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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Sat May 25, 2019, 04:38 PM May 2019

Enemies list is an impeachable offense

... potentially worse than anything in the Mueller Report
David R. Lurie
05.24.1910:00 PM ET

Long before becoming president, Donald Trump called for the jailing of his adversaries. Aided by Attorney General William Barr, he may now actually be training the full force of federal law enforcement against his enemies, real or perceived. Unlike Richard Nixon, who acted in secret, Trump is corrupting the justice system openly and publicly.

The seriousness of such a presidential abuse of power, and its potential for undermining the constitutional order, could well surpass any of the crimes detailed in the Mueller Report. Indeed, the Congress long ago recognized that such misconduct can merit impeachment.

Trump’s desire to investigate the investigators who uncovered the Russian plot to elect him president has taken on a special urgency since the release of the Mueller Report, with Trump repeatedly accusing government officials of “treason,” and the White House declaring: “This whole thing was a TAKEDOWN ATTEMPT at the President of the United States” ...

It’s reminiscent of Nixon’s secret scheme to “use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies,” as then-White House Counsel John Dean put it, by manipulating “grant availability, federal contract, litigation, prosecution, etc.” Nixon directed the IRS provide potentially damaging information against some of his enemies. Although the agency’s commissioner refused Nixon’s demand, the scheme became part of the impeachment case against Nixon, which accused him of illegally endeavoring “to obtain <information> from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens” ...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-public-enemies-list-is-an-impeachable-offense

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Enemies list is an impeachable offense (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2019 OP
Sure as hell looking that way! Wellstone ruled May 2019 #1
It's code red time SHRED May 2019 #2
This might sound kind of nuts, but The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #3
 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
2. It's code red time
Sat May 25, 2019, 04:43 PM
May 2019

And who's gonna stop him?

Certainly not the IRS nor the IC who have stood by and watch him be installed and his destructive ways.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
3. This might sound kind of nuts, but
Sat May 25, 2019, 05:24 PM
May 2019

I've started wondering whether some people Trump doesn't like are going to start "falling" out of windows or just disappearing, like critics of Putin?

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