Sending Butina back to Russia.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212620784

DOJ inquiry into origins of Russia investigation has shifted to criminal probe

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/24/doj-inquiry-into-russia-investigation-shifts-criminal-probe/4091645002/


“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”


― Carl Sandburg

those who cling to the "Constitution", carry it in miniature, and then take a dump on America when it is financially or politically beneficial to them.

These traitors will face the death penalty if they lose. Moscow Mitch will never give up.

He wanted a public accusation against Biden from Ukraine -- any dirt, made-up or otherwise, was secondary.

Having failed to get that, he's got Barr pulling this. There'll be lots of headlines for lots of months, and at least some people will believe it.

dump wanna lose this election???

(ie. the deplorables) will like it.

Republicans have been stealing votes one way or another for years. Just Google the 2004 race for Bush and the Diebold machines. Voting machines are easily hacked, AND they are programmed by the manufacturer. The CEOs of some manufacturers are long-time Republican donors. Not hard to imagine a thumb on the scale in some races. 2020 will be one of those.

Need the Dem to have 5% less votes for your boy to win ?

Just have the software owners move 5% of the Dem vote into TG's column.

I know this already, but he and Malcolm Nance still scare the crap out of me.

it's all fun and games until the shit actually hits the fan.

HIS BASE has the vast majority of civilian weaponry in this country, and he is giving them tacit permission.

Just as an example: when a domestic terrorist opens fire on a gay dance club, that terrorist is outnumbered by peaceful people many times over, but they are still all dead at the end.

Trump approves of violence in his name. If an insurrection starts it will be among "his people." They will lose in the end, but in the meantime a lot of the rest of us will die.

The Justice Dept is part of the Executive Branch. Maybe it is time for Mr Barr to appear before the House Intel Committee and explain himself. It can be closed door, open door, or in a hot air balloon. It doesn't matter. If he doesn't volunteer to come, subpoena him. He is still under the oversight of the US Congress.

there would definitely be civil unrest. Because I'd fly to Washington and chain myself to the White House fence or something.

This is just more of Trump's projection. He knows he'll probably be arrested after he leaves office, so Trump is trying to preemptively do the same thing to Obama, so he can argue his arrest is just political payback.

Read your constitution, buddy.

to protect the country from foreign influence in elections. Goes with the office. Clear as day.

Right before he wiped his ass with it and flushed.

I'm too old to do much else if it reaches that point.

probably set in Washington DC. No jury would indict any of these people especially with little evidence of wrongdoing.

failed. That was the rumor a month or so ago. Then Comey was essentially exonerated except for some "harsh words" for leaking his memos. Or maybe it was McCabe.

I know things are very, very bad, but I'm skeptical about Nance's "warning." We have enough to worry about right now without worrying that President Obama is going to be indicted for treason.

... by the entire country.

OK Malcolm Nance, maybe you're hearing this but I don't believe it would ever happen.

Trump will do ANYTHING to benefit himself. He has proven time and again that he has no conscience. No moral compass. He has said that the ONLY thing he cares about is "winning" and he has acted that way as well.

Trump's call wasn't just about drumming up dirt on BIden, it was about exonerating Russia for 2016 election interference. If they can make a case that there's any "there" there, then it could, maybe, turn public opinion about the impeachment inquiry

Otherwise why did Barr SUDDENLY decide this Russia investigation-origin story was top priority at the exact same time that the impeachment inquiry witnesses stories were shocking the nation?

It's both a distraction and an attempt to stop the impeachment process, which is otherwise all but assured.

It's a hail Mary.

Russia gets their sanctions lifted. THIS is what Russia wants above all.

1. False charges against "liberal" icons.

2. Civil unrest.

3. Martial law.

4. Elections suspended.

They could try it. It's not totally in territory.

The only thing that would stop them is the GOP Senate finally growing a spine.

If Trump could have indicted Obama, he would have already. There's nothing to indict him on because, unlike 45, Obama did nothing illegal, unethical, or even slightly untoward.

Indictments, Convictions & Prison Sentences by administrations

This is after 2 years, and doesn't include Muellers' findings.

Among his crimes: 200 to 250,000 Guatemalan indigenous people killed during Iran-Contra!

We ain't out of the woods yet, folks. The Trump gang ain't gonna give up without one heckuva fight. We can't rest on our laurels until Don the Con is locked away in his orange jump suit, or he's on that one way plane trip to Moscow.

Totally agree. We are on a precipice & could topple either way.

like Guiliani to cover up and place blame on the Obama administration.

We have a very sick regime in abuse of power, when is this going to end.

Just get them out.

It CAN happen here.

I wasn't in a financial position to even consider bailing, but I am now. I can't believe it's gone this far and gotten so bad that I'm seriously considering it.

but I'm sure that will be spun some way.

Jesus... let me off this freaking roller coaster. I'm too old for this shit.

and I potentially no longer look like a lunatic by saying that trump is angling to outright cancel the election through a national emergency declaration. trump is going to try and outlaw opposition, namely the democratic party, and he is going to succeed at it. Either the elections will be cancelled or he will end up the only candidate for president, and only members of the republican party will be allowed to run. Most will sit back with a wait and see attitude, some will see the situation for what it is will understand it and will take whatever action they need right now to protect themselves. Friends, not to be fatalistic, but the republic has already fallen.

Who followed procedures pertaining to openness, notes and documentation, Its Obama.

It would be a show of exonerating testimony from all witnesses.

They cannot have a Drumhead where everyone has their lives dissected in the hope of finding anything at all.

So he wouldn’t bias the election.
Now Trump deliberately invents this crap to bias the election.

Irony is getting to be such a worn out word nowadays.

There may an October 2020 surprise with FBI raids, indictments, and maybe even arrests.  This move could tip a close election over to Trump.

keep up and feeling extremely overloaded - who the fuck is who and has everybody been doing this for decades and it is just now coming to light?

Edited to add the above are thoughts of someone who does not know what to believe - not mine.