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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
Thu Sep 15, 2022, 10:26 PM Sep 2022

The horrors Ken Starr left in his wake

By JOE PATRICE
September 14, 2022 at 2:14 PM

... Starr’s seeming addiction to the media circus gave voice to the conspiracy-fueled corners of the GOP that now dominate the Big Lie discourse. Every Hugo Chavez space laser was born of his office’s dithering over whether the Clintons murdered Vince Foster. And the probe’s need to elevate young lawyers willing to go down these rabbit holes birthed the legal career of festering scumbag Brett Kavanaugh, who was particularly obsessed with Clinton’s ejaculate for some reason ...

... Instead of fixating on his decision to drag salacious gossip into the Capitol, focus on the lives of the women of Baylor — the school where Starr served as president. Starr’s tenure ended ignominiously after a shocking pattern of sexual assault on the part of the football team came to light and a subsequent investigation implicated Starr in covering up the matter. No one actually knows the extent of his role because the school’s Board of Regents kept a lid on Pepper Hamilton’s report, but we do know the school promptly removed Starr from his job after hearing the findings ...

Or consider Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, because when law enforcement first caught up with the now-deceased child sex trafficker, Ken Starr was the “most powerful force” in Epstein avoiding prison according to the Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown in her book Perversion of Justice ...

But amid it all, he still had time to unironically claim that Robert Mueller exceeded his mandate when his investigation of Trump’s Russia ties revealed Trump… obstructing justice to stifle the investigation. While it played mostly for laughs, it ranks as a shiny emblem of the death of honest discourse and a blessing for the cable-news-addled dolts who seek the blessing of someone like Starr to say the rule of law is entirely in the eyes of the party of the beholder ...

https://abovethelaw.com/2022/09/ken-starr-has-died-survived-by-the-horrors-he-left-in-his-wake/

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The horrors Ken Starr left in his wake (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2022 OP
He's among the worst human beings America has produced. FoxNewsSucks Sep 2022 #1
Where will Starr's grave site be? Zambero Sep 2022 #2
I'm in! (n/t) PJMcK Sep 2022 #4
Saving all the babies dirty diapers to then plant at his grave. magicarpet Sep 2022 #3
K&R JudyM Sep 2022 #5
The country has a malignant cancer. November will tell us if it's terminal. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #6

FoxNewsSucks

(10,434 posts)
1. He's among the worst human beings America has produced.
Thu Sep 15, 2022, 10:29 PM
Sep 2022

I hate that I really hope he suffered before making his final escape. Because he deserves to suffer for the lives he helped destroy and the misery he caused for others.

magicarpet

(14,160 posts)
3. Saving all the babies dirty diapers to then plant at his grave.
Thu Sep 15, 2022, 10:57 PM
Sep 2022

The constantly swarming flies should be a total delight.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,389 posts)
6. The country has a malignant cancer. November will tell us if it's terminal.
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 12:32 PM
Sep 2022

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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