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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; angst; fear; jail; panic
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The liberal angst over Trump's TRUTHFUL comment is simply a pleasure to watch. They are literally FREAKING OUT over it.

Trump ENFORCING THE LAWS is a threat to Democracy, but Clinton being above the law, and untouchable for her many crimes is not??

George Orwell must be laughing his ass off in his grave about all this DoubleThink...

1 posted on 10/09/2016 11:43:48 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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Failing to prosecute Hillary would be a failure of the rule of law.


2 posted on 10/09/2016 11:46:10 PM PDT by sourcery (Non Acquiescit: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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To: tcrlaf

Thank God we are not a democracy.


3 posted on 10/09/2016 11:46:13 PM PDT by exnavy ( psalm 27: 4 ...dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life...)
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...which, according to the FBI, was quite bad but not illegal.

They always start with the big lie. Gotta catch it early: In fact, Comey said her actions were clearly illegal and that if anyone else did them, they'd be arrested.

Game, set match.

4 posted on 10/09/2016 11:46:28 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Meanwhile, on CNN, they are explaining, using DEMOCRAT SPOKESPEOLPE, of course, how Donald Trump LOST the debate....

This is absolutely Orwellian


5 posted on 10/09/2016 11:46:37 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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Lot of the leftists are spinning this.

Obama refuses to appoint an independent counsel to investigate his own administration.

We question that and WE are the ones who aren’t serious about protecting our laws and democracy?

Obama/Clinton put Nixon to shame. They should dig up his body and apologize.


6 posted on 10/09/2016 11:47:07 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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Deliberate publishing of above top secret (or any classified) information is treason, punishable by death, and there is no statute of limitation.


7 posted on 10/09/2016 11:48:32 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Bill, Monica, Hillary and Huma- undisputed Maestros of moral turpitude.)
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He said he would hire a special prosecutor. What don’t they get. Equating it to throwing one’s political opponents in jail is so childish.

And they say it while ignoring Hillary’s use of FBI files and the IRS to go after her political opponents? Incredible.


8 posted on 10/09/2016 11:48:48 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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Meanwhile, VOX JUST changed the headline of Ezra Kline’s article from

“Donald Trump is running for dictator, not for president”

to

“Donald Trump confirmed our worst fears about the kind of president he would be”

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/9/13222826/donald-trump-debate-clinton-jail-dictator


9 posted on 10/09/2016 11:48:59 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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What does democracy have to do with the rule of law?

Democracy is two imams and woman deciding who gets the clitorectomy.

You dumb liberal b!tches should keep that in mind before voting for the whore of islam.

10 posted on 10/09/2016 11:49:31 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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Wasnt the left calling for Bush to be arrested on war crimes?


11 posted on 10/09/2016 11:49:42 PM PDT by LukeL
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Of course they are ignoring the context of what he said.

He said he would have a special persecutor to investigate her.

12 posted on 10/09/2016 11:51:11 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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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.

This guy is a dumbass. A special prosecutor isn't going to be appointed because she was his opponent in an election. It is because SHE BROKE THE LAW !!!

13 posted on 10/09/2016 11:51:15 PM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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And W saying “We need to move on” and didn’t go after the crooked Clintons is when I knew I shouldn’t have voted for him.

In our “democratic republic” people are tried and, if found guilty either go to jail or are executed. That’s how it’s lasted for so long. So, this author is an idiot.


14 posted on 10/09/2016 11:51:27 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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Idiots .. Trump said, “You’d be in jail” .. HE DIDN’T SAY HE PERSONALLY WAS GOING TO PUT HER IN JAIL.

THESE MEDIA PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID.


15 posted on 10/09/2016 11:51:45 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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Shhhh....you are not supposed to remember anything that happened so long ago. That requires logic and a brain, things the left think we do not have.


16 posted on 10/09/2016 11:51:59 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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LOL


17 posted on 10/09/2016 11:52:01 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: sourcery

George Bush’s number one early failure was to take a pass on going after the Clinton crime syndicate.


18 posted on 10/09/2016 11:52:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (30 days: Until Presdient Pre-elect becomes President Elect Donald J. Trump. Help is on the way!)
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Lols Vox.

If your political opponent is a criminal, they should go to jail. Ask just about any Illinois governor of any political stripe.

#lockherup


19 posted on 10/09/2016 11:52:37 PM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Radical Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen is "Ready for Hillary!" Are you too?)
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Axelrod is a card carrying communist.


20 posted on 10/09/2016 11:52:54 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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