Posted on 10/09/2016 11:43:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf
There is no way to sugarcoat this: At Sunday night’s presidential debate, Donald Trump threatened to throw Hillary Clinton in jail if he wins the presidency. This — threatening to jail one’s political opponents — is how democratic norms die.
The exchange happened during a discussion of the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Trump began by decrying Clinton’s conduct — which, according to the FBI, was quite bad but not illegal. He then proposed appointing a special prosecutor to investigate her, and warned Clinton that, if he were president now, “you’d be in jail”:
TRUMP: I'll tell you what. I didn't think I'd say this, and I'm going to say it, and hate to say it: If I win, I'm going to instruct the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there's never been so many lies, so much deception … A very expensive process, so we're going to get a special prosecutor because people have been, their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you've done. And it's a disgrace, and honestly, you ought to be ashamed.
(SNIP)
This is so far beyond normal that it’s hard to even know where to start.
In democracies, we respect people’s rights to disagree with each other. When one candidate wins a presidential election, the loser returns to private life or another government position. In some cases, former rivals become close friends. George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who defeated Bush in the 1992 election, travel together and have spent decades jointly raising money to aid the victims of natural disasters.
They don’t get sent to jail, because we believe that political disagreement should be legal.
Donald Trump doesn’t seem to care about all that.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Trump ENFORCING THE LAWS is a threat to Democracy, but Clinton being above the law, and untouchable for her many crimes is not??
George Orwell must be laughing his ass off in his grave about all this DoubleThink...
Failing to prosecute Hillary would be a failure of the rule of law.
Thank God we are not a democracy.
They always start with the big lie. Gotta catch it early: In fact, Comey said her actions were clearly illegal and that if anyone else did them, they'd be arrested.
Game, set match.
Meanwhile, on CNN, they are explaining, using DEMOCRAT SPOKESPEOLPE, of course, how Donald Trump LOST the debate....
This is absolutely Orwellian
Lot of the leftists are spinning this.
Obama refuses to appoint an independent counsel to investigate his own administration.
We question that and WE are the ones who aren’t serious about protecting our laws and democracy?
Obama/Clinton put Nixon to shame. They should dig up his body and apologize.
Deliberate publishing of above top secret (or any classified) information is treason, punishable by death, and there is no statute of limitation.
He said he would hire a special prosecutor. What don’t they get. Equating it to throwing one’s political opponents in jail is so childish.
And they say it while ignoring Hillary’s use of FBI files and the IRS to go after her political opponents? Incredible.
Meanwhile, VOX JUST changed the headline of Ezra Kline’s article from
“Donald Trump is running for dictator, not for president”
to
“Donald Trump confirmed our worst fears about the kind of president he would be”
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/9/13222826/donald-trump-debate-clinton-jail-dictator
Democracy is two imams and woman deciding who gets the clitorectomy.
You dumb liberal b!tches should keep that in mind before voting for the whore of islam.
Wasnt the left calling for Bush to be arrested on war crimes?
He said he would have a special persecutor to investigate her.
This guy is a dumbass. A special prosecutor isn't going to be appointed because she was his opponent in an election. It is because SHE BROKE THE LAW !!!
And W saying “We need to move on” and didn’t go after the crooked Clintons is when I knew I shouldn’t have voted for him.
In our “democratic republic” people are tried and, if found guilty either go to jail or are executed. That’s how it’s lasted for so long. So, this author is an idiot.
Idiots .. Trump said, “You’d be in jail” .. HE DIDN’T SAY HE PERSONALLY WAS GOING TO PUT HER IN JAIL.
THESE MEDIA PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID.
Shhhh....you are not supposed to remember anything that happened so long ago. That requires logic and a brain, things the left think we do not have.
LOL
George Bush’s number one early failure was to take a pass on going after the Clinton crime syndicate.
Lols Vox.
If your political opponent is a criminal, they should go to jail. Ask just about any Illinois governor of any political stripe.
#lockherup
Axelrod is a card carrying communist.
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