Popehat spent last week skewering them, and that was pretty hilarious. ;)
What NBC News is confirming is Trump’s comments to the Russians on Comey, not sealed indictments, grand juries, or Kushner as a target.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was K T Mcfarland who was the target, since she was close to Flynn and remains in the White House. I remain unconvinced that the investigation has picked up much beyond the many rules Flynn broke. If Kushner really is a target, of course, everything changes.
Misunderstood when backtracking.
Kushner is pretty much confirmed a person of interest, but that is a vague statement than can mean 100 different things.
The rest of it is… whatever. There are grand juries involved. Sealed indictments is… just silly according to basically everyone.
I know someone who is going on Mensch’s #TeamDeza list now @ShivaX ;)
The fact that Mensch labels anyone who disagree with her as a Russian agent should be enough reason for people to ignore her. I don’t think she has really come up with anything. Even the FISA story, it’s not like that thought of that wasn’t being discussed, so you could have just been throwing shit at the wall to see if it sticks. I’d take anything they say with a grain of salt. If it is legit it will show up with real reporters at some point.
Heh, Karl Rove is on CNN saying this most recent stuff looks real bad for Trump.
You know you really have gone off the range if Karl Rove thinks it is bad
Say it isn’t so:
This is news?
Can Trump pardon himself? Really, it’s starting to sound that crazy.
I guess he can’t because that would be like getting three wishes from a genie and using the last wish to wish for more wishes.
A person can be pardoned before being convicted and even before being charged with anything. The pardon need not specify what offenses are covered. President Richard Nixon’s case exemplifies this breadth; Nixon had not been indicted, but President Gerald Ford pardoned him preemptively for every federal offense he had “committed or may have committed” while in office.
No president has ever tried to pardon himself, let alone been prosecuted after trying to pardon himself, so no court has had a chance to rule on the validity of self-pardons. Nixon considered pardoning himself just before he resigned. His lawyer advised him that he had the power, but Nixon decided against it. President Bill Clinton rendered the issue moot by reaching a settlement with his special prosecutor the day before he left office (and pardoned 140 people other than himself).
If a court ever did consider the issue, the decision could go either way because there are reasonable arguments on both sides. The president (or ex-president by the time he would be prosecuted) would have a very simple case that his self-pardon was valid: There is nothing in the Constitution that explicitly forbids it.
If Trump could pardon himself he would’ve robbed Fort Knox already.
Ha ha – and then he would have reverted us to using gold to back the dollar.
We really just need to put up prison fences around Mar-a-Lago and remove him from office and not tell him, but confine him there. “Mr. President, the Capital has been moved here for security reasons and you have been appointed President for Life, but it’s too unsafe to leave. Your tee time is in 45 minutes.”
Robert Reich, on Facebook, suggested presidential annulment as an alternative to resignation/impeachment: https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/photos/a.404595876219681.103599.142474049098533/1572411606104763/?type=3
“I’m referring to action that officially negates the Trump presidency as an historic error.”
Hah! YGG.
If Trump pardoned himself, he would lose his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Congress could ask him about anything, and he would have to answer truthfully or go to jail.
Just sayin’
Exactly… we’re still waiting for the Fort Knox and Federal Reserve Audits, the reversion to the gold standard, and the release of the Roswell alien contact info. MAGA!
Shh! Don’t tell him.
What if he pardoned himself for perjury?