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Jan 27, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool

I think the WH attorneys are going to need to explain why they should not be charged with lying to Congress and may not be practicing attorneys after having violated ethics and legal standards

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Jan 27, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool

According to the letter to the White House from Bolton's attorney on Dec 30, 2019 included when they hand carried the manuscript for review, I would say all the lawyers knew. In fact, I would bet my student loans on it.

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Jan 27, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool

The illegally placed compulsive liar president with multiple personality disorders got there using his strongest trait. The deceptive art of lying. The Liar in Chief, dangerous sociopath with desperate level of self protection, there is no doubt that these lawyers were manipulated (threatened) to lie with intentional false statements Their scripts were most likely reviewed, and even prepared by the master of lies and his co-conspirators. The narcissist in him had to force those people to perform for him because the pathetic liar is petrified that his own false sense of greatness will be revealed. This habitual liar, constantly lies and it is a game to him. Pseudologia fantastica, also known as mythomania or pathological lying, is a psychiatric phenomenon that this president displays every moment of his miserable life. The people who are being manipulated by this damaged human being are lacking moral compass of their own...they are under the control of their brutal king.

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Jan 27, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool

At least Nixon accepted his guilt. What we have now are pathological liars who are intent on obfuscation throughout DJT’s administration. Kickbacks in corrupt intention riddle this administration. The GOP clutches frantically at half truths, I am aghast at the Senators. Both GOP backed IA senators are marching lockstep in votes cast no matter how many voice messages I leave for them. A very awful set of circumstances coming from Iowa.

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"Any good lawyer" answers your question.

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Jan 27, 2020Liked by Amee Vanderpool

This is probably why Trump has personal attorneys and White House lawyers - he may have been keeping the WH lawyers in the dark on these details. That’s giving them the benefit of the doubt.

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It’s not hard to come up with a myriad stories of what may have happened... fiction writers work on this all the time, refining and editing their narrative to grab the broadest appeal. We are living through a dystopian fiction of America that aspired to her ideals... a horror stub, if you will. We never know anything for sure shy a truth serum to unlock the mysterious interior brains of these zealous, dissolute, and aggrieved white men. This is not to dissolve their culpability for destroying the relatively short-lived American democratic experiment, but literary fellows may offer us more satisfaction in the mean time.

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no idea really, but they should have, considering the WH has had the copy of the manuscript since dec. 30, re: bolton's attorney. he had to submit it to them for approval b4 publishing if i'm not mistaking, to make sure he wasn't giving away US secrets.

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And did Trump order the Soleimani hit as a gesture to Bolton?

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So what do we do when the senate shrugs it off and aquits him?

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Trump has turned his lawyers and everyone who is associated with him into liers.

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This is the Kavanaugh playbook, and Republicans are even referencing it.

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