Dahlia Lithwick, Slate; Trump Knows His Only Legal Hope Is to Win in the Court of Public Opinion
"Watch for the pattern: The president is both too big and too small to be
held to legal account. He is too busy and too important. But also, he
doesn’t understand, and he cannot recall. The crimes weren’t “big.” The
president—in this conception—exists on some astral plane that courts,
and facts, cannot touch. It’s as if we’ve arrived at a point in the
Mueller probe where all of federal law must be reduced to something a
small child could color over a long car ride for Trump to be expected to
understand it. This is a PR play that works only as long as we all
accede to the central principle that this one man is above—or below—the
law. That isn’t something the courts, or Bob Mueller, or Rudy Giuliani
can adjudicate. It’s the thing we’ll at some point have to determine for
ourselves."
Showing posts with label no one is above the law. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018
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