Sarah Sanders says House Judiciary Chairman should be embarrassed
Meanwhile the House Judiciary committee is working on holding Barr in contempt while Trump is countering with a declaration of “executive privilege”…over an investigation of his own scummy maneuverings. To put it another way we’re busy displaying to the world what a disastrously flawed system we have, in which The One Top Guy (yes always guy, it has to be guy) gets to do whatever he feels like doing and wrap himself in a fiction called Executive Privilege to nullify any attempts to stop him.
Moments after the White House announced President Trump would assert executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders slammed House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, whom she said is seeking to “break the law” with his requests for the unredacted report.
“They’re asking for information they know they can’t have. The attorney general is actually upholding the law,” Sanders said, adding, “Chairman Nadler is asking the attorney general of the United States to break the law and commit a crime by releasing information that he knows he has no legal authority to have. It’s truly outrageous and absurd what the chairman is doing and he should be embarrassed that he’s behaving this way.”
She attacked Nadler’s understanding of the law, saying that she feels she “(understands) it better than he does.”
Thanks to all the time she has put in telling lies for Donald Trump.
Breaking the law by asking for information they are entitled to, but the executive doesn’t want to give them – Sanders translated.
I know I’ve mentioned this here before but the mathematician Kurt Godel, during his interview in about 1947 for US citizenship, decided to explain to his interviewers how the constitution could lead to a dictatorship. It was only through the auspices of his friend and sponsor Einstein that he passed the exam.
Now I’m not saying that Godel, monumentally brilliant though he was, wasn’t also barking mad. Of course he was, he died because he was convinced that everyone in the world other than his wife was out to poison him so he starved to death when she was hospitalised. And by the sounds of it, I wouldn’t much have blamed her if she’d been the one to try to poison him.
But we should have listened to him as much about the constitution as about incompleteness. He wasn’t wrong.
At this point why does anyone give a shit about what Sanders says other than to get better clarification of out and out bullshit which really no one needs? She is one of those folks truly worth ignoring.
Oh, I still like to keep track of how far they will go.
But really the point of the post was the first paragraph. The how they spun it part is an appendix.
Sarah Sanders has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications/political science. She’s been a minor political functionary for less than a decade. Jerry Nadler has a law degree from Fordham and has been in congress since 1992. I think he knows quite a bit more about the law.
But, James, Sanders ‘feels she “(understands) it better than he does’, and if there’s one thing we’ve
had rammed down our throatslearnt of late, it’s that personal feelings trump reality.