Trump: The first POTUS ever to interview US Attorneys

[DrLove]

Bet you can't guess which ones!

<snip>

In our sophisticated system of checks and balances, important customs have arisen to protect prosecutors from being compromised by political encroachment. One of those traditions is that the U.S. Attorneys are nominated by the President with input from the Senators from the states where the districts sit, vetted by the FBI and the Department of Justice, and confirmed by the whole U.S. Senate. Traditionally, they are not interviewed by the President.

Enter Donald Trump. We have just learned that Trump is now taking the highly unusual step of violating this protocol. He is now personally interviewing candidates for three key U.S. Attorney positions — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. — all places where he and his family have extensive and ongoing business dealings.

Notably, the President reportedly has not interviewed any candidate for any of the other U.S. Attorney positions across the country.

What are his motives? Why would the President wish to create a personal relationship with these potentially powerful prosecutors?​

All:

Jon Liebman: Donald Trump Auditioning Federal Prosecutors In Alarming Reality Show Twist – Guest Column

 

[Weatherman2020]

It must be true, I read it on a blog on the internet.

 

[DrLove]

It must be true, I read it on a blog on the internet.

This dude has the creds - sorry

Editors’ Note: Jon Liebman, chairman and CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. He was one of 180 former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the Southern District of New York to have sent a bipartisan letter to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May asking that the DOJ appoint a special counsel to oversee the investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election. Liebman is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

 

[OldLady]

Bet you can't guess which ones!

<snip>

In our sophisticated system of checks and balances, important customs have arisen to protect prosecutors from being compromised by political encroachment. One of those traditions is that the U.S. Attorneys are nominated by the President with input from the Senators from the states where the districts sit, vetted by the FBI and the Department of Justice, and confirmed by the whole U.S. Senate. Traditionally, they are not interviewed by the President.

Enter Donald Trump. We have just learned that Trump is now taking the highly unusual step of violating this protocol. He is now personally interviewing candidates for three key U.S. Attorney positions — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. — all places where he and his family have extensive and ongoing business dealings.

Notably, the President reportedly has not interviewed any candidate for any of the other U.S. Attorney positions across the country.

What are his motives? Why would the President wish to create a personal relationship with these potentially powerful prosecutors?​

All:

Jon Liebman: Donald Trump Auditioning Federal Prosecutors In Alarming Reality Show Twist – Guest Column

Anyone ought to be watching what that sneaky bastard is quietly doing behind the scenes while the reporters are all busy buzzing about his latest tweet.
He knows what he wants and he knows how to get it.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It must be true, I read it on a blog on the internet.

This dude has the creds - sorry

Editors’ Note: Jon Liebman, chairman and CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. He was one of 180 former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the Southern District of New York to have sent a bipartisan letter to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May asking that the DOJ appoint a special counsel to oversee the investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election. Liebman is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

He has the creds?

Looks like he is an insider. He sent a letter asking that Trump be investigated and now Hillary is finally going down. Great creds in fact!

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Bet you can't guess which ones!

<snip>

In our sophisticated system of checks and balances, important customs have arisen to protect prosecutors from being compromised by political encroachment. One of those traditions is that the U.S. Attorneys are nominated by the President with input from the Senators from the states where the districts sit, vetted by the FBI and the Department of Justice, and confirmed by the whole U.S. Senate. Traditionally, they are not interviewed by the President.

Enter Donald Trump. We have just learned that Trump is now taking the highly unusual step of violating this protocol. He is now personally interviewing candidates for three key U.S. Attorney positions — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. — all places where he and his family have extensive and ongoing business dealings.

Notably, the President reportedly has not interviewed any candidate for any of the other U.S. Attorney positions across the country.

What are his motives? Why would the President wish to create a personal relationship with these potentially powerful prosecutors?​

All:

Jon Liebman: Donald Trump Auditioning Federal Prosecutors In Alarming Reality Show Twist – Guest Column

Anyone ought to be watching what that sneaky bastard is quietly doing behind the scenes while the reporters are all busy buzzing about his latest tweet.
He knows what he wants and he knows how to get it.

I see you all are derping along today...

They still have to go through normal channels to get the job. If Trump tried to compromise them it would be discovered by the Senate.

 

[rightwinger]

They must be indoctrinated first

 

[Siete]

hes also the first president to need a chinese engineer to comb his hair.

 

[DrLove]

He has the creds?

Looks like he is an insider. He sent a letter asking that Trump be investigated and now Hillary is finally going down. Great creds in fact!

Are you denying the fact that Trump is the first president to interview US Attorneys ... or that he's specifically interviewing the ones that have direct authority over current investigations about his, and Kushner businesses?

Take off the blinders

 

[Valerie]

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[Fenton Lum]

Bet you can't guess which ones!

<snip>

In our sophisticated system of checks and balances, important customs have arisen to protect prosecutors from being compromised by political encroachment. One of those traditions is that the U.S. Attorneys are nominated by the President with input from the Senators from the states where the districts sit, vetted by the FBI and the Department of Justice, and confirmed by the whole U.S. Senate. Traditionally, they are not interviewed by the President.

Enter Donald Trump. We have just learned that Trump is now taking the highly unusual step of violating this protocol. He is now personally interviewing candidates for three key U.S. Attorney positions — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. — all places where he and his family have extensive and ongoing business dealings.

Notably, the President reportedly has not interviewed any candidate for any of the other U.S. Attorney positions across the country.

What are his motives? Why would the President wish to create a personal relationship with these potentially powerful prosecutors?​

All:

Jon Liebman: Donald Trump Auditioning Federal Prosecutors In Alarming Reality Show Twist – Guest Column

The ones he needs to fear.

 

[OldLady]

Bet you can't guess which ones!

<snip>

In our sophisticated system of checks and balances, important customs have arisen to protect prosecutors from being compromised by political encroachment. One of those traditions is that the U.S. Attorneys are nominated by the President with input from the Senators from the states where the districts sit, vetted by the FBI and the Department of Justice, and confirmed by the whole U.S. Senate. Traditionally, they are not interviewed by the President.

Enter Donald Trump. We have just learned that Trump is now taking the highly unusual step of violating this protocol. He is now personally interviewing candidates for three key U.S. Attorney positions — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. — all places where he and his family have extensive and ongoing business dealings.

Notably, the President reportedly has not interviewed any candidate for any of the other U.S. Attorney positions across the country.

What are his motives? Why would the President wish to create a personal relationship with these potentially powerful prosecutors?​

All:

Jon Liebman: Donald Trump Auditioning Federal Prosecutors In Alarming Reality Show Twist – Guest Column

Anyone ought to be watching what that sneaky bastard is quietly doing behind the scenes while the reporters are all busy buzzing about his latest tweet.
He knows what he wants and he knows how to get it.

I see you all are derping along today...

They still have to go through normal channels to get the job. If Trump tried to compromise them it would be discovered by the Senate.

Scout's honor, I didn't even consider that Trump was compromising the justices. I just figured he's asking the questions HE wants answered. Blackmail and corruption were your projection, not mine.

 

[bripat9643]

Bet you can't guess which ones!

<snip>

In our sophisticated system of checks and balances, important customs have arisen to protect prosecutors from being compromised by political encroachment. One of those traditions is that the U.S. Attorneys are nominated by the President with input from the Senators from the states where the districts sit, vetted by the FBI and the Department of Justice, and confirmed by the whole U.S. Senate. Traditionally, they are not interviewed by the President.

Enter Donald Trump. We have just learned that Trump is now taking the highly unusual step of violating this protocol. He is now personally interviewing candidates for three key U.S. Attorney positions — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. — all places where he and his family have extensive and ongoing business dealings.

Notably, the President reportedly has not interviewed any candidate for any of the other U.S. Attorney positions across the country.

What are his motives? Why would the President wish to create a personal relationship with these potentially powerful prosecutors?​

All:

Jon Liebman: Donald Trump Auditioning Federal Prosecutors In Alarming Reality Show Twist – Guest Column

In other words, it's all perfetly legal.

Thanks for playing!

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[bripat9643]

It must be true, I read it on a blog on the internet.

This dude has the creds - sorry

Editors’ Note: Jon Liebman, chairman and CEO of Brillstein Entertainment Partners, is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. He was one of 180 former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the Southern District of New York to have sent a bipartisan letter to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May asking that the DOJ appoint a special counsel to oversee the investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election. Liebman is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

In other words, he's a Democrat political hack.

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[usmbguest5318]

Trump: The first POTUS ever to interview US Attorneys

Really? By what contrived sense of hubris does Trump find himself qualified to interview anyone who will hold a job as an attorney representing the people of the U.S? I mean, seriously. The man has nine months of government experience of any sort, zero legal training, zero experience practicing law, zero prosecutorial experience, has written not one legal brief, has likely conducted no structured legal research, has argued no cases before a judge or jury, and he's not a particularly deep or keen thinker in any regard, least of all jurisprudentially. While the man may have questions to ask, none of them, unless he happens to "get lucky," are likely to be probative, or even informative, on the question of whether any given individual is highly qualified to serve as a U.S. Attorney.

Talk about micro-managing! U.S. Attorneys are, at best, three levels down from the President, and most of them are several rungs lower than that. I mean seriously. For example, the Managing Partner (equivalent to the CEO) in my firm, one having well over five thousand employees, would never use his time to interview a prospective line-level partner. And he wouldn't not because he lacks the ability, experience and knowledge of what a line partner's qualifications are, but because he's "got bigger fish to fry."

 

[OldLady]

Trump: The first POTUS ever to interview US Attorneys

Really? By what contrived sense of hubris does Trump find himself qualified to interview anyone who will hold a job as an attorney representing the people of the U.S? I mean, seriously. The man has nine months of government experience of any sort, zero legal training, zero experience practicing law, zero prosecutorial experience, has written not one legal brief, has likely conducted no structured legal research, has argued no cases before a judge or jury, and he's not a particularly deep or keen thinker in any regard, least of all jurisprudentially. While the man may have questions to ask, none of them, unless he happens to "get lucky," are likely to be probative, or even informative, on the question of whether any given individual is highly qualified to serve as a U.S. Attorney.

Talk about micro-managing! U.S. Attorneys are, at best, three levels down from the President, and most of them are several rungs lower than that.

Good point. But you do realize that the U.S. Attorneys have been throwing a monkey wrench in the Trump machinery since he started. Also, he's got skin in the game financially in ways I wouldn't begin to understand. He knows what he wants and he aims to get it.

 

[usmbguest5318]

He is now personally interviewing candidates for three key U.S. Attorney positions — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. — all places where he and his family have extensive and ongoing business dealings.

How opaque and large must be the blinders one wears not to see what's up with that?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

He has the creds?

Looks like he is an insider. He sent a letter asking that Trump be investigated and now Hillary is finally going down. Great creds in fact!

Are you denying the fact that Trump is the first president to interview US Attorneys ... or that he's specifically interviewing the ones that have direct authority over current investigations about his, and Kushner businesses?

Take off the blinders

Don't care.

 

[Penelope]

Bet you can't guess which ones!

<snip>

In our sophisticated system of checks and balances, important customs have arisen to protect prosecutors from being compromised by political encroachment. One of those traditions is that the U.S. Attorneys are nominated by the President with input from the Senators from the states where the districts sit, vetted by the FBI and the Department of Justice, and confirmed by the whole U.S. Senate. Traditionally, they are not interviewed by the President.

Enter Donald Trump. We have just learned that Trump is now taking the highly unusual step of violating this protocol. He is now personally interviewing candidates for three key U.S. Attorney positions — Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. — all places where he and his family have extensive and ongoing business dealings.

Notably, the President reportedly has not interviewed any candidate for any of the other U.S. Attorney positions across the country.

What are his motives? Why would the President wish to create a personal relationship with these potentially powerful prosecutors?​

All:

Jon Liebman: Donald Trump Auditioning Federal Prosecutors In Alarming Reality Show Twist – Guest Column

Anyone ought to be watching what that sneaky bastard is quietly doing behind the scenes while the reporters are all busy buzzing about his latest tweet.
He knows what he wants and he knows how to get it.

I see you all are derping along today...

They still have to go through normal channels to get the job. If Trump tried to compromise them it would be discovered by the Senate.

A rep senate, give me a break.

 

[Penelope]

He has the creds?

Looks like he is an insider. He sent a letter asking that Trump be investigated and now Hillary is finally going down. Great creds in fact!

Are you denying the fact that Trump is the first president to interview US Attorneys ... or that he's specifically interviewing the ones that have direct authority over current investigations about his, and Kushner businesses?

Take off the blinders

Don't care.

Really well I do and do many and I bet the maj of the pop does. We have 3 branches for a reason, oversight.