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Just another thought, if Trump is breaking the law as a private citizen why isn't he in Jail, He has broken laws attached to his convictions.

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What the country needed right after Joe Biden was elected were tribunals that punished ALL of the MAGA coup actors with either prison, fines and expulsion from politics. That would have set the necessary precedent about what political behavior was acceptable and what wasn’t. But that’s not Joe. Biden believed in the goodness of Americans. He bet on the love of goodness and fairness to beat MAGA at the ballot box. But the plan did not work and now we are facing the consequences!

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Interesting that the Republican criminal is given a pass every day. President Biden accomplishments were greater than nearly any other President. STOP blaming democrats for what Republicans should have managed together. The cowardice from maga men is astronomical!

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They are dropping his convictions. Why add to them. He will pardon himself day one.

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He can’t pardon himself for state crimes, though - only federal.

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WHY is trump allowedto do whatever he wants? WHY?

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Because nobody ever imagined a candidate for President of the United States would behave like Al Capone. He took his game plan from Capone - and learned the lesson about taxes. If Capone had stood on 5th Avenue and shot someone, he WOULD have gone to jail - and so would trump. Trump's legal disobediences are all hidden from view, and buried in legal jargonese that take years to dig through - and with judges like Aileen Cannon, and the Supreme court putting their thumbs on the scales, he gets a free ride. This thing about his team refusing to comply with required protocol - they put the protocols in place as a plan for what people should do - they never put anything in place to make sure people actually DID them! They expected people (especially people in those high positions) to behave like decent human beings.

Then trump came along.

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Yes. BUT, I think if he's not going to comply, he needs to go away.....!

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Well, a lot of us have thought that for a long time - but as November 5th showed us, not enough!

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WELL SAID

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Because Republicans and the right wing media cover for him. Large swaths of the population doesn’t believe he’s committed crimes.

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That's MY QUESTION also !

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Nov 16·edited Nov 17

Forgive my impatience, but what difference does revealing Trump's teams refusal to comply with required protocol make, if we aren't doing anything to stop them? That makes us look stupid or impotent or both!

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Right?? WHAT ACTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN AND WHO SHOULD BE TAKING THEM????? We KNOW he was elected in large part due to his lies and the news media’s amplification of them— People didn’t even realize what they were actually voting for. WHY CAN’T HE be HELD ACCOUNTABLE??

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"WHY CAN’T HE be HELD ACCOUNTABLE??"

By whom? And how?

The transition protocols are laid down in law - but if trump and his team just ignore them - who is going to do what about it? take him to court? He's an expert in delaying tactics - and in two short months he'll be President.

Trump is the same as a kid in the supermarket screaming - he needs a good smack, but no one is in a position to give it to him. So he just carries on screaming - or helping himself to chocolates off the shelf, or runs riot through the produce aisle, knocking little old ladies off their feet as he goes. He's got his - what does he care about the rest?

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Michael, Karen, Bret, Jordy....I NEED you in this time....I do not want to crash...you sustain my hope to save our BELOVED COUNTRY. Thank you all...in deep gratitude

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If he is breaking the law, why is he not being arrested?

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Have you ever watched any of trumps cases? He's an expert in delay - and in two short month's he'll be President.

Then - all bets are off.

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But he can only be an expert in delay if we allow the delay! These judges should just say no, right?

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Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that.

No, actually, NOT "unfortunately" - trump is subject to the same legal legal procedures as the rest of us. Those delays are checks and balances put in place to protect all of us. Take them away for trump - and you take them away for all of us.

Hitler just used to say - "You're guilty" - and the poor swine who had upset him was taken out back and shot. Wouldn't want that here - because if THAT regulation was in place - when trump became President, there would be an AWFUL lot of people taken out back!

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So why isn't President Biden doing something to stop him immediately. Through all of this the powers who be seem to have been sitting on their hands. Enough!

On another vein, please be careful and take care.

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not president yet

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"Already violating the law?" When did he stop?

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As soon as the message came out that he wasn’t signing the transition agreement!

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Trump has been allowed to evade accountability since Jan 6 - why do you expect he and his team to comply with the law when they already know that the current administration and justice system are too intimidated to stop them?

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Actually Trump has been allowed to evade accountability since the day he was born.

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trump isn't President yet so how can he claim immunity.? You have to actually be President to be doing Presidential Acts.

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Trump's lawyers need to be stuffed into a cell along with him. Highly compensated whores all.

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They also are going to use a “private” company to do the required background checks instead of using the FBI

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A reoccurring problem with liars is that they lie about lying..

What Donald J. Trump needs is a big fat slap in the face in my humble opinion..

Any bully really need that before it is too late 😉

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I'm surprised no one has smacked Gaetz in his fat head. Jesse Watters falls in that category too...

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Can someone do something about this? Seriously if you see this than why can’t other lawyers see this?

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There ARE laws written to fix this. Any competent lawyer - or even a law school second year student - could quote you them.

However, laws take time to implement and reach court. and trump will be President in just two months.

So - he'll do what he likes. I'm just surprised his thumb isn't permanently stuck to his nose.

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Authoritarians are not transparent & do not follow the rule of law. It should be pointed out by Bragg that trump isn't following the federal legal process & until he does he's not a legal potus in transition. Furthermore he's not immune from a STATE case. Sentence him to prison or at least some confinement. or community hours. He's committed 34 felonies.

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