How to Deal With a Kamikaze President
How to Deal With a Kamikaze President
July 25, 2017 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Jack Goldsmith: “Donald Trump’s angry morning tweet storm reached another new low with attacks on his Attorney General for not investigating his former presidential opponent, and on his acting FBI Director’s integrity. This and other attacks on key law enforcement figures in his own Executive branch goes far beyond breaking norms of investigatory independence. They bring us clearly into the territory, where we may have been for a while, of a president bent on destroying the authority of the Justice Department that he worries, perhaps for reasons only he knows, may destroy him. At no time in modern history (and perhaps ever) has a President been so openly at odds, and bent on discrediting, his senior law enforcement and intelligence officials.”
“The problem is that there is nothing anyone can to do stop the President short of impeachment. Attorney General Sessions could and should speak out sharply against the President and in defense of the integrity of his Department. That would hasten Sessions’ departure and not stop the shameless President. And resignations in protest of Sessions’ departure would only make matters worse, especially since there are so very few political appointees in DOJ at the moment.”
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https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/25/deal-kamikaze-president/
