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marble falls

(57,101 posts) Thu May 14, 2020, 11:58 PM May 2020

'Be Careful What You Wish For': Lindsey Graham Rips Trump Demand That Obama Testify

‘Be Careful What You Wish For’: Lindsey Graham Rips Trump Demand That Obama Testify

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-obama-investigation-trump_n_5ebdbbc7c5b6c9c1874155c2

But “both presidents” are welcome to “share their concerns about each other” before his Senate committee, he said, adding it would “make for great television.”

By Mary Papenfuss

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Graham indicated that such an investigation would be a gross overreach of executive power and that it could backfire by putting Trump in jeopardy after his time in the White House is over.

Trump has been saying that “Obamagate” is the “biggest political crime” in American history — but has yet to explain what crime he’s talking about. Asked early this week at a press briefing what specific crime he was referring to, Trump insisted that the “crime is very obvious to everybody”— but still did not say what it might be.

Graham said in a statement released Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he chairs, “I am greatly concerned about the precedent that would be set by calling a former president for oversight.”

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The Judiciary Committee plans to hold hearings in June on the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The hearings will include the FBI probe of Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser. Trump fired Flynn in 2017 for lying about secret talks he was having with a former Russian ambassador and reputed Kremlin spymaster Sergey Kislyak.

Like lindsey says ... “I understand President Trump’s frustration, but be careful what you wish for. Just be careful what you wish for.”

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'Be Careful What You Wish For': Lindsey Graham Rips Trump Demand That Obama Testify (Original Post) marble falls May 2020 OP

Pea-brain trump wants to take on the former President of the Harvard Law Review? Blue Owl May 2020 #1

Under oath or not, Obama would make such a great witness, but the best witness would ... marble falls May 2020 #2

Trump cannot testify about anything under the sun... MoonchildCA May 2020 #3

Yeah, like extorting Ukraine for manufacturing Dirt on Cha May 2020 #4

Orange Hitler ought to listen to Lyndsey captain queeg May 2020 #5

How about a look at how those emails showed up on Weiner's laptop elias7 May 2020 #6

Its a can of worms I'd love to see opened. I'd really love to see Republicans 'splain all of it. marble falls May 2020 #7

They Call PINO After He's Out ProfessorGAC May 2020 #8

Going to be pretty hard to shake a subpeona once the much depleted GOP cuts him ... marble falls May 2020 #9

Blue Owl

(50,406 posts)

1. Pea-brain trump wants to take on the former President of the Harvard Law Review?

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2020, 12:07 AM

May 2020

I say BRING IT! trump would be so far out of his league, it would be comedy gold...

marble falls

(57,101 posts)

2. Under oath or not, Obama would make such a great witness, but the best witness would ...

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #1)

Fri May 15, 2020, 12:13 AM

May 2020

be of Trump against himself. It would only help Biden. Let alone setting in stone a precedence for Trump to be grilled after next Jan 21st.

MoonchildCA

(1,301 posts)

3. Trump cannot testify about anything under the sun...

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2020, 01:49 AM

May 2020

...without perjuring himself.

Cha

(297,285 posts)

4. Yeah, like extorting Ukraine for manufacturing Dirt on

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2020, 02:11 AM

May 2020

Joe Biden.. let's see.. how did that turn out?

captain queeg

(10,207 posts)

5. Orange Hitler ought to listen to Lyndsey

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2020, 02:13 AM

May 2020

He is a total suck up but he sees the writing on the wall that trump is going to lose the election. The rethugs will quickly distance themselves after that happens and he wouldn’t want to have trump act like a grade school kid in front of congress trying to blame anyone and everyone else for his fuck ups.

elias7

(4,007 posts)

6. How about a look at how those emails showed up on Weiner's laptop

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2020, 04:07 AM

May 2020

and how Comey came to come out with a letter of intent to reopen the Clinton email investigation 11 days before the election? That’s the investigation I want to know about.

marble falls

(57,101 posts)

7. Its a can of worms I'd love to see opened. I'd really love to see Republicans 'splain all of it.

Reply to elias7 (Reply #6)

Fri May 15, 2020, 08:50 AM

May 2020

ProfessorGAC

(65,061 posts)

8. They Call PINO After He's Out

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2020, 09:05 AM

May 2020

My first question is, (staying on his topic), "What year in the last 20 were the most unmasking requests submitted?"
Answer is 2018. 16,800 or so
"Who was the president, and what were they pursuing?"
When he gets the answer wrong, "It was 2018, it was your administration and remember, you're under oath."
He definitely doesn't want to go there.
Just for context. The last year of BHO, there were 9,200 requests. In 3 years, PINO's gang has not gone below 10,000.

marble falls

(57,101 posts)

9. Going to be pretty hard to shake a subpeona once the much depleted GOP cuts him ...