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highplainsdem

(48,973 posts)
Wed May 29, 2019, 02:08 PM May 2019

Dershowitz, like Giuliani, is whining about Mueller's statement today. The people around Trump who

know anything at all about the law are aware of how much Mueller's statement today hurt Trump.

Dershowitz already has an op-ed bitching about Mueller at The Hill:

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/445983-dershowitz-shame-on-robert-mueller-for-exceeding-his-role


Dershowitz: Shame on Robert Mueller for exceeding his role


Special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement in a Wednesday press conference that “if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that," is even worse than the statement made by then-FBI Director James Comey regarding Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.

-snip-

Comey was universally criticized for going beyond his responsibility to state whether there was sufficient evidence to indict Hillary Clinton. Mueller, however, did even more. He went beyond the conclusion of the Mueller Report and gave a political gift to congressional Democrats who are seeking to institute impeachment proceedings against President Trump.

By implying that President Trump may have committed obstruction of justice, Mueller effectively invited Democrats to institute impeachment proceedings, because obstruction of justice is clearly a “high crime and misdemeanor” which, under the Constitution, authorizes the impeachment and removal of an incumbent president.

Until today, I have defended Robert Mueller against accusations that he is a partisan. I did not believe that he personally favored either the Democrats or the Republicans, or had a point of view on whether President Trump should be impeached. I have now changed my mind. By putting his thumb — indeed, his elbow — on the scale of justice in favor of impeachment based on obstruction of justice, Mueller has revealed his partisan bias. He also has distorted the role of a prosecutor in our justice system.

-snip-




Giuliani attacked Mueller on Fox News -- see this thread, which links to an article with video:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212140596
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Dershowitz, like Giuliani, is whining about Mueller's statement today. The people around Trump who (Original Post) highplainsdem May 2019 OP
Soooo...he didn't actually read the report, either Maeve May 2019 #1
It's funny ScratchCat May 2019 #2
GFY Dershowitz Sugarcoated May 2019 #3
K & R malaise May 2019 #4
K & R malaise May 2019 #5
How can Mueller fit his elbow on the scales of justice abqtommy May 2019 #6
He went beyond the conclusion of the Mueller Report?? qazplm135 May 2019 #7
IKR?? happybird May 2019 #8
if it is a lawyer they get paid to spin scarytomcat May 2019 #9

ScratchCat

(1,988 posts)
2. It's funny
Wed May 29, 2019, 02:26 PM
May 2019

watching the idiots who constantly claimed that President Obama "thinks he is an emperor" do back flips and cartwheels to explain how a 73-year old reality show con man must be seen as above the law.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
6. How can Mueller fit his elbow on the scales of justice
Wed May 29, 2019, 02:33 PM
May 2019

when Smug Thug Barr's big fat bottom is taking up all the room?

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)
7. He went beyond the conclusion of the Mueller Report??
Wed May 29, 2019, 03:45 PM
May 2019

It's his report! He's Mueller!

Dershowitz has officially sundowned.

happybird

(4,606 posts)
8. IKR??
Wed May 29, 2019, 03:54 PM
May 2019

Do you think these fools actually believe the idiotic crap they spew? Or is it just piss poor attempts at spin?

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
9. if it is a lawyer they get paid to spin
Wed May 29, 2019, 04:12 PM
May 2019

to put it in a favorable for their client, they do NOT have to believe it

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