Right Wing Heartbreak! Trump Won’t “Lock Her Up” After All. Breitbart Disconsolate.

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Donald Trump made prosecuting Hillary Clinton (for nebulous crimes that didn’t actually exist) one of his main talking points in nearly every speech, and his mobs of supporters would rabidly chant “LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!” at the slightest cue from their Dear Leader.

But the mobs are going to have to start getting used to disappointment, because the reality is that Trump scammed them all just like he scams everyone he encounters. Ask the people who paid for courses at Trump University how they feel about this.

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The right wing hacks at Breitbart “News” were so upset they actually published an article critical of the God Emperor, with a blaring orange headline.

This is just the beginning. Expect similar heartbreaks to come for almost all of Trump’s YUUUGE promises, because he never intended to actually do any of this stuff. He was just feeding the delusional, angry right wing base the lies they crave.

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darthstar  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:13:36am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:14:00am

Duh. It is not up to Trump to do more than request an investigation.

Stop making look like an act of kindness

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Stanley Sea  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:14:18am
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b.d.  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:15:40am

Man God Trump is saying he won’t throw Hitlery in jail now so she won’t flee the country! Just wait!

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darthstar  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:16:27am

No wall.
No investigation of Hillary.
No Obamacare repeal.
I’ll bet he doesn’t even cut taxes for the rich.
Now that’s what I call living up to my expectations of breaking every campaign promise made in record time.

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Birth Control Works  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:16:37am
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Jenner7  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:16:47am

Trump is pressed if he has definitively ruled out prosecuting Hillary Clinton. “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about.”

Donald Trump: ‘Because you’d be in jail’

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KGxvi  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:17:40am

re: #5 darthstar

No wall.
No investigation of Hillary.
No Obamacare repeal.
I’ll bet he doesn’t even cut taxes for the rich.
Now that’s what I call living up to my expectations of breaking every campaign promise made in record time.

Just wait until he renominates Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court…

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jaunte  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:19:00am
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(alpuz)  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:19:37am

fuuuuu… i just can’t stomach Morning Joe.

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Birth Control Works  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:19:56am
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Citizen K  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:21:02am

AFter the livetweeting of his NYT meeting, I’m convinced more than ever he still has the knives out for Clinton, and this new ‘pivot’ from him and his team is more asscovering until he actually gets the power. Then his new AG will probably file spurious charges within hour of inauguration.

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darthstar  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:22:34am

I have to admit, I kind of like watching people in the GOP getting publicly fucked over by the PEOTUS.

No grease.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:23:24am

re: #12 Citizen K

AFter the livetweeting of his NYT meeting, I’m convinced more than ever he still has the knives out for Clinton, and this new ‘pivot’ from him and his team is more asscovering until he actually gets the power. Then his new AG will probably file spurious charges within hour of inauguration.

Nothing Orange says can be taken seriously.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:24:33am

re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Duh. It is not up to Trump to do more than request an investigation.

Stop making look like an act of kindness

Also, too, there’s already been an investigation.

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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:24:35am

The only question I have is, is this outrage by Breitbart “News?” and others genuine outrage, or were they complicit to the overall con and just expressing this temper tantrum to alleviate their own base?

A telling sign will be how long Bannon stays in his position. If he leaves by his own volition (which is possible; Breitbartians have a victimhood/martyrdom complex) or is forced out, then it will be time to get the popcorn out.

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Citizen K  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:25:16am

re: #14 Sir John Barron

Nothing Orange says can be taken seriously.

Maybe, but again, the quote I keep having to come back to: “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”

We know Trump is petty and revenge focused. He’s pretty much all but bragged about how much power he has and how eager he is to use it. The sudden genteelness he’s showing Obama and Clinton is far less believable than the angry shitgibbon we saw demanding their heads before.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:26:06am

re: #12 Citizen K

AFter the livetweeting of his NYT meeting, I’m convinced more than ever he still has the knives out for Clinton, and this new ‘pivot’ from him and his team is more asscovering until he actually gets the power. Then his new AG will probably file spurious charges within hour of inauguration.

I take the opposite view. His M.O. is to go after people until they’re beaten, then if they yield graciously, he reacts graciously. He’s all about revenge on those who refuse to acknowledge his dominance.

But if I were Obama, I’d preemptively pardon her on the 19th of January, because there’s the continued threat hanging over her head, just in case she decided to work against him.

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nines09  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:26:08am

Trump is going to make the barker at the Midway Freak Show look like a rank amateur.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:26:20am
Donald Trump made prosecuting Hillary Clinton (for nebulous crimes that didn’t actually exist) one of his main talking points in nearly every speech, and his mobs of supporters would rabidly chant “LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!” at the slightest cue from their Dear Leader.

It was pretty much his whole campaign. Manifest hand-wringing by pundits about the all glorious (White) working class, notwithstanding.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:28:06am

re: #17 Citizen K

Maybe, but again, the quote I keep having to come back to: “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”

We know Trump is petty and revenge focused. He’s pretty much all but bragged about how much power he has and how eager he is to use it. The sudden genteelness he’s showing Obama and Clinton is far less believable than the angry shitgibbon we saw demanding their heads before.

Oh, I was agreeing with you. I don’t buy this latest act of his in the slightest. True, he would mire himself in endless controversy by continuing the pursuit of Hillary. But I doubt he cares about very much of anything else anyway.

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Birth Control Works  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:28:25am

off to rest my aching head.

Have a good one all!

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Birth Control Works  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:30:15am

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

shitgibbon

spoiler: NOT OF SCOTTISH ORIGIN.

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gocart mozart  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:30:19am
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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:31:37am
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Myron Falwell (no relation)  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:31:42am

re: #8 KGxvi

Just wait until he renominates Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court…

Conservatalkers alone would implode upon themselves if that happened.

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Citizen K  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:32:14am

re: #21 Sir John Barron

Oh, I was agreeing with you. I don’t buy this latest act of his in the slightest. True, he would mire himself in endless controversy by continuing the pursuit of Hillary. But I doubt he cares about very much of anything else anyway.

Ahh, my bad then. Just kind of on a trigger lately.

And yeah, once he has the power, I can’t imagine he’d care much. He seems to have already cowed the entire press corp to a knee. By the time inauguration comes around, they’ll be genuflecting all by themselves.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:32:30am
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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:34:16am

I don’t think Trump is going to try to send Hillary Clinton to prison. I think he knew all along he was scamming the right wing nutjobs with that horseshit, and never intended to do it. The bottom line is that there’s nothing to prosecute her for.

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lawhawk  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:34:49am

re: #18 Blind Frog Belly White

I take the opposite view. His M.O. is to go after people until they’re beaten, then if they yield graciously, he reacts graciously. He’s all about revenge on those who refuse to acknowledge his dominance.

But if I were Obama, I’d preemptively pardon her on the 19th of January, because there’s the continued threat hanging over her head, just in case she decided to work against him.

Pardons are a weird thing though. If President pardons someone, the person can reject the pardon because they’d have to admit guilt (Burdick v. US).

And in Clinton’s case, there’s no guilt, because there’s not even a crime here. No matter how much the GOP tries to claim her acts were criminal, they simply can’t do so. That’s why they keep investigating - in the hopes of finding something to prove the assertion she acted in a criminal manner. It’s now a religious belief that she was criminal, and the GOP must retcon reality to bend it to their will to prove that is the case.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:35:35am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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That’s the key. Remember his answers on bankruptcies and converting investors losses to his own to avoid taxes - “The law lets me do it. If you want to stop me, change the law.”

Basically his ethics are literally limited to what he can get away with.

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Mike Lamb  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:35:49am

re: #5 darthstar

No wall.
No investigation of Hillary.
No Obamacare repeal.
I’ll bet he doesn’t even cut taxes for the rich.
Now that’s what I call living up to my expectations of breaking every campaign promise made in record time.

All he has to do is sign whatever atrocity of a budget gets put in front of him, and most of that stuff will still happen.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:36:14am

re: #30 lawhawk

Pardons are a weird thing though. If President pardons someone, the person can reject the pardon because they’d have to admit guilt (Burdick v. US).

And in Clinton’s case, there’s no guilt, because there’s not even a crime here. No matter how much the GOP tries to claim her acts were criminal, they simply can’t do so. That’s why they keep investigating - in the hopes of finding something to prove the assertion she acted in a criminal manner. It’s now a religious belief that she was criminal, and the GOP must retcon reality to bend it to their will to prove that is the case.

Did Nixon admit guilt in not rejecting Ford’s pardon?

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gocart mozart  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:36:52am
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wrenchwench  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:38:09am

re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White

Did Nixon admit guilt in not rejecting Ford’s pardon?

If so, is it too late to enjoy it?

/watched the Checkers Speech in the 70’s

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Mike Lamb  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:38:23am

re: #31 Blind Frog Belly White

That’s the key. Remember his answers on bankruptcies and converting investors losses to his own to avoid taxes - “The law lets me do it. If you want to stop me, change the law.”

Basically his ethics are literally limited to what he can get away with.

Right…to say that there is no conflict of interest as a legal matter is not the same as no conflict of interest at all. It’s like saying that there is no conflict of interest for a dad coaching his kid’s soccer team because the rulebook allows it.

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gocart mozart  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:38:40am
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InfidelOfFreedom  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:40:26am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

Now he can paint himself as the Magnanimous Dictator, and claim the Clintons owe Dear Leader a debt for this gracious act of restraint. Just as he so graciously absolved Obama of his fraudulent birth certificate claims.

Countdown to a talking head telling us to “give him credit” for not staging a show-trial of his political opponent.

I’m so tired. And it’s only been two weeks.

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Franklin  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:41:55am

ZOMG this is awesome…

Donald Trump is Corrupt as f*ck
Donald Trump is Corrupt af
Donald Trump is Corrupt.af

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nines09  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:42:58am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Next they’ll be giving him props for not naming a Praetorian Guard before he’s sworn in.

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InfidelOfFreedom  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:44:01am

Donald Trump cannot suffer from conflict of interest because that would require ever having considered acting in the interests of anyone but himself.

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lawhawk  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:44:21am

re: #39 Franklin

HODOR!!!!

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Sir John Barron  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:45:35am

re: #30 lawhawk

Pardons are a weird thing though. If President pardons someone, the person can reject the pardon because they’d have to admit guilt (Burdick v. US).

And in Clinton’s case, there’s no guilt, because there’s not even a crime here. No matter how much the GOP tries to claim her acts were criminal, they simply can’t do so. That’s why they keep investigating - in the hopes of finding something to prove the assertion she acted in a criminal manner. It’s now a religious belief that she was criminal, and the GOP must retcon reality to bend it to their will to prove that is the case.

I was wondering about that, too. Nixon had to sort of kind of cop to something to get Ford’s pardon, IIRC.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:46:13am
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Sir John Barron  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:46:54am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Trump deserves credit for sitting around the table with NYT reporters/editors & answering pointed Q’s. Next: post-election press conference?
— Brian Stelter

“Pretty please?”

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Shiplord Kirel  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:47:24am

The RWNJs are tuning up to impeach Trump and replace him with their real choice, Grand Ayatollah Pence.
We should therefore rally around President Trump and defeat this partisan attempt to…….

Err, maybe not.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:49:01am
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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:50:15am

Jeebus.

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Sir John Barron  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:53:07am

re: #48 Charles Johnson

Mr. Trump also dismissed suggestions that Breitbart News, where Mr. Bannon is the executive chairman, was trafficking in racism and white nationalism. “Breitbart is just a publication,” he said. “They cover stories like you cover stories. They are certainly a much more conservative paper, to put it mildly, than The New York Times. But Breitbart really is a news organization that has become quite successful.”

I hope stores still carry glue. I’m gonna need lots of it.

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lawhawk  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:54:14am
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FormerDirtDart  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:55:50am
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BeachDem  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:56:21am

re: #48 Charles Johnson

Jeebus.

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Can’t stomach reading it (the tweetstorm was enough) but did anyone ever ask a followup question on anything?

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InfidelOfFreedom  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:57:29am

re: #52 BeachDem

Can’t stomach reading it (the tweetstorm was enough) but did anyone ever ask a followup question on anything?

What’s that?

/s

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Citizen K  Nov 22, 2016 • 11:59:42am
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Charles Johnson  Nov 22, 2016 • 12:10:14pm
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Kragar  Nov 22, 2016 • 12:21:19pm

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