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You're right, we should just let Trump break as many laws as he wants because we are scared of his yokel supporters. That would be way better.
I don't think they are suggesting he should be allowed to break laws, but acknowledging the challenge the accountability brings with it.
Maybe it's better that he had either lost the election first and then we charged or we had brought charges 2 years ago instead of right before election season.
I'm not sure, to be honest. I just think this is a dangerous decision that shouldn't be made likely. The world doesn't work like it ought to. We should keep that in mind. Obviously me and you don't actually make decisions so we can just speculate.
But I'm worried about the near future.
The issue is that his DoJ refused to investigate him because they have a standing policy that a president cannot be charged with breaking the law. So despite multiple public violations of both law breaking and high crimes and misdemeanors, Trump was allowed to get away with it under the Nixonian mandate of anything the president does is by definition legal. It means that Biden could begin actually just arresting all republican politicians on the charge of treason and, as long as the senate doesn’t vote to remove him from office with a 2/3 majority, it’s legal even though it would violate the word and intent of the constitution.
Now they can’t prosecute him because, despite being a private citizen, he might become president? This is the same party - and literally the same person - who joyfully chanted “lock her up” over their political opponent throughout the previous campaign. The same people who boasted about defeating Hillary Clinton via a comic investigation into Benghazi, which was designed to do exactly what it did.
Absolutely nothing republicans complain about is said in good faith. It’s time to move past that idea and not even address the complaint. If Trump wasn’t investigated and prosecuted, he’d still be ahead in the polls. Trump is the republican party, and the republican party is Trump.