I don't want to hear "taking the high road" as a euphemism for DECLINING to prosecute...

[Nevilledog]

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Glenn Kirschner
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I don’t want to hear “taking the high road” as a euphemism for DECLINING to prosecute the criminal politicians who victimized the American people for the past 4 years. Declining to hold criminals accountable isn’t “taking the high road.” It is the very definition of INJUSTICE.
11:27 AM · Nov 14, 2020

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Special Prosecutors are needed for this.

[exboyfil]

6. Democratic special prosecutors

Someone like Doug Jones for example. This seems like the perfect job for him if he wants it. I think Sally Yates would be too conflicted to be eligible.

[gopiscrap]

7. I would choose Hillary Clinton

that would make the MAGAt heads explode

[exboyfil]

11. Conflict of interest

Just like Sally Yates. Some of the Special Prosecutors investigation could (and I hope would) include the 2016 election.

[blueinredohio]

14. Not Doug Jones. Imo, he's too willing to work with the other side.

We need someone who will be hard on these assholes.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Bringing the Trump cabal to justice is second only to COVID in healing America. Nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. +1

[exboyfil]

3. Exactly

It might be mercy or it might be expedience, but it is not the high road.

Biden needs a pit bull as AG. Someone who is fair but resolute in following whatever illegality exists.

Also the most powerful should be the most accountable. It doesn't seem to work that way in this country, but it should.

[gopiscrap]

8. I don't even care about fair, give them a taste of their own medicine

[Sneederbunk]

4. Take the right road.

[kimbutgar]

5. I want a full look at the commerce department and see how much McConnell's wife siphoned

In back channel deals that benefited them And have him and her prosecuted for theft.

[mtnsnake]

9. Taking the high road with today's republicans is simply degrading

It's like asking them to kick you in the teeth when you're down.

[Wicked Blue]

10. Failure to prosecute is ENABLING

When they don't have consequences, they keep doing whatever they were doing.

It's like raising kids. No boundaries, no consequences = little monsters

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Exactly right! n/t

[SomedayKindaLove]

15. The GOP still holds a grudge for Bork

Better to let his tax crimes get him over anything he did as President

If not they will try and arrest every leaving Dem President

[EndlessWire]

18. Oh, they'll do that, anyway. n/t

[JudyM]

16. Yes, yes, yes. Accountability is necessary for justice. Plus next time might, incredibly, be worse.

[duforsure]

17. By not holding criminals in OUR government fully accountable

It'll only make more criminals run for office knowing they'll escape justice. It also weakens our Democracy, promotes distrust in OUR government and the Democratic party , making fewer votes for them from it. Our government needs to purge ALL criminals serving period, and we shouldn't have to beg any politician to do it. The American people deserve to have all corruption prosecuted , and politicians held to a higher standard , and given higher consequences when they break that trust working for the American people, or they'll lose all trust in them all.

[DEbluedude]

19. These criminals need to be held accountable. No matter what.

The cancer must be removed in order to START THE HEAL! It will be painful for most of the country but the future of a representative democracy for my grandchildren depends on it.

[lunatica]

20. Michelle Obama didn't say that about prosecutions

Just to make sure she isn’t given credit or blamed for them being used in this way.

[EndlessWire]

21. I don't think

that we are going to see any prosecution for what he did while in office. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Biden pardoned him, for the good of the country.

I am certain that we can walk and chew gum at the same time. We could fight Covid and prosecute him at the same time. But, that would be looking at years and years and years of lawsuit, where he denies culpability and claims his right to hire, fire, and run the country according to the power that we gave him through the position.

This would last longer than Biden's term as President, and we would be treated for the rest of our lives--and his--of press conferences, news bytes, and all the people surrounding him, all their pressers, etc. as they tried to wiggle out of liability.

Would I let Hitler go? Hell, no! But, it's not helpful to say that I would have executed Hitler. Instead, I note that, although we all know he mishandled the pandemic in an effort to weaponize Covid and use it for his own good, Trump can claim incompetence as a defense, and We The People and a few Russians put him in office, thus okaying his incompetence. So, I don't think we can get him on that, either.

Now, NYS is gonna have a word with him. But you know how that goes. He's going to have a settlement offer that they will consider. So, other than taxes, what else is there?

I see Trump first moving to Trump Tower, or perhaps flying down to Mar a Lago to spend his time while vainly trying to get our attention.

I wish that we could deny him Secret Service protection, and any money he'll get. He doesn't deserve a damned thing. He should be shunned. But, I doubt that he is going to jail.

We need new legislation to plug the holes that enabled his behavior...I'd still pay him to sail out to sea and never return...

[bluestarone]

22. Adam Schiff

I would trust explicitly!!! ( if his seat would be guaranteed.)

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Or this, that we have to look forward. That was total bs.

[G_j]

24. it's a stamp of approval

not holding criminals accountable for substantially serious crimes.

[smirkymonkey]

25. Hear, hear!

[Duppers]

26. A.f'n.men!! +100000

[Brother Mythos]

27. Lock the lyin' loser, his entire crime family, and ...

all of his co-conspirators up!

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act was passed specifically to deal with these types of people. It's bad enough that we need this law to deal with organized street criminals. But, it's totally unacceptable that we not use RICO to punish criminals who infiltrate our government, no matter how popular they might be with "the mostly, figuratively inbred."