.MaddowBlog: White House chief of staff tries to clarify Pres. Trump’s illegal directives.
When Kirstjen Nielsen was forced from her post as Homeland Security secretary, it quickly became obvious that one of the sources of tension between her and Donald Trump was her reluctance to ignore federal laws. The president reportedly urged her, repeatedly, to implement immigration policies that were “clearly illegal,” and when Nielsen balked, Trump grew “infuriated.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, of course, is also filled with examples of Trump directing people to take legally dubious actions. Often, Mulvaney said, the president is not telling aides “to do something illegal”; he’s “just giving me ideas on what his priorities are and what he wants to accomplish.”
Let’s say, for example, Trump speaks with Department of Homeland Security officials and tells them to start ignoring existing federal asylum laws – something the president has been accused of doing. In Mulvaney’s model, Trump hasn’t told officials “to do something illegal”; he’s simply sharing some ideas about the kind of border policies, some of which may be illegal, he’d like to see implemented.
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