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Re: Exclusive: Trump asked Rosenstein if he was 'on my team'

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 01 Feb 18 4:27 PM | 56 view(s)
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Aha. A great piece of reporting on what is going on with the FBI memo. It's a shame that folks like Nunes think partisanship matters more than the rule of law. But that's the quality of the folks running the sinking ship.

"All this has built steadily toward a crisis for American democracy—a Saturday Night Massacre in slow motion. Press reports suggest the president may be contemplating using the memo to dismiss Rosenstein. That matters: If the president were to use his powers to insert someone lacking independence, that person could throttle the special counsel.

That move would, however, risk deepening the president’s obstruction of justice liability, and that of those around him who are involved in the decision. After all, firing Comey on dubious grounds with the alleged intent to hamper the Russia investigation led to an obstruction investigation. Cashiering Rosenstein would offer a matching bookend. That is particularly so in light of another startling report today: that the president sought details about the Russia investigation from Rosenstein, then asked him, “Are you on my team?” This echoes Trump’s demand for loyalty from Comey that helped kick off the obstruction investigation.

Rosenstein’s failure to provide sufficient answers has put his head on the chopping block, with the president reportedly preparing to use the memo as a pretext. This targeting of the deputy attorney general also makes clear the larger motivations of the smear campaign. It is plainly obstructive of the Russia investigation. From Trump on down, the hope seems to be that the best defense will prove to be a good offense. This is exactly the playbook Trump used to run when he was a slick up-and-coming Manhattan developer taking advice from the late Roy Cohn: attack, attack attack. But this is the presidency, and Trump has failed to learn the lesson of Cohn’s previous client and patron, Joe McCarthy. It’s not going to go the way he thinks."

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/31/trumps-saturday-night-massacre-is-happening-right-before-our-eyes-216560

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Re: Exclusive: Trump asked Rosenstein if he was 'on my team'
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Thu, 01 Feb 18 3:09 PM 		Msg. 23663 of 54959

And Rosenstein came prepared.

Of course I am on your team, Trumpy. Your government pays my salary. That makes me a team member. My loyalty to you reaches all the way up to my oath of office, and so long as we are all in tune with the rule of law, the constitution, statute, the common law, equity, custom, the independence of this department, the candid truth, justice, equality before the law, motherhood, apple pie and my oath, there can be no conflict. But do let me know if you disagree that this comports with the duty I owe you and the team.

Nunes, on the other hand, is a man with a reputation so small that it would be hard to find the means to defame him. A man whose greatest treasure is partisanship. A village of idiots' village idiot.

This is The Act of Supremacy, Henry VIII, Thomas More and Richie Rich all over again. I know. I know. It isn't the Nazis.

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