Glenn Kirschner: I think all Trump enablers in government should be asking themselves this question

[Dennis Donovan]

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Glenn Kirschner ✔ @glennkirschner2

I think all Trump enablers in government should be asking themselves the following question: if I support, encourage or cover-up presidential crimes, can I be charged as an Accessory After the Fact once a law-abiding Attorney General takes over? See 18 USC section 3.

8:59 AM - Oct 29, 2019

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Or will I end up in jail long after Traitor Trump has abandon me.

Cause there is one thing we all know about Traitor Trump is that he has absolutely no loyalty to anyone.

[SterlingPound]

3. or anything

[NewJeffCT]

5. He seems pretty loyal to Putin

he even thanked Russia before US special forces or anybody else

[Farmer-Rick]

20. Oh yeah, but Putin has stolen most of the Russian people's wealth

And is considered the richest man in the world because of it.

And Traitor Trump is always loyal to the mob boss in charge....at least while they are in power.

[Hortensis]

2. :) And for Trump supporters, is it too late to establish "plausible deniability?"

I made an aggressive Trump supporter with a big flock of grandchildren pretty angry last year by suggesting it was way past time for her to start and wondering if her grandchildren didn't all already know not to mention politics when grandma's around. But it was better advice than she deserved.

[gibraltar72]

4. That is why I have been saying

our candidates for any federal office must state no one is gonna get away scott free.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Glenn is a smart guy

but, I think he's a little too positive and optimistic at times.

[Scarsdale]

7. tRump has not

one single positive quality. Not one. He is a failure at everything, who thinks he is a success. What do these people see in him, that they risk their reputations to support him? We had a very high quality, intelligent, thoughtful, happily married family man in that office. Now we have what has to be the DREGS of the gop, lording it over them all. He struts around like a king, waddling everywhere unless there is a golf cart handy. His "wife" is a former prostitute pretending to be respectable as "first lady" His kids could never work for anyone else, since daddy enables them and their incompetence. Tragic what has happened to this once great country in just less than 3 years. The gop should all retire, get out of politics, since their choices for president seem to be the scrapings from the bottom of their barrel.

[Chicagogrl1]

26. As my husband says...

He reflects us, just not all of us, but certainly a swath. I am a strong believer that we have him for a reason, which will become apparent in the future 🤞.

[Botany]

8. Too bad Mr. Kirschner has so little legal experience

@NBCNews @MSNBC Legal Analyst;
Fmr 30-yr fed prosecutor w/ @USAO_DC,
DC Chief of Homicide & @USArmy JAG.
President of @HomFamAdvocates

You can't be pro Trump and pro America @ the same time. They are mutually exclusive.

[duforsure]

9. And they have conspired

By them all taking orders and following them they are conspiring together to obstruct justice, and cover up the presidents and their crimes. By just declaring he hasn't done anything will not end well for any of these people, especially Barr , Guiliani , Pompeo, Munckin and Ross and others. They'll be begging for mercy when justice eventually holds them accountable.

[MrModerate]

10. Ask 'em, "Do you feel lucky today, punk? Well, do ya?" n/t

[Augiedog]

11. Do you really think these people are capable of critical thinking? This is the same party that

tried to outlaw the teaching of critical thinking in the state of Texas.

[Ilsa]

12. We should give them a new name, like

Traitor Trump Putinistas.

[Shipwack]

13. Sorry to be Debbie Downer, but...

I think they have nothing to worry about.

We had the opportunity (and moral obligation) to try many people for war crimes when President Obama came into power. Instead, the decision was made to “look forward, not backward”.

I have no doubt that the same thing is going to happen when the next administration is sworn in.

[Farmer-Rick]

21. Yeah, I remember that. If those torture wiennies and unwarranted wiretapping criminals

had been held accountable and prosecuted back then, I really believe we would not be having a Trump presidency right now.

It was as if it was beneath us to hold people accountable to the law. As if it was too petty.

I really hope we have learned our lesson. If you don't prosecute criminals they only get worse. Eversince Nixon, the criminals have been getting worse.

[bullwinkle428]

23. This has been my underlying fear ever since this crime-spree, reign

of corruption began.

And while some of our Presidential candidates are more likely to embrace this mindset than others, my hunch is that the narrative that will be pounded home by the MSM will likely force the hand of whoever may be in the Oval Office at that time to abandon any effort to prosecute.

[lagomorph777]

14. "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

[czarjak]

31. Seven kids, five ex-wives, featured speaker at GOP Convention

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[DallasNE]

15. Here Is Link to 18 USC section 3

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3

I wonder how often it has been applied.

[Native]

16. Here's the wording of the code (2 short paragraphs)

Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact.

Except as otherwise expressly provided by any Act of Congress, an accessory after the fact shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571 ) fined not more than one-half the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the principal, or both; ?or if the principal is punishable by life imprisonment or death, the accessory shall be imprisoned not more than 15 years.

https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-procedure/18-usc-sect-3.html

[Native]

18. HALF!!!!!

[oldsoftie]

17. Doubtful. We have set a precedent to move on after a new administration takes over.

[uponit7771]

19. But can they be charged? Rule of law should come before precedent, this admin is lawless & enabling

... them by doing little to nothing is a bad thing.

[oldsoftie]

28. I think so, but COULD & WILL are two totally different things.

But maybe a lawyer needs to chime in, cause I'm NOT one!

[Mr. Ected]

22. Since most of the GOP has sold out to Russian and Saudi interests

It's probably not just Trump that keeps them in a cold sweat at night.

[Karadeniz]

24. For way too long, admins have ignored a previous admins crimes. We don't want the public

To know that the system didn't work and everything's just perfect with the American way. This time, we've come too close to a dictatorship. Probably time to let people know they'll be held accountable.

[bagimin]

25. K&R

[warmfeet]

27. Lock all of them up.

Don't be bothered with keys.

[Ford_Prefect]

29. And ALL of the enablers, ALL of the hidden patrons and conspirators: Skinner, Mercer, Koch, Murdoch,

and ever so many more.

Take their money, deny their privilege, make them walk in public as the unmasked collaborators and co-conspirators they are. Take them to the cages and show them the pictures of the dead, and the kidnapped, and the missing.

Take their fortunes and give it all to those who have been tortured, starved, humiliated and deported.

Make them sign up for national health care just like any other citizen and let them wait for it just like any other citizen.

Make them walk through the streets of cities and towns they have looted and destroyed in their Hubris and Greed, that they may beg forgiveness and atone...And may that take a very long time.

[Aussie105]

30. In a different place and at a different time

Madame Guillotine had all the answers.

A few baskets filled with heads, and the others will pull into line.

. . . . just sayin' . . . .

[calimary]

32. I had to write that ask last weekend. We divvy 'em up before we start writing.

In our Indivisible group, our Research & Writing team gets together every weekend to write up the next Call to Action email. We figure out what the asks are and who writes ‘em. I usually get the impeachment ask.

I started adjusting the messaging this time as far as what we want to ask our Congressmen and Senators - fortunately all Democrats. Instead of merely “time to twist arms with your GOP friends”, I’m going deeper. And harder. And more pointed. “Ask them - ‘what does your conscience tell you to do?’ And ‘what does your oath of office tell you to do?’”

Make ‘em squirm.

Or as former farmer and hog castrater/sadist Joni Ernst said in her campaign commercials to win her Iowa Senate seat six years ago, “make ‘em squeal!”