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In reply to the discussion: In order to "heal the soul of the nation" President Biden MUST pursue justice against the Trump WH [View all]DFW
(54,681 posts)The Nürnberg trials put up the most prominent of the captured Nazis. Many of the ones who were lesser level parts of the regime got off with relatively mild sentences or escaped prosecution altogether.
But most of the big fish were caught and tried and sentenced.
Same with Nixon's gang. The worst were tried and sentenced. Not hung like the worst at Nürnberg, but many of them had their careers destroyed, or were left to be nothing better than propagandists for Fox Noise, which is a kind of exile, thought the worst of them probably never realized that.
The worst of the Trump gang, those who enriched themselves blatantly and hugely at the nation's expense MUST face justice. If robbing a bank of $10,000 is a crime worthy of prosecution, how is robbing the country of tens of millions NOT a crime worthy of prosecution?*
At their 2016 convention, they were screaming, "lock 'em up." In the great spirit of bi-partisanship, I say let's do just that. We might not be locking up the exact people they had in mind, but we'd be following their spirit to the letter.
*I know, I know, "steal $100 and you're a criminal, steal $100 million and you're a hero." But that is an adage, not a law.