-@jeffsessions, 1999
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But I was also defiant.
But why? Why defiant?
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They should not have been. That may seem legalistic to many, but it's perfectly valid.
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That the Lewinsky questions were allowed was shocking to many, no more so than to the President. 6/
But that's oversimplification.
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Starr threw out the questions fully expecting to be overruled, but did so to get them on the record. But the judge, despite vigorous objections, allowed them.
He knew she had believed him. His entire reputation, his relationship with Chelsea, all of it.
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He chose wrong.
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In Trump's case there will be no trap, unless Mueller has some surprise we don't know about.
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They are relevant questions material to the case at hand.
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It's the most tortuously immoral and unbelievable tactic ever.
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When the both-sideristic comparisons between Trump & Clinton's behavior & crimes start to be made in earnest we must fight back.
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Clinton lying about a personal relationship with a woman he had while being married is not the same kind or lie, nor the same kind of obstruction.
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Obstruction was a charge Starr hoped to pin on Clinton.
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Now watch this:
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Donald Trump is obstructing justice because he doesn't want us to know he committed treason.
That is a huge fucking difference.
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Again, we must completely reject those claims without equivocation.
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The Republican Party are insufferable for their faux moral outrage whilst simultaneously being completely amoral. They are outrageously dishonest and riddled with hypocrisy.
They are a cancer.
We must be the cure.
#Resist