{"id":37976,"date":"2018-05-22T20:03:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T03:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37976"},"modified":"2018-05-22T20:05:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T03:05:02","slug":"gop-dimwits-want-2nd-special-counsel-to-probe-the-dept-of-justice-why-dems-should-go-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37976","title":{"rendered":"GOP Dimwits Want 2nd Special Counsel to Probe the Dept of Justice &#8211; Why Dems Should Go Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For months Donald Trump has been attacking special counsel Robert Mueller as hopelessly biased and bent on driving him from the White House. Never mind that he is a life-long Republican who was appointed by the Republican Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein. And both them work closely with Trump&#8217;s Republican Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, and his Republican FBI Director, Chris Wray.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-gop.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump GOP\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30208\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2152350018113115\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite that one-sided, right-wing assembly of the top law enforcement officials in the country, Trump continues to whine that he&#8217;s a victim of some clandestine, Democratic cabal that&#8217;s aligned against him. Clearly he is suffering from a severe case of paranoia, and the deep-seated fear that his criminality will be exposed. That has led to his frantic tweets accusing the FBI of spying on him (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37937\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they weren&#8217;t<\/a><\/strong>) and demanding that the Department of Justice investigate:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI\/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes &#8211; and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/998256454590193665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That <em>&#8220;demand&#8221;<\/em> is typical of Trump&#8217;s disregard for the independence of the justice system and his compulsion to abuse the power of his office. Not surprisingly, his comrades in the Republican Party are all too willing to go along with this un-American assault on the institutions that protect our nation&#8217;s laws. A collection of wingnut GOP&#8217;ers have banded together to insist that the Department of Justice appoint a second special counsel. This would be be tasked with investigating the investigators currently investigating the President.<\/p>\n<p>Among those making this demand are Freedom Caucus members of the House, Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan who adamantly declare that <em>&#8220;The DOJ cannot investigate itself.&#8221;<\/em> So these GOP truthseekers, who have long opposed the very concept of special counsels, are now calling for one of their own. And they should get one.<\/p>\n<p>Think about what they are proposing. They want someone to probe the inquiries regarding Russian collusion with Donald Trump. Therefore, AG Sessions, who recused himself due to his involvement with the Trump campaign, would have to recuse himself from this matter as well. So Deputy AG Rosenstein would be the person to appoint the new special counsel. But these congressional Republicans are already convinced that Rosenstein is part of the <em>&#8220;Deep State&#8221;<\/em> conspiracy against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, since Rosentstein chose, Mueller, a staunch Republican, to lead the Russia probe, he might be compelled to choose a Democrat for the new counsel post probing Mueller and the FBI. How do you suppose the Freedom Caucus would react to that? Too bad. It&#8217;s not their job. Of course the party affiliation of the new counsel wouldn&#8217;t (and shouldn&#8217;t) guarantee any particular outcome. However, the new counsel would have the authority to probe all matters that involve, or stem from, the operations of the Mueller probe.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that the Republicans demanding a new special counsel are not anticipating, is the possibility that such an investigation would produce even more evidence of wrongdoing by Trump, his family, and his associates. All of that would fall within the scope of the new counsel&#8217;s authority. And even if there weren&#8217;t new legal pitfalls for Trump, the likelihood that they would find any misconduct on the part of Mueller&#8217;s team is minuscule. Which means the new counsel would probably end up validating Mueller&#8217;s conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, any result that proved to be detrimental to Trump would be immediately dismissed by the GOP and attacked for being biased. Even though the whole project was the result of the GOP&#8217;s whining in the first place. They could hardly complain that the investigation that they demanded should then be set aside and forgotten. But, of course, they would do just that. So it might be fun to let them have their way with the request and see what a new counsel would turn up. It couldn&#8217;t be any more ridiculous than everything that&#8217;s happened since Trump announced his candidacy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For months Donald Trump has been attacking special counsel Robert Mueller as hopelessly biased and bent on driving him from the White House. Never mind that he is a life-long Republican who was appointed by the Republican Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein. And both them work closely with Trump&#8217;s Republican Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[554,1202,301,1247,1262],"class_list":["post-37976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-republicans","tag-robert-mueller","tag-rod-rosenstein"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-gop.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9Sw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34687,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34687","url_meta":{"origin":37976,"position":0},"title":"Deputy Attorney General Suddenly Names Special Counsel In Trump-Russia Scandal","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/17\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The drama surrounding Donald Trump's unsavory connections to Russia just a took a significant turn. 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