FactChecking Trump's Response to Mueller - FactCheck.org
"In an impromptu press conference and on Twitter, President Donald Trump responded to special counsel Robert Mueller’s remarks about the Russia investigation with several false and questionable claims:
- Trump suggested that he could not be impeached because he hasn’t been charged with a crime. 'I can’t imagine the courts allowing it,' he added. But constitutional scholars tell us a statutory crime is not a necessary predicate to impeachment, and impeachment is not reviewable by the courts.
- Trump claimed that he could not be charged with obstruction of justice because he was not guilty of an underlying crime. But Mueller, in his report, and again in his public statement, explained that it is possible to be guilty of obstruction even if one has been cleared of the underlying crime that gave rise to an investigation.
- Trump said that, unlike him, President Bill Clinton was found 'guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty' by a 'special prosecutor.' Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who investigated Clinton, did tell Congress that there was evidence to impeach Clinton. But that was an authority given to independent counsels — not special counsels, such as Mueller.
- Trump repeated his claim that Mueller was 'totally conflicted' — a charge that even one of Trump’s own advisers told him was 'ridiculous.'"
Mueller seems to say "no person is above the law", yet he lays out a model that federal prosecutors can investigate a sitting president for crimes, but they should make no decision about whether he committed any crime?
How does that work?
Trump keeps digging his own grave. He has no control over keeping his mouth shut, and gets everything wrong. I'm afraid Congress will have no other choice but to impeach. He's totally out of control. His wild accusations, ignorance of the law, and his lack of control keep him unfit for office.
But there again, I'd almost rather see him go to jail if I had the choice. We already know he qualifies for impeachment better than anyone in our history. Nixon and Clinton were choir boys compared to Trump.ttps://
www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/sen-bennet-impeachment-could-be-get-out-of-jail-card-for-trump-60646469530
But there again, I'd almost rather see him go to jail if I had the choice. We already know he qualifies for impeachment better than anyone in our history. Nixon and Clinton were choir boys compared to
Trump's corruption was widely known long before he won the Republican nomination. When he's forced from office, prosecuted, convicted,and thrown into prison, it will be his financials that doom him:
"Thanks to
former FBI Director James Comey, there are now acceptable times when the 19th century word 'Lordy can be demonstrably exclaimed in public settings.
"For example, it can be used with pretty much anything to do with the President of the United States or, as we are now suggesting, when referring to the management of Trump’s serially-charged banking establishment, Deutsche Bank.
"After setting an historic intraday low of $6.82 yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange, shares of Deutsche Bank mustered a tiny rally in the last half hour of trading today to eke out a close of $6.91.
"Just 12 years ago, this was a $120 stock.
"The bank now has a market capitalization of $14.18
billion supporting assets of $1.6
trillion. (Perhaps 'supporting' is not the right word. Lordy!)"
Lordy, Deutsche Bank Is Having a Helluva Bad Month