The new edition of the new York times opposition presidential Donald trump is well known. But on Monday, the newspaper devoted its entire editorial page with an extremely long argument that “the President is not above the law”, urging Congress to prepare for a possible trump closure of the investigation of the special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.
“Make no mistake: if Mr. trump is taking such drastic action, it will be striking at the Foundation of American government, trying to create a precedent that the President, alone among American citizens “above the law”,” the editors wrote. “What may seem now like a political SideShow immediately turn into a constitutional crisis, and the story will come.”
The suggestion that trump can fire Mueller, Deputy attorney General rod Rosenstein, the attorney General, or Jeff sessions, or make some other attempts to shutter the investigation of Russia built in recent weeks. As reported, the President is raging over this issue in a personal and, often, in public places, especially after the FBI raided the house and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen last week.
Ex-FBI Director James Comey on the book and the anti-trump media Content further annoyed the President. He lashed out at Komi over the weekend on Twitter and persistently attacked the Ministry of justice and the FBI. “A big part of the feud with Russia caused by fake & corruption investigation in Russia, led by all loyalists Democrat, or people who worked for Obama” trump last week on Twitter. “Mueller is the most conflicted of them all (with the exception Rosenstein, who signed the act and a letter Komi). There is no conspiracy, they go crazy!”
Times editorial on Monday warned that if trump really fire Mueller — who reported that he examined at least two times, the responsibility is on Congress to intervene. “Legislators should prepare now for such a possibility, because if and when that happens, they suddenly find themselves on the edge of the abyss, with the Constitution in their hands,” the editors wrote.
Editorials written Council the newspaper and submit an official institutional position paper. It is unusual for one to be so long and tapered. Editorials are different from editorials, which are opinions of the authors and reflect the views of the individual author.
The editorial Board takes aim at Senator Orrin hatch (R-Utah), former Chairman of the judiciary Committee and current Finance Committee Chairman, who is now serving his seventh term in the Senate. It quotes Luke to discuss the impeachment of President bill Clinton in 1999. “This great nation can tolerate a President who makes mistakes,” he said at the time. “But he can’t be the one who is mistaken, and then breaks the law to cover it.”
The times writes:
Last week, a bipartisan group of four of the judiciary Committee of the Senate Tom Tillis (R-NC), Lindsey Graham (Republican, South Carolina), Chris coons (d-de) and Cory Booker (d-NJ) — a bill On the protection of the Muller intervention is a trump card. The legislation would Muller or other special counsel to be fired only for “good cause” and create some special tips to challenge their firing after the fact.
Tillis, in an interview with politico published on Monday, spoke out against conservative critics of its decision to sponsor such a bill. “The same people who will criticize me for filing this bill will be absolutely angry, if I’m not pounding the table for this bill, if we are dealing with Hillary Clinton,” he argued. “So spare me your righteous indignation”.
Edition Monday again presses Congress to prepare in case trump does decide to act according to Mueller:
Sourse: vox.com
