[ExI] T​he Libertarian Party's vice presidential nominee

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:24 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson …:"I think unquestionably if
> [Clinton] takes office she is going to be under criminal investigation,
> unquestionably this is going to be the nation's agenda for the entire time
> she is office and it may well end up in impeachment," Johnson said on "The
> Craig Silverman Show."
>
> "This is Watergate kind of stuff," he continued. "This is really, really
> deep, real stuff and all you have to say, all you have to recognize is the
> FBI would not have done this -- this is not political, this is anything but
> political, because of the fact they dropped this investigation in July,
> saying, to clear the decks for the election. That was also clearly, I don't
> even want to call it a political move, as much as a move that would clear
> up the election, that people would feel like this was not overhanging.
> Well, now it's overhanging, and it's overhanging for a reason. There's so
> much smoke in the room that it will never, ever get ventilated over the
> next four years. Never."
>

I suspect Johnson may be right about that, but with the following caveats
that modify the thrust:

This will likely continue to be true even if Hillary wins and is then
impeached.  The Republicans have descended into the Party of No so much,
they will continue to find reasons to be that so long as a non-Republican
is President.

This would continue to be true even if Trump won and Hillary was
imprisoned: enough Democrats would refuse to see it as anything but
political retaliation - and given as this would likely spark a witch hunt
reaching well beyond Hillary, they would probably be right in the end, no
matter Hillary's own guilt or innocence.
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