we haven’t asserted executive privilege
Liar.
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More BS from Rudy. Fact is the President is sworn to uphold laws passed by Congress.
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“Now, is there a narrow area where you could question him? I don’t know. We don’t have to deal with that, because he had very legitimate reasons for firing Comey.”
Slowly coughs
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I can’t look at Giuliani now without seeing Roland Freisler, the lead judge in Hitler’s People’s Court who harangued and bullied those deemed insufficiently loyal to the fuhrer at the end of WWII. Lawyers tend to be morally ambiguous at the best of times – almost a requirement of the profession – and when they go over to the dark side altogether it’s a scary thing to watch. Freilser would have hanged at Nuremberg if he hadn’t been killed during an allied bombing raid on Berlin in 1945.
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I truly believe Giuliani has violated the NY Bar rules as well as those of the ABA by deliberately lying about his client’s actions, by misleading the public on the law, and by his own actions that imho are obstructing justice.
Has anyone filed a bar complaint against him yet?
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Now see Rudy is speaking in circles here. He is correct. But he is actually referencing what seems to be a bad case of §resdential constipation in the early a.m.
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Does this guy actually listen to himself?
He’s just stated that the President is above the law. Clearly and without pause.
Geez, why doesn’t he share what he’s drinking with the rest of us? I want to know what it’s like to go through life with that level of delusional thinking.
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[quote]The President’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, denied allegations that the President ordered a hitman to kill a man and then “Leave the gun, take the cannoli,” saying that the President “would never do that. He wouldn’t do that.” Giuliani continued, “The President is a frugal and responsible person. He would never order someone to leave a gun behind. It’s a waste of money and it’s just not safe to leave a gun unsupervised in the back of a car, especially if there’s a body in the front seat. It’s just ludicrous to suggest the President would tell someone to be that wasteful.”
When questioned about Giuliani’s statements during the daily press briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders evicted the reporters from the briefing, noting that there would be “no tolerance” for fake news stories about quotes from the President’s lawyer.[/quote]
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Rudy: “yes, but we have winners on our side.”
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At some point, isn’t everyone in Trump’s orbit complicit in obstruction of justice? Could Rudy Giuliani be charged with aiding and abetting, and if so, would he say “aiding and abetting is not a crime.”
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At this point, it’s merely to confuse people, and given that such people may have voted for Trump, I’m sure they’ll succeed. OT, did anyone read the frightening article about QAnon in WaPo this morning? These are scary people. They are waiting for a sign from their Dear Leader …
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Giuliani said … “under Article II of the Constitution, if the President is acting within his capacity as President, and he fires someone, then that can’t be questioned.”
Isn’t that just the verbose way of saying, “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
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The great thing about constitutional law is that there is so much good shit to quote. In a slightly different context, Justice Jackson, stated that the constitution is not a “suicide pact” Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1, 36 (1949)(Jackson, J. Dissenting).
A whole lot of what Trump is arguing, regarding the emollients clause, caging kids, his new proposal to give $100B in tax cuts to the rich, or his just rejected arguments he can cut off funds to “sanctuary cities” is based upon the view that he is above the law.
Faced with what is an existential threat to our democracy, there is no way that many Judges (and Roberts would not be one of them, so there are 5 votes on the Supreme Court) will go along with the idea that the president can simply end an investigation of himself for corrupt reasons.
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if the President is acting within his capacity as President, and he fires someone, then that can’t be questioned
What cannot be questioned is his authority to fire someone. What can be questioned is the reason for or consequence of the otherwise legal action.
I have the Constitutional right to own a gun, and that cannot be questioned. But if I use that legal right to kill somebody I cannot use my Constitutional right as a defense for murder.
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Rudy’s argument is gibberish. If Trump acts with the intent of thwarting an ongoing Federal investigation, whether into himself or others, he is obstructing justice, a Federal crime. The crime is in the intent not the act.
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I hate to be so pessimistic but I believe that Trump is going to walk away from all of this and still get re-elected in 2020. NO ONE in Congress has the “balls” to shut him down.
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Welcome to the inside of Trump’s brain. No boundaries. No self-control. No accountability. Just self-absorption and doubling down on the crazy. This will continue until the Republican Party releases the only way to stop Trump is to commit Hari Kari.
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Trump did have legitimate reasons for firing Comey (R-Obama Appointee), but they weren’t the reasons he fired him.
We don’t have a democracy. We don’t elect the President and we have no voting rights. Our Constitution is a suicide pact.
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Man is he gonna walk this back too. He just implied that asserting executive privilege would be obstruction. And that denying access to witnesses would be obstruction, but Trump hasn’t been interviewed yet…
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