Don't look for made up crimes to "get" Democrats but also don't refrain from legitimate prosecutions on the grounds it would be bad for the country as has been the norm in the past .
I agree with this approach and have great sorrow for what is happening to this country.
Marcus' column is being echoed everywhere in the media, including Dr. Phil, who asked Trump if he could be magnanimous. Trump replied, "I'm OK with that, but..."
And listen to the caterwauling! He's going to be put us in jail, he's going to seek retribution... we need Trump to pledge he will not seek retribution!
Cry me a river.
In my mind I keep flashing back to Comey's fateful presser where he laid out the evidence against Hillary Clinton's violations of US statues but concluded, "No reasonable prosecutor would take the case."
Events of the last few years have made that pronouncement a sick joke, and people - ranging from Trump's lawyers and advisors to his ordinary and peaceable supporters - have gone to jail, been bankrupted, and had their livelihoods ruined for nothing.
We don't need to make up crimes to "get" anyone. There are many things that need to be investigated in the Hunt for Trump, and much of it centers around Marc Elias, Andrew Weissman, the Bidens & Blinken, Hillary and her friends at Perkins Coie, and Comey himself - for starters.
We don't need to make-up crimes or invent pretzel-like legal theories and if we are to get back some kind of normal justice in our lifetimes, we should not. The environment of corruption is target-rich. The last 8 years have been a litany of one fame-up or conspiracy after another.
It reminds me of the prosecution of former Repub. VA Governor Bob McDonnell. Did Bob screw up? Yeah, and he wasn't the first or the last VA governor who did, but he was prosecuted. He was an extremely attractive politician who might have had a future in VA politics as a US Senator if he had not been convicted of somewhat nebulous charges. I once heard Bob speak when he was the VA Attorney General and informed a friend later that I had just heard the next governor of the state of VA speak. I was correct.
His conviction was overturned by SCOTUS, noting the broad scope & vagueness of the charge. Of course, by then his reputation was tarnished enough that he, not having huge resources, no longer had a potentially long-term political future in VA. The governor's mansion has been a launching site of both of VA's current Dem Senators - Kaine & Warner - and before them LBJ's SIL Chuck Robb. McDonnell's fate was supposed to be Trump's fate as well; but Trump, having a lot more name-recognition and money than Bob did, has fought back.
BTW, the guy who prosecuted Bob, Jack Smith, is the same one who is the 'special prosecutor' in Trump's Jan 6 and documents charges. As church lady on SNL would have said, "Now isn't THAT special?"
Your recommendation seems to be essentially:
Don't look for made up crimes to "get" Democrats but also don't refrain from legitimate prosecutions on the grounds it would be bad for the country as has been the norm in the past .
I agree with this approach and have great sorrow for what is happening to this country.
Marcus' column is being echoed everywhere in the media, including Dr. Phil, who asked Trump if he could be magnanimous. Trump replied, "I'm OK with that, but..."
And listen to the caterwauling! He's going to be put us in jail, he's going to seek retribution... we need Trump to pledge he will not seek retribution!
Cry me a river.
In my mind I keep flashing back to Comey's fateful presser where he laid out the evidence against Hillary Clinton's violations of US statues but concluded, "No reasonable prosecutor would take the case."
Events of the last few years have made that pronouncement a sick joke, and people - ranging from Trump's lawyers and advisors to his ordinary and peaceable supporters - have gone to jail, been bankrupted, and had their livelihoods ruined for nothing.
We don't need to make up crimes to "get" anyone. There are many things that need to be investigated in the Hunt for Trump, and much of it centers around Marc Elias, Andrew Weissman, the Bidens & Blinken, Hillary and her friends at Perkins Coie, and Comey himself - for starters.
We don't need to make-up crimes or invent pretzel-like legal theories and if we are to get back some kind of normal justice in our lifetimes, we should not. The environment of corruption is target-rich. The last 8 years have been a litany of one fame-up or conspiracy after another.
It reminds me of the prosecution of former Repub. VA Governor Bob McDonnell. Did Bob screw up? Yeah, and he wasn't the first or the last VA governor who did, but he was prosecuted. He was an extremely attractive politician who might have had a future in VA politics as a US Senator if he had not been convicted of somewhat nebulous charges. I once heard Bob speak when he was the VA Attorney General and informed a friend later that I had just heard the next governor of the state of VA speak. I was correct.
His conviction was overturned by SCOTUS, noting the broad scope & vagueness of the charge. Of course, by then his reputation was tarnished enough that he, not having huge resources, no longer had a potentially long-term political future in VA. The governor's mansion has been a launching site of both of VA's current Dem Senators - Kaine & Warner - and before them LBJ's SIL Chuck Robb. McDonnell's fate was supposed to be Trump's fate as well; but Trump, having a lot more name-recognition and money than Bob did, has fought back.
BTW, the guy who prosecuted Bob, Jack Smith, is the same one who is the 'special prosecutor' in Trump's Jan 6 and documents charges. As church lady on SNL would have said, "Now isn't THAT special?"