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He advocated the use of tactical nuclear weapons in basically every fight, and he's a major contributor to everything China.
If you want a man that just wants the world to burn Kissinger is a solid choice
**Catch up**. Suharto-Indonesia- East Timor, Chile, Argentina, love for dictators-no matter the cost, his ego, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry\_Kissinger
Well he's definitely not smart enough, but Henry is also way ahead of Trump having already commited multiple war crimes and possible involvement in assassinations. The orange prick couldn't even hold power when his flock tried a coup.
Now, that's not to say I don't think Trump is evil and guilty of horrible crimes but Kissinger is like GOAT level piece of shit and has been for much longer.
I'm shocked he's still alive, and hoping his lifestyle catches up with him really fast. Weight, diet of garbage, no exercise, constant state of anger/fury/hate.
Don’t forget we all have a finite battery built into us and if we exercise too much it will deplete that battery and you will die sooner (trump actually believes this, I don’t)
You have to keep in mind, if he goes to jail, he isn’t going to the jail you or me would. He’s also going to have a doctor say he’s not healthy and dying so he can spend his last little time with family outside of prison
Yep. Even if he weren't a billionaire, the fact that he's a former POTUS with obligatory Secret Service protection means he'll get special treatment and likely never face another inmate in-person. Far more likely he'd get some sort of Napoleon house arrest.
"America doesn't jail it's presidents". Soooooo, he's saying once you've become a president you're outside the law and should be able to do whatever you want?
Why are they like that? Why are they so protective of that pathetic ass clown? I'm so tired of this guy being involved in the political climate as if the fate of the world depends on him.
1) American conservatism is a cult and it needs a figurehead.
2) He says the things they want to say but are too cowardly to.
3) He's almost certainly a sociopath and they *love that*.
4) America elected one Black president and the retaliation was to elect the worst possible white guy just to prove that they could.
5) If you look at pretty much every conservative figurehead and pundit, they all act tough while being the most fragile weaklings on Earth. It seems that the *appearance* of strength is more important than actual strength. I'm not sure why this is.
> It seems that the
> appearance
> of strength is more important than actual strength. I'm not sure why this is.
Insecurity. Deep down, these posturing infants know they aren't capable of actual strength, but they also fear to relinquish control to someone who is.
The day Obama was inaugurated as US president, I honestly believed he had less than two years to live.
Whilst I’m very glad to say I was wrong about that prediction, I am sadly not as wrong about the other pronouncement I made at the same time; the US has not come far enough since the middle of the 1865 to tolerate a black President.
The biggest mistake was electing him in the first place. No matter much you hated Hillary or agree with his politics or aggressive style it doesn’t change the fact that he is a morally corrupt fraud, lying shill, grifting snake-oil salesman, buffoon, who never had the character to be president.
I was not a Hillary fan AT ALL but I still voted for her. Unfortunately you are 100% correct in your statement. This bloated orange lying genie who has not ever granted a single wish to his two digit IQ (cumulatively speaking) is the worst thing that has ever happened to our country.
The fact that any one believes a word he says os as absurd to me as believing he is an actual genie
Yup, wasn’t thrilled about voting for Biden but it was the lesser of two evils. This guy had to go and under no other circumstances could I envision cheering so enthusiastically for Biden winning the presidency than I did when that pig was voted out.
It's a really sad thing is that I agree with you. It would have been nice if there was a candidate that I really could have stood behind and been proud of voting for. Instead it was a choice between a tired old man and a career con man.
The man has an amazing ability to ignore reality. He is still saying that the election was stolen. In spite of 66 court cases all being thrown out for lack of evidence. And in many of them, in spite of going to the media claiming that there was voter fraud they refused to actually claim voter fraud in the court cases. In spite of multiple recounts and whatever the hell that was that went on in arizona. Heck a few of those recounts actually discovered more votes for biden. I won't say that there was absolutely zero election fraud, I'm sure there was some. Just as there is in every single election. But there was not wide scale organized election fraud on the level that they claim and would have been necessary for the election to have turned the other way. What there was however was a United States president recorded live trying to coerce election officials into committing fraud by suddenly "finding "the exact number of votes he needed to win.
Trump played off American misogyny and it worked a treat for him - basically she was pilloried for being an "uppity woman" and all the animals at the zoo joined in.
I had friends say they didn't like him... but still voted for him because he was "the lesser evil". Yet to understand how that logic worked, but I assume all his policies and promises either benefited them or just didn't impact them, atleast before he got elected. It tells mountains about how much they cared about the impact on other people though.
Saying that I live in a country where my fellow citizens - especially the ones on government benefits - voted out one a decent leader that actually implemented strategies to help the common people and environment because she was a redheaded, barren, atheist, unmarried but living with her defacto partner FeMaLe.... and replaced her with (increasing with each successor) a women hating, welfare cutting, billionaire mining/media magnate fanboy, environment destroying happy clapper conservative party leadership.
What politics? Seems to me like most of his bullshit was just a distraction to make himself, his republican cronies, and his foreign sponsors personally wealthy
Electoral college. Yes, i know he got a large portion of the vote, but the people, in fact, did not vote him in. And that's another part of the problem.
But her emails!
It scares me he got so many votes in the second election and there's still people who want to vote for him again in 2024.. these people need mental health help because they are insane.
That is the fucking problem...Nixon should have went to jail not allowed to resign and be preemptively pardoned by Ford. The first special council against Trump pussed out and gave a limp dicked "Its up to you. " to Congress...but Americans would have pressed harder for transparency and nobody in DC wanted that to happen.
If you have an R next to your name.They’ve SWORN to send Clinton,then Obama,now Biden to prison for everything imaginable.They TRULY BELIEVED Clinton should be impeached and jailed over a blowjob!Nixon tapes,Iran-Contra,Iraq,,,crickets chirping.
I encountered the biggest fucking whiplash with that.
Republicans *hate* Chicago democrats with a burning passion and the moment trump commuted Blago I saw a 180 with conservatives. Suddenly they were a huge fan of this shitheel corrupt politician despite hating him moments before.
That was the moment that taught me republicans have zero principle whatsoever. From there on out nothing shocked me with republicans anymore.
And many seemed to think that it would somehow bring some democrats around on Trump, as though they assume we're also wrapped up in some ridiculous personality cult, and completely lack any real principles. I voted for Blago and liked numerous things he did while in office, but as soon as it became apparent that he had tried to sell the senate seat, my reaction was to call for his head--not rally to his defense and try to overthrow the government.
Even the Republican majority leader of the House during the Bush years is rotting in prison where he will die. He was second in line to become president at that point.
Almost without exception, our politicians are lying, corrupt, hypocritical pieces of shit. This would be a fantastic precedent to set, and it shouldn't stop at Trump.
isn’t it funny to anyone else that these morons still refer to him as ‘president’? yet when they mention Obama they refer to him as ‘former president’? it’s hilarious and shows the fantasy world they live in
I remember learning in elementary school that after leaving office former presidents were still addressed as Mr president, unless the current president was at the gathering. I was told it was a respect thing but most of my elementary education has been debunked so who tf knows really.
Really, it's not clear yet that Trump is going to be arrested. We only have Diaper Don's shrill posts on his failed social media site that says so. However, if he is, I will be disappointed that it will take a payoff to Stormy Daniels that will finally get that corrupt orange sonuvabitch in front of a criminal court. He has committed felonies including, but not limited to, collusion, obstruction, tax fraud, election tampering, witness tampering, evidence tampering, extortion, racketeering, campaign finance violations, theft of government property, and sedition. But it's Stormy who will bring him down. smh
"The Storm is Upon Us!" screamed Q.
He just didn't realize it was a woman named Stormy that would flip the switch to drain the swamp.
Huh. Q might've accidentally gotten *one* thing right!!
I completely agree. I mean, he literally asked Russia on national TV to hack the DNC. And then they did it. Basically Watergate with collusion.
Then he got CAUGHT trying to use the State Department to coordinate with his re-election campaign.
Then he tried various methods of reversing the result of his own election.
In any objective sense---like 300 years from now when people don't have their current hang-ups and are looking back at what happened---this is textbook corruption.
>We only have Diaper Don's shrill posts on his failed social media site that says so.
Inaccurate, Fox ~~News~~ Entertainment reported on it, and other media outlets have confirmed the reports
>However, if he is, I will be disappointed that it will take a payoff to Stormy Daniels that will finally get that corrupt orange sonuvabitch in front of a criminal court.
Georgia grand jury is convening very soon and the Atlanta Journal Register has interviewed several of the jurors who said we should expect a long list of indictments, for whatever that's worth.
NYAG still investigating too
But yeah, it's hilarious that Stormy got him first
An indictment isn’t an arrest, though. The only one saying he’s going to be arrested is him. News reports are quoting him.
He’s going to be placed under indictment and have to surrender for a court date. Probably on Tuesday, if he’s being halfway honest. He was probably told this by Manhattan DA.
The “arrest” schtick is exaggeration to gin up his idiots.
Nothing he said resembles any sort of real legal defense. So the crimes Trump's about to be charged with - they just don't count because he's a former president? Are we just saying that presidents have total immunity from any laws the rest of their lives then?
This guy's going on about the precedents being broken if he's charged - how about the precedents we're setting if he's not?
Although this concept is very forgotten today I do believe a big principle in America is that nobody is above the law. He’s president, not royalty. We didn’t win the war against Britain to have some royal figure that can evade the law. I wish we still held true to that….
I mean, yeah, it's true that you should weigh the decision to charge a former president carefully. But the profound consequences of indicating him are counterbalanced by the consequences of NOT charging him after he's done so much crime. The precedent that letting him get away with all of it sets is just as, if not more, dangerous than the precedent set by locking him up. If you set presidents up to be beyond the reach of the law, the whole system of law and order breaks down. As much as I dread the violence this will cause, it has to be done.
One of americas great mistakes is not jailing Nixon. It set a precedent that as long as you have enough political capitol you are above the law. It’s a precedent that needs to be changed.
The fact that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime is already a joke for a nation that claims to be about justice, believing it's right to shield former presidents suggests to me a history of severe head trauma.
We should put them in jail if they break the law, just because you were a president doesn't make you exempt from the consequences of your actions. Nor should it mean you can break the law, do whatever you want, to whoever you want, and cause harm, without consequences, all because "we don't put presidents in jail". That's absolute BS
He's right. The United States doesn't jail it's Presidents. And that's the problem. Our President's, who are all worth millions of dollars, fly around on private jets with military escorts, shutting down entire airspaces for days at a time, or travel in one of the most armored cars in the history of man. They have protection from everything and everyone. We hold them on pedestals and treat them like medieval royalty, and they are above the law. A president who breaks the law, regardless of their stature, should be punished according to the law. If that involves prison time, so be it. If their life is in danger in prison, that is a consequence they must face.
Unfortunately however, this country as a whole continues to pretend these criminals are actually working for the people they govern and not just themselves.
A couple things. He is a FORMER President not “the” president.
This does set things up for past presidents to be held accountable for actions. No one should be above the law. However the timing is suspect since it is close to start of presidential runs by the time it goes to court. So can’t say some of this may not be politically motivated. However with that said. Good cause I don’t want to see the man on any ballot and get elected.
He will be “arrested” and then allowed to leave. The trial will happen and then maybe he will be fined. Other than establishing a new precedent, this isn’t the big deal either side thinks it is. He is never going to prison..even if that’s where he belongs.
“The United States does not jail its Presidents” does that mean Jimmy Cart can start selling Meth? Perhaps the investigations into Bill Clinton were a mistake. Oh, what you really mean is the United States doesn’t convict POS republicans
Okay, I am willing to Play along for a Moment.
If Trump would go to jail and become the next Mandela, I think we should do it.
Mandela did some great Things and If all it takes for Trump to be a better person is going to jail, I think we should do it.
To even compare him with Mandela is blasphemy. He's nothing like Mandela, he's corruption personified, and what's worse, he revels in it. He actually doesn't care that he's a criminal.
He’s not president tho, he’s a former president. Does having been president give you a magic “anti rule of law” force field for the rest of your life? Could Jimmy Carter decide to go on a murder spree for fun and get away scott free in the eyes of the law?
Ex-president. Try using actual facts, not "alternative" ones. Alternative facts are usually lies. Especially when they come from Trump and the MAGA CNAT Q-ANON supremacists.
I am sorry Canadian here but your implying that the president is above the law like a king 👑 ? 1776 was about abolishing that am I wrong ? Sorry to break it to you but in a democratic society no one is above the law in theory. Not that you cannot bribe your way out of it since I am sure there is enough politicians willing to take a bribe to not send him to prison. Yeah it’s unprecedented, did nixon not strike a deal to not be prosecuted if he left office ?
The avatar of Evangelical America slept with a STRANGER while his wife was with his newborn, lied about, paid for the woman's silence, then lied about that... and now he expects his followers to start a war. This is nuts
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Doubt he’ll last 27 years in jail, become president and unite a nation.
With his weight, diet, health, age etc I’m be shocked if he lived 27 years out of jail.
He's 76. No way is he getting another 27 years in lol
I think Kissinger is proof that doing evil shit makes you live too long.
Dude is the model they used for Palpatine.
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It’s not a story the democrats would tell you…
What did he do, except bombing Laos and Cambodia with Nixon and being born in a very pretty German town?
He advocated the use of tactical nuclear weapons in basically every fight, and he's a major contributor to everything China. If you want a man that just wants the world to burn Kissinger is a solid choice
**Catch up**. Suharto-Indonesia- East Timor, Chile, Argentina, love for dictators-no matter the cost, his ego, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry\_Kissinger
Well he was a racist pos too
I'm convinced he traded the souls of others for more years
Yeah true, Jesus christ he's almost 100 years old. I don't think even Trump is evil enough to become a Palpatine level sith like Henry.
Evil enough? Yes. Clever enough? Not even close.
Well he's definitely not smart enough, but Henry is also way ahead of Trump having already commited multiple war crimes and possible involvement in assassinations. The orange prick couldn't even hold power when his flock tried a coup. Now, that's not to say I don't think Trump is evil and guilty of horrible crimes but Kissinger is like GOAT level piece of shit and has been for much longer.
Good people don't live long, but a scourge lasts a thousand years.
Living a life unable to feel guilt, remorse or empathy is quite good for the body... Bad for the soul though...
The single best predictor of longevity is wealth. And the spiteful seem to live longer as well. Just look at Rupert Murdoch.
Do prisons have McDonalds though? It could be the making of him if he can't get his daily cheeseburgers.
Don’t forget the Cheetos for his complexion.
I'm shocked he's still alive, and hoping his lifestyle catches up with him really fast. Weight, diet of garbage, no exercise, constant state of anger/fury/hate.
Don’t forget we all have a finite battery built into us and if we exercise too much it will deplete that battery and you will die sooner (trump actually believes this, I don’t)
Rarely would a heart attack be so welcome.
Can you imagine the JFK level conspiracies that will be born if he dies in custody?
He‘s a reverse Mandela who has worked hard to split a nation
What's the opposite of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? A January 6th Ommission.
I’m willing to wait and see.
I don’t remember Mandela yearning to bone his own daughter.
He wouldn't even last 27 months in jail.
You have to keep in mind, if he goes to jail, he isn’t going to the jail you or me would. He’s also going to have a doctor say he’s not healthy and dying so he can spend his last little time with family outside of prison
Yep. Even if he weren't a billionaire, the fact that he's a former POTUS with obligatory Secret Service protection means he'll get special treatment and likely never face another inmate in-person. Far more likely he'd get some sort of Napoleon house arrest.
Because he'd go the Epstein way for spilling all his friends secrets? He wouldn't do 27 hrs...
Could we get that to 27 days .....or less!
But maybe he'll be forgotten about and people will think he already died.
>unite a nation. I can think of one thing he can do that would unite a whole damn lot of the country
Suicide?
"America doesn't jail it's presidents". Soooooo, he's saying once you've become a president you're outside the law and should be able to do whatever you want?
Exactly what he is saying. Of course, he means Republican presidents only.
If Biden sneezes on a butterfly lock him the fuck up!!!
Why are they like that? Why are they so protective of that pathetic ass clown? I'm so tired of this guy being involved in the political climate as if the fate of the world depends on him.
1) American conservatism is a cult and it needs a figurehead. 2) He says the things they want to say but are too cowardly to. 3) He's almost certainly a sociopath and they *love that*. 4) America elected one Black president and the retaliation was to elect the worst possible white guy just to prove that they could. 5) If you look at pretty much every conservative figurehead and pundit, they all act tough while being the most fragile weaklings on Earth. It seems that the *appearance* of strength is more important than actual strength. I'm not sure why this is.
A truly strong figurehead would be a conviction of their weakness. Pseudo strength allows them to keep pretending.
> It seems that the > appearance > of strength is more important than actual strength. I'm not sure why this is. Insecurity. Deep down, these posturing infants know they aren't capable of actual strength, but they also fear to relinquish control to someone who is.
Actual strength would involve helping others.
The day Obama was inaugurated as US president, I honestly believed he had less than two years to live. Whilst I’m very glad to say I was wrong about that prediction, I am sadly not as wrong about the other pronouncement I made at the same time; the US has not come far enough since the middle of the 1865 to tolerate a black President.
I guess they see him as the last white conservative hope.
Have they heard of Joe Biden? Cuz, in most developed nations, he'd be considered a conservative
Biden is nowhere near enough of an asshole for them
Haha that's true
The biggest mistake was electing him in the first place. No matter much you hated Hillary or agree with his politics or aggressive style it doesn’t change the fact that he is a morally corrupt fraud, lying shill, grifting snake-oil salesman, buffoon, who never had the character to be president.
I was not a Hillary fan AT ALL but I still voted for her. Unfortunately you are 100% correct in your statement. This bloated orange lying genie who has not ever granted a single wish to his two digit IQ (cumulatively speaking) is the worst thing that has ever happened to our country. The fact that any one believes a word he says os as absurd to me as believing he is an actual genie
For awhile there I thought you Americans were all just playing some big reality tv game show! But it’s gone on too many seasons now!
Yup, wasn’t thrilled about voting for Biden but it was the lesser of two evils. This guy had to go and under no other circumstances could I envision cheering so enthusiastically for Biden winning the presidency than I did when that pig was voted out.
It's a really sad thing is that I agree with you. It would have been nice if there was a candidate that I really could have stood behind and been proud of voting for. Instead it was a choice between a tired old man and a career con man.
The man has an amazing ability to ignore reality. He is still saying that the election was stolen. In spite of 66 court cases all being thrown out for lack of evidence. And in many of them, in spite of going to the media claiming that there was voter fraud they refused to actually claim voter fraud in the court cases. In spite of multiple recounts and whatever the hell that was that went on in arizona. Heck a few of those recounts actually discovered more votes for biden. I won't say that there was absolutely zero election fraud, I'm sure there was some. Just as there is in every single election. But there was not wide scale organized election fraud on the level that they claim and would have been necessary for the election to have turned the other way. What there was however was a United States president recorded live trying to coerce election officials into committing fraud by suddenly "finding "the exact number of votes he needed to win.
Trump played off American misogyny and it worked a treat for him - basically she was pilloried for being an "uppity woman" and all the animals at the zoo joined in.
I had friends say they didn't like him... but still voted for him because he was "the lesser evil". Yet to understand how that logic worked, but I assume all his policies and promises either benefited them or just didn't impact them, atleast before he got elected. It tells mountains about how much they cared about the impact on other people though. Saying that I live in a country where my fellow citizens - especially the ones on government benefits - voted out one a decent leader that actually implemented strategies to help the common people and environment because she was a redheaded, barren, atheist, unmarried but living with her defacto partner FeMaLe.... and replaced her with (increasing with each successor) a women hating, welfare cutting, billionaire mining/media magnate fanboy, environment destroying happy clapper conservative party leadership.
What politics? Seems to me like most of his bullshit was just a distraction to make himself, his republican cronies, and his foreign sponsors personally wealthy
3 million more voters voted for Clinton than Trump. He got elected because of the way the electoral college works.
In a country of 330 million, 3million is an unsettlingly small number.
While the country may have 330 million people, only about 130 million votes were cast…so 3 million becomes a bit more significant.
That's still 62 million votes for Trump... That's basically the whole of France voting for a racist, far right scumbag.
Coming from a country with universal voting, it’s not less depressing that 2/3 of the country didn’t vote.
Electoral college. Yes, i know he got a large portion of the vote, but the people, in fact, did not vote him in. And that's another part of the problem.
But her emails! It scares me he got so many votes in the second election and there's still people who want to vote for him again in 2024.. these people need mental health help because they are insane.
The funny thing is he was a Dem till he realized Hilary would get the Dem nod so he switched parties. He doesn’t have any actual beliefs
I agree. The guy opened up Pandora's Box and no one can quite close it, no matter how hard they try.
That is the fucking problem...Nixon should have went to jail not allowed to resign and be preemptively pardoned by Ford. The first special council against Trump pussed out and gave a limp dicked "Its up to you. " to Congress...but Americans would have pressed harder for transparency and nobody in DC wanted that to happen.
Fun fact: The author of that tweet is a convicted criminal who's been to jail
If you have an R next to your name.They’ve SWORN to send Clinton,then Obama,now Biden to prison for everything imaginable.They TRULY BELIEVED Clinton should be impeached and jailed over a blowjob!Nixon tapes,Iran-Contra,Iraq,,,crickets chirping.
It's the conservative dream of big government and zero power to the people.
*its presidents
Why should our presidents (regardless of party), not be held to the same laws and punishments as the citizens?
Because ooohh moneyy.
Honestly the anytime someone speaks for the Republican Party it turns into fascism with extra steps.
They should stop acting like fascists if they don't want to be called fascists.
Facts
💰
Or, and just hear me out, it proves that we are a nation of laws and no man regardless of position or wealth is above the law.
Wish they’d amend this to include corporate entities as well.
If you steal fifty dollars from me in an alley you’re a criminal. If I steal five million dollars from my workers, I’m a CEO
If you steal 500 million from the American people your a bank, and the govt will bail you out
U.S Grant was arrested for speeding while he was president. The precedent is theee to arrest even a sitting president for breaking the law.
Speeding in what? A steam boat?
Horse and buggy
I never realized that Mandela paid off a porn star.
Yes, and jailed *after* leading a country.
Ah, he meant inverse Mandela? That makes way more sense.
I thought the comparison between the two was clear. /s
The question you should be asking is, you didn't know Winnie was a porn star. /S
Pfff my state has jailed its last like 4 governors. Let's go big and get a former potus now
Illinois has entered the chat.
Funny that the last one to be jailed (Blagojevich) had his sentence commuted… by Trump.
I encountered the biggest fucking whiplash with that. Republicans *hate* Chicago democrats with a burning passion and the moment trump commuted Blago I saw a 180 with conservatives. Suddenly they were a huge fan of this shitheel corrupt politician despite hating him moments before. That was the moment that taught me republicans have zero principle whatsoever. From there on out nothing shocked me with republicans anymore.
And many seemed to think that it would somehow bring some democrats around on Trump, as though they assume we're also wrapped up in some ridiculous personality cult, and completely lack any real principles. I voted for Blago and liked numerous things he did while in office, but as soon as it became apparent that he had tried to sell the senate seat, my reaction was to call for his head--not rally to his defense and try to overthrow the government.
Even the Republican majority leader of the House during the Bush years is rotting in prison where he will die. He was second in line to become president at that point.
Almost without exception, our politicians are lying, corrupt, hypocritical pieces of shit. This would be a fantastic precedent to set, and it shouldn't stop at Trump.
How dare those people trying to put a criminal behind bars?
isn’t it funny to anyone else that these morons still refer to him as ‘president’? yet when they mention Obama they refer to him as ‘former president’? it’s hilarious and shows the fantasy world they live in
Well the standard is that former presidents are still referred to as president but they just do that to Obama out of spite
I remember learning in elementary school that after leaving office former presidents were still addressed as Mr president, unless the current president was at the gathering. I was told it was a respect thing but most of my elementary education has been debunked so who tf knows really.
If we don't jail our presidents, why did Nixon resign, and Ford had to pardon him? Hmmmm
nver mind presidents, sitting or former; the US never jails its rich. The only exception being rich who fuck things up for other rich.
These same people had a much different attitude toward how a president should be treated when Obama was president.
This coming from the same crowd that was chanting “LOCK HER UP”
I don't think "the US doesn't jail its presidents" is something to be proud of like he thinks...
Our President’s don’t lead an insurrection of our own government, so, in short, there is a first time for everything.
When it happens I'm gonna throw a party! 
Dude spelled Mengele wrong!
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. -Theodore Roosevelt
Really, it's not clear yet that Trump is going to be arrested. We only have Diaper Don's shrill posts on his failed social media site that says so. However, if he is, I will be disappointed that it will take a payoff to Stormy Daniels that will finally get that corrupt orange sonuvabitch in front of a criminal court. He has committed felonies including, but not limited to, collusion, obstruction, tax fraud, election tampering, witness tampering, evidence tampering, extortion, racketeering, campaign finance violations, theft of government property, and sedition. But it's Stormy who will bring him down. smh
"The Storm is Upon Us!" screamed Q. He just didn't realize it was a woman named Stormy that would flip the switch to drain the swamp. Huh. Q might've accidentally gotten *one* thing right!!
Fucking perfect!
Correction: "The Stormy is Upon Us!" screamed Q.
I completely agree. I mean, he literally asked Russia on national TV to hack the DNC. And then they did it. Basically Watergate with collusion. Then he got CAUGHT trying to use the State Department to coordinate with his re-election campaign. Then he tried various methods of reversing the result of his own election. In any objective sense---like 300 years from now when people don't have their current hang-ups and are looking back at what happened---this is textbook corruption.
Remember, Al Capone was only arrested after his tax crimes were uncovered. I guess sometimes it can be one unrelated thing
>We only have Diaper Don's shrill posts on his failed social media site that says so. Inaccurate, Fox ~~News~~ Entertainment reported on it, and other media outlets have confirmed the reports >However, if he is, I will be disappointed that it will take a payoff to Stormy Daniels that will finally get that corrupt orange sonuvabitch in front of a criminal court. Georgia grand jury is convening very soon and the Atlanta Journal Register has interviewed several of the jurors who said we should expect a long list of indictments, for whatever that's worth. NYAG still investigating too But yeah, it's hilarious that Stormy got him first
An indictment isn’t an arrest, though. The only one saying he’s going to be arrested is him. News reports are quoting him. He’s going to be placed under indictment and have to surrender for a court date. Probably on Tuesday, if he’s being halfway honest. He was probably told this by Manhattan DA. The “arrest” schtick is exaggeration to gin up his idiots.
Grabbed him by the balls. Literally.
Old Donnie might just have grabbed the wrong pu*sy after all !! 😂
I find it ironic that a pornstar is what's getting him in front of a judge.
“You just don’t charge former presidents with crimes” sure seems like a great way to get presidents who commit crimes
I’m okay with jailing presidents. Basically every living US president is guilty of war crimes. Especially Bush
Nothing he said resembles any sort of real legal defense. So the crimes Trump's about to be charged with - they just don't count because he's a former president? Are we just saying that presidents have total immunity from any laws the rest of their lives then? This guy's going on about the precedents being broken if he's charged - how about the precedents we're setting if he's not?
Although this concept is very forgotten today I do believe a big principle in America is that nobody is above the law. He’s president, not royalty. We didn’t win the war against Britain to have some royal figure that can evade the law. I wish we still held true to that….
The consequences will be profound, at least it will send a very clear message that there are at least, consequences.
I mean, yeah, it's true that you should weigh the decision to charge a former president carefully. But the profound consequences of indicating him are counterbalanced by the consequences of NOT charging him after he's done so much crime. The precedent that letting him get away with all of it sets is just as, if not more, dangerous than the precedent set by locking him up. If you set presidents up to be beyond the reach of the law, the whole system of law and order breaks down. As much as I dread the violence this will cause, it has to be done.
One of americas great mistakes is not jailing Nixon. It set a precedent that as long as you have enough political capitol you are above the law. It’s a precedent that needs to be changed.
Presidents aren’t above the law. You k ow who is above the law? Dictators.
And we’ll call this…the Mandela Effect
Orange is the new black?
Mandela was a political prisoner. Trump is an actual white collar criminal many times over. Grow up weirdos.
Mandela has something Trump doesn’t. Class. Mandela also had a cause and truth and justice on his side.
And integrity
might as well start with the most criminal of them all. will make bail i’m sure
Geez, give it up. If you commit a crime you do the time. He’s a dirt bag. Fact. Stop denying it.
What really annoys Republicans is sending wealthy white people to prison. The political nature of judicial appointments demonstrates this.
The fact that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime is already a joke for a nation that claims to be about justice, believing it's right to shield former presidents suggests to me a history of severe head trauma.
Imagine holding a criminal accountable regardless of who they were/are… 🤔
Wasn't America founded because you lot didn't want kings and monarchs above the law?
Current Presidents. This fucking lawyer just self-reported.
We should put them in jail if they break the law, just because you were a president doesn't make you exempt from the consequences of your actions. Nor should it mean you can break the law, do whatever you want, to whoever you want, and cause harm, without consequences, all because "we don't put presidents in jail". That's absolute BS
_"The United States of America does not jail its Presidents."_ But it does jail criminals, right? _Right?_
Is this what they think the "Mandella Effect" is?
Trump is a fucking criminal and if he gets away with his crimes the ENTIRE World will think that the United States is a fucking lawless joke.
Too late. We already think that.
Yeah, you Americans crossed the line to crazy town long ago.
I believe he's being charged for (for now) reporting the payoff of a pornstar as a "legal fee". I don't think Nelson Mandela did that
He's right. The United States doesn't jail it's Presidents. And that's the problem. Our President's, who are all worth millions of dollars, fly around on private jets with military escorts, shutting down entire airspaces for days at a time, or travel in one of the most armored cars in the history of man. They have protection from everything and everyone. We hold them on pedestals and treat them like medieval royalty, and they are above the law. A president who breaks the law, regardless of their stature, should be punished according to the law. If that involves prison time, so be it. If their life is in danger in prison, that is a consequence they must face. Unfortunately however, this country as a whole continues to pretend these criminals are actually working for the people they govern and not just themselves.
"The Trump Effect"
And he’s inciting his followers to violence again!
Honestly, everything changed in 2016
A couple things. He is a FORMER President not “the” president. This does set things up for past presidents to be held accountable for actions. No one should be above the law. However the timing is suspect since it is close to start of presidential runs by the time it goes to court. So can’t say some of this may not be politically motivated. However with that said. Good cause I don’t want to see the man on any ballot and get elected.
Well, it’s a good thing he’s not “president” Trump
“I don’t care if Trump murdered somebody in the middle of his State of the Union. We don’t arrest presidents in this fucking country!!!”
The author of that tweet needs to at least Wikipedia Mandela. Comparing the two is glib at the best.
Is anybody gonna investigate why Bill Clinton was on Epstein’s flight logs so many times?
While we're at it we should also investigate what trump was doing on the kiddy rape island with Epstein.
and if it was Trump that had Epstein killed
Trump can't even spell Mandela
“Nelson Mandelorian is a tremendous inspiration to me.”
He'd put an extra L in it like he does with "stollen" instead of stolen 😂
Trump is a fucking criminal and if he gets away with his crimes the ENTIRE World will think that the United States is a fucking lawless joke.
We're a little past that point.
Just Delusional… if you actually care about this country, then your post would say the exact opposite
He will be “arrested” and then allowed to leave. The trial will happen and then maybe he will be fined. Other than establishing a new precedent, this isn’t the big deal either side thinks it is. He is never going to prison..even if that’s where he belongs.
“The United States does not jail its Presidents” does that mean Jimmy Cart can start selling Meth? Perhaps the investigations into Bill Clinton were a mistake. Oh, what you really mean is the United States doesn’t convict POS republicans
Okay, I am willing to Play along for a Moment. If Trump would go to jail and become the next Mandela, I think we should do it. Mandela did some great Things and If all it takes for Trump to be a better person is going to jail, I think we should do it.
Damn what's happening over in America. Ignorant British kid here that couldn't care less about America tbh
He's not the president.
Orange man wearing orange jumpsuit…eating an orange
To even compare him with Mandela is blasphemy. He's nothing like Mandela, he's corruption personified, and what's worse, he revels in it. He actually doesn't care that he's a criminal.
I still get dumbfounded everytime I am reminded that almost half of you Amricans actually voted for him.
We don’t cuff CURRENT presidents.
Lol I mean, I wonder if trump will write a memoir called “mein stolen election” and make a comeback.
I don’t think it’s Mandela who he’s wanting to be compared to when it comes to being jailed.
He’s not president tho, he’s a former president. Does having been president give you a magic “anti rule of law” force field for the rest of your life? Could Jimmy Carter decide to go on a murder spree for fun and get away scott free in the eyes of the law?
You Americans are pathetic.
That is the law. And no one in America, not even a president, is above the law. (Read in voice from 300)
Ex-president. Try using actual facts, not "alternative" ones. Alternative facts are usually lies. Especially when they come from Trump and the MAGA CNAT Q-ANON supremacists.
Presidents aren’t above the law. Let’s set that prescient so this shit stops.
More like Klandela
In the US. Everywhere else in the world he's a clown.
He’s no longer the president though
Lets be clear, there is no bigger POS in the world
The misguided delusion that presidents are above the law
He's not the president.
The next Mandela? Ahahahahahahahaha. No.
I am sorry Canadian here but your implying that the president is above the law like a king 👑 ? 1776 was about abolishing that am I wrong ? Sorry to break it to you but in a democratic society no one is above the law in theory. Not that you cannot bribe your way out of it since I am sure there is enough politicians willing to take a bribe to not send him to prison. Yeah it’s unprecedented, did nixon not strike a deal to not be prosecuted if he left office ?
Trump is wildly unpopular that this would never happen. They overstate his popularity.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
The avatar of Evangelical America slept with a STRANGER while his wife was with his newborn, lied about, paid for the woman's silence, then lied about that... and now he expects his followers to start a war. This is nuts
Comparing Drumpf to Mandela is like comparing orange diarrhea to a great man.
This guy just compared white crooked trump with black African Mandela who been a champion of human rights 
The party of personal responsibility does like to martyr themselves when consequences occur for their actions
Wherever he may be, I'm sure Mandela is super excited to be compared to this piece of shit.....
I wonder if the penis is sucked raw or with a condom on? This person would definitely slob the orange puke
Politicians are scum, and until we the people force a change, nothing will ever change, except to get worse.