Lindsey Graham: Don’t Indict Trump, or Impeach Him, or Vote Against Him ( nymag.com )

FTA:

Lindsey Graham offered up what has become the standard Republican response to Trump’s prosecution. Unlike Trump, and most of the party’s voters, Graham did not insist Trump had legitimately won the 2020 election. Instead, he argued on Fox News that it is wrong to criminalize Trump’s attempt to secure an unelected second term. “This should be decided at the ballot box and not in a bunch of liberal jurisdictions trying to put the man in jail,” he complained. “They’re weaponizing the law.”

Worse, he predicted, the successful use of a state prosecution would unleash copycat tactics on the right. “This is setting a bad precedent,” continued Graham, “and what I fear is, you’re changing the game in America and there’s no going back. We’re in for a very hard time if this becomes the norm.”

e_t_ Admin ,

I can understand how a powerful man might be afraid of a precedent of holding powerful men accountable for their crimes.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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Somebody doesn't want pictures of his ladybugs leaked

FARTYSHARTBLAST ,
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…a man named Lindsey?

I don’t know, sounds kinda woke.

Jaysyn ,
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I hope both of them die in prison.

sik0fewl ,

At the rate things have been moving, I just hope Trump lives to see prison.

ulkesh ,
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you’re changing the game in America

Wrong, you spineless fucktard. Republicans already changed the game when you decided that a lying, misogynistic, treasonous, con-artist, tiny-penised, reality show moron is the best person to lead your party.

This is not weaponizing the law…it is the proper application of the law because the piece of shit VIOLATED THE LAW. It’s time he rots in prison for it. Graham should just shut the fuck up.

The real sad outcome of all of this…people still listen to Graham and still vote for him — as they do with Trump. One day the world will be rid of all of these idiots.

keeb420 ,

I thought they wanted law and order and people to stand up for.the rule of law?

Oh wait. This just in they are hypocrites in everything.

spaceghoti OP ,

From Francis Wilhoit:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

vanderburg.org/etc/quotes/wilhoit-conservatism/

Rapidcreek ,

We already decided this at the ballot box. And during trump’s impeachments, you said they should be decided in the courts.

Here we are.

jballs ,
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“You can’t indict a sitting president, that’s what impeachment is for.”

“You can’t impeach a sitting president, that’s what the election is for.”

“You can’t impeach the president again now that he’s lost the election, that’s what the justice system is for.”

“You can’t indict someone running for president, that’s what the next election is for.”

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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"You can't nominate a Supreme Court Justice during an election"

jballs ,
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Followed quickly by “of course you can nominate a Supreme Court Justice during an election.”

Fixbeat ,

So, one of his arguments is that conservatives would try to game the system to go after dems, if the dems do it first? Right, like they did to Clinton, Obama and Biden? Who are they trying to fool?

JonEFive ,

The same people they’ve been fooling into voting for them for years. This is just propaganda speech delegitimizing the judicial process when they’re held to account for their crimes.

spaceghoti OP ,

It’s the language of the abuser. “See what you’re making me do to you?”

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