Meanwhile, Rudy's goons claim fake executive privilege...

[pbmus]

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[tblue37]

1. These are his peeps. Rather damning, don't you think? nt

[dem4decades]

2. Well then i guess they worked for the President. Let's see that info.

[PJMcK]

3. Oh, really?

Are they employed by the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government?

That's quite interesting. Can someone explain to me how that works?

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. They aren't government employees. Are they even US citizens?

JFC, what a mess.

[2naSalit]

6. Neither is colludyrudy...

which means there IS NO executive privilege, period. They have to prove their connection to MF45 to make that even a consideration in a court of law. And that goes for rudy too. Any manner of proof of their working for the pres in official manner will reveal what they were actually doing which is bad news for all of them.

I hope they get laughed back into prison cells.

[jcgoldie]

5. But but but!!!

The president doesn't even know those guys!!!

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[Claritie Pixie]

7. LOL that's an admission they were working for Trump. 😂

[genxlib]

8. This is a best case scenario

It is doomed to failure because this doesn't remotely resemble a case for Executive Privilege. So it will fail spectacularly.

Meanwhile, it will handcuff them to Trump while they desperately try to explain how closely they were working for him.

Please proceed.

At the end of all of this, I suspect that the concept of Executive Privilege will need to be codified in law. It is simply too open to abuse by the unscrupulous.

[abqtommy]

10. Screenwriters on acid couldn't come up with the scenarios that the reTHUGS are

providing in real time.

[Wounded Bear]

11. They're going Kevin Bacon on this now...

how many degrees of separation can qualify for executive privilege.