Posted on 05/16/2018 6:33:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
At this point I’d almost like to see action taken against Trump. It would be good to see what Trump’s supporters/America’s patriots would do. Maybe we’re not worth saving.
Incorrect. A sitting president cannot be indicted. That would require the people who are his subordinates to prosecute him and that was not allowed in the constitution.
The effective remedy the founders provided was impeachment.
This is about the midterm elections.
That's where I'm at.
But will that be enough? Billy Boy was impeached, but he didn’t resign.
Show me in the Constitution where a subordinate in the executive branch has the power to indict his superior. Who does that subordinate answer to, if not the chief executive.
It’s absurd to interpret the Constitution as creating a class of nobility that’s above the law.
You're setting up a straw man fallacy. Nobody is saying that the president is above the law. The president can be impeached, removed and then indicted.
The idiots on FOX radio “news” mentioned this story, then added that “19 people have been indicted and four have pleaded guilty.”
Of course, crappy FOX radio news didn’t bother to mention that this had nothing to do with the 2016 presidential election.
Manafort’s involvement with Ukraine goes back to 2005, an entire decade BEFORE Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower and announced his intention to run for president in 2016.
There’s also that pesky lack of real evidence thing stopping it. Democrat wet dreams and feeling don’t count as such, but they’re working on that.
Interesting that they (Mueller, CNN, ABC, NYT . . . ) spun their wheels for two years and that memo has existed the entire time. There is no point for a prosecutor if there can’t be an indictment. That’s what prosecutors do.
So this was all about the drip drip drip and to see if they could dig up something (under the pretense of indictment) that would impeach.
And there’s a law stating that a crime needs to be established before appointing a special counsel, yet here we are...
Take everything mueller and the corrupt state say with a pillar of salt. The rule of law is DEAD—This is a COUP.
This helps the Dems. The new narrative: “Despite the overwhelming evidence of Trump’s collusion, this arcane rule protects him from being indicted”
He was impeached by the House but the Senate didn’t convict him.
That’s the reason why we have elections every 4 years and congress as an impeachment check. Too much skullduggery can happen when you allow extra-constitutional checks on the POTUS by un-elected bureaucrats and the like...See Mueller and crew.
Exactly. So I guess the difference now is that there might be enough rinos/#nevertrump/swamp critters to convict if they were somehow able to pull off impeachment.
Exactly. So I guess the difference now is that there might be enough rinos/#nevertrump/swamp critters to convict if they were somehow able to pull off impeachment.
Hey Trump, you horse's a$$. Get someone in DOJ to clean up this garbage.
There was NOTHING to INDICT!!!!!!! NOTHING!!
On your last two points, yes and yes.
(not disagreeing with anything, mind you)
There is no language that disallows it. Prove me wrong: Cite the Article, section and clause. The only thing like that you'll find prohibits arresting members of Congress.
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