THE END IS IN SIGHT: THE UNRAVELING OF THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE
The path to impeachment, indictment, and who knows what else is getting closer to the end. Robert Mueller and his investigation is picking up steam. Jeff Sessions has had to testify before the Special Council; the President's Director of the FBI has threatened to quit because the President has put undue pressure on him to fire the man who was "acting director" after Comey who is a lifetime public employee. and worst of all for the President, he is going to have to testify before Mueller under oath. For the man who cannot tell the truth {over 2100 documented lies}, this is the ultimate perjury trap and a nightmare for the President's legal team.
There are few things as powerful as being called before the Special Council. It places the individual who is invited in an very precarious situation. You are initially asked to appear voluntarily. If you decline the invitation, you are then subpoenaed. Even the President of the United States is not immune to a Special Council subpoena. Once at the interrogation, every statement you make is under oath and subject to perjury. That testimony has already been either corroborated or denigrated by previous testimony by other witnesses. Any untruth that is stated is subject to a perjury charge. In addition, every statement, every video, every action that has been taken by this President is already in the hands of the Special Council. The President cannot deny facts that are already proven {as he has done in many cases}. He must either remain totally truthful or plead the fifth amendment.
This is the nightmare that faces the attorneys that are trying to protect the President. How do you get a compulsive liar to not lie when he is under severe legal pressure? Can you get the interview to be done in writing? Probably not. Could you get the Special Council to restrict his questioning? Probably not. Could the President plead the fifth amendment? Perhaps, but that would be political suicide. Could the President plead executive privilege to every question? Again perhaps, but the result of that answer would offer up its own set of political pitfalls and possible constitutional crises. Ultimately, there is no good out for the President. There is so much out there that range from the actions that occurred during the campaign and possible discussions and actions with the Russians, to possible pre-election money laundering, to questions about the firing of James Comey, to the pressure to fire McCabe, to the ongoing questions about the Russian government and Trump and his family's ties to that regime, as well as a multitude of other areas that the Mueller investigation may have uncovered. Guilty pleas and indictments against members of the Trump team do not help the situation.
It may turn out that Trump is innocent of criminal liability, though the public reading of the evidence appears to make that outcome less probable. The President manages to dig a deeper and deeper hole every day through his tweeting and his more than occasional rants. No one even questions why the white house has become a haven for the hiring of attorneys. It has become evident that books like "Fire and Fury" are really not necessary to convince people that this is an administration in chaos. People are running for the hills in record numbers for a one year old presidency. No one seems to know where the next shoe will fall and whether they may have some peripheral involvement that they don't even realize. It makes for a pressure filled work environment. Who has been interviewed? What might they have said? Could they have implicated me? The only thing that could reign supreme in a white house like this is chaos.
Rome fell under less pressure than this. And Trump doesn't even have to play his fiddle.
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The end of this farce is almost here and then the left can find some other fantasy to waste time with.
If @ 9AM Trump tries to invoke executive privilege for anything before Jan. 2017, Mueller will have it in front of a Federal Judge by noon. Mueller could always have a Grand jury panel ready and waiting too. Without lawyers in the room to protect him, Trump would be done.
Mueller will start with stuff from before Trumps campaign and walk Trump through every little detail that they have on his business dealings, nice and slow, fact after fact. By the end of the first day, Trump will be catatonic.
Whether or not Trump can be compelled to testify is a moot point. If he doesn't, the collateral damage to both Trump and the Republican party will be irreversible. Even in this age of super divisive politics,that would be a bridge too far.
Donald Trump's business organization has laundered money for Russian criminals. The 64,000 dollar question, as they used to say, is how far is Mueller willing to go to demonstrate that about a sitting president. After all, white collar crime generally goes unpunished in this world.
It will be interesting.
Sounds like a liberal wet dream. What's your source(s)? in reality, the Mueller investigation was based on the theory that there was something incriminating in a dossier that has turned out to be a work of fiction.That fake information was used by operatives in the Obama and Clinton camps to obtain a FISA warrant to illegally spy on a private citizen. This charade has gone about as far as it is going to go.
On the other hand, we're learning daily of all kinds of irregularities and questionable goings on with several members of Mueller's team, the FBI, and Obama holdovers in the Justice Dept. Another special prosecutor or Federal Grand Jury seems very likely to be coming along shortly. It's going to be a very bad year for the party of the Left going into the midterms. Scandal upon scandal upon scandal is going to continue to erode their "message"
I can only hope that the entire far right keeps your delusion active. This is a wave that will destroy the Trump Alt-Right movement. For those of you who insist on deluding yourselves into thinking that the people of this country love the mistake-in-chief, you will be very unhappy the morning after election day when impeachment becomes a real possibility.