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Re: Ken Starr: GOP Senators Might Consider Having to Make a Trip to the White House After Sondland s Testimony GAME CHANGER

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 21 Nov 19 10:30 AM | 38 view(s)
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The last line of defence for Trump is that his presidential powers give him absolute freedom to conduct foreign policy.

It's like his claims to absolute immunity. And that he is not constrained by a two term limit.

When you act lawlessly, these claims to absolute power are the only refuge. They are, of course, the same as those of a despot and the opposite of constitutional democracy or republicanism.

For his supporters, there's no claim in their future that they believe in the rule of law, democracy or the constitution. At least not without derision. They have flunked that test. Party is more important to them than any of these things.

Same as the folks who claimed they cared about abortions but then turned out not to care about the forcible separation of refugee children from their parents and their internment blew a hole in the claim that they give a damn about children.

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Re: Ken Starr: GOP Senators Might Consider Having to Make a Trip to the White House After Sondland s Testimony GAME CHANGER
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Thu, 21 Nov 19 2:05 AM 		Msg. 32915 of 54959

I think what Sondland has done has exploded the obstructive silence (in mafia terms the omerta) defence that Trump has employed. Until now, he had been trying the angle that the ambassadors were low level operatives who couldn't see the big picture. And the senior people wouldn't talk.

Sondland has revealed the conversation of the senior people: he has said Trump was in charge of a shakedown that all the senior people in the administration knew about and approved of.

So now those senior people are realising that to protect themselves, they need to talk.

This is, I think, the way they do mafia cases. Work their way through the people at the bottom towards the ones at the top. In the end, you get a circular firing squad, with all the main players shooting at one another like in a Quentin Tarentino movie.

Tonight, Pence, Bolton, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Giuliani are all going to be thinking about testifying to save their skins. Trump's conspiracy is about to fall apart. In the end, all the pistols will point in his direction.

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