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Washington Post editorial board warns Trump: No one is above the law, not even the president

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Washington Post editorial board warns Trump: No one is above the law, not even the president | TheHill

The Washington Post editorial board wrote a scathing response to President Trump’s celebration over the the ouster of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, calling Trump a “nasty, small-minded despot.”

Trump took to Twitter early Saturday to celebrate McCabe being fired after over 20 years at the bureau, claiming it was a “great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - a great day for democracy.”
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I like the ring of 'nasty, small-minded despot.' It's seems very appropriate.
 
More Anti-Trump mouth-frothing from the media.
 
JacksinPA said:
Washington Post editorial board warns Trump: No one is above the law, not even the president | TheHill

The Washington Post editorial board wrote a scathing response to President Trump’s celebration over the the ouster of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, calling Trump a “nasty, small-minded despot.”

Trump took to Twitter early Saturday to celebrate McCabe being fired after over 20 years at the bureau, claiming it was a “great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - a great day for democracy.”
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I like the ring of 'nasty, small-minded despot.' It's seems very appropriate.
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He's a leaker, pure and simple. That's a crime.
 
JacksinPA said:
Washington Post editorial board warns Trump: No one is above the law, not even the president | TheHill

The Washington Post editorial board wrote a scathing response to President Trump’s celebration over the the ouster of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, calling Trump a “nasty, small-minded despot.”

Trump took to Twitter early Saturday to celebrate McCabe being fired after over 20 years at the bureau, claiming it was a “great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - a great day for democracy.”
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I like the ring of 'nasty, small-minded despot.' It's seems very appropriate.
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Yeah, just as Andy McCabe. :lamo
 
Roadvirus said:
More Anti-Trump mouth-frothing from the media.
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What do you prefer? Enlighten us, direct us to something superior to the Post's editorials and/or reporting.:

https://www.economist.com/news/busi...business-revitalise-venerable-paper-exploring
May 28th 2015 | WASHINGTON, D.C.

NOT long after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said he would pay $250m of his own money for the chronically loss-making Washington Post, in August 2013, he sat next to the newspaper’s editorial-page editor, Fred Hiatt, at a dinner. It was a perfect opportunity to influence the Post’s line, but Mr Bezos reportedly preferred to talk about other things on his mind, such as exploring the dark side of the moon.

Technology, not journalism, is Mr Bezos’s passion. So far he has been the sort of proprietor newshounds dream of, with a light touch on editorial matters and a willingness to finance experimentation and bear losses. After years of shrinking ambitions and cost-cutting under its old owners, the Graham family, Posties are experiencing a period of expansion and excitement under Mr Bezos. As other American papers have continued to cut staff, the Post has hired more than 100 newsroom employees since the takeover was announced......
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hiatt#Editorial_page_editor

...... Andrew Sullivan, a conservative political blogger for The Atlantic wrote, in response to the sacking of Dan Froomkin, "The way in which the WaPo has been coopted by the neocon right, especially in its editorial pages, is getting more and more disturbing."[21] According to Fox News commentator James Pinkerton, the editorial page of The Post had transformed from a liberal voice into a top ally of the Bush Administration in its drive to invade Iraq: "Remember the days when the Washington Post was the enemy of the Republican administration in the White House? Those days are gone. Today, the neoconservative voice of the Post's editorial page is one of President Bush's most valuable allies."[22]

The former op-ed editor for the Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan, now a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, placed Hiatt fifth in his list of "The Left's Top 25 Journalists" for The Daily Beast[23] and third in the similar list he coauthored for Forbes magazine.[24] Matthew Cooper, White House editor of National Journal magazine, writes that Hiatt "is a bete noir for many liberals because of, among other things, the paper's support of the Iraq War."[25]

The National Journal reported in November, 2014, that Hiatt had offered his resignation to Jeff Bezos, the new owner of The Post, but had been retained.[25]

Speaker and moderator
Hiatt is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[26] a foreign-policy think tank, and has presided over events hosted by the organization.......
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I am bewildered by your dismissive tone.
 
JacksinPA said:
Washington Post editorial board warns Trump: No one is above the law, not even the president | TheHill

The Washington Post editorial board wrote a scathing response to President Trump’s celebration over the the ouster of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, calling Trump a “nasty, small-minded despot.”

Trump took to Twitter early Saturday to celebrate McCabe being fired after over 20 years at the bureau, claiming it was a “great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - a great day for democracy.”
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I like the ring of 'nasty, small-minded despot.' It's seems very appropriate.
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Says the Amazon's mouthpiece who is cutting off the air supply of conservative books on their website.

Riddle me this batman, why is Amazon so successful undercutting everyone's prices and driving them out of business, yet Trump is hated for cutting taxes and getting the economy up and running, and trying to prevent the USA from becoming an economic backwater due to China?

Amazon wants a world without opinions other than their own.
 
chuckiechan said:
Says the Amazon's mouthpiece who is cutting off the air supply of conservative books on their website.

Riddle me this batman, why is Amazon so successful undercutting everyone's prices and driving them out of business, yet Trump is hated for cutting taxes and getting the economy up and running, and trying to prevent the USA from becoming an economic backwater due to China?

Amazon wants a world without opinions other than their own.
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Trump isn't getting the eonomy up and running. The economy was running like a top when he was elected. And his isolationism and protectionism is guaranteed to make the US an economic backwater, going it alone in a global economy.
Your boy Trump's a slimy sleazeball, the kind of lowlife scum who'll pay hush money to a porn star while running for President, and when he goes down it won't be because anyone brought him down, it'll be because someone found out something he's done. He'll have brought himself down.
 
Grand Mal said:
Trump isn't getting the eonomy up and running. The economy was running like a top when he was elected. And his isolationism and protectionism is guaranteed to make the US an economic backwater, going it alone in a global economy.
Your boy Trump's a slimy sleazeball, the kind of lowlife scum who'll pay hush money to a porn star while running for President, and when he goes down it won't be because anyone brought him down, it'll be because someone found out something he's done. He'll have brought himself down.
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Only a brain dead socialist could say "the country was running like a top". Hell we had interest rates at zero, and added ten trillion in debt. All spent to achieve a sparkling 1.5% growth. The problem with American media is they are under no obligation to be truthful. The country was a mess and losing ground to our competitors at a rapid rate. We were turning into a nation of clerks and data processors.
 
JBG said:
He's a leaker, pure and simple. That's a crime.
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Let's use the pro-trump defense against McCabe. What did he leak and when? Can you answer those questions? Also what law did he break?
 
chuckiechan said:
Says the Amazon's mouthpiece who is cutting off the air supply of conservative books on their website.

Riddle me this batman, why is Amazon so successful undercutting everyone's prices and driving them out of business, yet Trump is hated for cutting taxes and getting the economy up and running, and trying to prevent the USA from becoming an economic backwater due to China?

Amazon wants a world without opinions other than their own.
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I suggest you watch the Post, but I guess you won't cause it's got Meryl Streep in it.
 
Some folks think it is wonderful to have law that allows those who run it to go get anyone that they think needs to be gotten.

Me, I demand justice.
 
JacksinPA said:
Washington Post editorial board warns Trump: No one is above the law, not even the president | TheHill

The Washington Post editorial board wrote a scathing response to President Trump’s celebration over the the ouster of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, calling Trump a “nasty, small-minded despot.”

Trump took to Twitter early Saturday to celebrate McCabe being fired after over 20 years at the bureau, claiming it was a “great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - a great day for democracy.”
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I like the ring of 'nasty, small-minded despot.' It's seems very appropriate.
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Even Trey Gowdy has a few comments about the Crook in Chief.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/18/politics/trey-gowdy-john-dowd/index.html
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
If Senior intelligence agents, Republicans, and the media are complaining that Trump is bad, then maybe he is.
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That argument would work better if Washington were not a known swamp.

Of course they push back.
 
calamity said:
Even Trey Gowdy has a few comments about the Crook in Chief.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/18/politics/trey-gowdy-john-dowd/index.html
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I have to take issue with what the lawyer does, at least if the attack is "he's acting like his client is guilty." His duty is to do everything legal, ethical, and in his power to maximize his client's chances of a best outcome in whatever forum that outcome may be realized. What the lawyer does cannot be imputed to the client as consciousness of guilt evidence.

However, what the client does can be. It's open season on what Trump says, tweets, does. I wouldn't focus much on what the lawyer does. He has the same duty whether the client is innocent or guilty.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
Only swamp creatures want to work in the swamp, why is Trump better?
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With as much time as you spend here if you still dont understand why 40% of America likes Trump you might consider taking up a new hobby as a donut maker.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
With as much time as you spend here if you still dont understand why 40% of America likes Trump you might consider taking up a new hobby as a donut maker.
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What I take from that is you can't answer the question.
 
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