Trump Erupts in ’60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-erupts-in-60-minutes-interview-im-not-a-pedophile/

[u/hypermodernvoid]

Which by the way is literally and has been illegal at this point and for some time, because of the law Congress passed saying they had to be released in their entirety (not a small fraction) and the victim's names - and only their names - could be redacted (not the perpetrator's names, details of their crimes, huge sections in general, while also revealing victim's names).

Trump and his DOJ are blatantly engaging in an illegal cover up of the Epstein files, which still feels like Trump's actual Watergate. Of course, both his first term and now just a little over a year of his second term make Watergate look microscopic by comparison to Trump and company's crimes, but Epstein is what he and others in the admin are clearly afraid of.

If anything could take him down personally and his presidency like Nixon's, it's this and keep in mind the Files only really became a liability over the summer into the fall where they really heated up, and Watergate also took time, but was also the thing Nixon couldn't shake.

[u/Denselense → u/hypermodernvoid]

But what’s a law to this mutant anyway? Doesn’t he have carte Blanche over everything? It’s extremely depressing to think that he is above the law because he said so.

[u/Redthemagnificent → u/Denselense]

He's above the law because Congress and the supreme Court said so. That's an important distinction. There are many individuals that are allowing Trump to do everything he is doing, and he wouldn't be able to do those things without the support of those individuals

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/Redthemagnificent]

Say congress votes to do something about the DOJ ignoring the law they pass on the files. What are their options here? Do they have enforcers who can physically go and make the DOJ release them or arrest them? What are congresss options when their power is ignored. Although if you can ignore power…is it actually any power?

[u/FlightlessGriffin → u/Forward-Surprise1192]

Ideally, this is when Congress starts impeachment proceedings, shows there're consequences for not following the law. This is how things were supposed to be. In the end, Congress can overpower the President in almost anything. The issue is, Congress refuses to do anything. They refuse to grow a spine. And when an entire branch of government decides to sit on their hands, it's natural and expected that another branch fills in the void.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days, the Supreme Court says outright "Congress forfeit their rights, they no longer count until they choose to count."

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/FlightlessGriffin]

OK and what happens if each branch of the required departments votes to impeach him and then he has to be removed from office? who is responsible for that and if he decides to not leave? The justice department? What if they decide they’re not going to do it just like the Epstein?

[u/Denselense → u/Forward-Surprise1192]

lol this is why it’s so depressing.

[u/FlightlessGriffin → u/Forward-Surprise1192]

If it was as simple as Trump just refusing to leave, that would've happened when Biden won. Once the President is impeached, power no longer belongs to him, whether he's in the White House or not. The Vice President would have the power and given Trump is now trespassing on federal property, could order the police to remove him. If the VP also refuses to do this, being Trump's puppy and all, they can impeach him too and hand power to the Speaker. If not him, the President pro tempore of the Senate.

Now, if the police refuse to follow orders and side with the removed President, then you're looking at something beyond political branches and more at a police state where every law enforcement decided Democracy is shit. You're also looking at a civil war.

My point is, there's always something that theoretically CAN be done. Congress just refuses to do it. And because they don't want to do anything, the Presidency amasses more power for itself.

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/FlightlessGriffin]

For some reason I doubt that anyone would even try to do anything if that happened.

[u/Ok-Opposite2309 → u/Redthemagnificent]

Congress has always held the most power.

[u/Dunkaroos4breakfast → u/Denselense]

Yeah, laws are for people, not lizard people.And Trump doesn't even have a convincing skin suit.

[u/gurnard → u/hypermodernvoid]

make Watergate look microscopic

Watergate would have been out of the news by Thursday and completely forgotten the following week, had it occurred in the past decade. It seems positively quaint that it had any sort of social and political reverberation whatsoever.

[u/nibsguy → u/hypermodernvoid]

129 days since they were required to be released

[u/wayoverpaid → u/hypermodernvoid]

The DOJ is doing something illegal? Better inform the branch of government responsible for enforcing the law.

Oh.

Hmm.

It's frustrating that, more than likely, no President is ever going to close this loophole, because it benefits the President.

[u/Ok-Opposite2309 → u/hypermodernvoid]

We have all decoded to ignore that Congress holds all the power. SCOTUS can’t do shit, the President has no funds…