Slate. "The Law Is Irrelevant to Donald Trump"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/07/a_breakdown_of_the_latest_new_york_times_trump_interview.html

This has never been clearer than in his latest New York Times interview.

By William Saletan

On Wednesday, in an interview with the New York Times, President Trump attacked everyone involved in the Russia investigation: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, former FBI Director James Comey, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller. It’s one of those tirades that tell you more about the man flinging the insults than about the people he’s insulting.


Trump makes several claims that invite investigative scrutiny: for example, that he never “made money from Russia” or did “a deal in Russia” and that he didn’t “shoo other people out of the room” before talking to Comey in the Oval Office on Feb. 14. But what comes across most is that Trump doesn’t seem to consider, understand, or care about anything that was written or said by others before he sat down to be interviewed. To Trump, the truth is just what he says in that moment, and the law is irrelevant. Here’s a breakdown:

1. The Sessions recusal. Trump begins by complaining that Sessions should have told him, prior to being appointed, that he would “recuse himself.” Trump doesn’t specify what the recusal entails, but he says that if Sessions had warned him, Trump would have picked somebody else for the job. At one point, Trump refers to a confirmation hearing at which Sessions falsely denied he had met with any Russians. Trump implies that this is why Sessions recused himself.

It’s one of those tirades that tell you more about the man flinging the insults than about the people he’s insulting.
These statements completely trample Sessions’ account of the recusal, which presumably can be backed up by the Justice Department lawyers who worked on it with Sessions. In sworn testimony before the Senate on June 13, Sessions denied that he recused himself because of what he said at his hearing. He testified that he recused himself from matters related to the 2016 campaign simply because he was an adviser to Trump in that campaign. Sessions also denied that the recusal bars him from doing most of his job—including his decision, on May 9, to give Trump a letter of recommendation to fire Comey, who was investigating whether the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia.

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(Have I said how much I absolutely loathe and despise this monstrous asshole?)

[Tanuki]

1. I refused to watch the Inauguration, but I'm pretty sure he

took an oath to uphold the Constitution. And perjury is an impeachable offense.....

[uponit7771]

2. He's not a rich brown skinned dumb ass'd sociopath so the M$M gives him the benefit of the doubt