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December 19, 2022 at 3:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
David Frum: Show Trump a line, and hell cross it. That was his record as president, down to his last days in office, when he absconded with boxes of government materials as though they were his private property. Trump has already announced a run for president in 2024. Whatever happens with that run, his likeliest Republican rivals are studying his methods, considering which to emulate and which to discard. The incitement of violence by the head of the government is not an infraction that can be dismissed and forgiven by any political system that hopes to stay constitutional.
For six years, the job of upholding the rule of law against Donald Trump has been passed from one unwilling set of hands to the next. Now the job has returned to where it started. There is nobody else to pass it to. The recommendation has arrived. The time for justice has come.
https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/19/justice-is-coming-for-donald-trump/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-committee-criminal-referral-donald-trump/672514/
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Blue Owl
(50,511 posts)republianmushroom
(13,703 posts)22 months and counting
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)Too many Repukes are going to do exactly as Chump has done, unless we beat this down immediately.
We can leave no questions, no doubts. Anyone who does anything like Chump, you're going to be charged, convicted and thrown in prison. So don't even THINK ABOUT IT!
It's always the Democrats who have to come in and clean up the messes the Bad-Boy-Repukes leave behind. This bad behavior must end and we have to end it now. Let the spanking begin.
myohmy2
(3,177 posts)...past time...and possibly permanently...
...still too many fascists out here to expect the justice needed...
...know what I've been thinking...?
...when our country built thousands of nukes, did anyone consider what would happen if our country disintegrated...?
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)a Frum retweet.
On Monday, the House select committee ... (yada-yada. We know what happened: Criminal referrals, including treason-level charges.)
On Tuesday, the House Ways and Means Committee will meet privately to discuss what to do with the six years of Mr. Trumps tax returns that it finally obtained after nearly four years of legal efforts by Mr. Trump to block their release.
The committee could release them publicly, which would most likely be done in the final days of Democratic control of Congress.
And on Wednesday, the Jan. 6 committee is expected to release its report on the attack, along with some transcripts of interviews with witnesses.
Marcuse
(7,508 posts)llmart
(15,555 posts)Hope they stay until the day he shuffles off this planet.
Joinfortmill
(14,467 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,085 posts)Republican Party that is constantly working to eliminate voting rights and establish a totalitarian government with their party permanently in charge. If the case now before the Supreme Court succeeds, they will move a step closer to achieving that goal. Trump is not the only danger. The whole Republican Party is as well.
The NYT published an article this week about some of our history that I never knew. Its actually from Rachel Maddows podcast, Ultra, which I havent had a chance to listen to yet. It was about the infiltration of the Nazi Party into the US government, with members of Congress actively promoting Nazi propaganda. None of them were ever held to account. The only person I knew about was Father Coughlin, who hated everything about the New Deal, but I never knew that he too had been recruited by the Nazis.
The reason I mention this history is that I believe that Russia has infiltrated our Congress and some leading Republican think tanks. We know that Russian hackers use social media to sow discord around the world, and especially here. Trump was most certainly pro-Russia. Fox News hosts are pro Russia. And the Supreme Court has done its part to help turn the US into an oligarchy ruled by wealthy white men, just like Russia.
This is a party that needs to be destroyed, but how do we do it? I fear that we will lose our democracy if we fail.