It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.
It does not appear that this administration particularly cares about whether or not they're allowed to ignore laws.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of them, Roger Stone, worked on the trump campaign and has a Nixon tattoo on his back.
Also: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/roger-stone-found-guilty-... > Stone was found guilty of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness
And then pardoned by Trump
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#13That sounds like someone wants to hide the evidence.
As weird as it seems (to me anyway) there has always been a group of conservative republicans who maintain that Nixon did nothing wrong and all of the restrictions on the president passed then are inappropriate.
It's only weird if you believe they hold their stated values. If instead you infer their values from their actions and extrapolate forwards, you haven't been surprised in 50 years.
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#14It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.
Sure you can, when you're the President. He's got presumptive immunity for all official acts. If election interference is an official act (as they decided in Trump v US), then surely ordering the destruction of all of his records is also an official act.
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#15It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.
Enforced by the following the rules police. Oh wait..
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#16Fine. I wanna scrap the pardon power. Trade?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pard...
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
As weird as it seems (to me anyway) there has always been a group of conservative republicans who maintain that Nixon did nothing wrong and all of the restrictions on the president passed then are inappropriate.
One of them, Roger Stone, worked on the trump campaign and has a Nixon tattoo on his back.
Stone was also involved in the Brooks riot helping getting bush the win. Amy Coney Barret and other supreme judges appointed by Trump were involved in the lawsuit brought to the supreme court.
It's the same fucking people.
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#20It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.
The rules only apply to Democrats now, did you miss the memo? (Maybe you didn't see the memo as it was sealed).