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Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:26 AM Dec 2019

He's 73, and his Senate trial will be the first time he'll be held accountable for anything.

He's spent his entire career skirting the law, and the most he's ever faced is being on the losing end of a civil suit (if that). When he's ultimately impeached, it will literally be the very first time he'll be formally accused of breaking the law. That's why he's freaked out and getting worse every minute. It would be fun to watch, but for the fact that he has the power to bring the rest of us down with him.

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He's 73, and his Senate trial will be the first time he'll be held accountable for anything. (Original Post) Bleacher Creature Dec 2019 OP
But he is 99.95% likely to be aquitted by the Senate so how is that being held accountable? nt kelly1mm Dec 2019 #1
That just proves how corrupt the GOP Senators are if they do that. rockfordfile Dec 2019 #3
Well they are going to do that and get reelected so I am not sure how that matters exactly. NT kelly1mm Dec 2019 #5
IF? NT enough Dec 2019 #11
Well it's clearly not enough. Bleacher Creature Dec 2019 #4
what accontability is it though? a 'not guilty' verdict in the Senate will have him strutting like kelly1mm Dec 2019 #6
When he struts like Lock him up. Dec 2019 #10
No more so than quakerboy Dec 2019 #19
+1, I'm holding out that the senators will be held accountable mostly for taking Russian money uponit7771 Dec 2019 #14
The only way we will hold him accountable is redstateblues Dec 2019 #2
Yep! I feel this focus on impeachemt with an inevitable aquittal in the Senate is a bad move. nt kelly1mm Dec 2019 #7
And there in lies the problem. southerncrone Dec 2019 #8
And I blame Cyrus Vance, Eliot Spitzer, Retrograde Dec 2019 #18
Agree. And the MSM southerncrone Dec 2019 #20
well said Demovictory9 Dec 2019 #9
And I can't effin' wait malaise Dec 2019 #12
After a life of grifting and screwing people, I doubt he'll every get what he deserves. Vinca Dec 2019 #13
Consider that even in his Charity grift, he simply paid a fine and promised not to do it again. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #15
The Senate republicans will play the act of Fred Trump, bailing out little donny Poiuyt Dec 2019 #16
Will he be held accountable? Karadeniz Dec 2019 #17

Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)
4. Well it's clearly not enough.
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:59 AM
Dec 2019

But it's a start, and still infinitely more accountability than he's had before. When he's acquitted, the next step is to vote him out and let the law take its course on a person no longer protected by his office.

kelly1mm

(4,733 posts)
6. what accontability is it though? a 'not guilty' verdict in the Senate will have him strutting like
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 01:04 AM
Dec 2019

a peacock (or MORE strutting like a peacock!)

Lock him up.

(6,929 posts)
10. When he struts like
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 02:58 AM
Dec 2019

a peacock, he looks even more insane to independent voters than he tweets (if that can even be).

Don't fear and work overtime registering new Dem voters, telling em they have to vote Dem all down ballot for without a majority in the Senate, nothing will be done. Beat Moscow Mitch and all the Russiablican betrayers of their oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

quakerboy

(13,920 posts)
19. No more so than
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 01:17 AM
Dec 2019

If we had failed to investigate and hopefully impeach him in the first place. That would have been a campaign talking point.

Retrograde

(10,137 posts)
18. And I blame Cyrus Vance, Eliot Spitzer,
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 04:01 PM
Dec 2019

Eric Schneiderman, and all the other Manhattan DAs and New York AGs that turned blind eyes towards his organizations over the years. And their counterparts in New Jersey, Florida, and wherever else he did business. If he had had to face a prosecutor 30 years ago he'd barely be a blip on the media's radar.

southerncrone

(5,506 posts)
20. Agree. And the MSM
Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:18 AM
Dec 2019

for not informing the general public of all of his negative traits. It was common knowledge in NY that he was a fraud, grifter, con-man & low-IQ individual. Instead, they gave him tons of FREE press.

And the Repukes, who supported him as a valid candidate. Their adoration of money knows no limits and, I believe, that will be their undoing.

We would be hard pressed to find a more unfit, despicable, awful candidate. He is truly the bottom of the barrel. How he "slid under the radar" while being a high-profile individual boggles the mind. Something definitely smells here.

Vinca

(50,276 posts)
13. After a life of grifting and screwing people, I doubt he'll every get what he deserves.
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 09:21 AM
Dec 2019

He should be doing jail time and not at a Club Fed. It's infuriating how this crook has gotten away with everything and, even now, the Senate will let him walk even if it comes out he's doing a 14 year old in the Lincoln bedroom.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
15. Consider that even in his Charity grift, he simply paid a fine and promised not to do it again.
Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:56 AM
Dec 2019

He will never truly be held to account. A tut-tut from Mitt Romney won't satisfy me.

Living his few remaining years shut up in Trump tower as a sub-Nixonian pariah after losing in 2002, with Melania taking half his real assets in the divorce, and exposing the actual size of his fortune, Deutschebank calling in his loans, and Twitter banning his bullshit, MIGHT begin to resemble some justice.

His Presidential Library will be a hole in the ground.

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