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New interview, just published by the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/politics/trump-interview-mueller-russia-china-north-korea.html
During an impromptu 30-minute interview with The New York Times at his golf club in West Palm Beach, the president did not demand an end to the Russia investigations swirling around his administration, but insisted 16 times that there has been no collusion discovered by the inquiry.
It makes the country look very bad, and it puts the country in a very bad position, Mr. Trump said of the investigation. So the sooner its worked out, the better it is for the country.
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I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department, he said, echoing claims by his supporters that as president he has the power to open or end an investigation. But for purposes of hopefully thinking Im going to be treated fairly, Ive stayed uninvolved with this particular matter.
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)Not to say he won;t strike in someway, but...
ON EDIT:
My post has been corrected by PubliusEnigma .
Please see just below..
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)I don't think he's even capable of that.
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)Stick a fork in him.
No really. Someone. Anyone.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)What about one of these?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana#/media/File:Katana_Masamune.jpg
Siwsan
(26,295 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)it is cover for when he fires him through the DOJ.
highplainsdem
(49,041 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Trump is about to get s lesson in Constitutionalism.
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Are there 2 of them to stand with " truth" and "honesty"?
After Trump fires Mueller, then what? We know what we will do, but at that point will some come together and do what is right? What is honest?...
We will see.
jmowreader
(50,566 posts)We need roughly 20 Republican Senators and 30 Republican House members to solve the Trump Problem.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,794 posts)Hissy fitter Trump may try to interfere with the DOJ, but he does dictate to them as to what to investigate. The DOJ is not Trump's personal law office. That is the job of the White House Counsel who serves the President in legal matters concerning his office and role in it.
If Trump tries to fire Robert Mueller, it will be Obstruction of Justice right there in the open and Congress will have to act.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Right. THAT is about to happen.
If that DOES happen it will be the wrongest I have ever been about anything..
Takket
(21,634 posts)Bullshit
if the president has the power to end investigations, the de facto implication of that is that the president is immune to any sort of prosecution and above all laws. After all, what president would allow an investigation to play out if they were guilty of a crime?
No one in their right mind could possibly interpret Constitutional law and come to that conclusion. The whole point of the Constitution's existence was literally to prevent a tyrant from having such power. It was written as a "power to the people" repudiation of the English monarchy. Drumpf thinks he had the absolute power of Constitutional checks and balances to act as a king.
highplainsdem
(49,041 posts)and neither are many of his aides and supporters.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Wanna bet that is no longer the case?
And who will stop him?
area51
(11,923 posts)That's what worries me. Even if congress ignores emolument clause, evidence of working with the Russians, just his obvious mental illness/instability is grounds for the 25th amendment, and they're doing nothing about it.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)if his actions become a problem to them or if he is no longer
of use to these Sponsors, they will come up with something,
some amendment.
UTUSN
(70,744 posts)BSdetect
(8,999 posts)Xolodno
(6,401 posts)It didn't happen, so now he's trying to distance himself and put pressure on the call to end it...."for the good of the country" BS of course.
cp
(6,664 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)Then throwing himself on the floor kicking his little feet.
But I am the President.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)There are no absolute rights under our system of government, don't you?
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)As long as the Reichstag Republicans and Rightwing SP Court go along with what he does, nothing can stop him!
Golden Raisin
(4,614 posts)Anny61
(100 posts)Sometimes, we have to suck it up.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)We know where that went.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Damn few of them now