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Post by dragonlady on Jul 10, 2018 13:50:15 GMT -5
NBC: Justice Kennedy & Trump were in negotiations for months re. Kavanaugh pick to replace Geoff Bennett ✔ @geoffrbennett Source familiar tells NBC that Justice Kennedy had been in negotiations with the Trump team for months over Kennedy’s replacement. Once Kennedy received assurances that it would be Kavanaugh (his former law clerk) Kennedy felt comfortable retiring - @lacaldwelldc & @frankthorp 6:16 AM - Jul 10, 2018 1,107 1,740 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Source familiar tells NBC that Justice Kennedy had been in negotiations with the Trump team for months over Kennedy’s replacement. Once Kennedy received assurances that it would be Kavanaugh (his former law clerk) Kennedy felt comfortable retiring - @lacaldwelldc & @frankthorp 7:16 AM - Jul 10, 2018 I'm not sure I swallow all of that. I think it's much more sinister than that - they had something on Kennedy to pressure him to resign. They couldn't get rid of Mueller so they're going to scrap the whole investigation using Kavanaugh as the garbage men. They picked him because of his statements against any legal action on a sitting president and they needed an empty seat on the bench to do that. That - and that alone - was the major consideration! Presto Changeo - no more legal problems for trump! I'm not much on conspiracy theories, but this whole thing smells to high heaven. Where did this information come from? Is the individual "in the know" or just speculating - or deliberately lying? Is there any proof? The fact that it came out to be over and done with before the fall election is even more suspicious. Did Kennedy really even leave willingly or was he somehow forced out? I'm just not buying what they're selling at this point.
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Post by Kady on Jul 10, 2018 14:48:30 GMT -5
....don't know, I think the whole stinking issue needs an investigation.....a nice very long investigation.
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Post by QuickSilver on Jul 10, 2018 14:56:26 GMT -5
....don't know, I think the whole stinking issue needs an investigation.....a nice very long investigation. I agree.. but with Republicans in control.. there won't be one... We MUST at the very least take the House in November.
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Post by Kady on Jul 10, 2018 15:04:38 GMT -5
I know, QS, just wishful thinking..our hands are tied...I just sent a donation to Beto, hope it helps in the Senate.
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Post by QuickSilver on Jul 10, 2018 15:24:10 GMT -5
I've been seeing some things on my newsfeed that are quite disturbing. It is not substantiated.. but it would not surprise me. The rumor is that Justice Kennedy was in negotiations for months with the Trump Administration to pick from certain candidates.. Only when Trump agreed to pick Kavanaugh did Kennedy feel it was ok to retire.. I don't know if that is good or bad... I don't know it to be true, but that's what has started rumbling around out there... It certainly doesn't sound ethical.. does it? I want to see if the major news commentators pick this up tonight. Or if some investigative reporters appear on these shows. Here's an example of what I have been seeing.
www.newsandguts.com/trump-kennedy-make-deal/
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Post by Kady on Jul 10, 2018 15:38:33 GMT -5
Yes, this is what we're talking about.....Is this illegal? unethical? corrupt? or all of the above.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2018 16:46:40 GMT -5
You mean there's corruption in Washington?!
I'm shocked!
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Post by dragonlady on Jul 10, 2018 20:27:06 GMT -5
I read somewhere a couple of days ago - don't even remember where at this point that Kennedy's son was into something not legal & that was being used to pressure him to resign. Have no proof and don't remember where I read it. Nothing that crew pills would surprise me. They have become the epitome of devious and corrupt!
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Post by helen on Jul 10, 2018 22:28:36 GMT -5
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Post by butterfly on Jul 10, 2018 22:54:58 GMT -5
Here is a question I don't know the answer to: Is Kavanaugh the least worst of the Trump proposed pick list? It appears to me that especially if Dems don't pick up a bunch of seats this fall, we are stuck with one of Trump's picks? Or could a divided Senate go on rejecting one after the other forever??
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Post by dragonlady on Jul 10, 2018 23:02:08 GMT -5
Yeah - that's what I read before - the tenticles reach out everywhere.
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Post by Warrigal on Jul 11, 2018 8:15:04 GMT -5
I don't see very much swamp drainage going on in high places... ??? He doesn't even try to hide his corruption of due processes.
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Post by birdgal on Jul 12, 2018 21:26:44 GMT -5
I'd say all of the above. What say ye? I don't even have words for this. There haven't been any invented yet!
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Post by tnthomas on Jul 12, 2018 22:00:16 GMT -5
main stream media have been very quiet about this Even-though the MSM have been villainized by every RWNJ commentator alive and of course including Trump, I think that most of the networks care less about
legitimate news reporting, and more about corporate profit. As such, I find them suspect, and possibly complicit in creating the pre-election illusion that the
GOP was in disarray, and that the Dems had the election "in the bag".
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Post by rebecca2013 on Jul 13, 2018 4:17:55 GMT -5
He wanted Clinton impeached because Clinton lied to the American people! Really, all Trump does is lie!
NKat Not just a few BUT THOUSANDS OF LIES..... everything that comes out of Mr. Bad Breath's mouth....
(please don't even get me started about that man's halitosis!!! sheesh.... use a Tic Tac Donald!!)
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