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Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Full Mueller Report
- Thread starter ElectricBlanketFire
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Good thing we put this to bed before it was used against him during the upcoming elections. Phewwwww.
Its nice to see gerrymandering being challenged across the country at the state level but if we want to safeguard against future corruption of power....
we have a fucking mountain to climb and the GOP has roadblocks everywhere in the courts all the way up to the stolen Supreme Court seats
We are so fucked
Who's going to hold them accountable?
The Supreme Court that they control?
The Senate that enabled this behavior?
The House whose subpoenas they can simply ignore?
The Supreme Court that they control?
The Senate that enabled this behavior?
The House whose subpoenas they can simply ignore?
Trump is showing us how executive privilege can be used to obstruct justice.
Take notes law students and aspiring mobsters!
Take notes law students and aspiring mobsters!
I actually thought this would have already happened weeks ago. Surprised it took so long.
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He hasn't gotten away with plenty and this is far from over.
So, when do the unredacted copies of the report and all the evidence get anonymously mailed to all the news outlets?
I think this is a mistake on his part.
He was given a chance earlier to invoke executive privilege on any part of the report.
I don't think you can just do it afterwards because you don't want it out.
Besides like 90% of it is public already, makes no sense to do the whole thing.
He was given a chance earlier to invoke executive privilege on any part of the report.
I don't think you can just do it afterwards because you don't want it out.
Besides like 90% of it is public already, makes no sense to do the whole thing.
Yes, because nothing has happened to anyone in this administration at all in the time they've been in office. Nothing at all.
He is untouchable like all rich people, it is this way by design. Rich people have to put in effort to go to jail.
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This is almost getting too blatant. I almost wonder if he isn't doing a play of baiting congress into flexing their arm, only for the report to not contain any more damning information, just so that he can shed a bit of his authoritarianism (at least in the eyes of the republicans) onto the democrats. Probably not the case, but who the hell knows anymore.
Americans took to the street to get the Mueller report released. It didn't do anything. Republicans don't care about protests.
So what are the options for the Democrats moving forward? Can they take this to court or is it simply a done deal?
Courts, basically.
This is going to be a long, drawn out process, which seems to be the point of this move.
They can still call Muellar to testify, right?
Probably a court thing.
Probably a court thing.
It'll go to a judge, and eventually SCOTUS, and then Trump will win on a 5-4 vote.
It goes to court, where it'll take awhile to move through the system.
Trump is just stalling until he either loses in 2020, or the Democrats lose control of the House, he's probably betting on the latter, although that's not really likely based on historical trends.
Can we stop with this shit by now?
Literally none of this is good for him and his re-election chances are only continuing to shrink.
Unless "backfire" in this case means seeing him in get walked out of the White House in handcuffs, which isn't how any of this works.
We will see it post 2020 elections, but not coming before, I don't think.
So lemme guess
- a few articles bashing Trump
- Mitch McConnell making some statements supporting Trump action to do this
- Dems bashing Trump but still don't push for impeachment
- a couple articles showing a slight drop in approval ratings
- Public forgets in 2 weeks
Rinse and repeat
- a few articles bashing Trump
- Mitch McConnell making some statements supporting Trump action to do this
- Dems bashing Trump but still don't push for impeachment
- a couple articles showing a slight drop in approval ratings
- Public forgets in 2 weeks
Rinse and repeat
All my coworkers/family think it's a witch hunt. Nobody cares except a small amount of people. He's going to get away with it.
Massive
SUSTAINED
protest.
National Boycott.
You think justice comes easy? If you think a single day or week of protest is actual resistance, you don't even have the vocabulary.