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Maybe democratic leaders need to make it clear now: if you’re a nation that engaged in absolute corruption with the Trump family, you will absolutely pay a price when he is out of office. Our people deserve better

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Why would anyone believe that America would apply consequences? We let the guy who organized an attempted coup go scot free, and then corruptly run for president again! We allow open bribery of SC justices with no consequences. Consequences? Not for the privileged in America.

People need to hold businesses accountable too. All those “donations” to Trump’s inauguration and library? Time to cancel that Amazon membership and start switching from iPhones. Red state players have nowhere near the money Blue staters have.

Wait until they reconstitute the FCPA and Public Corruption Units at DOJ. Those guys are going to be at an all you can prosecute buffet for decades. bsky.app/profile/drob...

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I’ve practiced public corruption law for 20 years. The US DOJ’s FCPA (foreign bribery) unit was one of their most aggressive and they brought criminal charges for what seem like really quaint bribes in hindsight, like tickets to a beer festival or bouquets of flowers for government officials.

Watch: the SFO will bring in a couple of billion dollar fines against US companies and Trump is going to freak out about why our prosecutors aren’t getting those sorts of fines from non-US companies while Bondi patiently tries to explain that 9 of the 10 largest FCPA fines were non-US companies but

Not just other nations engaged in corruption with the Trump family, but corporations and anyone else. The same needs to be held true for anyone purchasing national assets, in whole or in part, like National Parks or Monuments, BLM or Forest Service lands, etc.

Foreign interference in 🇺🇸 elections, financial corruption of 🇺🇸 elected officials, and state-sponsored and -sanctioned disinfo NEED to be treated as acts of war. If 🇺🇸 intel says 🇷🇺 is engaged in this, a tomahawk missile needs to be sent through the window of whatever building it is coordinated from. 💯

A lot of the problems we are facing are a result of how we handled the aftermath of the last Trump presidency AND the great recession. Nobody in power was held accountable from Trump to corrupt bankers. They know that they can do this stuff and there will be no consequences.

I think there is a big difference between being told you can't do something insane and having a real fear of going to jail as a result of your actions. When I say they have no fear, I mean no fear of any real person price being paid either in terms of fines or jail time.

Not just nations. If businesses are buying influence through one or more of Trump’s corruption schemes, they should be prosecuted for bribery.

Why can’t any and all leaders make that a clear and decisive message? Why can’t that just be the message going forward from everyone who opposes his tyranny and plans to defeat his corrupt authoritarian regime?

Sure. But American voters, in their infinite wisdom, handed MAGA the House and the Senate. The Supreme Court was already owned. So who is going to engage the 25th? Let's see what y'all do in the mid-terms. Good luck! 🇨🇦

Adam, if you’re not seeing the writing on the wall, you really need to change your eyeglass prescription because I don’t think he’s leaving office. That orange shit stain will be here much longer than we can take.

Look man, Dems are in no position to criticize ANYONE as pathetic as most of their efforts to resist Trump have been. I mean how do you confirm a piece of shit like Rubio with 100% of Dems voting for him?

Perhaps Schumer can write a very strong 8 point letter about it. Sigh. Democrats are about as threatening as a toothless chihuahua. Though at least a chihuahua barks enough to be annoying. I don’t even hear from most Democrats, including my own Rep.

That sounds like a great idea in theory, but allies are worried by the lack of resistance Trump is encountering domestically. GOP - crickets, SCOTUS - crickets, Dems - mostly crickets, voters - mostly crickets. They are starting to lose faith that the US will ever be a trustworthy partner again.

I hope so, but I don't believe he will leave the White House. The Supreme Court is complicit in giving him the power he has. We are now living under a Fascist Government. Where are the Republicans? Why aren't they speaking out against this?

Yeah, that would be why people were saying Pelosi and Dems should have gone after Bush for lying us into Iraq. Which you would have attacked at the time. But that is what lead us here. Republican criminals know that based on the past, Dems won’t force any consequences on them.

How do we keep the focus on getting Trump to leave office, whether by resignation, impeachment and removal or the 25th Amendment, with his firehose of bad ideas and fake proposals on full spray?

Some insignificant little prick like Fico or Orban or Bukele can make life fairly intolerable for a relatively small number of people for a short while, but Trump is capable of doing damage on a larger scale, lasting far longer. There must be *some* mechanism to curtail his excessive ambitions!?!

I cannot believe the blatant, in your face bribery that Trump is engaged in. Where are all those who screamed about the unsubstantiated “crimes” of Biden? Here Trump is doing it right in front of you!

Maybe democratic leaders need to make it clear now: they do not want and will not accept any achievements of the Trump administration that contradict democratic values and the American constitution. Bc this dichotomy destroys any ability to act and any credibility.

Quietly tell your GOP counterparts 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘭𝘭 pay a price when he is out of office. Tell them the 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 way they'll avoid court and possibly prison (because 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 they'll get due process) will be to 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 the orange demagogue and his puppet VP (because there's no way 𝘩𝘦 can be president either). 🙇

Yes, this. They should also make it clear that window is closing for coming clean, cooperating and grabbing plea deals and those in the GOP who do not will be held equally responsible for every crime this administration commits. Make them all know there will be severe consequences

Throw Trump & every ICE member committing crimes to The Hague court and give them the same treatment you’d give a terrorist leader in the Middle East. Nothing short of that will make your trading partners trust you enough to do business with you again.

The democratic leadership has one chance, assuming we get to mid-terms. One Chance. If they don't win then, there will not be any "price to pay." PACs need to be hammering the Republican failures in ads and socials. Instead, we have propaganda from the Republican PACs saying how great it is.

Unfortunately, your people deserve exactly what they voted for. This is really a surprise to no one. I just hope you grow the nuts to have a civil war. Because that is what it will take to purge your society of the magats. Just hope it happens before he comes for our resources.

They should say it in the Senate and House. Everyone who participates in corruption will face consequences. Which scares them more, letting down a corrupt administration or their families, friends, constituents, neighborhoods, states and the history books?

Um, you had an insurrection led by Trump and he walked away. He was impeached TWICE last time, sold beans from the Oval and colluded with Russia last time as well. What's going to be different this time? Americans on the left start to sound like they're all talk.