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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit's take on King Donald
So could King Donald really shoot someone on 5th Ave. and not even be investigated?
Here's the Rude Pundit's opinion about such depravity:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
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The Rude Pundit's take on King Donald (Original Post)
Cyrano
Oct 2019
OP
question everything
(47,535 posts)1. He did not say that he would not be investigated
He said that he would still get the votes and... he has been correct.
Every time when I see a headline like: Trump is offering his resort for the G-7 meeting, I can almost hear the cheering from his base: go get it! F**ing A!
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)2. Kick
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The federal appeals court judge here, Denny Chin, pressed a bit: "Your position is that the immunity is absolute. And so if the president were to commit a crime, no matter how heinous" he couldn't even be investigated, let alone arrested. "Thats the position?" Chin asked.
Consovoy, who looks like this in near-profile...
...answered, "Yes...Of course, Congress retains the impeachment power."
Hold that thought in your head. Hold it in your head that the president could barbecue a baby and eat it, presumably covered in secret sauce, in front of the baby's parents and then have them hanged, and the president would have to be impeached and removed from office before the cops could gather evidence to put him in jail. Or, more frighteningly realistically, President Trump could have Adam Schiff and any Democrats investigating him killed and, unless Republicans decided to do something about it, he'd get away with it as long as he was president, a position he could stay in illegally unless...
You see the problem here? Once you declare the president is above the law, then what's to prevent the president from getting crazy with defying the law? It's not that far a leap from defying a subpoena to jailing your political enemies, especially when this superpower of immunity is in the hands of a short-sighted shit-ogre like Donald Trump.
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The federal appeals court judge here, Denny Chin, pressed a bit: "Your position is that the immunity is absolute. And so if the president were to commit a crime, no matter how heinous" he couldn't even be investigated, let alone arrested. "Thats the position?" Chin asked.
Consovoy, who looks like this in near-profile...
...answered, "Yes...Of course, Congress retains the impeachment power."
Hold that thought in your head. Hold it in your head that the president could barbecue a baby and eat it, presumably covered in secret sauce, in front of the baby's parents and then have them hanged, and the president would have to be impeached and removed from office before the cops could gather evidence to put him in jail. Or, more frighteningly realistically, President Trump could have Adam Schiff and any Democrats investigating him killed and, unless Republicans decided to do something about it, he'd get away with it as long as he was president, a position he could stay in illegally unless...
You see the problem here? Once you declare the president is above the law, then what's to prevent the president from getting crazy with defying the law? It's not that far a leap from defying a subpoena to jailing your political enemies, especially when this superpower of immunity is in the hands of a short-sighted shit-ogre like Donald Trump.
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teach1st
(5,935 posts)3. Permanent link to the blog post
Cyrano
(15,057 posts)4. I'm not on Facebook, but this should be posted there.
It should also be posted on every online site -- sane and insane.
The insane will never "get it." Anyone who might still be san, but still backs him, may wake up.