Trump Takes A Shot At Ending Accountability For All Presidents, Ever

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Trump Takes A Shot At Ending Accountability For All Presidents, Ever

How an absurd suit threatens the last avenues of accountability for the former president

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-takes-a-shot-at-ending-accountability-for-all-presidents-eve

By Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo

November 3, 2021 6:05 p.m.

"SNIP.....

Former President Trump’s lawsuit to block the Jan. 6 Committee’s probe gets a hearing Thursday, and the stakes are high.

The case could close off one of the last avenues of accountability for the former president and his actions in subverting the 2020 election.

But the lawsuit could go further than shielding Trump. It could further neuter Congress in its oversight role, while potentially strengthening the ability of former presidents to declare that swaths of records generated during their time in office remain off-limits from investigators.

“The overriding interest is that the public has a need to know certain information, particularly in cases like criminal matters and information surrounding the January 6 Congressional investigations,” UCLA Law professor Jon Michaels told TPM.

Trump wants to bring that to an end.

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[malaise]

1. Down he goes tomorrow

Lock him up!

[calimary]

3. Well, that strongly suggests to me at least

that trump’s gonna try another run.

[lame54]

4. Does he still have lawyers?

[dweller]

5. correction

TFG never thinks of anyone other than himself, so he wants to end accountability for himself alone … he’d hold any D President to account


✌🏻

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Lardass has yet to come to terms with the fact

that ultimately he was merely an employee, ultimately answerable to the "stockholders" (that's us).

[Frustratedlady]

7. Trump doesn't want the presidency for the job, he wants it for protection.

Look at all the hearings/trials coming up. (Come on, SDNY!)

He couldn't care less about the country, it's his butt he's concerned with. He doesn't want to go to prison nor lose the lifestyle he has today. As long as he's president, he supposedly can't be prosecuted.

Truth be known, if all the evidence was available, most of his family would be in prison with him. The bully is scared. Plain and simple.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. I DO agree with you.....

but we would ALL feel better if indeed something FINALLY came from the promise of "hearings/trials coming up."

[Frustratedlady]

10. I know. It is excruciating. Takes as long to come to trial as it takes Manchin to make up his mind.

I realize justice moves slowly, but we can only live so long and it would be great if we could see how this movie ends.

[SoCalDavidS]

9. Accountabilty???

LOL!!!!