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spanone

(135,802 posts)
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 12:21 PM Oct 2021

TFG should be banned from running/holding any office in the USA.

Senate report gives new details of Trump efforts to use Justice Dept. to overturn election

A Senate report on President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election offers new details about an Oval Office confrontation between Trump and the Justice Department, revealing the extent to which government lawyers threatened to resign en masse if the president removed his attorney general.

The interim report by the Senate Judiciary Committee was issued Thursday. While Republicans on the panel offered their counter-findings, arguing that Trump did not subvert the justice system to remain in power, the majority report by the Democrats offers the most detailed account to date of the struggle inside the administration’s final, desperate days.

On Jan. 3, then-acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy Richard Donoghue, and a few other administration officials met in the Oval Office for what all expected to be a final confrontation on Trump’s plan to replace Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a little-known Justice Department official who had indicated he would publicly pursue Trump’s false claims of mass voter fraud.

According to testimony Rosen gave to the committee, Trump opened the meeting by saying, “One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren’t going to do anything to overturn the election.”


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TFG should be banned from running/holding any office in the USA. (Original Post) spanone Oct 2021 OP
You do understand that nobody has the authority to do that, right? MineralMan Oct 2021 #1
So if he's found guilty of plotting to overthrow the government, nothing can be done? spanone Oct 2021 #3
If he was to be convicted in a court of law of a crime Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #5
The Slobfather should be in prison malaise Oct 2021 #2
They limited Bill Clinton Marthe48 Oct 2021 #4

MineralMan

(146,281 posts)
1. You do understand that nobody has the authority to do that, right?
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 12:23 PM
Oct 2021

The Constitution has the requirements to be President. It sets the rules.

Had Trump been convicted in either of his two impeachments, the Senate could have barred him from holding public office, but those convictions didn't happen. So, there is nobody who can do what this OP suggests. Nobody.

spanone

(135,802 posts)
3. So if he's found guilty of plotting to overthrow the government, nothing can be done?
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 12:47 PM
Oct 2021

Once a president leaves office there are no consequences?

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. If he was to be convicted in a court of law of a crime
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 01:07 PM
Oct 2021

There probably are (or eventually could be) laws put in place by states, counties, cities, etc ... barring anyone convicted of a crime that intersects with something he's convicted of (i.e. if he's convicted of a felony, there could be laws barring any felon running for office type of deal) in their jurisdiction.

But as far as any sort of country-wide ban, at all levels, of running for office, of a single person? There's no such thing. Nobody has that authority in the USA.

Marthe48

(16,926 posts)
4. They limited Bill Clinton
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 12:56 PM
Oct 2021

after his trial.

His crime was so trivial compared to twice-impeached traitor's.

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