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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWAPO op ed: We should be shouting from the rooftops: "The President Obstructed Justice"
Last edited Wed May 15, 2019, 10:10 PM - Edit history (1)
We dont need to see more of the Mueller report. Its clear Trump obstructed justice.By Walter Dellinger
Dellinger was head of the Office of Legal Counsel from 1993 to 1996.
The more I review the report, the more absurd and misleading the we-need-to-know-more response seems to be. And the more it seems to have contributed to public misunderstanding. How different would it have been if a unified chorus of Democratic leaders in Congress and on the campaign trail had promptly proclaimed the actual truth: This report makes the unquestionable case that the president regularly and audaciously violated his oath and committed the most serious high crimes and misdemeanors.
Muellers extraordinary 2,800-subpoena, 500-search-warrant, two-year investigation fully established not merely crimes but also the betrayal of the presidents office: a failure to defend the countrys electoral system from foreign attack and acts of interference with justice that shred the rule of law. Congress doesnt need to read more to announce what is obvious from what it should have read already.
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All I am saying is that every day we should have been shouting from the rooftops: The president is failing to defend democracy from attack; The presidents campaign welcomed and encouraged Russias efforts to change our election results; The president obstructed justice; and The president daily undermined the rule of law. But we have instead been whispering in the hallways of Congress that we need to see the redactions. That emphasis is a mistake that needs to be (and hopefully can be) rectified.
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WAPO op ed: We should be shouting from the rooftops: "The President Obstructed Justice" (Original Post)
kpete
May 2019
OP
ffr
(22,670 posts)1. We need organization too.
I'm ready. I'm sick of this shit.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)2. The American people don't care....they are too busy on their phones. nt
sprinkleeninow
(20,249 posts)6. You talkin' 'bout me? 🤔
😁
thesquanderer
(11,989 posts)3. Not a WaPo editorial. Op-ed, very different thing. (n/t)
kpete
(71,994 posts)4. Thanks
You are right
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)5. He has Lawrence Tribe verifying this. I think that puts some weight on the op-ed.
spanone
(135,841 posts)7. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍