The U.S. Department of Justice has effectively been elevated to the level of a fourth branch of the Federal government. This idea that a President can be prosecuted by an executive branch department that is subject entirely to his authority as President is nonsense. It's the equivalent of giving a corporate legal counsel the power to bypass a company's board of directors and fire the CEO.
The U.S. will not be long for this world if this isn't fixed -- and soon.
-PJ
A president does control the DoJ by authority, they have just been reluctant to assert that power, Trump included. Political pressure, primarily in the threat of impeachment, in order to give the DoJ the appearance of independence, is primarily why. When you find the combination of a president willing to stand up to congress, along with an issue that keeps the pressure on congress by the American public, maybe it will change, but it could still be for just that one instance.
Excellent point.
Even if that is fixed we still have a problem: if the Democrats win back the House, they can (and will) refuse to certify a Trump win on January 6, 2025.
The Republicans could have refused to certify Biden’s “win” 1/6/2021, but three things stopped them:
1) Mike Pence was too much of a pussy
2) The Jan 6 Fedsurrection was engineered to interrupt the process.
3) The Republican House was full of RINOs… who knows how they would have voted.
The Democrats will not have any of those obstacles. VP Harris and House Democrats will be a united front. There will be no fedsurrection to interrupt the vote - and Trump’s win will not be certified.
We MUST hold onto the House and even pick up some seats to account for RINOs.
And this is EXACTLY what Watergate was all about. A man who won 61% of the popular vote and 520 electoral votes, but who crossed the Deep State once too often - including mentioning "the Dallas business" on tape regarding his tormentors - he had to go.
He's lucky they let him live.