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Never Trump is OK with Political Prosecution
DeSantis stands against this or he is not worth a vote.
GOP candidates not decrying this will most likely change my mind on who I am willing to vote for if they win the primary.
All of you who think things are fine, will you agree they are not if this happens? Of course not. Y’all will be happy because it gets Trump.
We will see who is on the side of law, and who is on the side of political prosecution.
Now, I am more than willing to buy Trump is pumping things up. But, that is typical for political people. Ginning up the base is what is done. It’s how you get into power.
The justice system has been taken over by the Democrats and used against us. How the anti Trump people think this is OK is beyond me.
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Trump is loving this, drama queen that he is. I seriously doubt he’s going to be arrested on Tuesday. Calm down.
Because that phrase always gets the desired effect …
True.
If he did turn himself in, does that still count as “arrest?”
This is the classic dismissal of another’s feelings as invalid. People don’t generally understand that is what they are doing, but they are doing it nonetheless.
If this enough to arrest Trump, Hillary should be on death row.
If they do go through with this, it will give the next republican administration the balls to clean up the rampant public corruption in the democrat machinery cities. Chicago, NY, etc – we’ll finally find out why education is so expensive, and is so ineffective…
Yes, after he mad a fuss the government backs down and Trump is a full….
I doubt you are the gatekeeper of any team; if you are the team is going to end up being too small a team to be effective. Trump did payoff a porn star to keep quiet about relations he had while married to Melania. I do not think he should be prosecuted for it, but whatever. However, I do encourage you to make this the hil you choose to die on and the defining issue of your politics. Go For It.
Not if the McConnell wing has anything to say about it.
Yeah, gonna have to go with Not Bloody Likely on this one.
Let’s just say that when Republicans go toe-to-toe with the enemy, all the toes point in the same direction.
. . Oops. I get it now.
There is nothing “small potatoes” about politicized prosecutions, no matter who is the target. Corruption will always be with us to some degree or other, but politicized prosecutions go against the essence of what this country is about.
Politicized prosecutions, in America, were unheard of when I was growing up. That absence was one of the differentiating factors that made America exceptional.
I can’t imagine being dismissive of the fact that we are losing that part of our uniqueness.
I think that this is indeed a politicized prosecution, and I think it’s designed to help secure the GOP nomination for Trump. My guess is that the Dems are hoping this galvanizes Trump supporters who might be wavering. I think Trump hopes for this too.
Certainly plausible, but it doesn’t mitigate the damage being done by political prosecutions.
Agreed. This is third-world, banana-republic stuff.
If I knew of any actual Trump crime, I’d probably want to say something clever about the how the real problem is the political lack of prosecutions against corrupt Democrats.
If I knew of any actual Trump crime.
I think this is a silly statement. I can not see why any individual would want to be arrested or deal with the issues caused by it or live with the cost or deal with the uncertainty of your future. Statements such as this I suspect is by people that have never been on the wrong side of the laws will.
Yes. We have a problem with politicized non-prosecutions, too
But if you try to prosecute politicians for actual crimes, you get cries of “Banana Republic!” etc.
I’m serious, and no, I don’t think this is silly. All of this drama puts Trump back on the front page, which is what he wants. Oh sure, he’ll have to be fingerprinted, and handcuffed too, I suppose, but that’s just more front page coverage. Trump will bask in all of this. Nor do I think he really has anything to fear from this prosecution, because it is so blatantly a politically-motivated action – even Never-Trumpers admit the case is on seriously shaky ground. No, this is tailor-made for Trump’s purposes, which is to get on the front page and to paint himself as a victim – and in this case, he is actually a victim!
Does he have a wing?
I dont understand where McConnell gets his support from – other than his state that keeps re-electing him – but why?
Seniority, prestige, bringing home the bacon… same reasons some people in Arizona kept re-electing McCain.
I don’t think it is silly at all. I never like the law bent like this. It tears into the system. Makes it more of the joke it is. Prosecutors that twist the system such as this should be arrested and not celebrated such as this on is. Like Trump or not (and I do not), being abused by the law for government abuse.
As fo Trump likening this. I doubt it. But like anybody with such abuse he will do what he can to be best for him. Nothing strange about that.
Ok, sure thats why he can get re-elected. But he knows that outside of Kentucky he has nothing. There have never been any rumor of a presidential run – surely he has those ambitions. But he knows his place in the establishment machine.
He might get more from his China connections now, than he would as president.
I have a suggestion that might not fit in this enlightened age. How about prosecuting politicians who have committed crimes and not prosecuting those who haven’t?
What are you, some kind of crazy radical?
I scare me sometimes.
Fruitcake.