I have to take mild issue with your comments on Robert Mueller as special counsel. His failure to advocate indictment of Trump was based long standing DOJ policy with respect to sitting presidents. His report and testimony while anything but dramatic was thorough in describing the acts constituting obstruction and Congress, had it the will, could easily have removed Trump from office for it.
Not indicting kicked it from the legal realm to the political one, where the outcome was preordained. He could have indicted and let the courts figure out whether or not it's constitutional, but he was obviously never going to do that, which is what I was telling people. Whatever the legal theory behind the DOJ policy, I'm pretty sure "we're not touching that with a ten-mile pole" is the practical one.
I have to take mild issue with your comments on Robert Mueller as special counsel. His failure to advocate indictment of Trump was based long standing DOJ policy with respect to sitting presidents. His report and testimony while anything but dramatic was thorough in describing the acts constituting obstruction and Congress, had it the will, could easily have removed Trump from office for it.
Not indicting kicked it from the legal realm to the political one, where the outcome was preordained. He could have indicted and let the courts figure out whether or not it's constitutional, but he was obviously never going to do that, which is what I was telling people. Whatever the legal theory behind the DOJ policy, I'm pretty sure "we're not touching that with a ten-mile pole" is the practical one.
And still, apparently, IS.
Probably so. My point was that policy predated Mueller's investigation and, indeed, Trump's presidency.
Yup!
There are two kinds of people: 1) the movers & shakers and 2) the moved & shaken.