Breaking: Trump Urged Tillerson to Help Giuliani Client Facing DOJ Charges

[SottoVoce]

@DougBH

Before we add this to the list of impeachments, lets recall, even if basically true, it consisted of Trump asking Tillerson to do something, Tillerson saying no you can’t do that its illegal, and the DOJ was never pressured.
Its kind of the job of an aide to give advice to a President and tell him what he can and what he can’t do.

So the justification is either

1. If you ask someone to do something wrong but they don’t do it, you haven’t done anything wrong just by asking.
2. The president shouldn’t be expected to know right and wrong. His aides can decide for him.

[JayJay]

@DougBH

Before we add this to the list of impeachments, lets recall, even if basically true, it consisted of Trump asking Tillerson to do something, Tillerson saying no you can’t do that its illegal, and the DOJ was never pressured.
Its kind of the job of an aide to give advice to a President and tell him what he can and what he can’t do.

The fact that the advice had to be given in the first place gives you no pause at all, does it?

[DougBH]

@JayJay

The fact that the advice had to be given in the first place gives you no pause at all, does it?

Oh, it does. IF true, he should not have even brought it up, at least not like that. Good to use on the next campaign. Not good to rush off and add the 20th item to the list of imagined impeachable events.
Since it never went anywhere, youre are not going far with this one.

[Jezcoe]

TIL that if the President asks a cabinet member to do something that is completely illegal and they refuse to do the crime then the President did nothing wrong.

Good to know.

[TommyLucchese]

@DougBH

Before we add this to the list of impeachments, lets recall, even if basically true, it consisted of Trump asking Tillerson to do something, Tillerson saying no you can’t do that its illegal, and the DOJ was never pressured.
Its kind of the job of an aide to give advice to a President and tell him what he can and what he can’t do.

You are extremely confused about how the law works.

[hindsight]

@TommyLucchese

@DougBH

Before we add this to the list of impeachments, lets recall, even if basically true, it consisted of Trump asking Tillerson to do something, Tillerson saying no you can’t do that its illegal, and the DOJ was never pressured.
Its kind of the job of an aide to give advice to a President and tell him what he can and what he can’t do.

You are extremely confused about how the law works.

It’s fun to pretend.

[LucyLou]

@Smyrna

Orange man baaa, baaa, baaad…amirite?

You’ve lost your moral compass, haven’t you?

You can no longer see how unethical this behavior is.

You accept behavior from Orange Man that you would never accept from an employee. And he is our employee.