Trump's legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny

[orangecrush]

A clear and present danger to the rule of law
By Matthew Yglesias on June 3, 2018 8:30 am

"Consider that if the memo is correct, there would be nothing wrong with Trump setting up a booth somewhere in Washington, DC where wealthy individuals could hand checks to Trump, and in exchange Trump would make whatever federal legal trouble they are in go it away. You could call it “The Trump Hotel” or maybe bundle a room to stay in along with the legal impunity.

Having cut your check, you’d then have carte blanche to commit bank fraud or dump toxic waste in violation of the Clean Water Act or whatever else you want to do. Tony Soprano could get the feds off his case, and so could the perpetrators of the next Enron fraud or whatever else.


Perhaps most egregiously, since Washington DC isn’t a state all criminal law here is federal criminal law, so the president could have his staff murder opposition party senators or inconvenient judges and then block any investigation into what’s happening.

One of the main purposes of the government is to protect the weak from exploitation at the hands of the strong by making certain forms of misconduct illegal. Trump’s assertion that he can simply waive-away investigations into misconduct because he is worried that the investigation might end badly for his friends or family members is toxic to that entire scheme. Trump, like most presidents, has plenty of rich and powerful friends and a much longer list of rich and powerful people who would like to be his friends.

If he really does have the power to just make anyone’s legal trouble go away because he happens to feel like it, then we’re all in a world of trouble."


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/6/3/17421300/trumps-interview-subpoena


This is where we are.

The Constitutional crisis is upon us.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Did Steve Bannon or Steve Miller write this POS.

[orangecrush]

2. Steve Bannon or Miller

would not be pointing out the danger of a constitutional crisis from the Trump presidency.

If you are referring to the articles assertation that Bill Clinton misused the pardon power, I too disagree with that, which is why I deleted it from the op.

I believe the rest of the article is spot fucking on.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Reference was to the so called letter written to Team mueller.

Steve Bannon was in the White House in and about the same time. Tried to watch a replay of his interview with CNN. So much similarity ,

The story in the Times was spot on.

[orangecrush]

4. Sorry

my mistake.

[orangecrush]

5. I am a layman, but...

this seems to remove any last doubt about what we are dealing with.

This is extremely alarming.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. My faith is in Team Mueller.

This Trump Sucker will have to face a Grand Jury. That precedent was settled by the GOP and the so called Bill Clinton BJ event.

[orangecrush]

9. fingers crossed.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. Cant have a democracy if half the people want a dictatorship

[orangecrush]

10. Nixon was popular as I remember

until a responsible press brought the facts to light.

Which is why Trump is making a full preemptive assault on the free press.

[Pobeka]

11. There is no constitutional crisis. The root cause is the cowardly, power hungry GOP

A functioning congress would have booted this guy out of office in the first half of 2017 over the emoluments clause alone.

[orangecrush]

12. For real

This will not stand.

I refuse to believe the American people will accept this charade.

[Pobeka]

13. about 1/3 of them will accept it out of ignorance or lack of integrity

We HAVE to get the other 2/3 to the polls,and also gratefully welcome back the ones who voted for Trump because of a screwed up media, but now realize their mistake.