The Department of Justice of the United States of America has preferred criminal charges against two Republican Congressmen recently….
There is a midterm election in two months from now….
Donald Trump doesn’t think the law should be enforced during the next two months ?
Oh, I forgot….
he doesn’t think the law should be enforced against him or any of his so called buddies supporters….
President Trump on Monday slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions over criminal charges brought against two Republican congressmen in recent weeks, suggesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had endangered GOP hopes of retaining both seats in the November elections.
“Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department,” Trump tweeted.
“Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff,” he continued.
The president was referencing charges against Reps. Chris Collins(R-N.Y.) and Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), both of whom were early supporters of Trump…..
Republican senator slams Trump’s DOJ attack: US ‘not some banana republic’
BY MICHAEL BURKE,
The Hill – 09/03/18 06:00 PM EDT
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse (Neb.) rebuked President Trump’s latest attack against the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday, warning Trump that the United States “is not some banana republic.”
Sasse condemned Trump’s tweets Monday afternoon in which the president criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for pursuing criminal charges against two GOP congressmen.
Trump argued that Sessions should have taken into account the political ramifications of pursuing the cases against GOP Reps. Chris Collins (N.Y.) and Duncan Hunter (Calif.), who were both early backers of Trump.
“The United States is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice – one for the majority party and one for the minority party,” Sasse responded in a statement….
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/404844-gop-senator-responds-to-trumps-latest-attack-on-sessions-the-united-states-is
If this were a normal political universe, this Tweet alone would be an impeachable offense.
All of us, regardless of political views, need to embrace our inner Bob Dole and really wonder, “where is the outrage?”
The American people, by and large, just shrug all this off. Must be the “economy..”
Uf rge Republicans in Congress had any balls thet could start impeachmebt now. Hell they werent aftraud to impeach Bill Clinton during a good economy and FAR more Americans support a Trump impeachment accordibg to polls.
So maybe you need to stop being “agnostic” about who controls Congress and take a stand if you really want to see “outrage” over this.
Apologize for the misspellings. Mobile phone and chubby fingers.
I don’t see any evidence that impeachment would be something the American people want, based on what we know now. Of course, the right thing should be done, as it was when Bill Clinton was President. We should wait for the Mueller Report to be released and to see what else happens between now and then.
As I have said, a failed impeachment attempt will only benefit Trump at this point. As a matter of what is best for the country, people should want him to resign before being impeached. His support nationwide is still high for this to reach critical mass. Maybe that will change, maybe not. He still seems to be defining the terms though and just making so much noise that it all blends together for the non-politically astute.
Clinton’s approvals were far above Trumps when he was impeached.
Having said that, Impeachment is tossed around way too freely in my view.
Of the two Presidents impeached ,neither was convicted,although Johnson survived by just one vote.Clinton wasn’t even close.Indeed, almost no one believed there was any chance of conviction when the trial started.
Indeed,in some ways ,Impeachment itself is now viewed by some as simply a way to express outrage at the Presidents conduct.I don’t believe that was the intent behind it being part of the Constitution and believe it should be approached with a deep appreciation of the gravity of proceeding.
Impeachment made Clinton’s numbers go higher.
A vote in the Senate on Trump based on everything known now would not even be close.
If the American public turns, we will know, and the Congress will act accordingly, having been given cover by the polls, just as they would have against Clinton if the polls showed the same thing.
The biggest difference now is how brazen Trump is by saying things that he and only he can get away from. It’s beyond dishonorable for him to openly claim that his Justice Department is supposed to protect political allies and go after political enemies. He really believes that. People should want him to resign tonight rather than spend all the time and money of putting the country through an impeachment ordeal, especially one destined to fail.
I think the odds of him resigning are very small.
Why should he?
He’s still overwhelmingly popular in the Republican Party .His numbers would have to fall dramatically for such even to be seriously contemplated.
Does anybody seriously see, at this time, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and some of the party elders in Congress making that trek to the White House as was done in Nixon’s final days?
If Mueller has the ability to basically bankrupt the entire Trump Organization through prosecutions, he may decide that the company is worth more than the Presidency.
Of course, Mueller should do the right thing by the law, and I believe he will.
Even if he can ,that will take years and lots of legal hoops to jump through.
Rather than resignation,Trump could elect not to seek re-election claiming that the “swamp” forced him out.
What effect that would have on the Republican Party, I cant imagine really.
I simply don’t ever see Trump “going quietly into that good night..”
I believe there is a recent poll out that DIES indicate that more than 50% of American’s would be ok with impeachment hearings…..
Actually?
The Democratic congressional leadership do NOT want to go there NOW….
Not enough support IN THE SENATE which has to convict
We don’t want a conviction for the sake of the Presidency i’d Think
We want Trump to quit…
But Clinton of course was a Democrat,….
and Democrats , by and large, defended him reflexively, even though he had disgraced the office and trampled on the rule of law. (Trump was among those defending him.)
Well, a sizable portion,indeed a majority in my view, are outraged by Trumps conduct.
We ALL know how fucked up he was /is
The question continues to be ….What will the GOPer’s DO….
He’s STILL THEIR GUY…..
I agree. And the Republican Congress (that CG failed to single out for blame) has thus far refused to do anything about that public outrage.
I’ve criticized the Republican Congress plenty on the matter, but this is a societal phenomenon that goes far beyond politicians or the political class. This is far deeper than that.
You might as well lump Trump together with the fictional Tony Soprano and the very real John Gotti. A lot of people root for the “anti-hero.” People of all sorts of stripes just do not understand the ramifications of what is going on or the history of the legacy of the country.
Oh, you mean like Trump doesn’t try to run his office like a mob boss?
He’s been fighting AGAINST the cops….
Heck, he actually fired some of the lawyers on his case
He’s done BETER than Tony Soprano!
Time will tell. Tony Soprano *might* have survived the season finale.
As I have mentioned here before, I watched “The Sopranos” intently for its entire run and loved the series. I always rooted for the FBI though in it.
Russian hookers may be a common thread for the two men.
As far as we know, Trump has not literally whipped a Democrat officeholder yet with a belt as Tony once did.
Now, clearly Democrats are not even running on impeachment, so it’s not as if we are going to have a referendum on the matter this November.
Since it is inconceivable right now that Trump will be forced to leave office against his will before his time is up, impeachment is basically nothing more than a symbolic act at this point, and thus there are other substantive matters that the next Congress needs to address as well and people should vote district by district on the merits of the candidates.
I think we all probably know that if he is to leave office before the next election, peacefully, it will be via resignation in order to protect his family or after having pardoning his son, or some sort of deal to avoid seeing Jr. go to prison.
The most recent poll I recall seeing (on NBC’s Meet the Press) showed 49% favored impeachment and 46% opposed it (which puts me in the minority).
The other numbers to remember are that while a bill of impeachment may be preferred by a simple majority vote in the House of Representatives, conviction requires two-thirds (67/100) of the Senate.
Without a dramatic (although perhaps gradual) change in the political climate, it’s nearly impossible for me to see at least a third of the Senate Republican conference voting to convict the President and remove him from office.
There just aren’t that many Republican Senators from blue or purplish states (e.g. Susan Collins, Ron Johnson, Rob Portman, Pat Toomey) who have as much to fear from the general electorate as from their own party’s voters.
And as in the 1970’s, Republicans (as Jack says) believe in and stand by their President. People often forget that a very substantial minority (about 20% of all voters) still stood by Richard Nixon after he resigned.
In fact, they never forgot nor forgave, and continued to believe that Watergate was some kind of partisan witch-hunt, leading eventually to the staging of the Whitewater investigation.
Yes DSD
The object is to get Trump to quit
Not get fired….Offically