Former GOP Leader Bill Frist Calls On Republican Senate To Protect Mueller

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

07/07/2018 06:59 pm ET Updated 4 minutes ago
“When Trump talks about firing the special counsel or his power to pardon himself, he makes it seem as though he has something to hide,” Frist wrote.
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By Sebastian Murdock

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is calling on the chamber’s Republicans to take steps to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, decrying that the probe is “under assault.”

“It is with some trepidation that I offer thoughts on how the good people still serving in the Senate should address a current crisis, but staying silent is no longer an option,” Frist wrote in an Op-Ed article The Washington Post posted Friday night. “Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is under assault, and that is wrong. No matter who is in the White House, we Republicans must stand up for the sanctity of our democracy and the rule of law.”

President Donald Trump has led much of the assault on the special counsel, repeatedly calling the investigation a “witch hunt” that is being pursued strictly for partisan purposes ― attacks that have been amplified by Fox News personalities Sena Hannity and Lou Dobbs. Trump recently said he mourns the “young and beautiful” lives “destroyed” by the probe.

Frist, a lung and heart transplant surgeon who now lives in Nashville and is part of a wealthy Tennessee family, said his fellow Republicans can no longer look the other way as “tweet by tweet, with each new assault on the Justice Department’s independence, the bedrock principles of our party crumble.”

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Whoa!

Wait for a Trump Tweet referencing the killing of kittens.

Have you noticed that he took swipes at George H.W. Bush and McCain for the same reason he'll do it to Frist: They are elder statesmen and still have some sway in republican circles. Plus they earned respect that has not been accorded to Trump. He's trying to keep them from convincing republican lawmakers to abandon him. He knows he's f**ked if he's alone politically.

[Jake Stern]

8. Despite his own administration's malfeasance,

George H.W. Bush didn't try to destroy our nation nor of sell us out to Russia.

[NotASurfer]

11. Reminds me of an old SNL Sketch

Where Buck Henry was doing a talk radio host saying Soviets should be bussed in to kill puppies

Ah, for the days when it was only satire!

[Rhiannon12866]

16. I do remember his appearances, he pushed the envelope

However, I did visit the USSR and was told - and saw - that they were very dog friendly. They even allowed them on planes, the little ones could sit on owners' laps!

[lagomorph777]

20. I remember that sketch.

Looking back, it was like a milder version of Hannity or Alex Jones.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Oh my GOD!!! Mark this day on the calendar. A repuke with a conscience?

[rurallib]

3. well, he's not in office nor will he ever run again

so he is not under the spell of Der Fuhrer - I mean Trump.

[Thekaspervote]

10. Right! Guess I was wanting to think a current repuke had a change of heart

[Scruffy1]

15. I don't think he has one.

He's just trying to save his brand. He's as evil as they come.Rats fleeing a sinking ship.

[PSPS]

4. LOL. 'as though he has something to hide'

[lagomorph777]

21. Ya think?

[not fooled]

5. Yaya

another puke who disembarked as the crazy train gathered speed, and now sees the crash comin' fast.

[NOMOGOP]

6. I wonder if he is still stealing from Medicare?

[Honeycombe8]

12. He's that guy who tried to keep that poor woman in FL alive, against the husband's wishes.

Remember that? Jeb was Governor and intervened in pulling the plug on the husband's wishes. The wife was a vegetable. Her parents were religious & said she wouldn't want to pull the plug. Husband said they'd talked about it, and she did. She'd been in a vegetative state for years.

After Jeb intervened to prevent it, Congress actually got involved for the first time in history in a private medical case. Frist took to the floor and offered his "diagnosis" of the woman's condition (he's a doctor), despite never having examined her. He's a right-to-lifer.

Finally, the law prevailed, and the plug was pulled. The parents had said she was not a vegetable...her eyes moved, her head moved at times, they said she communicated with them. The doctors had explained that those were involuntary motions, but the parents sued and persisted. After the poor woman died, scans of her brain were done, showing she had only a small part of her brain still active. She was truly in a permanent vegetative state and had been incapable of communicating, like the parents thought. Something like that.

Anyway, I remember the wacko Frist on the floor of the Senate going on and on about the woman's right to life, that she was not in vegetative state, her parents would take care of her.

The husband was a good husband. He could have walked away, with no further involvement, since the parents would care for her. But he wouldn't. He insisted that she would not want to live that way and deserved a peaceful death; it was his duty to his wife.

I think it's a big deal that an ultra conservative thinks Mueller needs protection.

[peekaloo]

18. I remember that well.

perhaps Frist is better at diagnosing creeping fascism than long distance medical conditions.

Terry Schiavo was her name. Her husband, Michael (I think), surfaced during the 2016 campaign to personally bedevil/thwart Jebthro's run for the presidency.

[Honeycombe8]

19. That's it. Terry Schiavo.

It was shocking that Congress tried to pass a law for one specific person...Terry Schiavo. And Frist lead the charge.

Yeah...Jeb was using it for his upcoming run for the Presidency.

The poor woman was a political pawn. Thank goodness her husband stood firm. He could have walked away, with no more problems, no more hassle, no more expenses....but he fought for his wife's right not to live in a vegetative state, as he said she expressed to him. A great guy.

She had been that way for some years. So it wasn't like it just happened. I wonder what happened to him?

[Va Lefty]

7. When he conceds his not insufficient role in creating this shitstorm, then I'll give him props.

[Jake Stern]

9. This

Raygun gave birth to the baby and Neocons like Frist suckled it. Now that it's full grown and has turned on them, they finally speak out.

[NYC Liberal]

13. Where was his concern for the rule of law when Bush was breaking it with impunity?

[Canoe52]

14. Bill who? nt

[FakeNoose]

17. OK this is a start

Now let's hear the same thing from a couple million more Republicans.