Республиканцы

[yakov_a_jerkov]

Трамп дал очередное эпическое интервью, в этот раз NYT. rsokolov написал о части интервью, касающейся конфликта интересов Мюллера, а я напишу о части про Сешнса.

TRUMP: Because I have done nothing wrong. A special counsel should never have been appointed in this case.

BAKER: Can we put that on the record?

TRUMP: Because so far, the only — yeah, you can put it down.

SCHMIDT: Was that [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions’s mistake or [Deputy Attorney General Rod J.] Rosenstein’s mistake?

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TRUMP: Look, Sessions gets the job. Right after he gets the job, he recuses himself.

BAKER: Was that a mistake?

TRUMP: Well, Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody else.

HABERMAN: He gave you no heads up at all, in any sense?

TRUMP: Zero. So Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself. I then have — which, frankly, I think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, “Thanks, Jeff, but I can’t, you know, I’m not going to take you.” It’s extremely unfair, and that’s a mild word, to the president. So he recuses himself. I then end up with a second man, who’s a deputy.

HABERMAN: Rosenstein.

TRUMP: Who is he? And Jeff hardly knew. He’s from Baltimore.

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TRUMP: Yeah, what Jeff Sessions did was he recused himself right after, right after he became attorney general. And I said, “Why didn’t you tell me this before?” I would have — then I said, “Who’s your deputy?” So his deputy he hardly knew, and that’s Rosenstein, Rod Rosenstein, who is from Baltimore. There are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any. So, he’s from Baltimore. Now, he, we went through a lot of things. We were interviewing replacements at the F.B.I. Did you know Mueller was one of the people that was being interviewed?

Оставляя даже в стороне всю бредовость "он мне должен был сказать до назначения, что возьмет отвод", главное тут в том, что Трамп явно считает, что Attorney General работает на него, на Трампа. И республиканские сенаторы это прекрасно понимают. Как понимают и то, что это, мягко говоря, disturbing.

И тем не менее:

A group of Republican senators criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday, a day after the President rebuked top law enforcement officials in an interview with The New York Times.

"The attorney general is America's top law enforcement official," one GOP senator said. "It's unclear if he understands that, and that's pretty disturbing."

The senator was referring to Trump's comment in the Times' interview that he would not have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Sessions would go on to recuse himself from investigations related to the 2016 campaign. The senator said Trump seemed to be thinking of the law enforcement heads as his personal employees.

"One gets the impression that the President doesn't understand or he willfully disregards the fact that the attorney general and law enforcement in general -- they are not his personal lawyers to defend and protect him," one GOP senator told CNN. "He has (his) own personal lawyers, and of course, the White House has the White House counsel's office."

That Republican senator and two others spoke on background with CNN to avoid prompting a fight with the President. Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins was the only one of the four to speak on the record in response to Trump's comments about Sessions, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and former FBI Director James Comey as well as his venting about the special counsel investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election. [...]

The third Republican said he was stunned by Trump's remark on Mueller, although he said "at this point" perhaps it shouldn't surprise him.

Comments

[angerona.livejournal.com]

Nope. То, что на эту позицию назначает президент, не значит, что "клиент" у attorney general -- сам президент.

В компаниях, например, президент может нанимать general counsel даже единолично (и увольнять, соответственно), но при этом клиент такого адвоката -- не президент, а компания. http://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/1346188.html?thread=44377740&style=mine#t44377740

В случае с government attorneys, их "клиент" -- government, а не отдельные executives. Плюс у них дополнительная duty to the public interest.

[rsokolov.livejournal.com]

>>не значит, что "клиент" у attorney general -- сам президент.

Ну, да, не значит. Это как раз то, что я имел в виду, когда дописал "если не понимать слишком буквально".

[angerona.livejournal.com]

забавно: когда я писала свой коммент, то вашей последней приписки еще, кажется, не было.

[rsokolov.livejournal.com]

Attorney general - как морская свинка: не attorney, и не general.

[tijd.livejournal.com]

Все государственные служащие дают присягу Конституции США.

I, ..., do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...

Интересно, когда они произносят слова про "domestic enemies" Конституции, как они себе их представляют?

[svensk-vanja.livejournal.com]

"Кто есть враг внутренний? Так то бунтовщики, студенты, конокрады, жиды и поляки!" студенты, либералы и мексиканцы

[tijd.livejournal.com]

Как говорил известный защитник Конституции Ричард Никсон, весь вред - от профессоров.

"Never forget," Nixon told his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, in a taped Oval Office conversation revealed Tuesday. "The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy.
"Professors are the enemy," he repeated. "Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/world/americas/03iht-nixon.1.18356903.html