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Well stated, but I think you need to qualify the statement that "finally his moron stupidity led him to go too far."

We've had four years plus the 2016 campaign during which we've heard or seen things from Trump that were through were surely the last straw. From language that was contemptuous of immigrants, non whites, women, his own team, our allies, and the entire nation to his lies, cruelty, ignorance, lack of empathy, self dealing, bad mouthing the military, profiting from use of his own properties, breaking treaties, insulting governors, dismissing science and any experts in any field, ordering attacks on legal protestors, strong arming foreign leaders, pardoning criminals, and bestowing Medals of Freedom to undeserving recipients - need I go on? You get it.

And yet - impossibly, he hasn't suffered any consequences. And the ONLY that this seems to far is that her only has two weeks left in office. Censure? Articles of Impeachment? Doesn't matter. At a federal level he will never have been held accountable. He's flipping the bird at all of us.

With any luck he'll be dinged by state charges but there's almost no chance he'll ever receive a penalty beyond a fine. He won't be imprisoned although his transgressions are certainly worse that those of some who are serving many years for possession of pot or stealing food for a hungry family.

So while I agree that he blatantly stuck his foot in it in a most egregious and clearly illegal manner, nothing's going to happen. And they just is a travesty.

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Why are we ( I mean a collective we) so apathetic that DT will not be held accountable? Reading the litany of his transgressions is exhausting -- I'm a lifelong DEM and sometimes in the attempt to "move on" we are not as aggressive as we need to be --- somehow, I feel with Kamla as VP and a former prosecutor, we may have the perfect person to see that DT get his proper justice. --- "a bald-faced, bold abuse of power" --- It will not serve us to let by gones be bygones -- if we do so, then DT can stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot anyone he pleases without consequences. The Repubs think they are upholding the law and know the constitution but are subverting everything for personal gain. The latest appointments to the Supreme Court states they are constitutionist (originalist) -- what does that mean for the rule of law?

I say we give Brad Raffesnsperger man of the year for his integrity.

An aside - I've been gifting memberships to this forum --wish I could do so for the Trump base too.

Thank you Dr. HCR and all the enlightened and thoughtful readers here whom I continue to learn and discern with.

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Aye and with everyone going oooh omg he said that.. he did that (wringing their hands) and yet this moron is still at large. when is any Dem going to have the guts to take him down and throw him in a cell

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