The news remains absurd. Today I heard on Fox News a Democrat official say that Mr. Trump clearly deserves impeachment. Asked for what crime – the Constitution is specific that there must be “high crime” – she said the President shared confidential information with the Russians. Since, so far as I know, that is an act of governance within the powers of the Presidency, and is certainly not prohibited in any statute, it is extraordinary that anyone claiming familiarity – much less expertise – would say such a thing in public, but it is apparently the new standard of journalism.
I haven’t much been following the news, but so far as I can see the President told Mr. Comey he hoped he’d be finished with the Russian investigation soon. This was apparently gleaned from leaks of Mr. Comey’s notes. If there is anyone on this planet, including Mr. Comey, who was unaware that President Trump wished the Russian investigation, started as a distraction from the flood of leaks coming from the State Department, would soon be over, I would be astonished; and even in Mr. Comey’s notes, conveniently leaked, I saw no hint of a direct order or a command. If that is a high crime we have come to a sorry state.
There is much more like this, If we need a special prosecutor, what of the one crime that seems to have come from all this investigating: the unmasking of American citizen names as a result of FISA surveillance? Those names were bandied about the White House during the last year of the previous administration, and were even leaked to the Press; a black letter felony. There is no grand jury investigating this known crime.
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