donald trump, i m not sure if he ever met him, did. he doesn t even view it the way the reluctant framers might have. he views it as a good like the way he probably hands out cuff links from the oval. here s some chum for my political patrons. the pardon power in the most benign way is about sympathy, it s about mercy of the the quality of mercy it s about equaling the scales of justice. but he uses it as a quid pro quo. even in the washington post when it says you do what i will say and i will pardon you, that s a malfeasance quid pro quo right there for the whole world to see. and it s not an immunity tote emfor survivor. you can t hand it out and say keep doing all of these things. at some point michael comey even realizes to break the law donald trump wants you to break, you can t do the things he wants you to break it for. and asking anyone who walks into the white house to do his
potentially through 2020. if it turns out to be a good rally line f. it turns out to rouse his base, something maybe going negative on immigration and he can return to comey. harry litman, i want to step back for a minute and look at the sweep of history, of what we need. the first 22 months of the he trump presidency did focus, almost exclusively here at least, on this question of collusion with russia and on the president s effort to obstruct the information that robert mueller was conducting. hutch of that was put in motion by what we learned from jim comey s memos? when the ministry is totaled, how big will it be? i think it s a moving force and consider the criticism coming from the white house what might have happened, and it s very plausible if these memos had not seen the light of day, if comey left them in the bowels
hope this, i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didn t obey that, but that s the way i took it. inspector general report released he did find comey violated fbi policy by sharing his memos with a personal lawyer. the defining our friend matt miller, doj spokesman and frequent critic of comey described this way, quote, the ig basically faulted comey for speeding on his way to say a fire was coming. but the president and his campaign have come out swinging today, attacking comey with the usual smears. in fact trump falsely accused comey of leaking classified information on at least ten occasions. comey, by the way, lied and leaked and also leaked classified information. then you see the lying and you see the leaking and you see comey lie to congress, nothing happens. you see him leaking, nothing happens. and this is leaking classified