{"id":28661,"date":"2017-07-21T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28661"},"modified":"2017-07-21T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:02:57","slug":"in-defense-of-republican-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/in-defense-of-republican-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Republican Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As the noose slowly tightens around the neck of Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Rectum Reich, it is apparent that he is on the verge of desperate measures. Sad as it it, it appears that there is nothing so sleazy and devious that Trump&#8217;s minions won&#8217;t pursue it in defense of Republican fascism.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0721TrumpLockUp\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0721TrumpLockUp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0721TrumpLockUp.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of President Trump\u2019s lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert S. Mueller III\u2019s Russia investigation, building a case against what they allege are his conflicts of interest and discussing the president\u2019s authority to grant pardons, according to people familiar with the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. A second person said Trump\u2019s lawyers have been discussing the president\u2019s pardoning powers among themselves\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026With the Russia investigation continuing to widen, Trump\u2019s lawyers are working to corral the probe and question the propriety of the special counsel\u2019s work. They are actively compiling a list of Mueller\u2019s alleged potential conflicts of interest, which they say could serve as a way to stymie his work, according to several of Trump\u2019s legal advisers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trumps-lawyers-seek-to-undercut-muellers-russia-investigation\/2017\/07\/20\/232ebf2c-6d71-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are few people capable of dissecting such issues as these as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow<\/a>.&#160; Here, she talks with Ashley Parker, one of the authors of the Post article.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_bpardons_170720\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I did a little research myself and could not find any actual proof that the Fuhrer could not pardon himself, but there are limitations.&#160; First, he would have to do so at the point of resignation, because he could not pardon himself for future offenses.&#160; So, if he can pardon himself and stay in office, he will commit more crimes virtually immediately.&#160; Second, if he could pardon himself, he can do so for federal crimes only.&#160; Therefore it is imperative that State AGs prepare criminal indictments against him for financial felonies committed within their borders.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">About Mueller, we need to keep an eye on the fate of Jefferson &quot;KKK Beauregard&quot; Sessions.&#160; If Trump cans him, I think it will indicate that he&#8217;s about to go after Mueller.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the noose slowly tightens around the neck of Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Rectum Reich, it is apparent that he is on the verge of desperate measures. Sad as it it, it appears that there is nothing so sleazy and devious that Trump&#8217;s minions won&#8217;t pursue it in defense of Republican fascism. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/in-defense-of-republican-fascism\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}