{"id":31875,"date":"2018-08-18T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31875"},"modified":"2018-08-18T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T00:45:15","slug":"potus-seeks-to-taint-a-criminal-proceeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31875","title":{"rendered":"POTUS seeks to taint a criminal proceeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Imagine the President\u2019s former campaign chairman is on trial for various felonies. Imagine the jury is in middle of deliberations. Imagine the President publicly calls the case unfair & praises the defendant There was a time when that kind of thing was considered inappropriate<\/em><\/p>\n

— Jake Tapper, CNN news anchor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jake Tapper’s tweet — posted above — actually understates how one should consider a president who seeks to prejudice a jury that is considering whether to convict or acquit someone of a major felony.<\/p>\n

It is far worse than “inappropriate” for a president to rail against a trial involving a former top campaign official. I would call it something more akin to reprehensible, contemptible, disgraceful.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet this president sees nothing at all wrong with saying that a trial involving his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is “unfair” and that the court is trying to railroad him. He tells us that Manafort is an upstanding individual and a “good man.”<\/p>\n

Manafort’s fate now is in the jury’s hands. He was indicted and brought to trial on charges involving tax evasion and money laundering. He faces a possible life term in prison. Manafort’s indictment was brought by the grand jury that received a complaint from special counsel Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n

The prosecution presented witnesses. Manafort’s defense team was allowed to cross examine them, which did with vigor.<\/p>\n

Normal presidential protocol would dictate that a president keeps his trap shut on a criminal proceeding. This one now is headed for a verdict. Yet Donald Trump keeps yapping, he keeps seeking to influence the outcome from the peanut gallery.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Maybe we shouldn’t be appalled. I mean, this kind of ignorant approach to what I would call a form of jury tampering is part and parcel of Trump’s utter lack of understanding of presidential protocol, let alone of judicial conduct.<\/p>\n

This individual, the president, is completely out of control.<\/p>\n\n

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