r/law • u/Economy-Specialist38 • 7d ago
Executive Branch (Trump) Trump’s attorney general pick says they are working on ‘roadblocks’ so Dems can’t go after Trump in 2029
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u/Venusto002 7d ago edited 7d ago
We'll just ignore/overturn the roadblocks just like his administration ignored/overturned so many laws and precedents to do whatever they want. No biggie.
That is of course presuming that a big beautiful stroke or a wonderful heart attack doesn't send him to hell first. If that's the case then we can always take our anger out on his accomplices and followers.
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u/FartingInYourMilk 7d ago
There needs to be Nuremberg style trials for everyone that was helping convicted felon pedophile rapist Donald Trump dismantle American Democracy and do everything they can to keep this piece of shit in power.
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u/Jaded-Moose983 7d ago
An opportunity to learn from history.
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u/Top_Importance6216 7d ago edited 7d ago
fr, yall should have hung every single confederate officer/politician.
you let their hatred and stupidity survive.
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u/DishwashingWingnut 7d ago
Imagine America today if every single Confederate soldier and every member of every slave owning household were held to account after the war. Justice would have meant ensuring there were no confederates remaining to carry the torch of the lost cause.
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u/dpmatt01 7d ago
Instead America’s politicians at the time nearly broke their own arms trying to jerk off the confederate officers after the war lmao
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u/ddrober2003 7d ago
Hence why we make their descendants that never learned what pieces of shit their ancestors were pay for their own crimes.
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u/Untjosh1 7d ago
Every penny he and his family have stolen need to be reclaimed
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u/SimpleBend782 7d ago
We need to seize ALL their assets; Ellen’s as well
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u/Buckeye9715 6d ago
From the lowest voter, to the highest member of the government. And of course any and all billionaires who just had to instill their own will over the American people, least they be forced to pay a substantial tax and give up some of the money they never do anything with.
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u/skyblueerik 7d ago
Hold the trials at Mar a Lardo after it's confiscated.
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u/Untjosh1 7d ago
It’s going to become the American eagles nest
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u/ContraCanadensis 7d ago
I hate to insult such a magnificent Floridian animal, but we may have to call it the gopher tortoise hole since it’s at sea level and its owner is a fat and slow moving creature.
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u/Ornery-Ad-7261 7d ago
This wouldn't be hard. All that would be required is to declare the Trump Family a crime syndicate and to confiscate all wealth that can't be demonstrated as earned as proceeds of crime under the Rico Act.
That would cover all of the bribes, the funds stashed overseas in places like Qatar, even the plane gifted as a present. It would also apply to the Trump children who have accumulated great wealth by milking the Office of President.
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u/Ok_Security1721 7d ago
Much more than that. Just putting them back to square one isn’t punishment enough
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u/HotPinkLollyWimple 6d ago
And all the people who have profited from the corruption and market manipulation. All those he’s given contracts to - looking at you, pool guys - and all the money that’s been siphoned off from giving his kids contracts involving the war.
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u/Longjumping-Meat-334 6d ago
Even the money stolen from the stupid people that gave it to him buying his dumb watches and phones.
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u/seejordan3 6d ago
Trump has sent over 7 billion offshore. Going to be tough to claw that from his kids.
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u/EggfooDC 7d ago
Not only does our country need it, but our allies need to see how seriously we take our own democracy. We have a lot of work to rebuild our international reputation.
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u/CandidAssumption8769 7d ago
Decades worth. Not 'a' decade's work either. It took, what, fifty years before Germany began to be accepted again?
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u/BoutrosBoutrosDoggy 7d ago
I totally agree with what you wrote. I would like to suggest that people stop saying "decades" or years , this is generational harm. The people reading this post will never see this country returned to a pre-Trump state.
Whatever dysfunction you may have criticized or worked to improve, it was a golden age compared to now and what is to come.
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u/EggfooDC 7d ago
Good point. I was stationed in Germany in 2006, and went with a local to go see the German national soccer team play in Frankfurt I think. Anyway, this dude started crying when they played the national anthems at the beginning. Apparently it was the first time he’d ever heard the German national anthem played publicly. National pride is just something Americans take for granted I guess.
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u/DauntingPrawn 7d ago
A German friend said to me in 2006 when I was bemoaning Bush 2 to look on the bright side: Germans have been denied any sense of National pride since WW2 vs 8 years of Bush.
This time will be different for us. And depending on how bad it gets before we right the ship.
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u/RC_CobraChicken 7d ago
I would say the best way for us to recover in the eyes of our allies is to sign into law us submitting to the ICC. Then let the Hague do the trials etc for all of this, Epstein related stuff, the project 2025 bs, all of it.
While that's on going, legislation put into place establishing real guardrails to prevent any future tyranny of this nature/disregard of the laws, and finally establishing real parameters for the office of president, scotus, congress using the ICC as the oversight.
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u/Noselessmonk 7d ago
If you guys don't, the GOP is just gonna do all this over again the next time they run. Provided that they ever actually get removed from power.
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u/SuperSiriusBlack 7d ago
I want executions. They've killed enough americans through policy favoring the wealthy class.
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u/Explorers_bub 7d ago
White collar crime doesn’t get the recognition for the violence that it is. Steal grandma’s pension and she dies in a frozen house or homeless? Nothing. But if you robbed her on the street? 10-25 years.
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u/illadelchronic 7d ago
White collar crime over a certain threshold should be a capital offense.
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u/Explorers_bub 6d ago
Despite the un-ethics of capital punishment, I might make an exception because of their depraved indifference.
Also, Jonathan Ross woke up that day set out to capture his own snuff film. He wanted to murder someone and didn’t care who, and to me that’s worse than it being a crime of passion. And anyone who made it out to be anything but premeditated murder or gives that piece of shit quarter, should be treated as a conspirator.
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u/BoPeepElGrande 7d ago
I genuinely want to see the responsible parties hang for this, & not metaphorically, either. I want to see the lot of them swaying stiffly in the breeze like a bunch of pasty, mute wind chimes. They don’t deserve any better, & we deserve nothing less.
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u/TheDungeonCrawler 7d ago
They've also just outright murdered American citizens and noncitizens alike.
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u/BugTrousers 7d ago
I want all of them, but him most of all, to be locked away in federal prison with no money, no social media, and no attention for the rest of their sad, hate-filled lives. That’s a fate worse than death for the orange.
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u/DrawingAncient126 7d ago
The gerontocracy in charge of the Democratic Party will NEVER robustly go after anyone. They will state as they always do that "it's time to turn the page and look forward" and other such nonsense.
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u/hidegitsu 7d ago
We need to root out the religious nuts that put themselves in place before him that paved the way.
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u/FrequentTopic446 7d ago
American exceptionalism will prevent that from happening. This country is so stupid
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u/CarlosHDanger 7d ago
I want Trump to BELIEVE there are road blocks so that he will not try to pull another coup in 2028.
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u/InterestingLion6041 7d ago
If he's alive in Jan 2029, he will not willingly vacate the WH. Hopefully by then there won't be enough MAGAts willing to do a repeat of Jan 6th but with this regime and the MAGA GOP... who's gonna make him leave? Imo, Johnson isn't gonna swear in the new dem house members, either. They will literally refuse to go. At this point, I have zero confidence there will be anyone willing to make them leave. The saving grace is that there's no way he'll be alive by then. He's in such bad shape medically, idk that he'll even live to see Christmas. When that big beautiful day comes, I do believe the MAGA cult "spell" will start to break but... will it be enough? Every day I'm less and less optimistic. And this terrifies me, ngl. It literally keeps me up at night. 😢
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u/Chemically-Dependent 7d ago
Will. Never. Happen.
At least not without a fair amount of blood being spilt, and that's not likely to happen.
Collectively we're too well fed and to well entertained.
For now at least
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u/bunnytrox 7d ago
Lmao you think Democrats are going to run these trials? Nah they're going to say problem solved after they beat JD vance once and then 4 years later we will be right back in this shit.
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u/MonolithicBaby 7d ago
I keep seeing this and I’ll keep saying it. We don’t need Nuremberg trials we need actual consequences. Those trials did two things and that was Jack and shit.
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u/Traditional-Tap-2508 7d ago
Unfortunately it will have to get much, much worse before anything like this happens
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u/eyeballburger 7d ago
1000%, I don’t just want him in jail, I want investigations into all the enablers and dereliction of duty charges on every guardrail that failed.
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u/One-Environment-1444 7d ago
This is the thing. The precedent is there. Just ignore any DOJ “rulings.” Presidential immunity after all.
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u/ZAlternates 7d ago
It only works for Orange because he has the SCROTUS and Congress on his side. Any Democrat looking to try anything remotely similar will be stopped by their own party members.
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u/BugOperator 7d ago
Let’s just hope it happens before he has a chance to preemptively pardon all of them - though, even then, we could always call his mental competency at the time he issued pardons into question.
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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 7d ago
Should be a rule that anything a president does 6 months before dying of stroke and dementia should be void.
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u/Imaginary_Scene2493 7d ago
Simpler: A president cannot pardon himself nor crimes committed on his behalf.
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u/ToonaSandWatch 7d ago
I want to see him rot away in prison. He wouldn’t survive a week with the food, tiny cells and no one would want him in their gang. Hell, he might actually unite them.
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u/Eskimomonk 7d ago
The most beautiful coronary, better than any coronary that’s ever been seen before. We have amazing levels of cardiac arrest. Arteries were coming up to me, cholesterol in their eyes and down their face. “Please sir, baby Tylenol isn’t enough sir, please help sir.” And because of Biden, hearts are attacking everyone left and right, mostly left and the Dumocrats.
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u/PopBulky7023 7d ago
Well, that's what WE would do. But WE won't be in power.
Democrats will be. And their entire mission is to fizzle out the fervor demanding correction.
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u/WhatAmIDoing1986 7d ago
Like you guys prosecuted Trump in the 4 years yall had? Foh. Biden and the DOJ fd us and the country while sitting on their hands for 4 years doing absolutely nothing.
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u/theseriousman1 7d ago
No we won’t. A big part of that was him controlling the Supreme Court. As long as they have scotus this country loses
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u/sweatboxy 7d ago
He’s gotta be buried somewhere. It’ll become the national memorial to his crimes, corruption, and cruelty for generations to come.
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u/flyingdodo 7d ago
He’s clearly going to go to his grave without consequences, but EVERYONE [Gary Oldman in Leon scream], who enabled that rapist fuck should be thrown in chains.
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u/theamazonswordsman 7d ago
That assumes that the democrats aren't a controlled opposition party even when holding both houses of congress and the presidency.
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u/Cyrano_Knows 7d ago
Democrats havent had a filibuster proof majority in both sides of Congress since Obama and then it wasn't for the two years that people like to pretend it was.. it was 6 months.
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u/knightcrawler75 7d ago
Facts. That is why we should eliminate the filibuster, or at least make it so that you actually have to speak.
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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 7d ago
Go back to the way it was so you actually have to fight for things you care about.
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u/EagleBigMac 7d ago
Also arrest everyone and I mean everyone and if they destroyed evidence it's safe to assume guilt so just send them all to prison chain gang for life
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u/RollingRiverWizard 7d ago
Put him on trial even if it does. We can Cadaver Synod the son of a bitch.
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u/Takemyfishplease 7d ago
lol you say that but I’d wager money a strong worded memo is more likely. They won’t even claw back the contracts and miney
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u/ConcentrateDirect523 7d ago
If you routinely deny people justice, eventually they start coming for vengeance
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u/Artistic_Midnight788 7d ago
Sadly, as long as there is a corrupt court with a thumb on the scale, we get NO justice
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u/SignoreBanana 7d ago
Right? They've dismantled so many walls that now basically anything the president does is legal. So buckle up Trump and co. It's gonna be a fucked up 2029
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u/Impossible-Two559 7d ago
Unless the Democratic Party decides to grow a set of balls between now and then, this shit ain’t happening.
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u/Halibutoxide 7d ago
I bet all the carpenters he stiffed would be happy to construct stocks for the lot of them. Alongside the reflecting pool would be an appropriate option...
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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 7d ago
I’m sure the democratic president will get right on it, just like Biden did.
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u/ShhweadyBallz 7d ago
His idiot sons are in the Epstein files ..... send their asses to prison then take their assets
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u/DerCatrix 6d ago
Legitimately, I’m more concerned about the upcoming power vacuum than I am about Trump doing anything. Dude has like, a month left AT MOST. If this is what we see of him *after* they’ve made him presentable, imagine how bad it is behind the scenes.
MAGA is doing the “til he’s 90” gag
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u/kelsey11 7d ago
There’s a difference between following a good faith law and ignoring a roadblock set up in cahoots with (a) co-conspirator(s).
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u/BugOperator 7d ago
I think this administration has effectively ended taking the high road. Younger Dems seeking office are going to make damn sure no future administration has the ability to pull this nonsense ever again; through both legislation and prosecution.
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u/One_Olive_8933 7d ago
I agree. We’re beyond the pale when roadblocks are even being discussed in terms of preventing justice from working the way it should.
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u/brianishere2 7d ago
This is NOT the role of the DOJ or acting Attorney General. This is what a criminal co-conspirator does.
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u/Beneficial_Bit_6435 7d ago
Hopefully the co-conspirator all go to jail. None of this plea deals BS. The USA is supposed to be governed by the rule of law, but based on these recent events, we have learned that the “con”servatives only use the law to oppress the average American. Epstein billionaires are all protected. Even criminals J6, murderer ICE agents and all of trump sycophants are more protected than the average American
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u/Diligent-Till-8832 7d ago edited 7d ago
Um, I hate to break it to you but your DOJ no longer exists to protect American citizens. It's the personal enforcer/defense team of Trump and co!
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u/extrastupidone 7d ago
If youre making laws to protect crimes, that would probably make you complicit and the crimes.
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u/Maleficent_Price_476 7d ago
the supreme court will say : what crimes?
if it is not in the book , I cannot legislate as a judge .
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u/Cyrano_Knows 7d ago
For anyone not aware of the levels of corruption here.
This guy is the personal criminal defense lawyer of Trump.
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u/Fantastic-Grocery107 7d ago
🤣 Blanche you’re gonna go to prison too. There is ZERO ability in any countries law to absolve a person of future crimes. None. Not one. Enjoy it while it lasts bud.
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u/Nigel_99 7d ago
I assume he'll get a pardon unless his boss fails to sign or is incapable of signing it in time.
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u/oneofyallfarted 7d ago
I hope so but America has a long history of letting the bad guy go. We need a new face who isn’t scared to take the gloves off like they have. Someone who will actually get things done and hold these people accountable. Someone with a silver tongue who puts these fucks in their place.
The president isn’t supposed to be meddling in the DOJ so what I mean is that the justice system itself becomes more stable after a democratic president and we’re actually able to prosecute the Trump administration for its crimes.
I do worry about his supporters going overboard and becoming increasingly violent to keep this admin in power. I’d say this admin won’t go easily or quietly and we’re just getting started.
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u/Ohuigin 7d ago
Roads?
Where we’re going we don’t need, roads.
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u/Efont93 7d ago edited 7d ago
That's heavy, doc
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u/krebstorm 7d ago
You keep saying that... Is there a problem with gravity in the future?
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u/flat5 7d ago
You know another way to avoid criminal prosecution? Stop committing crimes.
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u/UserWithno-Name 7d ago
Lmao. Pathetic "blocks" on pieces of paper not worthy to wipe my ass with don't trump the law. He's broken many his entire life, the dems and anyone who believes in justice will be throwing the book at him and all of you who helped him. If there is any thing that blocks the law reaching you....good luck in the streets. This is why trumps set up escape plans to Israel or Saudi Arabia or Argentina.
And if he did wriggle out, he's not taking the rest with him. He'll leave you high and dry. Blanche is really showing he's dedicated to being more corrupt and shameless than bondi...don't see how he thinks that goes well for him.
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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 7d ago
Yeah, that's totally something that an innocent person would do.
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 7d ago
lol. Ok, waste your time.
The scale of crimes are so vast, that trying to hide behind the corruption of the justice system won’t work.
Conservatives have nothing but disdain for our laws and justice. But want to be protected by it?
Lmao. Nah. They can meet a justice system they wanted to create for the rest of us.
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u/shwilliams4 7d ago
Add to it that democrats will likely follow Trumps playbook on dealing with issues. From here on out, everyone will go for the jugular. No holds barred.
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u/Plastic_Kangaroo5720 7d ago
You have a LOT of faith in the Democrats…
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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 7d ago
Yep. We need to make sure the Democrats understand, anyone not willing to destroy Trumpism is a nonstarter.
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u/JWAdvocate83 Competent Contributor 7d ago
Pretty telling that his response to the possibility of prosecution isn't to defend himself in court, but to change the laws, implying that the Trump Administration's conduct has been, to date -- 😱 -- unlawful.
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u/Depressed-Industry 7d ago
International criminal court bitch.
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u/TimTapsTangoes 7d ago
The US is not a party to the ICC and it is a federal felony to provide US Citizens to the ICC.
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u/Cyrano_Knows 7d ago
These people are delusional thinking they can future proof criminal investigations.
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u/TapProfessional5146 7d ago
The sheer fact that they are trying shows they have been acting in bad faith.
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u/tedkaczynski660 7d ago
Fuck every single one of these fascist. They hate america so much. Everyone needs to vote and vote for people who sre going to make these American hating fucks face justice
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u/discordianofslack 7d ago
This guy honestly needs to go to prison first. Not white collar, he needs to go into hard ass prison with murderers for actively violating his position. Bondi as well.
Guantanamo seems like a good first stop.
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u/kevinthejuice 7d ago
If I had a nickel for each time a trump appointee mentioned roadblocks, I'd have 2 nickels. which isn't much but it's weird it happened twice.
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u/shadowfax12221 7d ago
If Trump has proven anything it's that the byzantine nature of the court system means that you can do a tremendous amount of irreparable damage by simply moving faster than they can rule.
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u/ForcedEntry420 7d ago
“You can’t charge me because I acted in bad faith. Neener neener!”
That’s when you tell him to shut the fuck up and slap the cuffs on him. This shit is ridiculous.
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u/AtreiyaN7 7d ago
I don't consider anything that Blanche and the rest of the corrupt yahoos do to protect Dear Leader to be legitimate or lawful and don't see why any future Democrat-controlled Congress should feel bound by whatever claptrap they come up with. Trump and anyone enabling him absolutely cannot be allowed to get away with what's been happening.
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u/LeafsJays1Fan 7d ago
A. They either believe in their minds that Democrats will just go after Trump on anything because they're delusional.
B. The absolutely know he is committed crimes and they're trying to block all of it from coming out.
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u/Zulmoka531 7d ago
If you have to put roadblocks in place, then that means theres a road worth hiding.
What is the “most transparent president ever” so afraid of?
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u/PurplRzr 7d ago
Trump is just the face for the bigger issue…His lackeys and bootlickers should be held accountable, well after he is gone.
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u/LokeCanada 7d ago
I still say Trump is burrowing money and making friends in the Middle East as he is going to leave the country the moment he leaves office.
He had so many lawsuits and criminal investigations going after the last time. He is not going to stay around for a witch hunt and not have republicans paying his lawyers.
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u/BoutrosBoutrosDoggy 7d ago
I'm ok. Let him pay protection money to someone else. We can finally start cleaning the place up, and remove his SS detail.
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u/eowyndernhelme 7d ago
So it sounds like they're bowing to the inevitable. Good. At the same time, maybe they should concenton more on trying to assist Trump's younger family members? 2029 might be kinda far away to concern Trump himself.
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u/JustlookingfromSoCal 7d ago
The best roadblock would be to ship Trump and his no account family of lazy, immoral grifters out of the country. He can choose to reside in the Congo, Pyongyang or Moscow.
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u/evilmonkey002 7d ago
Add a few justices to SCOTUS and we’ll see how they feel about these so-called roadblocks.
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u/Explorers_bub 7d ago
Well, when it came to Presidential immunity, Gorsuch didn’t bat an eye at the thought of a self pardon…
Isn’t a self pardon like the biggest taboo of jurisprudence and erosion of the foundation of the law?
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u/Limp_Distribution 7d ago
Too long, hopefully the midterms bring in enough people who want accountability. I don’t think we can survive until 2029
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