DOJ Must Prosecute Trump Or Else Nothing Matters Anymore

Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe has written a new op-ed calling for the US Department of Justice to prosecute Donald Trump. If this doesn't happen, Tribe argues, the rule of law in the United States is effectively meaningless. He isn't wrong, and the DOJ has an obligation to make sure that Trump is held accountable for his most egregious offenses. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Harvard law professor Lawrence tribe recently penned an op-ed calling for the United States department of justice to prosecute Donald Trump or Hey, at the very least investigate what Donald Trump did to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election. And in an interview with Chauncey to Vega from salon.com. Tribe mentioned that if the DOJ does not do this, then what's the point. If they don't do this, there is no rule of law in the unit knighted states. He says, essentially, if they don't do this, nothing really matters. And it's all just pretend, which by the way, is something I've been saying for months. Now, the DOJ has an obligation as the nation's top law enforcement agency, to look into the claims that Donald Trump had considered using the military to stay in power, that his friends at the DOJ were actively trying to get states to overturn their election [inaudible] that he wanted, you know, based on the phone calls, we know that he made to Brad RAF Hunsberger down there in the state of Georgia

Telling them,

Just go find the votes, take care of this, handle this. Yeah, that all seems like the kind of thing that should warrant a federal investigation. And I know we've got grand juries in panel down there in the state of Georgia looking into this, but we don't have action on the federal level because Merrick Garland attorney general, apparently just doesn't seem too concerned about it. Oh, let's just let the states handle it. No, these are things that the federal government needs to do because the public needs to have their faith in these institutions restored because if you don't do it,

This and this is coming from experience. Things are going to get worse. When the Obama administration came into office, we

Had plenty of evidence of war crimes committed and condoned by the very top of the former Bush administers the torture memo from John, you Alberto Gonzales signing off on these torture methods. We had them cold and we could have prosecuted them. Then we could have taken a bold stance and said, this is not how things operate. We're going to make sure that nothing like this happens again. We're going to prosecute you. We're not going to let you people go free. And we're going to send a message to the rest of the country, to future politicians that you can't get away with doing whatever the hell you want when you're the president of the United States. But instead attorney general, Eric Holder with Obama backing him said, we're going to look forward, not backwards. That is specifically what they said with regard to why they weren't going to prosecute the Bush administration.

So what happened there? Things got worse. The Republican party got more extreme and that is what helped give us Donald Trump. So if we do not take his threat to our country, seriously, if he is not held accountable in some way, way for what he did, then we're opening up the door to something even worse. And that's something even worse could be in the form of a second Trump term, where he does decide to go at a step further. Even though he'd be term limited, maybe he decided, you know what, I'm not ready to leave. Maybe there's too much of an emergency here in the United States. And I'm just going to use the military. We don't know how all this ends folks, but what we have seen from history of the United States in just the last 20 years is that if there is no accountability, things, always these

Get worse

And I'm not willing to take that chance again. But unfortunately I'm not in a position to do anything about it. The DOJ is, and Merrick Garland has an obligation to this country, to his oath of office,

To at least

Look into some of these potential crimes that Trump mm Hmm. Pretty obviously committed.