Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

[BlindBoo]

He can't obstruct the coup detat coming in 2020.

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Whether Trump is re-elected or not has no bearing on the failed coup d etat created and manufactured by the former administration. It will be the People of the United States of America voting, not spying on their political foes as Bath House Barry and Hillary spent millions to do with the help of Brennan, Clapper, Lynch, Comey and the rest of the cabal that failed in 2016.

Truly on par with the dumbest conspiracies on here.

Who were they planning on installing? Pence? Hillary? Back to Obama?

Seriously dumb.

Amazingly so.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

Ultimately, Barr is your source of information. Trump's biased employee is not a credible source. He is busy protecting Trump. I will prove it.

One thing was crystal clear from Barr's press conference on Thursday and before the Mueller Report was released: No collusion! Barr's willingness to echo Trump's favorite two-word mantra was evident throughout his remarks.

"The special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes," Barr said.

It's true: Mueller did not establish that there was a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. But Mueller uncovered "multiple links" connecting Trump aides to Russian officials and that there was at least some willingness to collaborate -- like Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Tower meeting. Mueller could not prove conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.

Also, Barr's use of the word "collusion," which he repeated multiple times, raised some eyebrows in the legal community. In the report, Mueller intentionally steered clear of that political phrase because it "is not a specific offense" under US law, "nor is it a term used in federal criminal law." Strange Barr would use it.

Barr cleared Trump of obstruction. "After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report... the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense," Barr said.

Mueller did not struggle with whether there was enough evidence to bring a case of obstruction of justice. The challenge was that they amassed compelling evidence but couldn't indict a President even if they wanted to, DOJ rules.

Here's what the report actually said: "...if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred."

Barr downplayed the role that DOJ guidelines played when Mueller considered whether Trump violated the law. Internal DOJ policies say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. The policy comes from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

"We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion," Barr said at his press conference. "And he made it very clear several times that that was not his position."

The OLC opinion had a major impact on Mueller's internal deliberations. In effect, Mueller framed his entire obstruction investigation around the notion that he couldn't bring any charges against Trump even if he found ironclad evidence against him, because of the OLC opinion. He specifically left the matter up to Congress.

"Special Counsel Mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision to Congress," Barr said.

"With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice," Mueller said.

Barr became a Trump lackey. It is difficult understand why this proud professional lowered himself to this role, sacrificing every bit of his self-esteem.

4 times Barr twisted and cherry-picked Mueller's report - CNNPolitics

Trump refuses to allow an unredacted version of the Mueller Report to be given to Congress.

Trump will fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify.

Trump is breaking the law by not turning over six years of tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. The chairmen, Richard Neal, is relying on invoking an authority enshrined in the tax code granted only to the tax-writing committees in Congress that gives the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee the power to request tax information on any filer. It says that the Treasury secretary “shall” furnish the information. Mnuchin, following Trump's orders, flew through today's deadline.

The White House has instructed a former official who was in charge of the security clearance process to not comply with a House subpoena demanding his appearance for an interview. The White House told the former official, Carl Kline, who now works at the Defense Department, to not appear at Tuesday's deposition.

"I'm having a good day," Trump said at a White House event for the Wounded Warrior Project. "It’s called no collusion, no obstruction.”

For an innocent man, Trump is acting quite guilty. He is giving every indication that he is very guilty. Innocent Presidents do not try to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.

 

[Hossfly]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

Ultimately, Barr is your source of information. Trump's biased employee is not a credible source. He is busy protecting Trump. I will prove it.

One thing was crystal clear from Barr's press conference on Thursday and before the Mueller Report was released: No collusion! Barr's willingness to echo Trump's favorite two-word mantra was evident throughout his remarks.

"The special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes," Barr said.

It's true: Mueller did not establish that there was a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. But Mueller uncovered "multiple links" connecting Trump aides to Russian officials and that there was at least some willingness to collaborate -- like Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Tower meeting. Mueller could not prove conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.

Also, Barr's use of the word "collusion," which he repeated multiple times, raised some eyebrows in the legal community. In the report, Mueller intentionally steered clear of that political phrase because it "is not a specific offense" under US law, "nor is it a term used in federal criminal law." Strange Barr would use it.

Barr cleared Trump of obstruction. "After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report... the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense," Barr said.

Mueller did not struggle with whether there was enough evidence to bring a case of obstruction of justice. The challenge was that they amassed compelling evidence but couldn't indict a President even if they wanted to, DOJ rules.

Here's what the report actually said: "...if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred."

Barr downplayed the role that DOJ guidelines played when Mueller considered whether Trump violated the law. Internal DOJ policies say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. The policy comes from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

"We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion," Barr said at his press conference. "And he made it very clear several times that that was not his position."

The OLC opinion had a major impact on Mueller's internal deliberations. In effect, Mueller framed his entire obstruction investigation around the notion that he couldn't bring any charges against Trump even if he found ironclad evidence against him, because of the OLC opinion. He specifically left the matter up to Congress.

"Special Counsel Mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision to Congress," Barr said.

"With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice," Mueller said.

Barr became a Trump lackey. It is difficult understand why this proud professional lowered himself to this role, sacrificing every bit of his self-esteem.

4 times Barr twisted and cherry-picked Mueller's report - CNNPolitics

Trump refuses to allow an unredacted version of the Mueller Report to be given to Congress.

Trump will fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify.

Trump is breaking the law by not turning over six years of tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. The chairmen, Richard Neal, is relying on invoking an authority enshrined in the tax code granted only to the tax-writing committees in Congress that gives the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee the power to request tax information on any filer. It says that the Treasury secretary “shall” furnish the information. Mnuchin, following Trump's orders, flew through today's deadline.

The White House has instructed a former official who was in charge of the security clearance process to not comply with a House subpoena demanding his appearance for an interview. The White House told the former official, Carl Kline, who now works at the Defense Department, to not appear at Tuesday's deposition.

"I'm having a good day," Trump said at a White House event for the Wounded Warrior Project. "It’s called no collusion, no obstruction.”

For an innocent man, Trump is acting quite guilty. He is giving every indication that he is very guilty. Innocent Presidents do not try to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.

We'll get the bastard any time now. Judgement day is coming.

 

[Sandy Shanks]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

Ultimately, Barr is your source of information. Trump's biased employee is not a credible source. He is busy protecting Trump. I will prove it.

One thing was crystal clear from Barr's press conference on Thursday and before the Mueller Report was released: No collusion! Barr's willingness to echo Trump's favorite two-word mantra was evident throughout his remarks.

"The special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes," Barr said.

It's true: Mueller did not establish that there was a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. But Mueller uncovered "multiple links" connecting Trump aides to Russian officials and that there was at least some willingness to collaborate -- like Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Tower meeting. Mueller could not prove conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.

Also, Barr's use of the word "collusion," which he repeated multiple times, raised some eyebrows in the legal community. In the report, Mueller intentionally steered clear of that political phrase because it "is not a specific offense" under US law, "nor is it a term used in federal criminal law." Strange Barr would use it.

Barr cleared Trump of obstruction. "After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report... the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense," Barr said.

Mueller did not struggle with whether there was enough evidence to bring a case of obstruction of justice. The challenge was that they amassed compelling evidence but couldn't indict a President even if they wanted to, DOJ rules.

Here's what the report actually said: "...if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred."

Barr downplayed the role that DOJ guidelines played when Mueller considered whether Trump violated the law. Internal DOJ policies say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. The policy comes from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

"We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion," Barr said at his press conference. "And he made it very clear several times that that was not his position."

The OLC opinion had a major impact on Mueller's internal deliberations. In effect, Mueller framed his entire obstruction investigation around the notion that he couldn't bring any charges against Trump even if he found ironclad evidence against him, because of the OLC opinion. He specifically left the matter up to Congress.

"Special Counsel Mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision to Congress," Barr said.

"With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice," Mueller said.

Barr became a Trump lackey. It is difficult understand why this proud professional lowered himself to this role, sacrificing every bit of his self-esteem.

4 times Barr twisted and cherry-picked Mueller's report - CNNPolitics

Trump refuses to allow an unredacted version of the Mueller Report to be given to Congress.

Trump will fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify.

Trump is breaking the law by not turning over six years of tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. The chairmen, Richard Neal, is relying on invoking an authority enshrined in the tax code granted only to the tax-writing committees in Congress that gives the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee the power to request tax information on any filer. It says that the Treasury secretary “shall” furnish the information. Mnuchin, following Trump's orders, flew through today's deadline.

The White House has instructed a former official who was in charge of the security clearance process to not comply with a House subpoena demanding his appearance for an interview. The White House told the former official, Carl Kline, who now works at the Defense Department, to not appear at Tuesday's deposition.

"I'm having a good day," Trump said at a White House event for the Wounded Warrior Project. "It’s called no collusion, no obstruction.”

For an innocent man, Trump is acting quite guilty. He is giving every indication that he is very guilty. Innocent Presidents do not try to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.

At issue today is executive privilege and Trump's position that he will refuse all access to White House documents, staffers, and former staffers (McGahn, for example). That access is being submitted by a co-equal branch of our government. The question becomes, can Trump hide from our representatives in Congress?

He can try, but it is political suicide. So is hiding from Americans. The White House has not had a press conference in 48 days. In the 28 months of his Presidency, Trump has held two press conferences. Both were utter disasters and it is expected he will not hold another. A secret Presidency is also political suicide.

Also, he is destined to lose in the courts. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this issue in United States v. Nixon.

Trump has asserted a generalized need for confidentiality. In other words, he is banning everything -- he even said so -- as opposed to forbidding access to a specific document or the testimony of a specific White House staffer or former staffer. In U.S. vs. Nixon, the Court ruled "because Nixon had asserted only a generalized need for confidentiality, the Court held that the larger public interest in obtaining the truth in the context of a criminal prosecution took precedence.

So, Trump can try, but all he is doing is delaying the inevitable and that will become a political liability in an election year as slowly, but surely, the courts will rule against him.

Trump can't use executive privilege to obstruct justice where he is the subject of the investigation.

Executive privilege - Wikipedia

 

[beautress]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

Ultimately, Barr is your source of information. Trump's biased employee is not a credible source. He is busy protecting Trump. I will prove it.

One thing was crystal clear from Barr's press conference on Thursday and before the Mueller Report was released: No collusion! Barr's willingness to echo Trump's favorite two-word mantra was evident throughout his remarks.

"The special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes," Barr said.

It's true: Mueller did not establish that there was a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. But Mueller uncovered "multiple links" connecting Trump aides to Russian officials and that there was at least some willingness to collaborate -- like Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Tower meeting. Mueller could not prove conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.

Also, Barr's use of the word "collusion," which he repeated multiple times, raised some eyebrows in the legal community. In the report, Mueller intentionally steered clear of that political phrase because it "is not a specific offense" under US law, "nor is it a term used in federal criminal law." Strange Barr would use it.

Barr cleared Trump of obstruction. "After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report... the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense," Barr said.

Mueller did not struggle with whether there was enough evidence to bring a case of obstruction of justice. The challenge was that they amassed compelling evidence but couldn't indict a President even if they wanted to, DOJ rules.

Here's what the report actually said: "...if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred."

Barr downplayed the role that DOJ guidelines played when Mueller considered whether Trump violated the law. Internal DOJ policies say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. The policy comes from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

"We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion," Barr said at his press conference. "And he made it very clear several times that that was not his position."

The OLC opinion had a major impact on Mueller's internal deliberations. In effect, Mueller framed his entire obstruction investigation around the notion that he couldn't bring any charges against Trump even if he found ironclad evidence against him, because of the OLC opinion. He specifically left the matter up to Congress.

"Special Counsel Mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision to Congress," Barr said.

"With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice," Mueller said.

Barr became a Trump lackey. It is difficult understand why this proud professional lowered himself to this role, sacrificing every bit of his self-esteem.

4 times Barr twisted and cherry-picked Mueller's report - CNNPolitics

Trump refuses to allow an unredacted version of the Mueller Report to be given to Congress.

Trump will fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify.

Trump is breaking the law by not turning over six years of tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. The chairmen, Richard Neal, is relying on invoking an authority enshrined in the tax code granted only to the tax-writing committees in Congress that gives the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee the power to request tax information on any filer. It says that the Treasury secretary “shall” furnish the information. Mnuchin, following Trump's orders, flew through today's deadline.

The White House has instructed a former official who was in charge of the security clearance process to not comply with a House subpoena demanding his appearance for an interview. The White House told the former official, Carl Kline, who now works at the Defense Department, to not appear at Tuesday's deposition.

"I'm having a good day," Trump said at a White House event for the Wounded Warrior Project. "It’s called no collusion, no obstruction.”

For an innocent man, Trump is acting quite guilty. He is giving every indication that he is very guilty. Innocent Presidents do not try to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.

At issue today is executive privilege and Trump's position that he will refuse all access to White House documents, staffers, and former staffers (McGahn, for example). That access is being submitted by a co-equal branch of our government. The question becomes, can Trump hide from our representatives in Congress?

He can try, but it is political suicide. So is hiding from Americans. The White House has not had a press conference in 48 days. In the 28 months of his Presidency, Trump has held two press conferences. Both were utter disasters and it is expected he will not hold another. A secret Presidency is also political suicide.

Also, he is destined to lose in the courts. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this issue in United States v. Nixon.

Trump has asserted a generalized need for confidentiality. In other words, he is banning everything -- he even said so -- as opposed to forbidding access to a specific document or the testimony of a specific White House staffer or former staffer. In U.S. vs. Nixon, the Court ruled "because Nixon had asserted only a generalized need for confidentiality, the Court held that the larger public interest in obtaining the truth in the context of a criminal prosecution took precedence.

So, Trump can try, but all he is doing is delaying the inevitable and that will become a political liability in an election year as slowly, but surely, the courts will rule against him.

Trump can't use executive privilege to obstruct justice where he is the subject of the investigation.

Executive privilege - Wikipedia

You can't run for two more years with your false narrative, Madame Poopsie Party.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

Nobody tried to overthrow the US government. Saying this nonsense needs to stop. You just highlight how uneducated you are.

 

[Butch_Coolidge]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

Trump IS Putin's water boy.
He bends over for Putin.
Putin owns his sorry, orange-faced ass.

Sure. That’s why there’s tons of pictures of Hillary with him, looking like she wants to eat him for lunch. They look very cozy together. But she likes muff, so maybe that’s not an accurate representation.


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[beautress]

Do you get paid to post this nincompoopery?

You should talk, Taxi man. Here's Demmie territory at its fullest bloom:

Pelosi country (do not inhale)
What Socialism's Poopers Did in San Francisco, California

The entire city was brown last time the maps were up.
You just can't step anywhere.​

 

[beautress]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

You should stop
Reading garbage

Life in socialist America is a hell of a lot worse than garbage.

 

[Moonglow]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

It wasn't a coup it was an usurpation..

 

[Moonglow]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

You should stop
Reading garbage

Life in socialist America is a hell of a lot worse than garbage.

You've lived in garbage?

 

[Butch_Coolidge]

Trump should play Battle Cry of Freedom in background when he gives a press conference immediately after the arrests of Clapper, Brennan, Comey and Mccabe for Sedition, Treason, Misprision, Espionage and FISA abuse (also a Class A felony).



Then this song (our anthem) when they hang in public, while holding pardons for any of them that make a public confession prior to their execution (with the rope around their neck) and reveal the entirety of the Deep State to the public on live TV.

Trump doesn't give press conferences.
Last time he got so butt-hurt by Jim Acosta that he stopped.
Now he just shouts from the grounds before he gets on his helicopter.
He's a ******* scared lying girly-man.
I'm sure you can relate.
.
..

He won and continues. Remember? That’s why your ass still hurts.


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[HenryBHough]

Were Jesus H. Christ to run for president as a Republican 50 Democrat women would immediately denounce Him as a racist rapist.

It's just what they do.

But is it genetic?

Or just over-indoctrination.

 

[beautress]

Were Jesus H. Christ to run for president as a Republican 50 Democrat women would immediately denounce Him as a racist rapist.

It's just what they do.

But is it genetic?

Or just over-indoctrination.

They're practicing up Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's perceptual scenario to achieve desired political end. Truth is optional.

 

[Moonglow]

Were Jesus H. Christ to run for president as a Republican 50 Democrat women would immediately denounce Him as a racist rapist.

It's just what they do.

But is it genetic?

Or just over-indoctrination.

A single man in the White House? It's been a while but yeah...

 

[Doc7505]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

Ultimately, Barr is your source of information. Trump's biased employee is not a credible source. He is busy protecting Trump. I will prove it.

One thing was crystal clear from Barr's press conference on Thursday and before the Mueller Report was released: No collusion! Barr's willingness to echo Trump's favorite two-word mantra was evident throughout his remarks.

"The special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes," Barr said.

It's true: Mueller did not establish that there was a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. But Mueller uncovered "multiple links" connecting Trump aides to Russian officials and that there was at least some willingness to collaborate -- like Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Tower meeting. Mueller could not prove conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.

Also, Barr's use of the word "collusion," which he repeated multiple times, raised some eyebrows in the legal community. In the report, Mueller intentionally steered clear of that political phrase because it "is not a specific offense" under US law, "nor is it a term used in federal criminal law." Strange Barr would use it.

Barr cleared Trump of obstruction. "After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report... the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense," Barr said.

Mueller did not struggle with whether there was enough evidence to bring a case of obstruction of justice. The challenge was that they amassed compelling evidence but couldn't indict a President even if they wanted to, DOJ rules.

Here's what the report actually said: "...if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred."

Barr downplayed the role that DOJ guidelines played when Mueller considered whether Trump violated the law. Internal DOJ policies say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. The policy comes from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

"We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion," Barr said at his press conference. "And he made it very clear several times that that was not his position."

The OLC opinion had a major impact on Mueller's internal deliberations. In effect, Mueller framed his entire obstruction investigation around the notion that he couldn't bring any charges against Trump even if he found ironclad evidence against him, because of the OLC opinion. He specifically left the matter up to Congress.

"Special Counsel Mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision to Congress," Barr said.

"With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice," Mueller said.

Barr became a Trump lackey. It is difficult understand why this proud professional lowered himself to this role, sacrificing every bit of his self-esteem.

4 times Barr twisted and cherry-picked Mueller's report - CNNPolitics

Trump refuses to allow an unredacted version of the Mueller Report to be given to Congress.

Trump will fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify.

Trump is breaking the law by not turning over six years of tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. The chairmen, Richard Neal, is relying on invoking an authority enshrined in the tax code granted only to the tax-writing committees in Congress that gives the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee the power to request tax information on any filer. It says that the Treasury secretary “shall” furnish the information. Mnuchin, following Trump's orders, flew through today's deadline.

The White House has instructed a former official who was in charge of the security clearance process to not comply with a House subpoena demanding his appearance for an interview. The White House told the former official, Carl Kline, who now works at the Defense Department, to not appear at Tuesday's deposition.

"I'm having a good day," Trump said at a White House event for the Wounded Warrior Project. "It’s called no collusion, no obstruction.”

For an innocent man, Trump is acting quite guilty. He is giving every indication that he is very guilty. Innocent Presidents do not try to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.

At issue today is executive privilege and Trump's position that he will refuse all access to White House documents, staffers, and former staffers (McGahn, for example). That access is being submitted by a co-equal branch of our government. The question becomes, can Trump hide from our representatives in Congress?

He can try, but it is political suicide. So is hiding from Americans. The White House has not had a press conference in 48 days. In the 28 months of his Presidency, Trump has held two press conferences. Both were utter disasters and it is expected he will not hold another. A secret Presidency is also political suicide.

Also, he is destined to lose in the courts. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this issue in United States v. Nixon.

Trump has asserted a generalized need for confidentiality. In other words, he is banning everything -- he even said so -- as opposed to forbidding access to a specific document or the testimony of a specific White House staffer or former staffer. In U.S. vs. Nixon, the Court ruled "because Nixon had asserted only a generalized need for confidentiality, the Court held that the larger public interest in obtaining the truth in the context of a criminal prosecution took precedence.

So, Trump can try, but all he is doing is delaying the inevitable and that will become a political liability in an election year as slowly, but surely, the courts will rule against him.

Trump can't use executive privilege to obstruct justice where he is the subject of the investigation.

Executive privilege - Wikipedia

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Obama, and Clinton used Executive Privilege to obstruct Justice in several cases from the Lewinsky scandal, to Fast and Furious and the Benghazi debacle.....Bath House Barry even claimed to have his pen and phone to enforce and implement those Executive Privilege Actions.

Did Barack Obama ‘Obstruct Justice’ in Clinton Email Case?
Did Barack Obama ‘Obstruct Justice’ in Clinton Email Case?
Jan 29, 2018 · Did Barack Obama ‘Obstruct Justice’ in Clinton Email Case? ... appears to have morphed into an investigation into alleged “obstruction of justice…

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Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim ...
Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder’s Wife - Judicial Watch
Oct 23, 2014 · Ordinarily, these records would, in whole or part, be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Few of the records seem to even implicate presidential decision-making and advice that might be subject to President Obama’s broad and unprecedented executive privilege claim.

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Obama Executive Privilege Asserted Over Fast And Furious ...
Obama Executive Privilege Asserted Over Fast And Furious Documents | HuffPost
Jun 20, 2012 · President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege in response to requests made by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, who has embarked on a controversial investigation into the Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious gun-running program.

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Judge rejects Obama's executive privilege claim over Fast ...
Judge rejects Obama's executive privilege claim over Fast and Furious records
Judge rejects Obama's executive privilege claim over Fast and Furious records. However, the judge ruled in 2013 that the fight was an appropriate one for the courts to resolve. She also rejected the administration's efforts to appeal the case at that time, before she issued a definitive ruling.

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President Is Denied Executive Privilege - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/starr050698.htm
Johnson's executive privilege ruling came as prosecutors yesterday infused new energy into their Lewinsky grand jury investigation, bringing back one of the central players in that saga, Clinton confidant Vernon E. Jordan Jr., to testify. Another key witness, presidential secretary …

 

[Doc7505]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


~~~~~~
Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

It wasn't a coup it was an usurpation..

~~~~~~
TRying to parse words is a failure on your part....
To Usurp: Usurp is defined as to take over power or control unlawfully or with force. An example of usurp is when a rebel kills the King and takes his power.

If you say that someone usurps a job, role, title, or position, they take it from someone when they have no right to do this.

 

[IM2]

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


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Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

None of that happened. And he still can be impeached.

 

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Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'état

Wouldn't President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d'état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order?​

https://canadafreepress.com/article/...mcoup-detat-em
April 22, 2019 ~ By Jim O'Neil
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.—18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
Granted, President Trump may have been a bit peeved at being falsely accused of being Putin’s water boy, but heck, I’d be a bit ticked off myself. The scurrilous anti-Trump innuendoes and outright lies spread by a weaponized FBI, CIA, State Dept. and various other federal agencies amounts to an attempted coup against America’s duly elected president. Such blatant treason cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor can the two-tiered “justice” system We the People currently suffer under be allowed to stand. If we no longer have rule of law in the United States then we are no longer a free republic. Period.
I don’t think you need to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots here folks. In any event, something to think about. Something else to think about—wouldn’t President Trump obstructing an attempted coup d’état of the United States be valorous patriotism of the highest order? You bet it would.


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Trump is bringing down the deep state piece by piece and they know it and are becoming more desperate how to "Impeach" him but there is nothing there on which to impeach him. However, many of those seeking to "Impeach" him are themselves traitors/seditionists. Hence they are able to be impeached but better yet, hanged and we have plenty of rope awaiting them. Karma is coming and the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats are seeing it daily and getting more desperate while losing and losing and losing. They were elected by us to represent us and have royally failed and so they can be removed as lousy employees.
According to card carrying DSA Democrats like Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Nadler, Waters, Schiff and Swalwell obstructing their attempted coup d'état is an impeachable offense.
The authors headline says it all. Trump has shown a steel spine the likes of which hasn't existed in a LONG time. The Dems are finished. With the coming Nunes indictments, the IG Horowitz report, the coming declassification of factual evidence, the Progressive Commie Democrats pretty much won't even exist by 2020.

Ultimately, Barr is your source of information. Trump's biased employee is not a credible source. He is busy protecting Trump. I will prove it.

One thing was crystal clear from Barr's press conference on Thursday and before the Mueller Report was released: No collusion! Barr's willingness to echo Trump's favorite two-word mantra was evident throughout his remarks.

"The special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes," Barr said.

It's true: Mueller did not establish that there was a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. But Mueller uncovered "multiple links" connecting Trump aides to Russian officials and that there was at least some willingness to collaborate -- like Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Tower meeting. Mueller could not prove conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt.

Also, Barr's use of the word "collusion," which he repeated multiple times, raised some eyebrows in the legal community. In the report, Mueller intentionally steered clear of that political phrase because it "is not a specific offense" under US law, "nor is it a term used in federal criminal law." Strange Barr would use it.

Barr cleared Trump of obstruction. "After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report... the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense," Barr said.

Mueller did not struggle with whether there was enough evidence to bring a case of obstruction of justice. The challenge was that they amassed compelling evidence but couldn't indict a President even if they wanted to, DOJ rules.

Here's what the report actually said: "...if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred."

Barr downplayed the role that DOJ guidelines played when Mueller considered whether Trump violated the law. Internal DOJ policies say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. The policy comes from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

"We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion," Barr said at his press conference. "And he made it very clear several times that that was not his position."

The OLC opinion had a major impact on Mueller's internal deliberations. In effect, Mueller framed his entire obstruction investigation around the notion that he couldn't bring any charges against Trump even if he found ironclad evidence against him, because of the OLC opinion. He specifically left the matter up to Congress.

"Special Counsel Mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision to Congress," Barr said.

"With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice," Mueller said.

Barr became a Trump lackey. It is difficult understand why this proud professional lowered himself to this role, sacrificing every bit of his self-esteem.

4 times Barr twisted and cherry-picked Mueller's report - CNNPolitics

Trump refuses to allow an unredacted version of the Mueller Report to be given to Congress.

Trump will fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify.

Trump is breaking the law by not turning over six years of tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. The chairmen, Richard Neal, is relying on invoking an authority enshrined in the tax code granted only to the tax-writing committees in Congress that gives the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee the power to request tax information on any filer. It says that the Treasury secretary “shall” furnish the information. Mnuchin, following Trump's orders, flew through today's deadline.

The White House has instructed a former official who was in charge of the security clearance process to not comply with a House subpoena demanding his appearance for an interview. The White House told the former official, Carl Kline, who now works at the Defense Department, to not appear at Tuesday's deposition.

"I'm having a good day," Trump said at a White House event for the Wounded Warrior Project. "It’s called no collusion, no obstruction.”

For an innocent man, Trump is acting quite guilty. He is giving every indication that he is very guilty. Innocent Presidents do not try to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.

At issue today is executive privilege and Trump's position that he will refuse all access to White House documents, staffers, and former staffers (McGahn, for example). That access is being submitted by a co-equal branch of our government. The question becomes, can Trump hide from our representatives in Congress?

He can try, but it is political suicide. So is hiding from Americans. The White House has not had a press conference in 48 days. In the 28 months of his Presidency, Trump has held two press conferences. Both were utter disasters and it is expected he will not hold another. A secret Presidency is also political suicide.

Also, he is destined to lose in the courts. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this issue in United States v. Nixon.

Trump has asserted a generalized need for confidentiality. In other words, he is banning everything -- he even said so -- as opposed to forbidding access to a specific document or the testimony of a specific White House staffer or former staffer. In U.S. vs. Nixon, the Court ruled "because Nixon had asserted only a generalized need for confidentiality, the Court held that the larger public interest in obtaining the truth in the context of a criminal prosecution took precedence.

So, Trump can try, but all he is doing is delaying the inevitable and that will become a political liability in an election year as slowly, but surely, the courts will rule against him.

Trump can't use executive privilege to obstruct justice where he is the subject of the investigation.

Executive privilege - Wikipedia

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Obama, and Clinton used Executive Privilege to obstruct Justice in several cases from the Lewinsky scandal, to Fast and Furious and the Benghazi debacle.....Bath House Barry even claimed to have his pen and phone to enforce and implement those Executive Privilege Actions.

Did Barack Obama ‘Obstruct Justice’ in Clinton Email Case?
Did Barack Obama ‘Obstruct Justice’ in Clinton Email Case?
Jan 29, 2018 · Did Barack Obama ‘Obstruct Justice’ in Clinton Email Case? ... appears to have morphed into an investigation into alleged “obstruction of justice…

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Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim ...
Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder’s Wife - Judicial Watch
Oct 23, 2014 · Ordinarily, these records would, in whole or part, be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Few of the records seem to even implicate presidential decision-making and advice that might be subject to President Obama’s broad and unprecedented executive privilege claim.

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Obama Executive Privilege Asserted Over Fast And Furious ...
Obama Executive Privilege Asserted Over Fast And Furious Documents | HuffPost
Jun 20, 2012 · President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege in response to requests made by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, who has embarked on a controversial investigation into the Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious gun-running program.

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Judge rejects Obama's executive privilege claim over Fast ...
Judge rejects Obama's executive privilege claim over Fast and Furious records
Judge rejects Obama's executive privilege claim over Fast and Furious records. However, the judge ruled in 2013 that the fight was an appropriate one for the courts to resolve. She also rejected the administration's efforts to appeal the case at that time, before she issued a definitive ruling.

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President Is Denied Executive Privilege - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/starr050698.htm
Johnson's executive privilege ruling came as prosecutors yesterday infused new energy into their Lewinsky grand jury investigation, bringing back one of the central players in that saga, Clinton confidant Vernon E. Jordan Jr., to testify. Another key witness, presidential secretary …

You can't be this damn dumb.

Trump has been running his mouth, the people subpoenaed or going to get subpoenaed have already talked. Too late to try using executive privilege.