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Meet the Man Curbing Trump’s Power Without Anyone Noticing
Mueller Filing Could Be Held Up Pending Indictments Of Don Jr. And Jared Kushner For Lying
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr.
A few hours before Pres- ident Donald Trump went into the Rose Garden last Friday to announce his intent to declare a national emergency so he could build his long-promised border wall, Karl Racine sent a shot across the bow: If Trump was serious about this, he was in for a fight.
“We will not hesitate to use our legal authority to de- fend the rule of law,” the 56- year-old attorney general of Washington, D. C., said in a terse statement.
It’s a posture that has be- come almost routine for Racine, who as co-chair of the national Democratic At- torneys General Association is playing a little-noticed but hugely influential role in fighting the Trump admin- istration at the polls, in the courts and in the news media.
The past few years have been uncommonly high pro- file for the American legal system. The president finds
He’s a pioneering attorney and Haitian immigrant who’s lead- ing the emoluments lawsuit. He engineered some of Dems’ biggest wins in 2018. So why haven’t you heard of Karl Racine?
President
Trump started his Monday by blasting director Spike Lee as "racist" against him in an early morning tweet following Sunday night's Oscar ceremony.
Trump said Lee's ac- ceptance speech amounted to a "racist hit" against the president.
Lee won his first Oscar Sunday night when "BlacK- kKlansman" won best adapted screenplay (an award he shared with Char- lie Wachtel, David Rabi- nowitz and Kevin Willmott.)
In his acceptance speech, Lee referenced his family's
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"Before the world tonight, I give praise to our ancestors who have built this country into what it is today along with the genocide of its na- tive people," Lee said. "We all connect with our ances- tors. We will have love and wisdom regained, we will re- gain our humanity. It will be a powerful moment."
He added that the 2020 presidential election was just "around the corner."
"Let’s all mobilize," he continued. "Let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice be- tween love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing! You know I had to get that in there."
himself in both personal and professional legal jeopardy. Several of his former aides and advisers have been crim- inally indicted. The adminis- tration’s every move is subject to major lawsuits.
But while the public has been mesmerized by Trump’s legal troubles,
Racine has been quietly building out Democrats’ abil- ity to check his administra- tion at the state level. Without much notice, he’s quietly emerged as perhaps the single most important player in restoring Demo- cratic clout in America’s legal system.
Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, former U. S. Attorney Barbara Mc- Quade said there is no telling when special counsel Robert Mueller will be re- leasing his final report on President Donald Trump, but that there are indications his investigators are looking at targets who may have lied to Congress.
Speaking with host Alex Witt, McQuade said — based upon redactions she has seen in filings release so far — perjury may be on the menu for Justice Department investigators reviewing testi- mony.
Specifically testimony from Donald Trump, Jr. and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.
“The fact that all of the doc- uments that continue to come out, continue to have redactions in them suggest that there are still investiga- tions that are not quite wrapped up,” McQuade suggested. “Now it could be
when someone is investi- gated that doesn’t necessarily mean they will be a charge — it means charges are being looked at. If they find evi- dence that the crimes were committed, there could be charges. one area under scrutiny is whether other people have lied to Con- gress.”
“Michael Cohen admit- ted to lying about Trump Tower Moscow and forced to plead guilty to that offense even though it brought no ad- ditional prison time and there were redactions from his sentencing memo where around the topic that talked about providing valuable in- formation in the form of sub- stantial assistance about circulating his testimony re- garding that matter with oth- ers,” she continued. “So I would think that if others lied about that matter, other mat- ters, we might see charges against them. That would in- clude Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner.”
Trump Tweets That Spike Lee
Is 'Racist' Against Him
SPIKE LEE
history in the U. S., which he said could be traced to the first slaves being brought over from Africa.
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