Oh noes, misdemeanor parading! Please, for the sake of The Children, won’t Merrick Garland do something?
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Apparently, the OLC memo was written in September, 1973, AFTER the Watergate scandal had already exploded. Interestingly, just a month before Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.
- April 6, 1973: White House counsel John Dean begins cooperating with federal Watergate prosecutors.
- April 27, 1973: L. Patrick Gray resigns after it comes to light that he destroyed files from E. Howard Hunt’s safe. William Ruckelshaus is appointed as his replacement.
- April 30, 1973: Senior White House administration officials Ehrlichman, Haldeman, and Richard Kleindienst resign, and John Dean is fired.
- May 17, 1973: The Senate Watergate Committee begins its nationally televised hearings.
- May 19, 1973: Independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox appointed to oversee investigation into possible presidential impropriety.
- June 3, 1973: John Dean tells Watergate investigators that he has discussed the cover-up with Nixon at least 35 times.
- July 13, 1973: Alexander Butterfield, former presidential appointments secretary, reveals that all conversations and telephone calls in Nixon’s office have been taped since 1971.
- July 18, 1973: Nixon orders White House taping systems disconnected.
- July 23, 1973: Nixon refuses to turn over presidential tapes to the Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor.
- Vice President replaced:
- October 10, 1973: Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States due to corruption while he was the governor of Maryland.
- October 12, 1973: Gerald Ford is nominated as vice president under the 25th Amendment.
September, 1973: In September 1973, just under a year before Nixon resigned, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel determined that a criminal case against the president “would interfere with the President’s unique official duties, most of which cannot be performed by anyone else.” Therefore, impeachment is the only manner by which a sitting president can be penalized for wrongdoing.
- October 20, 1973: “Saturday Night Massacre” – Nixon orders Elliot Richardson and Ruckelshaus to fire special prosecutor Cox. They both refuse to comply and resign. Robert Bork considers resigning but carries out the order.
Could it be that Nixon was emboldened by this new OLC memo???
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A misdemeanor, key to allowing multiple felonies.
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Care to explain?
O/T. A 4th of July reminder (not that TPMers need one).
On the road to and from our self-imposed exile to Texistan we had the honor to cross the Oklahoma panhandle on the:
Added bonus: For those who have never had the pleasure, this is the scenic beauty you experience along that wondrous stretch of highway:
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Ain’t nobody around to complain if you take a whizz on that sign.
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That bit is actually tightly constructed in the Kelkyanne fashion
It is intended to give the impression that he got the most votes of anyone ever but that is not actually what it says. What it says is that he got the most votes of anybody who was a sitting President at the time of the election. Totally accurate piece of information used to create a false impression.
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While DOJ under Meek Merrick whines about access to the House Jan 6 Committee interview transcripts, Representative Zoe Lofgren pointed out that DOJ did not even bother to subpoena Cassidy Hutchinson as part of its “investigation” … As Representative Lofgren queried, “What are they [DOJ] doing over there?”
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“Warmongering and despicable human being Liz Cheney, who is hated by the great people of Wyoming (down 35!), keeps saying, over and over again, that HER Fake Unselect Committee may recommend CRIMINAL CHARGES against a President of the United States who got more votes than any sitting President in history,” Trump wrote.
Ooooo, I’ll bet Liz is really scared.
Or would be, if she ever stops laughing.
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He’s an out of control psychopath - totally incapable of self-management … so keep pinging his twisted brain … his going to relentlessly threaten & disparage any & every person that he deems to have offended him … until he strokes out … or until he regains power and the can simply kill them instead.
Make no mistake - if by some awful ugly quirk of fate, the asshole regains the reins of power - he will wage a totalatrian reign of retribution … incarceration / execution / exile … he has lost all connection to prudent reasoning & is now consumed by a lunatic thirst for vengeance.
Remember - always remember- some time ago this mentally unstable deranged asshole openly acknowledged that it is a fundamental rule for him to hurt … really hurt - the people that he perceived hurt him …AND … to hurt them 10X the amount that he perceives that they hurt him …
He isn’t a “turn the other cheek kind of guy”
He isn’t even just an “eye-for-an-eye” kind of guy
Nope… he’s a “you crash into my car … I burn down your house with you & your family in it” kind of guy.
So ping his brain with facts & exposure of every corrupt action he has ever perpetrated … boil his brain with stuff that jacks his BP through the roof!
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Happy 4th everyone.
What a nice article to start the day off with. TFG has lost it at the hands of Liz Cheney and the J6C. Watching that stupid excuse for a human being twisting in the wind, hearing him repeat the same pathetically lame excuses makes my heart soar.
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Lock the mutha*cker up along with the rest of the tRump crime family!
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Oh noes, Al Capone cheated on his taxes.
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Trump is flailing like a hooked fish.
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That’s a weird way to keep score. “Best Loser”
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Kind of overlooks that Constitution thingy they all swore to uphold: “In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President” - Article II, §1
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Should coordinate nicely with his fake spray tan and concealer skin color.
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The best con has an element of truth.
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