Mueller report thread - Mueller testimony July 24

[GeorgiaModerate]

I so wish that a Dem is elected in 2020, and the new Justice Dept moves forward with indicting donald trump. Actually, an easy decision should be one against Don Jr.

Me too. How long is the statue of limitations? I've read multiple times that Trump can't be indicted any longer because of this if he gets and serves out a second term. Five years?

By the way, it would be funny if he needs to ask the new president to grant a pardon to avoid going into prison.

Here's a fun scenario to think about: Trump loses the 2020 election handily and resigns on Jan. 19, 2021, so Pence becomes President for one day and can pardon him.  Hilarity ensues (whether Pence follows through and pardons him, or he doesn't.)

[GeorgiaModerate]

I so wish that a Dem is elected in 2020, and the new Justice Dept moves forward with indicting donald trump. Actually, an easy decision should be one against Don Jr.

Me too. How long is the statue of limitations? I've read multiple times that Trump can't be indicted any longer because of this if he gets and serves out a second term. Five years?

By the way, it would be funny if he needs to ask the new president to grant a pardon to avoid going into prison.

There is the possibility that the statute would toll, i.e. not start with SoL until after a president leaves office.

The real trouble, however, is that a lame duck president can pardon himself, in the case of federal law. 

The IG investigation is now key to the rest of the story. 

This is at best open to question and litigation.  There is an OLC opinion from the Nixon era that the President cannot pardon himself: https://www.justice.gov/file/20856/download.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I’m glad Trump’s boxing gloves are off today in the interviews. He knows he can now unleash after three years of hoaxes, corruption, conspiracies, and fake allegations.

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1154125179741724672

[GeorgiaModerate]

I'm sorry, but if you are sincerely positing that this hearing was somehow a political victory for Trump, I can only assume one of two things:

1. You are deaf.
2. Your reactions to the hearing were pre-written, and you're merely copy-pasting the spin now.

Seriously.  Mueller literally said that Trump could be charged after he leaves office, which is consistent with the DoJ not pressing charges against incumbent presidents.  Just how is that a victory?

J.J. at least tries to make coherent arguments.  Hair just spouts MAGA talking points.