postman
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- Feb 23, 2017
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He actually has to do someting, moron, not just think about it. I can think about murdering someone all day long, and even tell someone "I'd like to kill that guy," but until I take some concrete steps, I haven't broken any laws.It's all about the intention, not the outcome. If someone pours gasoline in a building, and then lights it with a match, but the fire later goes out, they still charge him with trying to burn down the building, whether he succeeded or not
Like the arsonist in my example, Trump ordered the white house staff to write the letter firing Comey, and the white house lawyers (McGahn in particular) got a copy of the letter, and he told Trump it would be problematic, and Trump had a new better letter to fire Comey made up, based on Sessions and Rosensteins recommendation letters
So you had an intentional act of ordering the letter to fire Comey written.