Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Trump Admits He Would Obstruct Justice If He Only Knew How
Trump Admits He Would Obstruct Justice If He Only Knew How
Is Trump too stupid to have mens rea? Does that matter?
By ELIE MYSTAL
at 12:41 PM
If you are a Trump supporter, your best defenses against charges that your savior is trying to obstruct justice are: (a) He doesn’t have the mental acuity to know what “obstruction of justice” is, even as he tries to accomplish it; and (b) he doesn’t have the command of language and basic vocabulary necessary to express his thoughts without sounding like he is trying to obstruct justice.
Trump has reduced you to defending the President of the United States with the same strategies you’d employ to defend a lemur with Tourette’s Syndrome. Good luck with that.
If you are a Trump resister, you know that the very worst thing he’s done (so far) is empower Jeff Sessions to change the very definition of “justice” in this country. Any old Republican would have put Neil Gorsuch (or somebody who looks just like him) on the Supreme Court. But Jeff Sessions is too cartoonishly sinister for even most Republicans. Sessions has been Trump’s most dangerous and effective counselor. News that there’s a rift between Trump and Sessions should be greeted with glee.
Except that Trump is pissed at Sessions for the one thing Sessions has done right. Sessions recusing himself from the Russian investigation was the only moral and ethical move he could do, but THAT is what Trump is pissed at. ... Trump v. Sessions is exactly like Floyd Mayweather v. Connor McGregor: You’d like to see the racist prick get owned, but you can’t actually support the loudmouthed misogynist tax cheat.....
Elie Mystal is an editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.
Is Trump too stupid to have mens rea? Does that matter?
By ELIE MYSTAL
at 12:41 PM
If you are a Trump supporter, your best defenses against charges that your savior is trying to obstruct justice are: (a) He doesn’t have the mental acuity to know what “obstruction of justice” is, even as he tries to accomplish it; and (b) he doesn’t have the command of language and basic vocabulary necessary to express his thoughts without sounding like he is trying to obstruct justice.
Trump has reduced you to defending the President of the United States with the same strategies you’d employ to defend a lemur with Tourette’s Syndrome. Good luck with that.
If you are a Trump resister, you know that the very worst thing he’s done (so far) is empower Jeff Sessions to change the very definition of “justice” in this country. Any old Republican would have put Neil Gorsuch (or somebody who looks just like him) on the Supreme Court. But Jeff Sessions is too cartoonishly sinister for even most Republicans. Sessions has been Trump’s most dangerous and effective counselor. News that there’s a rift between Trump and Sessions should be greeted with glee.
Except that Trump is pissed at Sessions for the one thing Sessions has done right. Sessions recusing himself from the Russian investigation was the only moral and ethical move he could do, but THAT is what Trump is pissed at. ... Trump v. Sessions is exactly like Floyd Mayweather v. Connor McGregor: You’d like to see the racist prick get owned, but you can’t actually support the loudmouthed misogynist tax cheat.....
Elie Mystal is an editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at elie@abovethelaw.com. He will resist.
2 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
