Apologists for President Trump are claiming Robert Mueller's congressional testimony is "shaky".
Don't fall for it.
The long and the short of it is that President Trump can be prosecuted for his conduct regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Colorado Republican Ken Buck asked Mueller, "Could you charge the President with a crime after he left office?"
"Yes," replied Mueller.
In other words, if Donald Trump wasn't President of the United States right now he would be under indictment.
Presently, DOJ precludes the indictment of a sitting President.
Now that Mueller is on the record concerning this subject, should Trump be defeated next year I suspect that he will loudly claim the vote was rigged and will threaten to remain in office beyond the end of his term. If Trump were to do so then we would truly have a constitutional crisis on our hands.
My guess, however, is that Trump will resign in the final hours of his presidency to allow Pence to become the 46th President of the United States for the purpose of pardoning Trump and prevent him from handing over the reins of power to a Democrat. This is something which Washington Post columnist Jen Rubin predicted last December.
Until such a scenario comes to pass every time Trump tweets, "No Obstruction!!! No Collusion!!!", it is our duty to reply, "You can be prosecuted when you leave office."
No comments:
Post a Comment