President-elect Biden wary of Trump-focused investigations, sources say

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25. This isn't just about Trump. It's also about a president's ability to obstruct Congress.

We absolutely need to know if Trump is a Russian asset. That such a person got to the head of our government once is frightening, but it could happen again with someone much smarter and disciplined than Trump. The best way to find out Trump’s connections is to follow the money trail.

It’s also about the almost total obstruction of Congress in their oversight role by refusing to provide witnesses or documents. How is Congress supposed to serve as a check and balance if the president simply refuses to cooperate and the courts don’t make him? Trump set a terrible precedent that any future Republican will simply expand to the point where Congress has no legal powers of checks and balance.

As a first step, Biden needs to declassify as much of the Mueller Report as possible, especially all the parts that Barr kept hidden. Mueller found 10 cases where Trump committed obstruction of justice. Mueller said he could be indicted after he leaves office, and those indictments should happen if he has pardoned himself. The ability of a president to pardon his own criminal actions needs to be tested in the SC. The DOJ rule that a sitting president cannot be indicted also needs to be overturned.

It sets a terrible precedent for Trump to get away with everything he has done to destroy our government and some of the Constitutional powers of the Congress. Republicans were willing accomplices in this destruction, and at the very least the public needs to know that they were complicit in Trump’s crimes.

All that said, there’s also a big risk of making Trump a martyr and causing his rabid supporters to rise up and start their war. But Trump is a real danger and needs to be held accountable for all the damage he has done and is still doing with his refusal to concede. How do we just let that go when we know he will still have a public voice through social media to spin his own history that is totally false.