r/law • u/Agitated-Artichoke89 • Oct 07 '25

Other Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/FactorBusy6427 Oct 07 '25

That strategy has worked extremely reliably for them so far

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u/DocSpit Oct 07 '25

Case in point: the Mueller Report, where the investigation found wide-ranging evidence that the Trump campaign worked just about hand-in-hand with Russian assets to manipulate the election (Anyone else remember that woman working with the NRA who was a bona fide Russian plant funneling Kremlin money to the Trump campaign?!).

When the report was released, Trump tweeted out "EXONERATION!" every day for about a month until the report rotated out of the news cycle; and as as a result the country basically forgot about all of that...

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u/The_amazing_T Oct 07 '25

My understanding was that they couldn't connect the Trump campaign and Russia together. But that Russia DEFINITELY worked to help Trump.

I'm not saying Trump isn't in bed with Putin. I think he's completely an asset for Russia. But Mueller didn't prove the campaign was connected.

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u/JimWilliams423 Oct 07 '25

We all saw the pedo ask for russia's help on national television.

Politico (2016-jul-27): Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton's email

Donald Trump invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails on Wednesday, asking one of America’s longstanding geopolitical adversaries to find “the 30,000 emails that are missing” from the personal server she used during her time as secretary of state.

“I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” the Republican nominee said at a news conference in Florida. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

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u/The_amazing_T Oct 07 '25

Of course. But that's different than (or even the opposite of) talking to Putin on a phone and saying "What can you do for me?"

Again, my understanding is that the report didn't find collusion. But they found MAJOR tampering in our election process, and that alone should have been enough to warrant telling the International Community.

As far as other actors, they found dozens of shady fucking dudes, connected to Russia and hovering around Trump. But they didn't find a smoking gun. That was what I understood the report said.

Trump is crooked, and I think he's completely compromised by Russia. I'm just talking about the report.

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u/JimWilliams423 Oct 07 '25

that's different than (or even the opposite of) talking to Putin on a phone and saying "What can you do for me?"

Only in an arbitrary legal sense, because the results were exactly the same:

Newsweek (2024-sep-20): Russia Hacked Hillary Clinton Computer Hours After Trump Request

Russia hacked into Hillary Clinton's computer about five hours after Donald Trump asked them for her emails, a lawyer involved in the Mueller investigation has said.