What punishment would you prefer for Trump if he is found guilty of treason?

[kentuck]

All biases aside.

50 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Firing squad?
	4 (8%)
	A short prison sentence?
	0 (0%)
	Forbidden to ever run for public office again?
	4 (8%)
	Guillotine?
	1 (2%)
	Life imprisonment?
	32 (64%)
	A public apology?
	0 (0%)
	A televised hanging?
	6 (12%)
	Take away all his ill-gotten gains?
	0 (0%)
	Other?
	3 (6%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[ForgedCrank]

1. None of these.

The absolute worst thing you could ever do to him is prohibit his name from every being spoken or referenced ever again. Take away his attention and he'll shrivel overnight.
The ass is powered by attention, and we keep giving it to him for some reason.

[2naSalit]

2. All of the Above.

[KarenS]

3. gmta n/t

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. That's my vote also.

Even if some of the things might have to be done to his bloated carcass, do them all.

[malaise]

26. You win

[IngridsLittleAngel]

4. My angry, angry heart says "execution"

My brain says no.. Life in the toughest, nastiest federal prison in this country. As much as seeing him hung or executed might be fun, it'd turn him into a martyr.

Take all his assets, lock him up and let him rot - out of the public eye, forever.

[doc03]

24. I would say that too but as long as he is still alive in prison a future president will

pardon him. It is nice to think about I don't think he will suffer any of the above.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

25. That's a good point...

My only hope there, honestly, is that if sentenced to life in prison, he won't last long there. He's 75, in terrible health, and was softer than fuck even in his youth. So if sentenced to prison, may his weight or age or piss-poor health or whatever cause it to be a short sentence.

[doc03]

29. But didn't his doctor say he could live 200 years?

[IngridsLittleAngel]

32. He did

The problem is ol Dr. Ronny forgot to convert dog years to human years.

[Trueblue1968]

65. My angry, angry heart says Firing squad THE THE TRAITOR. Maybe televise it?

Lock him up in a pillory. let people throw ROTTEN stuff at him.

I would fly across the country to be able to do that.

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[tikka]

5. All that is needed is one MAGA berserker on the jury and it will never happen.

Look at the recent "Build the Wall" trial. One RWNJ caused a mistrial. Add to that the two-tier legal system and TFG's legal shenanigans.

[Celerity]

45. MAGA berserkers

[geardaddy]

55. That first one looks like Krispy Kreme Christy

[Towlie]

6. How about an infallible lie detector wired directly to a high-voltage cattle probe, stuck up his ...

 
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Darn, I reached the 100 character limit for a post title.

[dchill]

47. You just need to plan better! 😜

[HAB911]

7. Asset forfeiture and life in GITMO

[sarisataka]

8. What? No drawn and quartered?

We are getting soft.

[kentuck]

9. :-)

[sarisataka]

10. .

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. That is too messy. Tar and fearhered abd run out of

town on a rail? Not terrible enough.

[kentuck]

13. What about?

Head on a spike and placed in the hot sun at the Mexican border on his beloved wall?

[Stuart G]

14. NOT BAD....CAN WE VOTE ON THAT ONE?

[sarisataka]

22. Appropriate

[ironflange]

67. We're talking about Trump here. . .

Just imagine the mess!

[rurallib]

15. I like that "Man Without A Country" solution

Set him off in a boat never to be heard from nor be able to contact anyone again.

Asset forfeiture, for sure, including assets of his children and grandchildren.

[solara]

16. All of the above with one added perk

Once a year for a month, for the rest of his incarcerated life, he will be stripped naked and put into a stockade next to a fruit stand, where folks can purchase tomatoes & other such foodstuff to be used to pummel him 24/7 while fulfilling one of his ongoing nightmares.

The proceeds from the fruit stand will actually go to a charity for children, representing the tens of thousands of children whose lives he has poisoned & destroyed forever.

[flor-de-jasmim]

17. Step 1: Take back all ill-gotten game from everyone in the extended family

Step 2: Tarred and feathered.
Step 3: Imprisioned in a "regular" jail - no favors, no devices - or in a deprivation chamber
Step 4: No one in his extended family may ever run for office.

(I was also thinking of the head on the pike, but we wouldn't want children to see that.)

[MissMillie]

18. The one that would hurt him the most

he would slip off into obscurity.

[meow2u3]

19. Lockup for life, DQ'd from serving in office, and assets stripped

He deserves not only the penultimate punishment (prison, DQing, and asset forfeiture), he also merits permanent infamy. No one must be allowed to praise this traitor, nor must anyone be permitted to emulate him. Just condemn his memory.

[bluedigger]

20. Blindfold and a cigarette in the Rose Garden at dawn.

Send the message.

[Novara]

21. life imprisonment with a lifetime gag order

Take all his assets, take all of the criminal children's assets, stick him in prison in GITMO for life with a lifetime gag order. After a while he fades into utter obscurity.

[empedocles]

23. Life solitary confinement

[mnhtnbb]

28. Give him his choice: hanging, firing squad, or guillotine

Personally, for that ugly orange anus-mouthed treasonous sack of $hit, I'd vote for the guillotine.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Yeah, but start at the feet and work up. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

30. Other: Eternal damnation.

And I'm an atheist.

Since that's not a practical option, I'd like to force him to legally change his name to Loser McLoserFace.

[Retrograde]

33. Take away all the perks usually given to former presidents

No Secret Service detail for him or Mel, no travel budget, no office budget, no health care, no pension. And put a lien on Mar-a-lago and his other assets until he pays back those facility and security debts he's accrued giving his rallies the past few years.

The only things he cares about are money and his ego, so hit him there.

[MineralMan]

34. Since there is zero chance of his being charged with treason,

I can't say.

The crime of treason is very clearly and precisely defined in the Constitution. It's a charge that doesn't fit, actually, so he will not be charged with it.

[H2O Man]

36. Correct.

The highest charges filed thus far have to do with a conspiracy for sedition. There is no chance of Trump being charged with a higher charge, especially treason -- which, as you note, is clearly outlined in the Constitution.

[MineralMan]

37. It's hard for me to believe that I was the first to point that out.

That doesn't reassure me very much about our understanding of the Constitution, frankly.

[kentuck]

41. Treason, in the Constitution

Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

[H2O Man]

43. Right.

It's important to recognize the difference between "treason" at the constitutional definition, and the common use meaning of the word. January 6 was a seditious attempt at insurrection with the aim of keeping Trump in power. Despite the fact that Biden won the election, those active in the conspiracy to keep Trump in office by force have made two things clear: they believed the election was stolen, and they were engaged in an action they believed the president wanted them to do.

I know this sounds like splitting hairs. In the common use of the word, I agree 100% it was treason. Yet they believed they were taking a patriotic action to keep the then current president in office. Their target was the two houses of Congress, to disrupt and keep them from doing their duty. Thus, they are at most being charged with a conspiracy per sedition. There is no chance that Trump can or will be charged with treason, as the head of the effort.

[kentuck]

48. I do not think Trump will ever be charged with treason...

Although some would argue that his actions were an act of war against our country.

[onenote]

59. Some would argue lots of things. Those arguing he committed treason would be mistaken.

As a few others have noted here, there is zero chance of Trump being charged with, let alone convicted of, treason.

Indeed, it is more likely than not that he won't be charged with anything relating to January 6 -- for example, while Judge David Carter (District Court Judge in California) offered his opinion (not a legal finding) that Trump likely is guilty of a felony attempt to obstruct congress -- a crime punishable by a maximum of five years -- I don't believe that charge will be brought nor could a conviction be obtained. Carter acknowledges that Trump working with Eastman to develop a legal strategy for contesting the outcome of the election can't be the basis for a criminal charge. The distinction he tries to draw between Eastman and Trump discussing legal strategy and Trump discussing the January 6 strategy of having Pence reject the certification of electors from certain states and accept alternate electors is pretty attenuated.

[allegorical oracle]

35. Simple: DNA would reveal that he's no stud-muffin -- not the father of any of his 5 kids. nt

[nevergiveup]

38. I want him locked in a cell

and fed baby food the rest of his life.......also with Rachel Maddow reruns playing 24/7

[CTyankee]

39. "Zee garotte, M'sieu?"

I voted "other."

[jmowreader]

40. Burning at the stake is probably out

So…I’m going with “turn the second and third tiers of Alcatraz back into a prison and put Trump’s entire administration into it.” Tourists don’t get to go up there and it’d be pretty easy to keep rabid Trumpers from trying to get up there to kneel before him. The government could make big money by selling the same meals the prisoners are getting to the tourists.

[Javaman]

42. not only life imprison, i want him in solitary with no visitors.

I want him to suffer what many in our society have suffered from the imbalance of justice in the country.

my first thought was, hang him, but then I thought, that would make him a martyr in the eyes of morons.

better to have him waste away into the complete nothing he already is.

[alphafemale]

44. The Mussolini departure for most of his brood.

Maybe

[Efilroft Sul]

46. Air-dropped into Kurdish territory.

[drmeow]

52. After stripping him

of his citizenship and all his assets including the clothes on his back.

[Efilroft Sul]

64. Brave would be the person to remove his garments...

[drmeow]

66. Maybe just the jacket

and shoes

[fightforfreedom]

49. Dissolve Trump organization, confiscate all his properties and put him in prison.

That would be justice.

[NotASurfer]

50. The Philip Nolan treatment

Imprisoned on a Navy vessel for the rest of his life, no news or contact with the outside world, his only interaction with men and women serving with the very honor and integrity he seeks to denigrate; always reminded he is in the custody of the country he denies but never permitted to set foot on our soil again.

Hell, that's too literary to have a shot. I'll settle for Guantanamo

[GoCubsGo]

51. Other.

Take it all away from him, and let him spend the rest of his life in abject poverty. I don't care where he spends it. Prison. On the streets. Either way is fine with me.

[milestogo]

53. Other: A viking beheading.

[geardaddy]

56. No blood eagle?

[milestogo]

62. We've been watching the same shows, I see.

I think the blood eagle would be gross on a heavier body. Too much back fat.

[geardaddy]

63. LOL

Yes, and he wouldn't even live past the first cuts probably.

[lpbk2713]

54. A pillory for about three days.

In an area close to several soup kitchens.

[Emile]

57. I'm making an exception contrary to my belief against the death penalty.

Traitors need to be shot!

[meadowlander]

58. This until he dies:

Plus total asset forfeiture and prosecution of every one of his enablers to the full extent of the law.

But I suspect that's cruel and unusual punishment for everyone stuck in there with him.

[onenote]

60. Anyone who thinks he'll are charged with treason, let alone convicted, is going to be disappointed.

Not going to happen.Period.

[Mr.Bill]

61. Barring legal conviction,

I would settle for a stroke that leaves him paralyzed and unable to speak in a state-run convalescent home in the worst climate possible.

[Mr. Ected]

68. I wish he would be treated like any other citizen of the United States

Tried for his crimes and sentenced for those for which he is found guilty according to the federal sentencing guidelines.

Given the plethora of crimes committed in his lifelong crime spree, the punishment I prefer for Trump is one long-ass federal prison sentence, political ramifications be damned.