Posted on 06/10/2019 7:48:46 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A Republican group is urging GOP members of Congress to take seriously allegations of obstruction of justice made against President Trump in a new ad released Monday.
Republicans for the Rule of Law is airing the ad on "Fox & Friends" on Monday, ahead of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing with Watergate star witness and former Nixon White House counsel John Dean to discuss the evidence of potential obstruction uncovered by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“When Nixon was alleged to have obstructed justice, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee took these allegations seriously,” the ad begins.
Footage of several GOP lawmakers serving on the panel at that time is then shown, as they called for action to be taken over the then-president’s obstruction efforts.
“It is we, not the Democrats, who must show we are capable of enforcing the high standard we would set for them,” Rep. M. Caldwell Butler (R-Va.) is shown saying.
“Republicans stood for the rule of law then. Republicans should stand for the rule of law now,” the ad ends.
Chris Truax, a spokesperson for Republicans for the Rule Law, called the group’s new ad a “reminder of what patriotism and political bravery can look like.”
“Congressional Republicans are more than happy to admit in private that they are troubled, disappointed, and disturbed by President Trump’s abuses of executive power,” Truax said.
“When none of their constituents can hear them, they speak frankly about their moral qualms and objections about their roles in undermining the original design of our Constitution. Their constituents — and all Americans — deserve to hear the same in public.”
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) is the only Republican currently serving in Congress who has come out in favor of starting impeachment proceedings against Trump, based off the obstruction findings in the Mueller report.
He has said that other Republicans have privately raised concerns to him about Trump’s conduct.
Republicans for the Rule of Law has aired similar ads in the past. One such video showed three former federal prosecutors, all appointed by Republicans, who argue that Trump would have been indicted on obstruction charges were he not the president.
Mueller declined to say in his report whether he believed Trump had committed a crime.
And he said at a press conference late last month that charging Trump with a crime “was not an option we could consider,” pointing to Justice Department guidance that states a sitting president cannot be indicted.
Trump and his allies have declared that the president's name should be cleared over the allegations, as Attorney General William Barr said that he and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there wasn’t enough evidence to charge the president.
But some Democrats argue that Mueller signaled that they should start impeachment proceedings against Trump. Fifty-six Democratic lawmakers have called for an impeachment inquiry so far, according to a list compiled by The Hill.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has staved off those calls, pointing to recent court victories by Democrats in their investigations of the president as showing there are other means of holding Trump accountable.
But lawmakers aren't planning on letting the Mueller report stay out of the spotlight: Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are planning a series of hearings to examine the special counsel's findings, starting with Monday’s hearing with Dean.
In the 60-second ad, first shared with The Hill, Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings are shown raising concerns about potential obstruction of justice as committed by then-President Nixon.
SHOUTING - YOU CANT OBSTRUCT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT A CRIME.
RINOs for the Fake News.
How much is Soros paying them?
How helpful to have a list in one place of every RINO a-hole that absolutely has to be primaried ASAP.
I want to know WHERE they get their funding, individually and as a group.
looks like we are afflicted with yet another bunch of SorozNazi puppets!
what krap!
I read the damned Mueller report and there’s not a shred of evidence against President Trump in the whole damned thing...
all Mueller did was to soak up millions of our tax dollars on an easy, unaccountable gravy train
he didn’t even find a f___ing jaywalking ticket against Trump, for Heaven’s sake!
These “Republicans” can KMA. I will never donate to, or support, any Republican who does not support my president and the leader of the Republican Party.
Key people in this group:
Wendell Wilkie, II. Desperate to tie himself to the GOP nominee, he calls himself, “II,” despite the fact that the 1940 GOP nominee was his GRAND-father. Oh, and that Wendell Wilkie became a Republican only to run for the Republican nomination.
Charles Fried. Supported Barrack Obama twice and Hillary Clinton. So how is he a lifelong Republican.
You can bet these are Bush League Republicans and Cheap Labor Express stooges, but I repeat myself...
There is no current Republican in the ad.
>> How helpful to have a list in one place of every RINO a-hole that absolutely has to be primaried ASAP. <<
Don’t count on it. The last elected Republican affiliated with this group lost re-election in 2000.
They are going to do this.
If they do, then we have an unpleasant duty.
The AG and the Deputy AG have ruled on the obstruction issue. There will be no prosecution based on their opinion that there was no obstruction, even without consideration of the DOJ policy of not indicting a sitting President. The legal case is closed. The Dems want to retry the case.
Here is a list of every RINO a-hole that absolutely has to be primaried ASAP in one place-
The GOP.
The Defending Democracy Together website lists their projects as supporting more welcoming legal immigration policies, Fighting Tariffs, protecting Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and fighting against Putin.
In other words, the Bush/Rubio 2020 campaign.
So then, at the end of the day, after all the investigations failed all they have as a justification to impeach Trump is: “because Nixon or something.”
Looking back now,I care less about precedent because that is now dead. Hillary Clinton and all of her COLLUDING associates including the Obama administration should have been ALL indicted knowing what we knew then and now.
Defending yourself from Bogus Charges and Hoaxes is now called Obstruction, if you’re a Republican that is.
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