Posted on 01/10/2020 4:00:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Not English.
Just giving you a hard time.
I figure Bolton said he wanted to speak because he knew the president would prevent him from doing so under “presidential privilege.” I see that as a good jerking the Dem’s lease by Bolton.
“think what he could do with a Trump legislature!”
... in which the Speaker of the House is not Paul Ryan or John Boehner.
The president doesn’t want him to testify. That’s good enough for me.
I trust the president’s decision.
“It seems tendentiously silly to say executive privilege allows a president to prevent a Senate deciding whether to remove that president from office from hearing the witnesses it wants to hear.”
Does anyone here think that the constitution authorizes the President of the United States to use executive privilege to prevent the Senate from conducting its impeachment trial of that president as it wishes to? If so, why? (I assume it goes without saying that Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama, or any future president could use executive privilege in the same way people here think it can be used by President Trump.)
It seems to me that Mr. Bolton could refuse to testify if he wished (perhaps not without consequences if he were subpoenaed), but the president cannot prohibit him from doing so.
Or am I misinterpreting the claim being made here?
It’s not good if the Dems want him to testify.
They’ll just put this on the list for his next impeachment.
They’ll just put this on the list for his next impeachment.
The only way Bolton will testify is over the dead bodies of Trump’s lawyers.
Executive privilege is an important principle to protect. I don’t care if it makes the President look bad.
He can’t allow a precedent to be set for the future.
The problem I see here is the turncoat Obama care scumbag justice Roberts is residing
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