The Justice Department under President Donald Trump secretly obtained the phone records of three Washington Post reporters over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration, the Washington Post reported on Friday night.
(J. Edgar Hoover’s tormented ghost waves “hello” through clouds of sulfur and flame)
More details will be forthcoming, of course, but, to be honest, saying “Trump ____________” devalues whatever is in the blank.
1/3 of a flaming ‘human centipede’ that Baphomet stitched together from John Mitchell and Bill Casey.
(G-d, I’m old.)
It’s almost guaranteed that there are many, many other abuses of power that happened during the Trump administration like this…Trump, like Nixon, has an enemies list (which is probably a lot longer), and he and his team were completely happy to go after anyone who opposed them or brought out the truth of what was really going on. The only saving grace really was the civil service, who followed the rules instead of kowtowing to the politicians. That’s why Trump signed an executive order that would have allowed him to fire a huge number of civil servants and replace them with toadies…if a Republican wins the presidency again you can bet that will happen quickly.
We really are headed towards a clash between the forces of the Republican party which want to turn America into a dictatorship they rule and the rest of us. It’s clear which side is more in agreement with the principles that founded this nation and ran it for 230+ years now, but it’s not at all clear how the confrontation will turn out…we can only hope that enough people believe in things like the Constitution to want to retain it for our descendants.
Leadership is so important.
We learned that the Hard Way. We do not have a “Royal Family”…we make up for it in many ways…and we also make up for it with the Presidency.
When Trump became president I knew the following:
(1) The Above
(2) Trump is the worst human being ever installed as a U.S. President.
With DeSantis, Cruz, Hawley and Cotton on deck, that “worst human” title looks sketchy in the near term.
The speculation @emptywheel was that it was (1) John Durham who sought the contacts and (2) that they were looking for FBI contacts, like Peter Strozk and, I’d add, Andy McCabe.
For me, that’s probably so Donnie could proclaim, “…and he’s a leaker…” The character assassination just never stopped in that corner.
That name still disgraces the headquarters building of the FBI.
The bracketed below is an excerpt of a post of mine from another thread
["the System of Justice we have in the U.S. is slow and deliberate.
And here is the most frustrating part:
Let’s imagine two extremes… on one side Trump is never charged or, if charged, walks on everything…on the other, Trump is dealt with for his crimes as he would without the kid glove treatment made worse by being POTUS.
No one knows what will take place in the future w/r/t Trump’s situation. And that provides an extraordinary amount of doubt and uncertainty for us and a Golden Opportunity for the GOP to talk and act precisely the way they have been doing from Minute One after Biden was announced as Winner on Saturday, 7 November 2020.
They sure seemed concerned over the leaking of classified information about contacts that in general they say never happened.
OT
Sheesh, are they all peds?
OT—but this will take your breath.
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McCarthy: “Yup! He’s our guy!”
And Barr is perhaps the worst human being ever installed as Attorney General. Though I suspect he’s guilty of many crimes (so far unproven) during his tenure, it’s crystal clear he committed perjury in his testimony to Congress. He should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The Trump Era is a recruiting poster for white collar criminals.
I bet you watched Route 66 when it was even a real thing.
The T rumpp Era is a recruiting poster for white power criminals.
Fixed.
The reporting on Sessions is especially pertinent here–it’s why he had to recuse himself from what became the Mueller investigation.
