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Trump baselessly accused Joe Scarborough of murder after the MSNBC host called him a “little baby”
“When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida?” Trump tweets

TRAVIS GETTYS
MAY 12, 2020 4:06PM (UTC)
This article originally appeared on Raw Story


President Donald Trump accused MSNBC's Joe Scarborough of murder — and urged authorities to open a cold case investigation — after the "Morning Joe" host called him a "little baby" about 20 minutes earlier.

Trump has lobbed allegations against Scarborough, a former friend turned daily critic, related to the death of one of his congressional staffers in 2001, including as recently as last week.

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2 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Jay Sekulow is a bad lawyer and a real idiot, you get what you pay for Trumpy

Any competent lawyer with even minimal self-self-respect  would not embarrass him/herself with arguing an absurd proposition, but Sekulow is probably being well-paid which will ease his humiliation.

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55 minutes ago, pigseye said:

You do realize that there is no legal obligation for a president to turn over their financials, don't you? 

There is when they are subpoenaed by congress.  This issue isnt whether they;re allowed to ask, its whether Trump is allowed to say no.  The reason its at SCOTUS is because every level of judiciary has said he cannot say no.

You do know that, dont you?  Again, you're defending the guy you claim you dont like and cant defend.  lol

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23 minutes ago, Tracker said:

It within the realm of possibility that Trump would start a war in order to boost his popularity as Margaret Thatcher did over the Falkland Islands. It worked for her, as it did for Reagan when he ordered the invasion of Grenada to oust the few dozen engineers from Cuba who were working to update Grenada's infrastructure. Everyone forgot the Lebanon disaster. Thus he is a danger to other nations as well.

Well he did lob some Tomahawks into Syria so technically that was a military incursion of some sort. 

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1 hour ago, pigseye said:

You do realize that there is no legal obligation for a president to turn over their financials, don't you? 

Sure there is, they were subpoenaed by congress as part of their over sight on the executive branch of the government and every court has said "Yeah bro, you gotta hand em over"

But you knew that right?  

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2 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

Sure there is, they were subpoenaed by congress as part of their over sight on the executive branch of the government and every court has said "Yeah bro, you gotta hand em over"

But you knew that right?  

And the SC will decide if the subpoena is valid or if it's just harassment of a political rival. 

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10 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Have a feeling that the SCOTUS will kick the can down the road till Trump is out of office

If they do, that would allow Trump to continue as he has been by default. Under Canadian law, and I am not sure if it applies in the Excited States, if an action is legally questionable but allowed to continue unchallenged, it becomes precedent and is referred as a convention. Kicking the question down the road would be the worst of all possible outcomes- it would justify Trump's actions but leave the door open for a Democratic president to be prosecuted.

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17 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Have a feeling that the SCOTUS will kick the can down the road till Trump is out of office

There is a good chance they will find the finance committee is over reaching.  But the House Intelligence committee has an obvious need for the information.  And while they'd likely find that a higher standard should exist when it involves the President, the Manhatten DA has surely reached that standard.  They could kick back on that one.  But they still have the Paula Jones precedent to deal with.

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15 minutes ago, pigseye said:

And the SC will decide if the subpoena is valid or if it's just harassment of a political rival. 

Thats not really their job.  They're not deciding if Congress has a right to ask.  Congress has the right under the constitution.  It was inherent as a check and balance.  SCOTUS is deciding whether Trump and/or the entities involved can refuse.  

You're twisting this to make it about Congress when it's about Trump.  You like to bring up Clinton so if you want to use a witch hunt over a BJ as the standard by which Congress can investigate a President, that wont turn out well for your boy.

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5 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

They started investigating Clinton long before Lewinsky was even in the Whitehouse. 

It was a complete which hunt. I am still not sure what the Clinton's ever did to the GOP to draw their ire so....

There were country folk from Arkansas...pissed off the elite establishment.  And yeah, theres a great book, I think Toobin write it, about the witch hunt into Clinton.  They would have impeached him for parking tickets if they had to.  Its funny because the Clintons are probably the most investigated politicians in America and yet...nothing.  If Trump had to stand up to a fraction of the same scrutiny he'd be in jail for several lifetimes.

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1 hour ago, 17to85 said:

They started investigating Clinton long before Lewinsky was even in the Whitehouse. 

It was a complete which hunt. I am still not sure what the Clinton's ever did to the GOP to draw their ire so....

They were investigating Whitewater, and tripped over Monica, by accident...

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As predicted, it didn't take the Trump mouthpieces on Fox - Carlson, Hannity and Ingraham.... long to crank on Dr. Fauci, after his testimony yesterday, calling him a buffoon, dictator and Democratic enabler.  Also praising Rand Paul as the person who should be trusted to deliver the straight goods on the virus!!

Hard to make this stuff up.....but somehow Fox manages to do it.

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Uh oh,

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On Wednesday morning, the president declared victory on Twitter: "Big Congressional win in California for Mike Garcia, taking back a seat from the Democrats. This is the first time in many years that a California Dem seat has flipped back to a Republican. Also, Tom Tiffany beat his Democrat rival BIG in Wisconsin. Two great Congressional WINS!"

 

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1 hour ago, Mr Dee said:

How true...

Howard Stern: “The oddity in all of this is the people Trump despises most, love him the most. The people who are voting for Trump for the most part... he wouldn’t even let them in a f*cking hotel. He’d be disgusted by them.”

Who needs hotels when you have corn fields? 

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1 hour ago, Mark H. said:

Who needs hotels when you have corn fields? 

Howard Stern: Trump ‘despises’ his own voters and would be ‘disgusted'

President Donald Trump wasn’t always a far-right Republican and an ally of the Christian Right. The Trump of the 1980s and 1990s was more of a center-right Blue Dog Democrat, and in 2004, he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that “the economy does better under the Democrats” than it does under Republicans. Regardless, Trump has remade himself as the GOP’s leading far-right culture warrior. And according to shock jock Howard Stern, Trump’s base are the type of people he “despises the most.”

Stern has known Trump for many years and interviewed him on his radio show (which now airs on SiriusXM) in the past. The New York Daily News reports that Stern recently told listeners that Trump would be “disgusted” by the type of voters who now support him.

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