Clearly this does not appear to most to be nearly enough to remove Trump from office, but keep in mind this is a political trial for Trump himself, not a criminal one, and 100% of the Democrats in Congress stand ready to impeach.
Trump needs to continue to hammer the hypocrisy and unfairness of the Mueller investigation, and start working harder to get a second special counsel setup to investigate the investigators for their own past misdeeds.
VIDEO PROOF: Obama Admin Confirms ‘No Problem’ With General Flynn Contacting Foreign Officials
It’s not an obscure law. It’s just never enforced, but that won’t stop Trumps enemies from trying to enforce it on Trump & Co.
I have a differing opinion is that the Logan act is inoperative to the President Elect, once certified. Regardless of whether the law states it or not.
There are very similar old type laws regarding sedition. Perhaps we should resurrect them too.
If every allegation against Flynn related to his contacts with the Russian was true, there was nothing illegitimate about it at all. The idea that the Logan Act would preclude someone working for an incoming administration from establishing contact with foreign governments is laughable -- especially in a case like this where all of the evidence indicates that the requests made to the Russians were ultimately for the BENEFIT of the United States (i.e., asking the Russians not to react in an aggressive, adversarial manner to the sanctions that the Obama administration was imposing on them).
There is a very broad area for interpretation when it comes to being a lobbyist - even a registered lobbyist - for a foreign power and taking their money ( often in the firm of campaign donations) to influence US policy
If the Obama Administration had signed off on the calls I would rather consider that this whole thing has been orchestrated for the court of public opinion.
The Obama Administration approved the call, they knew the call was happening, even as they were likely colluding with the Hillary campaign and others on the matter of the so-called dossier hit piece, the FBI questioned Flynn where there was no underlying crime just to try to get him to mess up. Consequently the trash of the DNC and in the LMSM have been flooding the airways with all this for the last year.
The Logan Act is just part of the game with these leftist, they don’t want anything less than a win in 2018 and all that they’ve done, including the likely unindependent Muller, is about the political outcome.
I hope recent rumblings that Sessions may not have been as passive as he’s seemed are true. But even if they are, expect the next big story to be parroted for the year to come to be Trump conducting a witchhunt ... Witches hate witchhunts....
If you search long and hard enough, well not really that hard at all, you will find that in your daily life you are probably breaking a half dozen laws.
Selective enforcement is what allows the left to criminalize opposition. It was allows Hillary and Obama to escape or never be prosecuted. But it results I. trump being indicted for Jay Walking. Obama actually sent members of his incoming administration to Russia. What was normal practice is now criminal when the opposition does it.
Why would Flynn need to be told to contact the Russians when, according to democrats, Trump and his whole team had been colluding with them all along?
No, it was all about protecting Hillary and her minions from the deserved consequences of their misbehavior by directing attention elsewhere.
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Logan Act violations? Well, maybe. But first investigate:
Jesse Jackson
James Earl Carter
Ted Kennedy - who actually asked the COMMUNIST Soviet Union’s leadership to intervene in the 1984 election to stop Reagan from being elected.
Dennis Rodman
William Jefferson Clinton - Uranium One, anyone?
Barrack Hussein Obama
Investigate those people first, and convict THEM of violating the Logan Act, and then we can talk about Trump and his (former) aides (and, BTW, there’s no case there WHATSOEVER).
I do get what York is saying, that the Obama and Clinton people, and other assorted Leftists, WANT to use the Logan Act to bring down Trump. Hell, they’d use a 3-legged, talking, octogenarian, Skittles-crapping unicorn to bring him down - if they thought that it might work. But it STILL bothers me that the people that I have listed above have never been investigated for such violations, which are clear as day.
Logan act? Wouldnt that apply to Obama’s shadow government OFA and trips abroads following Trump footsteps in copycat
“using an obscure law that hasn’t successfully convicted anyone in over 200+ years”
Not only has it not convicted anyone, it is a law where no one has ever gone to trial! In over 200 years, one person has been charged with violating it (in the 1800s). That case was dropped before it went to trial. There has never been a court case for violating the Logan Act. Not in 220 years.
So...if someone thinks the Logan Act is going to bring down Trump...they need to pull their heads out of their butts!
except the only one CURRENTLY violating the Logan Act is Odumbass, the former ‘leader’ of the free world.
The contacts started after Trump won. The transition team had every
right and duty to contact heads of states of many countries.
Nothing illegal about that.
Byron York is dreaming.