{"id":32160,"date":"2018-04-18T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32160"},"modified":"2018-04-18T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:47:54","slug":"protect-the-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/protect-the-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect the Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The more apparent it becomes that Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Party and accomplice of Vladimir Putin (R-RU) is getting desperate, because the investigation is closing in on him, the more Republicans make it clear that they are too cowardly, too dishonest, and\/or too anti-American to protect the investigation.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0418Resistance-Alert\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0418Resistance-Alert\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0418Resistance-Alert.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday thwarted a bipartisan effort to protect special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s job, saying he will not hold a floor vote on the legislation even if it is approved next week in the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell said the bill is unnecessary because President Donald Trump will not fire Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll not be having this on the floor of the Senate,\u201d McConnell said on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came amid widespread opposition to the bill among members of his caucus, with several GOP senators saying the bill is unconstitutional. Others said it\u2019s simply not good politics to try and tell Trump what to do, likening the legislation to \u201cpoking the bear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan legislation was introduced last week as Trump publicly criticized Mueller, who is investigating potential ties between Russia and Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign as well as possible obstruction of justice by the president. Trump, fuming about a raid of his personal lawyer\u2019s office by a different division of the FBI, said last week that the Mueller investigation is \u201can attack on our country\u201d and is \u201ccorrupt.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/congress\/mcconnell-wont-allow-vote-to-bill-to-protect-mueller\/2018\/04\/17\/7c53ad0c-4281-11e8-b2dc-b0a403e4720a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;       <br \/>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwatchdogs.com\/2017\/07\/21\/what-if-trump-fires-mueller-the-3-5-percent-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Watch Dogs<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">And it&#8217;s not just Bought Bitch Mitch.&#160; The usual suspects in the house are also laying the groundwork for Trump to have an excuse to obstruct the investigation.&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K7Rm1iAjh6U\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> explains in in precise detail.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/K7Rm1iAjh6U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Trump does, resistance must be immediate and extreme.&#160; Be warned!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more apparent it becomes that Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Party and accomplice of Vladimir Putin (R-RU) is getting desperate, because the investigation is closing in on him, the more Republicans make it clear that they are too cowardly, too dishonest, and\/or too anti-American to protect the investigation. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/protect-the-investigation\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}