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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,921 posts)
Sat May 19, 2018, 08:36 PM May 2018

Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf fires back at Trump: 'I am not obstructing justice'

The mayor of Oakland is firing back at President Donald Trump over his suggestion that the Department of Justice investigate her for obstruction of justice.

"Mr. President, I am not obstructing justice. I am seeking it," wrote Libby Schaaf, the Democratic mayor of the California city since 2015, in an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Friday.

In February, Schaaf issued a public warning for the immigrant communities in her city about impending raids by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the San Francisco Bay Area, a move that earned her heavy criticism from the Trump administration.

"I wanted to make sure that people were prepared, not panicked, and that they understood their legal rights," Schaaf wrote Friday of her decision back in February.

Schaaf said as mayor, it's her "duty to protect my residents — especially when our most vulnerable are unjustly attacked."

"As a leader, it's my duty to call out this administration's anti-immigrant fearmongering for what it is: a racist lie," she wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-fires-back-at-trump-i-am-not-obstructing-justice/ar-AAxw5Bf?li=BBnb7Kz

She's being polite. I would have said something like "Hey asshole go fuck yourself".

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Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf fires back at Trump: 'I am not obstructing justice' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2018 OP
Trump just ensured her political future RandySF May 2018 #1
Yeah, Mayor Libby does an excellent job explaining it.. but, Cha May 2018 #2

Cha

(297,154 posts)
2. Yeah, Mayor Libby does an excellent job explaining it.. but,
Sat May 19, 2018, 08:46 PM
May 2018

your sentiment is what this squawking idiot deserves.

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