WASHINGTON - President Trump first noticed Matthew G. Whitaker on CNN in the summer of 2017 and liked what he saw - a partisan defender who insisted there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. So that July, the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, interviewed Mr. Whitaker about joining the president's team as a legal attack dog against the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.

At that point, the White House passed, leaving Mr. Whitaker, 49, to continue his media tour, writing on CNN's website that Mr. Mueller's investigation - which he had once called "crazy" - had gone too far.

Fifteen months later, the attack dog is in charge. With little ceremony on Wednesday, Mr. Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and put Mr. Whitaker, Mr. Sessions's chief of staff, in charge of the Justice Department - and Mr. Mueller's Russia investigation.

People close to Mr. Trump believe that he sent Mr. Whitaker to the department in part to limit the fallout from the Mueller investigation, one presidential adviser said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2018/11...-attorney-general.html

I know Whitaker he is a good man, I have no idea who Whitaker is I have never met Whitaker....isn't lying under oath illegal??

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Another step toward the reality of a Banana Republic. Unfortunately, this one has the most powerful military in the world.

This bullshit needs to end in 2020. We cannot let Trump bring this country down and it is going to happen if we let him continue to dismantle our institutions. We are better than this.

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Don't expect the military to support this new trumpuppet.
http://blogs.reuters.com/tales...O8sCD4ruoNdjZZ0D1dfwdk

Raise your hand if you didn't see Session's being fired....

Now punch yourself in the nutz with said hand....

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Edited: 11/11/2018 at 09:49 AM by worksuxgetsponsered

Sessions was done the moment he involuntarily recused himself from obstructing Mueller's investigation. Not sure why Trump thought he had to wait for midterms, as if it wouldn't be lost amongst the perpetual train wreck on any given day.

And is that different then Holder and odumbo? Stopping investigations by executive privilege.

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Cranky, you really should get out more.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

I wonder if Trump had Whitaker in a one on one "You have my back" meeting?

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On June 20, 2012, President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege in order to withhold certain Department of Justice documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious controversy ahead of a United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to produce the documents.[27][28] Later the same day, the House Committee voted 23 - 17 along party lines to hold Holder in contempt of Congress over not releasing the documents.[29] Executive privilege was also used in a lawsuit stemming from the 2012 implementation of the "Net Worth Sweep" against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Obama administration did not disclose roughly 11,000 documents from the plaintiffs in the discovery process as they related to the reasoning behind the 2012 actions.

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Maybe you should do more research!

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So cranky, is it your opinion that a president should cooperate with the House Oversight Committee?

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

"Following moves by the White House to use executive privilege in an attempt to halt emails related to the case, and contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Eric Holder in 2012, many documents were finally handed over to Issa's House Oversight Committee in November 2014."
Newsmax.com

They got this information, the scandal was based upon a stupid FBI program initially started in 2006 and whatever scandal the GOP thought this was, they had full disclosure eventually.


"Although Judge Sweeney's order specifically concerns 56 documents, which she reviewed in her chambers, they were selected by plaintiffs lawyers from among some 12,000 documents for which the government had asserted privileges. Based on how the documents were described in the government's "privilege log" - a list a litigant is required to draw up when it is refuses to produce a document on the basis of a privilege - the investors' lawyers chose those specific 56 as representative of all 12,000. (Presumably, they chose the ones that looked the juiciest, too.)" Fortune. This was an investor suit that in the height of the recession that claimed the Government nationalized their lenders to avoid a market failure. They did. It worked.

You cannot compare these two executive privileges with the lies and the schemes that Trump is about to pull. I guess you can, but you cannot do it credibly.


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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

What exactly is Trump shielding himself from?

If he did nothing, as he says, then any investigation will be a waste of time. Right?

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"You cannot compare these two executive privileges with the lies and the schemes that Trump is about to pull."--So What exactly are they?

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Anyone actually checked out the record of this whittaker dirtball? It's pretty sik.
Watch this space....

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It's a democratic hoax

See how far this muppet thinks he will get.. Teenie Hands is dreaming if he thinks this will get him anything of value.. Cock block at every turn..

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There are NO white people at all in the Bible... take all the time you need with that...
Please stop feeding the trolls - they will go away if you do...

People who are innocent don't bend over backwards to break the law in order to not have to prove it. *


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When America was "great"

Edited: 11/12/2018 at 09:24 PM by fishkller

Tpapfish Double Negative, Inc.


Cheers on that one mate!



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Where's the "holy hell to pay" as promised by Lindsay Graham?

"Graham, who said last year that there would be "holy hell to pay" if Sessions was fired, predicted that Trump would move to oust Sessions after the midterms and appoint someone with whom he had a better relationship."

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