Posted on 04/25/2018 1:22:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s a nightmare scenario, but it’s not hard to imagine: President Trump, growing tired of the Russia investigation as it closes in on him, fires Robert S. Mueller III and moves to dismantle the Office of Special Counsel.
This would be a serious assault on the rule of law in the United States. The ability of the Department of Justice to enforce the laws would be in grave doubt. By now, Mr. Mueller has presumably amassed a great deal of evidence, some of which is highly classified, that may point toward serious crimes. Americans might reasonably wonder whether perpetrators, if they exist, would ever face justice.
We hope that such a constitutional crisis is unlikely. But if it does come to pass, there is a way that Mr. Mueller and his staff could prevent their important work from being permanently buried: They could become lawful whistle-blowers.
Many people think that exposing classified misconduct requires breaking the law. Not necessarily. If Mr. Mueller is fired, he and his team would not have to do anything illegal to disclose classified information and ensure that the American people learned the truth.
Here’s how it could work:
The moment he was dismissed, Mr. Mueller could lawfully take all the evidence he had collected — even the most highly classified materials — straight to Congress. If he personally lost access to the evidence, a remaining member of the Office of Special Counsel could do the same.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
There is no Constitutional crisis. Firing Mueller would be to acknowledge the Constitution as law of the land.
It’s a nightmare scenario, but it’s not hard to imagine: President Trump, growing tired of the Russia investigation as it closes in on him, fires Robert S. Mueller III and moves to dismantle the Office of Special Counsel.
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Sorry Slimes. But this IS hard to imagine. Trump is not going to do you any favors and throw that tar baby in the briar patch.
You idiots dug that grave yourself. You go deal with it.
“It’s a nightmare scenario”
Come on now, it’s their dream scenario, the stuff of all their fantasies.
Opinion, not news, but how can you tell the difference these days? Especially from the New York Times and the Washington Post whom daily engage in delusional fantasies such as this piece. To the extent that the assault and threat to the rule of law exists, it comes from the Department of Justice, the FBI, and other fortresses of bureaucrats who have decided that they can take the fate of the country into their own hands because they do not like the outcome of the 2016 election.
Whatever evidence may exist of misdeeds, it points to these unelected arrogant elites who decided to stage a coup de etat and reverse the legitimate result of a national election, not to the man who was the choice of the electorate. The New York Times presume to have their right and duty to nullify this election because their favored candidate, the rightful victor, was rejected by the American people. How dare they!
The American media has completely abandoned the notion of a watchdog and defender of democracy. They are now no more than a full partner of the elite left who have a right to rule by virtue of their superior intellect and moral righteousness. And, they can lie, cheat, steal, and murder anyone who stands in their way. Quite a show they are putting on.
The Trend is now guilty until proven innocent.
“Prove it didn’t happen.” is the meme of the “Progressives” as in, “Not a single revelation in the Steele dossier has been refuted,” noted Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D)
What nonsense. Even the NYT doesn’t believe a word of it. They know full well that if the Mule had anything at all, the NYT would have been the first to know.
“Not a single revelation”
Note how the lie is made: if something is not true, how could it be a revelation?
The assumption of fact is made before any proof. And everyone is just supposed to internalize that.
The problem with that analysis is that the evidence points to a shortage of fair minded people.
Lets face it: Anyone who could write this article is functionally crazy. What are the odds such a person, dealing in purest delusion is ever going to see his fault? Zero odds. No, this will end very badly because utterly delusional pepole are convinced of their moral superiority. The wrong the author imputed to others he and his are entirely guilty of.
No it would not. It would be a return to the rule of law. "Star Chamber" courts that operate outside Congressional oversight, like the "Special Councils" are a fundamental assault on the rule of law and our system of checks and balances. A "special council" operates out any level of Congressional over site and control. The law should be re-witted to requires a limited time frame for these out of control Prosecutions. It should monthly reporting from the Council to the Congress who should have the authority to revoke the Special Councils appointment once they demonstrate they have exceed their mandate or exhausted any reasonable possibility of fulfilling their function.
By any rational examination of the facts, as opposed to bigoted political hyper partisanship of the NY Times Editors, Muller "investigation" is a farce that was based on a fraud and politically tainted almost the day it started.
Exactly. The NYT it trying to bait Trump into firing Mueller.
It already has, and it already is.
The blindness towards Democrats and the persecution of Trump associates should prove this.
-PJ
If there was any evidence at all of a real crime, that would already have leaked. Mueller has presumably failed completely and is continuing to dig in the hope of creating a process crime to hold up as his justification for this circus. It's no wonder democrats have moved on to "Stormy" and for all I know "Melania's Hat" as their latest causes for outrage.
The scary part is that there’s millions that hang on to this type of story, they actually believe it’s all going to end with PDJT in jail.
“...he’s closing in!!”
“...POTUS’ lawyer is turning on him”
“...Stormy Daniels will erode his base”
The internet has enabled people to live in an alternate reality, if they’ve not realized the media is just an extension of the DNC, they believe it is still “news”. Add to that the filtering and censoring of conservative views, they just get constant reinforcement they’ve all the “facts”.
It’s astonishing.
“Russia investigation as it closes in on him”
I don’t know why NYT doesn’t just close up shop in our world and move to Bizarro World full time. They’d be much happier and make more money there ...
That's true when it comes to the media, and the Washington swamp creatures and the professional politicians.
But in the rest of America, there was enough to elect Trump, and we're going to stick with him.
If Mueller fails to find anything the Democratic Party should reimburse the federal government out of their campaign coffer.
Straight from Soros’ mouth and into the NY TIMES.
GOOD LIST.
Someone is pushing this “what if Trump fires Mueller” narrative. Would not surprise me if it was the corrupt FBI via an outfit like Fusion GPS.
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