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Dan Murphy @bungdan
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An "if Obama did it" thread in no particular order. Imagine if Obama...
... demanded a personal parade "like the one I saw in France."
... said it was "treasonous" of Congressional Republicans not to applaud him.
... publicly thanked Vladimir Putin for expelling US diplomats from Russia.
publicly asked Putin to US Russian intelligence assets to steal Republican secrets and damage their electoral chances.
... said being famous means he can get away with "grabbing women by the pussy" without consent.
..., demanded that his Republican presidential opponent be put in jail.
... demanded that the Department of Justice investigate and jail his critics in the Republican party.
... Said he'd "love to see a government shutdown" if Congressional Republicans don't cave to all his demands.
... compared the FBI and CIA to the Gestapo.
... boasted about his friendship with Vladimir Putin and the "award and beautiful letter" he received from him.
... defended Putin's assassination of political opponents and journalists as appropriate, adding "our country does plenty of killing also."
... spent 25% of his first year as president at the golf course, and had the Federal government pay millions of dollars to businesses he owns in the process.
... demanded a Senate investigation into Fox for critical reporting on him and called the free press the "enemy of the American people."
... said a baying, neo-Nazi mob that killed a woman contained within it "very fine people."
... asked the FBI director to kill an investigation into his national security advisor, who had been found to be taking money from the Russian and Turkish governments.
... fired the same FBI director after he refused to make a personal loyalty pledge to Obama.
... asked that FBI director's acting successor who he voted for, pushes him out of the job after he also refuses to kill investigations into Obama's friends.
... having obtained multiple deferments to evade the draft attacked the war-time service of John McCain, who endured over 5 years at the Hanoi Hilton, saying "I like people who weren't captured."
... participated in this photo op with Egypt's military dictator and the King of Saudi Arabia.
... paid a $25 million dollar settlement for having defrauded low income students.
... habitually referred to America's senior military leadership as "my generals."
... knowingly kept on a senior White House aide who couldn't get a security clearance because of his habit of physically beating both of his former wives.
... slandered the mother and father of an American soldier who was killed fighting in Iraq because they criticized him.
... said Putin wasn't responsible for the murder of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko with Polonium-210 because he hadn't been convicted of the killing in a court of law.
... accused the judge overseeing the fraud lawsuit into Obama University - which ended with Obama paying a $25mln settlement to his victims - of racial bias because he was white.
... put his son-in-law, with no relevant political or academic or professional experience, in charge of middle east peace; overhauling the VA; and reducing US opiate addiction.
... said if Malia wasn't his daughter he'd probably be dating her.
... used the National Prayer Breakfast to plug his book and give shout outs to his business collaborators.
... staffed the White House with aides who couldn't pass background checks for their security clearances.
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... filled the White House with cronies and family members who couldn't pass security clearance screening but gave them access to top secret material anyways. politico.com/story/2018/02/…
... forced the director of the FBI to call him and his Chief of Staff Denis McDonough liars when they claimed the FBI kept them in the dark about a major WH security risk.
... had Rahm Emanuel explain why laundering $130,000 in hush money payments to a porn actress Obama had fucked while Michelle was pregnant had nothing to do with his presidency.
... stood by a Veterans Affairs Secretary who lied in order to defraud the US taxpayer out of $80,000 to pay for a week-long luxury European vacation with his wife and misused VA resources in an attempted coverup. va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG…
... laundered multiple hush money payoffs to porn actresses through David Pecker of the National Enquirer and his Russian-mob connected lawyer, leaving them and others unknown with enormous blackmail leverage over the president. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
... said the student victims of a mass-shooting were partly responsible for their own deaths.
... his campaign manager David Plouffe had committed so many apparent felonies involving money laundering for foreign interests the FBI struggled to keep up. politi.co/2FainMT
... posed in this manner at a hospital where survivors of a school massacre that left 17 dead were being treated.
... sent his spokesman onto NBC to respond to the indictment of 13 Russians for trying to undermine US democracy by saying Fox News and the Republican Party are a far greater danger to America.
... used the massacre of 17 people by a sociopath at a high school - 14 of them students - to attack the FBI because it was running an ongoing investigation of possible criminal activity by him and his associates.
... had a personal attorney who referred to the tens of millions of Americans who disapproved of his conduct and policies as "little bitches."
... celebrated the cocaine-fueled era of cheap sex at Studio 54 on the night the children massacred at Newtown were laid to rest.
... sent Malia to India to collect $38,000 a head access fees from foreign tycoons. wapo.st/2HvgATq
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... appointed a 23 member cabinet that yielded 6 ethics investigations (26%) in his first 13 months in office. cnn.com/2018/02/20/pol…
... funneled reams of classified documents to his son-in-law, who owed tens of millions to foreign banks, repeatedly revised disclosure forms after being caught lying, and had been unable to pass the background check for a security clearance. washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-tu…
...had "44" monogrammed on his shirts and needed a cheat sheet reminding him to use the platitude "I hear you."
...sent Chelsea Clinton to explain new sanctions on North Korea's nuclear program after she'd been unable to get a security clearance.
...it was revealed that four of his campaign aides, among them his campaign manager, were subject to an FBI counterintelligence investigation while he was running for president.
... it was revealed that it was five. Five.
...
...routinely gave prime placement at his political rallies to a guy who used to lead a murder whitey cult.
...called for the suspension of due process for gun owners deemed dangerous by the federal government and preemptive seizure of their weapons.
...had 30 White House staffers who were stripped of top secret clearances he'd given them on a temporary basis because they couldn't pass background checks 13 months into his presidency. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
...gave insider trading stock tips to billionaire friends.
..,praised the leader of the Chinese Communist Party for abolishing term limits and said he's in favor of a dictator-for-life model for America. nbcwashington.com/news/politics/…
...grilled subordinates about what they'd told an FBI special prosecutor looking into possible ties between his campaign and a Russian government effort to get him elected in 2008.
...instructed a crowd to boo the "sons of bitches" at Fox, told them not to boo the "very positive" Kim Jong-un, called Rep. Rick Santorum a "moron" and Senator Lindsey Graham "cracker boy." time.com/5194695/donald…
...mocked presidents who have conducted themselves with dignity and restraint, saying it is far better to play the fool to amuse the masses.
...said he liked to make up rosy economic data rather than grapple with hard truths.
...fired Secretary of State John Kerry by tweet.
...proudly detailed all the lies he told to the leader of one of our closest allies. washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…
...threaten to pull all US troops out of South Korea and leave the country at the mercy of Kim Jong-un if Seoul doesn't give him everything he wants in a trade deal. washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…
...sent his daughter, a handbag designer, as the lead in meetings with a senior South Korean envoy during a time of crisis and confusion over North Korea's nuclear program.
...vowed to sue public servants into bankruptcy if they discussed the conduct of his White House.
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