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A blue Texas Senate seat is a Democrat wet dream. If the blue wave is actually that big, Trump might actually be fucked.
If the Dems get power...they actually have to prosecute him. Which.... hopefully happens but I'm not holding my breath for it.
Enough power to remove a sitting president is almost certainly enough power to override any veto he makes.
It would also require close to (or more than) every single Senate seat going blue this year. Because going from 46/54 to 67/33 is a huge 23 seat swing.
(I'd look up the partisan split of this years senate races but I don't want to make myself depressed.)
I wouldn’t even prioritize this anymore: he’s too old to serve out the sentence he deserves. But he also seems to be trying to set up a line of royalty. His sons are becoming billionaires from his efforts at exploiting the people and those seeking influence. They’ll be around for decades longer and have wealth and influence based entirely on corruption.
This needs to be the priority. All those who helped defraud the country or profited illegitimately. Prosecute them. Prosecute them all. Remove the political power gained from corruption. Set an example for future minions and coat tails hangers on, that there is no profit in it and they will face justice
lol. Prosecute him? Who would enforce it? He has his new personal army and leads the Us military. The Judicial and Legislative have nothing to handle that. If he loses the house and senate I fully expect him to just start completely ignoring both of them.
Or to send ICE to arrest all the Democrats in the Senate and House who were foreign born or had parents who were, announce they're all no longer citizens because of his insane illegal executive order, and deport them.
The US military would likely still refuse that. But ICE? That's who he'd send. And if anyone tried to defend the politicians he was targeting and it turned in to a fire fight against ICE that's when he's pop the insurrection act. Ordering the military to kidnap sitting US politicians is one thing, but ordering them up to defend the federal agents in ICE from the "evil insurrectionist terrorist dumocrat libtards" shooting at them? I'm really worried they would do that.
Prosecution would require a compliant president.
I want to see trials not just of Trump, but of all the criminals around him. All of them, we need to restore law to this rotting apple.
Yes, this, so much this. His family needs to pay, as well. Same with his son in law.
And those pardoned terrorists need to be sent back to prison to serve out their terms. And that bitch Tina Peters. Anyone given a pardon from him (or people caving to him, like that jerkoff Jared Polis) need to have that pardon just flatly ignored. Just send something like ICE after them by the new president and let them try to fight it out in courts.
Let's show these motherfuckers some actual "lawfare" for them to cry about, LOL.
They can have due process, that’s part of restoring the law, but the evidence is legion and they should easily be sent to jail.
Oh, of course. But it's time for them to enjoy some of the "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride". It is time for some actual "lawfare" to be directed at conservative criminals for once.
Yes, this, so much this. His family needs to pay, as well. Same with his son in law.
And those pardoned terrorists need to be sent back to prison to serve out their terms. And that bitch Tina Peters. Anyone given a pardon from him (or people caving to him, like that jerkoff Jared Polis) need to have that pardon just flatly ignored. Just send something like ICE after them by the new president and let them try to fight it out in courts.
Let's show these motherfuckers some actual "lawfare" for them to cry about, LOL.
That won't happen without the presidency, but starting to compile the evidence is a possibility.