Lock Him Up? For the Republic to survive Trump's presidency, he must be tried for his crimes
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-criminal-prosecution.htmlBy Jonathan Chait
In the end, the most salient fact about Donald Trump may simply be that he is a crook. He has been defying the law since at least the early 1970s, when he battled the Department of Justice over his flagrant refusal to allow Black tenants into his fathers buildings. He has surrounded himself with mafiosi, money launderers, and assorted lowlifes. His former attorney, national security adviser, and adviser, and two of his campaign managers, have been arrested on or convicted of an array of federal crimes ranging from tax fraud to perjury to threatening witnesses. He employs the lingo of the underworld: People who cooperate with law enforcement are flippers and rats; investigators pursuing his misconduct are dirty cops. To him, the distinction between legal and illegal activity is merely an artificial construct enforced by sanctimonious hypocrites.
And although President Trumps opponents have been warning Americans what will happen to their 230-year-old constitutional government if our gangster president gets another four years in office, the truth is much of the damage has already been done. An electoral defeat in November is, of course, necessary. But Trump has set off a profound crisis of democratic legitimacy that even a resounding Joe Biden victory may not completely resolve. It may not take a fully developed fascist movement to bring down the Republic. All that may be required is one well-placed criminal.
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,721 posts)Get the justice they deserve.
Dont think its ever going to happen. I hope beyond hope Im wrong. He knows all the tricks to make any charge against him stall, he has been at it way too long.
Please I never wanted to be wrong as badly as I do now.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)The cheap thug and his movement must be utterly discredited, and only arrest, trial and conviction for his genuine crimes can do this.
"Kill one, warn one hundred."
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Absolutely!
We are here in this mess because Nixon was pardoned. White collar criminals are treated with kid gloves!
We must makes examples of all traitors & coconspirators! Those who obstruct justice do not deserve freedoms enjoyed by law abiding citizens!
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)ChazInAz
(2,567 posts)NNadir
(33,515 posts)...need to die in prison.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)we might have avoided you-know-who
DFW
(54,369 posts)He is, as his string-pullers might describe him, "глуп как пробка (stupid as a cork)." The manipulators and enablers, such as Barr, McConnell, Pompeo, Kushner, etc. are the ones who also need to stand trial.