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kentuck

(112,948 posts)
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 08:51 AM Mar 2018

Donald Trump's New Lawyer Once Argued Presidents Can Be Indicted


http://time.com/5206281/joseph-digenova-donald-trump-president-indicted/
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But his prior comments during investigations into President Bill Clinton in a 1997 editorial in the Wall Street Journal also drew attention.

“Nobody should underestimate the upheaval that a prosecution of the president would cause,” he wrote in a March 6, 1997 piece published when independent counsel Kenneth Starr was only investigating financial irregularities in the Whitewater scandal and Clinton’s affair with a White House intern had not yet come to light. “But we went through it once before, in Watergate, and survived. The nation, in fact, could conceivably benefit from the indictment of a president. It would teach the valuable civics lesson that no one is above the law.”
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Donald Trump's New Lawyer Once Argued Presidents Can Be Indicted (Original Post) kentuck Mar 2018 OP
I hated Degenova and his wife during the Clinton investigations. katmondoo Mar 2018 #1
"It would teach the valuable civics lesson that no one is above the law. kentuck Mar 2018 #2
You wonder if he had been fully vetted exboyfil Mar 2018 #3
Nothing is sweeter angrychair Mar 2018 #4
He would jusy say that Clinton is guilty of everything Boomerproud Mar 2018 #5
" Nobody should underestimate the upheaval that a prosecution of the president would cause " rock Mar 2018 #6
A good lawyer can argue either side fescuerescue Mar 2018 #7
Silly DUers NewJeffCT Mar 2018 #8
It is time to test this theory Gothmog Mar 2018 #9

katmondoo

(6,498 posts)
1. I hated Degenova and his wife during the Clinton investigations.
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 09:03 AM
Mar 2018

I am waiting for his hateful wife to appear and "help" She is also an attorney.

kentuck

(112,948 posts)
2. "It would teach the valuable civics lesson that no one is above the law.
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 09:16 AM
Mar 2018

I think everytime he comes on the TV to defend Donald Trump, he should be asked about this quote.

exboyfil

(18,025 posts)
3. You wonder if he had been fully vetted
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 09:25 AM
Mar 2018

I got to think his time on the team may be limited.

angrychair

(9,887 posts)
4. Nothing is sweeter
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 09:31 AM
Mar 2018

Than playing someone’ oiwn words back at them when its not longer convenient to their narrative.

Boomerproud

(8,465 posts)
5. He would jusy say that Clinton is guilty of everything
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 09:48 AM
Mar 2018

And 45 is innocent and being railroaded. Dear wife Victoria would be sitting by him nodding her head.

rock

(13,218 posts)
6. " Nobody should underestimate the upheaval that a prosecution of the president would cause "
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 09:53 AM
Mar 2018

Then maybe we should be a little more careful and a little less cavalier in choosing the president.

NewJeffCT

(56,840 posts)
8. Silly DUers
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 10:17 AM
Mar 2018

Don't you know that the rules are different when a president has a (D) after his name versus one that has an (R) after it.

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