Trump’s pathetic letter embodies all the reasons he should not be President and why he is in the mess he has created for himself. As always others will fix it (here Senate GOP) so he can do even worse next time. Real solution, resign Donald, you’re unfit! https://t.co/isXnE0sMQx
Yeah, everywhere else in the world there are huge marches and protests in the street, but in the US of Virtual A, Twitter's supposed to channel the outrage. Time to meet your real neighbors. Aux ramparts, Citoyens...
[....] While the letter was widely denounced for lacking a modicum of decorum, one of Robert Mueller’s former top lieutenants from the Russia investigation, pointed out a glaring omission in the Trump missive: a denial.
Appearing on MSNBC’s Meet the Press with Chuck Todd Friday evening, Andrew Weissmann, previously dubbed Mueller’s “legal pit bull,” noted that behind the chaos and vitriol of Trump’s letter, the language– at least in one aspect – is carefully crafted so that Trump never denies that he attempted a quid pro quo deal for his personal and political benefit. The reason, according to Weissmann, is that doing so would have been a federal crime.
“I thought the wording of this [letter] was really important,” Weissmann said.
“So, the President, in his six-page letter, never said something that he has repeatedly said in other contexts, which is that there was ‘no quid pro quo.’ The question is why is that not in a letter that went to Congress. And I think the answer to that is: it is a federal crime to submit a written document knowingly that contains a false statement to Congress.” [....]
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John Dean:
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 2:06am
#ImpeachmentMarch: trending
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 2:10am
Yeah, everywhere else in the world there are huge marches and protests in the street, but in the US of Virtual A, Twitter's supposed to channel the outrage. Time to meet your real neighbors. Aux ramparts, Citoyens...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 3:00am
Top Mueller Lieutenant: It's Really Telling That Trump Didn't Deny Quid Pro Quo in Letter to Pelosi
By Jerry Lambe @ LawandCrime.com, Dec. 21
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/21/2019 - 7:29pm