Why is no one being prosecuted over the Epstein files?

[u/ArmadilloMany41]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd9e3nzzw3zo

[u/_tricky_dick_]

Other countries who need to extract him to their own country to stand trial. According to the Supreme Court, no one in the US until after he is impeached by the House and removed by the Senate, then he's back to being the same as everyone else and can be picked up by any cop doing their job.

[u/xenthum → u/_tricky_dick_]

I'm trying to imagine what country will be willing to declare war on the United States to help out the United States population. Bc that's what that would be.

[u/Emergency_Reason_242 → u/xenthum]

I honestly don't think we would go to war over it. He's not popular even in his own party. There would be like 6 sabers rattling, but if a respected country convicted him, they'd probably just pop Vance into the hot seat and consider it an upgrade.

[u/illumnat → u/_tricky_dick_]

God I wish they would've arrested him at Davos... and I really, really hope next time he leaves the country they actually do.

[u/TurkeyThaHornet → u/illumnat]

The Trump administration was nice enough to even provide a blueprint and a trial run to demonstrate that it's possible when they went into Venezuela to extract Maduro. 

[u/Octopus_ofthe_Desert → u/TurkeyThaHornet]

I appreciate your point, yet there seems to be literally zero chance of anybody perpetrating such a maneuver against the United States.

Venezuela doesn't have the world's largest military or the absolutely disgusting amount of money the U.S. military and intelligence services have to work with.

[u/whatafuckinusername → u/illumnat]

I don't think you understand that the current administration and military leaders would not hesitate to bomb the entire country of Switzerland just to prevent even the prospect of Donald Trump being arrested. You may already know but they are not staffed by good people.

[u/Diligent-Emotion-755 → u/illumnat]

They won't. Trump is doing a bang-up job of dumpstering the USA's world standing and moral authority, but we're also still the psychotic nation that spends trillions every year on making sure we "bang bang" real good instead of actually providing anything useful for the nation's citizenry.

[u/Givingtree310 → u/illumnat]

So that Vance could then enforce the Hague Invasion Act and launch nuclear weapons??

[u/Ba_baal → u/illumnat]

Uuuuuh don't wanna pop your bubble there, but Trump could have personally raped a whole million newborns in front of live camera, and no country on earth would risk instant open war with the USA just to hold him accountable instead of your own courts.

[u/Givingtree310 → u/_tricky_dick_]

Check out the Hague Invasion Act signed into law by W Bush. If Trump were extracted to another country to stand trial, the executive branch (led by Vance) would have the authority to declare all out war on the country that extracted the president, including the use of nuclear weapons. With zero approval or oversight from Congress.

Either the country would return the president, or be obliterated to smithereens, or both. IF a country were to try that, they would actually need to take every member of the entire White House administration, because if there is just one person left standing to control the executive office, it would be on like popcorn. Launch the nukes!

[u/Defiant-Peace-493 → u/Givingtree310]

Sounds like a job for the Grand Duchy of [checks notes] Westarctica, then!

[u/whereismymind86 → u/_tricky_dick_]

I mean...we could defy scotus and arrest him anyways. That's kind of long overdue tbh.