Donald Trump Has All the Power

The Atlantic ^ | contemporaneous | BENJAMIN WITTES

[Fhios]

...That said, the tweet on its own terms is alarming. It’s a statement of intent to issue a specific investigative demand of the Justice Department for entirely self-interested and overtly political reasons. And Trump published it in the absence of a shred of evidence that might support the demanded action....

[Fhios]

I picked this article from

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3656972/posts post 5 from 2ndDivisionVet (welcome back). I thought it was salient enough that it deserved its own thread.

That's a good poignant article and deserves a thread of its own.

Everybody knows what 'good' means, 'poignant' though is often misused. In this case it means an inevitable and profound sadness.

While it's good and well written it immediately assumes Trump is self serving his own interest by ordering investigations into illegal spying. A point that the author profoundly pushes and even goes as far as to tell us what the pushback is going to look like. ... heading to a saturday massacre where Rosenstein, Sessions are fired because they refuse to respect the power and rights of the executive It's unclear with what Wray would do.

Finally, the article is poignantly fails to recognize the fact that the past is the prologue. We are here at this very point at this moment because the previous administration DOJ/FBI/CIA and perhaps Obama drove us here.

I think I'll 'sign off' on PDJT order to his DOJ/FBI/CIA to investigate just how we got here.

[Steely Tom]

Subhead:

The president’s alarming Sunday tweet could genuinely produce a crisis between the White House, on the one hand, and the Justice Department and the FBI, on the other.

Of course that's only if you believe that the Justice Department is under the authority of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

[bagster]

And Trump published it in the absence of a shred of evidence that might support the demanded action....

The big lie.

p.s. It's President Trump to you, lefty.

Bagster

Lesser Oracle

[PubliusMM]

Referring to Trump’s tweet: “It’s a statement of intent to issue a specific investigative demand of the Justice Department for entirely self-interested and overtly political reasons.”

You mean like the whole of the dhimmicrap machine being aligned and organized against him, at the highest level of the 0bama Familia was ‘self-interested’ and ‘overtly political’?

You mean like that?

[jonno]

The Tweet: "Donald J. Trump ‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration! " It's interesting that The Atlantic does not appear to be the least bit interested in whether or not the president's assertion is actually true.

[rlmorel]

I would have worded it:

"...The president’s alarming Sunday tweet could genuinely produce a crisis between the White House, Constitutionalists, and Freedom Loving Americans, on the one hand, and the Justice Department, FBI, CIA, NSA, The Democratic Party and their enablers on both sides of the aisle, and Leftists who are against the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Amendments of the Constitution on the other..."

But it was too wordy.

[RitaOK]

From what I’ve seen, you always succinctly nail the Leftist premise.

The battle lines are forming, finally, out loud and in public. This needed to happen.

[gr8eman]

I see no evidence that it is under Trump’s control!

[Fhios]

It’s not a lie, it’s just a half truth. While there is no evidence in the classic sense, but the conflux of how we started to investigating PDJT is a preponderance of indicators that something wrong was done.

[txhurl]

More convinced RR just got fired.

[kevao]

My reading of the U.S. Constitution is that POTUS runs the entire executive branch, which includes the Department of Justice. So he can order them to investigate whatever he wants. If it is something inappropriate, there might be a political price to pay, but nothing is off limits.

[loveliberty2]

Do they ever listen to themselves, or read their own words in print?

[Fhios]

The article points that out.

“To paraphrase Justice Scalia, the term “the Executive Power” does not mean some of that power or most of it; it means all of it. “

[M Kehoe]

I’m sure. Benjamin would see it the same way if Bush had the FBI plant a spy in the 0bama campaign.

I crack me up.

5.56mm

[Steely Tom]

Thank you for the kind complement — and I'm very flattered — but there are others here who are much better at nailing the lefty premise than I.

[Alberta's Child]

The author of this piece makes it sound like Trump is a small-town mayor putting pressure on a police chief to fix a speeding ticket or harass a business competitor.

What he conveniently doesn't point out is that Donald J. Trump was not an elected official during the 2016 campaign, and had no responsibilities as a Federal employee either. This makes the FBI-CIA surveillance against him particularly egregious.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"the absence of a shred of evidence"

Sort of like the whole Russia Probe. But spying on private citizens is illegal. We have a 4th amendment prohibiting it.

[NorthMountain]

There’s a President mentioned in the Constitution. I don’t see a “Justice Department” or an “FBI”.

[Hardastarboard]

Donald Trump Has All the Power

That's right, my Democrat b!tches. Don't ever forget it.