Posted on 04/19/2024 1:10:56 PM PDT by packagingguy
Key Democrats revealed new legislation Friday that would strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret Service agents if he is convicted and sentenced to prison.
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said it’s about making sure Mr. Trump doesn’t get special treatment for whatever crime he might be sentenced. He is worried that having to accommodate a Secret Service protective detail could lead to accommodations for a former president.
“It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could become our reality,” the Mississippi lawmaker said. “Therefore, it is necessary for us to be prepared and update the law so the American people can be assured that protective status does not translate into special treatment —and that those who are sentenced to prison will indeed serve the time required of them.”
He named his bill the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act — or the DISGRACED Former Protectees Act.
Under the law, former presidents such as Mr. Trump are given Secret Service protection.
For Mr. Trump, who is both a political candidate and a prosecuted citizen, that’s creating new challenges for the agency...
Mr. Trump also faces criminal cases in a state courtroom in Georgia and federal courtrooms in Florida and the District of Columbia.
Democrats who back the new bill said they believe the legislation is legal and constitutional. They dismissed ex post facto concerns, saying that legal doctrine barring changing the rules after the fact applies only in cases where the law is meant to be punitive.
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The blacks in Atlanta suburbs are backing Trump. They see him being treated like they have been. Plus he gets along with ll people.. He dives right in..
They come when he is in town.
The only thing that might deter them from having Trump sent to prison and killed there (it would be announced as a "suicide" like Vince Foster and Epstein--in Stalin's day the Reds were proud of their skill in making murders look like suicides) is that they couldn't be sure of how the public would take it...the media would parrot their line but a lot of the public has no faith in the media.
Obviously the Republicans would put someone else up as their nominee, but the divisions in the party might doom that person. DeSantis would be the most obvious choice but a lot of Trump supporters would refuse to vote for him. Nikki would have even less support. Perhaps Youngkin or Abbott. But let us hope that it never comes to that.
I gave you credit for wit saying "profit", as how can a person never doing a day of real work in their life end up a multi-millionaire without corrupt skids being greased for him? Perhaps he's earning it being a Jeff Dunham running Biden's mouth without moving his lips.
“What in actuality, has he done?”
He called them all out as liars. The administrative state - the uniparty - the fake news - he called them all liars, over and over, 24/7 - for eight years.
Now, if he gets elected again a third time, think what that means: it means over half the people believe him and not them. It means over half the people believe they are liars.
They simply can’t allow that.
The perpetuation of their tyranny depends on mass deception - and winning in 2024 would mark the end of their mass deception - since a majority would not vote for him if they believed the lies.
With this group of control and power hungry ####, we have been ‘fundamentally changed’ to a communist nation. While most of the republican congress watched, sat, collected the pay, criticized MTG, and let it happen. The deep state is one party.. there is no distinction .. the vote for that last give away, when our border is open and the debt is already tooooo high... and republicans I thought had more sense.. a few of them.. and they voted for this!! Hope for them vanished. Trump is the only one who is strong enough to fight this and not be entangled in their selling out of a nation. The last 3-4 years have been hard to get through.. the disappointment in congress.. and the media...and those elected... they have lost their compass and we are a lost nation if we don’t get Trump back in.
A hundred years ago the Marxists sought to control “the means of production”.
Somewhere along the line, they wised up and realized it was far more effective to control “the means of communication”.
The mass deception that blinds us from reality today has reached a level beyond Orwellian, and as a result, the people are so deeply deceived that they have been rendered mindless zombies, repeating spoon-fed narratives.
Unless you are lucky enough to happen upon one of the rare 1% who knows what’s really happening, political conversations are impossible.
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