"DONALD TRUMP WAS DOING THINGS THAT WERE ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL":

[bluescribbler]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/massachusetts-ag-maura-healey-on-prosecuting-a-president

“DONALD TRUMP WAS DOING THINGS THAT WERE ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL”: MASSACHUSETTS A.G. MAURA HEALEY ON PROSECUTING A PRESIDENT

As a new era dawns in Washington, state attorneys general, who have filed nearly 140 lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration over the last four years, are also preparing for what is to come in the next administration. It’s a welcome change for someone like Maura Healey, Massachusetts’s attorney general, who has joined more than 100 of those suits, on everything from Trump’s family-separation policy to census issues to environmental protections. “I don’t think you can overstate how much energy and effort it took to hold the line against the Trump administration that was doing things so entirely unprecedented and in violation of so many norms and the rule of law,” she said in an interview with Vanity Fair earlier this month.

The work, however, is not done, as the country reckons with coronavirus and the Black Lives Matter movement, and issues around free, fair, and trusted elections continue, even after Joe Biden’s decisive win. Healey discussed what lies ahead, what Republicans need to do to help bring our country together, and what she thinks should happen to a post–White House Donald Trump: “I’m going to be limited in what I can say,” she told me, “but it is important that Donald Trump, his enablers, those who acted in concert with him and furthered actions that may have been illegal, criminal or otherwise, are held accountable.”

Read the whole interview at the link.

[Tanuki]

1. Kicking for exposure

Thanks for posting, bluescribbler

[niyad]

2. KNR for visibility.

[Bluepinky]

3. Especially the last part: "It's important that Donald Trump, his enablers...are held accountable."

Don’t let them get away with any of it. People died and lives were ruined because of their actions.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

18. Let's start with the 4th of July Moscow group...

... where did the GOP get $240+ million within days for the Georgia run off election campaign? Hello, Ron Johnson, John Thune et al... just what was in your suitcases when you came back?

[crickets]

21. +1000000

[AllaN01Bear]

4. one of my few kicks . lets knock it out of the park. what else is new with this prez?

[Botany]

5. "but it is important that Donald Trump and his enablers are held accountable."

280,000 cases of negligent homicide?

[dlk]

6. It will be extremely important for us to decide, as a country, if we want to set a precedent

Do we really want to give our presidents a pass for criminal activity and what would that mean if we do?

[LaMouffette]

7. "When you're a celebrity, they let you get away with it!" "It will miraculously go away, disappear!"

These infamous Trump quotations, the first about his brazen sexual assaults and the second about the coronavirus, reveal Trump's belief system. He has rarely in his life been held accountable for his crimes. To date, those who could have checked his behavior have largely "let [him] get away with it" and simply pay fines and settlements without his having to serve any time in prison, or in the case of Republican congressmen, by either supporting him in his crimes or by simply looking the other way.

Teflon Trump's strategies of suing his detractors and refusing to pay debts have, to date, been very successful in making any legal or political trouble "miraculously go away, disappear." Remember when it came out that Russia was paying bounties for American servicemen and women who were killed and Trump didn't say a word of protest against Putin? Don't hear much about that anymore. This outrage, like so many others, miraculously went away, disappeared.

He must be held accountable.

P.S. Thank you for the link!

[zentrum]

8. K&R!!!

[Bev54]

9. WAS? He still is n/t

[ffr]

10. "I'm going to be limited in what I can say,"

You had me when you said that.

Thank you. You have our backing. We must right the wrongs and hold all of those who grifted accountable. Let them seek asylum in Russia on the premise that they will seek to overthrow the U.S. government at some future date. One Winter there and they'll be longing for the good ol' days here, when they should have done what's right, followed the law, and not betrayed their country!

[alfredo]

11. Kick

Trump is in a serious funk, not showing up for work, maybe he should be put on suicide watch. He's already doing it in slow motion suicide with his junk food diet.

When it comes down to it, he is a tragic figure. I guess I should show pity, but he makes it so hard.

[kacekwl]

12. Best line, what the REPUBLICANS need to do is

help bring our country together. It's about time it's said the REPUBLICANS fucked this up and they need to make the effort, the concessions the compromise to fix what they have done the last 50 years not just the last four which are just treasonous. It's not both sides not at all.

[calimary]

13. THIS!!!

CANNOT recommend this particular post highly enough!

The OP too!

[LizBeth]

14. Thank you for the article so good to hear someone is paying attention, has the list of

crimes and still addressing all the many many issues.

[bluescribbler]

16. I love Maura Healey.

I have voted for her every campaign, and will do so again. In her previous career she was a professional basketball player, playing the position of point guard.

[LizBeth]

17. Coolest a woman competitor. That is a special combination of awesome. Fun. Thanks.

[hay rick]

15. Our democracy needs an overhaul.

I do not believe we can have a viable democracy without accountability. Trump needs to die in prison.

Healey says that 70 million voters believing the election was stolen is a problem. I agree there is a problem with people believing misinformation but I also think the polling is mostly measuring what people are willing to tell pollsters (I know the correct answer for our team!) as opposed to what they actually believe.

[dickthegrouch]

20. One of my suggestions would be

Change the constitution to make anyone who accepts a presidential pardon is automatically deemed to have vacated their position (whether elected or appointed) and renders themselves ineligible for further public office.

[MyOwnPeace]

24. And isn't it sad that it has come to that.....

we have to legislate integrity and honor.

GAWD, what this mis-administration has done to us.

[Lock him up.]

19. K&R + Bookmark

Lock 'em up.

[Cha]

22. KICK!

[Blue Owl]

23. Sing it, sister!

[bdamomma]

25. Kick for visibility

Lock them up.

[benld74]

26. Vanity Fair has many great articles

Love them