Crimes
Trump is feeling bumptious today. He did a shout-fest with reporters on the driveway again today, in which he shouted that it was the Democrats who caused the drowning of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria on Monday.
Then he shouted that Mueller committed a crime.
Donald Trump, without offering evidence, on Wednesday directly accused former special counsel Robert Mueller of committing a crime, saying Mueller had illegally “terminated” FBI communications as part of his Russia investigation.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
“Mueller terminated them illegally. He terminated all of the emails. … Robert Mueller terminated their text messages together. He terminated them. They’re gone. And that’s illegal. That’s a crime,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network, referring to two former Federal Bureau of Investigation employees who exchanged disparaging messages about the president.
Shall we talk about all the crimes – actual crimes, not notional ones – Donald Trump has committed? How many days do you have?
Terminated an email. WTF does that even mean?
Deleted them? He seems to have been confused about whether he meant emails or text messages. Probably ranting about Strzok and Page for the billionth time, but who knows.
Once again this demonstrates that the checks and balances are worth nothing. A manifestly unfit and random fool is President, but he can’t be removed by impeachment (because a self-serving Senate majority are more interested in power than anything else) and the Executive Officials and VP will not go anywhere near the c4 of the 25th Amendment because they are themselves a bunch of unfit hacks that no decent President would ever have appointed.
Lesson: If you’re a horrible unfit person for a job, appoint horrible unfit underlings who know their own success and enrichment depend entirely on keeping you in power.
It’s worse than that. The Democratic majority in the House is too chicken to even set the evidence before the people.
maddog1129, I’m not so sure it’s that simple. It would be satisfying to see Trump’s face as Congress goes through the motions, but there is a bigger and more strategic picture. The Senate are never going to impeach Trump.
The plus side of impeachment proceedings is that it sends an unambiguous message that the Democratic party will not tolerate the obvious unfitness of Trump. This may help rally parts of their disparate base and pull a few more votes in.
The downside is that it will sure as hell motivate Trump supporters AND those who lean Republican and want Republican’s in power. It will also be the end of useful government and getting anything through Congress for the remainder of the term. You can be certain that not only will any sort of co-operation in the running of the government cease, but that the GOP will go scorched earth. Trump and the Executive branch will feel they have been liberated. They will have literally nothing left to loose in trying to destroy anything the Democratic party hold dear.
Is this a strong case for holding off? Not really. But it is a case with sound reasoning and a long term goal. Govern as best they can for the next year, prevent an outright shit fight that they may not win. Leave the question of Trumps crimes open so that if the Democratic Party holds Congress and the Executive next term the case for a criminal investigation of Trump and those around him can possibly be pursued.