I'm STILL seeing, "If only Garland had moved faster, Trump couldn't be running for president again now!"
Come ON, people! You should know by now that indictments, even convictions, can't prevent someone from running for (or being elected) president.
1/8
Come ON, people! You should know by now that indictments, even convictions, can't prevent someone from running for (or being elected) president.
1/8
Besides, the pre-trial legal maneuvering would mean that had Trump been indicted a year ago, his trial likely wouldn't have even started yet.
The only effect of an indictment so far would have been to let Trump raise hundreds of millions by presenting himself as a victim.
2/8
The only effect of an indictment so far would have been to let Trump raise hundreds of millions by presenting himself as a victim.
2/8
It isn't DOJ's job to save you. They don't have that power, and you wouldn't want them to have it. If indicting someone could prevent that person from running for office, Trump would have had Bill Barr indict every Democrat in the country.
Come on already. Think a little.
3/8
Come on already. Think a little.
3/8
"BuT wHaT aBoUt ThE FoUrTeEnTh AmEnDmEnT?"
=IF= Trump or some other politician is found guilty of "insurrection or rebellion against" the U.S., there's a chance that person can be barred from office. But here's the rub: The 14th doesn't enforce itself.
4/8
=IF= Trump or some other politician is found guilty of "insurrection or rebellion against" the U.S., there's a chance that person can be barred from office. But here's the rub: The 14th doesn't enforce itself.
4/8
There would be months--maybe years--of legal wrangling through the courts (and the Supreme Court) and probably in the halls of Congress. Don't count on that process moving fast, or smoothly, or coming out the way you want it to.
5/8
5/8
Even keeping Trump out of office wouldn't help anyway. There are dozens of Mini-Me's all set to take his place. Hundreds, maybe. The House, Senate, governorships and state legislatures are infested with them. You cannot lock up everyone you don't like.
6/8
6/8
Trump is a danger--and Trumpism is a danger--NOT because the DOJ is (supposedly) moving too slowly, but because there are too many Americans who will vote for fascists. And too many others who can't be bothered to vote at all.
7/8
7/8
The ONLY solution is to vote. To vote for Democrats. For every office on every ballot in every district in every state in every election, forever more, Amen.
And to get other people to vote that way, too.
Democracy works by winning elections. Not by putting people in jail.
8/8
And to get other people to vote that way, too.
Democracy works by winning elections. Not by putting people in jail.
8/8
PS. Yes, everyone who committed crimes against America should be indicted and prosecuted. My point is: THAT WON'T SAVE YOU.
YOU have to save you.
YOU have to save America.
Be a goddam hero. #VoteBlueForever.
YOU have to save you.
YOU have to save America.
Be a goddam hero. #VoteBlueForever.
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