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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1036695)	11/3/2017 12:01:43 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573921

Trumpov sad he can't be a 3rd world type authoritarian ruler He wants to be like Putin and Erdogan and Duerte and the King of China (but he's really a President too). It would be so beautiful and he'd make all of America's wildest dreams come true. I've been thinking about these comments Trump made. What a fabulous tribute they are to the men and women of the DOJ and the FBI! Benjamin Wittes added, he tribute is, of course, inadvertent: Trump doesn't understand the statement he is making about independent law enforcement. /2/ The President is saying that he would like to interfere in ongoing investigations. He is saying that he would like to order up /4/ investigations of his political opponents. He is announcing that he is a corrupt actor who does not believe in the rule of law. /5/ He is a man who is capable of firing his FBI Director because he will not aid him in these endeavors and to threaten his AG and his DAG /6/ and the special counsel over the inconveniences they pose him. Even as I type this, he is tweeting about how DOJ should be investigating /7/ Clinton. (For example: t.co In these comments, he is announcing frankly how badly he wants to corrupt the DOJ. /8/ Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn't looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems.. And yet, he is "frustrated." Why? It's not because of Jim Comey. He got rid of Jim Comey. It's not because of Sessions or Rosenstein. /9/ Lordy knows they have not shrouded themselves in glory. It's because the norm of independent law enforcement—which he is menacing—is /10/ actually strong enough to constrain him—at least right now. It's strong enough that he can fulminate all he wants about investigating /11/ Clinton and still Mueller does his job, and the FBI does its job, and the men and women of the DOJ do their jobs, and none of their /12/ obs, as our democratic polity has determined them, is to fulfill his undemocratic ambitions to loose investigators on people he /13/ doesn't like and to have the Justice Department protect him. It's a stunning statement of presidential constraint: A president actually /14/ saying that he aspires to corrupt interference with law enforcement and can't pull it off. Let it warm your heart. It sure warms mine. /15/