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riversedge

(70,243 posts) Fri Aug 3, 2018, 09:59 AM Aug 2018

Fmr Bush Ethics Lawyer Richard Painter Questions Trump's Mental Stability After Incriminating Tweet

Painter is right---Trump should have been out of office by now---If Republican Congress had done its job!

Wed, Aug 1st, 2018 by Jason Easley
Former Bush Ethics Lawyer Richard Painter Questions Trump’s Mental Stability After Incriminating Tweet

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/08/01/former-bush-ethics-lawyer-richard-painter-questions-trumps-mental-stability-after-incriminating-tweet.html

Former Bush ethics lawyer and current Democratic Senate candidate Richard Painter questioned Trump’s mental stability after the president incriminated himself for obstructing justice on Twitter.

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Painter said, “Well, it’s certainly evidence of obstruction of justice. And first, we really have to worry about the mental stability of our president when he is incriminating himself on Twitter. This is very, very damaging, very incriminating tweet. It’s part of a long pattern of obstruction of justice. He fired James Comey. He has repeatedly tried to pressure Jeff Sessions to and fire Robert Mueller. And the prosecutor will find evidence of obstruction inside the White House, I’m sure. But, you know, the House and Senate judiciary committee should be investigating this. We’re way past the time of 1973 where they were investigating Richard Nixon. I’m shocked there is no investigation for obstruction of justice and abuse of power and other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

The Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate added, “I think we were past that point when he fired James Comey. It was clear he fired James Comey in order to obstruct the Russia investigation, and he admitted to that in front of the Russian ambassador in several TV interviews. We should have had hearings in the House and Senate judiciary committee at the same time that Robert Mueller was hired. And that’s the way it was done in the Nixon days. They had the House and Senate actually doing their jobs, and investigating. This is and has been evidence of obstruction of justice going all the way back to the Comey firing, at least. It’s shameful it’s not being investigated. He ought to be out of office by now.”......................................

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Fmr Bush Ethics Lawyer Richard Painter Questions Trump's Mental Stability After Incriminating Tweet (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2018 OP

While I support Tina Smith......Richard Painter is not afraid..... ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2018 #1

Omarosa's book may have value after all. Sneederbunk Aug 2018 #2

This article almost doesn't deserve a reply... Eyeball_Kid Aug 2018 #3

After seeing this on You Tube duforsure Aug 2018 #4

I am hoping that argument is not used, actually. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2018 #5

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)

1. While I support Tina Smith......Richard Painter is not afraid.....

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2018, 10:06 AM

Aug 2018

To tell it like it actually is. To say the things both Smith and Klobuchar are unwilling to in simple speak that resonates. We will see after August 14th here in Minnesota if Painter makes it to the Gemeral.

Sneederbunk

(14,291 posts)

2. Omarosa's book may have value after all.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2018, 10:14 AM

Aug 2018

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)

3. This article almost doesn't deserve a reply...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2018, 10:19 AM

Aug 2018

We’ve been here many times before. Yes, the GOP leadership is compromised by intimidation and Russian money and are paralyzed in place. That’s the easy part. The real puzzle is in the refusal of the media and the public to take it to the bank; to assume that it’s fact rather than wild speculation. It’s as if the nation is in some kind of mass denial.

My god, the nation is in extreme peril. There is no leadership. The media, as a fourth estate, is cowed. They still refuse to give respect to the fundamental understanding that the entire political structure of the right is built on a whole network of lies. They persist in ALWAYS granting credibility to the GOP principals and leadership, then spend subsequent news cycles chasing down lies and obfuscations, only to play catch-up to the next “credible” news item, then resume the same “discovery” that it’s all about lying and manipulation. And let’s remember that media corporations make billions in profit by acting as Trumpy’s court jesters.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

4. After seeing this on You Tube

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2018, 10:25 AM

Aug 2018

A psychiatrists from John Hopkins, ( Psychiatrists: Trump Mental Urgently Deteriorating) from a July 28th interview on The David Pakman Show, and it was spot on what's happening to him , and what he's suffering from . Very good interview about his mental situation. Its explains a lot about why he acts like he does.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

5. I am hoping that argument is not used, actually.

Reply to duforsure (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 3, 2018, 11:12 AM

Aug 2018

"Not guilty by reason of mental defect" is not what I want to hear from a court.

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