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Conrad Black: Trump Indictment Puts America on Threshold of Losing its Democracy
National Post ^ | Apr 04, 2023 | Conrad Black

Posted on 04/04/2023 3:20:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway

It is time for America to begin the recovery of its once-admired system of justice

The indictment of President Trump effectively announces that the United States, as a society of laws, completes the process of corruption of its legal system that began with the bloodless crucifixion of Richard Nixon. And it arrives at the threshold of completing the deconstruction of its democracy.

Fifty-one years after the forced entry at the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate building in Washington, there is still no conclusive evidence that President Nixon committed a crime, though some of his followers did. The articles of impeachment that were approved by the House of Representatives judiciary committee and which aroused such intense antipathy to the president, are bunk and always were.

Nixon was accused of having “made it his policy … directly and through his close subordinates to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation” and of having “endeavored” to misuse the IRS and other agencies (not that he had actually done so) to violate the constitutional rights of other citizens.

There was a third, even more absurd charge that he had impeded the impeachment proceedings by non-compliance with subpoenas, which he did comply with (this would have been rejected). Two other counts were so outlandish, they were voted down by the committee even in the febrile atmosphere that then prevailed.

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1 posted on 04/04/2023 3:20:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

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2 posted on 04/04/2023 3:22:39 PM PDT by gattaca (Either you will control your government, or government will control you. Ronald Reagan)
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To: nickcarraway

These are state charges that occurred before he was president. Trump does not have immunity from the law. The these charges stick, he’s in big trouble.


3 posted on 04/04/2023 3:23:14 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: DownInFlames
The these charges stick, he’s in big trouble.

How can the statute of limitations not run out? He never fled the jurisdiction, everyone knew where he was.

4 posted on 04/04/2023 3:24:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: DownInFlames

Statute of Limitations has to count for something


5 posted on 04/04/2023 3:24:25 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: nickcarraway

No recovery is possible - it’s finished.


6 posted on 04/04/2023 3:24:48 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: DownInFlames

No there aren’t.


7 posted on 04/04/2023 3:25:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: nickcarraway

Only reason that may happen is because of voter complacency.

That is the ONLY reason we are dealing with what we are dealing with.

All the RINOs, UNIPARTY hacks, ballot harvesting, Mail in voting, etc etc etc, could vanish tomorrow if voters took the time to see and pay attention to who they were voting for and NOT allow the RNC and state/local GOPs to pick their candidates for them.

Stop falling for the....If you don’t vote for Republican Sh*tbag, who’s been stabbing you in the back for years, the Democrat will win.


8 posted on 04/04/2023 3:26:24 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: DownInFlames
You forgot to bleat "No one is above the law."

Didn't you get your copy of the DNC talking points?
9 posted on 04/04/2023 3:28:57 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: nickcarraway

What democracy?


10 posted on 04/04/2023 3:30:02 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: nickcarraway

For crying out loud:It’s a Constitutional Republic.


11 posted on 04/04/2023 3:32:10 PM PDT by cowboyusa (IT'S TIME TO PLAY COWBOYS AND MARXISTS!)
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To: wardamneagle

Thank you. This is destroying the Republic and ushering in a democracy, which is mob rule.


12 posted on 04/04/2023 3:32:42 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: nickcarraway
it arrives at the threshold of completing the deconstruction of its democracy.

the threshold is already in the rear-view mirror and receding quickly.

13 posted on 04/04/2023 3:36:31 PM PDT by PGR88
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And it lost what it really was supposed to be; A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, several years ago.


14 posted on 04/04/2023 3:38:38 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: DownInFlames

Seven years beyond the statue of limitation


15 posted on 04/04/2023 3:40:02 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: DownInFlames

Actually, the charges are not.


16 posted on 04/04/2023 3:41:10 PM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t think this guy gets it.

This is exactly what Democracy looks like.

License, anarchy, agitation, discontent. Mobocracy.

There’s a reason Democracy isn’t mentioned, not even once, in any of the founding documents.


17 posted on 04/04/2023 3:43:57 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: cowboyusa; HYPOCRACY

You beat me to it.

I’m getting tired of people who should know better tossing, around the word Democracy to describe what the USA is supposed to be.

It irritates me as much as when people ‘on our side’ call them “Liberals” when they are actually leftists.


18 posted on 04/04/2023 3:44:29 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: nickcarraway

Democracy dies with Democrats.

Donald John Trump is a Threat to Kleptocracy.


19 posted on 04/04/2023 3:46:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: nickcarraway

Remember folks, it’s us they’re after.


20 posted on 04/04/2023 3:47:20 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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