Posted on 06/22/2017 8:45:39 AM PDT by detective
John Eastman, law professor at Chapman University, writes in American Greatness this week that the powers invested in Special Counsel Mueller to investigate "Russian hacking/collusion/obstruction poses grave dangers to our body politic and our liberty." His advice to President Trump: Fight fire with fire. Turn the law and the courts back on your opponents. Trump is being investigated without any probable cause of a crime. The Obama administration, in contrast, is a target-rich arena of criminal activity.
It is unconstitutional to issue a search warrant when there has been no crime and there is no probable cause. But that is exactly what President Trump's DOJ has inflicted on the president and his team with Mueller's special investigation. It was not just cowardice, but folly for the DOJ to buckle to the left-wing media's hysterical insistence to investigate our president's alleged collusion with the FSB.
According to Professor Eastman:
The special counsel will not to track down the details of a crime known to have been committed and determine "who dunnit," but will scour the personal and business affairs of a select group of people – the President of the United States, members of his family, his business associates, and members of his presidential campaign and transition teams – to see if any crime can be found (or worse, manufactured by luring someone into making a conflicting statement at some point). This is not a proper use of prosecutorial power, but a "witch hunt," as President Trump himself correctly observed. Or, to put it more in terms of legalese, this special prosecutor has effectively been given a "writ of assistance" and the power to exercise a "general warrant" against this select group of people, including the President of the United States
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
President Trump has the responsibility to re-establish the rule of law in our country, and he will have the enthusiastic backing of his base if he does so. It is time to end Democrats' politically motivated abuse of the law. Stop the Mueller investigation, and go after Obama Inc.'s multiple crimes."
Excellent, must read article.
Gives me a little more confidence knowing that Trump has Jay Sekulow on his team.
Jeff Sessions should....never mind.
I don't believe anyone really gave this advice to President Trump.
A more likely scenario is that the DOJ filled him in on the practical reality of pursuing a criminal case against a former Secretary of State who would have the right to call any and all witnesses -- and present any and all evidence (including highly classified intelligence materials) -- in a trial. The prosecution would be forced to shield so much evidence in the case that the defendant would legitimately claim that she is unable to mount a defense.
Shame on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for agreeing to this and how is he complicit in a criminal investigation that goes against the President??
When, if ever, will jeff sesssions wake up and do his job? Either go to work or resign and let someone else enforce the law against obama and clinton.
We've probably heard the last of James Comey.
Mueller may retire on the job without even telling anyone.
He’s right. An aggressive move to begin investigating Hillary and Obama crimes would no doubt force them to stand down.
“I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t,” Trump said. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.”
Trump needs to reestablish the rule of law and prosecute the Clintons for their many crimes.
Trump needs to understand how evil the Clintons really are.
Jeff Sessions should.... anything. Anything at all. Helloooo? Anyone home? Jeff? JEFF?
Bwahahaha. You would think the DOJ would be just.
Unfortunately, the only antidote may be to fight fire with fire. President Trump: Perhaps it is time to make good on that old pledge to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the Clinton "matters" after all. And while you're at it, add in referrals to the grand jury for the contempt of Congress committed by the IRS's Lois Lerner and former Attorney General Eric Holder, an FBI investigation of the destruction of government documents and servers in the midst of the IRS scandal, an investigation into the alleged perjury committed by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in testimony about those matters given under oath to Congress, an "obstruction of justice" investigation against former Attorney General Eric Holder and others (and related perjury charges against Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez) for allegedly ordering that an egregious voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party be dropped shortly before a default judgment was about to be entered in the government's favor, etc., etc., etc.
Scooter Libby tried to pull all sorts of classified material into trial in his defense. It's a hassle, but managable. Nothing classified was presented to the jury or the public.
Hillary has already laid out her defense. It's the Sgt. Schultz defense.
Senate Judiciary is going to ramp up an investigation in Trump abuse of power / obstruction of justice (whatever term you prefer), and Comey's inside circle is specifically named in preliminary letters.
June 9, 2017 Feinstein Letter - Recommending Senate Judicary investigate Trump obstruction accusation
June 13, 2017 Grassley Letter - Agrees to review firing of Comey, etc.
The Administration has referenced both Mr. Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation and Russia investigation as factors in his decision to fire Mr. Comey. Specifically, the memo from Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein explicitly cited Mr. Comey's presumption in announcing a prosecutorial decision and assuming the dual role of investigator and prosecutor, and Mr. Comey's failure to recognize and admit that error. In addition, the President's termination letter explicitly referenced Mr. Comey's private assurances that the President was not the subject of an investigation. That reference, combined with Mr. Comey's testimony last week that he refused the President's asks to state that fact publicly, make it clear that the President was not happy with Mr. Comey's actions on that issue, and frankly, that makes perfect sense. If "unnamed sources" in the press were whipping up a frenzy by falsely claiming I was under investigation, I would want law enforcement to correct the record too.
For your enjoyment
I promised Bob Mueller Tuesday night that I would not do anything wittingly or unwittingly that interfered with his probe.Gowdy: Trump asking to be cleared at the beginning of an investigation is inappropriate
That too. But she rehearsed "I know nothing" during the campaign.
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