Former top ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, Richard Painter, told CNN on Friday that President Donald Trump “is not a king” in his response to Trump’s remark that he “can do whatever I want with the Justice Department.”
Painter said during CNN’s Outfront on Friday night that Trump “picked the wrong country to be president of if he thinks he has absolute power to run the Justice Department however he wants.”
“That may be the way it works in [Vladimir] Putin‘s Russia and other places but that’s not the way it works here,” Painter said. “There are laws, and he has been sworn to uphold the law and the constitution of the United States.”
Trump can remove the attorney general and all of his appointees in the Justice Department, but Painter said he does not have the authority to investigate his political opponents.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he could do whatever he wants to the Department of Justice in an interview on Thursday with the New York Times. Getty Images
Painter said during CNN’s Outfront on Friday night that Trump “picked the wrong country to be president of if he thinks he has absolute power to run the Justice Department however he wants.”
“That may be the way it works in [Vladimir] Putin‘s Russia and other places but that’s not the way it works here,” Painter said. “There are laws, and he has been sworn to uphold the law and the constitution of the United States.”
Trump can remove the attorney general and all of his appointees in the Justice Department, but Painter said he does not have the authority to investigate his political opponents.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he could do whatever he wants to the Department of Justice in an interview on Thursday with the New York Times. Getty Images
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