Devin Nunes calls the closure of schools in California “way overkill” shortly before he argues we need to send people back to work within 1-2 weeks while citing optimism over Hydroxychloroquine pic.twitter.com/3pBHWdwlK0
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 1, 2020
That was what the Democrats tried after 2008: no investigations of the W Bush Administration into the lies that led to the Iraq war or the incompetence that allowed the bankers to crash the economy.
Two years later, the Republicans retook the House.
The heck with that. The criminal activities of the Trump Administration isn’t just to confined to the Trump Administration, but there are Republican enablers and accomplices in Congress, the media, business, and the courts, and to truly get to the bottom of this and to expose the corrupt gaming of the system, the real ‘Deep State’, Congress needs to investigate every non-criminal activity of the Trump Administration and its enablers and accomplices, and the Justice Department, without interference, needs to investigate all of the criminal acts.
I agree. I worry, though, that the leaders and top politicians of the Decmocratic have been effectively bought out by the owners and controllers of the wealth of America, just as the Republicans have, although not as flagrantly. This would also lead them to be against investigating the corruption of Trump and his administration, in the name of “we must look forward” or whatever.
Yes, that was Nancy Pelosi’s attitude in 2008 and her attitude for much of the Trump Presidency. When she said that ‘impeaching Trump was the last thing she wanted to do’ I believe her.
Yeah…you’re dealing with a country populated by a lot of morons. Nunes has plenty of company.
Well, Uncle Scoopy seems to be on the ball. (More so than I am, I admit.) I also think “Beau of the Fifth Column” on YouTube is pretty sharp. You might check him out for some relief from…trumpery?
I think Devin Nunes is the “some people” trump is always referring to.
How bizarre is it that a celebrity nudie blogger is one of my more trusted sources for analysis? No joke.
That said, do you think there’s any realistic chance there will be any real punishments and repercussions, perhaps criminal, that comes after these insane cult members leave office?
This left me feeling a bit hopeful as it seems at least possibly realistic
Thoughts?
I don’t know what the post-Trump-era president will do, but I know what I would do.
I am of two minds on this. First, Trump has committed actual crimes, and should be subject to the same justice as anyone else. He should not be considered above the law, and he has probably done enough to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
BUT
If I were the next President, I would bend over backward to show that the power of the federal government should not be a tool for personal and political revenge, and I would not want my presidency to be filled with headlines about Trump and his lackeys and their tax returns. Unlike the author of that article, I would not want endless government investigations and commissions looking at the past. Let historians study history. Let leaders create the future. I think I would offer Trump a pardon, and would pardon anybody for anything they did upon Trump’s direct order, and explain to the American public why I was doing that. I don’t believe that the post-Trump era should be a period of revenge, or even comeuppance, but of healing, and I would make that clear to the public. America is a very large tent, and there is room for all sorts of people. You can’t remedy Trumpism by being a left-wing version of it. I would explain publicly to my new AG and the new FBI chief that no prosecution or investigation decisions should henceforth be based upon politics, but rather on the severity of the crimes involved and the objective facts surrounding them, and by God if their #1 priority was any of my personal friends or political allies, go after them like anyone else. I might even pick an honest conservative to be the new AG, assuming I could find one who is qualified. I would also try to tamp down the enthusiasm of Congress for revenge.
Repairing Justice would be Day 1. Then I would get on with the business of the country, starting by repairing EPA, Interior and Agriculture on Day 2. Very soon after, I’d start to find a solution to State and relations with our allies.
Needless to say, no Trump appointees would be asked to stay on.
To do all of that would require a genuine statesman on the level of Lincoln or FDR. I honestly don’t know whether Biden would follow that course. He doesn’t give off a wise Lincoln vibe to me.
I would only pardon people for actions they were ordered to do by Trump. If they were committing crimes on their own – let the chips fall where they may. If they engaged in criminal activity, let their cases be judged on the facts and the law.
This is the argued historical justification for Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon, and contributed to his loss in the next election.
The major difference here would be that Biden (presumably) is in the opposing political party.
I don’t know. I understand the desire to not spend months/years wallowing in Trump’s fetid wake, but also can not stomach Trump completely getting away with it, just walking off Scott-free.
Maybe a compromise would be no trials, but just completely open the books on him. All his tax returns, all his NDAs, the Deutsche Bank records, expose every fraudulent and shitty thing about him and make it part of he permanent government record. Destroy the Trump legacy while he’s still alive to see it. That’s the thing that would probably hurt him the most.
Its not bizarre at all. This philosophical treatise should provide sufficient illumination.