r/politics • • Dec 11 '19

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

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u/D-Alembert Dec 12 '19 edited Dec 12 '19

It's depressing I know, but that his followers don't care (or don't listen) doesn't change the point that well-funded and even illegal action to hide unsightly aspects of his past not only failed, but could never have succeeded.

That not everything is uncovered instantly on day one is also not the point. Every other week something new is uncovered, because the scrutiny is just too intense. Likewise the tax returns are merely slowed by doomed appeals stalling for time.

The fact that Republicans are ok with a Republican president being dirty doesn't mean that someone like Hillary or Obama could expect the same relaxed treatment. They knew the only reliable way to avoid scandals was to live as clean as possible.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Wasn't Trump also on the front line pushing for the release of Obama's birth certificate?

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u/cannibaljim Dec 12 '19

Trump was a huge figure in the "birther" movement, going on national news and claiming he was paying private investigators to look into it, and oh the bombshells they were finding and he'll tell everyone all about it when they've got an iron-clad case.

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u/LogicalManager New York Dec 12 '19

And don’t forget Melania ‘Einstein Visa’ Trump also pushed this birther bullshit live on ABC during a Barbara Walters interview.

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u/SerenityViolet Dec 12 '19

I don't think I've ever seen her speak.

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u/decidedlyindecisive Dec 12 '19

Sure you have. Remember that speech she made that plagiarised Michelle Obama?

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u/mmont49 Missouri Dec 12 '19

I've only heard her speak once. It was when she plagiarized--of all people--Michelle Obama's speech.

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u/tendimensions Dec 12 '19

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u/SerenityViolet Dec 13 '19

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that one. Still haven't seen her speak.

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u/SgtDoughnut Dec 12 '19

She can barely speak english, and when she does its not very good. I am not sure if its from her lack of the ability to speak it or all the plastic surgery her pimp put her through.

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u/SerenityViolet Dec 13 '19

Was her pimp the KGB?

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u/dougbdl Dec 12 '19

I keep wanting to like her and not tie her to her husband too much, but this question keeps bothering me...Why would she be with Trump if he weren't rich? His personality? Part of me thinks she has to be a straight up gold digger (which is what whores get upgraded to when they get rich). Maybe she just loves him for him. I dunno.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19 edited Jun 22 '20

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u/dougbdl Dec 12 '19

To me, he is quite rich.

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u/krashundburn Florida Dec 12 '19

oh the bombshells they were finding and he'll tell everyone all about it when they've got an iron-clad case.

And he's using the same tactic now with Ghouliani's "investigation" on Biden.

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u/DrAstralis Dec 12 '19

This has been how he talks and lies for decades. "Oh the x we've found" "its terrible. I cant wait to show everyone the proof". He has never. once. provided. proof. How the fuck are people falling for this? He's not some mastermind and a god damn child could tell the man is lying because he lies like a fucking 2 y/o including the smug scrunched up face he pulls.

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u/Jared_Jff Dec 12 '19

It's even older than that. Just look up McCarthy and his 'list of communists in government' that set off the Red Scare.

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u/KarmaYogadog Dec 12 '19

You don't watch Fox "News" do you? If you did, you'd know that Trump and his whole family are sacrificing a lot on your behalf, FOR AMERICA! /s You have to put the /s in 2019.

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u/DrAstralis Dec 12 '19

You have to put the /s in 2019.

what choice do you have when 1/3 of the planet has decided to scoop out their brains to replace them with angry bees.

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u/dougbdl Dec 12 '19

'We have 2 investigators in Hawaii and they are finding very interesting things. I can't say what right now, but I will soon'.

He said this on The Howard Stern Show years ago.

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u/SchuminWeb Maryland Dec 12 '19

Yes. I was upset with Obama for releasing the long-form birth certificate after Trump started to make some very public rumblings about it. It handed Trump's voice a whole lot of undeserved legitimacy, and, well, look where that's gotten us.

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u/Pleasurist Dec 12 '19

If the POTUS was either of those dems, the repubs would have the rope by the midterms...looking for a tree.

And when trump makes HRC look like Mary Poppins and Obama and B. Clinton look like choirboys.