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Feb 20 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Are we afraid to test the principle that no one is above the law?

Good question from @MattDallek
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"If Trump were indicted, he would become the first former president to stand criminal trial...

This list is hardly exhaustive and omits the dozen-plus civil lawsuits and civil investigations Trump faces."

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"The rule of law, the notion that we are all equal under our criminal justice system, is among the noblest of principles but also the ugliest of myths.

The question of putting Trump on trial ... is a test for a principle of democracy"
~@MattDallek

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"With Trump in the White House, his friends & allies already had their own system of justice...

all convicted felons who received pardons from Trump or had their sentences commuted by him. Three of those convictions occurred during Trump’s presidency"
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"Inaction [failing to prosecute Trump] mocks the nation’s professed ideal that no one sits above the law — and Americans might wonder whether our democracy can survive what amounts to the explicit approval of lawlessness."

#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"Indicting could trigger violence, spark a cycle of retribution once Republicans take back power...

But the far graver peril in this situation is inaction, a paralyzing refusal to hold Trump criminally liable for his behavior."

#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"Refusing to hold officials accountable for crimes emboldens them...

The costs of not prosecuting Trump have already been significant — and they’re already grounds for fear."

#DemocracyInDanger
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"Trump has long sanctioned violence among his supporters...

the failure to prosecute Trump for any crimes he himself commits empowers him to do it louder."

#DomesticTerrorism
#StochasticTerrorism
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"Trump’s supporters are watching.

After years of his burn-it-all-down oratory and above-the-law governance, they are emboldened...

Not prosecuting Trump has already signaled to his supporters that accountability is for suckers."
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"“I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president,” Trump told the conservative organization Turning Point USA...

Until the criminal justice system stops him, he will continue to believe that."

#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

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"That evidence includes a letter that may turn out to be, as a practical matter, the biggest blow Trump has ever suffered, even bigger than his six corporate bankruptcies and two presidential impeachments."
~@gtconway3d

#TrumpInTrouble
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"Mazars [Trump's accounting firm] said that 10 years of Trump’s financial statements, from 2011 to 2020, “should no longer be relied upon,”...

... And then they quit."

#TrumpInTrouble
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"[Trump] may find it all but impossible to find new auditors and tax preparers...

“good luck refinancing your debt when the accountants” — who have just declared a decade of your financials utterly worthless — have “just walked out the door.”"

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Feb 17
"The ping-pong of private Hannity missives was a far cry from the contents of his show, where he continued to amplify the arguments for electoral objections despite his stated fears."

#Jan6
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"A member of the House Freedom Caucus with knowledge of the president’s planning for that day sent a message to Meadows... with an explicit warning."

#Jan6
#Jan6th
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"We are under siege in the cpaitol"

"There’s an armed standoff at the house chamber door"

"We’re all helpless"

#Jan6
#Jan6thInsurrection
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"The journey underscores how defiantly and indiscriminately Trump violated the Presidential Records Act"

#TrumpPapers
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
The National Archives contacted Trump about some high profile missing documents last summer.

"But it was not until the end of the year that the boxes were finally readied for collection"

(What happened in that time? Were some documents destroyed?)
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
"At one point, Archives officials threatened that if Trump’s team did not voluntarily produce the materials, they would send a letter to Congress or the Justice Department revealing the lack of cooperation"

#TrumpPapers
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Feb 2
I've been stressing about the possibility of losing power since I have week-old chicks (7 of them) under a heat lamp.

No power, no heat lamp, dead chicks. 😰

So I did an online search for ways to keep chicks alive without a heat lamp and found a couple of suggestions.
The most useful was to build an insulated "hut" for them to huddle under.

So, using some cardboard and an insulated shipping bag, I gave it my best shot.

It has air holes & and a flap so the chicks can get out if they really want to.
Another suggestion was a sort of hot water bottle.

The water in a hot water tank (assuming it's not tankless) will remain hot for a while. So, when the power goes out, immediately fill some plastic containers with hot water and put them in the brooder box with the chicks.
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Feb 1
"Trump was known inside the White House for his unusual and potentially unlawful habit of tearing presidential records into shreds and tossing them on the floor... despite the Presidential Records Act"

washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
"The National Archives on Monday took the unusual step of confirming the habit, saying in a statement that records turned over from the Trump White House “included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump.”"

washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01…
"the former president’s infrangible shredding practices apparently continued well into the latter stages of his presidency."

Why would someone develop the habit of shredding their paperwork and continue to do so after being asked to stop?
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Jan 30
"The two-pronged fight captures how aggressively Republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages...

Voting laws are intended to reconfigure the composition of today’s electorate; the teaching bans aim to shape the attitudes of tomorrow’s."

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"The school proposals are not only surfacing in more states, but also increasing in their breadth."

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"The singer and activist John Legend previewed another response when he tweeted, “Black parents need to flood these tip lines with complaints about our history being silenced. We are parents too.”"

#education
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