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John Yoo, a former George W. Bush-era Justice Department employee who helped write the "torture memos" on interrogation techniques after the Sept. 11 attacks, and whose views of executive power held that the president can order a village slaughtered, said that Trump's actions were clearly against the law.
"Trump is not allowed to have the records and keep them. He could get copies. But he can’t keep them away from the Archives. That’s settled," Yoo said in an interview at the National Conservatism Conference. "It is not whether Trump violated the law. He did. It’s not whether the government had legal grounds for the search warrant. It does. The question is really whether he could be charged."
"The real issue, and I think both people on both sides should recognize this, is, is it a good use of prosecutorial discretion — of judgment — to charge him?" Yoo said. "So my view has been if you’re going to go after a president for the first time in American history for violating a law, I think it should be for something much more important than this. Like, for example, being involved with the Jan. 6 conspiracy."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...-classified-records-seized-mar-lago-rcna47288
If you're a Harry Potter fan you are no doubt familiar with the scene at the end of Deathly Hallows II when Voldemort's wand betrays him. It's the moment he realizes all is lost.
The analogy to the Orange Insurrectionist is seeing former loyalists and hard core right wingers with legal expertise openly speak about Don's criminal exposure to 1/6 and MaLgate. Most recently they include the rotund former NJ gov., Chris Christie, former Trump AG Billy the Bagman, and now John Yoo. The architect of Dubya's torture policy. All those folks are members of the Cretins Hall of Fame but they do have a point when it comes to the guy Stormy Daniels described as having a mushroom d*ck.
But hey, Don will always have The Following in his back pocket. They will never leave him. Because to do so is not only to admit Trump is toxic for the country, but that they are too.
BTW, I can't help wondering if the reverence with which Yoo speaks of a "former prez" has something to do.......subconsciously......with his belief it was right for Shrub not to be charged with the war crimes he committed. You know.......since Yoo enabled him.
"Trump is not allowed to have the records and keep them. He could get copies. But he can’t keep them away from the Archives. That’s settled," Yoo said in an interview at the National Conservatism Conference. "It is not whether Trump violated the law. He did. It’s not whether the government had legal grounds for the search warrant. It does. The question is really whether he could be charged."
"The real issue, and I think both people on both sides should recognize this, is, is it a good use of prosecutorial discretion — of judgment — to charge him?" Yoo said. "So my view has been if you’re going to go after a president for the first time in American history for violating a law, I think it should be for something much more important than this. Like, for example, being involved with the Jan. 6 conspiracy."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...-classified-records-seized-mar-lago-rcna47288
If you're a Harry Potter fan you are no doubt familiar with the scene at the end of Deathly Hallows II when Voldemort's wand betrays him. It's the moment he realizes all is lost.
The analogy to the Orange Insurrectionist is seeing former loyalists and hard core right wingers with legal expertise openly speak about Don's criminal exposure to 1/6 and MaLgate. Most recently they include the rotund former NJ gov., Chris Christie, former Trump AG Billy the Bagman, and now John Yoo. The architect of Dubya's torture policy. All those folks are members of the Cretins Hall of Fame but they do have a point when it comes to the guy Stormy Daniels described as having a mushroom d*ck.
But hey, Don will always have The Following in his back pocket. They will never leave him. Because to do so is not only to admit Trump is toxic for the country, but that they are too.
BTW, I can't help wondering if the reverence with which Yoo speaks of a "former prez" has something to do.......subconsciously......with his belief it was right for Shrub not to be charged with the war crimes he committed. You know.......since Yoo enabled him.
