Ryan’s view is actually accurate to some degree. I’m certain that how Trump is trying to run the presidency is how he ran his businesses and doesn’t realize that this is neither how your supposed to be president, nor how you’re actually supposed to run a business.
Yeah, you’re not going to keep rehashing this because you don’t have a leg to stand on.
Here’s the full tweet:
:dubious:
:rolleyes:
The most impressive part of the testimony was Angus King coming up with the date that Henry II uttered the “meddlesome priest” line.
OK.
Yeah, we get it. He loves his business more than he cares about avoiding conflicts of interest.
I’m pretty sure he had that in his notes; I think he said Comey beat him to using the quote.
Trump’s lawyers say they’ll be filing a complaint re: Comey’s “leaking” with the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office. Per CNN:
So that should learn him.
The “He’s just new” excuse reminds me of George Costanza getting caught sleeping with the cleaning service woman in his office. “Was I not supposed to do that? Was that wrong? Because if anyone, at any point, had told me that that sort of thing was frowned upon…”
Yeah that was cool!
I’m sure that was researched by some millennial intern who had never heard the phrase before. 
I listened to the clip, but it didn’t really answer my question. “The President is not going to be put on trial in a normal criminal court” sounds like it reinforces my position that there’s no real legal crime here. Laurence Tribe appears to be making political arguments, not legal ones.
The debate today seems to have boiled down to whether the president’s actions were (a) indictable, (b) impeachable, (c) inappropriate or (d) merely stupid. The president’s staunchest defenders are flocking to (d).
What a world.
Google misprision.
I’d rather you explain your argument here where we can all read it. Do you have a particular section of federal code in mind? A state law? Some city ordinance?
I love that, at most, all that can happen to Comey is that a note goes in his file, whereas I suspect Trump has much more to lose answering questions to the inspector general.
With an electoral college win.
18 U.S. Code § 4 - Misprision of felony
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 684; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Trump knew the Russian story was bunk. Comey knew the Russian story as being perpetrated by the media was disinformation, but couldn’t say it. Trump has been bogged down by this since before he was in office. Comey should have cleared the air more if he truly cared about the country and what the voters want. I imagine in Trumps mind he thought of the investigation as most likely political in nature and nothing more.
The bombshell for me is that Loretta Lynch came to Comey told him to refer Hillary’s emails on Weiner’s computer as a ‘matter’, not an ‘investigation’. The AG herself! Comey was compelled to go public about the politically loaded email investigation because he then knew Attourney General Lynch had been compromised by Bill Clinton in the airport tarmac meeting. Talk about obstruction of justice.
Also Comey’s motivation for the memos should be questioned. He claimed it was because Trump tweeted about possible recordings when in reality the existance of the memos was leaked before Trump had tweeted about the possibility of tapes. Trump was likely bluffing about the tapes because knew how conversations would be interpreted in the media without proper context that tapes would provide.
… which means that if Comey thought that Trump was committing any kind of obstruction of justice (a felony), and didn’t report it, he should be imprisoned?