Lying in plain sight

He’s losing it again, aka he’s trying to obstruct justice again. In public where everyone can see him.

A pause for two hours.

Yesterday, Mitch McConnell yet again blocked a proposed bill to protect the Mueller investigation.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked two senators from bringing up legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation from any efforts by the Trump administration to thwart it.

Republican Senator Jeff Flake and Democrat Chris Coons had said they would push the measure after President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and tossed out more than a century of precedent to name Sessions chief of staff Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general. Before joining Sessions’s staff, Whitaker had sharply criticized the Mueller probe and described on television how a future acting attorney general could undermine it.

But McConnell continues to say he hasn’t seen Trump trying to obstruct the Mueller investigation.

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14 responses to “Lying in plain sight”

  1. Screechy Monkey Avatar
    Screechy Monkey

    List of people who are not allowed to investigate Trump:

    — Democrats

    — Anyone who worked for the government when a Democrat was president

    — Anyone who has ever shaken hands with a Democrat

    — Anyone who can spell “Democrat”

    — Anyone who can spell

    — Anyone with a pulse

  2. iknklast Avatar

    One wonders if McConnell is just a sycophant, or if he has some ties with the Trump nastiness that he is trying to hide. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is a spineless sycophant.

  3. Ben Avatar

    And Bob Mueller is a terrible president, and everyone says he has small hands!

  4. Holms Avatar

    It’s alarming how reliably and rapidly any recent news against Trump is regurgitated by Trump himself, in the form of an accusation against whoever has his ire. It reminds me of arguments I’ve had with extreme idiots, who use words they scarcely understand simply because I used them first to make a point against them. And I say it is alarming because it shows the simplicity of the mind in charge of USA.

  5. Theo Bromine Avatar

    …screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and don’t care how many lives the[y] ruin.

    Wow, that’s enough projection to power a large multiplex cinema.

  6. Ophelia Benson Avatar

    The DARVO is strong today.

  7. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!

    He should be careful what he aspires to. Unless and until Trump is pressed to death, hanged or executed by the state in some other, more imaginative way, his current travails come nowhere close to actual witch hunts that have already taken place in American history.

  8. iknklast Avatar

    YNNB – and, they need to take any evidence, for or against, as confirming the accusation so there is no way Trump could possibly escape. There can be no long term parsing of evidence in a legitimate attempt to get to the truth.

    No, they would need to just throw him in the water to see if he sinks (innocent but dead) or floats (guilty and needs to be made dead), or prick him with pins to see if there is any part of his body that is not sensitive (and stick the pins long enough, you might make a portion of the body insensitive), or any growths of any kind (I suspect his hair piece qualifies).

  9. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    I’d like to say that I hate to say it but I think we’re due a Reign of a Reign of Terror. The reds respect nothing, especially the rule of law… So why operate as if the law still matters?

  10. Karellen Avatar

    @BKISA #9 – because that’s what distinguishes the good guys from the bad guys. That’s how you know who is right. If everyone stops respecting the rule of law, the only reason to follow one group over another is blind tribalism – and that’s one of the biggest parts of the problem.

  11. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    ….or any growths of any kind (I suspect his hair piece qualifies).

    The hairpiece I took to be his Familiar.

  12. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    @Karellan #10:

    I agree wholeheartedly… Just need some bad people on the right side to do what must be done so that good people can go on being good people.

  13. Karellen Avatar

    @BKISA #12 – sounds like you want someone like The Operative from Firefly; someone who will knowingly commit monstrous acts to bring about a better world, even while knowing that their actions will forfeit their right to be able to live in that world.

    You do realise that The Operative was a bad guy, and that the side he was working for were also the bad guys, right?

  14. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    You’ve got it in one; I quite like the Operative…

    I go back to a paraphrasing a Vetinari quote: There are always and ever the bad people, only sometimes they’re on different sides.