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Originally Posted by TCLGirls
Doesn't the Prez have freedom of speech too?
After all, his office executes the laws. That's why the DOJ is under the executive branch. So it is entirely acceptable for the executor of laws to comment on legal cases. Preventing the President from commenting on cases would be like preventing the DA from commenting on cases...that would be absurd.
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the president is responsible for making sure "that the Laws be faithfully executed"
certainly going on public record only speaking to one side of an outstanding case is not allowing the law to be faithfully executed, it's swaying the court of public opinion in facor of one side.
the least he could have done was speak to both sides of the case, since he felt obliged to open his trap about it.