The Trump administration has once again found a way to bulldoze established norms and get away with significant violations of public trust
Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Just as President Trump emerged without suffering any real consequence from one scandal of foreign influence in Eastern Europe, he has embroiled himself in another — a geopolitical frying pan into the fire.
There is also the possibility of such an act being a campaign finance law violation. But as former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti argued convincingly in Politico Magazine on Sunday, if the allegations against Trump are true, “it is a kind of corrupt conduct that the criminal system is not equipped to handle.”
A former general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Robert S. Litt, explained in Lawfare last week that there was a plausible legal basis for the administration’s stance: What are the legal developments thus far? On August 12, an unidentified member of the U.S. intelligence community submitted a complaint to Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson which flagged troubling interactions between President Trump and a foreign leader, including making some kind of “promise” to that leader.
Who is the whistleblower? Their identity has not been revealed, so we only know that it was someone in the U.S. intelligence community.
Rudy Giuliani’s role and admission Guiliani, the president’s personal lawyer and his most measured advisor, has been tasked with the opposition research into vice-presidential sons. In May, he had plans to travel to Ukraine to press the government into investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
“The problem is, when you’re speaking to foreign leaders, you don’t want foreign leaders to feel that they shouldn’t be speaking openly. And the same thing with an American president. You want them to be able to express themselves without knowing that every single word was going to be going out and going out all over the world.”
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