“Virtually all the conspiracy theories about the investigation into Trump, from the claims of a coup on down, are premised on granting him, as candidate, the privileges he would get when he became President.”

Thank you for that clarification. It provides significant fodder for rebuttal to those who would defend our poor, beleaguered president.

Thank you for consistently calling the shots fairly, and not pulling your rhetorical punches. We all need to do so.

This tweet, *does Italian chefs kiss gesture*

“Imagine if Hillary had fired Jim Comey (which she would have had great reason to do) if she won, how scandalous the GOP would have treated that. That would have been far more justifiable than what Trump did.”

Boom shack a lacka BOOM. Nice :)

We need to call out the sick funhouse mirror of double standards the corporate media has been running with for far to long.
*cough Ms Haberman and Brett fucking cuntacular whore-biscuit Stephens*

If that’s too much you can take the profanity out, I do like a good curse word.

Dead-on, as usual, Marcy.

The only reason the FBI could have publicly come out and announce investigations of Hillary is because of the tolerant response it expected from her campaign, party and president, all of whom expected her to win and declined to rock the boat, even when Mitch McConnell threatened a stink if the Obama administration disclosed known Russian influence with Trump’s campaign.

And even then, the FBI was hardly quick to respond to the true Trump-Russia partnership that involved some 272 contacts, resulting in 32 indictments and 7 guilty pleas for collusion in plain sight, based on Mueller’s special counsel investigation.

As a result, Trump wins only because a CI investigation wasn’t made public against him before the election not because it was ever honest with federal authorities about any investigation of its actions with Russia before –or after the election.

More to the point, Trump’s election survived based on the failure to measure direct Russian interference at the polls, either in direct or indirect voter influence. That the Senate Intelligence Committee, which supposedly investigated this complicity, couldn’t reach a more certain conclusion to that question only demonstrates how muddy the waters became post election with Trump safely ensconced in office with legitimacy intact.

Go back in time, and follow the Trump campaign timeline when it pulls out the Weiner laptop accusations after baiting that Lolita honey trap case involving a Gastonia, North Carolina 15-year-old in the winter of 2016 just as the Russians are reaching out to Trump flunkies and banging out its St. Petersburg-based IRA cyber messaging operation. Then ask yourself why some young girl in rural Carolina would have a crush on a former NYC mayoral candidate and congressman who had resigned from public life because of highly publicized and controversial sexting relationships which eventually resulted in divorce from his wife Huma Abedin, a longtime personal aide to Hillary Clinton.

And that last fact explains it all. Abedin, who filed for divorce from Weiner in August 2016, was believed to be a source of 30,000 missing emails the Republicans sought endlessly throughout the presidential race.

Talk about original sin. The origin of the Carolina conspiracy began with a Daily Mail story on Sept. 21, 2016. The teen involved in this case was never identified publicly, nor was she ever interviewed by the press, except by the Daily Mail. Her family had longtime GOP connections in county politics and friends in Raliegh, the state capitol, Two weeks before the story broke, Trump family members actually stopped by Gaston County Republican headquarters.

The people in the background of that story were all linked to the Trump campaign. So, how would a UK paper get a tip to break this story? And why was this story broken overseas? This wasn’t a single day tabloid tale; it involved some well-coordinated coverage.

And, in fact, the case was almost instantaneously moved from Gastonia, a town about 25 miles outside of NC’s largest city, Charlotte, and not prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office there, but to New York, where a Trump-friendly FBI office supposedly resided. The significance of this case against Weiner, of course, was access to his computer to obtain those mysterious emails, which ultimately, the campaign ploy failed to produce. Lots of interesting questions never really asked or answered.

Seems likely to me that a reason the Hillary CI investigation went public before the election is that she was expected to win and would have been attacked relentlessly by Trump, who expected to lose, and the Republic Senate for not disclosing it prior to the election. Trump was already setting up the “rigged election” as an explanation for his assumed loss to polish his brand. This put the Obama admin. between a rock and a hard place.

Combining all this with the amplification and polarization of social media and we have a hell of a mess. Humpty Dumpty is going to be hard to put back together.

Do we know about Jill Stein, the candidate? Maybe a CI side-eye.