There's No One to Hold Donald Trump Accountable

[tinrobot]

Are you feeling the creeping terror? Me too. I've been trying to avoid joining the more conspiracy-minded brethren of the anti-Trump brigade for the last 110 days of his presidency, but this move makes it increasingly difficult not to suspect the worst.

There is no one, absolutely no one, in the federal government to hold the president of the United States accountable for anything he does. The Department of Justice should be run independently, but it's clear Jeff Sessions, whose recusal stems from his possible perjury at his confirmation hearing, will do nothing to make sure the president he supported from early on in the campaign follows the law.

Sessions' deputy, Rod Rosenstein, reportedly has a good reputation as a career prosecutor, but joining in this farce of a firing should destroy that reputation. Thanks to Sessions' recusal, Rosenstein has the power to appoint an independent special prosecutor to lead the investigation into Trump's Russian ties, but that seems unlikely now. And even if he does appoint one, it's clear Trump would have no compunction firing both Rosenstein and the prosecutor.

The investigation into Trump doesn't fall into the judicial system's purview, and besides, any case that did make it to the Supreme Court would face a solid conservative majority. It's always possible that one justice or another might break ranks, but Bush v. Gore showed us the Court is not above playing politics.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/theres-no-one-to-hold-donald-trump-accountable-w481604

[nikibatts]

1. Oh, yes there is. But they won't step up and do it. It begins with Articles of Impeachment.

But the accomplices in the House will not allow that to be done.

[FakeNoose]

2. That's not what Comey was doing anyway

Trump got away with so much c.r.a.p. and Comey never said a thing.
How was he holding Trump accountable? Comey's a Republican too don't forget.

He wasn't! So there's no reason to cry over him being fired.

We need an independent special prosecutor now!

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. That's been Trumpy's objective all along. He refuses to have a boss,

and he'll do anything to keep it that way.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Republicans are complicit

Traitors to our Constitution.

[DFW]

5. Sure there is. He's just enjoying the show for the moment.

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[kentuck]

7. +1000

[Solly Mack]

6. Did a president getting away with torturing people to death also fill him with a creeping terror?

It did me.

Yeah, I'm the ass in all this. It's me that's the problem. Snort.

But, seriously, people. If a war criminal president can't be brought to justice, how does anyone expect Trump to be?

Unless Trump becomes a liability to the GOP, they won't lift a finger.

Unless the Democratic Party can gain a majority, there isn't even a glimmer of hope.

But anything can happen between now and then, and with Trump & the complicit GOP in charge, none of it will be good.