Yeah, I have the fucker Blocked. I had to crawl through Anne Laurie's link at Balloon Juice to pull this up.
Second, trump argues "stated by numerous legal scholars" but fails to mention even ONE by name. This is a strawman defense: if he even succeeds in finding one legal expert to back his claim, I guarantee you there will be five others arguing that a President cannot self-pardon based on the legal premise that a person cannot serve as a Judge (and by example, provide a legal decision such as pardons) in his own case.
Third, he tries to wiggle out by saying "when I have done nothing wrong." But has any other person sitting in the White House ever bring up such an argument to self-pardon before? Innocent people don't beg for pardons, only criminals do. I know Obama hadn't, because Fox Not-News/Limbaugh/Breitbart/D'Souza and the rest of the Far Right Noise Machine would have thrown the biggest conniption in history. I don't think it ever came up as an issue for Dubya. although it should have regarding the blatant human rights violations of torture he oversaw his tenure. It may have come up during Clinton's impeachment, but to be honest I don't recall if it had, and again the goddamn Far Right Noise Machine would have pulled that conniption bit.
Finally, he ends his pity party tweet by claiming the Mueller investigation is - once again - A WITCH HUNT, which is generally offensive to actual witches and ignores the fact that Mueller is actually catching people with indictments and guilty pleas.
What this tweet represents is a warning flag from trump's camp, trying to rally other Republicans to defend him when (not if) the situation gets to where trump makes his attempt to self-pardon.
Again, this would require enough - even ONE - Republican Party leader to step up and slap trump down for his criminal hubris. That will never happen. This party is led by cowards afraid of their angry wingnut voter base AND their greedy wingnut SuperPAC funders.
In the end, this really requires enough American voters - ALL of us not beholden to trump's lies and destructive ways - to step up this midterms and VOTE THE GODDAMN REPUBLICANS OUT OF OFFICE. Get Democrats in control of the US House. Do what we can to swing the US Senate Blue. Get enough state legislatures and Governor seats under Democratic majorities.
This is war, where trump is firing off every tweet to burn a section of our Constitution away with his ignorance and hate.
Stand up. Vote Democrat. For the LOVE OF GOD, STOP trump at ALL costs.
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I mailed my primary ballot in more than a week ago. I voted for Villaraigosa for governor and De Leon for US senator because Newsom and Feinstein will win, but in our jungle primary the top two, regardless of party, face off in the general, and if Villaraigosa and De Leon take second place there will be no Republican candidate in November for US senator or governor.
(As an aside here, I will never, ever, vote for Newsom now. He has always seemed sort of ambitiously plastic to me, even as liberal as he is, but now he is openly calling for the goddamn Republican to make it to the general so he can have someone easier to run against, instead of… well read the rest)
That will depress Republican turnout and give us a shot at turfing out Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy, Dana Rohrabacher, and a few other Republicans who still hold office in this state that Hillary won by nearly 30 points.
That’s my plan as of now.
-Doug in Oakland
good luck with the primaries. I hope the right people win the first round.
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