OK, they may not have to be lawyers, but don’t they at least have to be literate?
He was also a leaker.
He is also under investigation.
I’m not sure even Rick Perry is that dumb.
He doesn’t even have to know what the job entails.
He’d only be there for one little job: Bork II. Wouldn’t even have to be there for long.
Even more perfect.
I’m hearing that in the voice of the guy from the Simpsons saying “The frogurt is also cursed.”
That’s good!
Apparently, over the weekend our president tweeted something to the effect that the appointment of the special counsel was precipitated by a Comey leak. So since the leak was of classified material it was illegal; therefore the appointment of the special counsel was illegal.
A whole lot of straws being grasped at…
But here are a few of the holes in this argument:
The material in Comey’s leak wasn’t classified at the time he leaked it.
Trump is confusing Congress’s rationale for appointment of a Special Counsel with the rules of courtroom evidence (fruit of a poisoned tree? Something like that)
And the Special Counsel was appointed because the idiot fired Comey, not because of anything Comey said.
But other than that: solid reasoning.
But you get your choice of scandals.
That’s bad!
It’s a cryin’ shame for Trump The Fool that the appointment of the special counsel was precipitated by Trump the Fucking Moron telling Lester Holt that he fired Comey over “this Russia thing” of ours.
(Which you mentioned in your post.I’m saying it again.)
Michael “Pizzagate” Flynn Jr tweeted recently that his father never lied to Pence about his contact with Russians. If Jr is right, then that means that Pence was aware of Flynn’s contact, despite telling everyone else that he wasn’t.
If that’s the case, then it is getting difficult to keep track of Flynn’s lies (to the FBI, allegedly to Pence, etc.) since he admitted in his resignation letter that he gave “incomplete information” to Pence and others about the Russian phone calls.
Flynn Jr. also calls the claim that Flynn Sr. lied to Pence a mainstream media lie. Is Trump part of the mainstream media now with his tweet that “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI.”
Gotta say, there has a lot of speculation regarding what is little more than a “My Dad is innocent! INNOCENT, I TELL YOU!” tweet. Not saying there couldn’t be more there, but still… family members are bad character witnesses for a reason.
Sounds familiar. “No collusion, NO COLLUSION!!!”. And my lawyer won’t flip on me!
Guilty as sin, but doesn’t believe his lawyer will flip and tell the truth. In other words, “I did it but nobody can prove it”. The Bart Simpson defense. The country is being ‘run’ by a 5 year old.
Looks as though you can add “to his son” to that list.
It’s the old
“I can classify any old thing months after the fact, so it becomes a crime retroactively”.
This especially holds true for uhhhh I dunno … evidence.
Wouldn’t that be a case of ex post facto? I’m pretty sure that’s un-Constitutional.