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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVox - Donald Trump’s threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracy
I know that there is going to be a lot of focus on sex scandals, but I think Trump's threat to imprison Hillary is far worse. indeed, I think it just builds on themes that the GOP itself has created. Once again, Trump is the GOP's frankenstein monster.
http://www.vox.com/2016/10/9/13222302/donald-trump-jail-hillary-clinton-second-debate
There is no way to sugarcoat this: At Sunday nights presidential debate, Donald Trump threatened to throw Hillary Clinton in jail if he wins the presidency. This threatening to jail ones political opponents is how democratic norms die.
The exchange happened during a discussion of the controversy over Hillary Clintons private email server. Trump began by decrying Clintons conduct which, according to the FBI, was quite bad but not illegal. He then proposed appointing a special prosecutor to investigate her, and warned Clinton that, if he were president now, youd be in jail:TRUMP: I'll tell you what. I didn't think I'd say this, and I'm going to say it, and hate to say it: If I win, I'm going to instruct the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there's never been so many lies, so much deception A very expensive process, so we're going to get a special prosecutor because people have been, their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you've done. And it's a disgrace, and honestly, you ought to be ashamed.
CLINTON: Let me just talk about emails, because everything he just said is absolutely false. But I'm not surprised It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of our country.
DT: Because you'd be in jail.
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Vox - Donald Trump’s threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracy (Original Post)
TomCADem
Oct 2016
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)1. Yes this is the major headline out of the debate.
EV_Ares
(6,587 posts)2. Talk about terrifying, talk about third world dictatorial nations, that was unbelievable.
ColemanMaskell
(783 posts)3. Thanks for posting that quote
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)4. Trump sunk to an abysmal & dangerous depth this evening.
There's a separation of powers between our three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.
Trump doesn't understand or respect that separation of powers is the underpinning of democracy.