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Obama and Holder Continue Race Baiting for Political Gain

ELDER PATRIOT – Sadly, most people come to the conclusions they’re comfortable with and then fit the facts to support those conclusions. Politicians rely on this fact regularly. So it is with the current and […]

Is the IMF trying to beat China in the creation of a new reserve currency?

Earlier this year, China announced that they will have their new SWIFT system fully functional by either September or October and can then fully float the Yuan currency worldwide. Many are believing that once SWIFT […]

HOW THE HOUSE WAS CORRUPTED BY THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT AND HOW BOEHNER AND HIS BOYS EXACERBATE THE PROBLEM TODAY

ELDER PATRIOT – The great question for freedom loving people in the United States is why is Constitutional governance on life support? The answer lies with groups like the Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP.) There […]

HOW THE FREE PRESS WAS CORRUPTED BY CORPORATE INTERESTS DELIVERING WASHINGTON TO THE BANKING ELITE

ELDER PATRIOT – “Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786. With that simple statement, Jefferson […]

U.S. financial police nab scapegoat trader to protect continued manipulation by HFT systems

In the middle of 2014, the world finally got a look at how brokers and hedge funds manipulate the stock markets through High Frequency Trading (HFT) computers that see every trade before it happens, and […]

Benghazi 2.0: Obama abandoning U.S. citizens stuck in Yemen while at same time selling arms to their bombers

In a week where President Obama was forced to go public over the fact a drone strike campaign killed two hostages back in January that included one American, the Commander In Chief is now doubling […]

J.P. Morgan Chase accelerates war on cash by disallowing customers to keep money in safety deposit boxes

First it was a policy of reporting anyone who deposits or withdrawals more than $10,000 in cash. Then a chief economist from Citigroup calls for the abolishment of cash entirely. And now on April 21, […]

Deutsche Bank gets off with $2.5 billion fine and no jail time for largest criminal fraud in history

On April 22, the Department of Justice announced that Deutsche Bank had agreed to pay $2.5 billion for their role in the Libor fraud scandal. The manipulation of Libor rates is the largest criminal fraud […]

KARMA: Thousands of ISIS TERRORISTS Hit by TERRIFYING FLESH-EATING DISEASE

VIA| As global powers continue to debate the best way to deal with the threat of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, the terrorist group appears to be suffering its own internal problems. Poor hygiene and pollution […]

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“Impeach!” It’s been more than eight years since Democrats uttered that word – long enough for anyone to wonder if it was still in their vocabulary, considering the deafening silence through the dozens of serious scandals during President Obama’s administration – but now that President Trump is the man in the White House, it’s back with a vengeance.
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Democrats everywhere are wildly slinging the “I” word, hoping to nail Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors after the New York Times claimed a memo written by former FBI Director James Comey said the president urged him to end the federal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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Some members of Congress are getting in on the action. They include Reps. Maxine Water, D-Calif., and Al Green, D-Texas. Even a Republican, Rep. Justin Amash, claimed Wednesday there are grounds to impeach President Trump. House Oversign Committee Chair Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, asked for the alleged Comey memo and other documents. Chaffetz tweeted that he is prepared to subpoena the information. And Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., invoked “Watergate.”
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Now the Democratic Party is reportedly poll testing impeachment as a 2018 election issue. More than 1 million people signed a petition calling on Congress to impeach Trump.
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Wasting no time Wednesday, the mainstream media sprang into action, enthusiastically echoing the left’s impeachment calls. MSNBC launched a Watergate ad implying Trump is America’s new Richard Nixon.
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“Watergate. We know its name because there were reporters who never stopped asking questions,” says MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who hinted that Trump is next on the impeachment chopping block. “Now, who knows where the questions will take us. But I know this: I’m not going to stop asking them.”
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Meanwhile, some overzealous members of the left plastered fliers around Washington, D.C., demanding all White House staffers resign Wednesday.
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The posters read: “If you work for this White House you are complicit in hate-mongering, lies, corrupt taking of Americans’ tax money via self-dealing and emoluments, and quite possibly federal crimes and treason. Also, any wars will be on your soul. … Resign now.”
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But constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who voted for President Obama, warned “impeachment” enthusiasts not to get ahead of themselves with President Trump. Why?
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At this time, there’s no evidence Trump actually committed a crime.
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“The criminal code demands more than what Comey reportedly describes in his memo,” Turley wrote in a May 17 opinion piece posted at the Hill. Turley explained:
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For the first time, the Comey memo pushes the litany of controversies surrounding Trump into the scope of the United States criminal code.
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However, if this is food for obstruction of justice, it is still an awfully thin soup. Some commentators seem to be alleging criminal conduct in office or calling for impeachment before Trump completed the words of his inaugural oath of office. Not surprising, within minutes of the New York Times report, the response was a chorus of breathless “gotcha” announcements. But this memo is neither the Pentagon Papers nor the Watergate tapes. Indeed, it raises as many questions for Comey as it does Trump in terms of the alleged underlying conduct.
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A good place to start would be with the federal law, specifically 18 U.S.C. 1503. The criminal code demands more than what Comey reportedly describes in his memo. There are dozens of different variations of obstruction charges ranging from threatening witnesses to influencing jurors. None would fit this case. That leaves the omnibus provision on attempts to interfere with the “due administration of justice.”
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However, that still leaves the need to show that the effort was to influence “corruptly” when Trump could say that he did little but express concern for a longtime associate. The term “corruptly” is actually defined differently under the various obstruction provisions, but it often involves a showing that someone acted “with the intent to secure an unlawful benefit for oneself or another.” Encouraging leniency or advocating for an associate is improper but not necessarily seeking an unlawful benefit for him.
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-Obama’s Iran nuke deal
-Obama knew about Hillary’s private email server
-Obama IRS targets conservatives
-Obama’s DOJ spies on AP reporters
-Obamacare & Obama’s false promises
-Illegal-alien amnesty by executive order
-Benghazi-gate
-Operation Fast & Furious
-5 Taliban leaders for Bergdahl
-Extortion 17
-‘Recess ‘ appointments – when Senate was in session
-Appointment of ‘czars’ without Senate approval
-Suing Arizona for enforcing federal law
-Refusal to defend Defense of Marriage Act
-Illegally conducting war against Libya
-NSA: Spying on Americans
-Muslim Brotherhood ties
-Miriam Carey
-Birth certificate
-Executive orders
-Solyndra and the lost $535 million
-Egypt
-Cap & Trade: When in doubt, bypass Congress
-Refusal to prosecute New Black Panthers
-Obama’s U.S. citizen ‘hit list’