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I will demolish you:
President Trump warned Democrats that he would fight any impeachment attempts in the Supreme Court. http://bit.ly/2GAKKor
He tweeted: “The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG. If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U. S. Supreme Court.”
Read his full tweets: http://bit.ly/2GAKKor
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Doing the cha-cha slide around the subject:
Via The New York Times’s Eric Schmitt, David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman, former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was told not to discuss possible Russian interference in the 2020 election around President Trump.
What this means for 2020: https://nyti.ms/2VkTWa9
They’re called ‘presidential perks,’ look them up:
President Trump is considering using executive privilege to prevent former White House counsel Don McGahn from testifying in the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.
How we know: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters: “Executive privilege is on the table. That’s his right.
