I just don’t understand this mindset. Why the hell does having precedent matter when the next Republican stooge will just make the demand with whatever bullshit reason they can think off.
Corruption needs to be utterly crushed or you will be destroyed by it instead. Waxing about ‘proper procedure’ and ‘setting bad precedent’ is not seeing the forest for the trees.
As has been said a thousand times here and everywhere, precedent has been thrown out the window by reps. They no longer legislate nor even care about the function. USSC is but one example. They only care about power and tax cuts for donors, broadly. Climate change, health care, racial equality, womens’ health, the list goes on. Literally everything that would help normal lower, lower-middle, middle class people is not their concern. They are fucking ghouls.
There is no way that there is anything in any DOJ memo anywhere would “crush” the corruption that existed in the Trump Administration.
Whether any of us like it or not, the Constitution and federal election laws never envisioned a Trump scenario, in which someone so nakedly out for personal gain and so willing to sell out the country would somehow be able to leverage that into getting elected. They also never envisioned that if someone were to so blatantly act in ways that were so harmful to the country that congress wouldn’t act to impeach.
Want to make sure no future candidate so nakedly welcomes foreign interference in US elections? Strengthen those laws and penalties. Make it a mandate for the IC to pursue vigorously such interference with all the resources they need. But as far as Trump goes, unfortunately it’s been pretty clear for a while now that those cows are out of the barn.
Take the 1/6 commission. They got everything they asked for in the negotiations and they’ll vote against it. It’s the MAGAit troll party for the wealthy and batshit crazy. Too concerned about supporting the big lie than coming together to save the democracy…too funny
A million times this. I said it in 2016. The writers of the Constitution assumed (wrongly, as it turned out) that the electorate would never let an obvious criminal get to the top of a presidential ticket, and they further assumed a good faith effort on Congress to keep a President in check. The one good thing Trump did was highlight all of these weaknesses in our setup.
Unfortunately, I fear the lesson learned was “Oh shit. Look at what we can actually get away with if we just ignore all those fussy rules.”
Only took 239 years //snark// :)
I know. I was speaking in general. Those memos would just be one of many things required…
Well, this may be true, but it is not the founders who have decided that sitting Presidents can commit crimes with impunity before the law, it is the actual ruling establishment; and if we want that to change, the first thing we should expect from them is that they’re willing expose the corruption rather than argue the need to sweep it under the rug. It’s a bad thing for the DOJ to fight the release of this part of the memo for any of the reasons I’ve seen offered for it.
Sadly, I think this is probably spot on. Instead of four years of Trump highlighting the need to shore up the guardrails of our democratic systems, instead it’s felt like a blueprint for winning future elections by any nefarious way possible.
KevinC
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Democracy’s had a good run, I’m just trying to enjoy the dying embers while I can!
RichVR
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I purely hate this take. But I cannot find any fault in your logic. Sadly. The Biden rush is over. The fear is growing again.
I do not like it. Not at all.
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Why not listen to some dcd while we wait?
https://youtu.be/hSJUjz5bvQE
E÷ there are better and worse dcd songs, this was just what happened to be on at the time…
Solid.
Also :( but y’know, solid.
Remember back in 2016 when it seemed like the NY FBI office was totally in the tank for Trump, and also hell-bent in going after Clinton? There may be a reason for that. The guy in charge of counterintelligence there was corrupt AF, and ended up working for the Russians:
This guy was in charge of the NY FBI office in 2016, and retired in 2018 (but continued working for the FBI as a consultant.) The charges all post-date 2016. But it’s clear this guy was totally bent, and probably had been for some time:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., unsealed a separate case Monday against McGonigal on charges he received $225,000 in cash from an individual with business interests in Europe who McGonigal knew was an employee of a foreign intelligence service.
The nine-count indictment alleges between August 2017 and September 2018, leading up to his retirement from the FBI New York Field Office, McGonigal concealed from the bureau his relationship with this unidentified former foreign intelligence officer all while traveling abroad with the person and meeting foreign nationals. The person is described as an Albanian national who was employed by a Chinese energy conglomerate.
antlers
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Right, and if we want to know who the missing link between the Russians and the Trump campaign (or at least Giuliani) was that Mueller could never put his finger in, this is an excellent candidate.
