Trump didn't just abuse his power to protect himself

[Soph0571]

This is an underreported aspect of the Mueller report. Trump wasn't just blowing smok on twitter to feed his cult some red meat. He was angling behind the scenes:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions had a tenuous hold on his job when President Trump called him at home in the middle of 2017. The president had already blamed him for recusing himself from investigations related to the 2016 election, sought his resignation and belittled him in private and on Twitter.

Now, Mr. Trump had another demand: He wanted Mr. Sessions to reverse his recusal and order the prosecution of Hillary Clinton.

“The ‘gist’ of the conversation,” according to the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, quoting Mr. Sessions, “was that the president wanted Sessions to unrecuse from ‘all of it.’”
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It was unclear from the report whether Mr. Trump appreciated the difference between using his power to target Mrs. Clinton and trying to insulate himself from law enforcement scrutiny, Mr. Buell noted. It is more likely, he said, that Mr. Trump simply viewed the Justice Department and the F.B.I. as institutions that worked for him.

“All of his demands fit into a picture that he believes the apparatus is mine,” Mr. Buell said.

Mr. Trump has kept up the public lashings of law enforcement officials and Mrs. Clinton. “There are no Crimes by me at all,” he wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. “All of the Crimes were committed by Crooked Hillary, the Dems, the DNC and Dirty Cops — and we caught them in the act!”

He is a twisted psycho, enabled by fellow psychos and sycophants.

You must realize, however, that just as Comey's reckless commentary during the campaign put pressure on Mueller to be very circumspect in his findings, so too will this grotesque crusade to persecute Clinton be used as a reason that any pursuit of Trump once he's out of office is out of bounds. It's a proven GOP gambit that keeps working for them: Break the rules, bust the norm for a petty partisan purpose and then use the arguments against it to defend themselves for accountability for much more serious crimes.

[link:https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/trump-didnt-just-abuse-his-power-to.html|

Just this. All of this.
He is a twisted psycho, enabled by fellow psychos and sycophants.

[lunatica]

1. That last sentence bears repeating:

Break the rules, bust the norm for a petty partisan purpose and then use the arguments against it to defend themselves for accountability for much more serious crimes.