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[ExodusNirvana]

Highkey @4d 6f 6e 65 79 is EASILY already Higher Learning poster of the year.

Don't wait till he's dead to say he the best.

Yeah nah Nap gotta get the chip this year

Holy shyt...how will that even work? Hall of Shame and Hall of Fame???

 

[Remote]

So Pence used his personal email as governor.

 

[General Mills]

Yeah nah Nap gotta get the chip this year

Holy shyt...how will that even work? Hall of Shame and Hall of Fame???

It is confusing as hell. He is annoying as fukk!


But at critical moments he delivers.

 

[DlAMONDZ]

Dude going to mar a lago again

Literally using tax payer money to line up his own pockets

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Yeah nah Nap gotta get the chip this year

Holy shyt...how will that even work? Hall of Shame and Hall of Fame???

TFW you love Drake, but hate Trump

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

It is confusing as hell. He is annoying as fukk!


But at critical moments he delivers.

His fonts and gif can be irritating, but yeah he brings a ton of information and if all this is entirely proven right and he's vindicated, I don't know what to do. He's got a WOAT badge from the locker room and from here. Obviously poster of the year cancels out his WOAT here. Does the tag get removed entirely?

 

[Dat Migo]

Nap = Comeback player of the year

 

[DrDealgood]

So Pence used his personal email as governor.

A metric fukking shyt ton of government officials are doing this and have done it for years. They only managed through fukkery with the press and hypocrisy to make it seem like Hilldawg was the worst person who ever lived. Biggest media fail of the modern era.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

His fonts and gif can be irritating, but yeah he brings a ton of information and if all this is entirely proven right and he's vindicated, I don't know what to do. He's got a WOAT badge from the locker room and from here. Obviously poster of the year cancels out his WOAT here. Does the tag get removed entirely?

let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

It's only March

 

[Anyanwu]

Congress would never approve but what if Barry came back as the special prosecutor?

In all seriousness, who realistically ends up getting this appointment? Who would we be happy with?

Sally Yates

It doesn't need to be her but I think a woman leading the prosecution would really get to Trump.

 

[88m3]

"coincidences" like that are enough to get normal folks indicted and thrown under the prison

 

[duncanthetall]

His fonts and gif can be irritating, but yeah he brings a ton of information and if all this is entirely proven right and he's vindicated, I don't know what to do. He's got a WOAT badge from the locker room and from here. Obviously poster of the year cancels out his WOAT here. Does the tag get removed entirely?

Considering a good amount of us have that dipshyt on ignore, he wins nothing.

 

[Worthless Loser]

Now an Obama appointee can name a special prosecutor to investigate Trump and Russia

Now that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from any investigations regarding the 2016 presidential campaigns, the man who gets to decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate President Donald Trump's pre-election dealings with Russia is an appointee of Barack Obama.

When the attorney general is recused from an investigation, oversight of that investigation ordinarily falls to the department's deputy. But currently, there is no deputy attorney general — Sessions is the only Trump nominee who has been confirmed to any position in the Justice Department.

The job of deputy attorney general is currently being done on an acting basis by Dana Boente, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was nominated to that position by Barack Obama.

Boente likely won't be acting deputy for much longer. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings next week on confirming US Attorney Rod Rosenstein to that job. Rosenstein was previously nominated to multiple positions, including the position he holds today, by George W. Bush.

In theory, if Boente were to appoint a special prosecutor, Rosenstein could fire that prosecutor once confirmed. But obviously, the political optics of firing a special prosecutor would be much more challenging than the optics of declining to name one in the first place. (Just ask Richard Nixon.)

So, will Boente do it? Presumably, that depends on whether he thinks a criminal investigation related to the presidential election is warranted, and whether he thinks it's a conflict of interest for the department to investigate the president who oversees the department.

Though he is a Democratic appointee to his current job, Boente is a career employee of the Justice Department. The New York Times describes him as liked by Democrats and Republicans and seen as loyal to the department itself.

Before Boente became acting deputy attorney general, he was acting attorney general, a position he obtained when Trump fired then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates for refusing to defend his travel ban executive order in court.

He is apparently so well known to Sessions' team that he is referred to in Sessions' recusal letter as "Dane Boente."

Despite the misspelling, Sessions' recusal letter delegates to Boente all functions from which he has recused himself. This includes the attorney general's power to appoint a special prosecutorin the event that a criminal investigation is warranted and would present a conflict of interest if pursued by Justice Department litigators.

He would have to call to a special prosecutor before Sessions people get confirmed next week. I don't see this happening though. Based on the article he doesn't seem to have the backbone.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

"coincidences" like that are enough to get normal folks indicted and thrown under the prison

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]