And of course Nixon was going to be indicted and prosecuted, which is why Ford broke institutional norms and granted him a blanket pardon. |
Hit submit too soon. My point is that she shouldn’t get points when it’s clear she smells blood in the water. She and all the other spineless Republicans should have spoken up forcefully and let the party take the hit rather than let the country get slowly twisted and destroyed by Republicans disrespecting it. |
Muller couldn't prosecute Trump because the DOJ said only Congress should prosecute a sitting president.
Congress refused to prosecute Trump because it was close to an election and "the public should decide". After the election and the attack on the Capitol, Republicans wouldn't prosecute Trump because he was about to become a private citizen so the point was moot. And so NOW we can't prosecute Trump as a private citizen because he's planning to run for office???? STFU republican shills |
It's the same thing with Chris Christie. He was in the August 2016 FBI briefings and knew what kind of threat Trump posed to the country and waited til now to open his yap about it. |
They are all opportunists that value their own self interests over morals and values, party or country. |
Exactly. Nothing but excuses. From the same a-holes who screamed "lock her up" when they had even less on Hillary. |
Lock him up, lock him up!
Trump traitors are all about excuses, aren't they. |
There's never a good time to prosecute their cult leader. |
If DeSantis wins we never vote again he will be king and it will be horrible Read his statements today on SCOTUS Plus Casey omg she’s horrific already stole $ 80, mil herself . We don’t need a queen of DeSantis land ugh |
The institutional norms were that presidents were not by and large habitual criminals. Nixon resigned, spending his last night in office praying with Billy Graham I believe. He kept quiet for a very long time afterward. Clinton was impeached just once Harding died before he could be implicated in the scandals within his administration Johnson (Andrew) was impeached just once U.S. Grant was never directly implicated in corruption involving his administration Reagan was a potential target with Iran-Contra, but Ollie got all the attention and Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimers (and likely already affected by it while President) not long after Trump has always been about "getting away with it" because he's a "star" |
It's not just about classification anyway. section 793 ssays zilch about classification. It's about defense information that could harm the United States. These are also NOT Presidential Records. A possible analogy would be a CEO for Coke running off with the secret recipe he snatched as he was leaving and waving it at his buddies. Just because he worked for the company does not entitle him to its secrets. |
And none of them - Nixon, Clinton, Harding, etc came back to run again saying "hey you can't prosecute because I used to be President!" Not a one. Sorry, Yoo. It is not an institutional norm. The right needs to stop fabricating utter bullshit to defend Trump. |
Seriously, the people still backing Trump on this are either a.) complete morons or b.) truly do not have our nation's best interests at heart or c.) some combination of the above. There is no d.) |