Day 1420 – Should The President be Above the Law?

Tuesday December 8, 2020 (17 days til Christmas)

Election Day -35

44 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

No. (The president should not be above the law.)

Next question.

Oh wait. What? It would set a bad precedent? Really? So if the president shot someone on Fifth Avenue and regardless of whether he (or she) lost votes should they be charged? 

Maybe, we should wait until they are out of office you say? So while in office they could continue shooting people? 

That’s the way I look at whether the president should be charged. 

Let’s look at the latest round of criminality. He has called up three swing state politicians and asked them to throw out the results of the election and give the election to him. That’s illegal. That’s trying to influence an election. People go to jail for that. 

Why should he be any exception? Oh, he’s the president and we don’t want to …

Wait a second you do not want to set a precedent? Andrew Weissman, the lead prosecutor on the Mueller Investigation outlined the problem. Suppose the president pardons himself and all his cronies and we let that stand? We have set a precedent. The precedent that you can do anything you want as president and you can’t get in trouble. There will be no point in having anymore special console investigations. What’s the point? You won’t charge the president while in office and he’ll pardon himself on the way out.

In other news, Rudy has Covid. He’s 76. He’s been going around the country appearing in front of various courts wearing no mask and taking group pictures afterwards. Besides spewing nonsense, he’s probably been spewing the virus. Who else has he infected?

In local Virginia news Amanda Chase has declared she will run for governor as an independent. She was too much for the Republican Party. I don’t know why. Was it the carrying a gun in her purse? Was it the demanding to park in front of the capital building because she didn’t want to walk from the parking lot? Was it the Quanon armed guys who are her supporters who tried to stuff the ballot box in Pennsylvania. Was it her insisting along with Satan that the election in Virginia was rigged and she attended many “Stop the Steal” rallies? It’s hard to say. Kirk Cox who is a Republican in the legislature, (maybe the speaker?) said her demagoguery was too much. Wow. Kirk seems like a normal kind of guy. Even Ms. Chase was too much.

The Biden transition team has been announcing appointments and get this – they are competent smart people! Wow. None of them are Biden’s kin. None of them are his golf buddies. 

Meanwhile, the president’s lackies are still doing whatever they can to gum up the works. At one point it was reported that the transition team was being blocked from meeting with Pentagon national security and intelligence agencies. The next day (two days ago?) it was reported “No no that’s all a misunderstanding. They didn’t make the proper requests. They didn’t go through the proper channels. It’s all cleared up now.” But yesterday it was reported that in fact one of the young hacks Donnie put over in the Pentagon has said in a meeting that they are to do everything they can to block the transition team.

In Georgia, David Perdue did not show up to debate his Democratic opponent last night. The thinking is that he like Lindsey Graham had determined that it’s better to stay away and not engage and just slide by. Perdue got skewered in his only debate. As far as I know he has done nothing to help people other than himself. He has traded on insider information numerous times. I guess he wants to keep his Senate seat so he can keep getting that intel? I have not heard him or his insider stock trading buddy, the other Republican senator, do anything for the people of Georgia or the country. Have you? Maybe I missed it. I doubt it.