Sen. Lindsey Graham was asked on Sunday if he is worried about facing perjury charges in Georgia and responded by whitewashing his role in trying to overturn the election.
The Georgia special grand jury investigating Trump’s possible criminal election interference found that there was no fraud in the 2020 election and recommended perjury charges against unidentified witnesses.
The question likely isn’t whether Trump will lie under oath during his interview with Robert Mueller. Instead, it’s how many lies will the president tell.
The lies from Trump’s team would have sent religious Republicans into near-fatal apoplexy if it was a Democratic administration.
18 U.S. Code § 1621: Anyone, after having taken an oath, who willfully lies is guilty of perjury and shall be fined or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Republicans have their talking point, and it’s that AG Jeff Sessions might want to maybe recuse himself from the Russia probe. If he wants to. Because patriotism.
Here’s a clip of that time when then Senator Sessions said on perjury, “No one is above the law.”
Trump might not have ‘pushed’ Flynn out had the situation not attracted such attention from the media and an alert of a coming article about the matter.
In an interview with a St. Louis radio station Friday, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch admitted he let witnesses who “clearly were not telling the truth” testify before a grand jury that decided not to indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
However, many of the groups that the IRS investigated are guilty of perjury for failing to report, or underreporting, their political spending on tax forms filed with the IRS.
The Department of Justice cannot allow the miscarriage of justice by any American under any circumstance, and because Romney is no longer running for public office, he is no longer above the law.
There is a report that Willard Romney committed perjury in his friend’s divorce proceedings, and it is not the first time he is accused of perjuring himself.