Sen. Warren: Trump "may not even be a free person" by 2020

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Talking Points Memo @TPM 1m1 minute ago
Warren: Trump "may not even be a free person" by 2020 http://bit.ly/2tjmBwp

TPM:

Early in her speech at a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, according to several reporters present, Warren speculated that Trump may not finish his term.

“Here’s what bothers me, by the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president,” Warren reportedly said. “In fact, he may not even be a free person. But here’s how I see it – Donald Trump is not the only problem we’ve got.”

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[Generic Other]

1. Salt meet raw wound

[sprinkleeninow]

18. Or--'Thorn from a fragrant rose, meet middle finger'. eom

[47of74]

20. If it wasn't snowing and icy right now

I’d have several bags ready.

[manor321]

2. Beautiful! Every single Democrat should be saying this every day. Set the narrative!

[gratuitous]

21. Set the narrative, indeed

We have a lot of work to do to rally public opinion further against that odious man, and the more candidates talk up the "Jail to the Chief" narrative, the more the commentators are going to have to address it. Get people used to the idea that Trump is going to answer for criminal charges, and will be convicted and sentenced.

[malaise]

3. That is how you deal with

Don the Con. He will regret messing with Elizabeth Warren.
She is ridiculing him in public. Fucker you may be in prison by then

[not fooled]

23. Yep

excellent point --Warren's remarks serve as a much-needed dose of reality that counters the corporate media's attempts to normalize the criminal monster in the White House.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[dameatball]

5. That is EXACTLY what she should be saying. She is projecting a much more powerful image of herself

No amount of his "Pocahontas" jabs can come anywhere close to the message she is sending about his future.

[IluvPitties]

6. I sure hope he ain't!

[RKP5637]

7. Lock Him Up!!! Lock Up President Liar! n/t

[bluestarone]

8. Gotta LOVE her!!! Be ready for RUMP to call out the word

Pocahontas. We all know it's coming!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Qutzupalotl]

9. LOL, but -- she's right.

We need someone like Warren or Brown who can address systemic problems and not simply run as an anti-Trump.

[msdogi]

10. Love this thought

and I agree. Sure seems that there has to be something in some/all of the investigations that will lock that fat us up for a very long time. I cannot wait.

[Eyeball_Kid]

15. Trumpy's at, what, 72?

It won't take much of a sentence for him to end up dying in prison. His brain has already deteriorated in the past few years, and that will continue. If he leaves office, voluntarily or otherwise, and he has to answer for multiple criminal indictments, his life is virtually over anyway.

Pardons? There is NO GOPer politician who has enough political capital to survive pardoning Trumpy for ALL of the charges placed against him. Nixon had a handful, and Ford pardoned him. But Ford took a massive political hit for doing so. Trumpy won't have a handful of charges against him. He'll have a truckload.

[sprinkleeninow]

19. Tractor-trailer load.

Hasta la pasta, baby!

[greymattermom]

11. I think she should try this.

"Donald Trump thinks I look like a Disney princess."

[not fooled]

24. Good one

Humor, ridicule

that's an effective way to counter dirty donnie's hideous attacks.

Of course, in a more advanced society none of this would be necessary, but that's just wishful thinking because here we are, suffering under the 2nd grossly inept and incompetent puke fool installed in the presidency within a span of less than a decade.

[lunatica]

38. Did you mean to say "less than a generation" rather than

Less than a decade? Otherwise President Obama is the only other President in the last decade.

[not fooled]

39. from chimpy to dirty donnie within a 10 year span

end of chimpy's 2nd term to start of dirty donnie's installation


Definitely not referring to President Obama!!!

[lunatica]

40. OK.

I was pretty sure you weren’t referring to President Obama.

Although my figure is technically he same as yours!

[underpants]

31. That's funny

He'd play right into it too.

[Hoyt]

12. Good retort, it's even better than "Lock Her Up."

[UTUSN]

13. K&R

[William Seger]

14. He might not hit the TRAIL 'cause he's in JAIL

[dlk]

16. Given Trump's Many Crimes, Warren Has a Valid Point

[George II]

17. In 2002, when Bill Curry lost the election for Governor to John Rowland, he said...

..."John Rowland won't be at large by the end of his term". When asked "do you mean in office?", he said "no, at large." About a year into the term his scandal broke, and six months later he resigned. A few months later he was convicted of corruption.

I like what Elizabeth Warren said, hope she's right.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. He's not a free person now.

He's in debt, in thrall to Putin and the oligarchs. He knows that Putin doesn't recognize our nice bankruptcy laws, the ones that "erase" debt. Putin collects.

[joe_stampingbull]

25. He may be boasting that he is the greatest inmate ever....

at Supermax

[Runningdawg]

26. If even 10 states pass a bill saying you have to release your taxes to be on the ballot

we kill two birds with one stone - one is the dodo in the office now. There will be no way he can win minus 10 states.

[McKim]

27. Excellent Comment

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This was a great comment and a great frame on her part. She is saying that there is way more than just Trump to fight. She is saying, in another way, that we are a country of laws and not of men! The personality cult of Trump must be deconstructed!

[Basement Beat]

28. Hmm, Liking what I'm hearing on day 1.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. That should get the talking heads going.

[DirtEdonE]

30. Take it to him live just like that

And make him lose his mind right on live TV. It won't take much.

If everyone remembers the end of the third Clinton/traitor debate, trump took his notes, tore them up while grinding his teeth so hard I was waiting to hear them crack, then Hillary Clinton walked in front of him and brought him out of it.

I always wondered what would have happened if Hillary had just stayed out of that frame.

god I hate this motherfucker (literally I believe) so much I know I could easily lose my mind on camera.

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[Hortensis]

32. No man is above the law is among her first messages,

and among John Dingell's last messages as well.

Here's how Congressman Dingell ended the foreword to his autobiography published in December:

The Supreme Court can't impeach a president, but I believe it can uphold a criminal conviction that would move Trump's presidency out of Mar-a-Lago and into a federal penitentiary. He might still retain his job, at least for a day or two, but they would immediately take away his phone.

That alone could save the republic.

[MrsCoffee]

33. Someone finally said it.

[Zorro]

34. "Trump must answer for his crimes" is a meme I can get behind

Label him the criminal that he is. Wait for Mueller's report to then brand him a traitor to the USA. Define him so publicly and keep it up.

[Viz]

35. Trump is not our only problem

this is key to the power of her speech. We must understand
that even once Trump is out of our way......our work has just begun!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

37. K&R for truth and welcome to DU!

Considering her experience in dealing with the financial sector's malfeasance, what you said is spot-on....

[KY_EnviroGuy]

36. Sen. Warren had faced up to hundreds of far smarter men than Trump...

throughout her career and she's not afraid of him.

With the moral support of other Dems, she damn sure can take care of herself......

[bigtree]

41. kick