Re: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns from Trump White House
actually that isn't abuse of power. he is allowed to do that.
okay. How about firing Jeff Session based on the Mueller investigation? The president does not have the power over the Dept. of Justice. There are 3 separate and distinct branches of government and the president of the United States cannot fire the Attorney General of the United States because he recused himself, as he should have. from the Mueller probe.
How about in September, Trump and his Republican allies in Congress were running a systematic campaign of harassment and disruption directed at legitimate law enforcement activity being conducted on behalf of the American people, with the active goal of protecting Trump and his cronies from accountability and denying the public the full truth about a hostile foreign power’s effort to corrupt our democracy?
That abuse of power, like the others that preceded it, was being justified with the laughably disingenuous falsehood that the goal is “transparency.” Trump ordered the Justice Department to release numerous classified documents related to the Russia investigation, claiming this was in the interests of “transparency.” One of Trump’s most dutiful servants Matt Gaetz, insisted that the release will “reveal to the American people some of the systemic corruption and bias” at “the highest levels of the DOJ and FBI.” In reality, this was an effort at obfuscation, concealment, deception, and the weaponizing of the oversight process for “partisan political ends.”
His removal of former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance was a clear demonstration of retaliation against a private citizen, John Brennan, because he was President Obama's appointee. That same evening, 12 of the nation’s most senior retired intelligence officials from both parties signed an open letter condemning Trump’s decision to revoke Brennan’s clearance. And more former intel officials have signed on or written additional letters since. Trump had considered revoking the security clearances of other retired officials, all of whom have been openly critical of his administration. Whether such actions fall within the purview of his Article II powers as commander in chief or constitute a violation of the First Amendment is an important legal question and one the courts may take eventually take up. He governs the U.S. as a dictator in a banana republic would, and he's not a dictator, he's an elected government official elected by the citizens of the U.S. and subject to following the law like anyone else is.
Trump overlooked the graft and corruption of both Tom Price and Scott Pruitt for months. It was almost a 'look the other way' thing with Trump. He knew damned well they were bilking the American taxpayers for everything they could get out of it and did nothing to end it.
