khau thomas mark pen was right about Trump Hillary and double standards Trump
should respond by doing this finding someone in Washington who is nonpartisan
and puts the nation's interests ahead of their own as so rare these days that he
or she if found might well qualify as an endangered species but once in a while
call it the law of averages someone speaks the truth it happened last week
when Mark Penn former adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton wrote a column for
the hill newspaper in which he claimed there is a big difference between how
Hillary Clinton and President Trump have been treated when it comes to
allegations of criminal behavior Penn then appeared on Fox News where he spoke
of the double standard applied to trump and his associates compared to how
Clinton was exonerated by FBI director James Comey over her private email
server and her handling of classified information the investigations related
to the email were handled with kid gloves and the investigations related to
trump with all-out prosecutorial force of government and deep state might penn
said it doesn't matter the Long Knives have been drawn by those who want to
reverse the results of the 2016 election and put themselves back in power they
will not be sheathed until blood is drawn preferably the blood of the
president whose personality might not win him any good deportment citations on
a grade school report card but whose policies are making the nation stronger
president Trump needs to refocus and stop attacking his political enemies and
even his friends and start worrying about his most pressing problem neither
does it matter that no evidence of Russian collusion by the Trump campaign
has yet to be uncovered that train seems to have long ago left the station
replaced by other strategies to bring down the president none of which were
part of the special counsels original mandate
indeed on July 13th when Deputy Attorney General rod Rosen Stein announced the
indictment of 12 Russians for their alleged roles in hacking computers at
the Democratic National Committee in other sites he said there's no
allegation in this document that any American citizen committed a crime
there's no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or
affected any election result Rosen Stein knows the indicted Russians will never
be extradited and tried so it looks to most conservatives like a public
relations stunt designed to show that Robert Mueller was pursuing what he had
been tasked with discovering having failed to achieve that objective the
tentacles of his office have spread out in other directions now reaching the
Trump Organization where its CEO has been granted full federal immunity and
will likely be required to divulge anything perhaps even those long hidden
Trump income tax returns which Democrats have wanted made public since the 2016
campaign President Trump needs to refocus and stop attacking his political
enemies and even his friends and start worrying about his most pressing problem
as The Wall Street Journal editorial eyes the biggest political threat to mr.
Trump is a democratic election victory in November which will trigger a drive
for impeachment mr. Trump isn't going to persuade anyone to vote for Republicans
by railing against the Republican Attorney General he selected he should
stop publicly admonishing Attorney General Jeff Sessions who early on
recused themselves from all things Russian after the president's latest
criticism of sessions sessions issued a statement defending the law and the
integrity of the Department of Justice against the president's constant
criticism yes the DOJ has behaved differently under sessions and
Rosenstein than it did when Eric Holder described as present
to Obama's wingman held that post but nothing can be done about that now the
president should concern himself with what is being done on other fronts where
he can credibly claim success the problem is that his constant attacks on
others which achieve little have obscured many of his accomplishments
Americans want to be happy about their present and optimistic about the future
this president any president should see that as his main calling and pulled back
on his Twitter mirages there should be only one starter trummer president it's
time to wrap up the Muller Pro two former Hillary Clinton strategist mark
Penn who a lot of people would be surprised to find out he agrees with the
President on this why mark well look I spent a year of my life fighting the ken
starr independent counsel on behalf of President Clinton and really that was a
waste of a year for the country I think now that we have achieved a level of
peace and prosperity frankly we haven't had since since the late 90s
once again we're about to be consumed possibly by an investigation of a
Pietschmann and it's wrong it affects our foreign
policy every day this investigation seems to undermine itself the Carter
page warrant really was not based on anything much more than the dossier in a
Yahoo article look at this trial of poor mana for where is Russia where the judge
clearly mark as you well know the judge in the trial has said this has nothing
to do with what you mr. Muller were on your team we're empowered to do which
was to check into Russia collusion has nothing to do with that at all so you're
right but like ken starr's as you mentioned it has it has spun into
different things I'm just wondering if if mr. Muller is less interested in in
why he was empowered in the first place to investigate Russia collusion with the
Trump campaign that he is in getting rid of Donald Trump well I think there's no
question that he's going to have a report here that tries to say well maybe
he didn't find collusion but maybe it was closed and there was obstruction of
justice and all of these facts and I think he's going to try the Ken Starr
route now if he does it before this congressional
and I suspect like in 98 it will boomerang and if he does it after he'll
see which way Congress goes to see whether he can get him although it's a
fruitless exercise in the absence of any evidence that the public doesn't know
everybody saw the fire read of James Comey everybody knows his story in terms
of what he did in these investigations you know the whole thing now has become
a national waste of time and preoccupation well it would be debated
in his defend what he would say is look we've we've we've found out things about
the way the Russians operated in the 2016 election that needed to be
uncovered so there has been some progress made there have been people
indicted etc to which you say what look those were show indictments of Russian
intelligence just before a summit maybe we were trying to get a different
relationship with Russia so we could get help on Iran help versus China and North
Korea he's he's influencing and affecting the foreign policy of the
country by doing show indictments like that rather than putting that in a
report to the nation that's the kind of stuff that should have been in a report
instead of show indictments that he knows he are never gonna be you know and
other people say if he's really interested in Russian collusion beyond
and ighting Russians there was the issue of what happened with his trump dossier
whether Russian disinformation Russian elements were involved in putting that
together of course that would involve the Hillary campaign who helped fund the
Trump dossier more than it would Republicans well I think that this is
one of the things that has Americans divided and upset they see a full
all-out investigation of everybody who was even close to Trump they see a trial
of somebody that probably there would have been an audit here maybe a criminal
referral but the entire weight of the US government wouldn't be on Paul Manafort
had he not served for two months you know within the Trump campaign they see
associates being targeted you know in a way that is really not the typical way
that we expect them to be meted out in in just a couple of moments I'm gonna
have on a fellow Democrat colleague of yours representative Eric SWA well
when the president suggested well he didn't actually say but when the
president some of his associates suggested that maybe it's time for
Muller if not wrap be fired he says and I'm quoting Erik's wall well fire Muller
and we fire you to which you say what look I don't think the president should
fire Muller I don't think that would be the right end to this there's a very
interesting challenge by one of the witnesses that prompted a 93 page
opinion I haven't read yet which should be appealed whether Butler's appointment
with his broad powers whether he really is an inferior officer I think that's
probably the most promising way actually to shut this down firstly justices kind
of run its course what would you tell Democrat sois well your colleague when
he criticizes those who criticized Muller I would say read the dossier read
the Carter page warrant actually read it the dossier is a joke it was it was done
as Oppo research and you see in the Carter page that in fact this is a
threat to American civil liberties that's what this investigation is I
think more than anything else mark Penn great to see you mark thank you very
much
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