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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGrassley: "If I were POTUS and had a lawyer that said I could pardon myself,I'd hire a new lawyer
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Me.
(35,454 posts)malaise
(269,057 posts)A ReTHUG said something on this subject. That took long.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)like a year ago?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)regardless of what any lawyer told him.
Of course, Spanky's lawyers have all been pretty awful.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)from my Senator.
He will probably "clarify" by the end of the day.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)RockRaven
(14,974 posts)I trust Grassley to be consistent between words and actions about as far as I can throw him.
Still, LOL at him dissing Giuliani, Sekulow et al.
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)"trial balloons" such as this nonsense that Trump can pardon himself.
And project, and change the news cycle, or lessen the damage from other things coming out to expose them all. He's not using LAW , he's using propaganda, big difference here. trump likes that.
Botany
(70,516 posts)ro·de·o clown
noun
(at a rodeo) a person whose job is to distract the bull from a competitor who has been unseated in a bull-riding event, or to provide comic entertainment for an audience between events.
"for the past five years as a rodeo clown Harrison has kept riders out of harm's way"
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)Their degrees worth as much as stuff you'll get in cereal boxes.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Even if you are indicted for dozens upon dozens of crimes?
What would you say then, Chuck?
Initech
(100,081 posts)niyad
(113,348 posts)you and your fellow pukes created this monster, and now, you cannot control him.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)this has nothing to do with ethics or fair application of the law.
Grassley's farmer constituency is being crushed by Trump's tariffs and the reciprocal tariffs they engender. Chuck is merely covering his political butt!
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Grassley votes not to convict in Trump's impeachment trial.