sturgboski
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He is going to say he never said it. They will play the tape and his response will be "see clearly this wasn't me, you can tell it was that guy from the failing SNL." His supporters will buy it.
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Trump Fires James Comey
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He is going to say he never said it. They will play the tape and his response will be "see clearly this wasn't me, you can tell it was that guy from the failing SNL." His supporters will buy it.
For any other attorneys...
In the strictly legal sense, can a President be brought on obstruction of justice charges for removing a person in an appointed position conducting an investigation into him or his associates? The position serves at the pleasure of the executive. Conflicts abound, of course, but is it illegal?
Clearly, in the colloquial use its obstruction.
In the strictly legal sense, can a President be brought on obstruction of justice charges for removing a person in an appointed position conducting an investigation into him or his associates? The position serves at the pleasure of the executive. Conflicts abound, of course, but is it illegal?
Clearly, in the colloquial use its obstruction.
yeah but it's haaaaaaaaaarrrrrrd waaaah
FinaruDensetsu
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If your daddy left you a huge load of money and lots of real estate you'd be able to get by with zero effort and zero smarts as well. We all could. A monkey could.
crazy monkey
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No he says you misinterpreted the quotes.
Yep. There is no realistic path for a Democrat to win the electoral college but lose the popular vote.
Pilgrimzero
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Hopefully at the end of all this, it help to prove how stupid the electoral college is.
But I doubt it
But I doubt it
BrutishMrFish
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Imagine the kind of person we'll eventually get who makes Trump look like a genius.
Pretty much. Hes either guilty or the dumbest fuck of all time
If it wasnt for the electoral college Lincoln would have never won, because he won without a single southern state supporting him which is a huge reason why they seceded in the first place. People say the EC was created to give power to slave owners while ignoring that slavery was ended against the souths wishes thanks to the EC
NullPointer
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We already knew it was obstruction.
And we've seen all of the other alternative explanations and alternative facts fall by the wayside, one by one. Everybody knows its obstruction.
And now we have the POTUS straight up admitting it on national TV.
And we've seen all of the other alternative explanations and alternative facts fall by the wayside, one by one. Everybody knows its obstruction.
And now we have the POTUS straight up admitting it on national TV.
jfc this fucking family is all just batshit crazy
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...weet-linking-death-of-vince-foster-to-ousting
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...weet-linking-death-of-vince-foster-to-ousting
Dead Prince
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does he think being president he gets a free pass? holy fuck LOL
In any rational world that admitting that in public should be a literal one way ticket to impeachment; not in the future, today. At best he is out of his fucking mind and should be removed via the 25th amendment of the constitution because he keeps doing illegal shit because in his own child like mind he can't possibly be guilty of anything, thus he is not fit/capable of serving the presidency. Its open and shut obstruction of justice, literally the means in which they were planning to impeach Nixon on, not even the crime he committed, the obstruction was what was going to get him thrown out before he resigned on his own.
I don't think he is innocent simply because he couldn't get loans from reasonable reputable sources after going bankrupt many times and no doubt ended up in the pockets of dodgy Russians, Chinese etc. which leads to his rather odd/favourable behaviour with them. He is neck deep in bad deals but as long as he keeps trucking along, the ground won't swallow him. I think his Presidential run was his last throw of the dice before his Business crumbled, injecting anything into his brand and hoping to cream off it.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Of fucking course he does.
dickroach
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yeah. he got appointed president of the company, and apparently the board of directors is fine with that.
FinaruDensetsu
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I'm gonna say he's both guilty and the dumbest fuck of all time.
Probably thinks being rich gets a free pass. I mean look at those cases were rich peeps got a slap on the wrist.
NullPointer
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Hasn't he already said the president is above the law?
I doubt it started with him being president. He's been like this for a while.
JonnyDBrit
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Though seriously, he is straight up admitting to acting against the investigation here. Surely that's grounds for something.
Oh yeah I guess it can be both lol
OdysseusVA
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He's on his way to 5th avenue with gun in hand
radios shipping overview
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It's always the cover-up that gets them.
CreepingFear
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Unless being black while President.
Well Republicans have pretended Obama broke laws every day of his presidency he figured he might as well.
ryutaro's mama
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Unforced errors.
It's been 4 months, and that already looks like something from 20 years ago. What a disgrace.
He thinks "the president can pardon people for any crime, so Trump can pardon himself, CHECKMATE LIBS" (yes he thinks in third person)
RPGCrazied
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CNN is really good and really awful sometimes. Like on Erin's show she will talk about Trump eating ice cream. I mean really? Who gives a fuck how many scoops of ice cream he eats?
Well? How many???
sturgboski
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Was it chocolate?
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
He gets TWO scoops everyone else gets ONE.
RPGCrazied
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Its certainly actionable enough to impeach. Reminder there is no judicial branch involvement with the impeachment process nor is there a clear and defined mechanism in place for what constitutes impeachment level evidence. Its literally a vote pushed by the house with a simple majority to start the process, a trial is made, the jury is the senate, the judiciary have no legal ground to interfere so normal statues of legal law do not apply. Once he is removed from office he no longer has immunity from normal trial and judiciary authority and can be arrested for any or all crimes found through the impeachment process should law enforcement choose to pursue it.
"Actionable" is entirely dependent on Congressional discretion. People need to realize that the POTUS can do literally anything if Congress won't hold him accountable.
I've said it before but I'm pretty sure in his head America works like a private corporation, which as President he is the CEO and owner of and as such America should be as subject to his whims as any privately owned company.
So, yes, he thinks he gets a free pass. Not out of any underhanded corruption so much as sheer idiocy and lack of capacity to understand how the country he runs works. I don't think he understands that "I'm the President and I say this Russia thing is bunk" doesn't actually count as justification for ending the investigation. He doesn't get that he can appoint people to run things but the people working at that thing don't necessarily work for him specifically.
I'm also not convinced he understands that the Judicial and Legislative branches are explicitly and intentionally set up as able to counteract the executive branch; I'm pretty sure in his head the US org chart has the President at the top and everyone else below.
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thepotatoman
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Democrats never won the presidency without the popular vote, just 4 republicans and a federalist, though it's very hard treat the parties of the 1800's as the same ones we have today.
Federalist party never won any presidential popular votes, just the one time they won with the electoral college.
So ZERO republicans...cool
More_Badass
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It's from the Times article
JordanN
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