Trump's lawyer says he was behind President's tweet about firing Flynn
Editor's notes: I don't think many believe Trump's lawyer as he tries to "take the fall" for Trump's most recent tweet. Most of us understand that this is a legal tactic that might be used should Mueller's investigation asks questions. Barack and Hillary have used this tactic on frequent occasions. Doesn't make it "OK" but it does put his rhetoric in political context.
But seriously, is arguing that he (Trump) knew Flynn had lied to his staff, and, therefore, to the FBI, obstruction of justice? So, every time we become aware of a crime having been committed, we are required by law to tell someone in law enforcement? We all know the answer to that question. Look, the Left Out Ones are so desperate to stop Trump from taking down their anti-American legacy, that they will obsess/cling-to anything negative about Trump. In the end, there is nothing there but Trump's tweet and his claim that Flynn was fired for the same reasons he is being investigated by the FBI.
My question is this: Who gives a care ? No body I know . . . . . and that includes my Democrat friends.
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Source: Axios, here.
'So, every time we become aware of a crime having been committed, we are required by law to tell someone in law enforcement? " Answer is yes, especially if it is in the office of the executive branch of the USA, especially if it involves your own staff, and especially if it involves a felony. Failing to report a felony IS a felony, the legal term is: 'misprision of a felony.'
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason for your omitting an specific reference to written law, for you opinion. And that is, "You have no evidence for this, one of your most preposterous statements. If your idiotic statement was true, we would have 400 or more people answering the phones, making record of the call(s), and directing the accusations to the proper authorities. How nuts is that.
DeleteThe FACT of the matter is precisely as I framed it to be.
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Delete"There is no express grant of immunity under the Constitution to protect the President who commits a felony. Those who have argued for it have to cobble together their case primarily out of a concern about the debilitating effects of a President in legal trouble on the conduct of government. But they have a high burden to carry in claiming that the President charged with faithful execution of the law is above it. It simply contravenes basic understandings about the rule of law in the constitutional order -- as Richard Nixon learned in trying to withhold his incriminating tapes."
ReplyDelete-- White House counsel Bob Bauer
Sanctuary cities are in violation of law each and every day. Using Executive order to finish writing ObamaCare law was and is a violation of the federal code (i.e. the Constitutions). Ignore the Supreme Court's decision while continuing to inflict monetary harm against an American citizen is an unlawful activity, but the Obama EPA did such all the time.
DeleteMost of what Barack did was outside legislative law. That is why Trump can take all that down . . . . because Barack's legacy, much of it, was never established in written law.
18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felony
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Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
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Poorly informed Smithson, wrong again
I have lost track of how many times I have had to correct your state opinion based on the very articles from which you quote. Here we go again:
Delete#1: "commission of a felony cognizable by a court" means exactly what it says. The FBI is not a Federal Court and the so-called crime of collusion has never been defined as a crime, in this case.
#2: Trump is the Number One law enforcement person in the nation. He is Mueller's boss, and the head of all intel agencies. He can fire the head of the FBI WITHOUT CAUSE, making the claim of obstruction, laughable. In the case of Comey's firing, Trump CANNOT be found guilty of obstruction.
It is amazing to me, just how imbecilic these Democrats have become.
Wrong. The top law enforcement official in America is Session, the guy who has lied under oath about his contacts with Russia.
ReplyDeleteThere is bipartisan support for a bill protecting Mueller, now that there are indictments. Mueller is moving at a very fast pace in comparison with past similar investigations.
Sure, the president can fire the FBI director for any reason, but the problem for Trump is that he GAVE a reason: "And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said 'you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story...'"
Big problem. He basically confirmed what Comey said, he was fired because of the Russia investigation. Obstruction, plain and simple.
Kind of a silly response. If Trump is truly "the boss," if he can hire and fire any of the department heads and all of the 17 Intel Agency heads, if his expressed purpose as "President" is to Administer the law, well, that makes him the top law enforcement agent in this country. Again, since he can fire
DeleteComey for ANY REASON OR WITHOUT CAUSE, he simply cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice. Now, this might be a dumb thing to do, politically.
Take this to the bank, however: the domestic world will explode should our national radicals impeach and/or fail in the following trial. Half this nation will go to war if the Radicals (i.e. Democrat party leadership) get their wish. You all started this fight but we will finish it. After all, we were here first.
What your saying essentially is that Trump is above the law.
ReplyDeleteApparently that appears to be the case. It certainly was true for Bill and Hillary, Barack and Eric Holder, so why not Trump. Kind of a pisser when YOUR strategies are effectively used against you, isn't it.
DeleteDeutsche Bank gets subpoena from Mueller on Trump accounts:
ReplyDeleteLook, Trump will never be impeached for his business dealings. Apparently even you have given up on "collusion" and Trump being a secret Russian agent.
DeleteTrump screws lenders out of loans and can't get a loan in the US.
ReplyDeleteTrump borrows a huge sum from Deutsche bank - $600 million
Trump missed payment to Deutsche bank and is sued for $40 million
Deutsche bank is fined $600 million for laundering Russian money via Putin
Suddenly, Deutsche drops suit and loans Trump even more money.
Look, while you are obsessing - now - about a current banking issue that began in 2008, 9 years ago, pretending to believe that this is somehow relevant, the fact is you have nothing but old, old news.
DeleteTrump is an international investor/builder. OF COURSE his loans are huge. Of course he has problems from time to time. Get a life, seriously, Nothing he did two years or more removed from now, has any relevance to the original "chargers."