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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe DOJ can make it difficult for Trump to ever run for office
If he is in prison for the rest of his life, it will be very difficult for him to run for office. Even harder for anyone to justify sending any funds to his campaign.
Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Secret Service would not allow it for one thing.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Hed be fine.
Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Other stuff. Eww
Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Gross.
Turin_C3PO
(13,975 posts)to the Department of Homeland security. They dont make policy. If he was sentenced to prison, the SS would not stop it.
Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)And that is their federal mandate.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)With Lindsey
we can do it
(12,184 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,014 posts)Claim national security issues, etc.
But I hope you are right.
we can do it
(12,184 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,340 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,589 posts)servermsh
(913 posts)They'll say it violates "unity"!
Graham will promise to stop all progress in the Senate until it ends.
And some here will agree.
unblock
(52,208 posts)absolutely, he should be prosecuted, and at the state level as well, for all his crimes.
but politically, the republican victim-fetishists would just love the story they'd invent that it was all just a political prosecution, and our pathetic media would eat it all up.
John Ludi
(589 posts)I suspect the DOJ will be working out a nice little slow burn on Trump...a lot of it behind the scenes...and now there is a full justification for it, as the corrupt GOP has exposed themselves as what they are and justice has not been served.
The pressure valve of holding him accountable has not been opened: this seeming free pass for Trump gives them all the reason in the world to punish him by other means. So a long game presents itself.
Personally I prefer a death by 1,000 cuts for the fucker. He could be charged by multiple entities in multiple locations and that on top of all the fun things waiting for him in NY.
Or not...hard to say...he certainly wouldn't be the first (pseudo) rich old white dude to shit all over the world and live a comfy life in luxury while the rest of us sputter angrily at the injustice of it all.
We'll see. If his followers find another squirrel to chase, the image of him in prison in a year or two may not be a big deal for them...especially since he threw his MAGA insurrectionist hoards under the bus.
Aristus
(66,328 posts)Trump overcame weaknesses, flaws, and political disqualifications that would have sunk any other campaign in American history.
He should never be allowed anywhere near the mechanism of the American democratic process ever, ever again.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)Turin_C3PO
(13,975 posts)You could easily find a jury that would listen to the facts and convict.
WarGamer
(12,440 posts)andym
(5,443 posts)instead of the Whitehouse, should he by some horrible misfortune win. He would be the first prisoner-President and first felon-President.