Posted on 07/16/2023 6:52:48 AM PDT by traderrob6
And shame on Trump-endorsed McDaniel. She should have simply said “This was not a relevant Constitutional criteria for president, that these charges are seen by most Republicans as persecution, and at the end of the day, it will be up to the voters to decide. Next question?”
...as opposed the non-convicted felons that fill the rest of the govetnment?
Who cares about the fancy award form?
One huge problem. He has not been convicted yet... Full stop. End of discussion.
“Mebbe I missed it, but what has PDJT been convicted of?”
Exactly right.
A convicted felon? When, other than in the deluded, wet-dreaming mind (or what subs as a mind) of Wallace did that happen? Is he relying on an alternate dimension version of reality? Or is it just the usual. The rabid leftist lies with impunity, shock-sure that nobody will correct him re: his lies and BS.
We're all equal but democrats are more equal - (with apology to George Orwell...)
Didn’t know Hissy Chrissy was still around.
What's vile about asking this question?
Trump is under felony indictment, more indictments are coming, and it's very possible that by the election, Trump will be a convicted felon. Those are the facts.
With the amount of effort the deep state is putting into convicting him, and burying him, our mindset should be accepting that eventuality and preparing for it. If the head of the GOP doesn't have an amswer for that question, that's a big problem.
Miscellany. Time to go offline and do something fun. That goes for all of us. :^)
Great point!
In fact, consider that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A), a penalty for states that cheat the ballot box, emphasizes that voting rights protections don't apply to felons.
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Section 2: Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
But more importantly, consider that the "in any way abridged" wording of Section 2, the words basically a "hair trigger" for violating that section, supports the idea that desperate Democratic swing states that allow criminals to vote are wrongly weakening the votes of qualified citizen voters by doing so.
In other words, states that allow criminals to vote are violating Section 2 imo.
In fact, if this were a better world, the federal government would be publicly warning all the states before Election Day that they don't want the feds to darken their doorway concerning allegations of Section-2 related vote-counting fraud.
Sadly, in stark contrast to enforcing Section 2, J6 lawmakers who voted to accept Biden's electoral votes despite allegations of voting problems, obstructed due process of Section 2 by doing so imo.
J6 lawmakers also wrongly ignored ongoing problems with state compliance with 12th Amendment electoral vote procedures imo.
Excerpted from 12A:
"The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added], ..."
In fact, Congress's "look the other way" policy concerning alleged voting problems and everything else is one more incentive for Democratic and Republican Trump supports to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL incumbents up for reelection in state and federal governments (except for Gaetz, MTG, and Jordan), by primarying them in 2024.
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
In fact, consider that since one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the big, bad federal government to dictate peacetime domestic policy is to run the Mail Service (most federal domestic policy actually based on stolen state powers imo), the worst problem that the country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of freshman lawmakers is arguably a delay with mail delivery.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
Trump can endorse candidates that Constitution-savvy patriots recommend as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments after they win office.
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.
Has he not looked around The Hill lately?
It’s also very possible he will NOT. It’s a cynical, snarky and purely hypothetical question offered up by a puny little lefty propagandist who has made a career of spewing disparaging innuendo to elicit a reaction.
Now go back to DU where obtuseness is perceived as a virtue.
Wallace has UGLY FACE and as UGLY SOUL!
Oh, and read post #41, it’s not that confounding.
FUCW !
I thought he died. Guess not.
Exactly right.
“Convicted Felon” doesn’t mean anything anymore now that the FBI and DOJ are proven to have framed the lefts political enemies. Remember the Russian Collusion hoax, Crossfire Hurricane, Dirty FISA court lies and falsified evidence, “51 intelligence professionals”?
And to top it off, Hunter Biden is off scott free with a fine? BLM rioter aren’t prosecuted ?
Please. George Washington was a traitor to the crown and would have been hung a convicted felon had he been caught.
Republicans hopefully will be bold in responding to these DNC activists posing as journalists. No room for being diplomatic or replying to them like they are real reporters.
It's not a hypothetical question when a republican presidential candidate is under very real federal felony indictments, with at least two more investigations underway. Hypothetically, those investigations could bring additional felony charges, but we're past that point in New York State court and federal court in Florida. That's no longer a hypothetical.
You can be a crankypuss about how unfair, absurd and politically motivated the investigations are, but Trump has already been served and processed, and those trials are happening.
McDaniel knows this. If Trump is the nominee, even if he beats every charge, the investigations and trials are a known quantity of baggage that he's bringing not just to the Presidential election, but every election down ballot. She should already have a strongly worded canned answer prepared.
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