Special counsel appointed

Durham wasn't already working a federal government case on the subject of the special counsel probe. The idea behind a "special counsel" is to bring in a party who is neutral towards the investigation. He/she starts from scratch, builds a team of investigators and works the case unencumbered. When you've been investigating someone for 5+ years, you are naturally going to have some biases, allegiances and pre-conceived notions heading into your role as special counsel. But the title "special" denotes someone who is not merely having their title changed on a case they've been working for 5+ years. Feel free to point to precedence which resembles what happened today. It doesn't exist, because that's not who a "special counsel" is supposed to be.

 

Oh, you're going to play that game. Ok.. have fun.

 

No plea deal is hammered out in stone, POTUS son or not because every deal needs to be approved by a judge.

 

The facts game?

 

The mental gymnastics they will engage in for fealty to their orange god is astounding.

 

Ok you just changed your argument. You said that the special counsel has to be from outside of government, which actually is stated in the regulations, but now you are saying the special counsel must have no familiarity with the case which I doubt is written anywhere.

 

Durham was US Attorney for CT when he was appointed special counsel.

 

But according to Okee that’s ok because he wasn’t previously working on the case…. Okees revised imaginary regulation is that the special counsel must know nothing about the case at the time of appointment.

 

If he thinks it's a rule, then it must be true, no?

 

And this one wasn't. Now the guy who put that plea deal together has been named "special counsel." Joke town.

 

Just another whataboutism. The Democrats could have objected to Durham's appointment on that basis. Garland could have removed Durham on that basis. But, they didn't. Thankfully, that's not even what we're talking about. We're talking about Weiss as special counsel.

 

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But Trump!!

 

Does anyone here think that if a prosecutor was investigating Trump Jr that Trump would leave that prosecutor in place if he were to win the presidency again? Minute one after being sworn in Trump would have that prosecutor replaced. Biden and Garland have gone above and beyond anything the other side would do in this situation yet it's still nothing but complaints.

 

So in retrospect was Durham appointment a joke and illegal? The whataboutism is relevant because it involves precedent.

 

But what about Trump? Nobody talks about him!

 

I agree that Trump doesn't get enough attention here and we should devote more time to talking about what Trump should or should not have done 5 years ago.

 

You could simply say yes, it was illegal and a joke.

 

Durham investigating the case on the subject of what became his special counsel appointment. That's not whataboutism, that's just showing you how your made up rule is nonsense.

 

I quoted direct from the statute. I didn't make up anything. It's a law. But I know, once Trump does something, that means everybody else can do it, right? Let's just stop talking about Weiss. Let's focus only on Trump.

 

Already prepping excuses for when this guy finds jack shit yet again. Hilarious.