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Rosanna Arquette: how does this crooked thug continue his criminal behavior ? (Original Post) Demovictory9 Apr 2020 OP
Rather simply, of course-- he has made sure that there is no entity to prosecute him. TreasonousBastard Apr 2020 #1
Answer: Barr... lame54 Apr 2020 #2
Donors are fine with it I guess so that's one obstacle to stopping him lunasun Apr 2020 #3
Ok, Newest Reality Apr 2020 #4
Senate Rethugs gave him a blank check. kairos12 Apr 2020 #5
With the full consent and complicity Zoonart Apr 2020 #6
It shouldn't be possible, but here we are... Ferrets are Cool Apr 2020 #7
It just doesn't matter to his cult members! kimbutgar Apr 2020 #8
Ask Susan Collins. thucythucy Apr 2020 #9
He knows how to deceive, threaten, manipulate and change positions just enough to slide through with The Wielding Truth Apr 2020 #10
He can do this because there is no longer a functioning FEC (Federal Election Commission). scarletwoman Apr 2020 #11
Because too many people tolerate it I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2020 #12

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. Ok,
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 02:59 PM
Apr 2020

All she has to do is look at any country that is run by a dictator and that should answer the question.

The GOP CONTROLS the Senate, (I mean the R's are not serving in the capacity that they were elected for), the courts are being stacked and stuffed like there's no tomorrow and Trump CONTROLS the entire Executive branch. He has the DOJ in his own pocket and all the agencies he has made appointments to are run by people who are either inept or adversarial, (or both) to their agency.

A dictator can do whatever a dictator wants to do. That's how he continues this criminal activity and why he will be ramping up into full gear with the GOP doing everything they can to assist him since they are completely complicit and out to preserve an irrelevant party that would go the way of the Dodo if they don't take over.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,102 posts)
7. It shouldn't be possible, but here we are...
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 03:20 PM
Apr 2020

this THUG can do anything he wants. Or, so it seems. I've yet to see him be thwarted.

The Wielding Truth

(11,411 posts)
10. He knows how to deceive, threaten, manipulate and change positions just enough to slide through with
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:33 PM
Apr 2020

the gullible and those who are FOX NEWS brain-watched. It will take an extremely smart and well connected legal lawyer to stifle this mob boss.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
11. He can do this because there is no longer a functioning FEC (Federal Election Commission).
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 05:48 PM
Apr 2020

from the article cited in the OP:

The payments did not seem to trouble Bradley Smith, a Republican who served as an FEC commissioner from 2000 to 2005. “There’s no problem, so to speak, doing business with yourself, as long as you’re not giving yourself some kind of super-favorable deal that the public can’t get,” he said.

Even if a campaign were breaking rules by paying exorbitant rates, there’s not a lot anyone could do about it right now. The FEC, which examines such things, cannot take any official commission action unless at least four of its six commissioners vote to do so. Since Trump took office, three of the FEC’s commissioners have left their posts. Their seats—which demand presidential appointments and Senate confirmations—have yet to be filled.

“They can’t even meet without four members, because four is a quorum,” said Ann Ravel, a Democrat who left her post as a commissioner in March 2017. “They cannot ask the general counsel’s office to investigate anything. So if a complaint comes in, it will just sit there.”


Just another instance of trump dismantling our government.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,462 posts)
12. Because too many people tolerate it
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 05:51 PM
Apr 2020

If this was the 60's the right-wing fucks would not get away with it.

But the assholes think Dems play nice and obey the rules as the right-wing assholes change the rules
If it was not for Covid 19 I wonder would it still be peaceful?

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