Trump: Mueller "didn't lay a glove on me," will "first head to the U.S. Supreme Court" if impeached

[Miles Archer]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG. If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only......

8:10 AM · Apr 24, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

.....are there no “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” there are no Crimes by me at all. All of the Crimes were committed by Crooked Hillary, the Dems, the DNC and Dirty Cops - and we caught them in the act! We waited for Mueller and WON, so now the Dems look to Congress as last hope!

8:18 AM · Apr 24, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone

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[manor321]

1. That's true

The Supreme Court can nullify an impeachment. It's in Article XII of the Constitution

[Lochloosa]

4. We skipped that one in my Civics class.

[Miles Archer]

7. He got Barr as his Roy Cohn, now he's looking to cash in his Kavanaugh chips

But, as multiple Trump lickspittles reported this past weekend, they've "never seen him so happy."

[riversedge]

15. yes. and yes.

[rzemanfl]

11. Huh? n/t

[Miles Archer]

25. Said in jest. n/t

[orangecrush]

2. Nervous, asshole?

He should be.

[Botany]

8. +1

He is scared out of his mind. He knows that Russia put him into power and that
if and when it all comes out he is done.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212041731

[Solly Mack]

3. Pathetic pile of poop.

[SHRED]

5. And Mueller stays quiet

Must be tough for him to see this.

[Miles Archer]

10. Tough yes, but I'm sure it's not unexpected

I think we all expected a victory lap, regardless of what appeared in the report (we got one)

I think we all expected Trump to deny and attack anything that didn't praise Dear Leader in the report (he did)

It seems like the MAGAts bought the Don & Bill (Barr) show lock, stock, and barrel.

The rest of the country? Not so much. Approval dropped to 39%. You don't win re-election with a 39% approval rating and only a third of all voters in your pocket.

[machoneman]

13. He'll be in the mid 20's once the SD of NY's AG and staff indict his crime family.

He IS scared to death as this tweet and others clearly show. Good!

[rzemanfl]

6. Fuck you Drumpf, you Nazi. n/t

[Funtatlaguy]

9. Robert, oh Robert, Mr Mueller sir...I think he's calling you out.

[spanone]

12. Impeach the motherfucker.

[Turbineguy]

14. Yeah

I would touch trump with my bare hands either.

[bullwinkle428]

16. He KNOWS he has the SC in his pocket following the Census citizenship question

ruling, and now believes it will be his ultimate "get out of jail free card" under any possible circumstance.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. The federal courts do not have jurisdiction over impeachment.

They can't help him with this.

[spanone]

17. I say we take the fucker on. We're either a democracy or we're not. Let's find out.

[Miles Archer]

19. The late character actor John Vernon is rolling over in his grave

Dean Wormer, "Animal House," with his "Double SECRET Probation."

Mueller laid out evidence of TEN obstruction charges in his report.

Trump obstructed the Mueller investigation, and now he's obstructing the investigation of his obstruction.

But we need to wait until we have all of the facts. We have to call back everyone who testified to Mueller to ask them to repeat what they told him.

We have to beg Steve Mnuchin for Trump's taxes, when we know damned well he'll sit out the deadline he chose for his "response," and once again, the response will be "up yours."

We're playing a game that can't be won as long as Trump's response to every attempt to perform checks and balances on his is met with "kiss this."

If impeachment is the only route remaining...even if McConnell will squash it in the Senate...what options do we really have? I understand the logic of "get the information into the hands of voters ahead of 2020 and let them vote him out," but let's say we do that and he wins anyway? Do we really want to ride off the cliff for six more years?

He's going to play dirty, he's going to lie, he's going to "rally his base" no matter what we do. So what can we do that will result in the greatest chance of having this end in two years. rather than six?

[world wide wally]

18. He wrote that bullshit "no collusion" speech for Barr just so he could keep quoting it

This is a sick, devious mind we are dealing with.

[C_U_L8R]

20. "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors".

Yes, yes, yes, yes. And Wikipedia defines the Other as:
"The charge of high crimes and misdemeanors covers allegations of misconduct by officials, such as perjury of oath, abuse of authority, bribery, intimidation, misuse of assets, failure to supervise, dereliction of duty, unbecoming conduct, refusal to obey a lawful order, chronic intoxication, and tax evasion."

[The_Counsel]

33. Wow. Given This, One Wonders Why This Asshat Hasn't Been Impeached ALREADY...

"The charge of high crimes and misdemeanors covers allegations of misconduct by officials, such as perjury of oath..."

Check.

"abuse of authority..."

Check.

"bribery..."

Undetermined.

But seriously, folks...what reasonable person would put this past him at this point...?

"intimidation..."

Check.

"misuse of assets"

Check.

"failure to supervise..."

Check.

"dereliction of duty..."

Check.

Although, I'll concede that Congressional Republicans are more guilty of this "crime" than Trump is.

"unbecoming conduct..."

Check. Many times over.

"refusal to obey a lawful order..."

Check.

"chronic intoxication..."

Undetermined.

Personally, I think his behavior is borne from dementia myself, but shit...one has to wonder....

"...and tax evasion."

Undetermined.

This is probably the charge Trump fears the most. Note how the closer investigators get to the truth on this point, the more the Orange Nut lashes out. It's not a coincidence...

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Someone needs to play Leslie Graham's words from 1999 over and over

to IQ45.

You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job (as president) in this constitutional republic if this body determines your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role,” Graham says of Clinton in the nearly 20-year-old clip.

[PragmaticLiberal]

22. Whatever.

We're witnessing his last days.

And I think on some level he knows it as well...

[NewJeffCT]

23. Last I checked

SCOTUS involvement in the impeachment process is that the Chief Justice presides over the proceedings, but only presides over them.

[Miles Archer]

26. How the Impeachment Process Works

How the Impeachment Process Works



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/how-the-impeachment-process-works-trump-clinton.html

First, the House of Representatives votes on one or more articles of impeachment. If at least one gets a majority vote, the president is impeached — which essentially means being indicted. (In both the Nixon and the Clinton cases, the House Judiciary Committee considered the matter first.)

Next, the proceedings move to the Senate, which holds a trial overseen by the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

A team of lawmakers from the House, known as managers, play the role of prosecutors. The president has defense lawyers, and the Senate serves as the jury.

If at least two-thirds of the senators find the president guilty, he is removed, and the vice president takes over as president.

[beachbum bob]

27. trump and supreme court have no power over Pelosi or the House,

what happens when trump skipped all those civics classes

[bdamomma]

24. Heading to Supreme Court???

to get pardoned by his loyalists??? WTF.

Just arrest him, or even better shoot a PE or aneurysm.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. There's no pardon for impeachment and the federal courts have no jurisdiction

over impeachment matters.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. LOL!

Dude, the Supreme Court doesn't have any jurisdiction over impeachment, and if you're convicted there's no appeal. Didn't your sorry-ass lawyers who can no longer get jobs anywhere else and whom you're probably not paying anyhow, tell you that? In Nixon v. United States (not that Nixon; the other one, a judge), the Supreme Court held that the federal courts couldn't review impeachment trials because they are political questions and could not be resolved in the courts. So good luck with that.

[Me.]

31. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Then why not let people testify, what do you have to be afraid of?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

32. "NOTHING TO HIDE"? Trump has everything to hide....

Which is why he is so nervous and continues to Obstruct Justice in plain sight.

Trump is blind to the other investigations taking place by the SDNY and EDNY, the state of New York AG Office, and states where Trump world operates. He meddles in those jurisdictions, he is toast. Not even the Supreme Court can save him. THAT will constitute Impeachment because he is NOT a King or Dictator for life.