The Dallas Morning News features the latest anti-Trump stuff on the front page every day. It appears todays article was cribbed from this one.
[New York Times] For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself. Talking, when someone is listening, can cause you problems. Twitter is basically talking out loud, yes?
Those concerns now turn out to be well founded for the desperate Dems. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is scrutinizing tweets and negative statements from the president about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey. Breathless pause.
Several of the remarks came as Mr. Trump was also privately pressuring the men ‐ both key witnesses in the inquiry ‐ about the investigation, and Mr. Mueller is examining whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation by both intimidating witnesses and pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry. Tamp it down? Doesn't he have the power to squash it?
Mr. Mueller wants to question the president about the tweets. He didn't know the POTUS used them until Obama told him to check into that.
His interest in them is the latest addition to a range of presidential actions like negotiating, policy-making, breathing, living he is investigating as a possible obstruction case: private interactions with Mr. Comey, not previously leaked to the press or documented in the book and book tours Mr. Sessions and other senior administration officials about the Russia inquiry; misleading White House statements; public attacks; and possible pardon offers to potential witnesses. Possible pardon offers. Yeah, look into that. Maybe he offered Flynn a pardon. None of what Mr. Mueller has homed in on constitutes obstruction, Mr. Trump's lawyers said. They argued that most of the presidential acts under scrutiny, including the Rosenstein-recommended firing of Mr. Comey, fall under Mr. Trump's authority as the head of the executive branch and insisted that he should not even have to answer Mr. Mueller's questions about obstruction. Let Mueller keep digging while Trump keeps winning.
But privately, some of the lawyers have expressed concern that Mr. Mueller will stitch together several episodes, encounters and pieces of evidence, like the tweets, to build a case that the president embarked on a broad effort to interfere with the investigation. Hey! Maybe he daydreamed about shooting Comey to pieces. How about a lie-detector test? Psychoanalysis? Mind reading? Prosecutors who lack one slam-dunk piece of evidence in obstruction cases often search for a larger pattern of behavior, legal experts said.
The special counsel's investigators have told Mr. Trump's lawyers they are examining the tweets under a wide-ranging obstruction-of-justice law beefed up after the Enron accounting scandal, according to the three people. The investigators did not explicitly say they were examining possible witness tampering, however, that's what the Slimes infers but the nature of the questions they want to ask the president, and the fact that they are scrutinizing his actions under a section of the United States Code titled "Tampering With a Witness, Victim, or an Informant," raised concerns for his lawyers about Mr. Trump's exposure in the investigation. Maybe Mueller tampered with Flynn and Manafort to get them to roll over on the POTUS?
A spokesman for Mr. Mueller's office declined to comment.
Mr. Trump's lead lawyer in the case, Rudolph W. Giuliani, dismissed Mr. Mueller's interest in the tweets as part of a desperate quest to sink the president. But the Slimes dismisses that, too. I have more important things to do. RTWT, for the entertainment value!
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Mueller and Rosenstein are obstructing the law--they are obstructing POTUS from carrying out his constutional duties.
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Rudy is right. Investigating tweets, of all things, does smack of desperation.
Posted by: Tom ||
07/27/2018 15:17 Comments ||
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The Military frowns on Command Interference in trials, but this isn't a trial and it is blazingly Public -- as in "Do you Grok the First Amendment, Mueller???" Public
h/t Instapundit
[Powerline] I wouldn’t have thought my opinion of the New York Times could get any lower, but it just did. NTK Network reports that the Times, as well as the Associated Press, has requested emails sent or received by Ashley Kavanaugh in her capacity as town manager of Chevy Chase, Maryland If our host decides to add a new category - specifically for press, I've a perfect name (developed by Israelis during Intifada I): "well poisoners".
#2
We should not be surprised by this. Liberals have no honor and worship power. They have all the trappings of a drug addict and will do anything to anyone to get the fix they crave
#3
They will go after his kids before this is all over...
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07/27/2018 10:48 Comments ||
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And when Kavanaugh becomes a SCOTUS member, the NYT will argue with a straight face that he should recuse himself from any matter involving NYT because he may be "biased" against them.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/27/2018 11:07 Comments ||
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This is why hell is depicted as a bottomless pit. Things can always get worse. Appears that the Left is intent on moving toward chaos full speed.
h/t Instapundit
Great news: The new face of the Democratic Party has spent some time with a "Nobel Prize economist"! The bad news: It hasn’t improved her math skills. In this clip from her appearance on last night’s Daily Show, Trevor Noah gently asks her to explain how she’s planning on paying for her Medicare for All agenda, plus the rest of her ideas in implementing Democratic Socialism.
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Isn't The Daily Show a comedy show? This was very funny and entertaining, even if unintentionally.
Posted by: Tom ||
07/27/2018 15:19 Comments ||
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“This is an excellent question,” the economics major from Boston University declared, who then demonstrated her complete ignorance on the costs of her own agenda, let alone the federal budget, taxation, and coherence.."
Should she win a seat, she will be in good company.
#4
I've bought a lot of equipment from Adorama over the years. The owners are very customer-oriented and wouldn't put up with their employees pulling this kind of crap.
I can bet that the employee in question might currently be classified as 'former'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
07/27/2018 11:27 Comments ||
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I have rented tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment from Adorama over the last 20 years. this is a surprise considering they're always closed for Jewish Holidays, he should take his business to B and H.
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^ If she were poor, one might suspect her public defender of carrying around a pocketful, like a hospital chaplain with rosaries. Come to think of it, Joe might do that, too.
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None of what Mr. Mueller has homed in on constitutes obstruction, Mr. Trump's lawyers said. They argued that most of the presidential acts under scrutiny, including the 
Prosecutors who lack one slam-dunk piece of evidence in obstruction cases often search for a larger pattern of behavior, legal experts said.
