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Obama on Trump Indictment: Upholds the Notion ‘Nobody Is Above the Law’
Breitbart ^ | 06/22/2023 | Pam Key

Posted on 06/22/2023 4:28:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former president Barack Obama said Thursday on CNN’s “News Central” that former President Donald Trump’s indictment upheld the idea that “nobody is above the law.”

Amanpour said, “The spectacle of a former president being federally indicted. How is the rest of the world, the democratic world, maybe even the non-democratic world meant to interpret that indictment and indeed the fact that a federal indictee is running, is able to run for the highest office in the land, maybe even the world?”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: arrestobama; exceptbiden; exceptclinton; exceptdems; exceptobama; indictment; law; obama; trump
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Time after time in the Clinton years, then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was reluctant to approve military strikes against Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda, according to the 9/11 commission report.”

“That revelation comes as Berger faces the ‘Socks-Docs’ criminal investigation into whether he illegally snuck top-secret documents out of the National Archives in his socks while vetting material for the 9/11 Commission.”

https://nypost.com/2004/07/24/sandy-burglar-vetoed-attacks-on-bin-laden/

“CNN

Friday, April 1, 2005

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Federal prosecutors will recommend that former national security adviser Sandy Berger be fined $10,000 and lose his security clearance for three years, but receive no jail time, sources said
....
When Archives officials contacted him after they realized documents were missing, he told them about the two copies he had and returned them, along with the handwritten notes he had taken, they said. He did not say anything about the three copies he had destroyed.”

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/01/berger.plea/


61 posted on 06/22/2023 7:24:09 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: Osage Orange

Hey barrack, try the other shoe, if it fits maybe there IS justice in this country.


62 posted on 06/22/2023 7:27:08 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hunter probably got more ‘punishment’ from a ‘mistress’.


63 posted on 06/22/2023 7:27:19 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A slap on the wrist for you and 12 years for thou.


64 posted on 06/22/2023 7:29:08 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Article II, Section II provides that: “The President...may require the opinion, in writing,of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices”

Why Presidents might need to retain documents of every type (quote):

“The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”

Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/donald-trump-criticism-from-former-administration-officials/index.html

“he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk.”

William Barr, Trump’s former Attorney General

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/4055886-bill-barr-trump-is-a-consummate-narcissist/

“I have been in those rooms with him when he met with those leaders, I believe they think he’s a laughing fool”

John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/16/donald-trump-fool-world-leaders-00097103

“An earlier draft of his Farewell Address showed how wounded the President [George Washington] was by the attacks on his integrity and motivations: ‘As this Address, Fellow citizens will be the last I shall ever make you, and as some of the Gazettes of the United States have teemed with all the Invective that disappointment, ignorance of facts, and malicious falsehoods could invent, to misrepresent my politics and affections; to wound my reputation and feelings; and to weaken, if not entirely destroy the confidence you had been pleased to repose in me; it might be expected at the parting scene of my public life that I should take some notice of such virulent abuse. But, as heretofore, I shall pass them over in utter silence...’”

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/press-attacks/


65 posted on 06/22/2023 7:37:00 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Says the criminal who knew about Hillary’s plan to collude with the Russians to smear Donald Trump


66 posted on 06/22/2023 7:48:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: Rummyfan

Special Counsels are not authorized to prosecute national security cases.

“Special Counsel...the full power and independent authority”

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-VI/part-600

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“The enforcement of all criminal laws affecting, involving or relating to the national security, and the responsibility for prosecuting criminal offenses, such as conspiracy, perjury and false statements, arising out of offenses related to national security, is assigned to the Assistant Attorney General (AAG) of the National Security Division. Where a matter affects the national security, regardless of the specific statute(s) implicated, prosecutions shall be instituted and conducted under the supervision of the Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, or higher authority. 28 C.F.R. § 0.72.”

https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-90000-national-security


67 posted on 06/22/2023 8:01:34 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Sandy Berger - $50,000 fine + 2 years probation + 100 hours community service + clearance suspended)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Except you and your cronies.


68 posted on 06/22/2023 9:18:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“nobody is above the law.”**

** Unless your a democrat


69 posted on 06/22/2023 9:44:33 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: NorthMountain

“So ... When does Barry get prosecuted for the dodgy goings-on in Benghazi?”

Or Fast and Furious?


70 posted on 06/22/2023 9:45:59 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

B.S.

Blah blah blah … “I’ve got a pen and a phone” …blah blah blah


71 posted on 06/22/2023 10:05:11 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Except “the One”...


72 posted on 06/22/2023 11:02:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I believe we will get around to dealing with this smirking poseur before it is all over.


73 posted on 06/23/2023 4:13:53 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Obama won’t talk about the Biden’s and the MSM won’t even ash him about them.

All sewer pipes lead to one spot


74 posted on 06/23/2023 9:07:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Seaplaner
"Really, Mister Obama?

One word...

Hillary"

Really? Your fondness for Cankles easily demonstrated by your posting history:

"Sorry, very sorry to say, Hillary will nuke Mister Inarticulate (trump) both in the debates and the general."


75 posted on 06/23/2023 1:28:02 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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