“If a POTUS can meddle in a criminal case to help a friend, then there’s nothing that keeps him from meddling to harm someone he thinks is his enemy. That means that a president is fully above the law in the most dangerous kind of way. This is how democracies die.”
"Maybe they have a breaking point and maybe they don’t. One of the things that people said about this Congress is that they’ve lost their authority. That’s not true. They’ve just chosen not to exercise it.”
“The White House counsel and Republican senators don’t want to speak up for Roger [Stone],” said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide and Stone associate. “But Tucker has been doing that — and the president listens to Tucker.”