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mrmpa

(4,033 posts)
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 10:59 PM Jul 2018

If this was 1954................

Trump would be hauled in front of the *HUAC. Based on his press conference in Helsinki, the HUAC members would go after him for his alignment with Russia, he then would be blacklisted, lose his job, etc.

I never thought I would wish to see HUAC in action again.

*House on UnAmerican Activities Committee

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RKP5637

(67,102 posts)
2. Yep! In fact I was just telling that to someone here at home recently. In the 50's NONE of this
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 11:06 PM
Jul 2018

Trump and others bullshit would have been tolerated. I could just imagine Hoover having tolerated Trump. He would have had tons of sh** on Trump and his cohorts. Certainly they are doing this now, but back in the 50's the HUAC would have ripped Trump apart. Joseph McCarthy would have had a field day with Trump and his cohorts.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
4. Unfortunately, too many are convinced McCarthyism is
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 11:16 PM
Jul 2018

at work here. The Trumplodytes refuse to notice the big difference—HUAC really was a "witch hunt" but the current investigation doesn't target Trump's co-conspirators in Congress.

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
7. The actual date you need is in June of 1953
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 11:47 PM
Jul 2018

which is when the Rosenbergs rode the lightning for espionage....

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