Should there be consequences for the Kelly Anne Conways, SHSs, Pompeos, Barrs, Pences and others...

[brush]

once trump is impeached and/or defeated in the election? I mean with all the Mueller report info, self dealing/emolument clause violations just coming out and his/their failure to protect the country from foreign interference with our elections—Moscow Mitch?

These traitors, IMO, should not be allowed to just prance away into shame and obscurity for supporting and enabling this megalomaniacal lunatic who they know is unfit for the office.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Tarring and feathering isn't allowed any more.

Unfortunately.

[JI7]

2. YES

[Iliyah]

3. Yes.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I see them as no different than Hitler's Nazi enablers

Yeah, I know . . . . Hitler.

Tell me the analogy is not apt.

[DBoon]

9. like Julius Streicher?

Julius Streicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent member of the Nazi Party. He was the founder and publisher of the virulently antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm also released three antisemitic books for children, including the 1938 Der Giftpilz (translated into English as The Toadstool or The Poisonous Mushroom),[a] one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, which warned about the supposed dangers Jews posed by using the metaphor of an attractive yet deadly mushroom. The publishing firm was financially very successful and made Streicher a multi-millionaire.[1] At the end of the war, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trials and was executed.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Sure. Yeah. Like Julius Streicher

[jaysunb]

16. Fox News comes to mind...

they have surely lied and disseminated false information the can easily be construed as propaganda.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Not sure if you could get them legally. But the court of public opinion should

sentence them to 25 - life. But we all know that ain't going to happen. Which is why mothafucking Colbert had war criminal ass Condisleeza Rice as a guest the other night. From what I gathered from the Youtubes.

[atreides1]

27. Well

Maybe someone will get them in another way that legally might be questionable...just saying...

[ehrnst]

6. There will have to be specific charges, and evidence like paper trails.

It needs to be airtight. They will have very expensive lawyers who will be paid for by those that they benefited, in order to keep more names from coming out.

I think that Mueller had the best strategy, like you do when you go after the mob - go after the little fish first, and get them to turn with plea deals. When the medium fish see that, they get their lawyers to offer up the bigger fish pre-emptively.

[Sugar Smack]

7. Social (public) consequences would be the most easily immediate.

Like any one of these assholes, trying on shoes somewhere or simply trying to get from one place to another. Good luck to any of those assholes who want a quiet dinner night out for two.

[malaise]

8. I want to see more of them in prison than were locked up

in the Nixon era

[DFW]

10. For ones that committed prosecutable acts, absolutely

It is not a prosecutable crime for Conway or Sanders to go out in front of the press and lie her fool head off.

Pompeo, Barr and Pence breaking laws, lying before Congress, and/or enriching themselves and/or using taxpayer money for their leisure whims are a different category altogether.

[Hoyt]

11. Generally opposed to a successor Admin going after the previous Administration.

I could make an exception for trump admin, though.

[2naSalit]

13. +1

[EveHammond13]

14. YES. We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to decide how to handle this.

[lunatica]

15. Sure. Even if it's karma.

[Grasswire2]

17. Think of it this way....

......WHAT would Republicans do?

If we are not willing to be RUTHLESS when it comes to crimes, then we will continue to be the victims in every situation.

Look how many times we have rolled over, looked forward not backward, gone along to get along, yada yada yada.

This is a war for liberty and against tyranny.

Read The Art Of War and see how they use our strengths against us.

[arthritisR_US]

18. What you say...hell yes!!!

[elocs]

19. Impeachment without conviction in the Senate will not remove Trump from office.

In human history the list of people who don't get what they deserve is very, very, very long.

I wonder how many care more about Trump getting punished than beating him in the next election.
It's unlikely that Trump will ever get what he deserves (are there lots of billionaires in prisons?) but life goes on or at least it should.

[brush]

20. There's also the possibility that Dem failure to impeach such an obviously unfit president...

will result in many disgusted Dems staying home or going the dreaded 3rd party route. Congress has a constitutional duty to do oversight of the executive branch.

There's also the view that televised impeachment hearing will expose the stark evidence of not just trump's obstruction of justice but also his and his campaign's complicity with the Russian interference in our election, which in itself is the impeachable offense of failing to protect our country from foreign intervention. And of course there are the self-dealing/emolument clause violations being revealed.

Impeachment, whether he is convicted in the Senate or not will make the unfit orange debacle sweat and maybe drive him to commit even more outrageous acts which will further strengthen the case for impeachment.

[elocs]

22. It'll take far less than failure to impeach to make pissy Dems stay home.

Plus, exactly how would the Democratic candidate be responsible for what the House does or does not do?

I'd contend that there are just as many who don't care if impeachment helps Trump to win because they just want to humiliate him.
But impeachment now would certainly take the wind out of the Democratic candidates sails especially when defeating Trump in the election is a far surer way of getting him out of office.

[brush]

23. That's one way of looking at it. I fail to see how an impeachment takes the wind out of candidates..

sails. Seems to me it would give them more material that will be revealed to rail against trump on the campaign trail. But that's just me. He's an unfit monster and our candidates should be targeting him and not each other.

[elocs]

25. What will the national conversation be about?

Who will be listening to the candidates or paying attention to what they say?
Impeachment will suck all the air out of the room and then when he is not convicted by the Senate, Trump will brag about how he was vindicated.
Won't that be special?

[brush]

26. That's the way you see it. I don't. I think the disclosures will be so shameful repugs will lose...

the WH and the Senate as revelations will also come out against Moscow Mitch.

[pwb]

21. Karma will do it for me.

Shit comes back to haunt assholes.

[NCLefty]

24. Obama lets Bush and his people off for lying about Iraq.

"So the country could move forward."

And look what Republicans did to him anyway... birtherism..

Let's try going after them this time. Republicans don't respond to what they consider "weakness."