“…referring to a Feb. 2022 call between Trump and Navarro. Navarro has repeatedly pointed to this call as proof that the former president made it clear to him that he was invoking executive privilege over Navarro’s congressional testimony.”
I still don’t understand why it does not seem obvious the TFG did not have the authority to invoke “executive privilege” in Feb of 2022. He was NOT president then. Can someone explain this to me? I mean it seems a no-brainer to me.
Obviously Trump used his beautiful mind box powers, which are normally reserved for declassifying anything he wants, to imbue the phone call with Executive Privilege™.
You only have yourself to blame. Depending on Donald Trump is a fool’s errand. Ask Rudy about his unpaid hours. With trump the rule is ‘get it upfront or don’t get it.’
I think that’s the point. Assert bullshit and drag it around until it wears out, then drag out more bullshit. But I think it is dawning on the lot of them now that once they face a judge they are fucked. Also, too, they are seeing that the big guy will underbuss them without a thought.
“We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Your distinctiveness will be added to OH MY GOD GET HIM OUT OF HERE. WE DON’T WANT TO ASSIMILATE THAT SHIT. WE DON’T EVEN WANT TO GET IT ON OUR SHOES!”
Nope. There may have been a couple of those, but most of the lawyers apparently knew better than to allege fraud for which they had zero evidence. They alleged irregularities; failure to follow state laws by creating safer voting conditions for the pandemic [e.g., drop boxes, loosening of requirements for absentee ballots or even sending applications for them to all registered voters (GASP!)]; excessive distance between ballot processing and poll watchers; and so forth.
Did they actually have any evidence that the changes in procedures actually changed a single vote. I don’t remember hearing any. They simply made a false assertion as normal. I think we are both right.