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Cyrano

(15,041 posts) Tue Aug 21, 2018, 08:58 AM Aug 2018

So if Trump shot someone on 5th Avenue,

would the Republican Party do anything about it?

My answer to that is No. Never. They'd look the other way.

So is murder in America now okay?

Let's see:

Kidnapping children at the border is now legal.

Overt racism and bigotry are now just dandy.

A "state owned" cable TV station parrots everything said by "Great Leader."

Spouses of active military people have been deported.

Cabinet department secretaries are destroying the purpose of their departments.

Countless thousands died in Puerto Rico due to government neglect.

Any cop can kill any black person and face no consequences.

The more than $1 trillion Republican tax cut is perhaps the biggest heist in history.

A Supreme Court seat is well along the way to being stolen.

Truth isn't truth.

So given the current Republican misrule, someone really needs to explain to me why Donald Trump couldn't shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it.

The only way I can think of that he could be stopped is by the Secret Service. After all, they took an oath to "... protect and defend the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic." Last I heard, murder was still against the law. Wouldn't the SS have to uphold their oath and arrest him?

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So if Trump shot someone on 5th Avenue, (Original Post) Cyrano Aug 2018 OP

And if he did, ginnyinWI Aug 2018 #1

More likely PatSeg Aug 2018 #5

Nope JustAnotherGen Aug 2018 #2

He already killed someone on 5th Avenue in April this year Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #3

I think he has... lame54 Aug 2018 #4

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)

1. And if he did,

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 09:01 AM

Aug 2018

and it was on video, he'd still say he didn't do it and say that someone else, preferably a minority person or a Democrat, was the one who did it. And his base would believe him.

But since he is personally spineless and the only thing he knows how to shoot off is his mouth, he wouldn't do it. He'd have someone else do it. More deniability that way, too.

PatSeg

(47,498 posts)

5. More likely

Reply to ginnyinWI (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 11:14 AM

Aug 2018

he would find some way to justify it - self defense or stand your ground crap. Or perhaps that person on Fifth Avenue was a threat to our freedoms and he was protecting us.

We now know that there are no lines that republicans will not cross. They are following the fascist playbook and most have gone beyond the point of return. History tells us this is possible even in a democracy.

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

2. Nope

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 09:53 AM

Aug 2018

And he would get reward for proper 'gun control'. Good grief.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,004 posts)

3. He already killed someone on 5th Avenue in April this year

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 10:24 AM

Aug 2018

Donald Trump vigorously for years opposed installation of sprinklers in his properties in NYC, obtaining a grandfathering clause excusing existing towers of a certain age.

In April a fire in his tower claimed the life of a man. No sprinklers.

lame54

(35,293 posts)

4. I think he has...

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Tue Aug 21, 2018, 11:09 AM

Aug 2018

NYPD should look into any unsolved deaths on 5th ave
Not a joke

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