The Mueller Report Was My Tipping Point

[tacobell fan]

I was a Trump transition staffer, and I’ve seen enough. It’s time for impeachment.

Let’s start at the end of this story. This weekend, I read Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report twice, and realized that enough was enough—I needed to do something. I’ve worked on every Republican presidential transition team for the past 10 years and recently served as counsel to the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee. My permanent job is as a law professor at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, which is not political, but where my colleagues have held many prime spots in Republican administrations.

If you think calling for the impeachment of a sitting Republican president would constitute career suicide for someone like me, you may end up being right. But I did exactly that this weekend, tweeting that it’s time to begin impeachment proceedings.

Let’s go back to the beginning. In August 2016, I interviewed to join the pre-transition team of Donald Trump. Since 2012, every presidential election stands up a pre-transition team for both candidates, so that the real transition will have had a six-month head start when the election is decided. I participated in a similar effort for Mitt Romney, and despite our defeat, it was a thrilling and rewarding experience. I walked into a conference room at Jones Day that Don McGahn had graciously arranged to lend to the folks interviewing for the transition team.

The question I feared inevitably opened the interview: “How do you feel about Donald Trump?” I could not honestly say I admired him. While working on Senator Marco Rubio’s primary campaign, I had watched Trump throw schoolyard nicknames at him. I gave the only honest answer I could: “I admire the advisers he’s chosen, like Larry Kudlow and David Malpass, and I admire his choice of VP.” That did the trick. I got the impression they’d heard that one before. I was one of the first 16 members of Trump’s transition team, as deputy director of economic policy.

In time, my work for the transition became awkward. I disagreed with Trump’s rhetoric on immigration and trade. I also had strong concerns about his policies in my area of financial regulation. The hostility to Russian sanctions from the policy team, particularly from those members picked by Paul Manafort, was even more unsettling.

I wasn’t very good at hiding my distaste. We parted ways in October amicably; I wasn’t the right fit. I wished many of my friends who worked on the transition well, and I respected their decision to stay on after Trump won. A few of them even arranged offers for policy jobs in the White House, which I nearly accepted but ultimately turned down, as I knew I’d be no better fit there than I had been on the transition.

I never considered joining the Never Trump Republican efforts. Their criticisms of President Trump’s lack of character and unfitness for office were spot-on, of course, but they didn’t seem very pragmatic. There was no avoiding the fact that he’d won, and like many others, I felt the focus should be on guiding his policy decisions in a constructive direction. The man whom I most admire in that regard is McGahn, Trump’s first White House counsel, who guided the president toward some amazing nominees for regulatory agencies and the judiciary.

Full Story: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/gop-staffer-advocates-trumps-impeachment/587785/

[tacobell fan]

Evadi version vadu cheptunnadu. POTUS chair ante antha easy kadu kada mari

[LastManStanding]

1 minute ago, tacobell fan said:

I’ve worked on every Republican presidential transition team for the past 10 years

[ekunadam_enkanna]

J. W. VERRET  can get a fat big lawschool job now. Right now he is an asscoiate professor at a second tier law school. He can move to Stanford, Yale and Harvard, after calling for impeachment.

[LastManStanding]

4 minutes ago, ekunadam_enkanna said:

J. W. VERRET  can get a fat big lawschool job now. Right now he is an asscoiate professor at a second tier law school. He can move to Stanford, Yale and Harvard, after calling for impeachment.

+1 Nice analysis bro

[ekunadam_enkanna]

There are thousands of people in DC, who are married to each other, cross produced with each other. It is Washington consensus: media pesonalities, lobbyists, staffers for major politicians, law professors, beauocrats, etc--all these people are married to each other. Oka saari wiki leaks gaadu oka graaph laantidi taiyyar seyyalani cheppadu ee connections meeda. Alaanti graph undinatlaidi, veela gola baaga ardhamaiddi. chaala mandi plum posts kosam try chesaaru trump admin lo. Chaala mandi ki alaanti jobs raaledu. ee sanja k0dkul anni dramas, ippudu. 

[tacobell fan]

3 minutes ago, ekunadam_enkanna said:

There are thousands of people in DC, who are married to each other, cross produced with each other. It is Washington consensus: media pesonalities, lobbyists, staffers for major politicians, law professors, beauocrats, etc--all these people are married to each other. Oka saari wiki leaks gaadu oka graaph laantidi taiyyar seyyalani cheppadu ee connections meeda. Alaanti graph undinatlaidi, veela gola baaga ardhamaiddi. chaala mandi plum posts kosam try chesaaru trump admin lo. Chaala mandi ki alaanti jobs raaledu. ee sanja k0dkul anni dramas, ippudu. 

politicks lo adi sarva sadaranam. TG lo mari opposition antha car eking reason kuda same. AP lo PVP gadu YSR lo join ayyindhi because he didn't get post in TDP but the point Is when all forces join together you will see impact. As long as there is no union you are fine. Heart burns are part and parcel of this system.

[LastManStanding]

5 minutes ago, ekunadam_enkanna said:

There are thousands of people in DC, who are married to each other, cross produced with each other. It is Washington consensus: media pesonalities, lobbyists, staffers for major politicians, law professors, beauocrats, etc--all these people are married to each other. Oka saari wiki leaks gaadu oka graaph laantidi taiyyar seyyalani cheppadu ee connections meeda. Alaanti graph undinatlaidi, veela gola baaga ardhamaiddi. chaala mandi plum posts kosam try chesaaru trump admin lo. Chaala mandi ki alaanti jobs raaledu. ee sanja k0dkul anni dramas, ippudu. 

Smart analysis bro..exactly...96% dem unna place adhi..true bro..entha mandi ala joij ayyi untaro..Clintons akkada oka mini empire ne establish chesaru last 25 + years lo..

[ekunadam_enkanna]

3 minutes ago, tacobell fan said:

politicks lo adi sarva sadaranam. TG lo mari opposition antha car eking reason kuda same. AP lo PVP gadu YSR lo join ayyindhi because he didn't get post in TDP but the point Is when all forces join together you will see impact. As long as there is no union you are fine. Heart burns are part and parcel of this system.

That's why Trump started a war on the media: an average American, even an average person in any country in the world knows that every news piece is laden with their own biases (or in terms of Trump, fake news).  This DC cabal can unite and do whatever they want, but the cabal has no more control over what people perceive, the way they used to have control. 

Even before Trump, in 1950's there was a huge debate among philosophers of sciences, philosophers of language, and historians of science: whether the distinction between data (facts) and theory is tenable. Before 1950's, people thought there was a distinction between data and theories. After 1950's, the issue was settled: that you can't make a distinction between facts(data) and theories, and that facts are always facts of some or another thoery or that facts are always theory-laden (now look at media personalities, social scientists and lawyers preaching everyone that such a distinction exists). What Trump is showing what was known before: there are NO neutral facts. Yes, one can show that theory X is better than Theory Y; in which case, facts of theory Y are accepted, and facts of theory X are discarded (think of phlogiston facts).

 

[tacobell fan]

7 minutes ago, ekunadam_enkanna said:

That's why Trump started a war on the media: an average American, even an average person in any country in the world knows that every news piece is laden with their own biases (or in terms of Trump, fake news).  This DC cabal can unite and do whatever they want, but the cabal has no more control over what people perceive, the way they used to have control. 

people caring him too much specially immigrants.