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amlove21 said:
No drama we should all get back on target.

Like this! The president doesn’t understand tariffs as a policy vs tariffs as a policy tool!!

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He's not wrong. The Chinese economy is heavily dependent on trade with the US and our partners. If trade tariffs will wean us off the tit of cheap, toxic, chinesium junk we'll be better off in the long run. China's economy is pretty much a bloodsucking leech that has drained capital and innovation from our manufacturing base.
 
R.Caerbannog said:
He's not wrong. The Chinese economy is heavily dependent on trade with the US and our partners. If trade tariffs will wean us off the tit of cheap, toxic, chinesium junk we'll be better off in the long run. China's economy is pretty much a bloodsucking leech that has drained capital and innovation from our manufacturing base.
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I’ll post a reply in the TPII thread to keep this one clean.

I just gotta ask- did you have a REALLY bad high school trip to China? Bad General Tso’s chicken? Who hurt you that was Chinese, man?
 
amlove21 said:
I’ll post a reply in the TPII thread to keep this one clean.

I just gotta ask- did you have a REALLY bad high school trip to China? Bad General Tso’s chicken? Who hurt you that was Chinese, man?
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The Chinese have played us. During the War on Terror they essentially puppet mastered the Pakistanis and the Iranians. China has greatly contributed to the destabilization of Central America and they flooded our streets with synthetic drugs, by supplying material aid to cartels and organized crime groups.

Communist China is an existential threat to freedom and self choice.

Add on: I've got no beef with the downtrodden in China, lots of people in the PRC are treated no better than livestock. I despise the communist party and it's members though, so I've got that going for me.

2nd Add on: Just got the joke. I'e never been to China and I love General Tso's chicken. General Tso's Chicken is Taiwanese not Chinese though... oil skimmed from raw sewage, now that's PRC Chinese!
 
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And, on a different topic, the president (who asked McGahn to commit a crime for him) is now letting the cat out of the bag that he never liked the guy.

4D chess everyone.

The BEST people.
 
amlove21 said:
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And, on a different topic, the president (who asked McGahn to commit a crime for him) is now letting the cat out of the bag that he never liked the guy.

4D chess everyone.

The BEST people.
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He wasn't going to fire him, but the other dude stood a better chance of it. #lolwut
 
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GOTWA said:
He wasn't going to fire him, but the other dude stood a better chance of being it. #lolwut
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I’m sure it’s the liberal news media spinning the story.

To bring everyone up to speed- McGahn refused to say that the president didn’t obstruct justice about a month ago.

The president hired McGahn as his counsel.
 
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R.Caerbannog said:
The Chinese have played us. During the War on Terror they essentially puppet mastered the Pakistanis and the Iranians. China has greatly contributed to the destabilization of Central America and they flooded our streets with synthetic drugs, by supplying material aid to cartels and organized crime groups.

Communist China is an existential threat to freedom and self choice.

Add on: I've got no beef with the downtrodden in China, lots of people in the PRC are treated no better than livestock. I despise the communist party and it's members though, so I've got that going for me.

2nd Add on: Just got the joke. I'e never been to China and I love General Tso's chicken. General Tso's Chicken is Taiwanese not Chinese though... oil skimmed from raw sewage, now that's PRC Chinese!
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😬
 
amlove21 said:
I’m sure it’s the liberal news media spinning the story.

To bring everyone up to speed- McGahn refused to say that the president didn’t obstruct justice about a month ago.

The president hired McGahn as his counsel.
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Mueller’s theory of obstruction is tied to USC 18, section 1512. AG has stated publicly that violations of 18, 1512 must be linked to an underlying crime but with a criminal conspiracy (aka collusion), the DOJ wasn’t able to determine evidence of criminal activity.

The Executive has Constitutional powers to remove ANY subordinate officer (aka fire Special Counsel) for any reason.

From the recent NYT article, citing McGahn’s own attorney:

White House Asked McGahn to Declare Trump Never Obstructed Justice

The White House made one of the requests to Mr. McGahn’s lawyer, William A. Burck, before the Mueller report was released publicly but after the Justice Department gave a copy to Mr. Trump’s lawyers in the preceding days. Reading the report, the president’s lawyers saw that Mr. Mueller left out that Mr. McGahn had told investigators that he believed the president never obstructed justice. Mr. Burck had told them months earlier about his client’s belief on the matter and that he had shared it with investigators.
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Going further, Dershowitz outlines the main issue at hand for DOJ to determine POTUS obstruction:

If any President exercises his Art II powers, could it be obstruction? He cites examples Nixon and Bush Admins.

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Applied specifically to the case of President Trump, Barr has argued that President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey could never — regardless of the motive — constitute the act component of the crime of obstruction of justice, because a president has the constitutional authority to fire anyone in the executive branch.

Muller apparently disagrees with that legal and constitutional conclusion. In his report, he lists the firing of Comey as one among several acts that could form the basis of an obstruction of justice charge. The other acts that he lists also generally fall within the authority of a president.

Whose view of the law is correct? The answer should look to precedent. The two precedents most directly on point in resolving this important legal and constitutional question are the cases of Presidents Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush.
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Alan Dershowitz: Barr is right, Mueller is wrong

Separately, yet linked, go back and read Baker’s testimony. The highest echelon of the FBI actually discussed the possibility that Comey’s firing was directed to Trump by Russia. This was BEFORE Mueller’s appointment in May ‘17.
 
lindy said:
Mueller’s theory of obstruction is tied to USC 18, section 1512. AG has stated publicly that violations of 18, 1512 must be linked to an underlying crime but with a criminal conspiracy (aka collusion), the DOJ wasn’t able to determine evidence of criminal activity.
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This is one of the main reasons I want this whole thing to go to the Supreme Court. The whole "an innocent person can never obstruct an investigation" is really weird to me. So, it's a crime, but only if I did another crime with it?

I agree he had Carte blanche to fire anyone; it's not illegal, but definitely could be seen as an attempt to "obstruct" in a general sense of the word. But bad optics does not equal breaking the law.
 
Cookie_ said:
This is one of the main reasons I want this whole thing to go to the Supreme Court. The whole "an innocent person can never obstruct an investigation" is really weird to me. So, it's a crime, but only if I did another crime with it?

I agree he had Carte blanche to fire anyone; it's not illegal, but definitely could be seen as an attempt to "obstruct" in a general sense of the word. But bad optics does not equal breaking the law.
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100% agree and I assume they would if it were challenged but who would the litigants be? DOJ vs Executive? A subordinate department challenging its superior? That would be interesting.

The crux, IMO, would be does the Executive have ultimate prosecutorial discretion and, if so, what are those limits, if any.

Seems the resolution is via ballot box vice courtroom.
 
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