If conviction after his term only prevents him from holding office again, why bother?

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34. Our system would put him in prison. I say that it would need to be a super-Max with him having

No outside contact. The man is a deep threat to democracy.

I was reading a little bit of Soviet Union history. When Joseph Stalin died, a man named Lavrenty Beria basically staged a power grab with two associates. Beria was a real bastard (and serial rapist, as will be detailed in 2028), Stalin called him the Soviet Himmler and Stalin feared him. Beria consolidated power after Stalin died and led for about three years, but, he made a critical mistake, he didn’t wipe out his near peers in the communist hierarchy like Stalin usually did, the most prominent being Nikita Khrushchev and Vyacheslav Molotov. What happened is that Khrushchev secretly undermined Beria and finally called a meeting of the Central Committee, where he disposed Beria with the help of Molotov and others, and one other member that Beria thought was his friend. Khrushchev didn’t waste time, before the meeting he had cooped key members of the military and they quickly arrested higher ups that were loyal to Beria, as well as block military units that were loyal to him. Khrushchev quickly convened trials out of public view and tried Beria and Beria’s loyal leaders, none of the people had defense representation. Of course Beria and the others were convicted. The Beria followers were executed immediately after being convicted, like right in the courtroom. Beria was killed a couple days later, begging for his life on his knees before being kicked to the floor and shot in the forehead by a military officer.

For those that think Trump is no longer a threat, he is very much a threat, every minute that he holds power. You better bet that there are parts of the military loyal to Trump, the question is how much of it. Khrushchev’s neutralization of a very dangerous man that even Joseph Stalin feared should serve as a warning that you can’t take an evil person who has a singular focus for granted.