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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: commonone ✹✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Gen McCaffrey see parellel ot 19030s Germany
Date: 09/29/23 12:47 PM
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Dope1: I also don't recall Trump weaponizing the FBI, the DOJ or the CIA to persecute his political opponents. Maybe because that never happened.

Amnesia or dementia?

President Trump on Friday pressured the Department of Justice ' and specifically the FBI ' to investigate Hillary Clinton, ticking through a slew of issues involving the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and her party, and urging law enforcement to 'do what is right and proper.'

washingtonpost.com - Trump pressures justice department to investigate crooked hillary

'At one point in the spring of 2018, Trump instructed [former White House Counsel] Don McGahn to direct [former Attorney General Jeff] Sessions to prosecute Clinton and Comey and, if the attorney general refused, said he would do it himself as president...'

thehill.com - Trump thought he could prosecute comey and clinton himself book

In a court filing, John Kelly, who was a chief of staff under Donald Trump, said the former president had asked about having the tax agency look into Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.

nytimes.com - Trump kelly IRS FBI strozk page

But more political abuses have emerged, with revelations that ' starting under attorney general Jeff Sessions in 2018 ' subpoenas were issued in a classified leak inquiry to obtain communications records of top Democrats on the House intelligence committee. Targets were Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, who were investigating Kremlin election meddling, and also several committee staffers and journalists.

theguardian.com - Trump DOJ bill bar attorney general justice department

The list of Trump's misuse of previously independent agencies of government is endless.

Dope1: I can't seem to remember street violence at scale caused by his personal army of goons

January 6th ring any bells?

The Trump Cult is deaf and blind.
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