r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Threatens Criminal Action Against Clinton, Obama, And Biden If Impeached Again

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/946521/trump-threatens-criminal-action-against-clinton-obama-and-biden-if-impeached-again
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u/accountabilitycounts America 5d ago

I understand what you are trying to say, but going for it if he is impeached again is a gross abuse of power. 

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 5d ago

He's claiming he's sitting on damaging information. If so, he needs to release it. Really detrimental to democracy to say he has damaging information and will only release it if he is politically damaged.

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u/HoustonHenry 5d ago

It's in his diaper, he was being literal

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u/Rebal771 5d ago

I think ultimately the guardrails of democracy are actually holding up, despite the massive challenges coming from capitalism. I do think a lot of people hit a breaking point with trump, and the current cult of MAGA personality are a fraction of their formidable size. That doesn’t stop online propaganda from metastasizing into loud echo Chambers, but I don’t think we’re actually talking about this administration receiving support to continue to move forward.

This outburst is a sign of weakness and fear. The last time he pulled this off was 2015, and had a lot more ear holes back then. I don’t see the same amount of Trump flags flying today, and I’m in the buckle of the Bible Belt where they used to fly higher than the American flags.

I think his bigger issue is that he can’t find a proper successor, he doesn’t know how to give power to anybody else.… so if he doesn’t die while he’s in office, he might have to face a consequence.

I think this is actual panic.

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u/PaulRingo64 5d ago

If he truly had anything of note, he would be posting about it constantly, screaming it from the roof tops. It would be a GOP talking point for two decades. This whole “I got big news in my back pocket” stuff is just for show, enticing people to turn out.

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u/TherenArima 5d ago

Right, if he actually had something there, the Republicans would’ve posted it immediately, seeing as they’re obviously scared of the midterms outcome.

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u/SecretLadyMe 5d ago

Exactly. If he actually knew something he would be violating his oath of office to protect and uphold the Constitution AGAIN. I honestly would love nothing more than to never hear his voice or name again.

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u/jhorch69 5d ago

His legal team argued in court that he never swore to support the Constitution when there was a lawsuit over taking him off the ballot for insurrectionlmao

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u/meatspace Georgia 5d ago

He will release it in two weeks. It will be a giant pile of folders on a table that no one is allowed to look at.

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u/nightslayer78 5d ago

With clinton it would probably be epstin files which would implicate himself. Any corruption would set the bar as himself would of done to times more (at least)

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 5d ago

If Trump was sitting on information that could damage Obama, Hillary, and Biden, he would have released it long ago.

This is from the fucking guy who claimed Obama wasn't really an American.

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u/FrostGiant_1 5d ago

Will he release this damaging information “in 2 weeks”?

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u/Jimbohamilton 5d ago

Isn’t it illegal to withhold evidence in criminal matters?

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u/RackemFrackem 5d ago

Mob bosses don't give away information for the good of others. They use it as leverage.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 5d ago

Considering his current impeachment by the house is shelved and then he has like 26 or 29 articles of impeachment that's been introduced it seems like he should release it. I doubt a special investigator would find anything and it'd show even more that he's unfit for office.

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u/tRfalcore 5d ago

Why would anyone believe anything he says

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u/SignificantPop4188 5d ago

Like everything he's done so far?

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u/accountabilitycounts America 5d ago

True.

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u/Russkun 5d ago

Yes. But he is full of shit and lies about everything. You can't take anything he says seriously.

Signed. Residents if the 51st state

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u/MountainMan2_ 5d ago

It's also rich coming from him because all three of those mfers had outsized parts to play in him even being in that position in the first place.

Hillary and Bill killed the dem enthusiasm in 2016 by calling the Bernie supporters misogynists instead of working to keep their base together which would have won the Dems that election.

Obama, of course, bailed out wall street which then went on to fund the hell out of trump in 2016.

And then Biden chose to put a Republican in charge of prosecuting trump and then decided to let him slow walk the cases as long as he felt like.

All 3 made huge mistakes that let trump into the white house. So now, of course, he wants them jailed.

Little tyrant can't see the hill he stands on.