White House Presents New
Trump, Inc. Production: “The Wrath of Don”
(Three Who Have Felt The Wrath)
The two worst possible words
in the English language anyone can ever hear: “You're fired...!!!” Donald J. Trump
mastered those two words on his previous TV reality show (The Apprentice) and
now he has carried them into the Oval Office and with reckless abandon.
The Main Story: Former
U.S. attorney *Preet Bharara (bio below) said Sunday on ABC This Week that
he thinks there is evidence to start a case for obstruction of justice against
President Trump.
* Bharara was
the chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of NY. He prosecuted
nearly 100 Wall Street executives for insider trading and other offenses. He
reached historic settlements and fines with the four largest banks in the
United States, and closed multi-billion-dollar hedge funds for activities including
insider trading. During his tenure, federal prosecutors also conducted public
corruption investigations against both Democratic and Republican officials,
most notably securing convictions against the Speaker of the NYS Assembly, Sheldon Silver (D), and the Majority
Leader of the NYS Senate, Dean Skelos (R).
On March 11, 2017, during increased national debate about the
appointment of a special prosecutor to manage an investigation of links between
the Trump 2016 campaign and Russia, Bharara was abruptly fired after he refused
to resign as a result of AG Jeff Sessions' request for all remaining 46 U.Ss
Attorneys appointed during President Obama's administration to be replaced. Bharara
had had the impression that he could stay in office that is until Trump had him
fired (does that sound familiar)?
Bharara specifically said: “I think there's absolutely evidence to begin a case
for obstruction – I think it's very important for all sorts of armchair
speculators in the law, to be clear that no one knows right now whether there
is a provable case of obstruction. It's also true... that there's no basis to
say there's no obstruction. Whether or not that is impeachable or that's
indictable, that's a very serious thing and I'm not sure that people fully get
that the standard is not just whether something is a crime or not. Whether or
not it can be charged as a crime or Congress will impeach, it is a very serious
thing. That's an incredibly serious thing if people think that the president of
the United States can tell heads of law enforcement agencies, based on his own
whim or his own personal preferences or friendships, that they should or should
not pursue particular criminal cases against individuals.”
Bharara also said that during the [Senate
Intelligence committee] interview that there is evidence from someone who is
under oath (e.g., former FBI director James
Comey) that: “On at least one
occasion, the president of the United States, cleared the room of his vice
president and his attorney general and told his director of the FBI that he
should essentially drop the case against his former national security adviser [and…]
there is a lot to be “frightened and outraged” about and then he concluded: “That's
not how America works.”
The ABC clip is here (about 9 minutes):
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Amen to that – now how will the GOP act and react? A key moment in
history isn’t it? Key Q: Who does
the GOP work for and serve – really?
Stay tuned which I am sure you are.
Added to the Trump hit list alongside
Bharara are thus far:
Sally
Yates and James
Comey.
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