Trump Thread

[HopAlongBunny]

Trump is certainly showing a weakness of the American system.
If their is no "political will" to stop possible corrupt practices, misinformation and illegal activity; the President is essentially untouchable.
Can he preemptively pardon individuals? Apparently yes. Ford did it, Bush did it and I see nothing stopping Trump from doing it.
Good luck to America in this developing Constitutional crisis.

[Hooahguy]

Trump is certainly showing a weakness of the American system.
If their is no "political will" to stop possible corrupt practices, misinformation and illegal activity; the President is essentially untouchable.
Can he preemptively pardon individuals? Apparently yes. Ford did it, Bush did it and I see nothing stopping Trump from doing it.
Good luck to America in this developing Constitutional crisis.

He is essentially untouchable because the ruling party doesnt have the political guts to do anything about it. The political hellstorm that will arrive if the GOP ever decided to impeach Trump is worse than just letting him do his thing.

[rory_20_uk]

He is essentially untouchable because the ruling party doesnt have the political guts to do anything about it. The political hellstorm that will arrive if the GOP ever decided to impeach Trump is worse than just letting him do his thing.

I wonder whether they are calculating - almost hoping - that in the mid-terms the democrats will win enough seats to have the majority and then they can be the ones to impeach. They've a pretty good chance of winning the House at least and they only need 51 seats to progress impeachment to the Senate. If that were to occur he'd be so busy fighting investigations and impeachment along with the compulsory business that nothing else would get done.

Then assuming (a big assumption) that there are insufficient flat earther / anti-immunisation / mouth-breathing hicks to give him another 4 years we can all draw a line under the four years where the entire Trump cabal clasp their Presidential Pardons for all that happened in the four years.