Comment on Can Trump pardon himself even though he did criminal stuff outside of office?

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Right? Who is gonna stop him from doing whatever the fuck he wants?

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  • Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The American Constitution will stop him doing a lot of things people are scared of.

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    • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The American Constitution says that Presidents can’t accept gifts from any foreign source, and that has been interpreted in the past as a general prohibition on Presidents operating in any capacity in any private enterprise. Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust.

      Not only was Donald Trump allowed to circumvent this during his first term, retaining ownership of his businesses and nominally putting his kids in charge while they pursued foreign deals, but today Trump is waist deep in Crypto, and owns a majority share of a publicly traded company whose ticker is his initials. Foreigners can (and likely do) shovel money into both. Do you think anyone will ask him to divest, like the Constitution requires him to?

      The Constitution is useless unless it is enforced. It relies on checks and balances between competing branches, and right now they are broken. The only checks on Presidential power is the military (whose oath is to rhe Constitution, not to any one President) and the individual states (who retain all powers not explicitly given to the Federal government).

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No it won’t.

      The poster above had it right. The law only works if the will of the people make it work. Same applies to the Constitution.

      Public schools in the bible belt have been teaching creationism and putting the ten commandments in their classrooms. Do you think the New Order we just elected are going to go out of their way to enforce the Constitution and make them stop doing things like that?

      Be prepared for FLAGRANT violations of the Constitution in the coming years. I mean come on, the guy we just elected illegally attempted to overturn the last election and is a convicted felon.

      It’s over. America lost.

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    • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Constitution is just words on paper. Meaningless unless taken seriously and enforced by people. What people can enforce it now?

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  • Alice@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    nice username

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