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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGrassley: "If I were POTUS and had a lawyer that said I could pardon myself,I'd hire a new lawyer
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Me.
(35,454 posts)malaise
(269,352 posts)A ReTHUG said something on this subject. That took long.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)like a year ago?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,020 posts)regardless of what any lawyer told him.
Of course, Spanky's lawyers have all been pretty awful.
exboyfil
(17,867 posts)from my Senator.
He will probably "clarify" by the end of the day.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)RockRaven
(15,103 posts)I trust Grassley to be consistent between words and actions about as far as I can throw him.
Still, LOL at him dissing Giuliani, Sekulow et al.
Zoonart
(11,922 posts)Botany
(70,666 posts)"trial balloons" such as this nonsense that Trump can pardon himself.
And project, and change the news cycle, or lessen the damage from other things coming out to expose them all. He's not using LAW , he's using propaganda, big difference here. trump likes that.
Botany
(70,666 posts)ro·de·o clown
noun
(at a rodeo) a person whose job is to distract the bull from a competitor who has been unseated in a bull-riding event, or to provide comic entertainment for an audience between events.
"for the past five years as a rodeo clown Harrison has kept riders out of harm's way"
demmiblue
(36,920 posts)Gothmog
(146,012 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)Their degrees worth as much as stuff you'll get in cereal boxes.
Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)Even if you are indicted for dozens upon dozens of crimes?
What would you say then, Chuck?
Initech
(100,152 posts)niyad
(113,991 posts)you and your fellow pukes created this monster, and now, you cannot control him.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)this has nothing to do with ethics or fair application of the law.
Grassley's farmer constituency is being crushed by Trump's tariffs and the reciprocal tariffs they engender. Chuck is merely covering his political butt!
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)Grassley votes not to convict in Trump's impeachment trial.