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intrepidity

(7,288 posts)
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 12:54 PM Sep 2019

So let me get this straight: foreign leaders have more rights than Americans?

That's the essence of it, isn't it?

(Sort of like how foreign ambassadors are exempt from certain laws while on us soil, I suppose.)

Trump has a conversation with a foreign leader over the phone, says something, and we, the American public, do not have the right to know what it was?

And worse, Congress does not have the right to know.

But that foreign leader has the right to know.

If that's not the working definition of sedition or treason or spying, I don't know what is.

The United States president engaged in "secret" communication with a foreign government, and is deliberately and vigorously denying access by the official legal oversight body, namely the United States Congress, to that information. Thus, the president has elevated a foreign government above our own duly elected Congress.

WTF are we waiting for???

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So let me get this straight: foreign leaders have more rights than Americans? (Original Post) intrepidity Sep 2019 OP
It's not whether people are foreign or American, it's whats in woodsprite Sep 2019 #1
What ARE we waiting for? world wide wally Sep 2019 #2
Last night Phil Mudd on CNN moondust Sep 2019 #3

woodsprite

(11,909 posts)
1. It's not whether people are foreign or American, it's whats in
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 01:02 PM
Sep 2019

Their bank accounts. A global economy supports a global billionaires club.

moondust

(19,966 posts)
3. Last night Phil Mudd on CNN
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 02:21 PM
Sep 2019

was incensed that a whistleblower even knew what the President said to a foreign leader. I don't know how the whistleblower obtained the information but Mudd claimed the President has a right to privacy or something.

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