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What ever happened to the time Trump tried to get dirt on Clinton from a Russian spy? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by mookulator@mander.xyz to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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Back in 2017 the story broke that Trump and his goons tried to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian government official. The emails were clear solicitation of foreign interference with a presidential election. You know, the whole “if it is what you say, we love it” thing, which must be illegal.

Now he’s getting indicted for some of the other blatantly illegal things he did while president. So what’s going on with that one?

I get that there were probably hundreds of illegal things he did, and some will never get prosecuted, but this seemed like one of the worst, and most red-handed of them all.

Is it just being forgotten or did I miss something?

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[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the gist is Mueller investigated Trump and the shady Russia stuff and had enough to charge him with obstruction but did not due to DOJ policy (to not charge a sitting president). He laid out a plan for congress to do something about it, congress impeached but the GOP controlled Senate blocked it.

So I guess some of that could be dug up? But there are bigger fish to fry now, considering the current indictments.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Congress did not impeach based on the mueller report.

Congress impeached because of the IG report based on the NSC whistleblower report of the Zelenskyy call, where Trump attempted to blackmail the president of Ukraine to do him a favor in exchange for him approving the sale of a shipment of javelin missiles.

And then again because he led an insurrection against the government he was leading to prevent peaceful transition of power on January 6.

But not because of the Mueller report.