Trump: Russia Investigation (1)
Trump: Russia Investigation (2)
Sessions is out. Rosenstein had been supervising the Mueller investigation because of Sessions' recusal. Not anymore. pic.twitter.com/lx6aQ3nV8x
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 7, 2018
Uh oh. Not feeling good about this.
Or this (Note: I didn’t read the article–I’m reacting to the tweet.)
VERY important: Sessions's temporary replacement, Matthew Whitaker, is a GOP partisan who wrote a CNN op-ed last year saying the Mueller investigation was going too far and that Rosenstein should order Mueller to limit it: https://t.co/zZDZUsp20o
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 7, 2018
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The president should not be allowed to pick the person who oversees the investigation into himself. Both for that principle, and because Whitaker has written a blueprint for shutting the Mueller probe down, he should recuse himself.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) November 7, 2018
I agree.
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AP headline if US was another country: "After electoral challenge from opposition, Trump regime reshuffles security apparatus to install ultra-loyalist in key position. Ruling party applauds brave move of Dear Leader."
— Paul Staniland (@pstanpolitics) November 7, 2018
I don’t think this is hyperbolic or snarky. Americans may not want to accept the idea that we have a POTUS who is governing like an authoritarian, but the reality is that there is too much evidence to dismiss this notion. President Trump doesn’t not respect the rule of law, separation of powers, or the U.S. Constitution, and evidence suggests he would undermine the Constitution to protect and empower himself. If we’re not in a Constitutional crisis, we have taken another significant step in that direction.
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Good catch by @AaronBlake : Whitaker, appearing on TV last year, mused about a situation in which the "attorney general doesn’t fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt.” https://t.co/5GRn5OFOEp
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 7, 2018
If this wasn't about the Mueller probe, why install an Acting AG other than the DEPUTY Attorney General? That's why Cabinet Secretaries have Deputies.
This was clearly about the Mueller probe…. https://t.co/rJpK7gdwNV
— Ned Price (@nedprice) November 7, 2018
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If Attorney General Sessions had forced @realDonaldTrump to fire him, and had not agreed to say that he was “resigning,” that would’ve made it a lot harder to take Rosenstein off of supervising Mueller.
Sessions surely knew this, and chose to say that he was “resigning” anyway.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 7, 2018
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It's no answer to say federal statutes like vacancies act permit this. Even if they applied (& not clear they do), the Q is whether Trump is doing an end-run around the Constitution. Our Founders required Principal Officers like the AG to be Senate confirmed, not installed 1/2 https://t.co/jGo0cQjKvO
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) November 8, 2018
11/8/2018
The rest of this clip is not any better: "They're trying to suggest that essentially the trump campaign had these deep ties into Russia, which is not true…. I mean, it, it's, it's, it's, it's crazy."
This is the investigation he now oversees.https://t.co/JA4580ITac
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) November 9, 2018
Ugh
As Acting AG, Matt Whitaker is now in a position to read through all of Mueller's investigative files. There's literally nothing to stop him from briefing that information to Trump's legal team and/or selectively leaking it to the media.
— Michael Carpenter (@mikercarpenter) November 8, 2018
11/15/2018
Pretty sure this is the first time Trump has claimed knowledge of the "inner workings" of the Mueller investigation, one week after he put a lackey in charge of it.
Perhaps it's a coincidence and he's just repeating b.s. he heard from witnesses. Still, very alarming. https://t.co/jsTvG8bWuv
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 15, 2018
Here’s the second part of Trump’s tweet:
A fierce twitter tirade against #Mueller including totally misleading statement he worked for Obama. Mueller was nonpartisan FBI head for 12yrs appointed by Bush 43 in 2001 lifelong Republican before that decorated Marine in Vietnam https://t.co/lwWQ8a4Z4f
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) November 15, 2018
Note that just yesterday, two Daily Caller propagandists lobbed Trump a softball about potential Whitaker replacements, and Trump, unprompted, confessed that Whitaker's appointment was all about Mueller. pic.twitter.com/23Q4vpxdAe
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 15, 2018
More from Trump:
Universities will someday study what highly conflicted (and NOT Senate approved) Bob Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs have done to destroy people. Why is he protecting Crooked Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Lisa Page & her lover, Peter S, and all of his friends on the other side?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2018
The only “Collusion” is that of the Democrats with Russia and many others. Why didn’t the FBI take the Server from the DNC? They still don’t have it. Check out how biased Facebook, Google and Twitter are in favor of the Democrats. That’s the real Collusion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2018
I really wish the network news would really do a thorough analysis of all the claims Trump makes and lays out it for Americans to see. I really think this would clearly show that these tweets are reckless, irresponsible, lacking in credibility, and maybe even unhinged.
If the Administration is upheld by the courts on Whitaker, it erases the confirmation power of the Senate. Presidents can bypass the Senate at will, choosing temps who have never been confirmed, and who cannot be confirmed, for 7 months, renew them, and then pick another
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) November 14, 2018
So imagine a Kris Kobach, racist, nativist, called a liar by the court, picked to head Homeland Security, no confirmation process. Or Stephen Miller or Joe Arpaio. Three scoundrels who could not pass muster even in a McConnell Senate. Or Roy Moore, at Justice. This cannot stand.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) November 14, 2018