Compliance
The White House had always claimed to be compliant with Russian interference investigations. The latest person to sing this tune was a person close to Trump’s legal team.
“There was never a decision to even challenge Mueller on conflicts (of interest), let alone an order to fire him,” the person said.
“Had the President decided to challenge Mueller on conflicts, there were unquestionable mechanisms to raise that issue with the Department of Justice — and even that was not pursued.” The person added.
Todd Presnell, an attorney mentioned the possibility of pleading the Fifth.
He said “this is really the only argument they can make outside of the Fifth. The Fifth Amendment would be a public-relations nightmare.”
But why would Trump plead the Fifth? He had already said and tweeted so many times no collusion. So he would be expected to continue to openly defend himself.
Mark Tushnet of Harvard University said Trump could be impeached for serious misconduct.
He said “my view is that a president can be impeached for serious political misconduct that is, as I put it, in the neighborhood of a serious criminal offense. And a pattern that includes deliberate and unjustifiably false statements to the public can (though it doesn’t have to) count as satisfying that standard.”
The standoff had been ongoing for a long time, the Country waited for the day when the truth will be told, if ever.
