Donald Trump is no Abraham Lincoln.

[kentuck]

In fact, he is not like any other president in history, although he had similar criminal inclinations as Richard Nixon. He should not be viewed with the same lens as all the other presidents. None of them betrayed our country or shit on our Constitution the way that Trump has done.

There is no denying that he had a lot of supporters and is considered a duly-elected president of this country. But it should come with an asterisk*. He cheated, lied, and broke the law dozens of times. He was an habitual criminal.

No president should ever be put on a pedestal and considered above the law. They are the ones that execute the laws. They should be held to the highest standard.

Merrick Garland has no choice but to indict the former president*. It is necessary in order for the rule of law to continue. It is necessary for our democracy, however unpalatable it may be to all the politicians in Washington and across our nation.

In my opinion, it is not a matter of whether or not Trump will be indicted, it is a matter of when. Let his defenders step forth.

[anamnua]

1. He's not even a Richard Nixon

The latter was intelligent.

[COL Mustard]

2. Who looks like a Boy Scout

Compared to The Fat Goon.

[speak easy]

7. Nixon would never have sold us out to Russia.

would never have preferred KGB intelligence to our own

[COL Mustard]

9. Yup. He knew the dangers of the Soviet system.

For all his flaws, he navigated the Cold War era pretty well. And he even opened up China while supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War. It's just that damn Watergate and the coverup. And he was going to trounce McGovern anyway, so why did he feel the need to break in and play havoc with it? I'll never understand it.

[speak easy]

13. 'And he was going to trounce McGovern anyway'

Yes. And there's the rub. If you were 'born on the wrong side of the tracks', nothing is ever good enough, if you want to carry a chip on your shoulder.

[Genki Hikari]

11. But he did sell out every young man subject to the draft

When he sneaked around behind LBJ's back to disrupt the Paris peace accords.

He got thousands of young men killed.

For that, he should have been hanged.

[speak easy]

14. 'he should have been hanged'

the so called 'death penalty' is ultra vires

[Celerity]

3. Trump is the tainted meat in Lincoln's last diarrhoea-induced shiting

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Dimdonnie deserves no less.

[milestogo]

5. If he wants to be like Lincoln he should go to Ford's Theatre without security.

[Shermann]

6. But but Lincoln did sort of have a Proud Boys beard though nt

[niyad]

8. One wishes that they had one thing in common.

[Blue Owl]

10. Dishonest Don is a far cry from Honest Abe

[Chainfire]

12. As far as I am concerned, Trump doesn't rise to the level of Benedict Arnold.

[Norbert]

15. As lousy a person Andrew Johnson was, he is still better than dump.