Donald Trump has suggested he can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. He’s boasted he can grab women’s private parts whenever he pleases.
He’s not entirely wrong.
According to a policy cooked up in the Justice Department — by people whose continued employment depends on keeping a president in office and out of prison — he can’t be indicted.
That immunity, which started with Nixon, is nowhere in the Constitution. It’s not a law or a regulation. It’s the stuff of thin air.
Donald Trump has surrounded himself with another layer of Kevlar by hiring William Barr. Barr auditioned to be his attorney general by writing that his boss is above the law. They’ve conspired to stop investigations of obstruction of justice by accusing the CIA and FBI of plotting to overthrow the government.
More than seven hundred former federal prosecutors have signed a letter saying you and I would be indicted for doing the things Donald Trump has done.
The good news is that the Founders, in their wisdom, gave Congress the power to hold an unaccountable president accountable.
Stephen Starr
A cogent “Making Sense” podcast with Sam Harris and Benjamin Wittes brings home this point… what is an impeachable offense and what is not? The episode “What Does The Mueller Report Really Say?” is a fascinating listen.