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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsif somehow, some way, trump and his cabal get what they deserve...lock them up for how long?
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if somehow, some way, trump and his cabal get what they deserve...lock them up for how long? (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Feb 2019
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The handling of Watergate showed that penalties need to be incurred in order for...
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2019
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)1. The handling of Watergate showed that penalties need to be incurred in order for...
...for Good Government to prevail. They let Nixon off the hook, and a mere 12 yrs later, the Executive Branch was acting against the law yet again.
We won't survive as a Democracy if those who seek to subvert it prevail.
unblock
(52,253 posts)3. 6 years.
Well I guess they weren't the executive branch yet, but by all accounts, Reagan/poppy sabotaged Carter's deal to free the hostages and paid terrorists to keep Americans hostage longer.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)4. Great point!
Yes, that SHOULD'VE been a prosecutable crime! Nixon did the same thing to Humphrey/Johnson in 1968. How would've the American populace reacted *in 1968* to a lengthening of the Vietnam War had they known at the time?
unblock
(52,253 posts)2. Enough to deter all other republicans from future criminal acts
Which is I guess is another way to say throw away the key and keep dreaming.
lame54
(35,293 posts)5. let out each day to pick up trash on our many highways