Trump’s war on climate policy is also a war on public health
Obama’s Clean Power Plan would have averted asthma attacks. Trump wants to undo it.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...-law-punish-nfl

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2446

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Trump challenges Tillerson to 'compare IQ tests' after reported 'moron' dig
Trump suggests IQ battle with Tillerson: ‘I can tell you who is going to win’
President also claims of unprecedented legislative success in first nine months

Donald Trump has challenged his secretary of state to “compare IQ tests” – if Rex Tillerson did call the president a “moron”, as reported. Trump told Forbes magazine: “I think it’s fake news. But if he did [say] that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...tillerson-moron

Die Aufforderung eines kleinen Jungen zum Wettberwerb im weitpissen.
Und das ist der Praesident der USA.

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https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics...91451327553017/

Trump 'likely obstructed justice' in Comey firing, could be impeached, Brookings Institution says
President Donald Trump "likely obstructed justice" when he fired FBI Director James Comey and could face impeachment, according to an analysis from the Brookings Institution.
The analysis concludes that if special counsel Robert Mueller comes to the same conclusion, there are legitimate articles of impeachment that could be drawn up.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/trump-li...itute-says.html

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2452

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2446

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Trump challenges Tillerson to 'compare IQ tests' after reported 'moron' dig
Trump suggests IQ battle with Tillerson: ‘I can tell you who is going to win’
President also claims of unprecedented legislative success in first nine months

Donald Trump has challenged his secretary of state to “compare IQ tests” – if Rex Tillerson did call the president a “moron”, as reported. Trump told Forbes magazine: “I think it’s fake news. But if he did [say] that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...tillerson-moron

Die Aufforderung eines kleinen Jungen zum Wettberwerb im weitpissen.
Und das ist der Praesident der USA.

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Stimme mal ausgerechnet zu. Ein Präsident sollte über diesen Dingen stehen.

Für mich ist der größte "moron" allerdings der singende, tanzende und boxende (auch Frauen boxende) Premier Kanadas. Eine richtige Witzfigur.

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Carter Page says he won’t testify before Senate Intelligence panel in Russia probe
Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, informed the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that he will not be cooperating with any requests to appear before the panel for its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and would plead the Fifth, according to a source familiar with the matter.

A former naval-officer-turned-energy consultant, Page came under fire last year after reports emerged that he had met with high-level associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in 2016. While Page denied those meetings occurred, the Trump campaign distanced itself from the adviser not long after, with former officials saying that Page and Trump had never met.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/10...ia-probe-243648

How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets
It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around the world for the code names of American intelligence programs.

What gave the Russian hacking, detected more than two years ago, such global reach was its improvised search tool — antivirus software made by a Russian company, Kaspersky Lab, that is used by 400 million people worldwide, including by officials at some two dozen American government agencies.

The Israeli officials who had hacked into Kaspersky’s own network alerted the United States to the broad Russian intrusion, which has not been previously reported, leading to a decision just last month to order Kaspersky software removed from government computers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/techn...ia-hacking.html

Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2455

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2452

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2446

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Trump challenges Tillerson to 'compare IQ tests' after reported 'moron' dig
Trump suggests IQ battle with Tillerson: ‘I can tell you who is going to win’
President also claims of unprecedented legislative success in first nine months

Donald Trump has challenged his secretary of state to “compare IQ tests” – if Rex Tillerson did call the president a “moron”, as reported. Trump told Forbes magazine: “I think it’s fake news. But if he did [say] that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...tillerson-moron

Die Aufforderung eines kleinen Jungen zum Wettberwerb im weitpissen.
Und das ist der Praesident der USA.

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Stimme mal ausgerechnet zu. Ein Präsident sollte über diesen Dingen stehen.

Für mich ist der größte "moron" allerdings der singende, tanzende und boxende (auch Frauen boxende) Premier Kanadas. Eine richtige Witzfigur.

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Jetzt wissen wir endlich, wer Käse zum Bahnhof rollt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhypunHBnsw

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Fuer den, der's lesen und verstehen kann und wen's denn interessiert:

Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump
President Trump’s firing of Comey and the subsequent revelations about President Trump’s earlier exchanges with Comey while he was FBI Director raise the question of whether President Trump obstructed justice by endeavoring to impede those investigations. In June, press reports indicated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is indeed investigating the very question of whether President Trump obstructed justice.[1] Mueller has since impaneled a grand jury in Washington D.C., issued subpoenas, and has begun seeking interviews with current and former White House officials.

In this paper, we break down and analyze the question of whether President Trump may have obstructed justice and explain the criminal and congressional actions that could follow from an obstruction investigation. Addressing the possibility of criminal behavior by President Trump and the complicated issues it raises is not a task that we take lightly. Dissecting allegations of criminality leveled against an individual who has been duly elected president and who has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution is an inherently solemn task. But it is our hope that by presenting a rigorous legal analysis of the potential case against the president, we will help the American people and their representatives understand the contours of the issues, regardless of whether it is eventually litigated in a court of law, the halls of Congress, or the court of public opinion. ...
https://www.brookings.edu/research/presi...donald-j-trump/

...The public record contains substantial evidence that President Trump attempted to impede the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including by firing FBI Director James Comey. ...

...Attempts to stop an investigation represent a common form of obstruction. Demanding the loyalty of an individual involved in an investigation, requesting that individual’s help to end the investigation, and then ultimately firing that person to accomplish that goal are the type of acts that have frequently resulted in obstruction convictions, as we detail. In addition, to the extent conduct could be characterized as threatening, intimidating, or corruptly persuading witnesses, that too may provide additional grounds for obstruction charges. ...

GOP official imagines Kelly and Mattis discussed tackling Trump if he ‘lunges for the nuclear football’: report
...“A conversation I had with a very prominent Republican today, who literally was saying that they imagine Gen. Kelly and Secretary Mattis have had conversations that if Trump lunged for the nuclear football, what would they do?” Sherman told NBC’s Chris Hayes. “Would they tackle him? I mean literally, physically restrain him from putting the country at perilous risk.”

“That is the kind of situation we’re in,” Sherman added.

Pressed by Hayes to explain the sources’ relationship to—and direct knowledge of—the Trump administration, Sherman explained, “these are the conversation they have, on very good authority, are taking place inside the White House.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/kelly-a...ootball-report/

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2459

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Fuer den, der's lesen und verstehen kann und wen's denn interessiert:

Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump
President Trump’s firing of Comey and the subsequent revelations about President Trump’s earlier exchanges with Comey while he was FBI Director raise the question of whether President Trump obstructed justice by endeavoring to impede those investigations. In June, press reports indicated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is indeed investigating the very question of whether President Trump obstructed justice.[1] Mueller has since impaneled a grand jury in Washington D.C., issued subpoenas, and has begun seeking interviews with current and former White House officials.

In this paper, we break down and analyze the question of whether President Trump may have obstructed justice and explain the criminal and congressional actions that could follow from an obstruction investigation. Addressing the possibility of criminal behavior by President Trump and the complicated issues it raises is not a task that we take lightly. Dissecting allegations of criminality leveled against an individual who has been duly elected president and who has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution is an inherently solemn task. But it is our hope that by presenting a rigorous legal analysis of the potential case against the president, we will help the American people and their representatives understand the contours of the issues, regardless of whether it is eventually litigated in a court of law, the halls of Congress, or the court of public opinion. ...
https://www.brookings.edu/research/presi...donald-j-trump/

...The public record contains substantial evidence that President Trump attempted to impede the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including by firing FBI Director James Comey. ...

...Attempts to stop an investigation represent a common form of obstruction. Demanding the loyalty of an individual involved in an investigation, requesting that individual’s help to end the investigation, and then ultimately firing that person to accomplish that goal are the type of acts that have frequently resulted in obstruction convictions, as we detail. In addition, to the extent conduct could be characterized as threatening, intimidating, or corruptly persuading witnesses, that too may provide additional grounds for obstruction charges. ...

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Trump Wanted Tenfold Increase in Nuclear Arsenal, Surprising Military
President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room.

The July 20 meeting was described as a lengthy and sometimes tense review of worldwide U.S. forces and operations. It was soon after the meeting broke up that officials who remained behind heard Tillerson say that Trump is a “moron.”...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-...leaders-n809701

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2461

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2459

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Fuer den, der's lesen und verstehen kann und wen's denn interessiert:

Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump
President Trump’s firing of Comey and the subsequent revelations about President Trump’s earlier exchanges with Comey while he was FBI Director raise the question of whether President Trump obstructed justice by endeavoring to impede those investigations. In June, press reports indicated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is indeed investigating the very question of whether President Trump obstructed justice.[1] Mueller has since impaneled a grand jury in Washington D.C., issued subpoenas, and has begun seeking interviews with current and former White House officials.

In this paper, we break down and analyze the question of whether President Trump may have obstructed justice and explain the criminal and congressional actions that could follow from an obstruction investigation. Addressing the possibility of criminal behavior by President Trump and the complicated issues it raises is not a task that we take lightly. Dissecting allegations of criminality leveled against an individual who has been duly elected president and who has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution is an inherently solemn task. But it is our hope that by presenting a rigorous legal analysis of the potential case against the president, we will help the American people and their representatives understand the contours of the issues, regardless of whether it is eventually litigated in a court of law, the halls of Congress, or the court of public opinion. ...
https://www.brookings.edu/research/presi...donald-j-trump/

...The public record contains substantial evidence that President Trump attempted to impede the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including by firing FBI Director James Comey. ...

...Attempts to stop an investigation represent a common form of obstruction. Demanding the loyalty of an individual involved in an investigation, requesting that individual’s help to end the investigation, and then ultimately firing that person to accomplish that goal are the type of acts that have frequently resulted in obstruction convictions, as we detail. In addition, to the extent conduct could be characterized as threatening, intimidating, or corruptly persuading witnesses, that too may provide additional grounds for obstruction charges. ...

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Nun, dann wird es wohl bald ein Impeachment-Verfahren geben, oder nicht?

Vielleicht sollte sich Trump an die Nation wenden mit dem Bekenntnis "I'm not a crook". :-)

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Sen. Cotton: Nuke deal should be decertified, and if Iran doesn't bend, U.S. should bomb, bomb, bomb
...Probably the most hawkish foe of the agreement is Sen. Tom Cotton, the Arkansas Republican. In 2015, he got 46 other Republican senators to sign a letter to Tehran’s leaders warning them that the next U.S. president could overturn the agreement. That was before scarcely anyone imagined Donald Trump would be the guy in the White House to do that.

Cotton now says that if the agreement is decertified and Tehran refuses to renegotiate and returns its nuclear program to where it was before the agreement was signed, the U.S. can demolish Iran’s nuclear infrastructure: “And if they choose to rebuild it, we could destroy it again, until they get the picture.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10...-bomb-bomb-bomb

Inside Bannon's plans for a GOP civil war
Establishment Republicans are getting squeezed to death from within. In what should be nirvana — all-party control of Washington — they instead are jammed daily between a president who routinely ridicules them for ineptitude — and Steve Bannon, who's recruiting hardliners to extinguish their very existence.

Why this matters: The Breitbart News chairman and former White House chief strategist is building a nationwide coalition that — in the words of a former Trump White House official — could "wreak havoc" across the map "if Bannon is even halfways successful."

As Bannon told Fox's Sean Hannity this week: "Nobody's safe. We're coming after all of them."

Bannon can sound delusional about his power to disrupt the party. But make no mistake: the combo of his fame with the base + access to Mercer money + true belief in America first policies = big trouble for establishment Republicans in 2018 and beyond.
If Bannon were to field the slate he envisions, the Republican Party would have a civil war on its hands that makes 2010 look like a tea party.
https://www.axios.com/the-gops-uncivil-war-2495463633.html

Trump’s Benghazi? Ambush of U.S. soldiers in Niger goes unnoticed
Four dead Americans in Africa: Why hasn’t this act of terror drawn the same feverish scrutiny?
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/11/trumps-...goes-unnoticed/

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2463

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2461

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2459

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Fuer den, der's lesen und verstehen kann und wen's denn interessiert:

Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump
President Trump’s firing of Comey and the subsequent revelations about President Trump’s earlier exchanges with Comey while he was FBI Director raise the question of whether President Trump obstructed justice by endeavoring to impede those investigations. In June, press reports indicated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is indeed investigating the very question of whether President Trump obstructed justice.[1] Mueller has since impaneled a grand jury in Washington D.C., issued subpoenas, and has begun seeking interviews with current and former White House officials.

In this paper, we break down and analyze the question of whether President Trump may have obstructed justice and explain the criminal and congressional actions that could follow from an obstruction investigation. Addressing the possibility of criminal behavior by President Trump and the complicated issues it raises is not a task that we take lightly. Dissecting allegations of criminality leveled against an individual who has been duly elected president and who has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution is an inherently solemn task. But it is our hope that by presenting a rigorous legal analysis of the potential case against the president, we will help the American people and their representatives understand the contours of the issues, regardless of whether it is eventually litigated in a court of law, the halls of Congress, or the court of public opinion. ...
https://www.brookings.edu/research/presi...donald-j-trump/

...The public record contains substantial evidence that President Trump attempted to impede the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including by firing FBI Director James Comey. ...

...Attempts to stop an investigation represent a common form of obstruction. Demanding the loyalty of an individual involved in an investigation, requesting that individual’s help to end the investigation, and then ultimately firing that person to accomplish that goal are the type of acts that have frequently resulted in obstruction convictions, as we detail. In addition, to the extent conduct could be characterized as threatening, intimidating, or corruptly persuading witnesses, that too may provide additional grounds for obstruction charges. ...

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Nun, dann wird es wohl bald ein Impeachment-Verfahren geben, oder nicht?

Vielleicht sollte sich Trump an die Nation wenden mit dem Bekenntnis "I'm not a crook". :-)

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Es gibt klare vorgegebene Ablaeufe:

1. Erst kommen die Untersuchungsausschuesse dran mit ihren Berichten. Und vor allen Dingen der Independent Counsel Robert Mueller dran mit seinem Abschlussbericht. Das kann noch Monate dauern.

2. Dann kommt der Congress dran und was die entscheiden. Ob sie dem ueblen Schauspiel ein Ende bereiten, oder ob sie gemeinsame Sache mit Trumphausen machen -beides ist moeglich und ausschliesslich eine reine Einschaetzung der Waehlerchancen, bzw. abhaengig von den Aengsten vor der radikalen Waehlerbase rechstaussen -den Nazis und ihren Mitlaeufern.
Sonst zaehlt nichts. Jegliches moralisches Bewusstsein hat die GOP naemlich schon laengst aufgegeben bzw. verkauft.

Unabhaengig davon kann natuerlich Mueller auch direkt Anklage gegen einzelne Personen erheben. Ob auch gegen den Praesidenten selbst ist eine noch offene Frage, die in legalen Kreisen z.Zt. heftig diskutiert wird. Das wuerde moeglicherweise zu einer Verfassungskrise fuehren.

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2467

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2463

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2461

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2459

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Fuer den, der's lesen und verstehen kann und wen's denn interessiert:

Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump
President Trump’s firing of Comey and the subsequent revelations about President Trump’s earlier exchanges with Comey while he was FBI Director raise the question of whether President Trump obstructed justice by endeavoring to impede those investigations. In June, press reports indicated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is indeed investigating the very question of whether President Trump obstructed justice.[1] Mueller has since impaneled a grand jury in Washington D.C., issued subpoenas, and has begun seeking interviews with current and former White House officials.

In this paper, we break down and analyze the question of whether President Trump may have obstructed justice and explain the criminal and congressional actions that could follow from an obstruction investigation. Addressing the possibility of criminal behavior by President Trump and the complicated issues it raises is not a task that we take lightly. Dissecting allegations of criminality leveled against an individual who has been duly elected president and who has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution is an inherently solemn task. But it is our hope that by presenting a rigorous legal analysis of the potential case against the president, we will help the American people and their representatives understand the contours of the issues, regardless of whether it is eventually litigated in a court of law, the halls of Congress, or the court of public opinion. ...
https://www.brookings.edu/research/presi...donald-j-trump/

...The public record contains substantial evidence that President Trump attempted to impede the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including by firing FBI Director James Comey. ...

...Attempts to stop an investigation represent a common form of obstruction. Demanding the loyalty of an individual involved in an investigation, requesting that individual’s help to end the investigation, and then ultimately firing that person to accomplish that goal are the type of acts that have frequently resulted in obstruction convictions, as we detail. In addition, to the extent conduct could be characterized as threatening, intimidating, or corruptly persuading witnesses, that too may provide additional grounds for obstruction charges. ...

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Nun, dann wird es wohl bald ein Impeachment-Verfahren geben, oder nicht?

Vielleicht sollte sich Trump an die Nation wenden mit dem Bekenntnis "I'm not a crook". :-)

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Es gibt klare vorgegebene Ablaeufe:

1. Erst kommen die Untersuchungsausschuesse dran mit ihren Berichten. Und vor allen Dingen der Independent Counsel Robert Mueller dran mit seinem Abschlussbericht. Das kann noch Monate dauern.

2. Dann kommt der Congress dran und was die entscheiden. Ob sie dem ueblen Schauspiel ein Ende bereiten, oder ob sie gemeinsame Sache mit Trumphausen machen -beides ist moeglich und ausschliesslich eine reine Einschaetzung der Waehlerchancen, bzw. abhaengig von den Aengsten vor der radikalen Waehlerbase rechstaussen -den Nazis und ihren Mitlaeufern.
Sonst zaehlt nichts. Jegliches moralisches Bewusstsein hat die GOP naemlich schon laengst aufgegeben bzw. verkauft.

Unabhaengig davon kann natuerlich Mueller auch direkt Anklage gegen einzelne Personen erheben. Ob auch gegen den Praesidenten selbst ist eine noch offene Frage, die in legalen Kreisen z.Zt. heftig diskutiert wird. Das wuerde moeglicherweise zu einer Verfassungskrise fuehren.

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Willie, wenn sich die Republikaner entscheiden, Trump zu feuern, dann wird die Partei daran zerbrechen so wie sie 1912 zwischen Taft-Republikanern und den Anhängern Teddy Roosevelts zerbrochen ist. Wenn der Präsident sich nicht selbst völlig diskreditiert, was natürlich möglich ist, dann werden sie kein Impeachment-Verfahren anstrengen.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2468

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2467

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2463

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2461

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2459

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Fuer den, der's lesen und verstehen kann und wen's denn interessiert:

Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump
President Trump’s firing of Comey and the subsequent revelations about President Trump’s earlier exchanges with Comey while he was FBI Director raise the question of whether President Trump obstructed justice by endeavoring to impede those investigations. In June, press reports indicated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is indeed investigating the very question of whether President Trump obstructed justice.[1] Mueller has since impaneled a grand jury in Washington D.C., issued subpoenas, and has begun seeking interviews with current and former White House officials.

In this paper, we break down and analyze the question of whether President Trump may have obstructed justice and explain the criminal and congressional actions that could follow from an obstruction investigation. Addressing the possibility of criminal behavior by President Trump and the complicated issues it raises is not a task that we take lightly. Dissecting allegations of criminality leveled against an individual who has been duly elected president and who has sworn to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution is an inherently solemn task. But it is our hope that by presenting a rigorous legal analysis of the potential case against the president, we will help the American people and their representatives understand the contours of the issues, regardless of whether it is eventually litigated in a court of law, the halls of Congress, or the court of public opinion. ...
https://www.brookings.edu/research/presi...donald-j-trump/

...The public record contains substantial evidence that President Trump attempted to impede the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including by firing FBI Director James Comey. ...

...Attempts to stop an investigation represent a common form of obstruction. Demanding the loyalty of an individual involved in an investigation, requesting that individual’s help to end the investigation, and then ultimately firing that person to accomplish that goal are the type of acts that have frequently resulted in obstruction convictions, as we detail. In addition, to the extent conduct could be characterized as threatening, intimidating, or corruptly persuading witnesses, that too may provide additional grounds for obstruction charges. ...

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Nun, dann wird es wohl bald ein Impeachment-Verfahren geben, oder nicht?

Vielleicht sollte sich Trump an die Nation wenden mit dem Bekenntnis "I'm not a crook". :-)

---

Es gibt klare vorgegebene Ablaeufe:

1. Erst kommen die Untersuchungsausschuesse dran mit ihren Berichten. Und vor allen Dingen der Independent Counsel Robert Mueller dran mit seinem Abschlussbericht. Das kann noch Monate dauern.

2. Dann kommt der Congress dran und was die entscheiden. Ob sie dem ueblen Schauspiel ein Ende bereiten, oder ob sie gemeinsame Sache mit Trumphausen machen -beides ist moeglich und ausschliesslich eine reine Einschaetzung der Waehlerchancen, bzw. abhaengig von den Aengsten vor der radikalen Waehlerbase rechstaussen -den Nazis und ihren Mitlaeufern.
Sonst zaehlt nichts. Jegliches moralisches Bewusstsein hat die GOP naemlich schon laengst aufgegeben bzw. verkauft.

Unabhaengig davon kann natuerlich Mueller auch direkt Anklage gegen einzelne Personen erheben. Ob auch gegen den Praesidenten selbst ist eine noch offene Frage, die in legalen Kreisen z.Zt. heftig diskutiert wird. Das wuerde moeglicherweise zu einer Verfassungskrise fuehren.

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Willie, wenn sich die Republikaner entscheiden, Trump zu feuern, dann wird die Partei daran zerbrechen so wie sie 1912 zwischen Taft-Republikanern und den Anhängern Teddy Roosevelts zerbrochen ist. Wenn der Präsident sich nicht selbst völlig diskreditiert, was natürlich möglich ist, dann werden sie kein Impeachment-Verfahren anstrengen.

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Wenn Robert Mueller einen glasklaren case hat und die Republikaner sich weigern was zu tun, dann wird das ebenfalls Auswirkungen auf deren zukuenftigen Vertretungen im Congress haben.
Es ist gefaehrlich zu ignorieren dass der groesste Teil der Waehlerschaft heutzutage "independent" ist und dass der groesste Teil der Wahlberechtigten aus Gleichgueltigkeit ueberhaupt nicht gewaehlt haben. Wenn sich das aendert, kann es gewaltige Erdrutsche geben. Denn dort liegt die weitaus groesste Majority. Und Skandale wie auch schlechte Regierungsleistungen und unbeliebte Gesetze haben es so an sich, dass viele Wahlberechtigten auf einmal aus ihrer Lethargie erwachen und waehlen. Dort ruht gewaltiges Potential.

Dazu kommt, dass mit jedem Tag, die dieser Mensch im Amt ist, sich die Negativa fuer die GOP rapide anhaeufen. Er ist wie ein Muehlstein um den Hals der Partei. Je laenger sie ihn haben, um so tiefer zieht er sie hinab. Und wir sind ja noch nicht einmal ein Jahr in seiner Amtszeit.

Dazu kommt der sich anbahnende Civil war in der Partei selbst -die radikale Rechte und Bannon- ich postete bereits dazu.

Wenn auch manche es nicht erkennen koennen, oder nicht erkennen wollen, aber das Wort von "being between a rock and hard place" scheint da fuer die GOP schon angebracht.

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Donald Trump just issued a direct threat to the free and independent media
President Donald Trump has said a lot of bad things about the media since he started running for president two-plus years ago. He's suggested that the press doesn't really like America. He has said the media is the "enemy of the American people." He has repeatedly called journalists the "most dishonest" people. He has worked to paint news stories he doesn't like as "fake" -- and claimed he created that term.

But he's never gone as far as he did on Wednesday morning when he tweeted this: "With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!"

What Trump is suggesting here is that the Federal Communications Commission needs to examine its licensing procedures for major news networks because what they are reporting is not to his liking. The coverage isn't positive enough for Trump, so he wants some sort of punitive action doled out.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/d...mp-media-tweet/

Trump: 'Disgusting' that press able to write whatever it wants
President Trump triggered a new storm with the media on Wednesday by saying that it is “disgusting the press is able to write whatever it wants to write.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrati...ataver-it-wants

Trump pushes to challenge media network licenses
President Trump is doubling down on his suggestion that the federal government "challenge" the broadcast licenses of networks that report what he deems "fake news."
"Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked," he wrote on Twitter. "Not fair to public!"

During an Oval Office meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he also told reporters Wednesday that it is “disgusting the press is able to write whatever it wants to write.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrati...-if-appropriate

Republican Senator Asks If Trump Is Recanting His Oath Of Office
Ben Sasse questions whether Trump is failing to “preserve, protect, and defend” the First Amendment.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben...kushpmg00000009

Khrushchev’s Granddaughter Just Compared Trump To Stalin
Nina Khrushcheva slams Trump over attacks on the media.

“Here, President Trump defined ‘fake news’ the way Joseph Stalin defined ‘enemies of the people’: if they offer a slightest objection to his rule they must be wrong. And they must be silenced,” Nina Khrushcheva, an international affairs professor at The New School in New York City, told The Washington Examiner.

She told the website:
“Somewhere on the way to his real estate/reality TV career he forgot his lessons in civics and American democracy from high school. Or maybe he always had an ‘F’ in those subjects; being rich, he didn’t and still doesn’t think they apply to him. For that we are all paying dearly.
And the longer he stays in, offering more and more somewhat Stalinesque amendments to American democracy, the more autocratic erosion to this once wonderful system we will experience.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nin...4b00abf36464057

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellsch...-a-1172481.html

Was sagt uns das über das progressive Hollywood?

Mr. Trump Alone Can Order a Nuclear Strike. Congress Can Change That.
The broad debate over President Trump’s fitness for the difficult and demanding office he holds has recently been reframed in a more pointed and urgent way: Does he understand, and can he responsibly manage, the most destructive nuclear arsenal on earth?

The question arises for several reasons. He has threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea. He has reportedly pressed for a massive buildup in the American nuclear arsenal, which already contains too many — 4,000 — warheads. And soon he will decide whether to sustain or set a course to possibly unravel the immensely important Iran nuclear deal.

Doubts about his competency were reinforced this week by Senator Bob Corker, who charged that Mr. Trump was treating his office like “a reality show” with reckless threats that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.” Mr. Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, says he is relying on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, to help “separate our country from chaos.” That is a searing indictment, and Mr. Corker is no garden-variety legislator; as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is a respected, and largely responsible, voice on national security issues. ...

As things stand now, the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, passed when there was more concern about trigger-happy generals than elected civilian leaders, gives the president sole control. He could unleash the apocalyptic force of the American nuclear arsenal by his word alone, and within minutes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/opini...competence.html

Growing Chorus Confronts Trump Against Leaving Nuclear Deal
President Trump is coming under mounting pressure from European allies and fellow Republicans to preserve the Iran nuclear deal. With the president widely expected to disavow the agreement when he outlines his Iran strategy on Friday, defenders and even erstwhile opponents of the deal are urging him not to unravel it completely.

Mr. Trump’s top national security aides are united behind a plan to decertify the deal, but leave it in place, with a goal of revising its terms. But in pursuing that course, the president will set off a volatile sequence of events that some warn could end up mortally wounding the agreement.

On Capitol Hill, lawmakers will have to decide whether to reimpose punitive sanctions on Tehran, a move that would almost certainly scuttle the 2015 deal that was brokered by world powers. In European capitals, allies are showing signs of resisting pressure to join the United States in trying to renegotiate its terms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/world...clear-deal.html