Matt Davies for January 15, 2019

Trump: Make sure you don’t touch the Russian bugs. Vlad and I need to be alone so we can start work on my 2020 campaign.

Criminal Trump has kept his conversations with criminal Putin hidden from the intelligence bureaus of the USA for two years.

Annotation 16 – Article II

THE PRESIDENT AS LAW ENFORCERPowers Derived From This Duty

The Constitution does not say that the President shall execute the laws, but that ‘’he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed,’’ i.e., by others, who are commonly, but not always with strict accuracy, termed his subordinates. What powers are implied from this duty? In this connection, five categories of executive power should be distinguished: first, there is that executive power which the Constitution confers directly upon the President by the opening clause of article II and, in more specific terms, by succeeding clauses of the same article; secondly, there is the sum total of the powers which acts of Congress at any particular time confer upon the President; thirdly, there is the sum total of discretionary powers which acts of Congress at any particular time confer upon heads of departments and other executive (’’administrative’’) agencies of the National Government; fourthly, there is the power which stems from the duty to enforce the criminal statutes of the United States; finally, there are so-called ‘’ministerial duties’’ which admit of no discretion as to the occasion or the manner of their discharge. Three principal questions arise: first, how does the President exercise the powers which the Constitution or the statutes confer upon him; second, in what relation does he stand by virtue of the ‘’take care’’ clause to the powers of other executive or administrative agencies; third, in what relation does he stand to the enforcement of the criminal laws of the United States?

Trump claims executive privilege, Putin of course doe not need it.

Putin is quite happy so far with Trump’s performance, may give him a raise.

I keep imagining how the Right would have reacted if it were Obama who’d had several secret meetings with the Russian kleptocrat, Putin, and who’d instructed his interpreters not to tell ANYONE WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED in the meetings and had then confiscated and destroyed the interpreter’s notes.

I live in New Mexico, but I suspect that I’d be able to hear the screams of outrage and protest from the Congressional Republican Caucus from here, and I wouldn’t even have to have a window open! Yet, when it’s THEIR “boy” doing the scheming and conniving – crickets.

I really have trouble comprehending the monumental amount of HYPOCRISY extant in such an attitude.

Seriously.

Meetings between heads of state are usually kept private from the general public. Trump, though, wants to make sure NO ONE except Putin knows what was said.

Wow! Great job! Delighted!

Just get the transcripts from Putin, even if it does tear down his blackmail plan.

Slight oversight by the artist…trump should be on his knees.

Assuming that’s a Secret Service person, tRump is in possible jeopardy ordering an illegal act from a man who isn’t getting paid.

Mr. ‘you know who’ needs to spend some time alone with the love of his life… sorry Melany!!!

Very good. also, spot-on I’m afraid.

They’re planning on where they’ll go on their honeymoon after they get married. I can see why they’d want to keep it hush-hush before Malaria finds out!