not feed the troll
Matter of opinion. Kurt Andersen’s recent piece in The Atlantic goes into the historical trends that filled our political and cultural discourse with nonsense, and at the end he recommends at least pushing back where it’s practical—not in the checkout line, maybe, but where it’s a chronic problem at least. Wrangling with him directly is pointless but pointing out to other visitors that he’s certainly not arguing in good faith is hygienic IMHO.
I don’t give a shit if it is a fishing expedition. As the Republicans reminded us time and time again about the Clintons, if you didn’t do anything wrong, you need not fear any investigation.
Absolutely! Without firing Comey, it’s quite unlikely we’d have a Special Counsel seated so soon.