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flotsam

(3,268 posts) Fri Mar 9, 2018, 08:09 PM Mar 2018

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An idea to cancel Trump's Parade...

Toss around the idea that one of the charges that Mueller has been using is conspiracy to defraud the US, and start asking whether if Trump were found guilty could the cost of the parade be listed as damages in a civil suit. If he had to face the idea of actual monetary damages we might be able to gain leverage over his behavior.

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An idea to cancel Trump's Parade... (Original Post) flotsam Mar 2018 OP

Under what legal theory would the cost of the parade be "damages" onenote Mar 2018 #1

Who cares about legal theory? dhol82 Mar 2018 #2

Why would you love an idea you can't even explain? onenote Mar 2018 #4

So I am a frivolous person. dhol82 Mar 2018 #6

Better idea... SeattleVet Mar 2018 #3

Or this Binkie The Clown Mar 2018 #5

onenote

(42,581 posts)

1. Under what legal theory would the cost of the parade be "damages"

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2018, 08:12 PM

Mar 2018

dhol82

(9,352 posts)

2. Who cares about legal theory?

Reply to onenote (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 9, 2018, 08:16 PM

Mar 2018

I LOVE this concept!

onenote

(42,581 posts)

4. Why would you love an idea you can't even explain?

Reply to dhol82 (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 9, 2018, 08:18 PM

Mar 2018

To whom would these "damages" be owed and why would it stop the parade from going forward (and who would stop it?)

dhol82

(9,352 posts)

6. So I am a frivolous person.

Reply to onenote (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 9, 2018, 08:29 PM

Mar 2018

What else is new?

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)

3. Better idea...

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2018, 08:17 PM

Mar 2018

just slam his sorry orange ass deep into a prison cell, well before the parade date.

Problem solved.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

5. Or this

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2018, 08:20 PM

Mar 2018

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