This is the final straw for the GOP-led Congress to initiate legislation to protect the Special Prosecutor. Senator Mitch McConnell must step up to save the nation from tyranny.
"Deepening the sense of crisis, CNN reported Tuesday that Trump is actively considering dismissing Rosenstein in a bid to constrain Mueller, even though such a move would reignite claims he is bent on obstructing the special counsel's probe.
If Trump wields the ax against Rosenstein and then goes after Mueller, he would not only ignite a political storm, but he also would raise doubts about the capacity of the US system of governance itself to hold a strongman President in check."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/politics/donald-trump-mueller-investigation/index.html
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I tried again to reach Senator McConnell to discuss this, and he refused.
ReplyDeleteNot a "witch hunt nor a disgrace."
ReplyDelete"Just a few days ago, Trump himself claimed that the “good man,” his lawyer, had paid the hush money—a hundred and thirty thousand dollars—to Clifford without telling him, which, by any standard, would be a breach of legal ethics. The President may have been lying about his ignorance of the payment; if not, he ought to have had a notion that there might be some questions about Cohen’s lawyering practices.
That’s not how Trump sees it. “It’s a disgraceful situation,” he continued. “It’s a total witch hunt.” Directed at whom? Hush-agreement negotiation is not Cohen’s only line of work. As a lawyer at the Trump Organization, he dealt with some matters related to Russia; that connection continued during the campaign. It is not yet clear which of these tangled lines the U.S. Attorney is pursuing, or what the relation of the raid to other areas that Mueller is looking at might be. (Another issue is whether the prospect of serious legal trouble might make Cohen a more amenable witness for Mueller.) There has always been a blurriness to the borders of Trump’s businesses, but the President spoke as though the raid on Cohen’s office were an attack on him personally, and of a piece with the entire Mueller investigation. “We’ve given, I believe, over a million pages’ worth of documents to the special counsel,” he told the reporters. He wanted to talk about Syria and the ways that he might use “the greatest fighting force ever” there. Instead, he was dealing with what he again called a “witch hunt,” and a “disgrace.”
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