there was no attempt if it wasnt attempted.FLBear5630 said:4th and Inches said:you are arguing he used his position to pressure a subordinate? You do realize both of them had no job in 14 days right? He had zero leverageFLBear5630 said:This is not about Pence. You can lose your job and be arrested for using your position to pressure your subordinate to do something illegal. White House Counsel and VP Counsel said he couldn't do it. Yet he pressured Pence to do it. Is that illegal? Well, we are going to find out.4th and Inches said:did he do it?FLBear5630 said:You tell you Assistant to commit tax fraud, you are on safe legal ground?4th and Inches said:if your boss told you to rob a bank but you didnt is it still bank robbery?FLBear5630 said:4th and Inches said:and he didntFLBear5630 said:Trump told Pence not to accept and substitute different electors than the State submitted, that is different than convincing a duly appointed one to change their vote.Harrison Bergeron said:He had alternate electors.FLBear5630 said:Gore asked for recounts, he didn't ask for new electors!Harrison Bergeron said:Al Gore Jr. in 2000.HuMcK said:Mothra said:While I partly agree with you, this is the first time that a party has gone after a former president and the likely presidential nominee for one of the major parties before an election. And even though I agree with you on Trump being despicable, let's not pretend that all of these prosecutors, save and except the documents charge, are using statutes very creatively and in a way they've never been used to find that Trump committed a crime.sombear said:Political prosecutions have been happening forever. Too many governors, senators, congressmen, and others to count. Both parties also have tried to go after Presidents and Presidential candidates. Nothing is new about any of this. If anything is new, it's that Trump is just a despicable human being who also happens to be stupid in many ways and thinks he is above the law.Mothra said:That is because until now, political prosecutions in this country were not a thing. But now that your party has opened Pandora's Box and has started to behave like we are a banana republic, I suspect we are going to start seeing Republican DA's and U.S. attorneys start doing the exact same thing.Waco1947 said:
Giving a pass is immaterial. Many have sought indictments in the judicial courts with Trump and the Bidens but no one has sought them for Hillary and that is not a pass it is just how the system works. Write your congress person and get them to investigate Hillary.
As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for...
All of the above is indeed unprecedented. Name me a parallel, and I am willing to reconsider my position.
Good luck!
A necessary predicate to finding your desired parallel would be for you to point out an example where a losing Presidential candidate concocted a conspiracy to use forged documents and send false slates of electors to try and keep himself in office, thereby disenfranchising tens of millions of legitimate voters. The prosecution is novel because the criminal acts were novel, not really all that complicated.
So...we're waiting.
The Democrats called for electors to violate their "oath" in 2016. Should they be arrested for attempting to disenfranchise millions?
Trump could sue in Court, demand recounts and even ask officials to find more votes (giving him the benefit of the doubt, it is just how he talks). What he can't do, is force the VP to change the electors during certification.
No, he used a national intimidation campaign. He used his position as. His boss to put pressure on him. So what Trump and his MAGA supporters did and said was right and legal?
Should be no problem then. There is the little thing that at the time he was his boss and the outcome would have given Trump the White House, but that is a non-issue because Pence didn't do it. Right?
Attempting to rob a store is not a crime, only if you succeed, right? The get away driver backed out so we called it off in the middle, but no harm/no foul .. This should be a cake walk in Court for Donald.
Talking about it isnt doing it or even attempting it.
The things yall claim were helpful are anything but.. the mob wasnt helpful, it wasnt leverage, it actually prevented it from happening(which it wasnt happening anyway)
What was happening was the normal process of reciewing and contesting just like many other recent presidential elections.
The court will decide what the courts decide depending on if they have biased against or biased for the defendent. As with any case..
Personally, i dont care. Lock him up and the Dems lose to whomever replaces him. Dont lock him up and he will probably win. I dont see a negative for me other than having to listen to spoiled cry babies for 4 years again
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