Mason Melchizedek (03-25-2019)
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
cancel2 2022 (03-26-2019)
If I understand it right, it’s technically within the law to charge someone with obstruction on a pointless investigation but getting a jury to buy it would be a problem.
And in this case, getting the public to buy it would be a huge problem.
Another problem is Trump had a thousand and one opportunities to obstruct Mullet—and he never raised a finger. In fact, the lefties were all but begging Trump to obstruct and he didn’t bite on it.
Mullet didn’t charge him because he knew it wouldn’t go anywhere. The non-exoneration was a bone thrown to The Resistance. A sop for their tears lol.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Bigdog (03-25-2019), cancel2 2022 (03-26-2019), Stretch (03-25-2019)
Comey's firing is the most obvious, it can't be ignored.
The clearest example of Trump possibly working to obstruct a proceeding is, obviously, his firing of FBI Director James Comey—an action Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon called, “the biggest mistake maybe in modern political history.” Berke, Bookbinder and Eisen point out that while the president has the right to fire anyone who works for him, he cannot do so if it is “done for the corrupt purpose of obstructing an investigation.” The analogy they make is to the right of an employer to fire someone but not on the basis of their race, sex, or religion.
As for witness intimidation, the authors point to a long list of presidential tweets and statements ranging from his now familiar cry to end the “witch hunt,” to his attempts to discredit senior FBI officials, to his lawyer publicly speculating about pardons for his former colleagues, to revoking John Brennan’s security clearance because he led the “sham” Russian investigation. Witness tampering, according to the authors, “need not be explicit or overt. … Suggestive threatening, intimidating or persuasive statements are sufficient to support a case under Section 1512 (b).”
The third point the authors make has to do with corrupt intent—a phrase they admit is very vague. But here too, they cite a long list of Trump’s actions, including ordering Deputy Attorney General Rode Rosenstein to “…draft a memo on Comey’s conduct that the president would subsequently use as cover for Comey’s firing…” They go on to write that President Trump, “faces exposure under both the ‘offense clause’ and the ‘defraud clause’ of the conspiracy statute.”
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgo...esident-trump/
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
rjhenn (03-26-2019)
Read carefully, Darthy.
"Legal experts told us that a president (or anyone) could still be prosecuted for obstructing justice if they believed they might be prosecuted — even if they ultimately never are.
"You can obstruct justice even if a prosecutor ultimately finds you were not guilty of committing the crime that was the focus of the underlying investigation," said Miriam Baer, a professor at Brooklyn Law School. "Even if a prosecutor ultimately concluded that you weren’t guilty of crime X, that says nothing as to whether you thought that you might be indicted for crime X, or, for that matter, if you thought one of your friends of family members would be indicted for crime X."
Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, agreed that an obstruction prosecution could have been argued in this case.
"Suppose Trump knew that no crime had been committed but believed that the investigation would uncover politically or personally embarrassing information, or if he believed that the investigation would embarrass or implicate an ally, aide, or family member," Posner said. "Then interfering with the investigation is a crime. The reason is that the purpose of the investigation is to find the truth, and if people obstruct an investigation, then the investigation becomes more difficult, wasting government resources."
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...-be-obstructi/
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
How do you think it would fly, politically, if they tried to charge Trump for obstructing an investigation that turned out to be pointless if not entirely bogus? Maybe the Resistance should just cut their loses on this.
Btw, how exactly did Trump ‘obstruct’ the Russian investigation?
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
cancel2 2022 (03-26-2019)
Lots of people made mistakes in this fiasco. I agree it was a mistake to fire Comey when he did but hindsight is 20/20. Better to have fired Comey on inauguration day. He was a bumbling, incompetent and insubordinate director. But even though Trump missed that opportunity better to have appointed an independent council, then fire him. Yes you can make that argument but there is no doubt Comey needed to go for other reasons.
Well good luck with that. You've presented absolutely nothing we all didn't already know. Including Mueller, Barr and Rosenstein. So why doesn't the House initiate impeachment proceedings? You know the answer.
cancel2 2022 (03-26-2019), Stretch (03-25-2019)
RINO is the term for that rare Republican who puts country above party.
Right wing = lie, lie, and lie some more.
"When I am president I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to play golf" Donald J. Trump, world class snake oil salesman and compulsive golfer August 2016
The definition of "racist" as "anyone who is white" is itself racist.
Originally Posted by Colin Powell
cancel2 2022 (03-26-2019)
RINO is the term for that rare Republican who puts country above party.
Right wing = lie, lie, and lie some more.
"When I am president I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to play golf" Donald J. Trump, world class snake oil salesman and compulsive golfer August 2016
The definition of "racist" as "anyone who is white" is itself racist.
Originally Posted by Colin Powell
cancel2 2022 (03-26-2019)
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