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| The Trump Indictment Itself Is the Problem |
| 2023-06-15 |
| [American Greatness] The Trump indictment looks like many other federal indictments. Indeed, it is more detailed than most. And it includes salacious and not-completely-surprising anecdotes, which add color and highlight the alleged irresponsibility and carelessness of the former president. On its face, it seems mostly ordinary and legal, although the inclusion of various attorney-client communications is quite unusual. The thing that you cannot discern from the text is all of the missing subtext. THE DOGS THAT DIDN’T BARK There is no mention of the Presidential Records Act, executive privilege, or the fact that the president has the original authority to classify or declassify records. The special counsel cites various executive orders regarding classified documents as binding authority over the president, but these are internal rules for the governance of employees of the executive branch. Logically, they cannot constrain the president. If the president can make and unmake an executive order at his pleasure, it cannot bind him, regardless of whether an order (or its reversal) is published in the Code of Federal Regulations. Like it or not, the president is the source of authority for these rules—by definition. He cannot be confined in a prison to which he has the keys. This is why the media conniption over his supposed breach of secrecy in meetings with foreign leaders was always fake. That’s called foreign policy. Foreign policy is the president’s job. He is elected by the people to do it. He can decide what to share, when to share it, with whom and how it will be shared. In this and much else, Trump was never treated as a normal president, nor given the deference an elected president deserves in the exercise of his powers. And that should tell us something about these bureaucrats who were supposed to be reporting to him. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 There would be a 'major outrage' by Republicans if Donald Trump is indicted a THIRD time over alleged January 6 crimes says Sen. Lindsey Graham |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-06-15 09:06 |