The Trump Regime is a “Criminal Enterprise” and Must Be Held Accountable
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Glenn Kirshner :
I think accountability doesn’t look like “you’ve got to throw them all in prison, they all need to be in orange jumpsuits.” That’s not accountability. My version of accountability, my definition of accountability, is if we fairly, impartially, aggressively — and I mean scorched earth — investigate in an apolitical fashion every crime that we see with our own eyes. The President and his cabinet, basically this is a criminal enterprise. I prosecuted lengthy RICO cases in federal district court in Washington, D.C. I don’t say that flippantly. This is a criminal enterprise.
So what we need to do is make sure every crime gets fully investigated through an apolitical investigation whereby we give all of the evidence to the grand jury and we let them serve as the first check on our instincts with respect to who should be prosecuted. Do we have enough evidence to make out, one, probable cause, and two, beyond that, do we prosecutors believe we have a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits, which looks like a conviction at trial? That’s some of the language taken from the U.S. Attorney’s Manual. That is our procedural Bible at the Department of Justice. Once we secure indictments against everybody who has been victimizing the American people and violating our nation’s laws, then we move into the courtroom. We try the case as best we can. We deliver it to the jury and they begin to deliberate.
Accountability is done at that point. That may sound counterintuitive coming from a prosecutor who liked winning convictions. I enjoyed holding perpetrators accountable, vindicating the rights of victims, and protecting the community. But the result is not as important as the process. Justice is a process. And once we deliver it to the second check on our instincts—the trial jury sitting as the conscience of the community, just as grand jurors do—we live with the result, win, lose, or draw: conviction, acquittal, or mistrial because it’s a hung jury where the jurors couldn’t agree unanimously on a verdict. That’s what accountability looks like: putting everybody fairly and apolitically through the criminal justice system and let first the grand jurors decide and then we let the trial jurors decide.
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Trump is going to pardon himself into perpetuity before he leaves office.
That would be a smart move but he needs to go farther and pardon everyone he has ever met and everyone in ICE. Joe set the precedent, Trump needs to follow though.
Naaaaah. Read the article. If you come away doubting how fair minded these folks are, I just don't know what to tell you.
It's not like they're going to just run out and hang everybody who ever liked the wrong social media post.
They're going to try them first, then they're going to hang them.
Everyone on the right "knows" Trump has been the victim of unfair prosecutions the same way they "know" he had the 2020 election stolen from him, by the persuasiveness of Trump or his surrogates repeating false information hundreds or thousands of times.
Yes they're going to try them, and if convicted they should be punished as in accordance with our laws. The amount of corruption going on is mind boggling, and if you can't see it, it is by your own choice. Everyday I read where something else has been done quite questionably in regards to pay to play quid pro quo, stocks bought, stocks traded, bets placed on wars, Lewandowsky expecting kickbacks from contracts awarded, Trumps kids buying stock in drone companies 2 weeks before Trump starts a war, foreign investments in the Billions in Trumps crypto scam, Ice Barbie $220,000,000.00 Million on her cosplay add campaign, Trumps Convicted security Advisor Michael Flynn plead guilty was pardoned and now will receive1.2 Million etc etc etc etc etc WTF already, there are so many more, with law fare, firings without cause, its fckn ridiculous!
I have no doubt that's exactly how you think it would happen. I'm guessing you expect this would be fair and at least somewhat impartial.
And if that's really what was going to happen, I would be all in favor.
I'm guessing it doesn't seem likely to you that this would turn into a witch hunt and get wildly out of hand.
It's probably not on your radar that this would be manipulated by any sleazeball politician who thought they could get more grandstand time.
I'm just not optimistic about any of that. That's certainly not what Kershner is talking about here.
Progressives who beleive this are obsessed with destroying the republic. Unless you want a one party dictatorship, who could possibly think this is a good idea?
You'd just as soon give Trump a trophy or medal. Maybe put his face on the hundred dollar bill.
How much damage is this clown going to do to our society before you take it seriously?
Have you learned nothing from the New York debacle? Do you think anyone is going to accept prosecutions of manufactured "crimes" in blue states as legitimate? Partisan prosecutions like are absolutely poison to a functioning republic. They destroy the legitimacy of the courts.
So you don't think Trump is a criminal conman and fraud? Good to know.
You've spent 10 years claiming that and ended up with a "conviction" that backfired spectacurly because it was such obvious partisan lawfare.
What do you imagine more hypocritical, partisan prosecutions of a retired Trump will accomplish except make him a martyr?
Once it becomes "lose an election and you go to jail" you don't have republic. It just becomes a question of who the army will listen to.
For 6 of the past 10 years Trump has been immune from prosecution.
But please, tell us which ones of the numerous trials involving criminal or civil charges against Trump has he been found not guilty or not liable in. I believe that number is zero.
I can't believe 6 people up voted this bull ship. How the Hell can you not see what thiscorrupt MFckrhas done , as it's so blatant it is scary. Drink some more Kool Aide Folks, cause there ain't no reachin ones that feel this was all one giant "witch hunt gone hoaxy'
He certainly sounds "impartial" and "apolitical". In a "scorched earth" sort of way.
There is so much evidence of Trumps' guilt it is unbelievable the comments I am reading here. The clown causing our economy to slip away after fckn up our trade and now hundreds of billions on a unnecessary WAR !
If the Supreme Court hadn't of stepped in Jack Smith would of had him in PRISON where the POS belongs !Period!