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Sunday, April 21, 2019

Nixon and the Mueller Report

Volume 1, page 97, on Carter Page, one of the Trump campaign people who had Russian contacts:
In January 2016, Page began volunteering on an informal, unpaid basis for the Trump
Campaign after Ed Cox, a state Republican Party official, introduced Page to Trump Campaign officials. Page told the Office that his goal in working on the Campaign was to help candidate Trump improve relations with Russia.
Cox is Tricia Nixon's husband.

Image result for nixon ed cox wedding

RN himself appears indirectly through a number of citations to court cases.  See Volume 2, pp. 180-181:
In sum, contrary to the position taken by the President's counsel, we concluded that, in light of the Supreme Court precedent governing separation-of-powers issues, we had a valid basis for investigating the conduct at issue in this report. In our view, the application of the obstruction statutes would not impermissibly burden the President's performance of his Article II function to supervise prosecutorial conduct or to remove inferior law-enforcement officers. And the protection of the criminal justice system from corrupt acts by any person-including the President-accords with the fundamental principle of our government that "[n]o [person] in this country is so high that he is above the law." United States v. Lee, I 06 U.S. 196, 220 (1882); see Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. at 697; United States v. Nixon, supra.

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