What Good Would A Special Prosecutor Do?

People seem to be clamoring for a special prosecutor to investigate President Trump and/or his administration.

I'm really curious.

What do you gentlepeople think a "special prosecutor" is actually going to do?

Oh I know. You think a "special prosecutor" is likely to decide that President Trump committed various dire offenses and present that report to Congress and Congress chooses to force Trump from office.

With a few months (at most) from now.

Much more likely.

Any special prosecutor gets drug down by delays and diversions, chooses several times to change the focus of their investigation (as Kenneth Starr did) and finally, sometime around 2022 they deliver their report by which time organizations like Republican versions of "MoveOn.org" have sprung up and insist that President (or former president Trump if he lost or didn't run in 2020) be merely censured.

By which time if out of office, former president Trump will be selling millions of copies of his books about sexually harassing women called

"The Art of the Feel".

 

Liberals are calling for an independent investigation. Presumably because they have no faith in Comey or the FBI. Liberals want a special prosecutor, which obviously is putting the cart before the horse. Liberals seem to lose intrest quickly once they inadvertantly draw attention to their own illicit actions, and so insist a separate investigation is needed. They'll continue to press for further panels and probes, because frankly it's all they have to occupy themselves. Dems aren't draftind legislation, their filing legal actions against legislation. Dems don't work to confirm appointees, the obstruct confirmations. Anti-Trump is all the Dems have to cling to.

 

A special prosecuter will likely be appointed by the DOJ, and if the investigation finds nothing, dems will blame politics and accuse Trump or the DOJ of collusion with the investigation. If the investigation finds offenses, the GOP will blame politics and personal biases.

In the end, we end up exactly where we are today.

 

I completely didagree with your characterization of what is "likely".

At this point, comparisons to Starr's investigation are ludicrous.

The reason that a Special Prosecutor should be appointed is the FEAR that you see coming from Trump (his cronies) and his blinded defenders every time a Special Prosecutor is mentioned.

The OP is a version of a classic deflection tactic used by people who know that a Special Prosecutor will hasten the end of Trump.

 

Good question for the RWers of the world. They had one for 8 yrs while B Clinton was president. Did it work for them?

 

They know they are running out of fuel for Trump Derangement, but a special prosecutor would fill the crab barrel right back up again for daily Trump bashing... and conveniently ignoring any unfavorable news for Democrats such as the Seth Rich assassination. Also, the crooked thugs in Congress could use it as an excuse for even more obstruction, pulling fake laws and precedent out of their ass ala "a POTUS under such serious investigation doesn't have those powers!"

 

It would drone on and on, for several years. It would find no criminal behavior, but it would tie up the Trump Administration indefinitely.

That's the goal of the left.

 

In the few days I've been here, the likes of the radical left seem to think an investigation of a conservative is enough to warrant a conviction. So, the second they actually get a special prosecutor, that should be enough to convict and impeach him on the spot.

 

Fortunately, the Democrats are a regional, minority party. The adults are in charge. There will be no impeachment.

 

I couldn't agree more. I'm thankful the views of the children on this, and other political sites, are a very small vocal minority.

 

A Special Prosecutor will be able to investigate, wherever anything takes him, without interference from anybody.

The FBI Director, directs the FBI and it's investigations.
If the FBI Director wants Agent Smith to be the only person investigating the Trump-Russia connection.
Agent Smith will be the only person investigating the Trump-Russia connection.
Notice he did not "end" the investigation. But how much could one person do, all by themselves?

That's why the Dems in the Senate are watching Trumps choice of FBI Director very closely.

 

Would allow for an investigation of the Trump/Russia connection without the possibility of Trump and his cronies corrupting it, as Obama's cronies corrupted the investigation of Hillary Clinton. I say this as a conservative Republican. There should have been a special prosecutor appointed to investigate Hillary as well.

 

Lol...I doubt it. This sounds like predictable partisan dishonesty.
No doubt you'd be clamoring for a special prosecutor to investigate a President Clinton and/or her administration.

 

I was always against the special prosecutor law.

 

Other than a digital Viagra for the penile dysfunctional left, not much

 

The first thing you need to decide on is the specific crime the prosecutor is supposed to prosecute a person for doing. Was the crime sending phishing emails to DNC and Podesta, or hacking the voter databases in Arizona and Illinois?

What crime is this prosecutor supposed to prosecute someone for???

 

Not sure what your point is or if you have one but...

Trump has tainted the investigation first by trying to influence Comey and then by firing Comey. At this point Trump could appoint Trump could appoint Jesus, Moses, and the Dali Lama to do the investigation and its credibility would be questioned.

An independent counsel appointed by Congress would give some semblance of independence to the investigation no matter the result.

 

The plan on the left is to whip up the exaggeration and hyperbole in the media, get the Democratic Party politicians to repeat it, and get their special prosecutor.

Then.... search for a crime that might have been committed. Then try to link that crime to Trump.

This is nothing but the left trying to use a bastardization of justice, to conduct an old fashioned Democrat lynching.

 

Investigation for what crime? I don't think you know.

The purpose of this special prosecutor is clear, it's Trump-haters using the justice department to find a crime, and try and pin it on the hated Trump.

 

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It's all about "mid terms". Special Investigations" tend to take a great deal of time, much more than a few months, but keep an issue on stand-by for political use. When and where needed, either direction, that issue can be raised, for political purposes. Right now 435 members (all) of the House are up for reelection in 2018, as are many Senators, primarily with Democrats that are running in States Trump carried last year. The thought by the DNC is that any "special investigation" will help them and that's probably correct. Some are suggesting if they do win the Senate back, impeachment will be likely in the first month, from the then Senate.

 

Impeachment proceedings are not started in the Senate and the Senate does not get involved unless the House votes to impeach and send the case to the Senate for trial.

 

So you're saying we shouldn't find the truth because Republicans will obstruct?

 

You're right. People need to vote these corrupt Republicans out of the House

 

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