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Honestly I just go the Nixon route. Did he know about it? Maybe, but hard to prove. At best RICO charges if you can make them stick. Meanwhile the blatant cover up that they both did is far more obvious, provable, and egregious

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Good.

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Dunno, what part of “Does not exonerate” do they hear?

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I wonder if we'll ever find out who killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman....remember, O.J. was exonerated of criminal liability.

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Seems like the 'watch the whole video' crowd doesn't want to 'read the full report' before making claims.

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honestly there is only one possible response - AOT,K

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I was pretty sure there was a perfectly innocent explanation; now I'd like to hear it.

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Let's be fair. The report could have said "Holy crap, this guy is guilty as sin, Satan himself is listed as co-conspirator, Russia suddenly owns Alaska, someone used the Declaration of Independence to light a cigar, and we have his signed confession saying YEAH I DID IT." And the headline would still have said 'completely exonerated.' Reality is whatever they can get people to believe it is.

Give it two more days of airtime and it'll even be true, or close enough to make no real difference.

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They hear what they want to hear.

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It is worse than that. She is an uppity liberal woman who didn’t know “her place.”

Besides, shouldn’t every Republican who used government resources to harass her resign since they weren’t able to prove that she committed a crime?

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You Dems are a tricky lot!

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Hmmm... It turns out that not only do some wingnuts think that this exonerates Donald Trump, but it somehow proves the Hillary Clinton is guilty!

https://twitter.com/RightWi...

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It doesn't say that. It says: "According to a new report from the New York Times..."

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Of course they do, because RWNJ "logic".

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Sorry for misreading!

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This is what drives me nuts. Well - one of the things. The language Comey used when he decided not to prosecute Clinton was almost identical to what Barr put in his letter. Yet somehow, she's guilty as sin but Trump is cleared.

It's almost as if they've made up their minds before the investigation and that facts and circumstances don't really matter.

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