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"The Mueller Report Was My Tipping Point
I was a Trump transition staffer, and Ive seen enough. Its time for impeachment."
"Lets start at the end of this story. This weekend, I read Special Counsel Robert Muellers report twice, and realized that enough was enoughI needed to do something. Ive worked on every Republican presidential transition team for the past 10 years and recently served as counsel to the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee. My permanent job is as a law professor at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, which is not political, but where my colleagues have held many prime spots in Republican administrations.
If you think calling for the impeachment of a sitting Republican president would constitute career suicide for someone like me, you may end up being right. But I did exactly that this weekend, tweeting that its time to begin impeachment proceedings.
Lets go back to the beginning. In August 2016, I interviewed to join the pre-transition team of Donald Trump. Since 2012, every presidential election stands up a pre-transition team for both candidates, so that the real transition will have had a six-month head start when the election is decided. I participated in a similar effort for Mitt Romney, and despite our defeat, it was a thrilling and rewarding experience. I walked into a conference room at Jones Day that Don McGahn had graciously arranged to lend to the folks interviewing for the transition team."
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"I wanted to share my experience transitioning from Trump team member to pragmatist about Trump to advocate for his impeachment, because I think many other Republicans are starting a similar transition. Politics is a team sport, and if you actively work within a political party, there is some expectation that you will follow orders and rally behind the leader, even when you disagree. There is a point, though, at which that expectation turns from a mix of loyalty and pragmatism into something more sinister, a blind devotion that serves to enable criminal conduct.
The Mueller report was that tipping point for me, and it should be for Republican and independent voters, and for Republicans in Congress. In the face of a Department of Justice policy that prohibited him from indicting a sitting president, Mueller drafted what any reasonable reader would see as a referral to Congress to commence impeachment hearings."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/587785/
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(13,609 posts)TwilightZone
(25,473 posts)Then, someone noted the acronym that would result and thought it might be a good idea to change it.
Thank you, what an accurate (and hilarious) statement!
orangecrush
(19,599 posts)yonder
(9,669 posts)but this line threw me off:
Amazing is not the word I would use.
orangecrush
(19,599 posts)was to show that even a Trump team member has concluded Trump is a criminal.