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To: Cboldt
WALLACE: Well, I guess I just -- I don't want to get too much into the weeds here and litigate this, but there's two points. One, in the Nixon tapes case in 1974, the court said the assertion of executive privilege must yield to evidence in a criminal case. And the president is being tried in a criminal case.

I don't think Nixon was ever impeached, he resigned.

I don't see any criminal charges. Maybe, after Trump is kicked out of office, they can bring a criminal trial.

Mr. Wallace is wrong on both.

84 posted on 01/27/2020 12:29:24 PM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever!)
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To: depressed in 06
In the (president) Nixon case (there is an impeached judge Nixon case too), Oval Office phone records were sub;poeaned becuase John Dean was charged with a crime. The criminal case was not against Nixon. Just that Nixon (maybe) had evidence that had play in a criminal trial.

What I found interesting was that Chris Wallace sees impeachment as a criminal case, when the two are remarkably separate and different. He's a moron who reads and adopts talking points generated by other morons.

87 posted on 01/27/2020 12:46:08 PM PST by Cboldt
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