Paul Krugman on Trump's impeachable offense:

[Gabi Hayes]

“Let's be clear: a candidate for president promised to put his opponent in jail, if he wins. Everything else is secondary."

Trump pledged tonight to commit an impeachable offense.

Let's remember that there were three articles of impeachment against Nixon. One of them was Article II (Abuse of Power) and that is the one Trump pledged to commit when he is elected. He pledged to use the Oval Office for a vendetta against Hillary.

don't have link; it was from the comments on Robert Costa's story about the four "rape" victims appearance at the debate

[Hekate]

1. Badabing, Dr. Krugman

[Cha]

5. "Donald Trump just crossed a major line during Sunday night's debate"

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The pledge, however, stuck with many as a particularly terrifying statement.

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So much more~ http://mashable.com/2016/10/09/donald-trump-pledges-to-put-clinton-in-jail/#UWmD2e8NJaqZ

AG Holder should know..

Even Andrea Mitchell is not going for that(@link) and many others..

Isn't that what putin does? Put his political opponents in prison?

"..trump insults our Founding Fathers.."

Hekate~

[ffr]

2. Donald and abuse of power may be why he has 3,500 pending lawsuits against him.

Coincidence?

[lovemydog]

3. No coincidence at all.

He treats the rule of law with the same contempt he has for anyone different from him.

He probably blames the Clintons for 'not changing the system' just like he tried to blame Hillary for his failure to pay taxes.

[uppityperson]

4. K&R

[regnaD kciN]

6. I'm sure his excuse will be…

…"I mean I'll make sure her actions are investigated and, if she is convicted of any crime, that she serves the proper sentence."

(And, to be honest, weren't we all hoping Obama would prosecute Dubya? If he had done so, would that have been an impeachable offense?)

The key difference here is that I doubt that's the meaning coming from someone who admires his BFF Vlad for being a "strong leader."

[BlueProgressive]

7. Well, it's academic because he's never going

to be elected.


Still-- must be from the advice he's getting from Putin!

[pinboy3niner]

8. Amen

Welcome to DU, BlueProgressive.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

9. His whole platform seems to be just that:

he will abuse the hell out of power. We can see from his public conduct that he can't and doesn't believe he should have to control himself, won't follow simple rules of civility, doesn't believe in fair play (at least not for others.) He certainly won't be constrained by some silly little thing like the Constitution or the rule of law.

And the RWers who were having melt downs about how President Obama was a dictator simply for daring to be the president are perfectly fine with this.