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What's the plan if the files contain damming evidence against Trump? Will he be impeached? Will he be arrested like anybody else? Will there just be no consequences whatsoever? What is the protocol when the president is revealed to have committed heinous crimes? I want to know NOW!
Oh yea, he will definitely be impeached for the third time. One more impeachment and he'll get a Writ of Reprimand. 4 of those and a Supreme Court judge literally slaps him on the wrist. That'll show him.
Will they slap him with this?
no, those were recalled for slicing up people’s wrists
If someone slapped me with that I'd prefer it sliced my wrists. I don't want to live knowing I've worn one.
That's what happens when more than 33 senators are willing to stand by the president no matter what they do I suppose. When it came to honor/shame, no one ever thought someone so wretched wouldn't just be forcibly removed by the people around them.
33 lmao, judging by the senate confirmation votes, there's at least 50.
33+ is the requirement to not be removed when impeached. At that point we can basically stop counting
57 voted he was guilty on the last one (the insurrection)
I don't have much faith they'll care. A big part of their ideology is hurting women and children. It's already well known he's a rapist, he's said as much himself. They famously don't care about truth. I think absolutely damning evidence will come out, and they'll move forward without much fuss.
This. They'll scramble for a few days until Fox News gets the narrative ready for spoon-feeding, then calling him a pedophile will be dismissed as another facet of "orange man bad".
Anecdotally I have seen evidence of Trump supporters in my own life who have fallen off their love of him. Mostly though it's because their own lives have not improved. They aren't hardcore magas just people who don't know any better, are not smart, kind of racist, or just sucked into whatever rabbit hole they've found.
I doubt it'll change much what's presented in media and functionally who's voting for him/others like him. But it's been nice not to hear people praise him day to day in my own life.
Hard to have your reality shattered when you weren't living in reality to begin with.
You've got a clutch of hooting, screaming podcaster apes who have been flogging Epstein as the Rosetta Stone of a dozen different conspiracy theories. They were supposed to dine out on Pam Bondi dripping "Breaking! New Epstein Things! Rosie O'Donald and Greta Thunberg definitely in the same state as Jeffrey during peak pedophilia era!"
Instead, Trump just puts the kabosh on the whole thing, barely a month after Bondi teases a whole string of info dumps.
If you can jangle a different set of keys in their faces, they'll come back around. Trump's just not willing to do that because he's gone into his "bored of being President" phase.
Well, if 20 Republicans crossed the aisle he could be removed from office. I think more likely is we'll be seeing lots of GOP seats lost in the midterm elections.
I would sooner bank on 20 Dems leaping to his defense in the name of bipartisanship
Based on what?
The fact that they're spineless
So, your unfounded feelings? You're basically just a Republican trying to Cope, is that what you came here to say?
Have you not been paying attention these last decade or so? The Dems have been capitulating at every opportunity.
In the last decade the DNC have not had more than 50 senators. Not 51, not 52, but exactly 50 or less.
Thats why. If you want them to do something, give them the power.
Stop the flow of water, generate electricity, sustainable energy.
I believe
Took me a second, but I go there
They would 100% never let files with Trump's name in it out. This is going to absolutely backfire on the Democrats when the Republicans inevitably release a doctored list with all their political enemies on it. This is so much better for the Dems when the files are a big MacGuffin. Even if by some miracle they did release the actual list and Trump was on it, they would say it was a witch hunt by the corrupt Biden administration and MAGA would eat it up. There will never be legal consequences for any of them, ever. If they ever do get consequences it will be because of some brave Luigi.
Well once it really gets proven he is a pedo, which we're pretty close to, his own base will likely eat him alive and, I dunno, split off into factions?
What will happen?
Anywhere from nothing to full out civil war, pushed mostly by ~~the crazies~~ MAGA.
An immediate admission of an active alien invasion and the activation of the new patriot II act.