Quote:No, This Isn’t Normal: Nobody Who Worked For President Obama Was Indicted
By Sarah Jones on Mon, Oct 30th, 2017 at 11:26 am
It's really hard to imagine what Fox News or Republicans would have been saying if Obama's campaign chairman had just been indicted for conspiracy against the United States because nobody who worked for Obama got indicted, as John Harwood pointed out Monday morning.
No, it really isn't 'hard to imagine'. The Fox and Friends ass-hats would be jumping up and down on their couch, for starters. And since I don't have a Dramamine prescription I won't be able to watch the Olympic caliber spinning by Fox News opinionators.
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This is your daily reminder that this is not normal.
It is not normal for a President’s former campaign manager to be indicted on conspiracy charges against the United States. It is not normal for the President’s people to hire lawyers.
As John Harwood pointed out Monday morning, it’s really hard to imagine what Fox News or Republicans would have been saying if Obama’s campaign chairman had just been indicted for conspiracy against the United States because nobody who worked for Obama got indicted.
Matthew Dowd
✔ @matthewjdowd
Can you imagine what Fox News or the GOP would be saying if this was 2009 and Obama's campaign chairman was just indicted?
John Harwood
✔ @JohnJHarwood
really hard to imagine since nobody who worked for Obama got indicted
None of this is normal.
Way back when, it would have and should have been an outrage that the President’s campaign manager was a foreign agent, let alone an unregistered one.
Republicans are pushing that Manafort played a limited role in Trump’s campaign, even though their ties go way back and Fortune noted that Manafort probably kept Trump’s campaign from derailing: “Manafort did not play a ‘limited role’ in the campaign. He was involved with the campaign for five months, serving as campaign chairman for three of those months until he resigned.
Moreover, his roles in the campaign, particularly Convention Manager, were crucial, and arguably prevented a derailing of Trump’s nomination through a floor fight at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.”
None of this is normal. There are going to be a lot of desperate attempts to declare that this is normal, that it happened under President Obama, that it’s just part of being President. It is not. None of this is part of being President.
Trump’s whole entourage is drowning in possible indictments and ethics charges, a mere ten months in to his term. No, this is not normal. Not at all.
President Obama ran a very ethical White House, with very few actual scandals. It is possible to do. It takes honor, discipline, personal responsibility and integrity — from the top.
We should not expect perfect people, but we should demand people who uphold the law and democracy at the very least.
No, This Isn’t Normal: Nobody Who Worked For President
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