AntonToo
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Criminals and traitors can be very much alike.In July of 1974, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Dick Nixon.
"Faced with near-certain approval of the articles by the entire House and subsequent conviction in the Senate, Nixon opted to resign."
Trump can not afford to follow Nixon's example.
Donald Trump Will Not Go Quietly Like Nixon
"Some of his children and his son-in-law may be indicted, the stock market may continue its tumble, the country may slide into a recession, and the Republican establishment may desert him, but he won’t follow Nixon’s lead and quit.
"Trump will remain until the bitter end and seek reelection, not because he is a man of courage and principle, but because he has no other safe personal option...."
"If Trump resigned before 2020, he would be subject to prosecution for any federal offenses he may have committed since 2015.
"The statute of limitations for most federal felonies is five years. Moreover, the pardon power of a newly sworn-in President Mike Pence would do nothing to limit his exposure to numerous state prosecutions..."
"In any event, Trump has little to gain by departing the Oval Office early and much to lose if he does.
"Guided by narcissism and self-interest, and backed by his dogged white nationalist base, he’ll stay put until he is either removed or defeated at the polls.
"Hopefully, he won’t drag the last vestiges of our diminished constitutional system with him when he goes."
Some criminals feel guilt and some don’t.
Some traitors feel guilt and some don’t.
Donald Trump doesn’t feel guilty at all.
It’s not one of the few emotions he has.
Maybe because he hasn’t done anything wrong
Maybe in some alternate reality where Trump did not pressure FBI Director (and later fired him) to squash an investigation into Flynn, who Trump KNEW was guilty of lying to FBI.
But in this reality he did, and is a crook through and through.
he is is the executive. The FBI director is his employee. By virtue of his office he has wide discretion on who to charge. Not to mention Comey testified under oath that he didn't pressure him.
That is some Bannana Republic shit you are smoking there.
What you are effectively saying is that the President is above the law and it's SICK that you are taking it up to excuse Trump's blatant corruption.
Comey DID testify that Trump pressured him to pledge loyalty, he took as a condition for his employment and that he took Trump asking him to squash Flynn investigation as an ORDER.
The bare fact that Trump tried to interfere in an ongoing investigation was a fundamentally corrupt act. Flynn broke the law, he was apropreately under investigation and Trump clearly tried to Obstruct Justice.
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