Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Trump lawyers weigh in



Sorry, Trump lawyers, the president can't just do what he wants and declare by edict what it does or doesn't constitute legally.  I agree, it would be a great perk, but it doesn't exist.  Yet.
Referring to an investigation that is examining his own actions, Trump called Mueller’s probe “a terrible situation” that should be stopped “before it continues to stain our country any further.”

  WaPo
No. He said AG Jeff Sessions should stop it.  (See below)
[I]n an interview Wednesday, two of Trump’s lawyers said Trump was not ordering Sessions to take any specific action.

“The president has issued no order or direction to the Department of Justice on this,”Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow said, adding that the president is allowed to express his opinion on Twitter.

“I think it’s very well-established the president uses tweets to express his opinion,” added Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. “He very carefully used the word ‘should.’ ”

[...]

Sekulow said the president has been making similar statements for months, as have his lawyers. He said the timing of the Manafort trial played no role in Trump’s views.
The first day of testimony in Manafort's trial has nothing to do with his frantic tweeting.
Writing on Twitter, Trump dismissed the charges against Manafort as “old charges [that] have nothing to do with Collusion” and questioned why the government did not tell him that Manafort was under investigation before he hired him to be part of his 2016 campaign.
I'm fairly certain that's not how FBI investigations work in their early stages.

Here are Trump's tweets (at this time) for today, Wednesday, August 1:








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