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Orange Rain: "The new Congress is going to rain down subpoenas like hellfire come January."
‘Congress is going to rain down subpoenas like hellfire’: Trump biographer explains how ‘the the walls are closing in’ on the president
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/congress-going-rain-subpoenas-like-hellfire-trump-biographer-explains-walls-closing-president/
So when we’re looking at this in the context of the documentary, what exactly is the Sessions story telling us about all of these viewpoints that the way that democracy is operating right now is proof that the system of checks and balances is broken? At the start of our conversation you said that you can’t break the Constitution, but there have certainly been a lot of arguments that it is bowing a whole lot right now.
At every important turn, where Trump has committed abuses and outrages against the law and the Constitution — not every, but almost every turn — the courts have turned him back. Yes, he got part of his so-called Muslim ban and ratified. But that’s about it.
The walls are closing in on this man. It may not be next Friday, but at some Friday in future, Mueller’s grand jury is going to weigh in with new indictments. The suit on the emoluments clause is proceeding. And that is a great danger to Trump because his business records will be discoverable in open court. The new Congress is going to rain down subpoenas like hellfire come January.
And Mueller is going to do his job. And if Trump has the temerity to use Whitaker or his own executive power to try and cut Mueller’s throat, he will pay a very heavy price for that. He will not be able to successfully impede either the criminal investigation or the counter intelligence investigation that is moving toward the Oval Office.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/congress-going-rain-subpoenas-like-hellfire-trump-biographer-explains-walls-closing-president/
So when we’re looking at this in the context of the documentary, what exactly is the Sessions story telling us about all of these viewpoints that the way that democracy is operating right now is proof that the system of checks and balances is broken? At the start of our conversation you said that you can’t break the Constitution, but there have certainly been a lot of arguments that it is bowing a whole lot right now.
At every important turn, where Trump has committed abuses and outrages against the law and the Constitution — not every, but almost every turn — the courts have turned him back. Yes, he got part of his so-called Muslim ban and ratified. But that’s about it.
The walls are closing in on this man. It may not be next Friday, but at some Friday in future, Mueller’s grand jury is going to weigh in with new indictments. The suit on the emoluments clause is proceeding. And that is a great danger to Trump because his business records will be discoverable in open court. The new Congress is going to rain down subpoenas like hellfire come January.
And Mueller is going to do his job. And if Trump has the temerity to use Whitaker or his own executive power to try and cut Mueller’s throat, he will pay a very heavy price for that. He will not be able to successfully impede either the criminal investigation or the counter intelligence investigation that is moving toward the Oval Office.
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That’s what the disaster picture now looks like from West Coast to East Coast. That’s the real-world impact of the climate change that HE is personally making worse with his willful ignorance and denial and policy neglect.
