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Will trump End Up In Prison?
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/96249
The Biden administration on Thursday laid it right out in the open.
When Trump 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort was passing secret polling information about swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to Konstantin Kilimnik, as is laid out in the Mueller Report, it was part of a very specific and successful effort on the part of Russian Intelligence to help put Trump in office.
This was the data they would have used to have troll accounts and ads target individuals in those states via social media, particularly Facebook, to both suppress the vote for Clinton and encourage voters to show up for Trump and other down-ticket Republicans.
This is not the first time a Republican candidate for president has committed treason to get into the White House. In fact, it's been the norm since 1968, and therefore it's time to seriously discuss a 60-year problem we've had with treasonous and illegitimate Republican presidents.
America must stop giving criminal Republican presidents a pass. Every GOP president since Dwight Eisenhower used treason or deception to come to office (or inherited office from one who did), and it needs to end. It's a truly astonishing and horrifying story.
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One can only wonder how much better off America would be if six Republican presidents hadn't stolen or inherited a stolen White House and used it to put right-wing cranks on the Supreme Court and other federal benches.
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America has ignored GOP crimes to seize and hold the White House long enough. It's time, at long last, to put this one in prison.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)Ocelot II
(115,837 posts)which would probably be at least as hard for him to take as prison.
ShazzieB
(16,513 posts)I'm not counting on him ever going to jail, and this would be the next best thing.
former9thward
(32,080 posts)How did Eisenhower commit treason to get into office?
Biophilic
(3,691 posts)former9thward
(32,080 posts)I am very aware of when he was president. That does not answer my question.
ShazzieB
(16,513 posts)1968 was after Eisenhower's time in office.
former9thward
(32,080 posts)We have had three Democratic administrations, now a fourth, since 1968. How come none of them have prosecuted the highest crime we have? The only one specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)As opposed to "including".
former9thward
(32,080 posts)The person should have said either "since Nixon" or "since 1968". If that is what they believed. They did not answer my post .
CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)If only it were real.
Dan
(3,579 posts)1. No cuff links
2. No tie.
3. No shoe strings.
4. No belt.
No one wants him to commit suicide to escape punishment.
TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)Author doesn't have a clue what treason is.
Author is not alone:
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/americans-have-forgotten-what-treason-actually-means-how-it-can-ncna848651
stopdiggin
(11,361 posts)sop
(10,246 posts)Trump should pay for his own incarceration.
His type never pays for anything.
Though one or more of the kids might.
Rebl2
(13,551 posts)its doubtful. I would have thought they would have charged him with something by now. Maybe I am just anxious for it to happen. I fear I will be disappointed.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Where's the evidence that Trump KNEW about the Russian effort?
2naSalit
(86,779 posts)Anything less is a continuation of complacency to the crimes committed. If any one of us would be imprisoned for such offenses, so should he and all his enablers and co-conspirators.
Dorian Gray
(13,501 posts)he won't.
Should he? Of course.
But it won't happen.
kairos12
(12,872 posts)Too much blowback. Too many lawyers. Too much dough.
He has too much money and too many lawyers to ever see the inside of a prison cell. He can fight it in court until the day he dies. Which won't be long, his health sucks.
He might be charged with some things, he might even be convicted by a jury, but he'll never go to jail.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I would love it more than breathing.
But I doubt it will happen.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)But we should try to make his life miserable.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)RussBLib
(9,035 posts)Let's get some charges going.
WarGamer
(12,483 posts)I think if the R's take the House they will make a deal with Trump and let him be Speaker if he promises NOT to run in 24.
He'll do it... 2 years to be a dickish troll, his favorite activity.
And the GOP wins because they can run DeSantis, Haley or Noem.
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)He knows how to work the system too well...
He could keep it tied up in the courts for the rest of his life.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Remember when everyone was convinced that W was going to The Hague, etc etc?
The reality is that Presidents and ex-Presidents wield far to much power to be sent to jail.
stopdiggin
(11,361 posts)And serious doubts whether DOJ has any intentions of going there. State charges? Slightly more possible -- but still unlikely to include prison sentence. So -- in summation -- slim chance vs none.
And -- it's probably about time we stopped asking questions like this -- unless there's really something to add to the conversation. And this post/string doesn't.
Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)as the AG office in some states have a new branch. I call it the Bureau of Perpetual Investigation. They will investigate people like Trump until he dies of natural causes.
Faux pas
(14,690 posts)for the truth
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,675 posts)Just like we couldn't hurt Nixon supporters feelings
" BUSH 1 "
" BUSH 2 "
What a sham country we live in. Trump does pretty much everything but literally kill someone, he fought Covid with his lies and killed many more....
We have an America for the Rich and Powerful and one for the rest of us. I get Teargassed for protesting the first one !!!!!!