As the Greeley Tribune’s Tyler Silvy reports, Rep. Ken Buck, the former District Attorney for Weld County before being elected to Congress, is tired of all this investigating of our Dear Leader already:
Rep. Ken Buck said Wednesday he’s concerned the special counsel investigation has gone beyond its original scope, saying the law allowing the special prosecutor undermines the integrity of U.S. elections.
The Greeley Tribune reached out to Buck and Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., in the wake of the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, statements from President Donald Trump’s attorney regarding the special counsel investigation and tweets from the president on the same topic…
Buck, a former federal prosecutor, didn’t directly answer whether he ever found things he wasn’t looking for during the course of his investigations. Instead, he said he was never given unlimited resources or unlimited time to investigate someone.
“No federal prosecutor has ever worked on a case like this,” Buck said. “This law is fundamentally flawed. It undermines the integrity of our elections if we’re going to investigate anything a president could have done wrong.” [Pols emphasis]
Rep. Buck seems to forget the expansive prosecutorial discretion enjoyed by the special prosecutor charged by Republicans in Congress to investigate…well, anything they could possibly find or conjure to impugn the integrity of former President Bill Clinton. An investigation that began with real estate deals ended up producing articles of impeachment over oral sex with an intern. The fact remains that crimes committed during the course of an investigation, like perjury and obstruction, are still crimes. By contrast, the investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russians to win the election has been hewing pretty closely to the original stated scope–and, we might add, fruitfully.
But seriously, folks. If you poll 100 people about whether we should “investigate anything a president could have done wrong,” we’re pretty sure the answer is going to be an enthusiastic yes in about 99% of cases. The only exception to that would most likely be sycophant cronies of the president.
Perhaps Rep. Buck just self-ID’ed as one?
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Given that Trump's tax returns are still being audited after all this time due to the purposefully extreme complexity of his businesses, it is no wonder Mueller's investigation is taking extra care to follow each and every thread in this massive spider's web of potential criminal activity.
…and then sometimes you spend $100 million and get a big ol' nothing burger?
(or) maybe it's the best $100 million we've ever spent.
Given that the GOP-controlled Congress wouldn't impeach Trump even if he was caught in bed with a dead girl and a live boy, it will take an indictment to bring Trump and his minions to justice.
The indictment wouldn't do it either. Probably a conviction. Or a judgment affirming the conviction follow appeal.
Can't you hear Moderatus now? What about due process! It's a witch hunt! You are ruining the careers of good men!
Moldy would drop Trump in a second, proclaiming "All hail President Pence" He’s a troll, he believes what his masters tell him to believe.
Clear legal precedent has already established blow jobs as being about the furthest limit to which independent counsel may investigate.
Seems Mueller will be decades before he has time to start closing in on those.
Buckle up, Ken! It’s gonna’ be a dark and stormy ride . . .
(In the meantime, Ken, please tell your Yambolini buddy that Americans want their turkey back.
What Trump and Putin Have in Common
https://nyti.ms/2GMaQVd )
Pols, I didn't know you had a picture of Nutteranus.
Can Mr. Mueller make a deal? He'll leave *resident Trump alone if he leaves us….
But isn't resident spelled with a "z" instead of a "s"?