CAN DONALD TRUMP REALLY HAVE THE FBI INVESTIGATE HIS POLITICAL ENEMIES?
The United States of America is run by a man who orders federal investigations into his political enemies the way normal people summon the fashion police: On Twitter. And voices from both the left and right are now saying Trump is venturing onto treacherous ground.
Back from his brief and unscheduled Twitter hiatus, Trump fired up his feed Friday morning with shoutouts to the Justice Department and FBI on his ideological enemies. "Pocahontas," he wrote, referring to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, "just stated that the Democrats, lead by the legendary Crooked Hillary Clinton, rigged the Primaries! Lets go FBI & Justice Dept."
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
....People are angry. At some point the Justice Department, and the FBI, must do what is right and proper. The American public deserves it!
7:11 AM - Nov 3, 2017
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Fanning Trump's Twitter flames: Donna Brazile's claim that Hillary Clinton's campaign teamed up with the Democratic National Committee to box Bernie Sanders out: "At some point the Justice Department, and the FBI, must do what is right and proper," Trump said. "The American public deserves it!"
"If I were [advising] the president, I would warn him to tread lightly," Norm Eisen, who served as White House ethics czar for the Obama Administration, told Newsweek when asked for an interpretation of Trump's tweets.
As Trump sees more associates pulled into the Russia-related probe led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Eisen said, "This is the latest in a series of desperate and totally unfounded attempts to gin up a competing scandal involving his political adversaries."
Norm Eisen ✔@NormEisen
This is not acceptable. In a democracy, the leader does not order criminal retaliation against political opponents.
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8:25 AM - Nov 3, 2017
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Brandishing orders or suggestions to Justice or the FBI "violates a core norm" that has guided the U.S. even in times of war or turmoil: "The president does not bend the rule of law to go after political opponents," Eisen said. "We have never had a president in our history who made statements of this kind [in public]... Even Nixon had the decency to do it behind closed doors."
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-fbi-justice-department-investigations-twitter-701117
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