Waiting for the Smoking Gun

[EasyAce]

By Jonah Golberg
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/stormy-daniels-media-coverage-press-smoking-gun/

During the last year or two thousand years of the Obama administration (it felt long), I used to complain a lot about the way liberals and the press talked about Hillary’s email scandal and her off-book server. Some new revelation would come out, and they’d all say, “There’s no smoking gun.” And then, because there was no smoking gun, they’d pretend that this meant she was in the clear of any wrongdoing.

As I said, over and over at the time, there were at least two problems with this. First, the “smoking gun standard” – like getting “caught red-handed” – is the highest form of evidence short of a confession. It essentially means total, dispositive proof of the misdeed. Well, as most cops and prosecutors will tell you, this is actually very rare. Often prosecutors take cases to court without any smoking guns at all. Forget “often.” Most of the time that’s what happens. When prosecutors have you dead to rights, you usually cop a plea. I bring this up because saying, “There’s no smoking gun!” is not synonymous with, “She’s innocent!” It’s not even a stand-in for reasonable doubt.

Then there’s the second problem: There was a smoking gun! It was her server, sitting there all smoky. Almost everyone acknowledged it was wrong for her to set up a private, unsecured server to park classified information on. They just didn’t want to think the unthinkable that this act alone disqualified Clinton from running for president. So they kept demanding even more damning evidence of something worse while allegedly “withholding judgment.”

Sorry to rehash all of that. I bring it up because I feel like there’s a similar dynamic at play with the Stormy Daniels story. I don’t know of anybody who doesn’t believe the story is true. You won’t find a lot of Trump boosters who say it’s true, but you can tell they think it when they start crying, “

Hypocrisy!” or, “

Whatabout Clinton!?” (Someone needs to explain to these guys that if you made a big deal about Democratic sexual impropriety and don’t about Republican sexual impropriety, you’re just as hypocritical as the liberals who didn’t make a big deal about Democrats’ misbehavior but do about Republicans’) . . .

[INVAR]

It doesn't matter if there is a 'smoking gun'.



Trump is already on record of bragging about bedding other men's wives and grabbing women by the crotch.

None of that matters to the Trump faithful, anymore than it mattered to Clinton's adoring morons.

There could be a sex tape tomorrow and the rabid Trump supporters will tell us 'So what? - I didn't vote for a choirboy'.  They voted for someone they wanted to poke their domestic enemies in the eyes and face repeatedly, and Trump has given them that.

So nothing else matters - even if the Democrats clearly run the swamp and not a single Campaign promise is kept.

A 'smoking gun' is irrelevant to all except those who want to use it to impeach.

[Sanguine]

He's right - for what that's worth.

[mystery-ak]

Here is another question to the AT's

Months after the election NT's were accused of being pro-abortion for not voting for Trump...now the tables have turned..are the AT's pro-abortionist for supporting this fiasco of a Bill that supports PP..?

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Here is another question to the AT's

Months after the election NT's were accused of being pro-abortion for not voting for Trump...now the tables have turned..are the AT's pro-abortionist for supporting this fiasco of a Bill that supports PP..?

No, that doesn't apply because we were just told in the last few days that ALL previous Administrations have funded PP, so Trump cannot be held liable for doing what previous Administrations have also done.

Trump is still the most Conservative president in history according to ATs, and the double-standard does not apply to them or their leader.

[mystery-ak]

No, that doesn't apply because we were just told in the last few days that ALL previous Administrations have funded PP, so Trump cannot be held liable for doing what previous Administrations have also done.

Trump is still the most Conservative president in history according to ATs, and the double-standard does not apply to them or their leader.

Ah..but there is a difference..this President campaigned on stopping the funding of PP..that was the main issue why I voted for him.

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Ah..but there is a difference..this President campaigned on stopping the funding of PP..that was the main issue why I voted for him.

I would think that you would be told that 'all presidential candidates have to lie, because that is what is needed to get elected'.

Don't let your 'perfect' become the enemy of the 'good' Trump has done.