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riversedge

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Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:53 PM Sep 2018

"Trump made it clear that he would only appoint judges that would overturn Roe v Wade & rollback ACA





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“Trump made it clear that he would only appoint judges that would overturn Roe v. Wade and rollback the Affordable Care Act. That was his litmus test” -@SenatorDurbin

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Brett Kavanaugh thinks only some presidents should be investigated

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Tommy Christopher -
August 20, 2018
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Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanugh changed his tune on presidential investigations, but only after the damage was done to a Democrat.

Newly revealed documents show that Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once favored the detailed grilling of a sitting president, when that president was a Democrat.


As a member of special prosecutor Ken Starr’s team during the Whitewater investigation, Kavanaugh wrote a memo in 1998 arguing for the extremely aggressive questioning of President Bill Clinton.

“I am strongly opposed to giving the President any ‘break’ in the questioning regarding the details of the Lewinsky relationship” unless he “resigns” or “confesses perjury,” Kavanaugh wrote. He further argued that Clinton “has required the urgent attention of the courts and the Supreme Court for frivolous privilege claims — all to cover up his oral sex from an intern.”

He added that the thought of “going easy” on Clinton was “abhorrent” to him and went on to suggest a series of intrusive and sexually explicit questions that were unrelated to the Whitewater case.....................................
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"Trump made it clear that he would only appoint judges that would overturn Roe v Wade & rollback ACA (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2018 OP
Sounds like a grade A pervert to me. shraby Sep 2018 #1

shraby

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1. Sounds like a grade A pervert to me.
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:04 PM
Sep 2018

His sexually explicit questions were tantamount to reading a porn book. Seeing the questions asked and answered would be the same as a real life porn movie.

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