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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClaude Taylor: Trump notified via a sealed target letter that he is a suspect in a GJ inv
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
BumRushDaShow
(129,094 posts)triron
(22,006 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)That being said, I am highly skeptical of this rumor.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)1) This is a federal grand jury? Doubt it, he controls all of the federal prosecutors
2) State/County grand jury? Unlikely
In the history of the US no President has been indicted by a Grand Jury out of respect for the Separation of Power clause of the Constitution. The "grand jury" for the President of the US is the House of Representatives.
This would be a terrible precedent if it were true because it would mean that grand juries could indict Democratic Presidents. If you think that actions like this work only against Republicans then you are very naive.
It is an ironic contradiction to Mensch's tweet however because she has already stated that an indictment is already in hand. I doubt either one of them are bright enough to realize that they are now contradicting each other in their effort to create fiction to drive their fans ardor.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)even though a whole bunch of his minions were. Instead, the grand jury that indicted Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Colson, Strachan, Mardian, and Parkinson secretly named Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator. The special prosecutor dissuaded them from an indictment of Nixon on the ground that a President can't be indicted until he leaves office because of separation of powers/executive privilege issues.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)by the first judge they could find.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)his presidency but after he leaves office you could. He can't pardon himself either.
triron
(22,006 posts)flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)So far, I haven't seen any.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)Clyde and pal Louise Mensch are rumor-mongers who often can't even get their basic legal terminology straight. Why would anyone with real information they wanted to make public leak it to these guys and not to the Washington Post or the New York Times, media outlets that would actually be taken seriously?
grantcart
(53,061 posts)their chances of confirming what they are reporting.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Was convened to hear evidence of a Trump financial crime committed before he was President? Maybe the GJ was convened by NY State AG...