Imagine for a moment if it had come out during the 2016 campaign or in the first year of the Trump presidency that GOP political operatives were accused of illegally funneling Russian money into the Trump campaign.
I think he just pulled Mitch McConnell’s finger.
First time the DoJ hasn’t been headed by a TFG crony who looks like Mr. Toad since the crime perhaps?
Come on! If had been changed when it could be attached to Trump ( in other words had Saint Mueller had the brains to find and stones move it ) there’d have been a problem. We were still high on HRC’s emails and needed no other fix.
The name of the game was to keep Trump out of the shit he deserved to be in. Every GOP’er, Mueller included, Comey included…played by those rules. It’s safe now to bring it out. But forget Trump. This needs to be rammed right up Alito’s ass with a reference to “that’s not true” inscribed on it.
Oh, sweet Jesus. This isn’t hard.
It is being charged now because there’s a new sheriff in town and the statute of limitations is expiring.
It wasn’t charged before because the old sheriff was complicit and would have pardoned the perp. Indeed, he had already pardoned the perp on a different crime.
Yup. This. Probably a ton of files that different offices have been sitting on on different folks for the entirety of the last administration because they saw what was happening with cases that were actually brought.
Re-open the Mueller Investigation. Name someone like Daniel Goldman as the special prosecutor. Go after all of these clowns. This is about national security.
“But why the delay that had prosecutors potentially bumping up against the statute of limitations?”
This truly is the greatest mystery of the century. What oh what could be the explanation?
Simple answer - the AG wasn’t going to indict folks with ties to Trump, McConnell, and Paul.
I’ll take “Headline questions we already know the answer to” for $500, Alex.
The 5-year statute of limitations expires sometime in October for Individual-1 in the Stormy Daniels payoff/campaign finance crime. Gonna be hard to justify not pursuing that after DOJ sent Michael Cohen to prison for doing Trump’s bidding there.
Related, but somewhat O/T: Since John Roberts and the SC hollowed out the Voting Rights Act of 1965, saying among other things, that it was no longer necessary, is there a way that the Attorney General could bring a case back to the SC requesting they revisit those rulings? Given the past, present, and future assaults on voting rights, it seems reasonable. P.S. I am not a lawyer…
Anyone?
Russia supported Trump
Who supports welfare for the rich.
THANK YOU! This isn’t even remotely complicated. There’s no mystery here at all. Even if someone at DOJ wanted to prosecute this case, Benton would’ve been pardoned again, so what would be the point? New sheriff, no pardon, can now prosecute. The end.
Daniel Goldman knows his stuff for sure.
Looks like Justice Alito owes President Obama* an apology since he acutally predicted this would happen with the Citizens United decision.
“There are a lot of reasons cases can be stalled,”
The two most relevant being Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr.
DOJ will need to stock up on toner cartridges if they indict even a fraction of deserving R’s.
It’s been a formality for as long as I can remember regardless of the President. I would add “Twice impeached Mr President” where appropriate.
But a Canadian bought a Hillary tee shirt, so both sides.