Posted on 04/08/2018 11:59:43 AM PDT by jazusamo
The news these days often sounds pretty wild and far fetched. But, over at MSNBC's AM Joy, host Joy Reid and the gang speculated the possibility of federal marshals placing the commander in chief in handcuffs and hauling him before special counsel Robert Mueller, should President Donald J. Trump choose to ignore a subpoena in the ongoing Russian interference probe. But, Joy Reid wondered, what would happen if President Trump became a recluse at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and refused to leave the White House?
Upon the possibility that the Donald would refuse to testify, guest attorney Nicholas Akerman dreamt a scenario in which federal marshals apprehend President Trump.
"Normally, a person who refuses to testify before a grand jury winds up being incarcerated for the time period of the grand jury, which can be up to 18 months,” Akerman said. “So, one way to enforce it is to have Donald Trump taken by the federal marshals and put in federal prison until he testifies.”
“What if he refuses to open the White House door? What if he fires any Secret Service agent who would allow the federal marshals in? What if Donald Trump decides, ‘I don’t’ have to follow the law. I refuse to be held under the law. No Marshal can get into the White House and any secret service agent that defies is fired.’” Reid responded.
“At some point, he has to come out of the White House,” Akerman responded.
“The U.S. Marshals will be directed to take him into custody, bring him before the federal district court judge. He’ll be basically told that either he goes in and he testifies or he takes the Fifth Amendment. If he takes the Fifth Amendment, there’s not a problem,” he added “If he refuses to answer on the ground that a truthful answer would tend to incriminate him, he has the right to do that. If he does that, there’s no contempt. If he doesn’t do that, he can be directed to go directly to jail, do not pass go. Do not collect $200. End of story.”
Of course, there is no indication that President Trump has any plans to lock himself in the White House to avoid Robert Mueller. CNN reported exclusively yesterday that President Trump is supposedly preparing for an interview with special counsel Mueller.
From CNN :
" President Donald Trump has begun the initial steps of preparing for a possible interview with the special counsel, a White House official and a person familiar with the situation said Friday, a sign the President's legal team is intensifying its deliberations over whether to allow him to come under Robert Mueller's questioning .
One source familiar with the proceedings stressed the preparation efforts is "in its infancy."
The preparations have been short and informal and included going over potential topics with the President that Mueller would likely raise in an interview, the people said.
The President has not formally agreed to sit for an interview with Mueller."
Amen to that. LOL!
>>What if Joy Reid farted and
her brain flew out her arse...
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I think that already happened.
The really scary part is that these people and some in their audience actually believe this BS. They can’t think past their anti-Trump hate and bare their complete ignorance of American history, culture, the Constitution, and our laws. Where were they in civics classes?
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The really scary part is that half the country believes it.
Getting kooky??
Meanwhile many things have been supoenaed by congress and the justice dept and fbi have told congress to get bent.
And NO ONE goes out in cuffs?
Federal gub mint is crappola and dirty.
Again
Wow. What hard words. “Kooky”.
What, were they blowing bubbles from pink rings?
Twinkie words don’t begin to describe the hard line Bolshevik trash that gets a national forum on that network.
If the Right can’t get past sunday school descriptions of frozen faced murderers and thugs, there’s really no reason to think we’re going to prevail in this war.
She is on mood elevators and antidepressants.
Can't even grasp the concept of independent co-equal branches of our Constitutional Republic.
If what is suggested is real (which it can never be) pelosi, feinswein, the CBC and 3/4 of the House would have been frog-marched out of the Capitol about 15 months ago. As well as the known perverts in the Supreme Court!
All the orange jumpsuits are there and waiting...
Does she realize what would happen to the country if that were to occur? Does she honestly think that everything would revert to her distorted view of what is ‘normal’?
They’re such ignorant morons that I’m actually embarrassed for them.
Yep, it’s amazing to me a network would employ the duds like several on msnbc.
I’ve nearly finished the book by Gary Byrne, it’s well worth the read.
All these years of their lying and criminal acts and Hillary is still flapping her gums.
Some of the wilder online speculation regarding Obama no doubt sounded the same to the left, but online speculation is by nature unhinged. This is a national cable news network, presumably held to some form of objective standard but obviously not.
Akerman would look great as a spring DC cherry tree decoration for what I like to call “Trumpmas”...
She'd be in denial right up to the minute that Sergeant Donny Donowitz showed up with Negan's friend Lucille to part her hair for her...
These people are insane.
It’s scary because they are respected and have influence and power - ie wealth.
“The really scary part is that half the country believes it.”
The forces of evil like to claim that they control half the population. However, they base that on election results.
Only half the population votes, and only about half of that votes leftard. That means the FOE can only support a claim on one-quarter of the population, and a big chunk of that is actually a figment of election fraud.
My estimate is that 20% of the population believes it.
If a tree fell on Joy while she was in the woods.
Would anybody care?
For example: If Joy Reid burned down MSNBC - the cops would come and arrest her. If she lied under oath about the fire - the judge might throw her in jail over a contempt of court ruling.
Now let's all discuss how long a sentence Joy Reid might get.
For example: If Joy Reid burned down MSNBC - the cops would come and arrest her. If she lied under oath about the fire - the judge might throw her in jail over a contempt of court ruling.
Now let's all discuss how long a sentence Joy Reid might get. AND spend two weeks on FOX talking about it...
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