In an interview published in The Washington Post, Donald Trump insists that he and his administration are finished complying with investigations and he has no reason to cooperate with anyone else for any ongoing matter. His reasoning is that he cooperated with Mueller, even though he didn’t, and so he’s done now. That’s not how any of this works, and Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how Trump is going to find himself in even more trouble by refusing to follow the rules. Link –
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
Yesterday, The Washington Post published an interview with Donald Trump where he told them that neither he nor anyone else in his White House or his administration would be complying with any other investigation taking place right now or in the future. Trump says that his reasoning for this is because they fully cooperated with the Mueller report. They let that happen. They did what they were supposed to do and since they've now been exonerated, they literally don't have to comply with anything else. Um, every part of that statement, every part of Donald Trump's reasoning is a lie. You didn't fully cooperate. You didn't go sit down for that interview that you promised you would. Then your lawyer said you wouldn't. Then you said you wouldn't, but then they said you would, but then you never did. You submitted some written answers as for the rest of your administration cooperating. We know now even from the heavily redacted report that they lied so much to the special prosecutor that he couldn't even basically finish the investigation.
He hit a dead end because everyone in your administration lied to him. He had no other leads to go through. So that was the end. So no, nobody in your administration cooperated except maybe Don McGahn. But, and you're now trying to prevent him from going and testifying before the congress. You don't want that to happen because you know the McCanns are gonna go in there and explain how you obstructed justice his move right now saying we're not going to comply with anything. And so far he stuck to it. We just passed another deadline yesterday of a turnover. The tax returns, which they didn't, they're now suing to stop Democrats from being able to get their hands on his other financial records, which they have subpoenaed. Trump is setting himself up right now for a losing legal battle. Congress has the right, even if it is politically motivated, and that's where people have to understand this isn't politically motivated, but even if it were, they would still have the right and the authority to request these interviews, to request these documents, to subpoena people.
It's part of their responsibility. It doesn't matter the motivation for it. They have the authority to do it and Trump does not have the authority to prevent his administration from cooperating. He doesn't have the authority to tell them not to go because that's going to set up a legal fight that is going to challenge the very basic separation of powers that exist in this country. And that's not one that Donald Trump is going to win. His administration has been shot down in the vast majority of the legal cases that they've had to defend themselves in when they've overstepped their power, overstep their, I think his loss rate is 94%. Uh, we talked about it a month or two ago. 94% is their loss rate on court cases. They bring in Trump's now saying, nope, we're not going to comply. We'll go to the courts if we have to.
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