According to one legal expert, Trump is leading a criminal conspiracy to commit crimes by violating US immigration laws.
MSNBC’s Katie Phang said on Saturday morning:
Sometimes we don’t know how the sausage is made. In terms of prior presidential pardons, we have not known if the underlying criminal contact had anything to do with the president of the United States. Maybe a conversation with Nixon and some of the people involved in the Watergate scandal. As we know, Nixon did not pardon these people. I don’t think we have anything concrete to suggest this definitively happened. All sources indicate that did happen. If eventually, Donald Trump was to sit there and become complicit in criminal conduct, then he is committing a crime.
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That’s not the first we heard trump thinking he is above the law. He suggests that he knows there is a criminality and telling people go ahead and implement something adverse to the law and you don’t have to suffer the consequences because I’ll pardon that makes him a co-conspirator. This is all kind of scuttlebutt right now.
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Right now, there are only media reports about Trump’s statements. However, these reports are coming from multiple outlets, and the White House can be expected to claim that Trump was joking if push comes to shove, but when has anyone ever heard Trump joke about the border. When the President Of The United States tells an employee of the federal government to break the law, there is no legal exemption for just kidding.
A criminal conspiracy is being reported in virtually real time as it is happening.
If Trump is engaging in a criminal conspiracy on the border, the House will have to intervene to stop him potentially with impeachment as their primary remedy.
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