It's shocking to read some Chinese applauding "jail Hillary," - if you like dictator, why come here? ###### Taking a page straight out of the Kremlin political playbook, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said that if elected he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate, prosecute and jail his political opponent Hillary Clinton. The threat violates virtually every more of American politics and democracy hearkening to brutal dictatorships like Russia. The threat came as part of his response on her so-called email scandal (a faux scandal in which Republicans in Congress have completely exonerated Clinton of any wrongdoing). Trump said: If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. There has never been so many lies, so much exception.There has never been anything like it. We will have a special prosecutor. I go out and speak and the people of this country are furious. The long time workers at the FBI are furious. There has never been anything like this with emails. You get a subpoena and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails and acid wash them or bleach them. An expensive process. We will get a special prosecutor and look into it. You know what, people have been—their lives have been destroyed for doing one-fifth of what you have done. You should be ashamed.
When allowed to respond, Clinton said: Everything he said is absolutely false. It would be impossible to be fact checking Donald all the time. I would never get to talk and make lives better for people. Once again, go to Hillaryclinton.com. You can fact check Trump in realtime. Last time at the first debate we had millions of people fact checking and we will have millions more fact checking. It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.
To which Trump threatened, “Because you would be in jail.” This is the point we’ve reached as a nation where a political candidate threatens – during an active election cycle – to jail his opposition. Former Attorney General Eric Holder expressed his abhorrence of the comments on Twitter saying, “So will ORDER his AG to take certain actions-When Nixon tried that his AG courageously resigned. Trump is dangerous/unfit.” Threatening to jail a political opponent who has not committed or been convicted of a crime is a direct assault on democracy, full stop. More frighteningly, it aligns with his earlier statements threatening to take other unconstitutional actions including gutting the First Amendment to censor the press. Moreover, Putin actually engaged in this exact sort of political maneuver in Ukraine after installing a new president and having his political opponent jailed. As Zack Beauchamp at Vox succinctly put it: This is everything we feared about Donald Trump. His long history of trying to silence critics with lawsuits, his inability to let personal slights go, his pettiness: The nightmare scenario is that these would incline him to use the power of the presidency to forcibly silence his critics and opponents. That’s what is done by tin-pot dictators spanning the globe from North Korea to Zimbabwe. That’s what happens in countries where peaceful transitions of power are the exception, not the rule. Donald Trump just threatened to bring that to America.
Once again Trump has shown us just how much he admires Putin. He admires him so much he’d turn the United States into a hard line dictatorship that jails political opposition – an act that would literally begin the dissolution of our democracy. http://www.peacock-panache.com/2016/10/trump-jail-clinton-25192.html |
