Comments around 7:45 remind me of several 2016 articles saying that Trump would hate being president. I too thought that he'd hate the responsibility if not the authority. Until early in his term it became painfully obvious that his many protectors assured him that they would shield him from all responsibility accountability. Oh, they'd …
Comments around 7:45 remind me of several 2016 articles saying that Trump would hate being president. I too thought that he'd hate the responsibility if not the authority. Until early in his term it became painfully obvious that his many protectors assured him that they would shield him from all responsibility accountability. Oh, they'd grant him all the authority, but that coincided with their own desires, so for them it was a no-brainer. But apparently he did much prefer his job as a reality show star, and, as many others have since claimed, his interest in becoming president was not so much for the added authority, but to keep out of jail. While no one would rather see him rot in jail more than I do, I am also used to "picking my battles," such as in a half century of voting for the candidate I least disagree with. On that note, I'm not sure it's possible, but I'd (grudgingly) support a one-time immunity if he agrees to drop out of the election and agree to never again run for public office. They could sweeten the offer with an "Apprentice" reboot.
It wouldn’t be enforceable, that promise. The only legally enforceable way to keep him out of politics would have been impeachment. Which we tried, a couple of times.
My take on the whole legal prosecution/immunity thing is that he was always bent on revenge anyway, and that these prosecutions are not really liberals and democracy defenders trying desperately to stop an autocrat, so much as ordinary law enforcement doing its job. It would, in fact, be corrupt and political for the administration to try what you’re describing.
On the other hand, by simply doing nothing and letting the justice system do what it’s supposed to do, Democrats have raised the stakes, and the gauntlet, far beyond what they otherwise would have been.
Trump is now a convicted criminal. He is going to be limited, in his choice of staff, to civil servants and lackeys with no problem taking lawless orders from a convicted criminal. In order to accomplish even a tiny fraction of what they want, even if they win, MAGA is going to have to go the route of maximum pain, maximum grind, maximum chaos, for themselves and their opponents alike.
Some would face that possibility and fear for the future. I see it as the only way out, which is through. And heck, if Trump loses (as he should; convicted criminals and the most powerful office on Earth do not mix), even better.
Comments around 7:45 remind me of several 2016 articles saying that Trump would hate being president. I too thought that he'd hate the responsibility if not the authority. Until early in his term it became painfully obvious that his many protectors assured him that they would shield him from all responsibility accountability. Oh, they'd grant him all the authority, but that coincided with their own desires, so for them it was a no-brainer. But apparently he did much prefer his job as a reality show star, and, as many others have since claimed, his interest in becoming president was not so much for the added authority, but to keep out of jail. While no one would rather see him rot in jail more than I do, I am also used to "picking my battles," such as in a half century of voting for the candidate I least disagree with. On that note, I'm not sure it's possible, but I'd (grudgingly) support a one-time immunity if he agrees to drop out of the election and agree to never again run for public office. They could sweeten the offer with an "Apprentice" reboot.
It wouldn’t be enforceable, that promise. The only legally enforceable way to keep him out of politics would have been impeachment. Which we tried, a couple of times.
My take on the whole legal prosecution/immunity thing is that he was always bent on revenge anyway, and that these prosecutions are not really liberals and democracy defenders trying desperately to stop an autocrat, so much as ordinary law enforcement doing its job. It would, in fact, be corrupt and political for the administration to try what you’re describing.
On the other hand, by simply doing nothing and letting the justice system do what it’s supposed to do, Democrats have raised the stakes, and the gauntlet, far beyond what they otherwise would have been.
Trump is now a convicted criminal. He is going to be limited, in his choice of staff, to civil servants and lackeys with no problem taking lawless orders from a convicted criminal. In order to accomplish even a tiny fraction of what they want, even if they win, MAGA is going to have to go the route of maximum pain, maximum grind, maximum chaos, for themselves and their opponents alike.
Some would face that possibility and fear for the future. I see it as the only way out, which is through. And heck, if Trump loses (as he should; convicted criminals and the most powerful office on Earth do not mix), even better.