One thing I don't understand is why no-one can figure how to either impeach the vile moron or drag him in front of a civil or criminal court... Once he is forced to testify about anything he will contradict himself in minutes and lie under oath in seconds and put in the slammer... It really must be a weak justice system you have if none of the myriad things he has done has lead to nothing - there must be plenty of people who truly hate him.
So, to impeach him, the House has to start the proceedings. The House is made up of a majority of Republicans right now, they either fear or worship him and so they will not start the proceedings. Plus, the Senate is held by a majority of Republicans and once impeached by the House, they have to send it to the Senate and they have to vote to convict him and thus punish him. The Republicans in the Senate won't do that. This is why when he was impeached twice in his first term as president it was primarily symbolic. The House was then controlled by Democrats, so they impeached him, but both times it was sent to a Republican controlled Senate and the Senate in both cases voted not to convict giving various excuses. On smaller and simpler things where they know they should break ranks with Trump they don't. They will complain, they will say something is bad, many admitted the tariffs are bad, many admitted the Big Beautiful Bill was bad, many said killing Medicare was bad, but in the end, after complaining, they fall in line. It is all they will do. They will give a weak protest, say they don't like something, then revert to "Well, I know it is bad BUT the president should always get whatever he asks for." unless of course, the president is a Democrat, then they should get nothing they ask for.
Since Trump took office the first time, our country has been at the mercy of Republicans, and under Trump they decided, there is just one rule, do whatever Trump says. Were the country to be saved from Trump, it would be saved by Republicans that actually grew a spine and stood up to Trump. This has never happened. They fold every time.
It is why this Epstein thing is interesting because "the base" that supports Trump, which is less than a third of our population, also generally never breaks from whatever Trump says, no matter how stupid or ridiculous it is...but on this Epstein story, some of the base is breaking from Trump. That does give the Republicans in the House and Senate an opening to also break from Trump. Will they? Honestly, I don't hold out any hope of that, but what we can see is more than any other story, more than anything else Trump has done, doing an open cover-up to protect child molesters...this is causing his base to crack, and putting elected Republicans in a difficult spot. They have to ask, "Do we protect and help cover-up for child molesters?"
So far, some have said "Absolutely! We absolutely want to protect child molesters if they are on our side! Our child molesters should walk free and molest all the children they want! We only want to prosecute child molesters if they are not Republicans."
Others are saying "I'm not sure I can help the president protect and let child molesters get away with it."
And the final group of elected Republicans they just do what they always do try to say nothing at all and never get in front of a reporter asking questions.
On our justice system and Trump, well, I could write for some time. But let's simplify it to this, the Republican justices on our Supreme Court ruled that the POTUS is essentially entirely above the law. Richard Nixon once said, and it has long been a Republican held theory, that if the president does it, it is not illegal. Basically, the Supreme Court changed that from theory to current law of the land.
The goal of Republicans was to somehow get that theory in front of the Supreme Court, while it was controlled by Republican judges, and they did. So, to just really make this easy, the Supreme Court has ruled that while a person is president, EVERYTHING they do is protected. So, Trump's example "I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue." well, yes he could do that and get away with it. Theory being, if the president deems he must do it, he can do it. This is why in the comical nonsense about charging Barack Obama with going after Trump's 2016 election, Trump himself openly admits that Obama CAN'T be prosecuted for that. Because, according to what the Supreme Court ruled, if Obama felt he had to torpedo Trump's campaign with made up crap about Russia, TOTALLY FINE AND LEGAL. Back to Nixon, if the president does it, it is not illegal.
Trump is not saying Obama broke the law because he wants Obama arrested, oh no, he is saying Obama interfered with an election so I can too! Obama did not, but Trump, Patel and Gabbard are all trying to pretend he did, BECAUSE THEY INTEND TO DO THIS IN ALL FUTURE ELECTIONS.
This is where we are at. Trump is basically saying "I have every right to rig elections and will do so."
The Obama nonsense is meant to be his permission slip to do it, not actually a way to prosecute Obama.
According to the Supreme Court, if we want to charge a president, we must do it through impeachment. We can't impeach him, because Republicans will not impeach, even if he shoots someone on Fifth Avenue, or molests children. If the president does it, it is not illegal.
Will the fact that Trump is, and wants to protect fellow child molesters break through and sway his base? No idea, but we can see it is having more impact than anything else has.
