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If you're a constitutional conservative, you must insist that Trump be brought to justice for obstruction. Glad to see some conservatives are seeing the light.
Republicans once could pride themselves on their stance toward upholding the rule of law. Not merely upright adherence to the norms of behavior and laws in a civilized society, but with integrity. Now the party is at a point of well deserved ridicule.
The only way to save the Republican party for the next generation is to purge itself from Trump filth. Otherwise it will devolve into a third party and be supplanted by something else.
So why didn’t Mueller day Trump committed obstruction then? Don’t give me the “he couldn’t charge him” crap. He could have still made it clear that Trump broke laws if he did
left and never Trumpers went from;
"tick tock, individual #1, tick tock"
to,
"Well of course Muller wouldn't indict Trump, it's against department policy"
Someone is going to put together a montage of all the hopes they heaped on the Muller investigation bringing charges against Trump.
And I will enjoy it.
So why didn’t Mueller day Trump committed obstruction then? Don’t give me the “he couldn’t charge him” crap. He could have still made it clear that Trump broke laws if he did
left and never Trumpers went from;
"tick tock, individual #1, tick tock"
to,
"Well of course Muller wouldn't indict Trump, it's against department policy"
Someone is going to put together a montage of all the hopes they heaped on the Muller investigation bringing charges against Trump.
And I will enjoy it.
In this country a person is innocent until proven guilty. That DOJ policy that a POTUS cannot be charged is stupid, but still in effect. What if Mueller had charged him? He would have that hanging over his head the rest of the term.
IMO, Mueller made it very clear when he said if we could have exonerated Trump we would have.
If you're a constitutional conservative, you must insist that Trump be brought to justice for obstruction. Glad to see some conservatives are seeing the light.
The introduction to the Volume II of our report explains that decision. It explains that under longstanding department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. That is unconstitutional. Even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that, too, is prohibited. A special counsel’s office is part of the Department of Justice, and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. Charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider. The department’s written opinion explaining the policy makes several important points that further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation. Those points are summarized in our report, and I will describe two of them for you.
First, the opinion explicitly permits the investigation of a sitting president, because it is important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents available. Among other things, that evidence could be used if there were co-conspirators who could be charged now.
And second, the opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. And beyond department policy, we were guided by principles of fairness. It would be unfair to potentially — it would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge.
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