Trump lawyer: ‘The president cannot obstruct justice’
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, revealed Monday a potential legal defense in the ongoing Russia probe, claiming that a president cannot obstruct justice.
"The president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under (the Constitution's Article II) and has every right to express his view of any case," Dowd told NBC News Monday.
So your defense is that, sure, he fired Comey to stop the investigation into his own possible criminal activities and shield himself, his family, his friends, his campaign officials, and others in his entourage from legal action for their crimes, but when the president does those things it's OK?
So your defense of this president's actions is that when the president does such things, though it's flat out corrupt, abuse of power, and obstruction of justice in plain English, it's not technically illegal?
So we should all be OK both with what he and they did and with such a state of the law?
Same point about the idea floated by Trump partisans that he can at any time pardon himself, his family, his friends, etc., for any and all violations of the law that Mueller or anyone else may unearth.
Your defense of this president is not that he's not the most blatantly corrupt and shamelessly crooked bastard ever to sit in the Oval Office but that the constitution is so absurd that he can get away with all that without doing anything technically unlawful.
That's the best you can do?
And you're OK with all that?
Not everyone even believes it.
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