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Hillary Gets free out of Jail Card from Trump!

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2016 in General Discussion
Now honestly did you think President Trump would really do what he said in the campaign? It's all rhetoric to get elected!

serf

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/conway-no-clinton-charges-donald-trump/

President-elect Donald Trump's administration will not pursue further investigations of Hillary Clinton related to her private email server or the Clinton Foundation, Trump's former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday, a significant break from a major campaign promise.
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    I look at this a bit differently...

    Trump currently holds no office and Clinton has not been charged with any crimes... Yet.

    Once Trump takes office, then things may well change. If Trump really is a law and order man and if the FBI or other entity detects the possibility of a Clinton crime, then all bets will be off.

    Right now the smartest thing Trump could do is exactly what he's doing. By saying he has no personal animosity against the Clintons and by saying that he will not initiate legal proceedings against them is in the best interest of all.

    Once Trump takes office, then things might change as new facts may be presented and leave him no choice but to unleash the hounds. From a political standpoint this would be the best of both worlds for Trump. I suspect that he'd love to hold Hillary to the fire while at the same time denying anything personal.

    I see the possibility of a perfect outcome. Hillary charged and convicted while Trump maintains nothing personal and that he is only upholding the law.
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,702 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Personally, I don't give a crap if he pursues charges against the wack-a-doodle * as her reign is over, what I do care about is "The Wall", Muslims and most of the rest of his promises.

    Trump is trying to create a more relaxed national atmosphere, there is real work to be done and it's good that he is not focusing on revenge issues.
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • ChrisStreettChrisStreett Member Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not advocating one way or the other, but ponder this. Our political system is screwed up enough now, partly/intentionally by design of the founders and the rest by the various partisan factions. What kind of train wreck would we have if every time a new faction came to power they began prosecuting their former opponents? Do a few banana republics come to mind?
    "...dying ain't much of a living boy"-Josey Wales
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,493 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He won't pursue... the new Attorney General will after obummer is out of office. No pardon.
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  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All the article says is that Conway says 'there is no plan' to investigate Hillary. Note that it doesn't say a plan couldn't come later, or that a Trump administration will do anything to halt the current investigations.

    What is noteworthy in the article, is that the Ds complained about this as some sort of pre-presidential overreach.

    Really, folks, you needn't spend so m6ch effort criticizing what Trump does or doesn't do. The Left will do that for you.
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  • casper1947casper1947 Member Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Typical Politician bull poop. I guess the expiration date on the campaign is less than 2 weeks.

    "President-elect Donald Trump has just announced he "doesn't wish to pursue" charges"

    "President-elect Donald Trump won't subject Hillary Clinton to a criminal inquiry - instead, he'll help her heal, his spokeswoman said Tuesday."

    "Look, I think, he's thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign are not among them," Conway, who is now on the Trump transition team, said in her interview.

    She continued: "I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don't find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that's a good thing."

    http://www.allenbwest.com/michellejesse/breaking-trump-says-four-words-charging-hillary

    I may have missed it but I don't recall "helping her heal" was anywhere in the Trump campaign.

    I do see the problem he faces. Pursuing would go all the way to the top. The obvious conclusion is that criminal actions by previous administrations is expectable and American just needs to HEAL or more apt would be JUST SUCK IT UP AND LIVE WITH IT.
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  • SGSG Member Posts: 7,548
    edited November -1
    That was my immediate thought too! Also,one should never show your hand while sitting at the table and allow a counter.quote:Originally posted by select-fire
    He won't pursue... the new Attorney General will after obummer is out of office. No pardon.
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  • Hunter MagHunter Mag Member Posts: 6,610 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Perhaps Donald doesn't want to end up like the others, Ron Brown, Vince Foster, Ives & Henry and many more from the Clinton list.
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  • CoolhandLukeCoolhandLuke Member Posts: 7,826 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Trump will let his people take care of her, and then pull a Pontius Pilate by washing his hands of any involvement.
    We have to fight so we can run away.
    Capt. Jack Sparrow.
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  • popgunpopgun Member Posts: 670 ✭
    edited November -1
    It isn't his place or duty to "go after her." A President doesn't do that. That's the duty of the FBI and Justice Department, which the President is not supposed to influence. God knows we've had eight years of the president influencing Justice, the FBI, the IRS, etc. Trump probably wants to get away from that and make government law-abiding and honorable again.

    I agree with those who think he is just distancing himself from all this so as to not get bogged down and distracted from working on the economy, immigration, etc. But his Attorney General and new FBI director will continue to investigate.

    Fox just showed a quote from T saying the investigations will continue.

    So this is just a smart move by him so he can say he has no animosity toward the Clintons, while his Attorney General and the FBI are busy digging their graves with the investigations.

    Let's let the man get in office and actually do something before we begin prosecuting him.
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  • utbrowningmanutbrowningman Member Posts: 2,767 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He beat Hillary. He's done with her.
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  • DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Once in office Trump cannot legally order DOJ or FBI to investigate anyone. Obama has violated this many times. Also ordered them to ignore crimes by blacks and members of his administration. Trump will likely not play politics with federal law enforcement agencies. However, the new AG can decide to pursue anyone he thinks he can make a case against.
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  • SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
    edited November -1
    Source: CNN [:0] The propaganda machine keeps chugging along
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Announcements are one thing for the public's information.

    When the boss calls you to the office and says shut the door. What is said can be quite the other thing,
    "What is truth?'
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The POTUS has no authority to charge anyone as I understand it.

    His Justice Department may or may not.

    Personally she got a ride from Obama and the FBI, I am MUCH more concerned with what Trump and the GOP can accomplish moving forward to waste precious time chasing a ghost.

    Clinton is politically dead in my opinion and Trump needs to succeed in action to make Obama and the rest quickly unimportant.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm disappointed. Trump has a lot of balls in the air but allowing the investigation to proceed wouldn't take much of his time.

    What do you suppose Trump got in return, if anything ?

    or was something else a higher priority?
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bullshot

    Personally, I don't give a crap if he pursues charges against the wack-a-doodle * as her reign is over, what I do care about is "The Wall", Muslims and most of the rest of his promises.

    Trump is trying to create a more relaxed national atmosphere, there is real work to be done and it's good that he is not focusing on revenge issues.




    I agree, there is to much to do to expend energy and political position on her. If somethings leads back to her and it has to happen then so be it. There is just to much to do to worry about her right now.
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  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Doc
    Once in office Trump cannot legally order DOJ or FBI to investigate anyone. Obama has violated this many times. Also ordered them to ignore crimes by blacks and members of his administration. Trump will likely not play politics with federal law enforcement agencies. However, the new AG can decide to pursue anyone he thinks he can make a case against.


    We can only hope....
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He is playing the game and playing it well. That statement is only to rile you boys up and to placate the libtards.

    Tee it up and watch it fly....
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,668 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is a good political move to let Hillary off the hook.
    Look, in a just and fair world she would be doing 5 years in Leavenworth, and Bill would be doing the same.

    However, Trump only has so much political capitol to spend. He needs to focus on his objectives.
    If he got the Vile Harridan indicted, that one story would take up the first 2 years of his administration. Every lib from Schumer to Pelosi would be on NBC news every night defending the Vile Harridan and her corrupt, malignant husband. Hillary, once again, would get to play the aggrieved "victim," the role that the libs cherish above all else.
    She would be the victim of the crazy, Nazi, Republican President.

    Trump played it smart. Let the two ruined old lib pols ride off into the sunset. She will be remembered as the Loser of the biggest upset in 70 years.
    All the millionaires from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, who pumped ten million dollars into the Clinton foundation, in the past 8 years, hoping to buy influence once the Vile Harridan was elected President, will realize they were played for a fool by Bill and his nasty wife.

    Trump played it smart, let these two corrupt old libs fade away and go away.

    HILLARY CLINTON GET OUT OF TOWN!!!!!
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My understanding he said that he would not open a NEW investigation into the email.

    My take on that leaves the door open to Justice prosecuting under information already known. Also his statement leaves the door open for Obummer to make or not make a presidential pardon.

    No pardon leaves the door open. Pardon in hand opens other doors.

    Win/Win.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by droptop
    I'm disappointed. Trump has a lot of balls in the air but allowing the investigation to proceed wouldn't take much of his time.

    What do you suppose Trump got in return, if anything ?

    or was something else a higher priority?




    Hillary's connections to the machine. Just business.
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  • jerrywh818jerrywh818 Member Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Doc and popgun have it right. It isn't the business of the president to go after people. That's KGB crap. or Obama.
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  • SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
    edited November -1
    Most if not all should have seen the mask has been removed from the press the propaganda arm of the DNC... Yet we keep posting link to new sources we know to be frauds.
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 21,980 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow not even a day in the office and he's already a back peddling to a single term. I guess the meet and greet with the brown jesus must've shown him some serious files about the she witch. All bark and no teeth, eh?

    Unless he's slow playing them.
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
    Wow not even a day in the office and he's already a back peddling to a single term. I guess the meet and greet with the brown jesus must've shown him some serious files about the she witch. All bark and no teeth, eh?

    Unless he's slow playing them.



    The two party system is a farce. Trump told the public it wanted to hear and won !The Art of the Deal! Now he backpedals daily proving the two party system is nothing but a mirage!

    Soon he will be for the dream act (illegal immigration) and will reinstate it or come out with a different title with the same out come! We have been hoodwinked again I am afraid!

    They were going to deport those with felonies anyway. He has done nothing but bait and switch we the people!



    serf
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Trump's not going to tell the liberal media anything. If anything he'll tell them exactly opposite of what he plans. Plus telling them he's not going after the old hag just might keep obama from feeling the need to give her a get out of jail free card before he leaves office.

    Now that Trump has been elected I would just as soon the name clinton was never heard again. Prosecuting the hildabeast would just keep her name in the news for the majority of Trumps first term. He's got a lot of things more important to do.
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  • jerrywh818jerrywh818 Member Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WOW-- You anti Trump guys are really desperate. It's the old Trump can't win bunch still at it.
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by jerrywh818
    WOW-- You anti Trump guys are really desperate. It's the old Trump can't win bunch still at it.


    It's not that! It's what his campaign promises said and what he is saying now after he has been elected! He is acting just like Obama in this regard.

    There is no consistency from Trump the campaigner to trump The President elect!

    serf
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    TRUMP IS NOT POTUS, yet. He is not the FBI, he is not the Attorney General.

    Just where is it written in our Constitution the job of POTUS is to investigate possible crimes and file charges against an accused.

    For the 100th time, I do not like Trump being POTUS but for the love of Pete stop believing every crapola story about what he will or will not do.

    Let the poor sumbeech get into office first before you freak out.
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  • jerrywh818jerrywh818 Member Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's not what someone says that counts. It's what they do. Talk is part of the strategy. Look how many of you are falling for the talk.
    Trump himself said "never tell the enemy what your going to do." DUH!
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  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    He is playing the game and playing it well. That statement is only to rile you boys up and to placate the libtards.

    Tee it up and watch it fly....



    Yep.
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