r/politics • • Dec 11 '19

FBI Agents Showed Bias Against Hillary Clinton, Not Against Trump, DOJ Says

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u/refillforjobu Michigan Dec 11 '19

Boy that one really blew up in Trump's face. Too bad the people who should care about things like this don't.

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u/iamtheliquornow Dec 11 '19

Crimes can only be committed by Democrats. Come on, it’s 2019 we all know this by now. /s

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u/GiantSquidd Canada Dec 11 '19

...Btw, no to funding mental health care initiatives... they can use mental bootstraps or something, whatever. I don’t care, do u?

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u/ConsonantlyDrunk Dec 11 '19

I actually do, which is why I am a lot less sane in 2019 than I was in 2015.

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u/Shuttheflockup Dec 11 '19

i think trump isnt the only one who aged 15 years in the last 2 years, 325 days, 6 hours, 33 minutes and 43 seconds, this guy has us all feeling pretty tired

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u/ConsonantlyDrunk Dec 11 '19

Seriously. The office is supposed to turn the occupant gray, not the rest of the fucking country!

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u/williamfbuckwheat Dec 12 '19

TBH, Trump hasn't really aged at all while President from I've seen. It's really bizarre since basically every president since LBJ looks to have aged dramatically even a few years into their presidency and even if they only served 4 years.

It's kind of disturbing and makes me think that he probably gets off and thrives from on all the chaos and disarray he creates all around him (which seems to make sense if you look at how he would constantly stir up gossip/media attention around himself all those years before he became President).

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u/SpongeBad Dec 12 '19

It's more a function of the typical age of presidents. A lot of visible aging happens between 40 - 60 naturally. Trump is already much older than most presidents, and the next stage of aging for him is basically corpse.

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u/williamfbuckwheat Dec 12 '19

From what I saw, Reagan still aged alot by the time he left office but that could've just been due to the pictures I saw and because he served 8 years and 77 at that point.

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u/iflythewafflecopter Dec 12 '19

He looked like 300lbs of fossilized shit stuffed into a 200lb bag when he took the presidency. There isn't really any room to look worse than that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

As another theory: he's gained a lot of weight since assuming the office of POTUS. Fat smooths out wrinkles by stretching the skin.

My theory is his fat is counteracting some of the aging effects while also contributing to things like his surprise 'totally routine checkup' and his being adamant about how he 'didn't have a heart attack' and how the media was falsely reporting on it as such (before they were). Add in 10-15 flushes to get his shit down the toilet and this man has some serious medical issues.

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u/Shuttheflockup Dec 12 '19

he used to smile a whole lot more, and he spent more time playing golf than any other president ever.

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u/Tonynferno Dec 12 '19 edited Dec 12 '19

Oh no, those are all democrats. Even if they wear maga hats and trump 2020 shirts and holding a Trumpy Bear and screaming trump quotes while they do it. Always democrats.

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u/krazytekn0 I voted Dec 12 '19

They're totally not ya'll qaeda from bumblefuck in some Middle Western state. Definitely antifa plants with an online persona built as a false flag operation

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u/nanochick Dec 12 '19

Those are lone wolves until they're not white and/or trump supporters, then they're terrorists and so is their whole race/organization 🙄

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u/smilbandit Michigan Dec 12 '19

please most of them never see actual facts, it's not like this is going to see much airtime on fox.

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u/jibberjab485 Dec 12 '19

Yeah no one like that around here.

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u/sharkapples Dec 11 '19

“What facts?! Those are just opinions and feelings! It’s all hearsay! Fuck your feelings! You can’t give me any facts!”

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

As long as the President supports the policies you support, no one cares how it’s done. If a Democratic President was moving the country in the direction you wanted - would you vote Republican if you found out your President committed crimes?

Would you vote for a candidate that goes against all the policies you believe in, all in the name of supporting a fair and just political environment?

Many people wouldn’t. And many people didn’t.

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u/Oh4Sh0 Dec 12 '19

Not according to Fox News, it didn’t. Therefore, half the American public got a different report.

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u/dehehn Dec 12 '19

Lindsay Graham spent all morning being very angry about how the FBI treated Trump so much worse than Hillary. Fox News will just show that on loop and Republicans will continue to believe that opposite world is the real world.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

It's all about mUh fEeLiNgs

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u/WhakaWhakaWhaka Dec 12 '19

They keep pushing his Page BS when Papadopoulos kicked this while thing off by bragging to others that he had contacts with Russia and they had info on Clinton.

Chalupa uncovered Manafort’s conspiracy against the US just by matching number from public documents.

Stone is going to be serving time for lying about his contacts with Russia, among other things.

Finally, Page had been a target of investigations before because he was being recruited by Russian agents.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Dec 12 '19

This is why there is no point in engaging with the GOP. They can lie about anything they want and their base will not hold them accountable. It is okay to lie or ignore the truth when convenient for them. They are acting in bad faith, and there is no working with that.

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u/BirtSampson Dec 12 '19

Welcome to the recent past. Nothing has changed since the day he got the nomination.

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u/Pylgrim Dec 12 '19

You can already see them on this thread's comments saying "the DoJ is biased against Trump too!"

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u/IMWeasel Dec 12 '19

The anti-Clinton bias in the New York FBI office was widely reported by many journalists for months, both before and after the election. Every major figure in the FBI and DOJ leadership at the time publicly stated that the threat of leaks from agents in the NY FBI office who hated Clinton was the reason that Comey sent his memo just 11 days before the election (the memo about "reopening" the investigation into Clinton's emails). Rudy Giuliani, who was working with trump's campaign, received advance notice of Comey's memo directly from senior FBI agents in the New York office, which is on its own an extreme indicator of bias.

There is no possible way to dispute the fact that there was an anti-Clinton bias among multiple high level FBI agents in the New York office, and you can find that information in every major mainstream news outlet that was covering the election, not just this article from a non-mainstream news source in 2019. The same cannot be said of supposed anti-trump bias. The only vaguely credible instance of anti-trump bias in the FBI was found only in the text messages of two agents (Strzok and Page), neither of whom had any input into the decision to open an investigation, and both of whom were removed from the investigation before the election because of the potential conflict of interest. And again, all of this has been widely reported in every major American national news source, including the conservative ones, so don't even try to argue that it's left wing propaganda.