Imagine if Obama tried to order the DOJ to prosecute his political enemies.
President Trump told the White House counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his political adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with the conversation.
The lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, rebuffed the president, saying that he had no authority to order a prosecution. Mr. McGahn said that while he could request an investigation, that too could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To underscore his point, Mr. McGahn had White House lawyers write a memo for Mr. Trump warning that if he asked law enforcement to investigate his rivals, he could face a range of consequences, including possible impeachment.
The encounter was one of the most blatant examples yet of how Mr. Trump views the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies. It took on additional significance in recent weeks when Mr. McGahn left the White House and Mr. Trump appointed a relatively inexperienced political loyalist, Matthew G. Whitaker, as the acting attorney general.
It is unclear whether Mr. Trump read Mr. McGahn’s memo or whether he pursued the prosecutions further. But the president has continued to privately discuss the matter, including the possible appointment of a second special counsel to investigate both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Comey, according to two people who have spoken to Mr. Trump about the issue. He has also repeatedly expressed disappointment in the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, for failing to more aggressively investigate Mrs. Clinton, calling him weak, one of the people said.
A White House spokesman declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the F.B.I. declined to comment on the president’s criticism of Mr. Wray, whom he appointed last year after firing Mr. Comey.
JUST because hillary is a literal murderer and war criminal. gee, upset much blumpf?
Josiah Johnson
. yea, i mean fuck the fact that they openly broke the law
Justin Walker
Everyone hates Trump at this point which is exactly why I intend to vote for him again.
Kayden Wright
THIS The amount of butthurt and salt has been intense. I've never seen anything like this in my life. I'm voting for Trump again because I'm hoping that the MSM will tell libtards and NPCs to revolt and we can finally get this Civil War 2 and DOTR started.
Dominic Myers
I knew it was a matter of timenyou faggots would try this angle.
Michael Ortiz
TS emails on your home server isn't koser Goldberg.
If the sitting president openly breaks the law it should probably take a little less time than two years to investigate.
Jaxson Jenkins
no it took nixon even longer. sure if it was just the president breaking the law it'd take less but it looks like trump made the swampiest swamp and its all corrupt
might as well rename the USA to USSA because nobody gives a shit anymore and will let any millionaire tell them what to do
Jonathan Thompson
You said openly, Nixon wasn't doing anything openly.
Ayden White
not my fault trump is doing stupidgate: less tracks covered
Henry Brooks
So it should take less than two years then
Caleb Rivera
maybe if it was a banana republic with no rule of law or actually was a witch hunt
Michael Davis
If he was really a self-respecting fascist he'd have them both killed in the middle of the night by spec-ops and it would be for the best.
Robert Wood
THIS.
Of-course OP doesn't even know what fascism really is. Just parroting the TV media, he's a typical TV propaganda junkie normfag who defends Facebook and bashes Zig Forums (while posting his crap on here I might add).
Alexander Martin
so you're saying we shouldn't wait until migrants come to the states to defend. but we should totally wait till people are being fucking assassinated to resist fascism? are you literally retarded?
Josiah Evans
no he's a fascist playing the handwave card to try and downplay the road to it
Dominic Stewart
ORANGE MAN BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grayson Martin
Not even a little bit close.
Benjamin Murphy
Which. I assume you have proof to back up your claims.
John Martin
WHY FOOTBALL MAN NO STAND!!!!!!!!
Cameron Williams
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Committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials with respect to the Russian government’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election for President of the United States, in violation of United States law;
Committed a crime or crimes arising out of payments he received from the Ukrainian government before and during the tenure of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Trump is a lightweight. Hilary would have executed them.
Evan Jones
Political targeting is political targeting, no matter how you try to justify it, fascist.
Robert Hill
wait i just read one of the articles yea that's not conservative that's straight up sovereign citizen "taxes are theft" tier shit no wonder they got investigated
I was being facetious, OP claims Trump is 'politically targeting his enemies' and calling him a "fascist" but then when I explain Obama did the same thing with the IRS, I called him a "fascist."
Its supposed to be crude humor to wake him the hell up and expose his hypocrisy.
Andrew Harris
EVIDENCE OF TRUMP DOING THESE THINGS Fuck you plebbit retards are nigger-tier stupid.
Oliver Rivera
Would you kindly explain why there's no uproar to the dozen plus states with clearly proven rigged and fraudulent votings happening on November 6th?
Andrew Price
sounds like the correct rationalization, considering the average iq of a trump voter.
Justin Anderson
you're an idiot though, because obama did not direct the irs in any way. they go after whoever they want. trump himself is actually going after his opponents personally.
Aaron Sanders
ORANGE MAN BAD
Charles Anderson
just because you make random comments on an imageboard, doesn't make them true.
I see your articles are using trump's language and calling anything during obama's term as "obama's irs" (obama's DOJ, obama's military, obama's EPA, obama's FDA, obama's, etc.) nowhere in any of those articles is there any mention of Obama himself directing the IRS to do anything. They're just doing what they're mandated to do. If tea party are the "sovereign citizen" types who refuse to pay taxes, then damn well they should target anything named "tea party". trump, on the other hand has PERSONALLY asked authorities like DOJ to investigate and prosecute his political opponents, which is actually scary. not only is he PERSONALLY directing government resources at his political opponents, its not something harmless like tax fines, it's threatening them with imprisonment/execution. trump is a fascist dictator wannabe. thank god he doesn't understand that he and the rest of the government employees swear oaths to the CONSTITUTION not to an individual.
Carter Kelly
because hes a nigger lol
Kevin Martin
OP is a giant faggot.
Lucas Thomas
Penis pump pounded to order. just ass department of prostitutes political enemies cummies and clitty
Jaxson White
Have you come back yet? Have you brought evidence of your dubious claim?
Elijah Kelly
link works just fine. maybe you should pay your internet bills?
Kayden Ramirez
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Cameron Russell
The more I look at the tricks hard lefties make the more I picture a one legged blind midget with a sign* *the end is near* like some kind of a future teller Your opinion and the resulting massas who call You Nuts. Sexualizing children is to far. You lefties need to get Your shit together.
Joseph Stewart
First of all Trump has nothing to do with Fachism and everything to do against it. Socialist Nationalism is completly different from Patriotism and Patriotic Nationalism. OP needs to argue this comment or GTFO TITS up
Ethan Jenkins
Vote Jeb
Jayden Allen
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David Morgan
Obama did just that with operation chokepoint. and threw the IRS on the trail of people he didn't like. would you happen to consume HFCS to have such a reduced attention span, or are shills THAT bad nowadays?
Michael Campbell
obama did not personally direct the IRS to do anything. that was their own prerogative. trump on the other hand, has PERSONALLY asked goverment authorities to go after his political opponents and threaten them with imprisonment and execution. he's a wannabe dictator. why do you think he "admires" people like kim jong un and putin, dictators who kill their opponents?
the fact that I had to post this again because you didn't read means you're an idiot, therefore anything you say is invalid anyway.
"Fascist Trump"? If only. You say it like it is an insult, lefty…. you should know that Fascism is exactly what we want. A little jackboot here, a little eugenics there, kick the jews the fuck out, ban racemixing…. and we have Aryan wonderland.
