CAN WE LEGITIMATELY CALL THIS, CRITICISM?
Posted on 03/05/2020 7:09:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Hey Schmuckey, President Trump did NOT Make a Criminal Terrorist Threat, YOU DID!!
Criticism is different than threats.
Criticizing and threatening are two different things Chuckie. One is freedom of speech. The other is making threats to sitting judges.
He’s trying to “double down” like Trump does, only he’s at the same time denying he said what he plainly said. They can’t do it. Only the master can. Why is he not under arrest yet?
Asking someone to recuse themselves Sotomayor and Ginsberg - is not a threat. “You shall reap the whirlwind” is.
Trump said two justices who made HIGHLY partisan remarks should RECUSE THEMSELVES, not that they would “reap the whirlwind”! POS committed multiple felonies within a few seconds of his tirade.
Oh geeze. If Schumer steps down, Governor Cuomo will appoint Hillary as Senator. What a conundrum.
You didn’t criticize, Chucky.. you THREATENED....
Big Difference.
Totally different.
President Trump did not threaten them!!!
You people don’t even know what threats are anymore....you guys are so very hateful, mean, and angry. You’ve lost all sense of decency.
I’m sorry, Mr Schummer, you have lost it.
Schumer knows that as a D, he will be covered by the media, hailed by the far left. Schumer is doubling down because he is in a position of power.
“Criticism is different than threats.”
He’s counting on his minions not recognizing the distinction.
6 to one half dozen of the other in NYS. As bad as California.
Scmuck tried to justify his remarks by saying Justice Roberts did not say anything to Trump...but trump only said that two heavily biased justices should recuse themselves. The senator’s words went FAR beyond that.
It qualifies as a legal threat...
There are three elements of the offense of making an illegal threat:
(i) there must be a transmission in interstate commerce [Schumer’s words were transmitted by video, radio, blogs].
(ii) there must be a communication containing the threat [Schumer in front of crowd with a microphone and cameras].
(iii) and the threat must be a threat to injure the person of another:
“You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” -Chuck Schumer 3/4/2020
What would “you would pay the price” can a sitting senator do to a sitting Supreme Court Justice? “You will not know what hit you” IS A THREAT and “if you go forward with these awful decisions” is obstruction of justice.
Threats can also sometimes be punished under the statutes criminalizing assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain United States Government officers or employees or assassinating, kidnapping, and assaulting government officials of the United States.
When a threat is made against a judge, it can be considered obstruction of justice [18 U.S.C. § 1503].
You know that arrogant POS will never own up to his comments. Sort of like “Put them against the wall!” doesn’t mean what we all know it means. Right grrrrreta the deprived. Or is that depraved. Probably too young to be depraved.
Schumer, like Pelosi, needs to retire when their current terms are up.
DID HE THREATEN THEM???????
One problem here is that RBG and Sotomayor both made recent comments and heavily criticized the President....in an insulting sort of way. They didn’t threaten him....nor did his comeback threaten them.
Maybe we should use the Obama-beer-on-back-porch trick, and just have RBG, Sotomayor, Chuck and President Trump just meet up and sip some Tab soda or ice tea. I’m sure that will resolve everything. /sarcasm off/
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