I have argued for years that squeezing defendants and witnesses by threats and promises to get them to spill the beans is a form of extortion or bribery -- not much different from the extortion and bribery that the government regularly prosecutes. "You tell us what we want to hear and we will ask a judge to go easy on you. If not, you will suffer great losses." It is bad enough that the feds can legally lie to us and get away with it, but can they also legally threaten and bribe witnesses to testify against us and get away with it? Can they do this to the president?
In a word, yes. My arguments have fallen on deaf ears. Squeezing witnesses and defendants is a way of life for federal prosecutors. For the president, it is the tip of a dangerous iceberg.
Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel."
Of course, they pin him for what he did prior to his assignment on Trump's campaign, then he gets to be pardoned in exchange of implicating the president.
I don't have any problem with that, what bothers me is if it's all a waste of time like Starr dud with Clinton.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Mueller's ultimate target is Trump.
"Does any of this relate to President Donald Trump? Here is the back story.
At the same time that Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates were guiding the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016, Russian agents were manipulating American social media sites so as to arouse chaos in general and animosity toward Hillary Clinton in particular. The Department of Justice appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as independent counsel to determine whether any Americans had criminally helped the Russians.
The alleged crimes of Manafort and Gates appear to have nothing to do with Trump, nor have they any facial relationship to the Russians. So why were these two indicted by a grand jury hearing evidence about alleged American assistance to Russian interference with the 2016 presidential campaign?
When prosecutors confront a complex series of potentially criminal events, they often do not know at the outset of their investigation where the evidence will lead them. Sometimes they come upon a person who they believe has knowledge of facts they seek and that person declines to speak with them. Such a refusal to speak to the government is perfectly lawful in America, yet it often triggers a prosecution of the potential witness so that prosecutors may squeeze him -- not literally, of course -- for evidence to which they believe he can lead them.
The ultimate target of Mueller’s investigation is President Trump. It is standard operating procedure when prosecutors have a high-level target to charge those below the target with something just to get them to cooperate. Though the charges against Manafort and Gates need not be related to the Russians or to Trump, they must be real. It's clear they are, as each is facing more than 20 years in prison. Mueller believes that that prospect is enough to dispatch their lawyers to make deals with him.
The danger of such a deal is that Manafort and Gates may offer to tell Mueller what they think he wants to hear -- even if it is not truthful -- so that they can have their prison exposure lessened."
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says most of the alleged activities for which Manafort and Gates have been indicted took place before the 2016 campaign.
"Sanders says the alleged misdeeds have nothing to do with Trump.
But she says it "has everything to do" with Hillary Clinton's campaign and a research firm that produced the dossier of allegations about Trump's ties to the Kremlin.
Sanders was asked about the guilty plea by former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos. She says Papadopoulos was a "volunteer.""
Seriously, today there are supposed to be indicted on the camp of Trump former Campaign manager and yet there is no clear exposure as to what this imbroglio is all about.
Lol...joy, he's not worth it. He's a liar, he claims no one takes any post or opinions seriously that are written here. How the hell does he know that. I've so many fellow bloggers who do. This place is inundated with super intellectual and respectful people. He's the pariah.
Dee Dee, Of course, aren't you glad we all have choices? Skip the political posts and go right up to the fun ones. There's plenty of them. My first time to see you, welcome to the forum world.
Joy, just to confirm, this is going to be one of the biggest political scandal in the history of American politics. It's going to put so many people in jail especially the Clintons. Comey mailed Hillary a note of exonerating her while the FBI was still in the process of gathering evidence.
Joy, just to confirm, this is going to be one of the biggest political scandal in the history if American politics. It's going to put do many people in jail especially the Clintons. Comey mailed Hillary a note of exonerating her while the FBI was still in the process of gathering evidence.
Isn't amazing? No other GOP politician is joining him in his crusade? In fact according to the new article from politico magazine, wrote " he'll be filleted as a sellout, a RINO, a Judas, and a closet liberal."
Was he expecting the whole house to support him? I'd have expected, a cheering crowd supporting him, but so far, there's none. Way to go Flako.
In a, in terms of economic boost, high tech gadgets, travels and civil rights, it's all gone way up our human expectations. It us greatly improved. Imagine driverless cars. But for the same token, we can wipe out the whole if humanity in an instant.
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Trump -Target of Mueller's Investigation
Continued fromthe same news."Is this any way to conduct a prosecution?
I have argued for years that squeezing defendants and witnesses by threats and promises to get them to spill the beans is a form of extortion or bribery -- not much different from the extortion and bribery that the government regularly prosecutes. "You tell us what we want to hear and we will ask a judge to go easy on you. If not, you will suffer great losses." It is bad enough that the feds can legally lie to us and get away with it, but can they also legally threaten and bribe witnesses to testify against us and get away with it? Can they do this to the president?
In a word, yes. My arguments have fallen on deaf ears. Squeezing witnesses and defendants is a way of life for federal prosecutors. For the president, it is the tip of a dangerous iceberg.
Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel."