Slouching Towards Oblivion

Showing posts with label mueller report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mueller report. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Now This Opinion

From Now This News - Alan Piper

  1. Trump says he's fucked - anything that totally exonerates you doesn't educe that particular reaction
  2. The report is heavily redacted - that's not, in itself, a red flag, but could imply there's a lot more very real trouble being kept from our view
  3. Sarah Huckleberry admitted she just made shit up - most notably to cover the reason for firing Jim Comey
  4. The pee tape might not be a thing - but then, why was Cohen taking action as if it was?
  5. Trump tried hard to derail Mueller's investigation
  6. The word "collusion" has no real meaning in the context of what's being investigated - they might as well be crowing, "no succotash".
  7. The Mueller Report does not exonerate Donald J Trump - if anything, it shows clearly:
45*'s presidency
is NOT legitimate

Sunday, April 21, 2019

A Few Points On The Mueller Report

The main theme from here on in is that 45*'s "presidency" is not legitimate.

From Karen Piper:



ppg 392-393

In sum, contrary to the position taken by the President's counsel, we concluded that, in
light of the Supreme Court precedent governing separation-of-powers issues, we had a valid basis for investigating the conduct at issue in this report. In our view, the application of the obstruction statutes would not impermissibly burden the President's performance of his Article II function to supervise prosecutorial conduct or to remove inferior law-enforcement officers. And the protection of the criminal justice system from corrupt acts by any person?including the President accords with the fundamental principle of our government that no person in this country is so high that he is above the law.
(United States v. Lee, 106 U.S. 196, 220 (1882); see also Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. at 697; United States v. Nixon, supra.)