Discussion: Tom Cotton Says Nobody Should Undergo 'Trial By Newspaper'

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Unless they’re Democrats, right Tom?

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What a morally corrupt man.

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Sounds like his time in the barrel is coming up soon.

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I thought he was talking about Al Franken - silly me. If Roy Moore wins, will some Democrat have the guts to pull a Bannon-like stunt and have all the “Moore teenagers” show up and sit together at a Congressional hearing?

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If the republicans were competent and loyal Americans the papers wouldn’t have to do their job for them.

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No one is on trial, Senator.

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Yet.

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“… just like the people of this country made their decision last year on Donald Trump.”

Wait, didn’t 3 million more “people” vote for Hillary Clinton last year?

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The more Tom Cotton opens his mouth and makes a comment – the more I hate him – and I don’t hate a lot of people. He such a smug & arrogant A-hole!

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Coming up on 11 months now Mr Phillips. Waht up?

January 27, 2017
In 12-minute exchange with
CNN’s Chris Cuomo Friday, VoteStand founder Gregg Phillips alleged he
has the names of three million individuals who voted illegally, but that
he needs more time to prepare a public report to ensure accuracy and
because the work is being completed by volunteers. “We’re
going to release all of this to the public. We are going to release our
methodology and release the broad data and our conclusions and we’re
going to release everything to the public as soon as we get done with
the checks,” he said, when pressed by Cuomo. "(We) believe it will
probably take another few months to get this done."

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“We shouldn’t have trial by newspaper,”
This is a man who has such little respect for the laws and treaties of the nation that he would have someone rendered and tortured based on flimsy evidence.

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He means Trump, not members of the Senate or House.

But her emails!

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Tom, please give a call to Hillary. I’m sure she can give you a few pointers on how to handle a nationwide crowd of angry detractors. Granted, her techniques rely entirely on factual defenses, so you might struggle there.

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Under normal circumstances, we shouldn’t automatically make assumptions about people questioning a movement; that would make us McCarthy accusing any detractor of Marxist leanings. But Cotton isn’t normal circumstances, so I immediately wonder whether he’s preparing a defense for himself (his long bachelorhood) or his Republican colleagues.

@old_curmudgeon Or himself.

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Cotton said that Alabama voters “are going to make that decision, just like the people of this country made their decision last year on Donald Trump.”

Except Roy Moore doesn’t have the Electoral College to help him out if he gets 3,000,000 fewer vote than Doug Jones. But, then again, it’s Alabama so he probably won’t need that antiquated assistance.

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Unless it’s a Democrat enduring trial by fox and limbaugh.

Mealy-mouthed hypocrite. Sucking up to power, as always.

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Well, in principle, I agree with this. The problem is that we do not have a reliable mechanism to deal with these matters. Victims who raise complaints suffer for it and those offenders who are willing to tough it out suffer no consequences, at least in the political world provided they belong to a certain party. I’m afraid the lesson that will be taken when l’affaire Franken is viewed in contrast with Moore’s is going to be deny, deny, deny.

I take issue with you calling that worm with legs a man. He’s a fraud and a coward - he only cares about convicting Democrats. If it helped the Republicans to have a multiple convicted child rapist in the Senate that piece of shit would be all for it.

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