Vox - Donald Trump’s threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracy

[TomCADem]

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 night’s presidential debate, Donald Trump threatened to throw Hillary Clinton in jail if he wins the presidency. This — threatening to jail one’s political opponents — is how democratic norms die.

The exchange happened during a discussion of the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Trump began by decrying Clinton’s 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, “you’d 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.

[Agschmid]

1. Yes this is the major headline out of the debate.

[EV_Ares]

2. Talk about terrifying, talk about third world dictatorial nations, that was unbelievable.

[ColemanMaskell]

3. Thanks for posting that quote

[lovemydog]

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.