Evidently, we're still living in 1974...

[Rev. Rye]

... because Trump's doing exactly what Nixon did in 1974 and expecting it to work this time around.

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice, asserting that he cannot be compelled to testify and arguing in a confidential letter that he could not possibly have committed obstruction because he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations.

In a brash assertion of presidential power, the 20-page letter — sent to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and obtained by The New York Times — contends that the president cannot illegally obstruct any aspect of the investigation into Russia’s election meddling because the Constitution empowers him to, “if he wished, terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/po...&smtyp=cur

If this goes on, I can fully imagine Giuliani (or whoever ends up defending him, due to the alarming turnover in the Trump administration) saying something about Trump being "as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment." And then he has to explain who Louis XIV even was to Trump. And he might even hedge his bets on the possibility of his being subject to impeachment.

And presumably, nobody seems aware that the last time they tried to pull this, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 against it.