Trump is Done

[delisen]

44. Not true. We have political solutions.

Show me the the line in the Constitution that that says a vice-president upon ascension to the presidency (but facing possible prosecution for crimes which led to his illegitimately becoming vp), can't make a deal to name a member of a different political party from his own or someone who does not belong to a political party, as his new vp and then resign, in order to lessen his punishment.

The 25th amendment specifies a method of succession, nothing more. It also does not address political parties. A president, to fill a vp vacancy may propose as vp anyone who has the basic qualifications to be president.

The Constitution does not address plea bargaining-yet it is a big part of our justice system.

Gerald Ford was named by the-almost-certain-to-be-impeached Nixon as vp. There is nothing in the Constitution to have prevented Nixon from naming a Democrat.

It was merely politically unlikely that that he would do so. Besides, Democrats in Congress were comfortable with Gerald Ford.

However Nixon was never suspected of colluding with a foreign power to attain the presidency-just covering up his administration's burglary of the opposite party's headquarters, shakedowns of corporations and various domestic crimes.

He was never suspected of making deals with the USSR or China to fix the election of 1972.

We are in new political territory here. we don't know how far into the Republican Party the Russians infiltrated. Pence?, Mc Connell?. Ryan?. Nunes?

We. may never know because the investigators may decide to focus on money laundering, for example.

But the Constitution does not prevent the scenario I proposed.

Politics may stand in the way. Our own political will for justice may stand in the way.

I personally like the concept of justice. I like to see wrongs righted on a large scale. I think one of the weaknesses of the Democratic Party has been lack of appropriate outrage in the face of the attacks upon our democracy.

We tend to think small, while the anti-democracy forces keep marching over us.

I think non-Democrats see us as weak because we don't demand justice.

How many times have I heard Democrats say that we have to work extra-hard to get out the vote because Republicans cheat.

Cheating the vote is outrageous, and the response should be outrage-not acceptance and "who can we run in 2020?"

If we don't stand strong now, it doesn't matter who we run in 2020.