Trump Claims He Has Every Right To Prosecute His Enemies

[berg80]

‘I Would Have Every Right To Go After Them’

Surveying the news of the past 24 hours, we’re presented with a particularly sobering reflection of our current state of affairs. I will lay it out brick by brick in the items below, but first I want to circle back to Donald Trump’s appearance two nights ago on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program.

Hannity asked a leading question, clearly trying to throw Trump a softball that will let him deny his intention to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution against his political foes – even though Trump has spent many months now promising to do precisely that.

At first, Trump took the easy swing and suggested that he won’t perpetuate what he implies is a cycle of retribution he’s already been victimized by. But then he launched into an extended justification of doing exactly what he had just disclaimed and asserting that he has “every right to go after them”:
Trump Claims He Has Every Right To Prosecute His Enemies

This could be one of the better cons he's invented in a while. Setting up a win-win scenario by which should he be re-elected he can claim righteousness and excite the base for going after his proclaimed enemies, or get credit with the minions if he does not. Because if he goes after those who have held him accountable for his many crimes he'll say he's justified. If he doesn't he'll say he is showing great restraint. The Following will love him either way. This guy is a genius in a manipulative, malevolent kind of way.

Same thing with the hush money trial. Win or lose he set up a construct by which he was being unfairly treated by the system. Acquittal.......the charges were made up. Conviction.......the charges were made up. Amazingly, the rubes fell for it AGAIN.

 

[SeaMajor7]

FAFO......

 

[1srelluc]

A man like Wales Trump lives by the feud.

 

[DGS49]

Nothing he has said or done indicates an intention to do so. He is making a point. He is being treated unfairly and would be justified in retaliating.

But in his last term, the people he appointed as AG had the balls to tell him, NO, when he wanted to do something untoward. He will do so again. He will appoint someone with integrity in the mold of Bill Barr, and that person will not pursue a political vendetta for the President.

 

[berg80]

A man like Wales Trump lives by the feud.

Former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade has a new essay on Trump’s threats of revenage and their consequences. After running through all the checks and balances that would limit the president’s ability to use the justice system as a tool of political reprisal, McQuade then asks what the point of it all really is. This part of her answer is spot on:

Even if politically motivated prosecutions ultimately fail, just bringing charges would be enough to tilt the playing field. If the public can be convinced that all prosecutors are corrupt partisan actors, then their work may be disregarded as mere political gamesmanship, and Trump’s convictions and impeachments will no longer matter. The result is to give Trump — and other political actors — license to commit all manner of crimes in the future.

 

[berg80]

Nothing he has said or done indicates an intention to do so. He is making a point. He is being treated unfairly and would be justified in retaliating.

Nothing about that statement is remotely true.

 

[Billiejeens]

‘I Would Have Every Right To Go After Them’

Surveying the news of the past 24 hours, we’re presented with a particularly sobering reflection of our current state of affairs. I will lay it out brick by brick in the items below, but first I want to circle back to Donald Trump’s appearance two nights ago on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program.

Hannity asked a leading question, clearly trying to throw Trump a softball that will let him deny his intention to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution against his political foes – even though Trump has spent many months now promising to do precisely that.

At first, Trump took the easy swing and suggested that he won’t perpetuate what he implies is a cycle of retribution he’s already been victimized by. But then he launched into an extended justification of doing exactly what he had just disclaimed and asserting that he has “every right to go after them”:
Trump Claims He Has Every Right To Prosecute His Enemies

This could be one of the better cons he's invented in a while. Setting up a win-win scenario by which should he be re-elected he can claim righteousness and excite the base for going after his proclaimed enemies, or get credit with the minions if he does not. Because if he goes after those who have held him accountable for his many crimes he'll say he's justified. If he doesn't he'll say he is showing great restraint. The Following will love him either way. This guy is a genius in a manipulative, malevolent kind of way.

Same thing with the hush money trial. Win or lose he set up a construct by which he was being unfairly treated by the system. Acquittal.......the charges were made up. Conviction.......the charges were made up. Amazingly, the rubes fell for it AGAIN.

The Base?

At this point "the Base" is everyone not braindead from a Hemispherectomy performed on them.

 

[pknopp]

He would have the ability to prosecute those who actually broke the law.

He did last time also and did nothing so......................

 

[Marener]

He would have the ability to prosecute those who actually broke the law.

He did last time also and did nothing so......................

Last time the DoJ was still staffed primarily by normal prosecutors without a political agenda.

The Republicans are talking about changing that, which should have us worried.

 

[Mac1958]

If a Grand Jury thinks they broke a law and they're indicted, great. Get 'em. Whoever the hell it is.

If he tries to forego the law and just lock them up, the rubes will finally have the Pinochet they've always dreamed of.

 

[pknopp]

Last time the DoJ was still staffed primarily by normal prosecutors without a political agenda.

Meh, I agree Hillary should have been prosecuted.

 

[1srelluc]

I think "revenge" will be gutting the offending agencies like a fish in a restructuring effort.....RIFs for everyone!

A “RIF” Is a Reduction-in-Force​

When a federal agency has to abolish positions.

 

[Marener]

Meh, I agree Hillary should have been prosecuted.

The case against her would have been extremely flimsy and generally unprecedented.

Launching very flimsy cases is not what a normal apolitical prosecutor should be doing.

 

[PredFan]

‘I Would Have Every Right To Go After Them’

Surveying the news of the past 24 hours, we’re presented with a particularly sobering reflection of our current state of affairs. I will lay it out brick by brick in the items below, but first I want to circle back to Donald Trump’s appearance two nights ago on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program.

Hannity asked a leading question, clearly trying to throw Trump a softball that will let him deny his intention to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution against his political foes – even though Trump has spent many months now promising to do precisely that.

At first, Trump took the easy swing and suggested that he won’t perpetuate what he implies is a cycle of retribution he’s already been victimized by. But then he launched into an extended justification of doing exactly what he had just disclaimed and asserting that he has “every right to go after them”:
Trump Claims He Has Every Right To Prosecute His Enemies

This could be one of the better cons he's invented in a while. Setting up a win-win scenario by which should he be re-elected he can claim righteousness and excite the base for going after his proclaimed enemies, or get credit with the minions if he does not. Because if he goes after those who have held him accountable for his many crimes he'll say he's justified. If he doesn't he'll say he is showing great restraint. The Following will love him either way. This guy is a genius in a manipulative, malevolent kind of way.

Same thing with the hush money trial. Win or lose he set up a construct by which he was being unfairly treated by the system. Acquittal.......the charges were made up. Conviction.......the charges were made up. Amazingly, the rubes fell for it AGAIN.

He does. Most of them have broken the law.

 

[JWBooth]

Trump Claims He Has Every Right To Persecute His Enemies​

What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

 

[Marener]

He does. Most of them have broken the law.

Making Trump mad isn’t against the law.

 

[berg80]

The Base?

At this point "the Base" is everyone not braindead from a Hemispherectomy performed on them.

Yes, the base, the folks willing to elected a morally bankrupt, overtly incompetent, convicted felon who let it slip the other day.

 

[PredFan]

Making Trump mad isn’t against the law.

That's true, but bribes, money laundering, lying to congress, lying under oath, destroying evidence, and giving up top secret information is.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Last time the DoJ was still staffed primarily by normal prosecutors without a political agenda.

The Republicans are talking about changing that, which should have us worried.

Staffed with the Bisexual Kenyans leftists.

 

[PredFan]

Yes, the base, the folks willing to elected a morally bankrupt, overtly incompetent, convicted felon who let it slip the other day.

Only democrats believe that nonsense.