Was Listening To Thom Hartmann Today

[gab13by13]

He did a segment on Trump. He had an idea for a good first step to secure our democracy.

Arrest Donald Trump.

Wouldn't it be nice to have people like Thom and Stephanie Miller and numerous others on cable news saying that instead of talking about the raid on Trump's house, that even raided his son's bedroom?

[AllaN01Bear]

1. hear. hear. should have done that pronto.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

2. No. I most certainly would not like to see a cable news network provide a platform

to Thom Hartmann.

Russia Today was bad enough.

[gab13by13]

5. I probably agree with Thom 99% of the time.

He is one of the few truth tellers, no matter who it involves.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

6. I accidently tuned into Hartmann's radio show the other day while driving in LA traffic

and he had caller after caller spouting outlandish conspiracy theories.

Rather than offering correctives, Harmann appeared to endorse single every one.

I was cross-eyed after 20 minutes of listening to such malarky.

No thanks.

[Beastly Boy]

4. And then what? Release Donald Trump?

I am curious what course of action Hartmann recommends to facilitate the arrest and what consequences he anticipates after the arrest.

[gab13by13]

7. So, arresting may be warranted,

but we shouldn't because his base may get upset, or because it would upset Congressional Republicans?

What is worse, no one on cable news dares to utter those words, arrest Donald Trump. Just think about that. Not a radical, lock her up statement, just a rational statement that Trump deserves to be arrested.

This is what Democrats are up against, a MSM that is owned and managed by domestic oligarchs. Didn't CNN just purge someone for saying something far less?

If we shouldn't say arrest Donald Trump, what message does that send to the justice department?

[Beastly Boy]

9. An arrest becomes warranted only when there is a warrant for arrest.

And that, for starters, is exactly what I was hoping to hear from Mr. Hartmann: who requests the warrant from a judge, on what grounds, how is it to be served, what happens to Trump when his lawyers post bond for his release even before he is cuffed, etc. Surely Mt Hartmann, despite his online bravado, does not intend to drive to Mar a Lago and make a citizen's arrest himself, does he? And surely Mr Hartmann does not intend to face the risk of being sued for false arrest, along with other assorted charges, again and again, for the rest of his life, until he loses his last pair of underwear, whether he is found liable or not!

And this is jut a few of the myriad of petty pre-trial and post-trial minutia that Mr Hartmann, not being a legal professional, appears to be oblivious to. He appears unlikely to anticipate the half of the nuances that go, say, into arresting a former TV program host on Putin's payroll, let alone an ex-POTUS!

Considering the above as a mere appetizer for what is involved in Trump's arrest, those people who do not call for it may turn out to be the smart ones.

[gab13by13]

8. Why is it when DU members like me,

call for the arrest of Trump, we are given a dozen reasons why that wouldn't be appropriate now? My question is, if not now, when?

We have the 60 day rule that applies for Republicans, and that's just another obstacle we have to overcome, but using that rule that means that Trump or his treasonous allies can't be touched for another 4 months.

My argument about indicting Trump sooner rather than later has always been about time. A Trump trial would never happen until at least late 2024, most likely 2025.

[Beastly Boy]

10. It's not a question of being appropriate

The question is whether what people like you are calling for is being lawful.