If Trump Is Too Ignorant to Be Guilty, Hes Too Ignorant to Be President

[ashling]

https://newrepublic.com/article/143184/trump-ignorant-guilty-hes-ignorant-president

The Republican response to James Comey's testimony is the weakest defense yet of the president, and as damning as any indictment.

[NewJeffCT]

1. However

I think Trump having everybody leave the room so he could speak one on one with Comey is a bigly indicator that Trump (as well as Sessions and Kushner) knew that it wasn't exactly appropriate.

[meadowlark5]

2. Dumpy accused Bill and Hillary of shady dealings when Bill went on Loretta Lynch's plane

So if he was running around last summer accusing the Clintons of something like influencing an investigation by meeting secretly alone on an airplane - then he knew.

[NewJeffCT]

3. great point

highly suspicious.

[onecaliberal]

4. 45 is a typical republican. They believe they are above the law, can do everything unethically

And Immoral, but never ever accept responsibility. Then have the audacity to project and blame everyone for the sitstions they create. They're greedy and evil, their sole purpose is profit. They dont care who they destroy to profit. Even the country So many died for.

[narnian60]

8. +1 zillion

[Motley13]

5. We are in WWIII

repugs excuse 45, "He just doesn't understand govt"

Wake up Paul Ryan!!!!!!

[Permanut]

6. Seems like you'd want someone in the White House..

who knew how to do the job. just sayin'.

[SDJay]

7. Ignorance Is No Defense

The fact that they're trotting out this BS as 'justification' for what happened should tell anyone that they are completely desperate.

I love the sound of a corrupt administration circling the drain in the morning.

[All-In]

9. Bingo

Poor Paul Ryan.

Defending the indefensible.

[dembotoz]

10. one would think between 3 divorces how many bk and more court time than perry mason

he would have a fairly good understanding

[Texin]

11. Even if he didn't know, the law maintains that IGNORANCE of a law is no legal defense for violation

of it. And let's be frank here, this guy betrayed a consciousness of guilt by asking everyone to leave the room to speak with Comey privately. Paul Ryan and John McCain both looked like a couple of stooges yesterday. Ryan's so-called mansplaining of Trump's naivety of the goings on in Washington D.C. was as pathetic as it was indefensible. And McCain's odd behavior made me wonder if he'd suffered a mini-stroke overnight. WTF?

[smirkymonkey]

12. This is not an "On-the-job-training" kind of position.

WTF! Ignorance is no excuse. He's an idiot, but he knows exactly when he is doing something that is corrupt and outside the normal bounds of operation.