Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said that if she wins the presidency, her Department of Justice would have “no choice” but to prosecute President Donald Trump.
“I believe that they would have no choice and that they should, yes,” she told the NPR Politics Podcast. “There has to be accountability. I mean look, people might, you know, question why I became a prosecutor. Well, I’ll tell you one of the reasons — I believe there should be accountability. Everyone should be held accountable, and the president is not above the law.”
“I do believe that we should believe Bob Mueller when he tells us essentially that the only reason an indictment was not returned is because of a memo in the Department of Justice that suggests you cannot indict a sitting president,” Harris added. “But I’ve seen prosecution of cases on much less evidence.”
Mueller reiterated in his only public remarks in two years that if his team had been “confident” that “the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
Probably a bit premature to be saying that. This one could come back to haunt her. Is this what happens when you are polling at 7%?
Better yet, appoint Kamala as the Attorney General under a Democratic administration and watch the fur fly…
That’s, of course, if she doesn’t win. If she does, she should appoint Hillary as AG.
It seems to me that if anyone but Trump is elected, the DOJ would have no choice but to prosecute him. That’s clearly one of the motivations behind the decision to run for reelection. I know he started campaigning right after the inauguration, but he knows that the moment he the new POTUS puts his hand on the Bible, prosecutors will be filing charges. Nixon could negotiate a pardon with all of the relevant parties, but when you have committed crimes in as many jurisdictions as Spankee has, you can’t negotiate with everyone–especially when the crimes involve your family. His only choice is to stay in office.
Cue Trump tweeting disparaging things about a nasty black woman. Dems have 16 months of goading Trump into insulting and alienating a solid 55% of the electorate.
Please no. Then it really does smell of political pay back.