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New York Times (September 28)

2020/ 09/ 30 by jd in Global News

“Strict enforcement should start with the president, to show that no American is above the law.” In 2010, Donald Trump “claimed a tax refund of $72.9 million,” which sparked an ongoing investigation. “The government must move urgently to resolve this question…. Americans deserve to know that the president has paid his taxes, too.”

 

NBC News (October 24)

2019/ 10/ 25 by jd in Global News

“Impeachment is about abuse of power. Impeachment is about trading foreign policy for personal gain. Trump’s behavior — pressuring a foreign government to launch a sham investigation into a political rival for the purpose of disrupting a U.S. presidential election — is precisely the kind of self-dealing behavior the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they crafted the impeachment clause.”

 

Time (April 8)

2019/ 04/ 09 by jd in Global News

“The end of the special counsel’s probe gives Donald Trump one of the biggest wins of his presidency…. A special-counsel investigation of this ilk might have proven fatal to Trump’s predecessors, yet the President survived it.” Still, “Mueller’s verdict was not nearly as definitive as the President and his allies would claim. He did not clear Trump of obstruction.”

 

Wall Street Journal (December 10)

2018/ 12/ 11 by jd in Global News

Carlos Ghosn’s reported plan to fire CEO Hiroto Saikawa “adds a new twist to the drama inside Nissan….  While that internal investigation was going on, Mr. Ghosn was growing increasingly dissatisfied with Mr. Saikawa’s handling of business problems at Nissan including a slowdown in U.S. sales and repeated quality issues in Japan, say people familiar with the matter.”

 

CNN (February 1)

2018/ 02/ 03 by jd in Global News

Richard Nixon “proved unable to shut down an FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in and ultimately resigned over the attempted coverup.” Some “extreme Nixonites” believe President Nixon “should have fought harder. Trump, who loves to talk about himself as a fighter, isn’t making that mistake. For this reason, we should expect more of the same…and a deepening crisis for the nation. All of this in service to one man’s state of mind.”

 

 

The Economist (May 13)

2017/ 05/ 15 by jd in Global News

The jury is still out on whether “the sacking of James Comey” was incompetent or malign. “Is the administration chaotic and unworthy of its place in a mighty tradition, but more farcical than corrupting…? Or is Mr Trump, who has just become the first president since Richard Nixon to fire a man who was leading a formal investigation into his associates, and perhaps himself, a threat to American democracy?”

 

LA Times (May 10)

2017/ 05/ 12 by jd in Global News

“The shocking dismissal of FBI Director James B. Comey by a president whose campaign he was investigating can’t be undone. The immediate priority is to safeguard the integrity of that investigation and its credibility in the eyes of the public and to preserve the evidence that has been amassed.”

 

Wall Street Journal (November 20)

2016/ 11/ 23 by jd in Global News

“South Korea would benefit most from a thorough investigation that prompts political reform rather than a rush to impeachment.” Furthermore, securing President Park’s resignation or impeachment “could reverse many hard-fought decisions that the Korean electorate gave her a mandate to make,” like closing down the Kaesong Industrial Complex, deploying a U.S. missile-defense system and sharing intelligence with Japan to counter the North Korean threat.

 

Washington Post (February 22)

2015/ 02/ 23 by jd in Global News

“There is a danger that as other pressing concerns about North Korea accumulate — nuclear weapons, missiles, cyberattacks — the world will lose interest in the human rights disaster.” Ideally, “North Korea’s leaders should be held accountable” and referred “to the International Criminal Court for investigation of crimes against humanity.” At present, however, a Security Council referral looks doomed to veto by China or Russia. For the time being, the UN must continue “to investigate human rights abuses in North Korea, with an eye toward identifying who in the regime’s leadership is responsible for the horrors so that they can eventually be held to account.”

 

USA Today (January 15, 2014)

2014/ 01/ 15 by jd in Global News

Alex Rodriguez, the current home-run king and highest paid baseball player of all time, “has now made history of another sort as the recipient of the longest suspension ever for a doping violation.” If the arbitrator’s decision proves binding, he’ll be out a full season (162 games). “It’s clear that baseball’s steroid era isn’t over. But with a tough investigation and tough penalties, the sport appears finally to be turning the corner.”

 

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