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Old 02-23-2019, 07:18 AM   #121
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Senator Tom Cotton, R-AR. cum laude graduate of harvard and harvard law, decorated combat officer in the army in afghanistan. he’s going places.
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Never heard of this poor guy before this hoax (assuming that's what it was), feel bad for the guy, probably a desperate cry for attention and sympathy.

ONCE AGAIN, the media and the far left (sorry for the redundancy there) saw an opportunity to smear the right, and jumped the gun before anything like due process took place.

HOW MANY TIMES do these morons have to end up with egg on their faces, before they just wait for investigations to take place? Duke lacrosse, hands up don't shoot, the Rolling Stone U-VA rape case, the Covington kids, now this.

This is a great opportunity for us to collectively take a deep breath, and start over. But it won't happen, Trump Derangement Syndrome is way too powerful.

Hope this guy doesn't commit suicide. Pathetic.
Now they have dropped the charges.
Sometimes things are not as they seem and morons rush to judgement.
Perhaps you should have taken a deep breath.
I know it's hard being a victim.

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Old 03-26-2019, 10:58 AM   #126
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Sometimes things are not as they seem and morons rush to judgement.
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I know it's hard being a victim.
That’s great, did you hear OJ was innocent too?
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Will Jim now support him if he files a law suite against those who spoke poorly about him? like Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student..
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Sometimes things are not as they seem and morons rush to judgement.
Maybe they should have gotten Meuller to investigate

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Old 03-26-2019, 12:35 PM   #130
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I know it's hard being a victim.
not sure if you can read, but my post which you quoted, specifically says i feel bad for the guy, and specifically says i don’t know what happened.

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Will Jim now support him if he files a law suite against those who spoke poorly about him? like Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student..
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there’s hours of video evidence showing that Sandman did nothing wrong, and that the media was lying to serve the liberal narrative.

this actor paid two friends to attack him, and claimed it was white trump supporters. is any of that in dispute?
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we know that state’s attorney Fixx had previously been contacted by a Smoklett relative who worked on Michelle Obama’s staff. surely that played no role.

Time for the feds to investigate whether or not he mailed that letter to himself that had white powder on it. if it did, try him, convict him, then trump should
pardon him, and then everyone at MSNBC and CNN will jump off a cliff.
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not sure if you can read, but my post which you quoted, specifically says i feel bad for the guy, and specifically says i don’t know what happened.

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As you claimed in your post, which I read, perhaps you did not, so for your edification I will quote it here.
"HOW MANY TIMES do these morons have to end up with egg on their faces, before they just wait for investigations to take place? Duke lacrosse, hands up don't shoot, the Rolling Stone U-VA rape case, the Covington kids, now this."

Of course he's been exonerated now, that's defined as not going forward with a prosecution in your book, isn't it?

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/03/juss...-no-collusion/

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we know that state’s attorney Fixx had previously been contacted by a Smoklett relative who worked on Michelle Obama’s staff. surely that played no role.

Time for the feds to investigate whether or not he mailed that letter to himself that had white powder on it. if it did, try him, convict him, then trump should
pardon him, and then everyone at MSNBC and CNN will jump off a cliff.
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I found it interesting that all charges were dropped but yet he voluntarily forfieted his bail. That is a tad strange.

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Doesn't look like its going to be all sunshine and unicorns.

10:45 AM PT -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel is very strongly hinting at corruption in the State's Attorney's Office, calling the decision to drop the charges against Smollett a "whitewash of justice."

The Mayor added, "From top to bottom, this is not on the level." He called for accountability from the prosecutors.

Emanuel was joined by Chicago PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson who said he didn't feel justice was served by letting Smollett off the hook.

What's more, Johnson said if Jussie was, in fact, innocent ... he should've taken his day in court, and not broker a backdoor deal in secrecy. Bigger picture -- Johnson feels the City of Chicago is still owed an apology, as he believes Jussie carried out a hoax.

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I found it interesting that all charges were dropped but yet he voluntarily forfieted his bail. That is a tad strange.
The prosecutors said it's not an exoneration, almost sounds like they fined him $10,000 and called it a day. Then they sealed the file, so we may never know what the heck happened.
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As you claimed in your post, which I read, perhaps you did not, so for your edification I will quote it here.
"HOW MANY TIMES do these morons have to end up with egg on their faces, before they just wait for investigations to take place? Duke lacrosse, hands up don't shoot, the Rolling Stone U-VA rape case, the Covington kids, now this."

Of course he's been exonerated now, that's defined as not going forward with a prosecution in your book, isn't it?

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/03/juss...-no-collusion/
"Of course he's been exonerated now"

The hell he has. The prosecutors specifically said, "this is not an exoneration".

Paul, we know he said it was white guys wearing MAGA hats who attacked him, we know in reality it was black friends of his, we know he paid them, we know they bought the rope. We know he refused to turn over his phone, and when he did, it had been cleansed. Is any of that in dispute?

Let's let the FBI look into whether or not he emailed the letter to himself with white powder. I will happily live with whatever they conclude.
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As you claimed in your post, which I read, perhaps you did not, so for your edification I will quote it here.
"HOW MANY TIMES do these morons have to end up with egg on their faces, before they just wait for investigations to take place? Duke lacrosse, hands up don't shoot, the Rolling Stone U-VA rape case, the Covington kids, now this."

Of course he's been exonerated now, that's defined as not going forward with a prosecution in your book, isn't it?

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/03/juss...-no-collusion/
the people with egg on their faces, are the monsters in the media who yet again, rushed to judgment and spun the story in a way to bash Trump supporters, and also to fan the flames of racial unrest. it’s disgusting.

the prosecutors specifically said its not an exoneration, and that they believe he lied to the police. there’s absolutely no way of knowing what happened, but if he was exonerated, he’d get his bail back, wouldn’t he?
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Doesn't look like its going to be all sunshine and unicorns.

10:45 AM PT -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel is very strongly hinting at corruption in the State's Attorney's Office, calling the decision to drop the charges against Smollett a "whitewash of justice."

The Mayor added, "From top to bottom, this is not on the level." He called for accountability from the prosecutors.

Emanuel was joined by Chicago PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson who said he didn't feel justice was served by letting Smollett off the hook.

What's more, Johnson said if Jussie was, in fact, innocent ... he should've taken his day in court, and not broker a backdoor deal in secrecy. Bigger picture -- Johnson feels the City of Chicago is still owed an apology, as he believes Jussie carried out a hoax.
Jussie has a family member who worked for Michelle Obama. This family member reaches out to the lead prosecutor, who then recused herself from the case.

now the file is sealed. very strange.

and he’s not out of the woods with the feds because he likely mailed himself a letter with white powder, and given the vindictive nature of Trump, if i was this jerk actor, i’d be expecting a visit from the FBI.
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Prosecutors are saying he forfeited his bond, and tjeybagreed to drop the charges in response
to community service he has done. That's not an exoneration, but not what you'd expect if he was convicted either.

Very strange.

Bring on the feds.

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the prosecutors specifically said its not an exoneration, and that they believe he lied to the police. there’s absolutely no way of knowing what happened, but if he was exonerated, he’d get his bail back, wouldn’t he?
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I thought it worked like this:

No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!

“while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

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I thought it worked like this:

No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!

“while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
Stop confirming your lack of comprehension PeteF. Unless you are just being contrarian. In which case you have accomplished nothing. Go play with more straws.
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I thought it worked like this:

No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!

“while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
here’s the thing. there’s no evidence trump colluded. there’s all kinds of evidence that Smlet stages this.

what do you think happened here? what do you think is the most likely story? is it more likely that he truly staged this, or that the police framed him for that?


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No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!

“while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
If the Special Counsel did not conclude that Trump committed a crime, then there could not be an indictment. The matter was thoroughly investigated. There was no crime found. End of matter. Nothing more need, nor should, be said. There is no need to "exonerate" someone for what has not been concluded to be a crime. And the DOJ concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute for a crime. The DOJ's conclusion was part of the whole process of the investigation. Therefor, part of the final report.
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Ha, the state AG recuses herself and the assistant AG drops the charges and proclaims that Smollet is guilty.
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If the Special Counsel did not conclude that Trump committed a crime, then there could not be an indictment. The matter was thoroughly investigated. There was no crime found.
Barr reported this “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election”
End of matter. Nothing more need, nor should, be said. There is no need to "exonerate" someone for what has not been concluded to be a crime. And the DOJ concluded that there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute for a crime. The DOJ's conclusion was part of the whole process of the investigation. Therefor, part of the final report.
What we currently know about the Mueller report is as conclusive as what we know about Benghazi and the email investigation.
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What we currently know about the Mueller report is as conclusive as what we know about Benghazi and the email investigation.
Lock him up
Pete, do you think Smullett staged this?
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Pete, do you think Smullett staged this?
Waiting for due process to take place

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