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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2019, 12:10 AM Apr 2019

I was a Trump transition staffer, and it's time for impeachment.

APR 23, 2019
J. W. Verret
Professor of law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School

Let’s start at the end ... I read Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report twice ... I’ve worked on every Republican presidential transition team for the past 10 years ...

... In the face of a Department of Justice policy that prohibited him from indicting a sitting president, Mueller drafted what any reasonable reader would see as a referral to Congress to commence impeachment hearings.

... The president dangled pardons in front of witnesses to encourage them to lie to the special counsel, and directly ordered people to lie to throw the special counsel off the scent.

This elaborate pattern of obstruction may have successfully impeded the Mueller investigation from uncovering a conspiracy to commit more serious crimes ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/gop-staffer-advocates-trumps-impeachment/587785/







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I was a Trump transition staffer, and it's time for impeachment. (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2019 OP
There has never been a more impeachable President than trump. rusty quoin Apr 2019 #1
KR! Cha Apr 2019 #2
Must read for every Republican.... Pachamama Apr 2019 #3
I wonder how many supposedly self-confessed Law & Order... Lock him up. Apr 2019 #4

Lock him up.

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4. I wonder how many supposedly self-confessed Law & Order...
Wed Apr 24, 2019, 03:21 AM
Apr 2019

lifelong Republicans, jurists or not, are having the same wake-up call?

'Law & Order' Republican senators will really campaign with having to defend a proven 'above-the-law' criminal monarch in front of their constituents and local papers? Really?

Or will they go tell him he has to resign instead?

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