Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

Rudy Giuliani: Trump ‘probably’ has the power to pardon himself — but ‘he has no intention’ of doing it

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/rud...e+Raw+Story%29

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Rudy Giuliani: Trump ‘probably’ has the power to pardon himself — but ‘he has no intention’ of doing it

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/rud...e+Raw+Story%29

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2 things about that. 1. No he does not have that power. 2. Funny how he didn't say that Trump had no need to pardon himself.

:lmao now Trump distancing himself from Manafort

:lmao fucking Rudy

I remember how TSA said Trump did not dictate that statement about the tower meeting :lol

Mark Penn “Why are there people from the Clinton Foundation on the Mueller Staff? Why is there an Independent Counsel? To go after people and their families for unrelated offenses...Constitution was set up to prevent this...Stormtrooper tactics almost.” A disgrace!

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Mark Penn “Why are there people from the Clinton Foundation on the Mueller Staff? Why is there an Independent Counsel? To go after people and their families for unrelated offenses...Constitution was set up to prevent this...Stormtrooper tactics almost.” A disgrace!

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It's not an independent counsel.

Dude failed.

Things guilty people say

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Things guilty people say

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Awkward: Rudy Giuliani Opens MTP Interview by Calling Chuck Todd ‘Todd’… Then ‘Chris’

Just moments after being welcomed to the show by MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, Giuliani called him by his last name.

“It’s nice to be with you Todd,” he said.

Todd, aptly called by that name in news reports but not during on-camera interviews, began to respond as Giuliani noticed the blunder, piping up with, “Chris!”

“We’re not playing baseball,” the attorney joked.

Todd laughed, making light of the moment.

“We won’t do the last names, Giuliani,” he said.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/awkward-rudy-giuliani-opens-mtp-interview-by-calling-chuck-todd-todd-then-chris/

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so obama and/or clinton were willing to do this "worse than watergate" spying and fake investigation, no problem.

but releasing unverified information that could have swung the election and allowed them to get away with it? nope, they're too honorable to do that

which defeats the purpose of this whole conspiracy theory. making the dangerous play of breaking the law at every step that they aren't going to use UNLESS trump, the guy who can bust them, gets elected.

look, its not my fault your theory doesnt make sense

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yup, zero sense. Not to mention that now-bad-dude Comey was then-good-dude Comey because he had no qualms reopening the investigation on Shillary, days before the election.

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:lmao things guilty people say.

:lmao can't fucking spell
:lmao Manafort got that boy shook

Damn. TSA and Chris in hiding after spygate. Perfecting their vanishing acts to match Trump's presidency

Chris Christie Rebuts Trump’s Manafort Claim: Not DOJ’s Job to Vet Your Campaign

“I did this for seven years George, as you know as U.S. attorney,” Christie told George Stephanopoulos in response to Trump’s tweet.

“I don’t care what you’re running for. We’re not telling you.”

“We’re not a private investigation firm to help you with vetting your people who you employ in your campaign,”

Christie continued.

“The fact is, that the reason we operate that way is because in the Justice Department we’re supposed to keep those things secret.

We’re legally bound to keep them secret

unless and until we have some type of charges to announce.

and people want it that way because

you don’t want every rumor and every investigation that’s run down by the Justice Department there in public.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-christie-rebuts-trumps-manafort-claim-not-fbis-job-to-vet-your-campaign/

Trump’s Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected


WASHINGTON —In what they believe is a legal masterstroke, lawyers for Donald J. Trump are now claiming that he cannot be impeached because he was never actually elected.

In a lengthy memo sent to the special counsel, Robert Mueller, the

lawyers pushed back vehemently against any allegation that Trump was legally elected President.
“Because Russian interference made the election of Donald J. Trump wholly illegitimate,

any attempt to remove him from an office that he does not legally hold is clearly impossible,” the memo asserted.

The memo claimed that the

Constitution contains “no provision for removing a person from office when that person was installed there by a foreign power.”

The memo went on to argue that, if a subpoena is sent to the White House, it will be returned to Mueller and stamped “addressee unknown.”

“A person referred to in a subpoena as ‘President’ Donald J. Trump simply does not exist,” the memo claimed.

Minutes after the memo was leaked, the former New York mayor

Rudolph Giuliani appeared on “Fox & Friends” and proudly announced that he was its author.

“Sometimes I have to just step back and say, ‘Damn it, Rudy, you’re good,’ ” he said, beaming.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trumps-lawyers-argue-that-he-cannot-be-impeached-because-he-was-never-actually-elected

The View’s Meghan McCain whines Trump scandals are too confusing to care about :lol

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/vie...e+Raw+Story%29

My nugga

DOJ Website Clearly Contradicts Trump on Presidential Self-Pardons

In a memo dated August 5, 1974 and authored by Acting Assistant Attorney General, Mary C. Lawton, the DOJ notes, “Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case, the President cannot pardon himself.”

The memo continues:

Pursuant to Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, the “Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment,” is vested in the President.

This raises the question whether the President can pardon himself.

Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case,

it would seem that the question should be answered in the negative.

Lawton’s analysis isn’t particularly lengthy;

the entire memo tops out at just shy of three full pages.

In the memo, Lawton raises–then immediately dismisses–the possibility of applying the necessity doctrine to a situation that might result in an attempt at a presidential self-pardon.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/doj-website-clearly-contradicts-trump-on-presidential-self-pardons/

the idea of a president pardoning himself is completely absurd imo

putting aside the legal question of whether it's constitutional or not... its an asinine concept