Gingrich: A president 'cannot obstruct justice'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY SUMNER PARK - 06/16/17 01:15 PM EDT

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), a staunch supporter of President Trump, said Friday that a "president cannot obstruct justice."

Gingrich said that as president, Trump was well within his authority to fire the head of the FBI.

“The president of the United States is the chief executive officer of the United States. If he wants to fire the FBI director, all he has to do is fire him,” said Gingrich in comments at the National Press Club, where he was promoting a new book.

His comments sparked pushback on Twitter, with many noting that Gingrich had voted to impeach former President Bill Clinton, including an article that charged him with obstruction of justice.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/338147-gingrich-a-president-cannot-obstruct-justice

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. typical authoritarian bullshit. Newt - always irrelevant - always wrong.

[forgotmylogin]

19. "The President cannot hold his head underwater too long."

You can read it a couple different ways.

[DBoon]

31. The president cannot create a rock so heavy he cannot lift it

NT

[Dave Starsky]

36. The president cannot read.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Um, Newt? Richard Nixon found out otherwise, the hard way.

And for doing basically the same thing.

[tonyt53]

28. Exactly!

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. Do not show Gingrich too many facts!!

That gives him a big headache

[CanonRay]

4. This confirms Newt's senility

[Marthe48]

5. STFU

you hypocrite

[Kleveland]

22. I seccond that motion! STFU GingivitisRich! n/t

[PJMcK]

53. Let me fix that for you

STFU, you FUCKING POS hypocrite.

Enjoy your weekend, Marthe48!

[Marthe48]

55. Hey thanks

I used up my quota of swear words this week

[christx30]

58. You need to get on a better plan, especially with Trump as president.

I get unlimited swearing nights after 6pm and all day Saturday and Sunday. Gonna save a ton of money for the next year that Trump is in power, and when Pence takes over after the impeachment.

[Marthe48]

59. With the money in my swear jar

I won't need to play the lottery any more

[Major Nikon]

6. "A Dumb Person's Idea of a Smart Person."

-- Andrew Sullivan

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Frankly....

Not for one minute has Newt Gingrich ever made me think, "now there's a smart guy."

[Major Nikon]

17. He tries to pass himself off as an intellectual

He constantly reminds his viewers of his doctorate in history and pretends he can speak authoritatively on a number of political subjects.

[dhill926]

7. Says noted constitutional lawyer...

Newt. What a buffoon.

[berni_mccoy]

8. Oh Newt! Your Hypocrisy is showing... you really should learn

To zip up both your mouth and your pants.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Gingrich is an opportunist in the worst way. He accepted climate change before he denied it. . . nt

[NastyRiffraff]

10. Newt is a moron

AND arrogant. A horrible combination. Firing an FBI Director, or anyone investigating him, is a classic case of obstruction of justice. Newt is wrong, yet again.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. It is one thing to be so anti American as he is, to hate our system of laws

and our constitution and our people so much, but now that it is official he is the single greatest hypocrite who ever lived, why would anybody allow him to EVER be in front of a microphone or camera again for as long as he lives?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

30. You beat me to it. nt

[StevieM]

63. Me too. I was coming here to post it but then I thought that maybe somebody else already had. (eom)

[UT_democrat]

14. enough

from this fucking gas bag. He's on a book tour. that's all he's doing.

[Kleveland]

24. I like to throw the book at him! Gawd I dislike him so intensely.... n/t

[truthisfreedom]

15. The sentence isn't finished, neut:

A president 'cannot obstruct justice without risking prosecution.'

[aggiesal]

16. Sounds like Nixon's quote ...

"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal"

So when the President fires the head of the FBI in charge of the investigation,
it's not obstruction of justice.

But Cheetolini admitted that he fired Tomey because of the "Russian thing"

“In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said,
‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.
It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.”

[procon]

27. That was my first thought, too.

Newt might own a copy of Nixon's memoirs, but he obviously never read it to the end.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

18. This guy was full of shit

a 100 years ago when he actually had some relevance.

[paleotn]

20. HA!!!

CEO of the country.


The powers of a dictator are not enshrined in our Constitution, you senile old fool.

[Boomerproud]

21. Does the National Press Club have him speak to show off his hypocrisy and ignorance?

He should be banished to Faux and Alex Jones programs.

[Moral Compass]

23. Full of shit

As always, full of shit. And irrelevant.

[Orrex]

25. Unless the President is, you know, a Democrat

Then a blowjob is grounds to impeach.

[Raster]

26. Christ-on-a-crutch, Newt... don't you have a wife to cheat on?

[Lil Missy]

29. Who cares what that horses ass says.

[Gothmog]

32. Newt shocked me with this

[hatrack]

33. Translation: "I Have A New Book For Sale!"

[turbinetree]

34. Hey Newt your a dumb shit, your suppose to have been some

history professor------------------correct, how in the fuck did you get that job?

Oh by the way fuck you

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

35. This porcine cocksplat is really going down with this shit, huh..... Well not really. After

all is said I'm done. I'm sure what passes for mainstream press in this country will be asking him for his "expertise". He'll continue to pollute our eyes and ears for a long time to come.

[spooky3]

37. Pelosi speaks for me in dismissing Newt.

[Yonnie3]

38. I was going to say he's talking apples vs. oranges but ...

it's more like elephant dung and M&Ms.

Newt, I guess it's too late for you to learn new tricks, just stick with the old ones and stay irrelevant.

[NCjack]

39. The political disharmony and screwing of the American people

by the GOP began with Newt Gingrich and his despicable behavior in pushing in pushing Bob Michels out of the Minority Leader position in 1995. It all traces back to Newts unethical and dishonorable behavior.

No decent American would listen to that creep.

[FakeNoose]

40. Yep - His 15 minutes expired long ago

I guess we have one thing to be thankful for - he's not in the Oval Office right now.

Just sayin'

[BumRushDaShow]

41. Me: "And a Speaker of the House can violate ethics"

Oh wait...

[Cryptoad]

42. Newt Who?????

[Blue Idaho]

43. Who cares what Newt thinks?

He was a failed Speaker who's ideas were third rate and became an epic fail for republicans.

[Paladin]

44. "Newt Gingrich is what a stupid person thinks a smart person sounds like."

I hope Gingrich never ever escapes that comment about him, from several campaigns back.

[Bradical79]

45. Lizards are poor analysts -nt

[yellowcanine]

46. Newt also claims BJs are not sex so this is just one more thing he is confused about.

http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~farley/humor/sex/gingrich.html

Back in 1977, when Newt Gingrich was a professor at West Georgia College, he had an affair with Anne Manning, the wife of another professor.

"We had oral sex," Anne Manning revealed. "He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" She added that Gingrich threatened her: "If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying." This anticipated Bill Clinton's defense in the Monica Lewinsky scandal by many years. Great minds think alike!
Back in 1994, when Gingrich became Speaker, spouting family values rhetoric, Democrats were livid, because everyone on Capitol Hill knew that Gingrich was dating Calista Bisek, a Congressional aide who was 23 years younger.
Gingrich is now going through his second divorce. Lawyers for his estranged second wife, Marianne, have won the right to depose Calista Bisek.

[Solly Mack]

47. Thinking like that does damage to our democracy.

As it is intended to do.

The thinking that a president is above the law for any reason is a danger to actual democracy.

[ThoughtCriminal]

48. "Newt is what stupid people think smart people sound like"

Some confusion of the original source.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/a-dumb-persons-idea-of-a-smart-person-whose-line-is-it/249932/

[BigmanPigman]

49. He is putting his name out there now to sell more of his new book (he already sold his soul).

Someone on DU mentioned this a few days ago when I was bitching about his popping up in the mews lately.

[sinkingfeeling]

50. So when was Newt elected to interept the Constitution?

[DemKittyNC]

51. WTF?

How is this ass still relevant? I remember when I was young my Dad would go on and on about how horrible Gingrich was and how much he despised him. Now my Dad has passed and I am older I see that he was so right!

[brush]

52. I'm like Nancy Pelosi. Who cares what this gas bag thinks?

[Sucha NastyWoman]

54. Maybe not in your world Newt!

Why does this guy go around pontificating about everything lately, as if hes some wise elder sage or something. Are there really people who think he is anything but an overripe gasbag?

[miyazaki]

56. probably been a demon seed sociopath since birth. n/t

[milestogo]

57. Republicans don't understand the constitution and they don't want to.

[3catwoman3]

60. Newtie is his own...

...biggest fan.

I loathe him.

[Raine]

61. Why would anyone care what this irrelevant former office holder

have to say, it's been decades since he even held office..

[Penn Voter]

62. Ol Newt

meant that a REPUBLICAN president cannot obstruct justice