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dsc

(52,169 posts) Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:15 AM Oct 2019

You know the saying all out of F's to give, well I am all out of FU's to give reading this

https://bit.ly/2pptuxX

link is to national review I couldn't get original link to work.

Former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr, who headed the impeachment efforts against President Clinton, said on a podcast Monday that the impeachment frenzy surrounding President Trump stems from “creative” efforts and holds Trump “to a remarkable standard.”

“He did nothing that sounds in the nature of a corrupt bargain,” Starr said. “. . . There were 17 people on the phone, including the Secretary of State, so the president was so open, and shall I say transparent, about it that that goes to his intent. There was no corrupt bargain, or attempt to achieve a corrupt bargain.”

Discussing the situation with Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, Starr said that while the president may have been imprudent in bringing up Joe Biden, “a potential opponent,” Trump’s concern was “information about election past, not election future.”

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There are literally not enough languages on planet earth to translate all of the fuck yous this makes me want to say to this hypocritical piece of filth.

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You know the saying all out of F's to give, well I am all out of FU's to give reading this (Original Post) dsc Oct 2019 OP

They are pissing on the constitution on behalf of a game show host. How patriotic. spanone Oct 2019 #1

Is Ken Starr Opus Dei or Federalist Society? Baitball Blogger Oct 2019 #2

There's a difference? Lochloosa Oct 2019 #3

Exactly !!! nt DURHAM D Oct 2019 #5

Yes, there is a difference. Opus Dei is doing Jesus's work... 3Hotdogs Oct 2019 #9

Lest anyone forget ... Ken Starr is a piece of lying garbage UpInArms Oct 2019 #4

He developed his skills spinning years of failed attempts to find a crime Hortensis Oct 2019 #6

That snide POS disgusts me. Still. nt live love laugh Oct 2019 #7

Dumbass. BruceWane Oct 2019 #8

If anyone should keep his mouth shut about this impeachment BKDem Oct 2019 #10

Ken Starr is an Epstein guy. Sneederbunk Oct 2019 #11

"goes to his intent"? No, sir, it goes to his brazenness. Midnight Writer Oct 2019 #12

spanone

(135,896 posts)

1. They are pissing on the constitution on behalf of a game show host. How patriotic.

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Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:17 AM

Oct 2019

Baitball Blogger

(46,765 posts)

2. Is Ken Starr Opus Dei or Federalist Society?

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Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:28 AM

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Lochloosa

(16,072 posts)

3. There's a difference?

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:29 AM

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DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)

5. Exactly !!! nt

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:34 AM

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3Hotdogs

(12,437 posts)

9. Yes, there is a difference. Opus Dei is doing Jesus's work...

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 11:05 AM

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and you don't wanna fuck with that.

UpInArms

(51,285 posts)

4. Lest anyone forget ... Ken Starr is a piece of lying garbage

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Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:33 AM

Oct 2019

Report: Baylor board of regents fires president Ken Starr

The Baylor board of regents fired school president Ken Starr on Tuesday amid the sexual assault scandal involving the Bears football team, according to HornsDigest.com.

The regents believe that the blame for the school’s failure in handling rape and sexual assault reports falls on Starr, according to the report, and they might not bring punishment down on head coach Art Briles.

Starr has been Baylor president for the last six years. It is not clear if he will be moved to another position at the school or terminated completely.

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Baylor is accused of failing to respond to reports of rape and/or sexual assault filed by at least six female students from 2009 to 2016. Two former football players, Tevin Elliott and Sam Ukwuachu, have been convicted of rape.

Elliot is currently serving a 20-year sentence after his conviction in January 2014.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

6. He developed his skills spinning years of failed attempts to find a crime

Reply to dsc (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:38 AM

Oct 2019

by the Clintons into a scandal dragged out across both his terms anyway.

If he did it today, he might end up on the Supreme Court. In those days, the Repub leaders didn't his very promising career from being destroyed for them, but his assistant Kavanaugh survived to be brought along.

live love laugh

(13,149 posts)

7. That snide POS disgusts me. Still. nt

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Tue Oct 29, 2019, 10:40 AM

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BruceWane

(345 posts)

8. Dumbass.

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Tue Oct 29, 2019, 11:02 AM

Oct 2019

Plain and simple. Ken Starr, someone you might presume has a fair bit of knowledge about law, is a total dumbass.

"the president was so open, and shall I say transparent, about it that that goes to his intent."

No, Mr. Starr, that does not "go to his intent" - it goes to the fact that the president a)didn't think what he was doing was illegal or b)didn't care that what he was doing was illegal.

That statement goes to the presidents acknowledgment of guilt, his acknowledgment that a crime had been committed.

His "intent" was clearly stated - give me dirt on Biden and you'll get your $400m in aid.

Now, I'm not a lawyer, don't even play one on TV. But I know the difference between intent and knowledge of guilt.

You argue intent of a defendant when the question is that a crime may have been committed accidentally, i.e. "yes, my client killed a man by dropping a piano from a 5th floor balcony, but it was an accident, it wasn't intentional."

What Mr. Starr appears to be trying to argue is that the president apparently didn't know that this act was illegal, evidence being his lack of exhibited guilt. I would think a lawyer of Mr. Starr's, um, stature would be quite familiar with the phrase "ignorance of the law is no defense". And so, I can only conclude that, as a lawyer, Mr. Starr is a Dumbass.