Poster child for the Bell Curve:
Posted on 04/09/2018 10:00:11 AM PDT by mandaladon
Sunday on her weekend morning program, MSNBC's Joy Reid seriously discussed a situation where President Trump refused a subpoena and would have to be arrested and put in jail until he testified before a grand jury. Reid envisioned a scenario of a White House besieged by federal marshals who would wait for Trump to give the Secret Service a stand down order so he could be taken into custody.
"Let's say that Donald Trump decides he doesn't want to give an interview with Mueller, but Mueller says 'Oh, but you will.' And he's subpoenaed to [be] interview[ed] [by] Robert Mueller. And Donald Trump simply says, 'I don't recognize that subpoena.' This is a president whose behavior is different as president of the United States. He doesn't follow convention. Who would force him to comply with the subpoena ordering him to do an interview with Robert Mueller?" Reid asked.
"It would be a federal court judge," former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said.
"How would they enforce it?" she asked.
"Normally, a person who refuses to testify before a grand jury winds up being incarcerated for the time period of the grand jury which can be up to 18 months," Akerman said. "So, one way to enforce it is to have Donald Trump taken by the federal marshals and put into federal prison until he testifies."
"What if he refuses to open the White House door?" Reid asked, seriously. "What if he fires any Secret Service agent who would allow the federal marshals in? What if Donald Trump simply decides I don't have to follow the law? 'I refuse to be held under the law. No marshal can get into this White House and any Secret Service agent who defies me is fired.'"
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What?!?
She’s either smoking the sofa, or reaching behind herself and pulling random ideas from her ass.
Worse, madness.
What if You stop sucking my Johnson?
Yes Virginia, they really are this stupid.
This is Brennan style psy-ops.
Poster child for the Bell Curve:
This is what happens when you spend years reporting fake news, you lose touch with reality so much you don’t know what is real anymore.
What if President Trump went to Guam, and the weight of his entourage causes the island to tip over? Would the Secret Service put saving Trump ahead of rescuing the residents of Guam from the ocean?
-PJ
That makes me think of about a couple of nights ago, TCM had the 1984 Goldie Hawn movie “Protocol” on for it’s late show. You can see both direct and indirect jabs at then President Reagan in the movie, but all in all, still a lightweight but watchable and sometimes amusing show that wasn’t a real waste of time or movie tickets back in 1984. And certainly very innocuous fare compared to nowadays.
READINABLUESTATE wrote: The Secret Service vs the US Marshalls....Hmmmmm. Odds?
Well, there are a lot more Marshalls but the Old Guard reports to the President.
> I heard Mark Levin say that the Constitution prevents Trump from being dragged before the grand jury while he is president. I don’t know enough about constitutional Law to agree or dispute this. <
Just out of curiosity, I looked into this awhile back. A misbehaving president can be impeached. But the Constitution is silent about whether or not a sitting president can be arrested.
The prevailing view among many (most?) constitutional scholars is that a sitting president cannot be arrested. That’s because the arrest would interfere with the president constitutional duties, and would subvert the will of the voters.
Thanks mandaladon. Nothing, because no one is coming to arrest President Trump, and they won't be coming. Meanwhile, MSNBC should not be surprised when they finally, ultimately, can't pay bills any longer.
Joy Reid is racist and sexist.
Politely said ;-)
What if Joy Reid stopped dropping acid?
Heeelllooo Ms. Microdot; got your sunshine on?
> What if aliens landed outside of the White House grounds....would Trump allow them in?
Space aliens or wetback aliens?
Had George Washington been a lesser man, we would have kings.
Trump has the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, Secret Service, Federal Marshals, (nominally) the FBI and the CIA.
Despite Obama's corruption of the Executive Branch, Trump rules.
I’m worried about Democrats and their puppets in the Media. I mean, what if Hillary Clinton doesn’t fully concede the election? Oh, wait, she hasn’t. She is out whining every day about it. She hasn’t fully grasped that the elections are over, and she lost!!! And the media puppets haven’t fully realized that their Ice Queen Hillary Clinton has been dethroned!!!
LOL
The left is unhinged and obsessed with Trump.
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