Retribution is Coming - The White House Fights Back

[MisterVeritis]

Queue Star Wars March Music:

The April 19 letter from White House legal counsel Emmet Flood to Attorney General William Barr, obtained by Reuters on Thursday, was in line with Trump’s confrontational approach to dealing with a Democratic effort to use the Mueller report as a springboard into more investigations.
Flood said Trump’s decision to let advisers cooperate with the Mueller probe does not extend to congressional oversight investigations. Democrats have argued Trump waived the right to assert executive privilege by allowing advisers to cooperate extensively with Mueller.
The White House conclusion was an indication that Trump would, if necessary, declare executive privilege to prevent former lawyer Don McGahn and other advisers from testifying to Congress, which would likely trigger a court battle.
“It is one thing for a president to encourage complete cooperation and transparency in a criminal investigation conducted largely within the Executive Branch. It is something else entirely to allow his advisers to appear before Congress...” the letter said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mueller/white-house-letter-blasts-mueller-report-says-trump-has-right-to-instruct-advisers-not-to-testify-to-congress-idUSKCN1S81Q2

[MisterVeritis]

Here is another view:

The day after the Mueller report's April 18 redacted release (https://theweek.com/speedreads/836035/read-redacted-version-mueller-report-here), White House lawyer Emmet Flood sent some big complaints about what he called its "political statements" to Barr, a letter (https://www.axios.com/white-house-mueller-report-barr-letter-9a2bc81e-78cf-41b1-b611-0328130a93bd.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100) published by several media outlets Thursday reveals. Flood specifically took issue with how the report said evidence "prevent[ed] from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred" because that was "[I]not the SCO's assigned task" and is "never the task of the federal prosecutor," he wrote.
Flood, who was a special counsel himself under former President George W. Bush, wrote in the letter that the Mueller report contained an "extraordinary legal defect" he didn't want to see become a "precedent." Mueller's team was tasked with compiling evidence and then needed to "either ask the grand jury to return an indictment or decline to charge the case." But "the SCO instead produced a prosecutorial curiosity — part 'truth commission' report and part law school exam paper," Flood ruthlessly continued. He then went on for four and a half pages before asking Barr to include his letter in department records with the Mueller report.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/839128/white-house-lawyer-slammed-mueller-reports-political-statements-letter-barr

Retribution is coming.

[MisterVeritis]

And yet another view:


White House lawyer Emmet Flood sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of making political statement in his report on Russia and President Donald Trump.
Flood, who joined the White House legal team in May 2018, worked as an impeachment attorney for President Bill Clinton.
Flood’s five-page letter to Barr claimed that the report on Mueller’s far-reaching probe should not be legitimized or taken as precedent, and argued that Trump has retained his executive privilege rights related to the probe.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/white-house-lawyer-slams-mueller-report-for-making-political-statements.html

Mueller, the Dirty Cop , and his band of 18 Angry Democrats must be punished. They were unethical, and seditious.

I believe Mueller is one of the Terrible Twenty who must be tried, convicted, and executed. The Angry Democrats are part of the Dirty Thirty who must be ruined, bankrupted, tried, convicted and put in prison for life with no parole.

But I have no strong opinion on this matter.

[Sergeant Gleed]

It isn't retribution.

It's called "enforcing the law".

[MisterVeritis]

It isn't retribution.

It's called "enforcing the law".
It is still retribution.


...punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act."employees asked not to be named, saying they feared retribution"
synonyms:
punishment, penalty, nemesis,
fate, doom, one's just deserts,
due reward, just reward, wages;
justice, retributive justice, poetic justice,
judgment, reckoning; revenge, reprisal,
requital, retaliation, payback, vengeance,
an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth), tit for tat,
measure for measure; redress, reparation, restitution, recompense,
repayment, damages, satisfaction, remedy, comeback, atonement, amends;
...

https://www.google.com/search?q=retribution

[Peter1469]

I think Barr will go there. There will be indictments, just not the ones hoped for the last two years.

[DGUtley]

I think Barr will go there. There will be indictments, just not the ones hoped for the last two years.

Will they come on a Friday and be the “Mother of all Indictments” promised?


http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/105516-The-Mother-Of-All-Indictments

[Common]

Mueller over 2800 subpoenas and nada thing on trump, lol

[Peter1469]

Will they come on a Friday and be the “Mother of all Indictments” promised?


http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/105516-The-Mother-Of-All-Indictments
Apparently that thread was not discussing any real offenses.

[MisterVeritis]

In my opinion, the FISA secret court judges and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court are among the Dirty Thirty.