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Showing Original Post only (View all)Once trump passes should he be given the honor of lying in state... [View all]
under the Capitol rotunda that his followers so desecrated on Jan. 6th?
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Yes because it's traditional. | |
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Hell no. | |
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Hell to the no. | |
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His casket can be wheeled through quickly then taken to the same plot where Ivana is buried. | |
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Let me think about it as it's too emotional an issue now. | |
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There has to something else more appropriate for such a scoundrel. | |
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Hoping he dies in prison and thus the question will be rendered moot. | |
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Do all ex President lay in state? (did President Nixon?) If so then yes, he should as he held the
kelly1mm
Aug 2022
#5
No, Nixon did not, but the Wikipedia page on this says it was by his own wishes.
A HERETIC I AM
Aug 2022
#21
President Clinton was impeached. Should he lay in state? If the option of laying in state is up ex
kelly1mm
Aug 2022
#29
Again my position is that if all former presidents have the option of lying in state then
kelly1mm
Aug 2022
#59
"Under what basis other than 'I don't like him' should President Trump be barred?"
A HERETIC I AM
Aug 2022
#60
As of now he is not a (convicted) criminal. I do not think that every ex President deserves it BUT
kelly1mm
Aug 2022
#62
Maybe his corpulence could be a State Fair science project - guess how many maggots
erronis
Aug 2022
#15
I don't care if he gets a state funeral; in fact, if he does, AFAIC it would be a celebration
Ocelot II
Aug 2022
#19
No. Give him a burial at sea. Stuff him into a wood chipper on a boat and shoot him into the ocean.
Sky Jewels
Aug 2022
#33
Lie in state at the very place his supporters plundered and tried to overthrow our government?
Samrob
Aug 2022
#41
only if Lindsey, little marco, Ted's fat wife and Ted cancun cruz carry the casket !!
RANDYWILDMAN
Aug 2022
#65