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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBob and Bill are good friends
Bob and Bills wives are even more so.
Bob was at both of Bills daughters weddings.
Bob worked for Bill for years in DOJ.
Rod hired Bob.
Rod works for Bill.
All three belong to the same church.
All three belong to the same political party.
Those three may turn on anyone else but they will not turn on each other. Bill and to a degree Rods summery released today will stand. The 6e testimony will be redacted before Congress sees the report which is a bulk of it. It will be further sanatized of anything they can claim is classified before you see it.
The what comes next is going to be even worse. Right now three letter agencies just got new orders from an emboldened narcissist go after everyone.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Instead, they insisted from the start that Mueller was an honorable man who would do good. I'm starting to think Trump purposely attacked Mueller to rile up Democrats into blindly supporting him.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Bettie
(15,998 posts)we would do well to remember this in the future.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)Response to DVRacer (Original post)
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Norman Conkedwest
(46 posts)triron
(21,916 posts)So they are friends? Doesn't mean they don't have philosophical differences or other kinds of differences.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)We've got to remain open to that idea.
DVRacer
(707 posts)Bill cleaned up Iran-Contra
Bob was in Iraq WMDs
Rod was involved with Whitewater investigation
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)We have fixers at the Federal level, investigating fixers in the private sector.
Four dimensional Kabuki dancing.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Trump attacking Mueller the way he did united Democrats into supporting the investigation without question. The Democrats are on record discussing how impeccable and honorable Mueller is so now they can't question his findings.
What Trump did was lay a trap and, sadly, the Democrats walked right into it.
Trump did everything to delegitimize the investigation. This riled up Democrats to support Mueller even further. Think about the rumors that he was going to fire Rosenstein and then end the investigation. What was the Democrats' response? WE MUST PROTECT THE INVESTIGATION! It was all a ruse. Trump was setting the foundation so that he won this fight no matter what. IF the investigation came back and was damning, he could just say, "see, told you it was a witch hunt...fake news...it's all bullshit." and his base would support it. IF it came back in his favor, even if marginally, he could say, "see, even the witch hunt couldn't find anything substantial..."
and he knows the Democrats can't attack Mueller because they spent two years praising him.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)Premature decision.
triron
(21,916 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)DVRacer
(707 posts)Bill is in charge here and brought in for that very reason.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)Just another example of the crony behavior that Trump has wanted all along.
I don't see how a Democratic president would ever, ever again appoint a Republican to any position that involves investigations. Still can't get over the fact that Bill Clinton did it. Let this be a lesson to us all.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)ornotna
(10,763 posts)Some of that info won't be easy to find.
DVRacer
(707 posts)That wasn't so hard. It's a common practice here to provide a link to information posted in an OP.