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The key phrase here is No Collusion or Obstruction (other than I fight back). When you say other than, you are conceding it fits into the larger category, while identifying it as an exception: I didnt eat the cookies you left out, other than the one that already had a bite out of it. In this case, however, fight back is an exception large enough to encompass all Trumps efforts to impede the investigation into Russian interference on behalf of his campaign. Everything from demanding James Comey let Michael Flynn go free to firing Comey to dangling pardons for Paul Manafort is fighting back against the investigation. He is rebranding obstruction of justice as Trump fighting back. Of course, Trump already admitted a year ago, on camera, he fired Comey to stop the Russia investigation, so its hardly a Tom CruiseJack Nicholson moment.
The confession came as a kind of side thought to his larger point, which is that his presidency is very calm and calculated. Because obviously.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/trump-tweets-syria-attack-confesses-obstruction-of-justice.html
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)What a fool. The thing is, Trumpy is always fighting back, thus, always committing Obstruction of Justice. By his own admission.
And what is the GOP doing, besides quitting, a la Paul Ryan? They're only hoping that Trumpy won't ruin their investment profits. That's all they care about. Gut the middle class, bomb the shit out of poor people, but whatever you do, don't give me a sad face if my dividends don't produce. That's the GOP.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)left and even they would disappear like the Tea Party that was never a party, without Fox propping him up.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)standingtall
(2,785 posts)will continue to obstruct justice? Really it ought to be a foregone conclusion at this point. That is the way the MSM should be presenting it in the news instead presenting Trumps obstruction as if there were any question about it.