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Obama Takes Rare Swipe At Trump By Naming 2 Things A President Shouldn’t Do
Justin Trudeau Apologizes
Former President Barack Obama seemed to take direct aim at President Donald Trump on Wednesday by naming two things the occu- pant of the Oval Office should- n’t do. And Trump does both. A lot.
Obama said at a tech con- ference that when he was pres- ident, he relied on a diversity of opinions before making de- cisions, according to Axios.
“The other thing that is helpful is not watching TV or reading social media,” he was quoted as saying.
“Those are two things I would advise, if you’re our president, not to do,” he added, per The Washington Post. “It creates a lot of noise and clouds your judgment.”
Obama didn’t mention Trump by name, and at least one former Obama insider insisted that this wasn’t a shot at the current POTUS.
While that may be the case,
BARACK OBAMA AND DONALD TRUMP
Obama would certainly be aware of how the comments could be taken in light of the Trump presidency.
Obama made another statement that could also be interpreted as a swipe at his successor.
The “modern-day” occu- pant of the White House has surrounded himself with aides and associates who are now in legal trouble. Former cam- paign manager Paul Man- afort and former personal attorney Michael Cohen are currently serving prison time. Former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos
served a 12-day sentence. For- mer national security adviser Michael Flynn is awaiting sentencing. And longtime aide Roger Stone is charged with lying to Congress in a trial set to begin in November.
Pelosi Wants Law To Clarify That Presidents Can Be Indicted
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it's time to change the law to ensure a sitting pres- ident can be indicted for wrong- doing.
Pelosi told NPR in an inter- view Friday that Congress will have to pass laws "that will have clarity for future presidents."
The California Democrat said she has not changed her mind on pursuing impeach- ment of President Donald Trump.
But her remarks offer new insight into what's to come in the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller's investiga- tion of Trump.
The Mueller report said it did not indict Trump in part because of Justice Department guidelines against prosecuting a president while in office.
Pelosi said that guidance is "something cooked up by the president's lawyers."
She said a president should be indicted if they commit wrongdoing.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who’s in a fight for reelection — wore brownface while dressed as an “Aladdin” character at a 2001 event at the private school where he taught.
A photo of the incident came to light Wednesday evening, and the 47-year-old head of state admitted doing it, and apologized.
“I shouldn’t have done it. I should have known better, but I didn’t,” he told reporters on his campaign jet plane. “And I’m really sorry.”
JUSTIN TRUDEAU
“racist to do,” and added that he darkened his face with makeup once before — when he was in high school and performed the Jamaican folk song “Day-O” in a talent show.
For Wearing Brownface In
2001 After Photo Emerges
Trudeau also said it was
If This Isn’t Impeachable,
The president of the United States reportedly sought the help of a foreign government against an American citizen who might challenge him for his office. This is the single most important revelation in a scoop by The Wall Street Journal, and if it is true, then President Donald Trump should be im- peached and removed from of- fice immediately.
Until now, there was room for reasonable disagreement over impeachment as both a matter of politics and a matter of tactics. The Mueller report revealed despicably unpatriotic behavior by Trump and his minions, but it did not trigger a political judgment with a ma- jority of Americans that it war- ranted impeachment. The Democrats, for their part, re- mained unwilling to risk their new majority in Congress on a move destined to fail in a Re- publican-controlled Senate.
Now, however, we face an entirely new situation. In a call to the new president of Ukraine, Trump reportedly attempted to pressure the leader of a sov- ereign state into conducting an investigation—a witch hunt, one might call it—of a U.S. citizen, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden.
As the Ukrainian Interior Ministry official Anton Gerashchenko told the Daily Beast when asked about the
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president’s apparent requests, “Clearly, Trump is now looking for kompromat to discredit his opponent Biden, to take re- venge for his friend Paul Man- afort, who is serving seven years in prison.”
Clearly.
If this in itself is not im- peachable, then the concept has no meaning. Trump’s grubby commandeering of the presi- dency’s fearsome and nearly uncheckable powers in foreign policy for his own ends is a gross abuse of power and an af- front both to our constitutional order and to the integrity of our elections.
The story may even be worse than we know. If Trump tried to use military aid to Ukraine as leverage, as re- porters are now investigating, then he held Ukrainian and American security hostage to his political vendettas. It means nothing to say that no such deal was reached; the important point is that Trump abused his position in the Oval Office.
Nothing Is
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