{"id":136681,"date":"2018-06-04T07:47:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136681"},"modified":"2018-06-04T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:14:11","slug":"the-unindictable-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/04\/the-unindictable-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Unindictable President"},"content":{"rendered":"

It came out over the weekend that, back in January, Trump’s lawyers contacted Mueller’s office to basically say, “Yeah, the president can’t be indicted for anything and he can’t obstruct justice because he is<\/i> the head of the justice services in the government.”<\/p>\n

L’etat c’est moi!<\/i><\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Trump’s current head lawyer, Rudy Giuliani sort of doubled down on that, saying that Trump could have shot James Comey instead of firing him, and he couldn’t be criminally touched for the action except, perhaps, by impeachment.<\/p>\n

And then this morning the Tweeter-in-Chief informed us<\/a>: “As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?”<\/p>\n

Dear Donald: When you keep saying “I could pardon myself, but I haven’t done anything wrong,” the first half of the sentence really stands out more than the second half. There’s no need to even talk<\/i> about pardoning yourself if there’s nothing to be be indicted or convicted for. Except, of course, to try to scare off people who might think of trying ti indict or convict you.<\/p>\n


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\nTrump claims Mueller probe is unconstitutional and insists he can pardon himself – POLITICO<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It came out over the weekend that, back in January, Trump’s lawyers contacted Mueller’s office to basically say, “Yeah, the president can’t be indicted for anything and he can’t obstruct justice because he is the head of the justice services in the government.” L’etat c’est moi! Over the weekend, Trump’s current head lawyer, Rudy Giuliani … Continue reading “The Unindictable President”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-136681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Donald-Trump-in-front-of-a-flag.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/11\/not-enough-pardon-arpaio-trump-wants-conviction-scrubbed.html","url_meta":{"origin":136681,"position":0},"title":"It’s not enough to pardon Arpaio; Trump wants the conviction scrubbed","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 11-Sep-17 11:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pardon cases don't generally change the legal record, they just override it. 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