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This must-read piece by @ThePlumLineGS does something I've been waiting for: add up Trump's ridiculous legal arguments, which place him above the law/King George III.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@ThePlumLineGS To take one example I've been harping on, Trump says as a sitting Pres he can't be indicted, but every scholar w/that view says impeachment is the remedy b/c indictment not. But then, when it comes to impeachment, Trump says he can't even be investigated and it'd be a coup. Ridic
@ThePlumLineGS I cannot think of a single serious scholar of constitutional law who believes all of these Trump arguments. They are laughable when taken together, as if the American Revolution never happened.

It's just about as unAmerican as it gets.
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Trump defense eats itself. If Biden committed crimes,why send Trump’s private campaign-ish lawyer Rudy Giuliani?

Thats official biz. DOJ would never approve, it has a multinational process with Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties etx.

Obv campaign related so sent his private atty
If this were really about crimes by Biden, DOJ prosecutors would be sent& involved. Did DOJ even know about sending Giuliani? When I was at DOJ, we would have literally freaked out and had resignations if someone said the President had sent a freelance investigator in a crim case
But I seriously doubt this was a real criminal case. It appears to be a campaign case.

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Another big question: Rep. Lasko (republican) just asked about this:
Lieu: "The reason you did not indict Donald Trump... is because of the OLC decision. Is that correct?"
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Mueller did not take back what he said to Lieu. If he doesn't take it back, will be big news: despite all his guardrails, Mueller saying he would have indicted but-for OLC op
Would mean the Democrats talking point, that if anyone else but Donald Trump acted this way they'd be in jail, is right.
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Excellent questioning (finally) by @tedlieu. He took the individual items on p97 of the Report and showed how it all lays out a full and complete crime. This may sound complicated, with 3 elements and the like, but everyone needs to understand what just happened.
Mueller just ended by saying he didn't necessarily subscribe to what Lieu "was saying." But there is no explanation at all of how or where Lieu's analysis was questionable. And indeed the Report lays out the case, in its own words.
The basic thing page 97 outlines is obstruction of justice b/c Trump tried to get Sessions to unrecuse&end Mueller investigation of Trump. There are 3 elements:obstructive act, criminal intent+ nexus to an official proceeding. @tedlieu effectively got Mueller to say each of 3 met
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