The GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee accused the White House of taking an approach to the committee’s Russia investigation that showed a “potential for abuse of executive privilege, particularly as it relates to impeding a Congressional inquiry.”
the frustration and the disdain
A person with little political capital, like Donald, would need to go into debt, a lot of it, to dig out. It’s business. If Donald had no money, he’d need loans to stay afloat.
…potential for abuse…? Sweet baby jesus.
Saying this administration has “potential for abuse of executive privilege" is like saying Cookie Monster has a potential for admiring chocolate chips. It’s like saying a Kardashian has potential for plastic surgery. Like saying Kenny G has potential for committing light jazz. Like saying…
“Cohen also testified that after his initial interview, Sekulow mentioned ‘pardons’ or ‘pre-pardons’ for Cohen,” the report said.
I suppose that the “pre-pardons” were for all of the obstruction and perjury that they expected Cohen to deliver during his subsequent testimony.
GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee is grandstanding because elections!
Meanwhile…
Nov3rd…Nov3rd…Nov3rd!
So, it looks like the attorneys in Biden’s DoJ are gonna get a lot of practice preparing and trying obstruction cases, starting with the Mueller counts Billy Barr deep-6’d and working through the actions of all of the folks in, and working on, Donnie’s purported joint defense agreements.
Republicans are on the deck, looking up at the life boats, wondering… when?
Very different attitude from just a few months ago.
By now, they should be joining the fucking rats and taking their chance in the water.
Then again, no one on this campaign or still in this maladministration has shown a knack for good judgment.
All of this, ALL OF IT, is evidence of Obstruction of Justice and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. The new Biden AG will have a Enron-Squared case to run down next year. I would love to see Preet Bharara take this on as AG or as a Special Counsel with assistance from Andrew Weissmann.
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“For “strategic” reasons related to time constraints and other considerations, the committee decided not to challenge the White House’s approach in court.”
“The committee decided not to dive deeper into whether this supposed JDA amounted to obstruction, because of the time and resources the likely litigation around the JDA would have cost.”
Or as the last great GOP president crowed, “Mission Accomplished.”
Not only did committee Republicans know all the damning information contained in their report, and vote to acquit Trump notwithstanding–they had personally been the object of the contemptuous bullshit delay and obstruction tactics that Trumpworld unleashed on the House impeachment investigation. They fought against Trump’s obstruction of their own investigation, and then acquitted him of obstructing the House investigation.
Their profile in spineless “please-kick-me-harder-master” lackeyism will go down in history along with Trump’s malignant vandalism of the constitutional order. The latter could never have happened without the former.
Actually, if Senate Republicans were the prime mover behind opting not to contest Donnie’s moves, when there was at least one precedent in their favor, they went a long way towards making themselves complicit.
Establishing that more clearly would, however, require access to records on the debate and votes about whether or not to pursue the matters in court. At present, that information is not in evidence. SInce it SSCI, the likelihood is it never will be.
Crap president but passable Alec Baldwin impersonator
The day Americans from all walks of life lit a fire under Congress!
A fish rots from the head down.
I guess I should be glad they’re “concerned.”
That’s about what it amounts to.
Behind the scene:
Oh Donnie you know we did not mean it.
Please forgive us.
And then there is Mitch the Enabler - the reason Congress has no checks and balance and allows a power-mongering sociopath to sh*t all over the Constitution and to stand common decency and the truth on its head, and to run roughshod over the American people by lying, cheating, lying, bragging, lying in the clear light of day. Thanks Mitch.
