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In reply to the discussion: Trump suggests death penalty punishment for Comey, Page, Strozk and McCabe [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)these are people who can't afford to hire lawyers. Imagine if it were you. Lawyers who defend against these things charge hundreds of dollars an hour. They'll be defenseless.
Unless...there's something in the law that provides that the govt will provide a defense for them. How ironic that would be. But I doubt there is such a provision.
Then he's going after the intelligence community as a whole, to stop them from doing their jobs in the future. Stop them from following Russia's continuing infiltration of our govt, maybe?
I'm no Constitutional authority, but I don't think the founding fathers fathomed that this would happen. That the President would be so unbalanced and corrupt, and half the Congress would be too afraid to stand against him, and that he'd have a White House staff to go along with him. After packing the courts with hand picked judges, who also may be afraid of him. And then there's the S.Ct.
I doubt the founding fathers thought it would have been possible to get this bad.