Do you not grasp that campaign events ARE the workplace for these people? They’re not guests at a party. They are there in a professional capacity to deliver work product.

Fair, and maybe he’s even more familiar than I thought but I have a hard time imagining him touching noses with Obama, smelling his hair, or kissing the back of his head before giving a speech. And hey, if that is their relationship, cool! But, it would still be inappropriate to behave that way at work, which is where …

Joe Biden shouldn’t be doing anything to anyone in a professional setting that he wouldn’t do to Barack Obama. Period.

Maybe just an “I’ll stop doing that” would suffice here, Joe.

Sounds like that one chooses to be told what he thinks.

“My first reaction in reading it is he probably is telling the truth,” she said. “He probably doesn’t remember the interaction. I would argue that he is so used to behaving in that way that it is no big deal.”

haven’t seen such prejudice against Bennets since Jane Austen smh

Actually, you can obstruct something that “didn’t happen”. You can be proven innocent of the crime due to lack of evidence in the end, but try to cover it up or make it go away because you are afraid you might get caught.

You say that as if being indicted of financial crimes is somehow a deterrent to becoming president. In fact, this makes him look more presidential than he ever has.

Whoa! Mueller himself was not consulted on the statement? Whoa!

Totes agree! And thank you for the lovely references. I will add Seth Abramson to my Twitter feed, and find a place to bookmark Emptywheel.

Everyone who understood how the constitution worked knew that it was pretty likely that Muller was largely going to punt the obstruction of justice question to congress. The Justice Department indicting the sitting President for obstruction for executing a privilege of his office was always a pretty unlikely scenario.

The Barr Summary is brilliant legalese & PR strategy. He’s applying the extraordinarily narrow definition of collusion preferred and promulgated by individual-1 & Giuliani

“You can’t see the forest for the trees” is probably what he’s getting at, if I’m giving him credit.

Link.

Still working for the guy’s impeachment. Still want him out before he becomes a lame duck and burns the entire place down between November ‘20 and January ‘21. I remember so clearly hearing a long-time Mob prosecutor explain that Mob bosses never gave actual instructions to their subordinates when anybody else could…

For the past two years from Trump and the GOP: “IT’S A WITCH HUNT. IT’S A HOAX. 12 ANGRY DEMOCRATS. MUELLER IS A PAWN OF THE DEEP STATE TRYING TO DESTROY TRUMP!!!”