Trump would take foreign help in election and not tell FBI: "They have information. I think I'd take it"

[Jhhnn]

Well considering according to Trump and plenty of other people the president can’t be indicted so this means he can in fact break the law all he wants to help himself get re-elected. So long as he wins he will face no consequences for it either. If his opponent takes identical actions however they can be prosecuted for a felony.

This is yet another reason why saying the president can’t be indicted is an absurdity.

If the framers of the Constitution intended for the Prez to be indictable, answerable to the Judiciary, then they wouldn't have assigned the HOR the sole power of impeachment. You can view the situation as a Constitutional flaw but it's right there in black & white. Congress has the *sole* power of impeachment. To impeach is to formally accuse. Only Congress is allowed to do that.

A person doesn't have to like it to see that it's the truth.

 

[Paratus]

I liked the original version better:

I was totally thinking about posting this.

 

[DrDoug]

What I'm waiting for are the Republicans to savor and then swallow this load that Felonious D just dropped on them. Their responses, or lack of them for some, are going to be interesting to see. It's like Der Gropenfürher is testing the limits of their loyalty, seeing what he can get away with knowing that his bitch Mitch has him covered in the Senate.

C'mon Repubs, suck it up and swallow the latest load from your leader. Then get ready for the next one.

 

[zinfamous]

If it were ~1779 this fat turd of flesh would have been slumped before a tree 3 years before now. Make no mistake about that.

Only Quislings support anything that comes out of his syphilitic gullet.

 

[zinfamous]

And China
And North Korea
And Saudi Arabia
And any other dictator

He likes that Dooterte dude in the Philippines--the one that shoves people out of helicopters, and Trumpleforeskin is so jealous in public that he can't shove people out of helicopters, legally.

lol--Republicans voted for Stalin. Seriously: fuck all of them. Fuck them to hell.

Republicans = Stalin.

The End.

 

[zinfamous]

He isn't in this for America, this is all about him. Whatever it takes to win, he will do it. Lying, cheating, bullying and stealing are the tools he has used to get where he is in life. He has lived off of the $$$ of others all of his life, invariably screwing people over via his bullshit product or by refusing to pay for services rendered. He is unfit for the Presidency and unfit for public service because he is incapable of thinking of others, everything he does is to further his popularity with his base and bring home the Benjamins to him and his family. Everyone else is the enemy to him and it gives him extreme pleasure to shit all over the people who don't like him, further ingratiating him with his base. He is pig ignorant but much like a pig that can find truffles, this pig finds ways to rip people off and screw them over.

It's no surprise that he would accept foreign help in winning the Presidency again. This would be his second time doing so.

He's basically me when I play Civilization and threaten Ghandi with nukes and my army and really...don't care in the end because I will nuke them anyway because it's fun.

seriously, that is actually what Trump is but in real life. That is what he is. I fucking say this and made this argument before fucking 2015 was over, and it has only bcome more true every fucking month after. Nothing has changed from that.

Trump thinks his life is a video game and that all he has to do is "win" for himself and no one else. The end. That's fucking it. That's all he is and all he's ever been, on top of only ever being bankrupt an perpetually on the run from various international states that either want to execute him or make him a puppet of their regime (his current role)

Honestly and with full seriousness: If republicans DO NOT GROW BALLS NOW, THE WORLD WILL EXECUTE A POTUS, now, in front of your eyes.

IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? because that is what is happening. We enshrined a procedure to prevent this from happening, but you fucking QUISLINGS seem sworn to ignore the rule of law and just let a POTUS BE EXECUTED.

Let justice prevail, or not, as enshrined...or not. It's all on the GOP. Watch yourselves execute a fucking POTUS..yet another one. ...I mean holy fucking shit: how many GOP POTUSs have actually been shot/executed? It's kinda...not both sides, actually.

math.

 

[ElFenix]

Trump would take foreign help in election and not tell FBI: "They have information. I think I'd take it"

what do you mean, "would"?

 

[Moonbeam]

You can't remove a Republican President from power because Republicans have an innate victim mentality that says it would mean they are being picked on. It's the other who is evil, never them. I hear that prisons, also, are full of innocent people. This natural handicap they face, their duplicitous moral hypocrisy, also allows them to imagine they get to cheat in the name of this inevitable handicap on the pretext that it evens the playing field.

 

[esquared]

So now he’s openly saying he will commit crimes in the next election and not notify the FBI of foreign attacks on our elections.

The country is in desperate need of Republicans to protect it against this criminal. Democrats can’t do everything by themselves.

I watched rick Santorum tonight on CNN, essentially say, that's not what cheeto said or what he meant.
Santorum is an effing deplorable. He has a smirk just like Martin Shkreli.

 

[cytg111]

And here is Fox pressure testing this with the base.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hear-dirt-2020-opponents-fbi

And Hannity going full retard here

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ha...-to-foreign-government-genius-set-up-for-dems

Make no mistake, these people are out to snatch and snuff out democracy from you, in front of you.

 

[sportage]

This is Trump's "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters" moment.
Basically Trump is saying ok, go ahead, test me. You can't do anything to me. I'll show you....

All this insanity could be stopped if anyone really wanted to stop it.
All it takes is the upcoming election, and the voters.
Sounds simple, but the chances of trump winning a second term is better than him not winning.
So in the end, I guess this is what the people want.
And so they have it.

 

[sandorski]

Time to tap his microwave again.

 

[esquared]

This is Trump's "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters" moment.
Basically Trump is saying ok, go ahead, test me. You can't do anything to me. I'll show you....

All this insanity could be stopped if anyone really wanted to stop it.
All it takes is the upcoming election, and the voters.
Sounds simple, but the chances of trump winning a second term is better than him not winning.
So in the end, I guess this is what the people want.
And so they have it.

The other repubs won't do squat.
John Dean said on CNN tonight that he sees the other repubs becoming mini-trumps.

John Dean burns ‘spineless’ Republicans acting like ‘mini-Trumps’ who think they can get away with anything
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/jo...ps-who-think-they-can-get-away-with-anything/

"“You know, I just don’t understand what’s happened to the Republican Party,” he said. “They’re spineless. They know this man is an incredible embarrassment. I obviously saw some of them up close and personal this week and I realize there are mini-Trumps imitating the guy. They think this is the new mold. It’s really kind of sad.” "

 

[trenchfoot]

The walk back and excuses for this idiotic treasonous commentary of his over the next few days will be comedy gold, although I'm not sure how SNL and the late night talk shows are going to handle this considering Trump just admitted that he would commit serious crimes against the people in order to get reelected.

edit - I want to know what McConnell, Cruz, Nunez, Gowdy and what's his face Graham have to say about this

 

[cytg111]

I dont get it ... how is he still sitting in that chair? Have you lost your collective minds?

 

[cytg111]

Maybe dems should ask the collective west for dirt on Trump, Russia, China, UAE etc... I am sure we know shit too.

 

[esquared]

I dont get it ... how is he still sitting in that chair? Have you lost your collective minds?

It would appear we have as a country.

We can't do a whole lot with the McConnell in the Senate. We need to have 20 Repub Senators come to their senses
about this fat treasonous sack of shit.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Where's the burn it down crowd? They must be ecstatic

 

[DrDoug]

I dont get it ... how is he still sitting in that chair? Have you lost your collective minds?

The Constitution, written by our illustrious founding fathers, enables a minority to take the Presidency and install a narcissistic despotic imbecile who then proceeds to trash everything in sight. I didn't realize that until 2016 but hey, there it is. So only a minority of us has lost our minds. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the Democrats are all that's left to save us and their lack of activity isn't giving me much hope.

I wrote our Congressman about this, demanding action. I'm calling his office tomorrow to (politely) raise some Hell.

 

[fskimospy]

If the framers of the Constitution intended for the Prez to be indictable, answerable to the Judiciary, then they wouldn't have assigned the HOR the sole power of impeachment. You can view the situation as a Constitutional flaw but it's right there in black & white. Congress has the *sole* power of impeachment. To impeach is to formally accuse. Only Congress is allowed to do that.

A person doesn't have to like it to see that it's the truth.

As I’ve pointed out before it is unlikely that the framers of the constitution sought to provide the president with the ability to commit unlimited crimes, including murdering congress if they tried to impeach him. By your theory he is 100% legal for the president to have everyone who could impeach him killed because to arrest and indict him for it would be unconstitutional.

You cannot escape this fact, which shows the absurdity of your position. If you are willing to admit there are exceptions where the president can in fact be arrested and indicted then surely committing crimes to attain the office to begin with would be among them.

 

[zinfamous]

Maybe dems should ask the collective west for dirt on Trump, Russia, China, UAE etc... I am sure we know shit too.

lol, what additional dirt can be dug up on Trump that actually convinces his personality cult that he is the quisling that everyone else knows he is?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Where are those strict constitutionalists who love to talk about the founding fathers? They were consumed with the fear of foreign influence in the US a democratic process and this orange piece of shit just invited it openly.

Fuck him and anyone who doesn’t condemn this.

 

[HomerJS]

Checked in on Fox this morning. Mum's the word. Hmm this is one of the biggest news stories from yesterday.

You mean they aren't a real news network?? I'm shocked.

 

[soundforbjt]

Looks like Roger was right, Nixon would've never been impeached if Fox had existed then.

 

[glenn1]

This fits with the recurring pattern of Democrats breaking norms or engaged in self-serving behavior in a small way, then see Republicans take the strategy and ratchet it up by several orders of magnitude shortly thereafter.

Dems hold up some Bush judicial nominees because they can, GOP does it wholesale to years of nominees.

Dems "Bork" an otherwise qualified nominee because they are afraid of his politics, GOP does it for multiple nominees to the same court for openly partisan reasons.

Biden muses about delaying SCOTUS nominees in an election year, the GOP does it openly to Merrick Garland.

Dems close ranks to protect a lame duck Bill Clinton from being convicted in impeachment when video evidence of lying under oath was public, GOP refuses to even consider voting for impeachment much less conviction with a Donald Trump who willingly flouts all norms and laws as he sees fit.


Progressives, just think about the above every time you advocate for something that provides you a momentary partisan advantage. The GOP has proved time and time again that decision will come back to haunt you and reverse severalfold the momentary advantage you gained.