“Yeah! But Democrats can do whatever they want!”
Yes, but now it requires the complicity of the Congressional Republicans, which they have. Trey Dowdy said yesterday that he would not interfere with the Mueller investigation.
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He can’t look like he is protecting a Republican President
The time to stop this investigation was before it started.
The Independent Council law is a bad law. It is a blank check to a prosecutor to investigate as long as he wants which will always be until he gets somebody.