Posted on 09/08/2018 9:06:58 AM PDT by mojito
For precisely what federal crimes is the president of the United States under investigation by a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department?
It is intolerable that, after more than two years of digging — the 16-month Mueller probe having been preceded by the blatantly suspect labors of the Obama Justice Department and FBI — we still do not have an answer to that simple question.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein owes us an answer.
To my mind, he has owed us an answer from the beginning, meaning when he appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller on May 17, 2017. The regulations under which he made the appointment require (a) a factual basis for believing that a federal crime worthy of investigation or prosecution has been committed; (b) a conflict of interest so significant that the Justice Department is unable to investigate this suspected crime in the normal course; and (c) an articulation of the factual basis for the criminal investigation — i.e., the investigation of specified federal crimes — which shapes the boundaries of the special counsel’s jurisdiction.
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Trump should declassify EVERYTHING related to this sham and hold a press conference saying the American people deserve to know everything. Our government, obviously, has operated in dark shadows for too long. Trump should add this line:
“Politicians TALK about transparency and disclosure and then never deliver. Today I am declassifying everything related to this investigation in an effort to show exactly what is going on. I am not worried at all about what is disclosed. What is disturbing to me is the reluctance of the DOJ and FBI in disclosing what they have done and are doing. I am accused of colluding with Russia. Time to put up or shut up for those accusing me. If any Government Agency has rigged this process we will find out. The time is now.”
Although deep-state Congress has the constitutional authority to stop deep-state DOJ from investigating Trump, please consider the following.
Noting that Congress is as anti-Trump as deep-state DOJ is imo, Congress cannot publicly try to destroy Pres. Trump since this in an election year and Trump has a great number of supporters.
So the best that corrupt lawmakers can do concerning Trump is to at least fantasize that the anti-Trump deep state DOJ will somehow get rid of Trump before the great red wave of patriots boot career lawmakers out of office in the 2018 midterm elections.
If Trump fired him, all the analogies to "Night of the Long Knives," "Saturnday Night Massacre" and Nixon's firing of Archibald Cox (first attempt: Elliot Richardson, second attempt Bill Ruckleshaus (both resigned instead), then actually carried out by (none other than) then-Solicitor General Robert Bork).
The net effect of all the histrionics that would ejaculate from the Left would 1) certainly distract and hinder President Trump's ability to advance his agenda, perhaps very long term, and 2) it would have a good chance of changing some, possibly even sufficient votes to support an impeachment. Despite the example of Bill Clinton's resilience against his impeachment and Senate debate for potential removal, a comparable Trump chapter, while very extremely unlikely to remove him, would certainly be used to attempt to diminish further his moral ability to lead throughout the rest of his life.
Few over fifty need to be reminded about how extremely poorly Bork was treated in his Supreme Court nomination hearing and what that means about the long memory of the Left's vengeance. (That, after President Ronald Reagan had nominated him.) Being "Borked" was quickly added to the lexicon, in response to the high visibility of the meme.
If Trump fired him, all the analogies to "Night of the Long Knives," "Saturnday Night Massacre" and Nixon's firing of Archibald Cox (first attempt: Elliot Richardson, second attempt Bill Ruckleshaus (both resigned instead), then actually carried out by (none other than) then-Solicitor General Robert Bork) would come out of the woodwork.
The net effect of all the histrionics that would ejaculate from the Left would 1) certainly distract and hinder President Trump's ability to advance his agenda, perhaps very long term, and 2) it would have a good chance of changing some, possibly even sufficient votes to support an impeachment. Despite the example of Bill Clinton's resilience against his impeachment and Senate debate for potential removal, a comparable Trump chapter, while very extremely unlikely to remove him, would certainly be used to attempt to diminish further his moral ability to lead throughout the rest of his life.
Few over fifty need to be reminded about how extremely poorly Bork was treated in his Supreme Court nomination hearing and what that means about the long memory of the Left's vengeance. (That, after President Ronald Reagan had nominated him.) Being "Borked" was quickly added to the lexicon, in response to the high visibility of the meme.
“Mr. Rosenstein, What Is the Crime?”
Ask Sessions...it’s all his fault.
Mueller and Rosenstein are on a Kamikaze mission for the Deep State. They have reached the top of the DOJ bureaucratic hierarchy, so like Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima, they will stay where they are, shoot anything that moves, with as much movement as they are given. Appealing to law, logic, morality are of course useless. They will stay until they are physically forced out.
The crime was winning the election.
Mueller probe is out of time
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It should never have been a probe to begin with. It was based on false, fabricated, and illegitimate information. For that reason, Trump should ignore Mueller entirely. Communicating with him only serves to legitimize his fraudulent, politically motivated inquisition.
Upon declassifying and releasing the FISA docs, Trump should go before the American people and lay out the evidence exposing Mueller and all those in DOJ and FBI who manufactured this farce. He should not give Mueller so much as one second of his time.
Good post onyx!
Trump has been very patient.
He's been successfully working on his agenda.
He's given the congressional committees, Judicial Watch, some investigative reporters, some whistleblowers and probably his own private investigators time to mount the evidence against the Deep State.
And now he's campaigning for more pro American, pro Trump people in Congress.
Yes, the time has come.
Will it be before the election or just after the election? We'll see.
I’m 71. I call bull shit. He can’t run two terms afraid of the “investigations” that may follow decisions. These people are undermining him and the US justice system and he’s 19 months in. he can cower for the rest of his two terms or he can man up on this issue. he is already being plotted against, what’s the difference. Some republicans will vail but they already do.
Mueller Investigation: The First Ten Years, next on your PBS listener supported station.
McCarthy has some useful comments regarding election strategy:
“If policy were all that mattered, the Trump presidency would be a rousing success. The economy is humming. The yokes of tax and regulation have been eased to the extent that, despite tariff hijinks, unemployment has plummeted and employers have trouble filling positions. Meanwhile, the federal courts are being stocked with exemplary jurists who, for decades, will be faithful stewards of the Constitution.
Alas, there’s a lot more to it than policy. You want to slough off as unreliable the latest ABC/Washington Post poll that has Trump’s job approval at just 38 percent (with 60 percent disapproving)? Okay . . . but since he seems hell-bent on personalizing the midterms as a referendum on him, it is less easy to ignore that the so-called generic ballot is swinging the Democrats’ way: by nearly 10 points according to FiveThirtyEight, while even more Trump-friendly Rasmussen reflects a recent Democratic surge to a four-point lead.
As the Wall Street Journal’s Dan Henninger observes, the president’s loyal base, consisting of roughly a third of the voting public, is going to be with him and, presumably, with Republicans. Still, if a Democratic takeover of the House is to be avoided, the GOP desperately needs the voters who reluctantly pulled the lever for Trump only because he was not Hillary Clinton.
You may notice that Mrs. Clinton is not on the ballot this time. Meanwhile, in just the last few days, the president has attacked his attorney general yet again, this time for prosecuting two allegedly corrupt Republican congressmen and thus refusing to politicize the Justice Department; he has conflated himself with the country in absurdly suggesting that an anonymous derogatory op-ed by an administration official might amount to “TREASON,” such that the New York Times should “turn [the author] over to the government at once” for the sake of “National Security”; and he has used Communist North Korea’s murderous anti-American dictator Kim Jong-un as a character reference. If this is the plan for turning out the Trump-skeptical vote, I respectfully suggest that it needs rethinking.”
Donald Trump committed the most heinous crime of all:
Winning the election.
Good article, but when he says that
“...he has conflated himself with the country in absurdly suggesting that an anonymous derogatory op-ed by an administration official might amount to “TREASON,”
It most assuredly is treason
“...and he has used Communist North Korea’s murderous anti-American dictator Kim Jong-un as a character reference.”
when he assuredly did not, is insane.
There. I fixed it.
What may seem to you to be President Trump being "afraid" may have a well-measured component of drawing certain players into the open, such that they be more effectively taken as chess pieces at an even more opportune time.
My guess is Trump is waiting until after the Midterms to make a move.
If the GOP holds the House, he’ll take that as a mandate to end the investigation.
If the Democrats take the House and pursue impeachment, he’ll redact every document and use his full power as CAC to wage all out war against all these creeps.
Mr. Rosenstein, What Is the Crime?
Oh come, he dared to run for President and he WON and Ruined Princess Hillary’s Rightful ascent to the Presidency. That in and of itself is the crime.
this is an iongoiung conspiracy and coup attempt. It’s “not every:” anything. It is the worst thing outside of assassination.
His “measured” response is 19 months along. time to stop measuring and weild his power.
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