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NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 02:13 PM Feb 2019

if somehow, some way, trump and his cabal get what they deserve...lock them up for how long?


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if somehow, some way, trump and his cabal get what they deserve...lock them up for how long? (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Feb 2019 OP
The handling of Watergate showed that penalties need to be incurred in order for... Dennis Donovan Feb 2019 #1
6 years. unblock Feb 2019 #3
Great point! Dennis Donovan Feb 2019 #4
Enough to deter all other republicans from future criminal acts unblock Feb 2019 #2
let out each day to pick up trash on our many highways lame54 Feb 2019 #5

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
1. The handling of Watergate showed that penalties need to be incurred in order for...
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 02:19 PM
Feb 2019

...for Good Government to prevail. They let Nixon off the hook, and a mere 12 yrs later, the Executive Branch was acting against the law yet again.

We won't survive as a Democracy if those who seek to subvert it prevail.

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3. 6 years.
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 02:30 PM
Feb 2019

Well I guess they weren't the executive branch yet, but by all accounts, Reagan/poppy sabotaged Carter's deal to free the hostages and paid terrorists to keep Americans hostage longer.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
4. Great point!
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 02:35 PM
Feb 2019

Yes, that SHOULD'VE been a prosecutable crime! Nixon did the same thing to Humphrey/Johnson in 1968. How would've the American populace reacted *in 1968* to a lengthening of the Vietnam War had they known at the time?

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(52,256 posts)
2. Enough to deter all other republicans from future criminal acts
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 02:27 PM
Feb 2019

Which is I guess is another way to say throw away the key and keep dreaming.

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