![]() When Barack Obama was elected, conservatives howled about the very idea of investigating the Bush administration's dishonest case for war in Iraq or its illegal use of torture. The GOP's monomania to investigate things that mostly happened nine years ago and that have caused precisely zero harm to anyone anywhere on the planet prove once again that the party's core value today is bad faith. outfit that commissioned the so-called Steele Dossier - were called to testify before the House intelligence panel, which also successfully subpoenaed the firm's bank records, all part of the far-right's absurd counter-narrative that it was in fact the Clinton campaign, and not the president's, that colluded with Russia to undermine the election. ![]() ![]() And executives from Fusion GPS - the D.C. House Republicans on the judiciary and oversight committees opened an investigation into the FBI's handling of the Clinton email probe in October. Prosecutors at DOJ are pestering the FBI over the Uranium One non-story. ![]() Whether they are serious or are just going through the motions to satisfy the president, the FBI is looking into fever-swamp pay-to-play allegations about the Clinton Foundation, despite the probe being dropped by career prosecutors prior to the election. Why Clinton would jeopardize her life's work to funnel money to a charity whose financial dealings are an open book is a question that seemingly has not occurred to McCarthy and his fellow inquisitors.īut it seems to be working. In that article, McCarthy claims that Clinton was running a racketeering operation out of Foggy Bottom and that she should be the subject of a RICO investigation. The lurid and ludicrous allegation at the top of the article - that Clinton used her position as secretary of state to funnel donations to the Clinton Foundation- likewise manages to survive the entire attack without being buttressed with actual evidence except a link back to a piece of McCarthy's own election-eve hysteria. attorney, was unable to produce a single identifiable harm from Clinton's use of a private email server. In 2,100 words McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. Mind you: That currently seems like the best-case scenario for the president even if he and all of his aides are ultimately cleared of conspiring with Russia to undermine the 2016 election.Ĭase in point: In National Review on Saturday, Andrew McCarthy argued that the only way to restore the rule of law for classified information is to prosecute Clinton and her aides. No one knows what fresh revelations are in store from the Mueller investigation, which may find that the president of the United States and his top associates obstructed justice. Republicans trail by double digits in most surveys of the midterm elections and have no discernible policy agenda for the year. The only tangible policy achievement of this Congress - a slapdash tax giveaway to the wealthy that disproportionately benefits the Trump family, corporate grifters, and people with too much money already - is 24 points underwater in polls. President Trump spent the last week ineptly defending his own sanity after a gossipy writer he weirdly allowed to hang out around the White House for months published excerpts of his new book, in which the president's own advisers describe him as a sub-literate, cheeseburger-gobbling troll who spends most of his rare days at work watching and tweeting about Fox News. Republicans are right to feel creeping panic about their prospects.
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