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Folks, if you’re asking lawmakers about Trump springing Manafort ask about COMMUTATIONS not just PARDONS. Trump could reward Manafort just by commuting — i.e. reducing — his sentence dramatically. No pardon needed! 1/
Trump has done this before — most notably in the case that Kim Kardashian West championed. He freed Alice Johnson without pardoning her. 2/ nytimes.com/2018/06/06/us/…
Manafort obviously would be delighted if Trump lopped off a big chunk of his sentence. Trump could even reduce the sentence to time served without needing to issue a pardon. 3/
A commutation would serve Trump’s purposes just as well as a pardon — maybe better, because he could truthfully say “I decided not to pardon the guy.” So let’s be careful how we talk about this. 4/end
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Quick thread on the possibility that Trump might invoke executive privilege to try to shield portions of Mueller’s report in response to a congressional subpoena. Bottom line: it wouldn’t necessarily mean that he’s hiding something damning. 1/
The contours of executive privilege help define the powers of the executive branch vis-à-vis Congress and the courts. His lawyers might have principled grounds to recommend that he invoke executive privilege. 2/
You might reasonably counter that there’s no evidence that Trump cares one whit about what happens to the powers of the executive branch, or anything else other than himself, once he leaves office. But there’s more. 3/
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Eric Columbus
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Key point about Kushner: Trump’s intervention didn’t even give him the highest level of clearance. How can someone who lacks such clearance run point on the Middle East, not to mention his other foreign adventures? 1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Last night’s stories didn’t explain why Trump didn’t give Kushner an SCI clearance. Was he afraid CIA would leak his role? Was he conned by staff into thinking he lacked authority to do it? 2/
Perhaps then-CIA Pompeo, who seems to be the only national security appointee whom Trump actually likes, warned him not to do it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whatever the reason, it’s 🍌🍌🍌 that Kushner lacks such clearance but is hobnobbing with MbS, among much else. 3/
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Eric Columbus
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Folks: SDNY will not indict Trump unless Bill Barr approves. SDNY going rogue is a fantasy.
Barr would approve an indictment of Trump only if he felt it was both constitutional and a good idea.
For Barr to find it constitutional, he would have to overrule two opinions of DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (which he headed in 1989-90) that concluded otherwise (in 1973 and 2000).
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