Posted on 02/12/2018 12:24:45 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Now that a consensus is beginning to emerge that special counsel Robert Mueller has the evidence to make a compelling case of obstruction of justice against President Trump, the president's defenders have trotted out a new defense: that obstruction on its own is a mere "procedural crime" that doesn't really count unless coupled with proof of guilt on an underlying crime.
In other words, defenders view the Mueller probe as akin to the Watergate investigation without the break-in. But this view is wholly untenable.
The legal version of the argument is, as explained by Rich Lowry in National Review, "if Trump didn't collude with Russia - or doesn't have some other criminal secret to hide - it's hard to see what his corrupt intent would be in an obstruction case."
Ultimately, the political argument is just a way to dress up the grim fact that the Republican majority seems indifferent to the strength and severity of the charges that Mueller is developing. Its sole allegiance is to the preservation of political control, to which end Republicans have embraced an embarrassing series of diversionary tactics and bogus defenses of the president. Indeed, there seems to be nothing Trump could do that would justify impeachment in Republicans' eyes.
Congressional Republicans are all in on defense of party over country. They are determined for temporary political gain to prop up a leader who is a rogue, a constitutional menace, and yes, a criminal no less than Nixon. They have lost all sense of constitutional duty. If they do not find a way to regain it, history will judge them harshly.
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Total TDS.
Lock Weasel Mueller up.
What horse hockey
This doesn’t even make sense.
Well DUH! Plus, Nixon was a patriot who loved this Nation.
Harry Litman? I thought it said Larry Hitman
All I had to see was “San Fransisco Chronical” and I LOLed. I would expect no less an article.
Even if he did interfere there is nothing that interfere with.
reckon i'll just click on past this one, k?
They have information my Mueller’s investigation......ok
Totally delusional. The only evidence that has been unearthed bodes ill for the hildebeast, not President Trump. Oh yeah, I forgot, "It's not the weight of the evidence but the seriousness of the allegation"
These people are certifiable.
Trump’s obstruction of justice is trivial to leftist judges obstruction of governance
FTA: “Ultimately, the political argument is just a way to dress up the grim fact that the Republican majority seems indifferent to the strength and severity of the charges that Mueller is developing.”
Really!? Had he anything it would have been leaked.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
I’d like to see said evidence.
Who is this guy Litman anyway? Never heard of him.
There’s nothing to obstruct.
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets like the SF Chron. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
What's the truth here? That not ONE shred of evidence has emerged about this phony Trump/Russian collusion. Only accusations. But there is mounting evidence about Leftist/Russian collusion. Big time.
Why not post the TRUTH about the lies? You don't have to use the liar as the source to post a headline that alerts readers to a published lie. Use yourself as the source or a reasonably reliable source that addresses what the Lying Leftist source is saying. That way you have a headline and a source that your readers can reasonably rely on and they go away more informed about the lie AND the truth.
What exactly is the penalty of the “crime” of collusion?
What justice?
A political witch hunt is not justice.
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