The Mueller Report thread

[Dill]

(05-15-2020, 11:43 AM)fredtoast Wrote: This is not about Flynn.  It is about discrediting the entire FBI and DOJ in order to protect Trump from any other charges.

Here is how things work in the echo chamber.
"Any news media that says anything bad about Trump is lying because of politics."
"Any law enforcement agency that finds evidence of corruption or criminal behavior in the Trump administration is lying because of politics."
"Any judge that finds Trump or any of his asssociates guilty of misconduct is lying because of politics."

Once everyone is made to understand this Trump will be free to do whatever he wants whenever he wants with no punishment.

I think this is right.

It is about creating doubt, suspicion--an apparent "pattern" of deep state opposition to Trump, which then "explains" why there are so many investigations into a guy with 6 bankruptcies and a curious dependence on undisclosed foreign capital who hires "fixers" to take care of illegal financial transactions and pays newspaper editors to bury stories.

The "emerging details" tactic renews the franchise every four months or so. "X has finally released the documents" or "DOJ to release list of Y" or "Newly declassified emails show Z!" 

Some one posts a story on the latest expose like the hammer has finally come down on ObamaHillaryBiden, and then "poof"--one or two posts and the expose is exposed. The OP disappears. And other posters argue whether Hunter Biden = the unprecedented scale of Trump incompetence, abuse of power, nepotism and corruption apparent only to people who "just hate" Trump.

Two months go by and cycle repeats.  Shameless and baffling to non-Republicans, but works again and again for the base.