As the day approaches for Robert Mueller to testify before Congress on the nature of the allegations made against President Trump in The Mueller Report, critics of Trump’s racist tweet storm continue to fan the flames by asserting the President’s tweets falsely characterize as non-citizens four congresswomen – Reps, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Oman (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) (named by Ocasio-Cortez as the “Squad“).
Much of what the four congresswomen have remarked about President Trump’s alleged “border crisis” and his attempts at diverting federal spending toward border protections rather than assisting with the basic needs of migrant asylum-seekers, has been cause for the President’s tweet attacks. The controversy surrounding the implied racism behind President Trump’s tweets suggesting the congresswomen “…go back [to].. the crime infested places from which they came…” and what Trump hoped to spin into a campaign rally point, has further brought to the fore the battle for impeachment amidst continuing congressional investigations into evidence of obstruction of justice and collusion with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential elections.
In recent developments, President Trump, along with Congressional Republicans and Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appears to be making concessions to middle Americans by increasing spending by $1.3 trillion for “defense and domestic” programs for “health and financial security” with the passage of a new two-year Budget Deal. However, is President Trump doing too little too late in the game to assuage nagging obstruction allegations and bipartisan criticism as 2020 presidential election campaigns pick up steam?
Perhaps, the determining factor in the 2020 election race will be Robert Mueller’s testimony to reassert his case for obstruction and collusion allegations against President Trump tomorrow before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees and the American people. The anticipation has drawn anxious ire from President Trump as well as from heads of the Department of Justice, who insist on withdrawing any attempt at charging a sitting president for what Rep (D-NY) and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler ,terms, “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The DOJ incidentally insists that Special Counsel Mueller remain within the limited scope of the redacted version of his report of the investigation when responding to questions by both the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.
One lingering fact remains about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony that may still leave unanswered questions if not pursued further by the investigating Congressional Committees – the redacted facts of the Mueller Report that will be left out of the Congressional hearings. The Trump administration has seen to it that the Special Counsel only answer questions that don’t violate executive privilege. Of course, executive privilege would pertain to the redacted facts of the Mueller Report – facts that could further incriminate President Trump and add to the case for impeachment.
Among the lingering facts lies relevant questions: should a sitting President, who is a candidate for reelection, be allowed to use executive privilege to cover up crimes involving obstruction of justice and election tampering by a foreign power for personal gain? Will the sitting President use the 2020 presidential election as the target for future crimes? Will the American people stand up and defend the integrity of the American government and the American presidency?
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