Well if congress can read it they should be able to act on it, even if the general public can’t have access to it, shouldn’t they?
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What, you were expecting consistency and coherence??
Silly boy.
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Many of the crimes happened BEFORE he was President, so where is the Executive Privilege? That doesn’t apply to Executives of the Trump Crime Organization.
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Sit back and look at everything that is going on, it feels like the tea kettle is about to scream.
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tRump is more and more isolated. Republicans–ones in office, not just those who have announced retirement–have started finding the courage to criticize him.
It’s like a dam being undermined. Not much to see on the surface until all hell breaks loose.
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Though I think that’s entirely true, the likely-sensational nature of the revelations will at some point drown out their cries of victimhood. There will always be the final circle of morons supporting him, but at that point we’d be talking full-on Little Bighorn, just with orange hair this time.
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Explains why he’s prepared to keep the shutdown running as long as possible, keep as much of the media focused elsewhere as he can.
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President Donald Trump may wield his executive privilege to try to keep portions of it from release to Congress and the public.
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This may work to delay release of any written report from the SCO.
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The SCO has other lawful ways to get information into the public domain.
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Great analogy.
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I was talking with my son yesterday. He said, “Dad, if Mueller report is released it will be so heavily redacted that the Republicans will point at it and say, ‘Look! This doesn’t say anything. We can’t impeach him on the basis of this report.’”
I told him, “I have more faith in the American people than that. If that report is released in a redacted form it points directly at guilt. I’d be surprised if Whitaker were not called onto the Judiciary Committee’s carpet to answer for the redactions, and end up either charged with obstruction of justice himself or contempt of Congress (or both).”
If Mueller’s report shows any evidence of conspiracy with the Russian/Saudi/Israeli governments, or evidence of obstruction of justice, then Induhvidual One is toast. His approval ratings will drop below 30%, and that’s the point where Courage-the-Cowardly-Senators (like Mittens, and Collins) will start to fear the general electorate more than the GOP Primary electorate.
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Yes. People don’t realize that Nixon had the full support of his colleagues in the Legislative Branch.
And they all defended him vehemently. Right up until they saw what he had actually done. That was the “smoking gun” of the tapes.
Mueller’s entire report will be a smoking gun.
Or, more accurately, a smoking missile silo.
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Evil Destroys Itself.
- Stupid doesn’t slow the process down either
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“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
- Martin Kuther King, Jr.
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The difference being that, whatever else he was, Nixon wasn’t a sellout to the Russkies.
So we really have no equivalent to look back on.
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It will make no difference at all as to the most desirable outcome, that being Trump is removed from office. He may be hobbled, or rendered impotent. Pelosi can hand Trump his balls in a jar but it won’t cause him to resign. He’ll eventually inhabit the office for the sake of having it, and refuse to leave out of the fatal blow to his ego and narcissism voluntarily leaving would cause. Stay he will, unless 67 Senators can be cobbled together to convict in an impeachment trial. It’s less than two years until the next change of power, and my bet is the GOP Senate lets this ride and manages it as best they can, not wanting to deal with the drama and unkown consequences of booting him.
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Just indict the bastard.
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What truly puzzles me is that the GOP led Senate and GOP House members still do not recognize that getting rid of this human canker sore would help THEM “bigly”. They would have Pence in the White House. Immeasurably easier to work with, and wholly, more likable than ‘jefe naranje’. They should turn on him and move ahead with governing, instead of obstructing.
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IIRC, Mueller has been pretty darn good at filing verrrrrry loooooong court docs when indictments have gone down. There’s no reason to assume that he won’t continue. (And, IIRC, there are still a stack or two of sealed indictments hanging around DC and VA courts, possibly SDNY as well…)
Seems to me Mueller’s figured out a way to get an awful lot of info out there. Some great journalist is going to follow the trail of crumbs and we won’t need to see much of Mueller’s “final report” to get the full picture.
Apropos “final report in Feb”? Didn’t Mueller just get another 6 months? Wouldn’t that make it, oh, August or so?
Just as primary season is really beginning to kick off. Gotta love it.
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no matter what the report says, trump will claim it proves no collusion.
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“He could indict Trump, testify before Congress himself or have a grand jury make a presentment, which is a report without a criminal charge.”
OR he could just say fuck it and release the report himself and, given the horrifying news it contains, tell every motherfucker in the Trump WH “come at me bro…I dare you.”
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