Trump Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/trum...on-myself.html

Trump thinks he can pardon himself. That might actually be the tipping point, finally, probably not though.

Constitutionally, I believe he does have that right. If he does it before Halloween of the year preceding the inauguration of he predecessor, that would get him impeached and removed from office. No further legal action would be possible, but that would indeed get him tossed I believe.

[Montmorency]

Constitutionally, I believe he does have that right. If he does it before Halloween of the year preceding the inauguration of he predecessor, that would get him impeached and removed from office. No further legal action would be possible, but that would indeed get him tossed I believe.

It's debatable, but that's a problem in itself. A cleverer tyrant than Trump could wield it as a loophole in attaining autocracy, and dare the rest of the government to call their bluff.


Edit: From Bunny's linked article:

St. Clair, Nixon’s lawyer, once said: “The president wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.”

[Shaka_Khan]