Monday, February 12, 2018

How many ways will Trump obstruct justice before Republicans admit he's hellbent on obstruction?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/29/1736906/-How-many-ways-will-Trump-obstruct-justice-before-Republicans-admit-he-s-hellbent-on-obstruction
"Trump's all-out assault on the rule of law is as stunning as it is scary. He fired Comey over the Russia investigation. He ordered Comey's replacement fired. When he couldn't get that, he began a campaign to systematically oust the people standing in his way—the top three law enforcement officials in the country, two of whom are Republicans and his very own appointees. Trump has now succeeded in forcing out the third (who was longer heading the FBI) and looks to be knocking down the door of the second in command so he can finally appoint someone who will be amenable to axing the special counsel he began railing against on the very day he was appointed. Republicans are responding in one of two ways—they're either doing Trump's bidding on unseating Rosenstein or expressing close-to-zero urgency about passing legislation to protect Mueller's appointment. The zero-urgency crowd—like GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins—better wake up and smell the coffee. How many more ways does Trump have to obstruct justice before they admit that he's deliberately trying to obstruct justice? By the time Trump succeeds in ousting Mueller, their present-day passivity will prove complicit in the collapse of our nation’s rule of law. And the United States will truly find itself locked in the jaws of a tyrant."

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