Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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jaspercabbage
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Well that window isn't going to lick itself.
Someone must be offering him fried chicken.
tsubaki
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unusual to see someone do that without having a shirt full of badges to go with the red cap
UptheTofees
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That sums up who this man is
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Is Nero still playing golf ?
Surely legal proceedings can be brought against Trump and his team, there must be some way of doing it.
Misinformation, plain lying, is actually killing his own people. Sick man and sick followers, the coward is playing golf while his countrymen are dying.
Misinformation, plain lying, is actually killing his own people. Sick man and sick followers, the coward is playing golf while his countrymen are dying.
Martin Alvito
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It would be very difficult. The standard of evidence required borders on the insurmountable because we don't want political leaders fearing prosecution for conducting the ordinary duties of office once they leave. That way lies authoritarianism (because leaders would refuse to peacefully transfer power).
Trump's existing legal exposure already creates exactly that dynamic, which is why there's concern that he's replaced the top civilian leadership in the Pentagon and installed cronies.
If that's the case, then surely there must be a limit to what you do and what you can say, without any proof, even when your own legal team are saying it's wrong and the election was legal. Trump for me and this is my opinion is setting a terrible example to all world leaders, in fact isn't he emulating what he accuses other tinpot dictators are doing / have done.
Martin Alvito
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What Trump has been exploiting for four years is the fact that much of how things are done in our politics boils down to customs and norms, rather than law. McConnell has been doing much the same for a longer time in the context of the Senate, but not in public discourse.
The limits on what you can legally say and do are much further out there than people realized, because who ran for office was constrained by the pressure to conform to "being presidential" in order to win and keep a major party's nomination. See: the media killing Howard Dean's candidacy.
Yes, Trump has been emulating tinpot dictators. He was one, in the context of the Trump organization. It would have been very unrealistic to expect Trump to change his stripes, and his true believers did not want him to change them.
Sassy Colombian
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Unfortunately sometimes it seems there is no such limits in the land of free speech. Trump and his team definitely feel they have the constitutional power to voice all these lies. But there are some restrictions to this right and the level of misinformation that he is spreading that he wish would be prosecuted for but probably won't happen.
"Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial speech such as advertising."
Sassy Colombian
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Trump, Trying to Cling to Power, Fans Unrest and Conspiracy Theories
The president’s refusal to concede has entered a more dangerous phase as he blocks his successor’s transition, withholding intelligence briefings, pandemic information and access to the government.
TN Toffee
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Hard to believe a guy getting overly worked up for about 30 seconds during one speech was once enough to effectively kill a presidential campaign. What a simpler time.
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