in YOUR mind yes, trump will look like whatever the tv wants u to think of him cuz u are a propaganda guzzler
no ones prosecuting shit because we dont have enough prisons to deal with a second civil war, and if we cant vote trump out of office in 18 months we deserve everything thats coming to us.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
obviously what the 2nd district of ny does in 18 months and a fucking day is beyond the scope of this convo.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
again, you're so delusional here it's scary.
the investigation that trump may have "obstructed" was one into whether or not he engaged in a criminal conspiracy with russia -- not manafort's bank fraud, cohen's fraud or the other process crimes that occurred (like flynn's).
this is the same criminal conspiracy that mueller said never happened.
so, to the extent that trump obstructed the russian conspiracy investigation, he knew that that it never occurred. can you have a "corrupt intent" if you know there's nothing to cover up? good luck getting support for that prosecution
minor point;
mueller said there the baseline requirements for charges were not met, not that it never happened.
trump scrambling to abort every investigation before they started while begging his hand picked intel agency chiefs to whitewash his bona fide tell a very different story.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
definitely not something a senile dictator would say.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
aren't you getting a little bored of this Trump and libtard stuff dish? I have pretty much lost interest and it isn't because my side lost it's just gotten stale.
I barely even pay attn to this shit until mid 2019 or so
The bottom line is that it's extremely difficult to prove obstruction when there's no underlying crime.
Not impossible, but very, very difficult.
Obstruction of justice explicitly doesn't require an underlying crime or intent of masking a criminal act. Obstructing an investigation for any reason counts. Some people obstruct justice because they don;t want personal shit to come out. The motivation doesn't need to be criminal.
the statute is very vague, but the motivation needs to be "corrupt".
in other words, if trump fired comey because he was afraid comey would uncover trump's criminal activities = corrupt.
if trump fired comey because he thought the whole investigation was illegal and done for the purpose of undermining his presidency = not corrupt
there's a lot of grey here and the statute doesn't define what "corrupt" means.
Even if Trump himself did nothing wrong, the president can’t use the power of the office to protect his cronies from investigation and prosecution even if he is not knowledgable of what illegal things those cronies did. That the investigation resulted in criminal indictments and at least two convictions is prima facie evidence that Trump’s cronies had indeed committed illegal acts that Trump generally didn’t want them to be held accountable for even if he wasn’t aware beforehand what those specific illegal activities were.
you assume trump fired comey and wanted to fire mueller "to protect his cronies from investigation and prosecution."
trump would say, "no, i wanted them fired cause the investigation was a witch hunt, designed to fuck with my presidency."
if you believe his explanation is plausible, there is no obstruction. at least not beyond a reasonable doubt
this is why the fact that mueller didn't find evidence of a conspiracy is so important. it makes his explanation more believable. a juror might think, "why would he try to prevent prosecution for crimes he knows didn't happen?"
im legit starting to wonder if trump fired comey because he couldnt stand the thought of comey not being an errand boy and that it had nothing to do with fear of an investigation beyond the fact that any investigation is going to instantly become the theme song to every moment of his life because he stupidly put a stick in the media's eye.
because he's literally got the judgement of a toddler.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
i mean, the purpose of the investigation was to determine if trump's team conspired with russia, and mueller says there's no evidence that happened -- which trump would obviously have known too, so.....
maybe not so ludicrous that trump wasn't worried about that investigation?
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