# Sam Stone believes Trump's tweets **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-stone-believes-trumps-tweets/922633 "2020-10-10T13:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 578
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-stone-believes-trumps-tweets/922633/578 "2020-12-06T02:41:03Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > But what he actually said was, in response to the suggestion that it has been “the norm” that the attorney general was super independent and not just a bagman for the president, how about the last one, who was a bagman for the president? Bullshit. In the original thread Sam quoted this part @eschrodinger’s post… > [@Hunter Biden Laptop Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/550): > > I just hope that the Justice Department goes back to being independent, and not a tool of the administration. And responded thusly… > [@Hunter Biden Laptop Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/553): > > You mean Eric Holder’s justice department? Or Eric Holder, who described his job of Attorney General as being ‘Barack Obama’s Wingman’, and who was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to respond to legal subpoenas? The guy who had 17 Democrats join Republicans in calling for a criminal contempt resolution? > > That independent justice department? An extremely straightforward example of a tu quoque. It wasn’t until post #539 in this thread that Sam quoted eschrodinger using the word norm when he dishonestly quoted him like this and pretended that that was the part he was responding to all along… > [@Hunter Biden Laptop Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/550): > > I just hope that the Justice Department goes back to being independent, and not a tool of the administration. That is very much the norm,… He’s a gullible, dishonest, chicken fucking piece of shit. There’s really no other interpretation that fits the facts. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-stone-believes-trumps-tweets/922633)._