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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts) Fri Dec 29, 2017, 11:07 AM Dec 2017

" I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department. " - Criminal In Chief

No you don't The powers of the executive branch are delineated in the Constitution and its subsequent amendments. The 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments clearly limit the powers of the Justice Department.

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" I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department. " - Criminal In Chief (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2017 OP

Trump thinks personal power equals greatness. dalton99a Dec 2017 #1

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Do you embrace or demur from my pithy observation/analysis/opinion ? DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2017 #3

dalton99a

(81,570 posts)

1. Trump thinks personal power equals greatness.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 11:13 AM

Dec 2017

Aside from the fact that he is a natural-born despotic asshole, the idiot apparently never took American Government in high school. He thinks a U.S. president should be as powerful as Duterte/Putin/(name your dictator)

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DemocratSinceBirth

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3. Do you embrace or demur from my pithy observation/analysis/opinion ?

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Fri Dec 29, 2017, 11:24 AM

Dec 2017

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