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Donald Trump’s threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to Democracy
VOX ^ | 10-10-2016 | Zack Beauchamp

Posted on 10/09/2016 11:43:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf

There is no way to sugarcoat this: At Sunday night’s presidential debate, Donald Trump threatened to throw Hillary Clinton in jail if he wins the presidency. This — threatening to jail one’s political opponents — is how democratic norms die.

The exchange happened during a discussion of the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Trump began by decrying Clinton’s conduct — which, according to the FBI, was quite bad but not illegal. He then proposed appointing a special prosecutor to investigate her, and warned Clinton that, if he were president now, “you’d be in jail”:

TRUMP: I'll tell you what. I didn't think I'd say this, and I'm going to say it, and hate to say it: If I win, I'm going to instruct the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there's never been so many lies, so much deception … A very expensive process, so we're going to get a special prosecutor because people have been, their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you've done. And it's a disgrace, and honestly, you ought to be ashamed.

(SNIP)

This is so far beyond normal that it’s hard to even know where to start.

In democracies, we respect people’s rights to disagree with each other. When one candidate wins a presidential election, the loser returns to private life or another government position. In some cases, former rivals become close friends. George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who defeated Bush in the 1992 election, travel together and have spent decades jointly raising money to aid the victims of natural disasters.

They don’t get sent to jail, because we believe that political disagreement should be legal.

Donald Trump doesn’t seem to care about all that.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; angst; fear; jail; panic
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To: tcrlaf

When the liberals are shouting that Hillary won, it’s because they know she lost.


21 posted on 10/09/2016 11:53:14 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: tcrlaf

The Donald said he would appoint a special prosecutor...interesting that this got conflated to imprisoning her.


22 posted on 10/09/2016 11:53:51 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Hating Islam is the natural consequence of caring about people in the Middle East, including Muslims)
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To: tcrlaf
They don’t get sent to jail, because we believe that political disagreement should be legal.

Zack, Zack, Zack! Where to begin? Hillary was extremely careless with her email. Normal people like you at minimum get fired for that at max go to jail. A Federal employee not using a xxx.gov email for business get fired at minimum and at maximum go to jail. Because the DOJ and the FBI are corrupt, Clinton got away with breaking literally thousands of laws. That dear Zack is tyranny when the elite live by different laws than you and me.

23 posted on 10/09/2016 11:54:19 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: tcrlaf

The truth is, Snowflake Zack, hilLIARy should be tried for crimes against this country. She broke the law and should face the consequences just like anyone that did what she did. She is not above the law no matter how you try to spin it with this ridiculous article.

CGato


24 posted on 10/09/2016 11:55:05 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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You’re an idiot, Zak.


25 posted on 10/09/2016 11:55:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: tcrlaf

No one is above the law. That, too, is a fundamental principle necessary to keep a democratic republic alive and well.


26 posted on 10/09/2016 11:55:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: tcrlaf

This entire line of attack is a disaster for Hillary. Just walk he through the crimes the FBI admitted she committed and then ask why she shouldn’t be in jail.


27 posted on 10/09/2016 11:56:46 PM PDT by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap Time.)
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To: tcrlaf

But slapping U.S. citizens with fines and threatened jail time in the name of “health” is not? And exempting select elite is not?


28 posted on 10/09/2016 11:57:45 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp)
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To: tcrlaf

Democrats worry, if Hillary can be brought to justice, what about themselves.


29 posted on 10/09/2016 11:57:56 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: tcrlaf

H*****y would like nothing more than the power to throw her opponents into prison, with or without a trial.

She has already stated that she believes that opposing websites should be shut down (e.g. Breitbart), it’s not a big leap from that point to throwing their writers into jail.

I wonder what Vince Foster would say about this. Has anyone asked him?


30 posted on 10/09/2016 11:59:03 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: MUDDOG; All

CNN now comparing Trump putting Hillary in jail to Stalinism!!!


31 posted on 10/09/2016 11:59:03 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

In democracies, we respect people’s rights to disagree with each other...

NOW WE’RE A DEMOCRACY!!

When they like what they hear, we’re not a democracy!!

This is too ####ing funny.

Can’t wait to shoot a message off to this character.

What the hell, I haven’t gotten hate mail in a day, it’s overdue.


32 posted on 10/09/2016 11:59:37 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Fresh Wind

And whatever happened to the person who put that video on YouTube that she used to deflect blame from Herself and Obomba over Behghazi? Wasn’t he thrown into jail?


33 posted on 10/10/2016 12:01:00 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: tcrlaf

If jailing Hillary is wrong, I don’t want to be right.


34 posted on 10/10/2016 12:01:05 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: tcrlaf

VOX is the Absolute. Worst.


35 posted on 10/10/2016 12:02:41 AM PDT by nutmeg (I am a proud Deplorable)
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To: tcrlaf

Oh my, the uber-left Vox is clutching her pearls.


36 posted on 10/10/2016 12:02:52 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: tcrlaf

” enforcing the laws” is not so much a threat to democracy as it is a threat to the Democratic Party. Why, what if every case of vote fraud were investigated and prosecuted?


37 posted on 10/10/2016 12:02:56 AM PDT by VietVet
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To: Rome2000

38 posted on 10/10/2016 12:03:33 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (30 days: Until Presdient Pre-elect becomes President Elect Donald J. Trump. Help is on the way!)
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To: tcrlaf
Hillary's opposition to Citizens United is a threat to democracy!
39 posted on 10/10/2016 12:04:02 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

So is using the IRS to persecute your political enemies.


40 posted on 10/10/2016 12:06:01 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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