The Constitutional Crisis is Here!

[Belsnickel]

(05-23-2018, 09:39 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Perhaps because there is nothing to indicate that the Trump campaign did anything shady; unlike the DNC and the Hillary campaign. Folks view it as a sitting president using his powers in a biased manner to influence the results of a National election. 

If this is shown to have any merit I hope quite a few care about it and it is not because they are ignorant. 

Members of the campaign took meetings with foreign parties to discuss them helping the campaign and did not notify law enforcement when these parties reached out to them. That alone is shadiness on the part of the Trump campaign and is a known fact. I don't see how you can make the statement in bold with this being out there.

As for the influence in the campaign, how so? Had Obama sought to influence the election he would have ordered the DoJ/FBI to haul in the campaign members that they had heard contacted foreign parties and had them interviewed. That is the standard operating procedure when law enforcement finds out about potential illegal activity, after all. Instead, the DoJ/FBI used an informant to gather more information because they were cognizant of the effects bringing in high profile campaign officials would have that close to the election.

If anything, the use of the informant is evidence of Obama's intention to not influence the election in any way.