Day 833 Friday April 19, 2019
563 Days to the 2020 election and 641 Days to Inauguration Day
The president of the United States committed multiple crimes.
Of this there is no question.
The only question is what are we going to do about it?
Cut it., spin it, lie about it, do whatever you want, but the truth is the president of the United States committed multiple crimes.
In an act of war he conspired with the other side. There’s a term for that, let me think, what is it? Treason. Yeah, that’s it. Treason. Benedict Arnold was found guilty of treason for being in the same room with a man from the other side. Here we have a president who since becoming president has met secretly with the head man from the other side, has met with that man and not revealed anything of what he said, who has on many occasions taken that man’s position on various issues to the detriment of ourselves and our allies.
We were attacked by a foreign adversary and the man who is now our president aided and abetted in that attack, along with some of his long time associates.
His campaign chairman’s job before he became campaign chair was to help a Russian oligarch. How did he help him? By helping to install people that were friendly to said oligarch into positions of power in various foreign countries where this man had financial interests.
This chairman also shared polling data with this man via an intermediary. He specifically told the intermediary that the campaign needed help in four states to swing the election, and the Russians provided that help.
As to the president’s involvement there are 180 pages of criminal behavior and charges outlined in the Mueller Report. One hundred and eighty pages!
This does not include any of the stuff that is direct threats to national security in the form of counter intelligence stuff. That’s in a separate report we know nothing about. These one hundred and eighty pages does not include any of his financial crimes that’s all been referred out to various other prosecutorial groups. There are twelve or fourteen redacted other possible investigations that are prosecutable according to the redacted Mueller report.
This is just the broad brush of what we have learned from the redacted Mueller Report as it relates to the president.
In one of those legal jiu-jitsu type logic arguments the big one the Mueller Report makes is startling. Here we go. The Office of Legal Consul (OLC) wrote a memo saying you can’t indict a sitting president. Okay (but there seem to be some reasons you can, like if that president were to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue.)
Because you can’t indict a sitting president you shouldn’t even charge him with a crime. All you can do is say, “look at this criminal behavior.”
What you could do, if the case warranted it, is to say the president is innocent of any crime.
This is not what the Mueller Report said. What it said was it could not exonerate him (the president) and – oh, by the way – here are 180 pages of crimes relating to my purview of “Did the Russians try to influence the 2016 campaign?” that I found. Maybe you folks in Congress should take a peek and decide if he should be impeached?
If Bill Clinton was brought up on charges relating to a defunct land deal that was not illegal and six blow jobs and lying about that, then what do you think about Donald Trump conspiring with a foreign adversary secretly and in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue?
The talk now is that Mueller is an institutionalist and he stuck to a very narrow definition of the law. Great. Meanwhile a bunch of yahoos led by a person who acts in every way possible like a crime boss is running our country into the ground.
The question some people are asking is why hasn’t this case against the president been investigated like you would a typical case against a crime boss? Why wasn’t he forced to testify under oath? Why weren’t his kids questioned? etc. etc. etc.
The redacted report from beginning to end is damning, and yet, here we are.
Some people are outraged that the Attorney General lied about the report. He lied on a key point. He said that the reason the president was not charged had nothing to do with the OLC memo. It had everything to do with it. It was the only reason the president was not charged by Mueller.
I wonder if William Barr can read. I wonder why he so desperately wanted the job of AG? Did he want to be back in the limelight? Did he want everyone to be reminded of his past misdeeds?
In the pantheon of shameful legal minds William Barr has elevated himself up there with Wu, the guy who said torture is okay because it’s not torture.
I’m trying to decide which analogy fits Trump better when it comes to criminal behavior:
Is he like Pigpen, the Peanuts character who is trailed by clouds of dirt and debris? But in the case of Donald it’s criminal behavior, legal suits both by him and against him.
Or is he more like a massive black hole, spinning at near light speed throwing off energy in huge waves and bands? Except with Donald it would be anyone coming close to him gets sucked in, torn apart, and throw out along with other debris in swaths of criminality, immorality, and unethical behavior.
It’s hard to say.
563 Days to the 2020 election and 641 Days to Inauguration Day
PS Yesterday I attained Number One status. I am so proud. (My order at McDonald’s was #1. Let that sink in. Yeah, baby. I’m back. #1 woot woot. I think I’m ready to declare myself a social influencer. Quick, I need to jump into the bathroom and take selfies of myself (Hey, isn’t that redundant? “selfies of myself”? I guess I’ll have to put it out there to my fans and favs and find out. Meanwhile, let me just mention that I’m wearing a black t-shirt that is oh so cute. Don’t you wish you could see it? Too bad. I’m not in the bathroom taking selfies, isn’t it?
OMG! What is happening to me? Pogo – help me! What? You can’t? No one under 30, no 40, even knows who you are? …) )
Later.
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