As hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate in Hong Kong, Santiago,
London, and Lebanon, a snowflake is heard from in Washington, D.C.
Other tweets noted that the the chant at Nationals Park arose spontaneously in a public place and were directed at a President under investigation for impeachment. By contrast, the choreographed "lock her up" chant was led by Michael Flynn, now a convicted felon, at the Republican National Convention.
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So let’s see if I’ve got this straight: When crowds chant “Lock her up” toward Hillary, it is illiberal and anti-American.— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) October 28, 2019
(I agree). But when crowds chant the same toward Trump,
it is suddenly a fulsome exercise of sacred First Amendment rights. What hypocritical clowns.
This did not go well
individuals on Twitter. One noted that Hillary Clinton committed no crimes,
unlike President Trump, and even was exonerated by the Trump-dominant Justice
Department recently. This came six months after Special Counsel Mueller
concluded that had he been able to exonerate President Trump of obstruction of justice, he would have.
Other tweets noted that the the chant at Nationals Park arose spontaneously in a public place and were directed at a President under investigation for impeachment. By contrast, the choreographed "lock her up" chant was led by Michael Flynn, now a convicted felon, at the Republican National Convention.
Someone observed that Donald Trump has encouraged the Attorney General, whom he
considers his private attorney, to investigate Hillary Clinton, a prerogative
not possessed by the fans at the World Series.
An accomplished journalist asks three pertinent questions:
...questions to point it out:— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 28, 2019
1. Could a baseball crowd launch a criminal investigation of a Dep Director of FBI who president hates?
2. Could a baseball crowd launch another investigation of HRC emails?
3. Could they obstruct a Congressional investigation?
Get the difference?
When a tweeter argues "it might be nice if the word saw
that most Americans do not support" Donald Trump, she suggests a crucial
factor in America's influence in the world. South Koreans heard the President
when he said that he was concerned only with Pyongyang having missiles which
could strike the USA and not with those which could be launched against South
Korea. When Trump questions Article 5 of
the UN Charter, complains that NATO allies spend less than does the USA on
defense, threatens privately to withdraw from NATO, or directly cozies up to Vladimir Putin, members of the trans-Atlantic alliance recognize that stability
of the continent is threatened.
And when President Trump withdraws soldiers from northern
Syria (video from 10/21/19)and welcomes Bashar Assad to "clean out" our Kurdish allies, Kurds realize
they must go elsewhere, even to Russia, for an ally.So when fans at the World Series boo Donald Trump or even call for his
imprisonment, they are doing us all a favor. Donald Trump is not a king. He is
President for now, an aberration. He will not be President forever, and he's
not who we are. It's important that the world understands that- and that the United States of America keeps its word- even if Joe
Scarborough doesn't.
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