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Color me deeply skeptical.
Mueller will not indict Trump for obstruction of justice or for any other crime. Period. Full stop. End of story. Speculations to the contrary are just fantasy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/even-if-trump-is-found-guilty-mueller-wouldnt-be-the-indictment-decision-maker/551753/
MFM008
(19,818 posts)He finds something so egregious that norms are not applicable.
Maggot has never followed rules.
He's led a consequence free life and acted thusly and with aggressive abandon.
We don't know WHAT Mueller is on to, neither does the author of this Atlantic article.
I do believe fatty will be impeached, but after the November election.
The Mueller report will have recommendations and
Even if HE doesn't indict directly
we democrats can use that report as the basis for impeachment next year.
marble falls
(57,172 posts)What we need is Congress.
Demsrule86
(68,643 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,440 posts)...but I think it's either he will spend the rest of his life in jail or he will defect to Russia or some other country that is sympathetic to dictators. One my strongest values is the defense of Democracy--more important than any religion, any other value system I hold except perhaps family--and Democracy serves that value well. I know I am not alone. I see passions running deep here. For all our differences of opinion, we all hold Democracy dear. I know this is in the hearts of people all over this country, no matter the party with which they identify. I suspect so many Repubs haven't sensed the threat that is so obvious to us. But many of them have. I believe in our people, no matter how foolish they have been, I believe they will defend Democracy and that justice will be served.
still_one
(92,372 posts)questionable if a sitting President can even be indicted without being impeached first, and unless Democrats get control of Congress in 2018 that is very unlikely
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Mueller did not bring in 17 of the top money laundering experts to say, "Nope, no crimes here."
Besides, there's always the NY AG as a fallback!
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Biography:
Paul Rosenzweig is a Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute and a Principal at Red Branch Consulting. Twenty years ago he served as a Senior Counsel in the investigation of President Clinton.
From his website: "Paul Rosenzweig is an accomplished writer and speaker with a national reputation in cyber security and homeland security. Mr. Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company, and a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University and a Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He is an advisor to and former member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security and a Contributing Editor of the Lawfare blog. In 2011 he was a Carnegie Fellow in National Security Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, where he now serves as an Adjunct Lecturer."
Also was with the Heritage Foundation, and the Department of Homeland Security for the second term of George W Bush.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)Paul R., author of the article in the Atlantic, is a true conservative republican. He is the one who introduced Lina Tripp to the Ken Starr investigation, while he was working for Ken Starr. He is not a Trump supporter, but he will defend the party. That may color the article...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I always get thrown when generally left of center news publications have conservative op-ed writers. Seems to be happening more and more often these days.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)...that his family he grew up in is liberal, and he hates liberals... (so he told me...)
unblock
(52,309 posts)Fine, theyll think twice about it, theyll be reluctant to do it perhaps.
But imagine in a president were to murder someone with his bare hands in front of plenty of witnesses. On federal property so no state can go after him.
Come on, theres no way hes not getting a free pass.
And if you admit that, then its a question of which crimes a president gets indicted now of later for, which at least is a very different question.
Scoopster
(423 posts)A grand jury will.