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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. Jack Goldsmith‏Verified account @jacklgoldsmith Jan 27

      3/ What is remarkable, as many have now noted, is that despite the President's threats over many months to fire Sessions, or Rosenstein, or Mueller, they ignore him, and DOJ and FBI keep plodding along. Trump's threats are amazingly ineffectual.

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    2. Jack Goldsmith‏Verified account @jacklgoldsmith Jan 27

      4/ Indeed, McGahn essentially ignored Trump's order to fire Mueller. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/us/politics/trump-mueller-special-counsel-russia.html …. McGahn told WH officials he was confident "that Mr. Trump would not follow through on the dismissal on his own." Trump seems like all bark and no bite even to his closest aides.

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    3. Jack Goldsmith‏Verified account @jacklgoldsmith Jan 27

      5/ Or perhaps as former Trump aide Barry Bennet said in the WP story today, too many confound Trump's threatening bark for his bite. "Trust me, everybody on the campaign was 'fired' more than once, but it never really happened."https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sought-release-of-classified-russia-memo-putting-him-at-odds-with-justice-department/2018/01/27/a00f2a4c-02bb-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.37efc5ab2bef …

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    4. Jack Goldsmith‏Verified account @jacklgoldsmith Jan 27

      6/ I've noted before the remarkable degree to which Trump's senior officials "act as if Trump were not the chief executive. Never has a president been so regularly ignored or contradicted by his own officials."https://www.lawfareblog.com/our-non-unitary-executive …

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    5. Jack Goldsmith‏Verified account @jacklgoldsmith Jan 27

      7/ Hard to know what's more notable: (a) The president threatening DOJ/FBI over and over in gross violation of independence norms; or (b) DOJ and WH officials ignoring his threats or threatening to resign over them, and Trump backing down.

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    6. Jack Goldsmith‏Verified account @jacklgoldsmith Jan 27

      8/ The growing and dizzying array of threats by Trump, and threats by officials to resign in response to Trump's threats, suggest that this is not a stable situation (how could it be?).

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    7. Jack Goldsmith‏Verified account @jacklgoldsmith Jan 27

      9/ The overt disrespect that top folks in WH and DOJ have for him indicate that if and when he actually follows through again with a bite akin to the Comey firing, they will not be with him.

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    8. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jan 27
      Replying to @jacklgoldsmith

      But I think you've got to account for the House angle. Ryan and Nunes have done some breathtaking things. And they're in a far more protected place than Trump is.

      3 replies 4 retweets 18 likes
    9. Jack Goldsmith‏Verified account @jacklgoldsmith Jan 27
      Replying to @emptywheel

      True, that.

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jan 27
      Replying to @trumpismehtbh @jacklgoldsmith

      Wray and Rosenstein asked Ryan to let them withhold docs that went into Nunes memo--FISA apps, confidential source reports, FBI interview reports. Ryan backed Nunes & basically reneged on any terms of that agreement.

      6:40 PM - 27 Jan 2018
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        1. emily.merodi‏ @emilysumiko Jan 27
          Replying to @emptywheel @jacklgoldsmith

          Can Ryan replace Nunes as intel chair any time he wants?

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