Opinion: Holding Trump Accountable Is the First Step to Unrigging the System

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David Rothkopf

Let us start with the plain facts, please.

The president of the United States has not reached a settlement with the United States government regarding the IRS release of his files. There was no case to be settled. A judge was about to throw it out. The case they asserted existed was meritless. The president was effectively on both sides of the issue, seeking to use a fabricated claim of harm as leverage in a negotiation with himself.

Nor is an element of that settlement an agreement between the president and the Department of Justice to refrain from every prosecuting the president for any issue pertaining to his taxes, those of his family and those of their businesses.

They assert there is such an agreement. But that “agreement” is wholly illegal. Asserting that there is such an agreement, that it is enforceable, and then enforcing it is an act of self-dealing and of violating the oaths of office of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Trump himself.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/opinion-holding-trump-accountable-first-200610673.html

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1. GET RID OF THEM!!!!

[dweller]

2. Link to Rothkopf substack

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-cant-fix-america-unless-we-hold



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[Skittles]

3. repukes started a war based on lies and were never held accountable

we were told to "look forward"

being held accountable? I'll believe that ONLY WHEN I SEE IT.

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4. Accountability isn't a priority. Never has been.

I heard all kinds of rhetoric after Trump's first term about his being an existential threat to Democracy. When the power was in the hands of Democrats who had a majority in both houses and the white house between 2021 and 2023, justice wasn't a priority. We got an infrastructure bill and an inflation bill, and some other necessary and good things. But bringing Trump to justice was not anywhere close to the priority that was hinted at by all of the rhetoric of "existential threat to Democracy." If he was that, and they believed it, he'd have been eliminated as such when they had the power to do it.

Instead we had milquetoast Merrick as attorney general, a foot dragging mediocrity who got the position as a consolation prize. We got a rousing, evidence-packed, highly publicized Congressional investigation delivering a mountain of evidence and then................................

David Hogg has a good thing going over at Leaders We Deserve. That's my way of holding feet to the fire, to elect Democrats who are not afraid to be bold, take risks and use their power to end this nightmare. Seems to be working as the primaries move forward.

As an Illinois voter, I was happy to see a little bit of fire from Dick Durbin this past week. It's about time.