Boston Globe Editorial Board: The case for prosecuting Donald Trump

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Dena Grayson, MD, PhD
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🔥The @BostonGlobe Editorial Board calls on @TheJusticeDept to prosecute Trump CRIMINALLY: Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law.

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The case for prosecuting Donald Trump
Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law.
apps.bostonglobe.com
6:08 AM · Jun 9, 2021

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/06/future-proofing-the-presidency/part-6-the-case-for-prosecuting-donald-trump/

The case for prosecuting Donald Trump

Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law.

Norms in a democracy are only as good as our willingness to enforce them.

After the precedent-busting, lawbreaking presidency of Donald Trump, Congress needs to pass new laws to constrain future officeholders. That’s the case the Globe has made in this series: curbs on the pardon power, safeguards against nepotism, broadening the power of Congress to investigate the president, protections for whistle-blowers, requirements that presidents make financial disclosures to root out conflicts of interest.

All of that is crucial to protect Americans against a repeat of the last four years.

"Presidents also need a clear message, one that will echo through history, that breaking the law in the Oval Office will actually be punished."

But imposing stricter rules on future presidents, by itself, is clearly insufficient. Those presidents also need a clear message, one that will echo through history, that breaking the law in the Oval Office will actually be punished — that ethics policies and legal requirements, both the existing ones and those Congress will hopefully enact in the future, are more than just words on paper.

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[dalton99a]

1. Trump must be indicted for his crimes.

I have low expectations for convictions. But he must be indicted.

[KS Toronado]

3. I have high expectations for several convictions.

With all the illegal things he's done, he'll spend the rest of his miserable life behind bars.

[Escurumbele]

9. Amen

I want to believe that it will happen, but Garland so far has been, from what Rachel explained last night, a major disappointment.

[KS Toronado]

11. Take what Rachel said last night with a grain of salt.

She seemed to be making mountains out of mole hills for some reason which was out of character for her.
I switched channels.

[choie]

2. very very glad to see this!

your turn, NY Times!

[lagomorph777]

8. I'm sure they'll have MAGA Haberman get right on that.

[monkeyman1]

4. don't forget some of his enablers & the list goes on!!!

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Digging around and trying to obtain the phone numbers of journalists seems like something ...

illegal was done too by the rumpass administration too. Smacking of suppressing first amendment rights as well as freedom of the press. Nixon comes to mind when I heard this ...

[speaknow]

6. Well lets look at the script.

New York indicts Orange head.
Now will see if the DOJ gets involved
and wants it moved to a Fed court.
I think we seen this movie before

[Escurumbele]

7. I get very confused when I read lines like the following:

"If Congress had played the role the Founders envisioned, by removing Trump from the presidency"

Congress did impeach trump., it was the corrupt republicans, and I must say the filibuster, that made it impossible to kick him out of office, so why that line? I genuinely need to understand it.

[JHB]

12. Because One Does Not Just Point At The Elephant In The Room

It's like a media Mortal Sin to point out that all the crazy comes from one direction, and has for a quarter century or more.

[Escurumbele]

13. Good point, thank you

[BSdetect]

10. Critical to shut him up asap. And many of his cronies

[lunatica]

14. Wannabe future Trumpers will just get smarter and meaner

But promising prosecutions will make many question themselves.