I don't really get the point of baiting Fuzzy and his ilk here. Sure, it's funny to watch people make complete fools of themselves defending Trump as the evidence in this case is frankly painfully unambiguous, but come on, it's Fuzzy. It's not like he wasn't doing that before. In my opinion it's mostly sad to see that grown adults have had their brains rotted to such an insane degree, and yet more evidence of why I hope they lock Trump up for the rest of his natural life, so that our nation and our fellow Americans can begin to heal in his absence.
Trump only further opened up a Pandora's Box, there isn't a "healing".
Likewise the nation didn't really heal from Watergate at all, it just deflected to "gubmint bad".
Yes, exactly this. The failure to hold Nixon accountable for his crimes was a grave mistake and greatly damaged the entire idea of the rule of law.
One can argue this, yes. One can also argue that Nixon should have made the kind of stink about stolen elections in 1960. The irregularities in both the city of Chicago and specified counties in Texas (one would have to get a copy of
Six Crises to find the specific counties were gross irregularities had occurred. (I remember one of them as being Fannin County, TX, but there were some others.)
The investigations into Nixon were not about finding a crime to charge him with; they were about specified abuses of power, one of them being obstruction of Justice, in which his own Counsel to the President, John Dean, testified under oath that he committed. This was bolstered by the disclosure by Alexander Butterfield that Nixon had a taping system.
The double standards are obvious. Hillary Clinton had classified material that she did not have the power to declassify that got onto Anthony Weiner's phone. She got away with less than a "My Bad!". Those irregularities involved specific material, but it was no big deal to anyone here that she was never prosecuted. Indeed, BILL Clinton (arguably) obstructed justice in his time on the tarmac in a plane with Loretta Lynch. This was overt obstruction of a criminal investigation, yet no one has called for BILL Clinton to be investigated (or Loretta Lynch, for that matter). The selective outrage is telling, and many of you have, for literally YEARS on this Forum, called for Trump to be arrested, charged, tried, convicted, and jailed, without specifying charges (or specifying matters that have been proven false over time, such as most of the Muller Report nonsense). That's not how it works. But a governent that can actually do what they've done to Donald Trump can do so with YOUR favorite elected official, should the political tides change.
And that's where I'm at with this. In many matters, Trump has been less than his Own Best Friend. But the conduct of those "prosecuting" (actually persecuting) him shows a minimal regard for the Rule of Law, for the standards of honesty in obtaining FISA Warrants, for the idea that a Congressional "investigation" such as the January 6th Committee is supposed to have a definitive LEGISLATIVE purpose behind it, that the CONGRESS does not have the power to simply investigate alleged crimes with no legislative purpose, and that Warrants for Searches and Arrests are limited in scope and present probable cause that a crime of a specified nature has already been committed. That's not what has happened here, but people will keep telling themselves otherwise.
If they can do it to Trump, they can do it to you. If they can do it to you, they can do it to me. Am I afraid of a government, regardless of party, that can throw the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments out the window because someone has to be "gotten"? That WOULD be a different country than the one I grew up in, and it is the type of country that people come from other parts of the World (legally and Illegally, I might add) to get away from.
I'll say no more. I'll let the facts come out. Nothing will surprise me. And Donald Trump should not get away with criminal activity just because some of his adversaries did. But if Donald Trump IS actually convicted of a crime (and I'll believe it only after the entire process is played out), then a two-tiered system of Justice, politicized to the max, will have been formally implemented. That will not be cause to celebrate. It will deter good men from seeking the Presidency, but it will not deter scoundrels, and particularly those scoundrels whose adult lives have been about nothing but politics.
