OK, so given that the DOD says they don’t think the subpoena is worth responding to… What’s the next step here? And I mean a step that actually works towards getting results not in ineffectual waving our hands around and saying they should obey the rule of law.
Issuing subpoenas to individuals seems to be working. Surely there are DOD people who can speak to the content of those documents?
Not until there is actual accountability.
The accountability is likely to happen at the ballot box in November.
That’s not accountability. If he goes to jail afterwards, then there’s accountability, albeit still not enough of it.
CraigM
2006
If he goes to jail, his wealth confiscated, and his children arrested then that would be accountability. Simply arresting him is not sufficient.
RichVR
2007
Don’t forget the lamentations of his women.
Nesrie
2008
Yeah if you can just break laws for as long as your fans keep electing you, it’s not really a law. I believe Barbossa refers to that as a guideline.
A lot more people than just the Mango Mussolini and his crotchfruit need to be in prison with their wealth confiscated before there’s any measure of accountability.
I’m leaning towards scourging at a minimum. Perhaps the guillotine.
RichVR
2011
Correct me if I’m wrong. Isn’t the general consensus that, if he loses the election, he goes to jail on several counts?
ShivaX
2012
Probably. Or he resigns. Pence pardons him. Maybe he even pardons Pence before resigning just to be safe.
Assuming we even have a fair election in the first place.
As the man that enabled it, anything less than the torture suffered by Hevrin Khalaf will be too good for him.
RichVR
2014
Well, Pence might pardon some of his crimes. But he has to worry about SDNY, right?
Christ, we’re in for four more days of this shit??
I mentioned that Lindsey Graham is giving himself whiplash providing cover for Trump one minute and furiously calling him out the next. I don’t think the latter is just for show. If his staff is monitoring responses to his Tweets, the overwhelming sentiment is that Trump is a threat to national security and that Graham is one of the few people in a position to do something about it.
I mention this because, in a normal world where there wasn’t a very real possibility that Graham’s hands are bound by kompromat, I might hold out hope that these Senate Republicans are surely running internal polling and if that polling matches what they’re seeing on Twitter, we might start seeing cracks.
In the meantime, it’s cathartic as fuck to read the responses to Graham ‘s tweets. They are not gentle.
I’m slightly embarrassed about how loudly I laughed at this.
