Swalwell calls for creation of presidential crimes commission to investigate Trump when he leaves of

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Swalwell calls for creation of presidential crimes commission to investigate Trump when he leaves office https://thehill.com/homenews/house/512140-swalwell-calls-for-creation-of-presidential-crimes-commission-to-investigate

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

1. Make it so. nt

[Faux pas]

2. Kickin' With Gusto!

[NCjack]

3. And, do the Senate.

[greymattermom]

47. Do Mitch first

Keep him busy.

[NCjack]

51. Yes, of course. He should get his own special prosecutor.

[mobeau69]

4. This is vital.

[icwlmuscyia]

6. I will second that

responsibility for what a person does is central to democracy.

[OnDoutside]

7. Yes, for the obvious reasons,but also to put pressure on Trump to resign and get Pence to pardon him

[BKDem]

19. Whether or not he ever pays for his crimes, they need to be documented in detail.

And his criminal accomplices and enablers need to be called out by name.

[Silver1]

27. I believe this is very important.

No individual in the future can ever assume the presidency and think they can get away with unconstitutional actions.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. His Crimes??????????/

How about the entire Republican administration, Republican Senators, Republican Cabinet members, and Republican party's crimes??????????

Hell, they are one giant criminal cabal.............

[BKDem]

42. Them, too.

[KS Toronado]

44. Start with Moscow Mitch, he needs to go

[uponit7771]

5. AMEN AND AMEN!!!

[Sunsky]

8. K&R!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Pardon or no pardon, investigate so the lesson can be transmitted and history can get it correct. nt

[Raven123]

20. And pass legislation that adds consequences to those who defy Congressional subpoenas

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. +1. But with limits so there is no harrassment by subpoena. . . nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. Now is not the best moment to be pushing this

If he waits until after the vote of the Electoral College constitutionally establishes that Joe Biden is our next President, I'm on board with this.

[karin_sj]

15. Agree

This gives Trump more incentive to do whatever he can to steal the election. Plenty of time for that later, after Joe is president.

[Pobeka]

16. +++, no need to make Trump dig in his heels harder right now. n/t

[DLCWIdem]

32. Besides it may be better to let those New York DA work it instead.

[KPN]

50. I agree, but to be fair to Swalwell, he didn't push this now. He made this comment

back in August. Malcolm Nance appears to have just resurrected it today.

[Qutzupalotl]

11. Investigate Trump's crimes

not Trump; we investigate crimes rather than people. We don’t start with an enemies list and work from there. We follow evidence. That’s what separates us from dictators like Trump.

[jmowreader]

34. A lot of what Trump did isn't actually illegal

We need to lay all the Trump atrocities on the table so future generations will know why putting a man who’d never even served as dog catcher, and who had failed at everything he ever tried, in the White House is not just a bad but also a stupid idea.

[JI7]

12. Yes, expose everything they did .

[panader0]

13. Absolutely necessary. Swalwell would be excellent in that capacity.

[oasis]

14. "Sauce for the gander". I remember a prominent Republican raising that

point a few years ago.

[ashredux]

17. 👏👏👏Lordy, Lordy Yes

[SheltieLover]

18. Absolutely imperative!

[paleotn]

21. I don't want to hear.....

"for the good of the country" one single goddamn time! The rule of law and our democracy is at stake. Let justice run its course unrestrained and wherever it might take us. Otherwise we set a precedent for far more dangerous future Trumps.

[Jetheels]

22. A catalogue of Trumps crimes...

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-967

[marble falls]

23. Where's the petition?

[Lonestarblue]

24. I don't want a commission that cannot indict.

An Independent Counsel has the power to investigate and indict. If Ken Starr could use his power to turn the Clinton investigation from a consensual sex act to spending years turning over every rock and pebble in the Clintons’ lives, then we can surely use an Independent Counsel to finally investigate Trump’s financial ties to Putin and the Russian mob and answer the question whether he has been a Russian asset. This investigation is important because Trump may run again in 2024 or one of his spawn, also likely Russian assets, may run, and we need to know beforehand whether they are compromised.

[Eyeball_Kid]

28. Yes.

Biden can separate himself from an independent counsel’s work.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. My predictions

Pres. Biden will have his hands full. Vindictive mood will not help that. He'll allow DOJ to pursue underlings as they see fit. Trump will be left to the State of NY. Wildcard will be if the full Mueller Report is released. I suspect not, as there's too much too sensitive. It sounds like a decades long CI operation, from posts I've read on Twitter. I don't think they ever roll them up because that would alert the crooks and end the investigation. It's bad for employment too.

DOJ might follow the money trail to Congress, but only a few exemplary cases. It takes too much money to run for office, and if that dries up, it's bad for business too.

Only the most egregious crooks go to jail. I don't expect a crimes commission to ever be established.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

29. This commission will be busy.

So go for it.

[boyedav1969]

30. We need McConnell...

in the crosshairs of this or other investigations, along with the rest of the criminal GOP enablers.

[James48]

31. That was in August

I don’t want a Presidential Crimes Commission.

I want actual criminal Nuremberg style trials.

[Mr. Ected]

33. WWRD?

What would Republicans do?

[OhNo-Really]

37. Geez. Chest those cards Eric

The sadists are 1600 are fn insane already

[SayItLoud]

38. Sound the Alarm

Let every tRUMP enabler in Gov. know that if they alter or delete official Gov. documents they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

39. Yes. His conviction will help assure this never happens again.

America paid far too high a price for this presidency. Deceit, selfishness and ignorance has cost us dearly in world standing, human lives and nearly Democracy itself.

[dalton99a]

41. Absolutely.

[Rhiannon12866]

43. Twitter reply:

Link to tweet

[still_one]

45. It would be really nice if they would wait until after the Senate runoff elections in Georgia

Making statements like this I don’t think are helpful to our Senate candidates in Georgia

[usaf-vet]

46. IF EVER a former administration needed to be investigated this is the one. Just to figure out.....

..... how much taxpayer money they stole or "misappropriated".

Let me start with the little stuff that still cost millions.

Charging the U.S.Secret Service for golf carts, the military for fuel, and rooms at his overseas golf courses.

The free military air travel for his grifters.

The golf trips that cost millions.

Then go to the laws and policies he broke.

Then reinvestigate and impeach Kavanaugh and Barrett for perjury in their confirmation hearings.

And that is before my first cup of coffee!

[greymattermom]

48. Or just make it a way to investigate which of the customary things need to be made into laws.

And create laws to prevent some of the abuses of custom. It's their job after all, writing new laws.

[CanonRay]

49. Absolutely needed

[Baked Potato]

52. Yes, quietly without fanfare. Then, boom!

All for this!

[Grasswire2]

53. Too many times, Republicans have been allowed to get away with no accountability for crimes.

Multiple times over the last decades.