Quote:Donald Trump and his allies have begun mapping out specific plans for using the federal government to punish critics and opponents should he win a second term, with the former president naming individuals he wants to investigate or prosecute and his associates drafting plans to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.

In private, Trump has told advisers and friends in recent months that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff, John Kelly, and former attorney general William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, according to people who have talked to him, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. Trump has also talked of prosecuting officials at the FBI and Justice Department, a person familiar with the matter said.

In public, Trump has vowed to appoint a special prosecutor to “go after” President Biden and his family. The former president has frequently made corruption accusations against them that are not supported by available evidence.

Critics have called such ideas dangerous and unconstitutional.

“It would resemble a banana republic if people came into office and started going after their opponents willy-nilly,” said Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia who studies executive power. “It’s hardly something we should aspire to.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...ziV2HMByAc

(November 5, 2023 at 4:10 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Trump is plotting a dictatorship if he wins the elections

(November 5, 2023 at 9:46 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:

(November 5, 2023 at 4:10 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Trump is plotting a dictatorship if he wins the elections

And, Americans, who are now way way down on the educational world list, need to learn things the hard way. 
They apparently will need to learn this the hard way. Am planning to move, when he is elected, to Canada. 
This may actually happen. Sorry to say. But the West Coast of Canada is not so bad. Americans are really really stupid.

(November 5, 2023 at 10:35 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(November 5, 2023 at 9:46 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: And, Americans, who are now way way down on the educational world list, need to learn things the hard way. 
They apparently will need to learn this the hard way. Am planning to move, when he is elected, to Canada. 
This may actually happen. Sorry to say. But the West Coast of Canada is not so bad. Americans are really really stupid.

Apparently so (learning things the hard way).

I already have legal residency and a home in Mexico.   I don't know what's going to happen but I'm running out of reasons to spend any time in the USA.