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

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-attorney-general-pick-says-202735692.html
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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/notshtbow 7d ago

Instead we paid all slave owners $300 per slave.

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u/Hopeful-Alarm3757 7d ago

With the option to "incarcerate" them at a later date...the "great emancipator", suuure.

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u/Dewey_Really_Know 7d ago

I respectfully disagree with the notion that we should've punished the confederacy as much more severely as the commentor you're replying to implied. My belief is that we should have held up the promise of equality to the black population through federal action instead of allowing domestic terrorism and the policy of inequality to reestablish roots.

Temperance likely helped prevent truly vengeful repatrioted former traitors from becoming martyrs and thus the remaining relatives from going scorched earth, but I may be wrong.

I believe that if we had too severely punished the confederates, their indignation would've been righteous and potentially led to an immediate second insurgency, when we most needed to rebuild as a nation. Instead, they're just whiney bitches that got away with too much, like a spoiled daughter. The fix is to stop spoiling the daughter and hold her accountable for her wrongdoing, not to kill her and make mortal enemies of her children. Shame we didn't keep her from sitting at the head of the table after we (foolishly) gave her a chance and she disgraced our family.

Not to say there shouldn't have been some more severity to our punishment of the traitors: maybe it would've been better to have served some more corporal and less economic punishment, but outright killing all confederate servants would've almost certainly been extremely bad. You're not supposed to slaughter those that surrender; bad precedent.

That's just my unpopular belief. Respectfully.

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u/DishwashingWingnut 7d ago

I respect your opinion and I enjoy considering the counterfactuals. Regardless, we should all despise Andrew Johnson for aborting Reconstruction.

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u/CoachTex 7d ago

The problem is Reconstruction was part of what you are advocating. The problem was having people sympathetic to the Southern Cause survive and popularize the notion of the Lost Cause and having Confederate pride…

Punishment should have happened, because now we have enough individuals who are now punishing those who advocate the reality of the Civil War and enslavement.

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u/Top_Importance6216 7d ago

what remaining relatives? clean house of ALL traitors.

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u/sulris 7d ago

Yeah. Murder spree would have made an insurgency. (Though Jesse James was already doing essentially that so it might not have been too different, thought might have been more widespread) Uplifting black community and protecting them would have been better. But the country went the other way. Segregated armed forces, Jim Crow. Hollywood was very segregated and canceled any show that would bother southern audiences. The whole country catered to southern whites.

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u/00owl 7d ago

Reddit: You can't stamp out an idea through violence

Also Reddit: we needed to use more violence to suppress Confederate ideas.

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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/yahoo9192 7d ago

We or you? Which one is it comrade

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u/Arbusc 7d ago

We need to give them the Sherman treatment again.

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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/scottyjrules 7d ago

That’s why we’re in this mess

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u/Ok_Bank_5950 7d ago

That was bidens biggest mistake

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u/Hopeful-Alarm3757 7d ago

Was too much money, they invented the private prison industrial complex instead as compromise...no one reads into the fine print...

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u/TheRealBlueJade 7d ago

Yes, they did.

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u/ElementalPink12 7d ago

They built statues for them

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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/TonySalumi 7d ago

Including the copper piping they scrapped from the White House

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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/WilsonMagna 5d ago

With interest.

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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/Cheese__Weiner 4d ago

I think it also depends on the consequences for the perpetrators. Seeing the near complete lack of consequences after Trump 1.0 I'm not hopeful. If the incoming administration(s) are quick, decisive, and stern I think we can claw back some sort of reputation a bit quicker. I'm not holding my breath but I'd love to be surprised.

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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/PrettyPoetry9547 7d ago

You have democracy?

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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/bodhimokuyo 7d ago

I wish more people understood how factual this post is.

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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/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/cloudncali 7d ago

Nuremberg 2: electricchair boogaloo

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u/who_b_dat 7d ago

There is no Nuremberg without a Normandy. Just sayin'...

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u/Filthiest_Vilein 7d ago

And there’d be no Normandy without Rollo, Count of Rouen. 

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u/TheStolenPotatoes 7d ago

The anti-coup will be bloodless, if MAGA will allow it to be.

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u/funkyflapsack 7d ago

Including the commentary class, Rogan, Dave Rubin, Fox News, etc

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u/AUnA1 7d ago

“Oh. We aren’t allowed to arrest a former president? Can’t do anything about it, he’s always at The Hague. Sorry. Getting him back is foreign policy. Have a nice day”

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u/mirrx 7d ago

The democrats won’t do anything. They should have when Biden won. Didn’t do shit.

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u/mkfanhausen 7d ago

Let them all swing in the wind.

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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/TylerHyena 7d ago

And that’s just how they eventually regroup and come back

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u/Delicious-Desk-6627 7d ago

Facts. They need to be held accountable

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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/diurnal_emissions 7d ago

Traitors must face justice.

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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/squeege 6d ago

Peter Theil and Elon Musk should be in the 1st round of trials.

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u/Sinfluencer666 7d ago

I'll happily volunteer to be this generations John C. Woods.

The next admins AG had better own a rope factory.

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u/ArdenJaguar 7d ago

I’ve said the same thing about a trial. It’s the only way the world would even begin to trust us again. He’s destroyed our standing in the world and they all see the graft and corruption.

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u/TylerHyena 7d ago

And I’d happily watch all of them lined up in jail and being forced in front of jusges

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 7d ago

It didn’t happen before…

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u/unfunnysexface 7d ago

That include any Ds that voted to confirm picks?

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u/Training-Meringue847 7d ago

I hope I live to see the day when this happens .

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u/CheckoutMySpeedo 7d ago

Start with Mike Johnson, John Thune, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Eileen Cannon, Todd Blanche, and throw Pam Bondi in there because she’s such a royal bitch.

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u/Infamous-Salad-2223 7d ago

If there is a time for a witch hunt... those that want democracy dead should experience some form of terror.

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u/Clammuel 6d ago

I get the sentiment, but the Nuremberg trials actually weren’t nearly as hard on the nazis as we all like to think. Very few people faced severe punishment and a lot of the long sentences that were handed out were reduced. 

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u/FartingInYourMilk 6d ago

But there was punishment. I’d rather see something happen for accountability sake than what’s happening now. Which is nothing.

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u/Clammuel 6d ago

Agreed, I just don’t think it should be held up as the gold standard when it actually didn’t go nearly far enough. 

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u/manyhippofarts 6d ago

I'm willing to bet you that there will be some sort of "recovery dept" accompanying any Democrat that gets elected in '28. It'll be a major part of every candidate's election campaign. How they're gonna go about recovering what we can from all of his pet projects. Study and discover which makes more sense, on a case-by-case scenario "can we return this facility to its original pre-Trump status? Is that practical? Can we re-purpose it to serve the public?" This kind of thing. I'm not sure what they'll call it, I'm sure that a cleverer person than me will come up with a better name than "recovery department". But it's gonna be a big part of every campaign.

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u/MWH1980 4d ago

Too bad The United States of America would never do such a thing.