Oops sorry about that I meant to use alt text & forgot - my settings shouldn't have let me do that! I'll fix in settings, but meantime:
"If Nixon had gone to jail, there would have been no Trump. I the Iran-Contra co-conspirators had been punished there would have been no Trump. If Cheney >>>
As soon as it became clear he would suffer absolutely no consequences for Jan 6, it was game over.
He’s had a great run of impunity his entire life, but an actual violent mob insurrection to overthrow an election result and murder his own VP? Come on.
If Obama had held the banks responsible for 2008 and sent some people to jail instead of inviting them to the WH for beers there would have been no Trump because the overreach/greed cycle would have reset and faith restored. So many things led to this moment, but that one was massive.
I get making sure the account holders were taken care of, but yes, the executive/leadership that recklessly created the 2008 housing crisis should have been held criminally liable. None of them should be working in banking to this day (and I'm pretty sure most are).
One of them sits on the Federal Reserve Board and decides interest rates. He walked into the meeting with Obama thinking he was being told he was going to prison instead a beer was put in his hand. There's a fascinating Frontline episode with his interviews about it. It was all big laugh to him.
Shit if Trump had been held responsible for his real estate schemes and properly shamed for stealing from people instead of turned into a media darling there would have been no Trump
Turns out all those abolitionists who analyzed that it’s generally the poor who face punitive punishment and the jackboot of law while a florid lack of consequences & consequence free abolition already exists for the wealthy & connected were correct.
All the tax fraud that to it's credit NY Times picked up. Or his funneling mafia money, or funneling money from oligarchs, or his labor violations, or, or, or.
and spot on because this showed there is no punishment for grand crime , the Dems should propose (even if canlt do it) and put an amendment to block the pardon power, that is being a king about rule of law, yes I know geninue cases get it but look at how it used now
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"If Nixon had gone to jail, there would have been no Trump. I the Iran-Contra co-conspirators had been punished there would have been no Trump. If Cheney >>>
(Imagine if we had held Trump himself accountable.)
He’s had a great run of impunity his entire life, but an actual violent mob insurrection to overthrow an election result and murder his own VP? Come on.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistencies