Trump Administration Exerts Executive Privilege over Mueller Report

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Trump declares executive privilege over Mueller report



Trump declares executive privilege over Mueller report
05/08/19 ~ By Morgan Chalfant and Jordan Fabian
The White House on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, ramping up its clash with Congress over its investigations into President Trump.... The move came just before the House Judiciary Committee was scheduled to vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Mueller’s unredacted report and underlying materials, which the panel had subpoenaed.
Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote in a letter to the committee's chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), that the administration was following through on its threat to assert privilege if the panel refused to delay the contempt vote, saying lawmakers effectively “terminated” negotiations over access to Mueller’s report and underlying evidence.... “As we have repeatedly explained, the attorney general could not comply with your subpoena in its current form without violating the law, court rules and court orders, and without threatening the independence of the Department of Justice’s prosecutorial functions,” Boyd wrote. “Accordingly, this is to advise you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials.”


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Brought on by Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats who want Barr to violate the very law they passed about Grand Jury info. If Barr complies with the subpoena then he can be impeached for violating the law. Perfect timing, Mr. President. Now's the time to declassify and release all the Spygate documents and end this Democrat Dog and Pony show.
I heard multiple congress politicians demand all information be made public and that you are afraid to make it public in the hearing today. Time for president Trump to declassify the evidence making Democrats eat crow.
Hmm...., we just went through a two year investigation using over 40 FBI agents and 13 angry Democrat prosecutors, 1.4 million documents, 500 witnesses and 100% transparency and I don't see any charges. In fact, Mueller/Weissman knew by December 2017 that there was no conspiracy or coordination with Russia, so why did the investigation not end right then? Was it because Mueller sought to influence the midterm elections?
A.G. Barr offered Nadler, and a few selected Judiciary Committees to see the un-redacted report behind closed doors but they refused. WHY? I think you know the answer.
Due process requires the presumption of innocence and that the burden of proof be squarely on the prosecutor - or in this case - Congress. They must show cause for anything that the law prohibits them from seeing without cause i.e. grand jury testimony, national security information, and tax returns. Federal case law specifically declares that accusations of corrupt intent leading to obstruction of justice must be resolved in favor of the accused if it can be shown that an action was taken with dual purpose where one purpose is legal and permissible (i.e. fired him because he was a liar.) So the remedy is three cheers and a toast for maintaining a founding principle of our justice system.
This won't turn out well for Trump.

Yeah it will.

Barr can't release the unredacted report because it would break the law. Nadler is an attorney and he knows this quite well.

All these Dem dimwits are doing is grand standing.Trying to make themselves look important.

All they look like are idiots.

You sure ain't to smart.

There are members of Congress who have authorization to see the unredacted copy. Trumo claims it clears him, you would think he wants everyone to see that.
Meanwhile, McConnell is despicable in trying to close it down. The turtle is a coward and afraid of the truth. ttps://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-chuck-schumer-calls-mcconnell-speech-despicable-59148357833

Trump is a con, a fraud, and clown, while the coward Turtle violates his oath of office. He has always been a piece of shit, and this example is one of the best.
 
Trump declares executive privilege over Mueller report



Trump declares executive privilege over Mueller report
05/08/19 ~ By Morgan Chalfant and Jordan Fabian
The White House on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, ramping up its clash with Congress over its investigations into President Trump.... The move came just before the House Judiciary Committee was scheduled to vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Mueller’s unredacted report and underlying materials, which the panel had subpoenaed.
Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote in a letter to the committee's chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), that the administration was following through on its threat to assert privilege if the panel refused to delay the contempt vote, saying lawmakers effectively “terminated” negotiations over access to Mueller’s report and underlying evidence.... “As we have repeatedly explained, the attorney general could not comply with your subpoena in its current form without violating the law, court rules and court orders, and without threatening the independence of the Department of Justice’s prosecutorial functions,” Boyd wrote. “Accordingly, this is to advise you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials.”


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Brought on by Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats who want Barr to violate the very law they passed about Grand Jury info. If Barr complies with the subpoena then he can be impeached for violating the law. Perfect timing, Mr. President. Now's the time to declassify and release all the Spygate documents and end this Democrat Dog and Pony show.
I heard multiple congress politicians demand all information be made public and that you are afraid to make it public in the hearing today. Time for president Trump to declassify the evidence making Democrats eat crow.
Hmm...., we just went through a two year investigation using over 40 FBI agents and 13 angry Democrat prosecutors, 1.4 million documents, 500 witnesses and 100% transparency and I don't see any charges. In fact, Mueller/Weissman knew by December 2017 that there was no conspiracy or coordination with Russia, so why did the investigation not end right then? Was it because Mueller sought to influence the midterm elections?
A.G. Barr offered Nadler, and a few selected Judiciary Committees to see the un-redacted report behind closed doors but they refused. WHY? I think you know the answer.
Due process requires the presumption of innocence and that the burden of proof be squarely on the prosecutor - or in this case - Congress. They must show cause for anything that the law prohibits them from seeing without cause i.e. grand jury testimony, national security information, and tax returns. Federal case law specifically declares that accusations of corrupt intent leading to obstruction of justice must be resolved in favor of the accused if it can be shown that an action was taken with dual purpose where one purpose is legal and permissible (i.e. fired him because he was a liar.) So the remedy is three cheers and a toast for maintaining a founding principle of our justice system.
This won't turn out well for Trump.

Yeah it will.

Barr can't release the unredacted report because it would break the law. Nadler is an attorney and he knows this quite well.

All these Dem dimwits are doing is grand standing.Trying to make themselves look important.

All they look like are idiots.

You sure ain't to smart.
Some redacted parts are not classified. Nadler has the right to read it, as do taxpayers. It is Nadler's job.
 
Trump declares executive privilege over Mueller report



Trump declares executive privilege over Mueller report
05/08/19 ~ By Morgan Chalfant and Jordan Fabian
The White House on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, ramping up its clash with Congress over its investigations into President Trump.... The move came just before the House Judiciary Committee was scheduled to vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Mueller’s unredacted report and underlying materials, which the panel had subpoenaed.
Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote in a letter to the committee's chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), that the administration was following through on its threat to assert privilege if the panel refused to delay the contempt vote, saying lawmakers effectively “terminated” negotiations over access to Mueller’s report and underlying evidence.... “As we have repeatedly explained, the attorney general could not comply with your subpoena in its current form without violating the law, court rules and court orders, and without threatening the independence of the Department of Justice’s prosecutorial functions,” Boyd wrote. “Accordingly, this is to advise you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials.”


~~~~~~

Brought on by Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrats who want Barr to violate the very law they passed about Grand Jury info. If Barr complies with the subpoena then he can be impeached for violating the law. Perfect timing, Mr. President. Now's the time to declassify and release all the Spygate documents and end this Democrat Dog and Pony show.
I heard multiple congress politicians demand all information be made public and that you are afraid to make it public in the hearing today. Time for president Trump to declassify the evidence making Democrats eat crow.
Hmm...., we just went through a two year investigation using over 40 FBI agents and 13 angry Democrat prosecutors, 1.4 million documents, 500 witnesses and 100% transparency and I don't see any charges. In fact, Mueller/Weissman knew by December 2017 that there was no conspiracy or coordination with Russia, so why did the investigation not end right then? Was it because Mueller sought to influence the midterm elections?
A.G. Barr offered Nadler, and a few selected Judiciary Committees to see the un-redacted report behind closed doors but they refused. WHY? I think you know the answer.
Due process requires the presumption of innocence and that the burden of proof be squarely on the prosecutor - or in this case - Congress. They must show cause for anything that the law prohibits them from seeing without cause i.e. grand jury testimony, national security information, and tax returns. Federal case law specifically declares that accusations of corrupt intent leading to obstruction of justice must be resolved in favor of the accused if it can be shown that an action was taken with dual purpose where one purpose is legal and permissible (i.e. fired him because he was a liar.) So the remedy is three cheers and a toast for maintaining a founding principle of our justice system.
This won't turn out well for Trump.

Yeah it will.

Barr can't release the unredacted report because it would break the law. Nadler is an attorney and he knows this quite well.

All these Dem dimwits are doing is grand standing.Trying to make themselves look important.

All they look like are idiots.

You sure ain't to smart.
Some redacted parts are not classified. Nadler has the right to read it, as do taxpayers. It is Nadler's job.



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Surely those items you speak of have gone unredacted in the copy available to Congress. How would Nadler know if he doesn't read the SCIF copy?
 
Yes they will. The fact is that Obama did not seal his records. A person's school transcripts are confidential unless a court order is issued or the individual gives his consent. Quite lying.

So is grand jury testimony under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(c) and (e). If Democrats in Congress truly didn't believe that provision of the Federal Rule should be applicable, they have the power to propose and enact legislation to amend (as Congress has previously done) the Rules Enabling Act, and undertake to promulgate, amend or abolish Federal Rules of U.S. Courts as they see fit. However, they have not done so, and the Rule as currently written and interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, are the law of the land. Furthermore, pursuant to the Rules Enabling Act (the specific section of the Act is provided in the link below), Congress was given the ability to veto or amend that provision under Rule 6 prior to it taking effect, but did not do so (though it has previously done so with other Rules and Amendments). All of this bitching in the press is just puffing and grandstanding.

There is no legitimate doubt that the members of Congress who are making these demands are aware of their power to change the law as written, and are simply choosing not to do it, which is not surprising as they most certainly do not intend to do away with this procedure given that one day it will suit their party and Republicans in Congress will undertake in similar grandstanding, which will in turn be chastised by Democrats for demanding that the law be broken, and nobody will remember this episode (as has occurred in swapping fashion during every change in Congressional and Presidential power for several decades). This BS by Congress is cyclical and consistent; as is the rabble rousing by the constituents for which they are engaging in such grandstanding.

28 U.S. Code § 2074 - Rules of procedure and evidence; submission to Congress; effective date
 
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So Trump, using Mrs Potato head as a spokesperson, made another absurd remark. The courts will make that decision.

Desperation speaks.

Loudly.

The courts will have no part in this. Executive privilege was a right (to you) when Obama sealed his college transcripts, so therefore, it should be in theory (to you), a right when a President of the opposing party exerts it in result of a political charade.

When did Obama seal his college transcripts? You got a credible link? Any king of order specifically sealing his, and only his college transcripts?

Sealed? I mean outright refused to release. My bad. But consider the fact that he exerted privilege over documents related to the Fast and Furious operation that would have implicated his administration in an illicit gun running scandal which got one of our border patrol agents killed.

You have no right to give lectures on executive privilege.

After it went to court the documents were released. No one was implicated or indicted.

Guns don't kill people, or so I've heard.

Obama didn't seal his college transcripts, the college did. They seal ALL transcripts.

It didn't go to court, and the transcripts were NEVER released.

People with guns kill people. You have to have more training to drive a car, than to own a gun.
 
Did he make the charge? No. He lazily left that up to congress to decide.
LOL...
He can't make the charge, dope. No one at the DOJ can. Congress is the only remedy to a criminal president.

Interesting. Very interesting. You take everything he said about "not exonerating" him at face value. But then say he can't charge the president with obstruction.

Either he has the power to exonerate or not.

You just undercut your own argument.

The exit is that way. (points)

Have a good evening.

It's all laid out in the report if you'd care to read it.

I have read it. In sum. But have you? Or did you just cherry pick what you wanted out of it? I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

You're mighty confused for a guy who's supposedly read the report.

Was that the best you could come up with?
 
LOL...
He can't make the charge, dope. No one at the DOJ can. Congress is the only remedy to a criminal president.

Interesting. Very interesting. You take everything he said about "not exonerating" him at face value. But then say he can't charge the president with obstruction.

Either he has the power to exonerate or not.

You just undercut your own argument.

The exit is that way. (points)

Have a good evening.

It's all laid out in the report if you'd care to read it.

I have read it. In sum. But have you? Or did you just cherry pick what you wanted out of it? I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

You're mighty confused for a guy who's supposedly read the report.

Was that the best you could come up with?

What else is there? Your contradictions speak for themselves.
 
You want there to be evidence of criminality.
Irrelevant,crybaby. Try to focus. What I want has no bearing on what the report says and what the underlying evidence shows. Now you are just embarrassing yourself.

No, it's not irrelevant. You laid bare your hopes that they (the Democrats) bring down the president by any means possible the moment he was elected.

A biased person like you wanting fairness and objectivity? Preposterous. Any partisan rather right or left, demanding fairness and objectivity when all they seek is the ruin of their political opponents? Preposterous.

Oh I'm focused. I see many a hypocrite in this thread. Charlatans and hypocrites all.
Still irrelevant, crybaby. Stick to events that matter, your whiny opinions of me do not.
 
So Trump, using Mrs Potato head as a spokesperson, made another absurd remark. The courts will make that decision.

Desperation speaks.

Loudly.

The courts will have no part in this. Executive privilege was a right (to you) when Obama sealed his college transcripts, so therefore, it should be in theory (to you), a right when a President of the opposing party exerts it in result of a political charade.

When did Obama seal his college transcripts? You got a credible link? Any king of order specifically sealing his, and only his college transcripts?

Sealed? I mean outright refused to release. My bad. But consider the fact that he exerted privilege over documents related to the Fast and Furious operation that would have implicated his administration in an illicit gun running scandal which got one of our border patrol agents killed.

You have no right to give lectures on executive privilege.

After it went to court the documents were released. No one was implicated or indicted.

Guns don't kill people, or so I've heard.

Obama didn't seal his college transcripts, the college did. They seal ALL transcripts.

It didn't go to court, and the transcripts were NEVER released.

People with guns kill people. You have to have more training to drive a car, than to own a gun.
you never lived in the country have you? kids are driving trucks likely around the same time they are using guns.

people with all kinds of shit kill people. passing more laws won't stop the killing. changing our collective mindset would do more.
 
Of course he will win. The law is on his side.
You're delusional...they're not even going to win in the stone case in federal court, much less when congress brings its guns to bear....
please.

when was the last time congress did something really useful?
Not sure how that is relevant...useful or not, a federal judge is about to force release of portions of the unredacted report in the disgusting little toad's trial. And then congress will get the whole thing.
 
Interesting. Very interesting. You take everything he said about "not exonerating" him at face value. But then say he can't charge the president with obstruction.

Either he has the power to exonerate or not.

You just undercut your own argument.

The exit is that way. (points)

Have a good evening.

It's all laid out in the report if you'd care to read it.

I have read it. In sum. But have you? Or did you just cherry pick what you wanted out of it? I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

You're mighty confused for a guy who's supposedly read the report.

Was that the best you could come up with?

What else is there? Your contradictions speak for themselves.
Funny, you had all this time to point them out.

What contradictions?
 
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