Hans von Spakovsky: Acting AG Matt Whitaker has no conflict of interest and no reason to recuse...

Fox News ^ | November 19, 2018 | Hans A. von Spakovsky

[jazusamo]

Hans von Spakovsky: Acting AG Matt Whitaker has no conflict of interest and no reason to recuse himself

Under the ethics regulations that apply to Justice Department lawyers, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker has no conflict of interest. Hence, he has no ethical or legal obligation to recuse himself from supervising Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The demands that he do so are expressions of political theater with no factual or legal basis.

Whitaker is being criticized for having voiced an opinion about Mueller’s investigation into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. For example, on Nov. 11, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other congressional Democrats wrote the Justice Department’s designated agency ethics officer, complaining about Whitaker saying on June 9, 2017, that the “evidence was weak” and that there was no “criminal obstruction of justice charge to be had.” But Whitaker was legally correct then, and he is still correct today, about both of those assertions.

Why? Because to date, the special counsel has publicly disclosed absolutely no evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. The indictments released so far by the special counsel go to great lengths to point out that the alleged actions of Russian agents to use social media to inflame public opinion in 2016 were done without the knowledge of any individuals in any presidential campaign. In fact, the Russians used false and stolen identities to impersonate Americans.

Not only is the evidence of any supposed collusion “weak,” it is nonexistent.

[jeffc]

I wonder if Pelousy and Schoomie would be against Whitaker if he had said something they agreed with about Mueller’s “investigation”...

[goldstategop]

According to Faux News, Democrat Senators have filed suit to block the Whitaker appointment.

Deep State is getting desperate...

[dowcaet]

The Democrats fear him so this guy must be the real deal unlike Deep State pushovers like Rosenstein and Sessions!

[jazusamo]

Interesting thought...I believe they’d be drooling all over him to the point of being sickening.

[jazusamo]

Yep, RATs are predictable.

If they’re over a barrel and going to legally lose on an issue they go the lawsuit route and judge shop.

[EinNYC]

It is shocking to see the extent that dummocraps are enemies of the state. Sacrificing the security and welfare of the nation they swore to protect, they instead fight the president on every single front as he struggles to uphold HIS oath. HE takes it seriously and is trying, despite the childish stumbling blocks they constantly try to trip him up with, to bring prosperity and security to our country. I'd love to see Pelousy, Schumer, Flake, Waters, Schiff et al thrown in jail for sedition. They are responsible, they alone, for us having to shoulder the burden of millions of illegal criminal invaders, becoming victims of their imported diseases, sacrificing the needs of OUR children to accommodate theirs, having to use precious tax dollars to support them instead of improving life for ourselves, etc.

Enemies of the State. Identify them and mark them well. Anything horrific that happens to us is due to their insane policies conceived under the banner "To Hell With America; Party First!"

[jazusamo]

Well said.

“To Hell With America; Party First!” describes them perfectly.

[jazusamo]

MAGA!

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