Posted on 10/20/2017 10:52:15 AM PDT by drewh
Benjamin Wittes, a friend of former FBI Director James Comey, said that he's unable to say how far President Trump is willing to push the legal bounds of the presidency because it would involve "looking into his soul" — and he's not quite sure Trump has one.
Asked by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on his podcast "Stay Tuned with Preet" how far he thinks Trump is willing to stretch the constitutional constraints of his office, Wittes said he would need to look into Trump's soul to answer that question.
"I'm hesitant to answer that question because it involves looking into his soul," Wittes said.
Pressed by Bharara on what he sees when he looks "into his soul," Wittes responded: "Well, first of all, I question whether he has one. But that's a question that I'm not in a position really to have an answer to."
Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the editor-in-chief of the blog Lawfare, contended that Trump has, in the past, appeared willing to push other boundaries and that those instances may offer insights into how he treats his legal authority as president.
Wittes, who describes himself as a confidant of Comey, has spoken out about the former FBI chief's interactions with Trump in the wake of Comey's firing in May.
Bharara has also spoken critically of Trump. He was fired from his office in March after he refused to resign at the request of the Trump administration.
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The chump still butt hurt he was fired? Awwwwwwww
He is trying to put BACK the constitution.
Funny, I didn’t ear you complain about obama ignoring laws he didn’t like, making up laws he wished he had, using the IRS, EPA, etc. to after his political enemies and and entering into “agreements” with other countries without a treaty...
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Trump is willing to stretch the constitutional constraints of his office
I think that people who talk that way are rather extreme and even somewhat unbalanced? And they are willing to be quoted saying these things is this the creep who Gave confidential information to reporters on behalf of Comey?
Hilarious. Another unhinged anti-Trumper seeking the limelight.
Hilarious. Another unhinged anti-Trumper seeking the limelight.
he’s unable to say how far President Trump is willing to push the legal bounds of the presidency
Please give us one example from the last 10 months.
Swamp creatures flailing on dry land. Sad.
Translation: Trump is fearless.
It is amazing what the left has to write and obsess about at The Hill. Max Greenwood should be embarrassed to have his name on such twaddle.
Comey should be rotting in prison, and this Sovietesque crap is all they got.
“Hilarious. Another unhinged anti-Trumper seeking the limelight.”
They know Big Media will give them at least a day’s headlines.
We know Hillary had a soul until she got what she thought was a better offer. I suspect she sold it in return for a guarantee of the democrat nomination, running against a reality TV host whose candidacy would be treated as a joke. That sounds like a deal that both Hillary and Satan would embrace.
All good news. It boils down to one thing. They got nuthin’.
This, the emoulments lawsuit, the Frederica kerfuffle.
Read any Russia/Trump conspiracy articles lately?
They got nuthin’.
“The chump still butt hurt he was fired?”
Wasn’t he going to write a tell-all book about his political experiences? He needs to get that book out soon because his reputation has fallen down and so far hasn’t been able to get up.
What tell-all book? You can’t write “I hate Trump” in all pages..
now the Russian story has boomeranged to Hillary uranium!
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