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babylonsister

(171,066 posts)
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:00 AM Feb 2018

Trump Urges Investigation of the 'Other Side'



https://politicalwire.com/2018/02/24/trump-urges-investigation-side/

Trump Urges Investigation of the ‘Other Side’
February 24, 2018 at 10:47 pm EST
By Taegan Goddard


Saying there were “no phone calls, no meetings, no collusion,” President Trump on Saturday pushed for an investigation of “the other side” amid the FBI probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, while claiming “we need intelligence that brings our country together,” Politico reports.

Said Trump: “A lot of bad things happened on the other side, not on this side, but on the other side. And somebody should look into it, because what they did is really fraudulent and somebody should be looking into that and by somebody, I’m talking about you know who.”
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tomp

(9,512 posts)
20. People like the obamas....
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 03:55 PM
Feb 2018

....are involved in rehabilitating the bush criminals. Bad enough Obama didn’t prosecute for war crimes.

I hear too many people saying exactly what you said. It’s insidious, and no one should repeat it.

And guess what: I can’t read your mind.

Docreed2003

(16,860 posts)
2. This dude is off his freaking rocker..No meetings???
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:03 AM
Feb 2018

How about the meeting at Trump Tower with your campaign manager and your first born Donnie???? Are you suggesting that didn’t happen??

Botany

(70,508 posts)
6. No meetings
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:13 AM
Feb 2018

Like Flynn and Kislyak or Sessions and Kislyak or Flynn and Putin or Eric Prince
with the Russians in the Seychelles or Ivanka and Wendy Dang or in the oval office with
Trump, Kislyak, and that other Russian or Carter Page and Russians or Papadopoulos
and "the Russian professor" who has now gone missing or Kushner and .....

spanone

(135,838 posts)
4. so don, why are there all these investigations of 'Your Side' going on?
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:07 AM
Feb 2018

all the investigations are being done by REPUBLICANS...they must think you COLLUDED

ProfessorGAC

(65,044 posts)
5. Investigations Aren't The Damning Part
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:08 AM
Feb 2018

Indictments much worse. Guilty pleas much more so.

If nothing happened, to what are these people pleading guilty?

Cornered rat, maybe?

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
7. I know you are, but what am I?
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:14 AM
Feb 2018

Typical Trump response. I remember the game well, when my brother first learned it about 8 or 9.

Of course, he discarded it years ago - since he's no longer a child.

mnmoderatedem

(3,728 posts)
9. to most of us, the "other side"
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:20 AM
Feb 2018

would refer to a hostile foreign power interfering with our democratic process we've had in place for 200+ years, not the other political party.

Not so with this administration.

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
14. Like when Trump says
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:40 AM
Feb 2018

“Democrat Party.” Trump was a phony Democrat and, definitely, not progressive! A phony in every sense of the word!

unblock

(52,236 posts)
15. First president since the civil war to not even pretend to be president of all of us.
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 11:42 AM
Feb 2018

And I’m only putting in the civil war caveat because I’m not sure about some of the presidents leading up to the civil war.

Donnie might be the first president ever to do this.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
13. Hey, Donald: think of your prison cell as a very tiny little "wall"
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:38 AM
Feb 2018

And you're on "the other side" of it.

16. "I'm talking about you know who."
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 01:38 PM
Feb 2018

What kind of statement is that? It falls in the same category as, "You'll find out," "What do you think?" and "Just wait--you'll see."

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)
19. Investigated for what?
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 02:02 PM
Feb 2018

We are so lucky that his original brainless trust no longer surrounds him because they probably would have done this and locked key opposition members up. We have been saved by his incompetency.

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