(THREAD) Here's the plan if Donald Trump fires Robert Mueller:
1/ First, we mount a massive public response to show the President and, crucially, Congress that the American people will not sit idly by while the rule of law is under attack. Join us at trumpisnotabovethelaw.org
3/ We must demand the House immediately begin bipartisan hearings in the Judiciary Committee on abuse of power and obstruction of justice. These hearings could lead to impeachment proceedings- and many will argue at this time that they likely should.
4/ Finally, we must then demand the creation of a Senate Select Committee to investigate all matters involved in the Russia scandals and Trump's obstruction of the investigation. Only such a broad and independent committee would be able to handle matters of obstruction.
5/ All of this will require massive, sustained public outcry and pressure. The initial demonstrations must only be the beginning of a series of protests, sit-ins and other peaceful displays of public outrage.
1/ Tonight, Donald announced his SCOTUS pick, Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh argues a president shouldn’t be burdened by lawsuits, investigations & indictments, a position of obvious importance to Donald's White House as special counsel Robert Mueller continues his investigation.
2/ How did we end up here, with a President, a Congress and now a Supreme Court that do not reflect the will of the people? With a Judiciary that may be unwilling to hold an illegitimate President accountable?
One word: corruption.
3/ This is a crisis years in the making. Big money in politics. The degradation of voting rights. The proliferation of right wing propaganda. Attacks on the rule of law and the norms of our democratic system.
1/ Today is the two year anniversary of the Trump Tower meeting when Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and her partners after Trump Jr. had been promised that the meeting would yield “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
2/ In the 11 months since the public learned about that Trump Tower meeting, dozens and dozens of Trump campaign links to Russia have emerged- the Moscow Project has compiled all of these contacts and 80+ contacts the public knows about. More will emerge. themoscowproject.org/explainers/tru…
3/ Many the former campaign officials, including AG Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump, Jr., &Paul Manafort, have knowingly given false or misleading statements about the extent of the campaign’s contacts with Russian-linked operatives before Congress, the FBI, and the American public.