The fifth is refusing to answer questions. And Lois Lerner plead the fifth more than once. Lets throw her in jail until she talks and spills all the dirt on what went on. We know she must have been hiding something or she wouldn’t have refused to tell what she knew.
If it was such a faux scandal why did Obama’s DOJ pay several conservative groups to settle law suits that were brought against the IRS
It doesn’t matter how easy or innocuous the question is. As a matter of principle the executive is upholding the principle of executive privilege the existence of which has been held by all recent Presidents and upheld by the Supreme Court.
If it doesn’t apply in a certain instance, let the courts sort it out.
That wouldn’t be backfiring…if you are correct that would just be deciding the issue.
Congress is stonewalling the issue and doing nothing.
The doctrine of absolute privedlge for all of the executive branch has not been claimed by any previous Presidents, and has never been upheld by the supreme court.
No, not absolute privilege. But executive privilege has been accepted.
Whether it applies in this instance is for the courts to decide.
tu quoque fallacy
No President has asserted as wide a priviledge as Trump is trying to do - and the last President to come close was Nixon, and he got shot down hard, 9-0.
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No President has been as harassed over imagined smoke to the degree of Trump and therefore had as much justification for a claim of privilege in order to keep the executive going.
Again…the courts, ultimately the Supreme Court, will decide.
I know that’s your whole tactic now - but you can’t possibly expect anyone who’s been alive for the last 30 years to accept that.
Whining and playing the victim isn’t a “justification” for illegal assertations of priviledge.
You are correct. But I wouldn’t hold up much for the Victim-In-Chief.
But keep carrying that water.
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Let’s get back to the topic at hand. What about Hope Hicks and her non-testimony.
Well at least Trump is a true American and puts ketchup on his burger and is not a fancy mustard burger non-American.
She looks somewhat like Ivanka.
She looks classier.
Best transparency ever!
