• Sen. Orrin Hatch dismisses Trump's crimes: "I don't care, he's doing a good job"
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https://www.newsweek.com/orrin-hatch-dismisses-trumps-suspected-hush-money-payments-i-dont-care-hes-1252832 U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) dismissed Donald Trump’s suspected campaign finance violations when asked to comment by reporters this week, choosing instead to praise the president for “doing a good job” in office. CNN reporter Manu Raju revealed in a series of tweets on Monday that Hatch—a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and retiring Utah Republican—said “President Trump before he became president is another world. Since he’s become president this economy has charged ahead... And I think we ought to judge him on that basis.” “Hatch dismisses allegations of Trump crimes over hush money. Asked if he had any concerns, Hatch said: ‘The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.’ When Raju told Hatch that the Southern District of New York had brought forth the allegations, he said: ‘Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President’,” Raju wrote on Twitter. Later in the conversation, Raju asked if he was concerned about the allegations, Hatch said no. “I don’t think he was involved in crimes but even then, you know, you can make anything a crime under the current laws; if you want to you can blow it way out of proportion you can do a lot of things’,” Hatch told Raju. Other GOP senators gave similar responses when questioned by reporters. Some dismissed the New York federal prosecutors’ investigation while others questioned the credibility of the allegations. According to CNN, when asked to comment on the matter, outgoing Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said: "as long as (Michael) Cohen’s a liar, I shouldn’t give much credibility to what he says.”
Party before country
Add him to the pile of collaborators. Anyone defending this mob boss deserves jail time.
Should be treated as complicit
This guy also similarly dismissed sexual assault survivors talking to him at the Kavanaugh hearings.
“We need to stop those rioters from burning down the White House!” Ehh, I think they’re doing a good job. Keep at it! We will be there before long if this shit keeps up.
Trump could be an actually good president and it still would not be okay to not care, if you care about the rule of law and order in the country at all. Being good does not excuse being corrupt. I say this well-knowing that I'd probably be a hypocrite and agree if it was the other way around and we lived in a bizzaro universe where Bernie got elected but he was secretly a criminal.
Cool, hatch. You can share a hole with him.
What about the party of law and order!?
Please disappear behind prison walls and never come out.
i think this goes to show that Trump going down is going to be anything but peaceful.
Dismissed? He said a couple of them were pretty attaractive as if that's why it was fine for them to be raped.
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1072254543520514055
"Its perfectly ok that your president broke the law to get elected because hes has a cult following guys. Hes popular why should we car about tgen so called 'laws'"
Fuck it then, why should anyone obey the law? Guess it's okay if someone put a bullet in this parasite's head, he'd be doing a good job after all.
Saw someone the other day proposing it's likely that the President can be indicted while in office for crimes committed before their inauguration, because otherwise the precedent would be that crimes during an election are okay as long as you win
“Now before I get inaugurated, let me just do something real quick” *pulls out gun and shoots three audience members* ”Ok, I accept my position. It was in the past, doesn’t matter, I’m gonna be a great president.”
Gore V Bush Jr
how does the old saying go again? “I didn’t do it, but even if I did, it’s not my fault, and even if it was I didn’t mean it, and even if I did it doesn’t matter?” god damn it. Is it so much to ask that these parasites and scumbags be purged sometime this century?
Justice Stephen Breyer said it was a miracle the Supeme Court stayed legitimate after that, Kav+US v. Trump may be the final nail in the coffin for SCOTUS legitimacy.
They ALL have to go, not just Trump and his closest cronies. Every single Republican played along for the past few years to enrich themselves and further their party, and anyone that did stand up did so to save face, only to immediately revert back to towing the party line(McCain, Flake, even Murkowski). The Republican party has been nothing but evil for decades now, but they really showed the depths of their rot this administration. They couldn't even be trusted to at least be loyal to the fucking country they so incessantly say they love.
This is what should happen This is what won't happen be happy that you don't live in the US, because you still have some hope for your country to (further) improve.
I am certain that the next GOP president will do that right before inaguration.
Party before country ends with one or the other being destroyed.
lol if the US continues down this path I won't have a country for much longer. We exist solely out of good will if we go by economic, military, and simple population figures. Canada isn't a joke or anything, I mean our economic might is rather disproportionate compared to most other countries of a similar population size, but we just simply could never put up a fight against an antagonistic United States, and our potential allies are divided by an entire ocean, with no means of defeating the US navy. The US's struggles are inherently our struggles; that's why I keep myself so informed on US political and domestic changes.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/421444-hatch-walks-back-remarks-that-he-didnt-care-if-trump-broke-the-law "Earlier this week in an unplanned hallway interview with CNN, I made comments about allegations against the President that were irresponsible and a poor reflection on my lengthy record of dedication to the rule of law," Hatch, who is retiring in January, said in a statement on Friday.  He added that with Americans’ "faith in so many of our institutions is at an all-time low, I regret speaking imprudently."
Oh shut the fuck up good god that is so infuriating.
he literally just warned his colleagues that we are in a constitutional crisis
Do you have a source for this? just curious
I saw it in an article about Kav endangering the court's legitimacy, it looks like this is what is what it was talking about. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/justice-breyer-reaction-bush-gore-shows-america-strengths/yHth1fYRoeT1qPhkCfmfOI/ “I thought it was totally wrong,” he said of the 5-4 decision. “I said we shouldn’t have heard the case. We should have dismissed it.” Still, even though he was on the losing end of the decision and wrote a blistering dissent, he said it underscored one of the most remarkable parts of the American system. “Despite the feelings, despite the conviction of many who thought it was wrong, people did not go into the streets and shoot each other,” he said. “There was no violence. There were not stones thrown or worse and people accepted it.”
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