I explained the whistleblower statute and related provisions of law in early November. Donald Trump and his thugs in Congress are openly violating the whistleblower law and engaging in unlawful witness intimidation. Republicans are still doing it, it is a central feature of their raving and ranting to disrupt the impeachment hearings. The Washington Post … Read more
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been using their time for questioning of witnesses not to discover the facts of what actually occurred regarding Trump’s shakedown of Ukraine, but rather to pursue the “Spygate” conspiracy theory from the fever swamps of the right-wing which claims Democrats conspired with Ukrainian nationals to frame the president’s … Read more
I’ve told you earlier about how Donald Trump, Jr. and his fellow “deplorables” in Congress and the conservative media have turned to an online campaign in quest to unmask the Ukraine whistleblower: Tweets on Wednesday by Donald Trump Jr. capped more than a month of efforts by President Trump’s allies to surface the supposed name … Read more
There have been several good analyses of the Mueller Report Volume II on obstruction of justice. Let’s review some of them. Quinta Jurecic, the Managing Editor of Lawfare, breaks it down in Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map: The Mueller report describes numerous instances in which President Trump may have obstructed … Read more