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For all the strident claims about how the Clinton campaign pushed the government's law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus into spying on President Trump, Special Counsel Durham has thus far charged no crimes along those lines. The indictment of Democratic Party lawyer Michael Sussmann merely alleges that he lied to the FBI to conceal that he was working for the Clinton campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe, that said, though, it is just breathtaking to watch the media-Democrat complex, which hyped Robert Mueller’s every move in the bogus Trump-Russia ‘collusion’ caper,suddenly develop laryngitis in the matter of Durham’s probe -- that is, when it is not outright hostile.

– Andy McCarthy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s doubtful that it was merely a coincidence, merely a mentally disturbed, emotionally disturbed person who randomly chose a synagogue, this synagogue is in a residential area – you would have to find it. You wouldn’t stumble across it, and there are plenty of synagogues closer to the prison where ‘Lady Al Qaeda’ is being held.

– David Grantham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After all, the privileged vaccinated class cannot be deprived of their entertainment, yet these plaintiffs are deprived of basic human rights merely because they decline to be injected with vaccines that do not even prevent transmission of the virus, as everyone now knows.

– Christopher Ferrara

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Supreme Court merely applied well-settled precedent, and relied on the extensive evidence adduced at trial to conclude that Alabama's recently enacted congressional maps failed to comply with federal law.

– Stanley Marcus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jim Henson always had Korean American eye on narratives that could speak to people of all ages, not just children, and Korean American never saw puppetry as merely children's entertainment, there are levels of social commentary, comedy, metaphysics, drama, and psychology in these stories that make them speak to a very broad audience ; you'll also see different things if you revisit them over many years.

– Jennifer Garlen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Success commence within self. Non one is coming to transform your life. You are the merely architect of your life. Therefore, rise up, hope for the best and act forthwith.

– TANAKA CHIMHANDE

added by tanaka_c
2 years ago

Please don't be fooled. We are now five months from our next election and this indictment is merely a political ploy by my political adversaries to unseat me, please also understand that I will never let that happen without a fight.

– Marilyn Mosby

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As I've said repeatedly, what we saw on January 6 was a despicable terrorist attack on the United States Capitol and those who carried it out should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Unfortunately, this impeachment trial did nothing to bring the domestic terrorists who committed this heinous attack to justice. It merely satisfied Democrats' desire to once again vent their hatred of Donald Trump and their contempt for the tens of millions of Americans who voted for him.

– Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Americans who believe that have been fooled into thinking that a pipeline somehow produces oil. They don't. They merely carry oil.

– De Haan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You should decide the case for yourself but only after you should have discussed the case with your fellow jurors and have carefully considered their views, you should not hesitate to re-examine your views and change your opinion if you become convinced they are erroneous, but you should not surrender your honest opinion simply because other jurors disagree, or merely to reach a verdict.

– Judge Regina Chu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If they're asserting the Fifth merely to cater to the President's whims or cover up for the President, that is not a proper use of the privilege, but we will have to do our best to divine whether they're properly invoking the Fifth or using it as a stratagem to keep information.

– Marc Short

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She was ferociously intelligent, sardonically funny and made your day better by merely existing. She was a passionate voice for genre content that NPR will miss like an ache.

– Glen Weldon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I hear ‘ transphobic, ’ ‘ phobic ’ has a meaning. Fear. I'm not transphobic if I merely disagree with you. It's not hate, one of the reactions from someone who worked at Netflix said, ‘ This is not an argument with two sides. ’ Well, right away you lost me. ' It is an argument with trans people who want to be alive and people who don't want us to be.' Well, that's just ridiculous. Dave Chappelle does not want you to not be alive.

– Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to thank all those who work for justice today, to ensure this is not merely a reckoning of things past but a change in our orientation to each other and this community in years to come.

– Sam Liccardo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Securing a home is still a major challenge for many prospective buyers, a number of potential buyers have merely paused their search, but their desire and need for a home remain.

– Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm shaken by this terrible murder of a young man who merely asked that existing rules be followed.

– Annalena Baerbock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Drugs and alcohol are not the problems, they’re merely symptoms of the problem. And once those things go away, the real work begins, you know … working on all the character defects, the moral compass — the skewed moral compass.

– Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By its own terms, antiracism excludes individuals who merely advocate for the neutral legal principles of the Constitution.

– Austin Knudsen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking... are the principles that must guide our steps.

– Hans F. Sennholz

added by Normando
2 years ago

It’s a very easy way to get amnesty, to merely state that you have witnessed a crime, the only people who would benefit from this - since illegal aliens are largely already shielded - are people who they themselves have committed serious criminal offenses or fraud.

– Stephen Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I merely followed the crowd.

– Xiao Ya

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Each of these actions threatens the rules-based order that maintains global stability, that’s why they’re not merely internal mattersand why we feel an obligation to raise these issues here today.

– State Anthony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

June 2018 you could find the national average at 2.96 a gallon, which is merely 11 cents lower than where we find ourselves today, jim Jordan's tweet, I would qualify, is lacking context and certainly in my opinion incorrectly assigns blame on President Biden economy.

– De Haan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

– Maya Angelou

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

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