Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) blasted Trump as absurd and small minded for thinking that his request to obtain the full Mueller report is based on some personal vendetta.
After Trump claimed that Nadler has been fighting with him for decades, the House Judiciary Committee chairman told MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber:
That’s absurd. The president is very small minded. Yes, we had clashes about some developments on the west side of Manhattan, many years ago. But so what. What’s relevant now is that I’m the chairman of the judiciary committee. And we have a job to do, which is to protect the rule of law against that obstruction of justice and abuses of power and personal enrichment and we have to do that job. And the fact is, there was an investigation for 22 months, and now the attorney general if four days, an attorney general who auditioned for his job by writing essentially the investigation was wrong in itself and that a president could never commit obstruction of justice, which is an extreme view and so he’s not the proper person to oversee this or to decide what gets public and we have to see all the material and the underlying, to see the report and the underlying do you means to protect the Republican and the rule of law.
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Remember, however the president may characterize the Mueller report, the Mueller report, according to what Barr said, because we haven’t seen the report found wrong-doing and that we don’t even know, that it’s not public. And found a lot of very serious things. And the special prosecutor said that he couldn’t rule in or out. He couldn’t exonerate the president of obstruction of justice. So Barr took it upon himself to do that. That’s not the job of the attorney general, who is after all a political appointee of the president and the justice department cannot hold the president accountable. Both because of their doctrine that you can never indict a sitting president and because Barr’s memo that said the president could not commit obstruction of justice, so Congress must hold the president accountable.
There is always a paranoid conspiracy to explain why the law is after Donald Trump. It is never that Trump may have done something wrong, but that there is a personal vendetta or some conspiracy where Trump is both the target and the victim.
Donald Trump has never had oversight in his entire life. No one has ever told him no. Trump doesn’t have any tools to cope with an environment where others have equal power.
Rep. Nadler was correct. Trump is absurd and shortsighted because instead of acting like the President Of The United States, he is still living in his Trump Tower fantasy world.
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