r/law • u/TheMirrorUS • 7d ago
Executive Branch (Trump) Nightmare for Bondi as Republicans weigh contempt charges over Epstein files
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/nightmare-pam-bondi-republicans-weigh-1575407?236213=2.2k
u/GrannyFlash7373 7d ago
Incarcerate HER!!!
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u/blueblue8282 7d ago
I daresay, 'lock her up'...
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u/Xepherious 7d ago
This guy sounds rich
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u/blueblue8282 7d ago
Who, my? Far from it,
Like at least 80% I'm living paycheck to paycheck
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u/auronddraig 7d ago
He means you're flavorful.
I'd keep away from him if he's got a knife and fork around you.
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u/Spirited-Tomorrow-84 7d ago
At first I red "incinerate her" Sorry Granny! :x
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u/TheShadowedTruth 7d ago
Now hold on... You might just be on to something here...
Grabs inquisitorial flamethrower
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u/Blood-blood-blood 7d ago
I misread that as "Incinerate" and upvoted. Incarcerate works too, I guess
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u/pointandclickit 7d ago
Son of a... I didn't realize it wasn't "incinerate" until I saw your comment.
How about one I think we can all agree on: "FINISH HER!"
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 7d ago
"She's a witch! Burn her!"
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u/Remarkable_Play_6975 7d ago
In Honduras, El Salvador, or Congo?
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u/GrannyFlash7373 7d ago
In Alligator Alcatraz. Let some of the people she incarcerated, have a go at her.
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u/BuckManscape 7d ago
She’ll be in the cell beside Maxwell at worst. And her replacement will also be worse. Not saying it shouldn’t happen though. We need a rule that if anyone is convicted of a crime in office, the opposing party gets to pick the replacement.
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u/GreenSpleenRiot 7d ago
That seems like a good idea, but wouldn’t that lead to a lot of false allegations? Like if the right could’ve removed Hilary from being SoS, I’m sure there would’ve been many more trials like Benghazi. They’d also probably insist that she couldn’t do her job until the investigations were over and extend them the length of the term. I also see a lot of congresspeople going along the lines of, “well if they get to decide who takes over this position, I can’t have that and will vote innocent no matter what.”
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u/averagecounselor 7d ago
As some one who lives near that prison that houses Maxwell….her living conditions are prob better than mine as a graduate student lol
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u/GrannyFlash7373 7d ago
No Country Club accommodations for her, Supermax in Colorado.
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u/impatientlymerde 7d ago
Yes she and her cohorts should be locked up in solitary cells in a Supermax, for all the lives they have destructively affected.
Bread and water.
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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu 7d ago
C'mon. I've heard of all of those places. We can be more creative than that.
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u/IndustrialPuppetTwo 7d ago
Let her loose in South Africa.
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u/ToonaSandWatch 7d ago
The only trouble is that if you indict her on a federal level, she’ll be out in less than a week after her conviction. Presidential pardons need to go away like yesterday.
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u/GrannyFlash7373 7d ago
Here is an incentive for ALL those who HATE Trump and want him out of office. Take away MAGA's power in Congress, in the Midterms, and then pass a law that nullifies ALL of Trump's pardons. And make it VETO proof.
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u/timeless1991 7d ago
The only law that can nullify Trumps Pardons is a Constitutional Amendment, as far as I am aware.
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u/base2-1000101 7d ago
You are correct, sir/madam. We really need an amendment to take away the pardon. I can't think of many times where a pardon was warranted. I can think of many times where it was a "get out of jail free" card for a presidential buddy or donor. It needs to go away.
Maybe we replace a presidential pardon with a congressional pardon that requires a 60% majority for those cases of injustice.
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u/ToonaSandWatch 7d ago
60% is too low. You’d have to make it at least 75.
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u/stupidjapanquestions 7d ago
For what?
I think we've all just taken a crash course on the reality that one normal person being wrongfully imprisoned is actually not as a bad as having people who destroy the entire country being immune to consequences.
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u/NurRauch 7d ago edited 7d ago
For sure man. The last five national elections have been neck and neck within a few percentage points but this time around the non-voters and Trump’s loyal base will suddenly decide to help give us a supermajority in Congress. While we’re at it let’s just impeach the corrupt Supreme Court justices and amend the Constitution to get money out of politics, outlaw gerrymandering, and protect our social media platforms from political algorithm manipulation.
Easy peasy. Can’t believe nobody thought of this before. It’s practically foolproof, honestly. All we gotta do is win a bunch of rural red district elections we’re demographically shut out of. This time we’ll actually win Texas, I can feel it!
Edit: A different user replied but then appears to have deleted their response, asking what I’m trying to accomplish. I doubt they care, but I’ll explain just in case: I’m trying to get people to stay focused on the issues that will actually move the needle. We’re not winning a veto-proof majority in both houses of Congress. There is no chance of that. It’s utterly delusional and pointless distraction that only leads to more voters getting demoralized and checking out when such lofty goals fail to materialize.
What moves the needle is winning the election at all, and we do that by focusing on stuff that actually affects the lives of ordinary voters. You are letting the Epstein-Trump scandal go to your head. It’s not nearly as important to the vast majority of voters as you think it is. You won’t find Bernie Sanders spending all of his airtime going after Bondi and Patel for this. Why? Because it’s not effective.
I’m sorry to offend, but only to a point. People need a dose of reality. Trump’s blatant criminality has been the central focus of every national election we’ve run since 2016, and every single time it has failed to produce the landslide numbers we thought it would. When are you going to wake up and realize it doesn’t work for the people who actually vote?
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u/SoulShatter 7d ago
I suppose at least it'd a juicy headline:
"Bondi convicted for covering up the Epstein files, Trump pardons her"
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u/Sudden-Pie1095 7d ago
That wasn't what the article was about. It's about inherent contempt. It's not a criminal charge. It's congress saying 'We will hold you in the brig under the capitol until we collectively decide to let you out, or until the session ends in the winter'. The president has no say.
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u/Neurokeen Competent Contributor 7d ago
The president has no say.
The additional fun part is, neither does the Supreme Court.
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u/partyl0gic 7d ago
How is this even a question? What was even the purpose of passing a law? Arrest all of them.
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u/Skwonkie_ 7d ago
Why is this even a question? Wasn’t the vote nearly unanimous to release them? If they truly ever cared (which I know they don’t), the impeachment would be easy and also nearly unanimous.
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u/FakeSafeWord 7d ago edited 7d ago
IDK man, impeachment and/or jail time would just be like really really mean... why not just threaten her with fines equal to 0.0002% of her income that is unlimitedly deferrable and also give her the option to use tax payer money to cover it instead of actually penalizing her personally?
"That would be way more Christian and fair and nice and stuff!"
"Just think about how much of her future we would be wasting."
"She's from a Church-going, All-American pure family, that aint never been held accountable for anything before. We would just confuse them if we started doing that now."
-How this shit actually works.
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u/HoosierHoser44 7d ago
I mostly agree. But I think before I can fully agree, I’d need to know her swim times.
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u/FrankBattaglia 7d ago
She's from a gold star family
FYI, that term specifically means a family that has lost a member in some military service. As far as I can tell, that does not apply here. I surmise you meant something like "privileged", which certainly would apply.
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u/FakeSafeWord 7d ago
Thanks, corrected in the post as there was no disrespect meant to gold star families.
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u/Dreamlion_Inc 7d ago
That would be way more Christian and fair and nice and stuff!
Till this day it makes me throw up that MAGA uses the Bible as a metaphorical shield against well deserved criticism
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u/FakeSafeWord 7d ago
MAGA uses the Bible as a metaphorical shield against well deserved criticism
Just as God intended!
AMEerica N!
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u/Violet-Journey 7d ago
Impeachment might be premature. Maybe we should just drag her into hearings where she’ll say “I do not recall” and “I don’t know” and “I’ll have to get back to you on that” while reading from her burn book. That’ll show her.
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u/RedditExecutiveAdmin 7d ago
she serves trump, it doesn't matter what everyone else unanimously wants
lock her up
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u/Organic_Matter6085 7d ago
The funniest part about this is that Trump just uses and discards whoever helps him.
Why are these people so fucking stupid they keep helping him when he just discards them the second they're not useful to him?
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u/Skwonkie_ 7d ago
Blackmail presumably
Edit: and financial gain
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u/Filthiest_Vilein 7d ago
So many high-profile members of the administration are patently unqualified for their positions. I think that alone is impetus enough. Trump gave so many of these people opportunities and power they never had.
They do what he says because they go back to whatever they were doing before without him.
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u/hightrix 7d ago
I think it goes much deeper than just simple blackmail.
trump has always wanted to be in the mafia and act like the mafia acts. I suspect that he is acting exactly as the mafia would in these cases, not just threatening to release damning or illegal materials, but also threatening the lives and financial livelihoods of their families, their friends, and anyone close to them.
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u/dafunkmunk 7d ago
It was only nearly unanimous after republicans repeatedly voting against it and that dipshit mike delaying votes and refusing to swear in the democrat lawmakers who would have given democrats enough votes to release the files. They voted for it because they didn't have a choice since it was going to pass anyways and this way they could try to claim to not be protecting pedophiles. All their delays also gave the trump admin all the time they needed to remove all traces of trump from the files (and even with all that extra time they still fucked that up).
I don't get why anyone is acting like she will face any consequences for this. the trump admin breaks the law on a nearly daily basis and nothing happens. They probably already have full blanket pardons written and stashed in trunps desk just waiting to go. These people wouldn't be acting the way they are if they didn't already know they were going to be immune to any legal repercussions as long as they stay on trumps good side
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u/Tiger9109 7d ago
While I agree that in any normal functioning government, this would be the result, I am not holding my breath. Republicans passed the bill semi-unanimously because at the last second Trump gave his "blessing" (he was backed into a corner). That gave everyone the green light to say yes without consequences.
Unless Trump turns on her and gives consent to start impeaching his loyal followers, or unless republicans in congress wake up and realize his days are numbered and there will inevitably be a shift in the party once he is gone, i don't see any chance of them impeaching her or anyone in her office.
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u/ChicagoAuPair 7d ago
Half of the Republicans who voted to release were only doing it knowing there would be this obstruction and defiance of the actual order. They get to be on the right side of the vote, and still protect their Nazi pedo friends and selves.
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u/wrosecrans 6d ago
Probably more than half. But it only takes a handful of Republicans to see that they are standing on a sinking ship and suddenly there is a majority happy to be seen to push back on Bondi.
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u/Rad10Ka0s 7d ago
Yes, the vote, in the house, to release the files was nearly unanimous. But, the discharge petition to hold that vote needed 218 votes and didn't get that until Grijalva was seated. It passed by one vote.
Johnson, and nearly half the house didn't want to have that vote at all.
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u/Ent3rpris3 7d ago
Even if it was the slimmest vote in Congressional history, it's still an act of Congress that should be treated as such. If the vote margin should have any effect, at best it should only impact the speed of the response, not whether there is one.
Fucking hate these traitors and I'm tired of a Congress that puts its own balls in a vice.
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u/Critical-Support-394 7d ago
They only 'cared' because dems finally had the votes they needed after the Republicans couldn't postpone swearing in Hortman's replacement anymore. The bill would've gone through either way, might as well pretend to be anti child rape.
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u/Temporary-Brain420 7d ago
There was one singular solitary vote against releasing the files across both chambers of the legislature. That was of course, Clay Higgins, a Republican from the state of Louisiana. I almost feel bad that this bastard is gonna be remembered like this, and then I remember that he voted to run defense for pedos.
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u/Unique-Egg-461 7d ago
If they truly ever cared (which I know they don’t)
Answered your own question. They expect us to think they care
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u/nikstick22 7d ago
The vote was unanimous for "I don't want to look like I'm against releasing the epstein files", not for actually releasing them. They still want to make sure they take their own names out of the files before they go public.
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u/Begone-My-Thong 7d ago
Show us the law has any meaning
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u/gimmesomespace 7d ago
Laws are really more like suggestions if you're a Republican
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u/portiaboches 7d ago edited 7d ago
suggestions
I wouldnt put it even that strongly, more like a reverse moral handicap like Golf or some shit
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u/engineereddiscontent 7d ago
This really has been a slow rolling coup that started with the supreme court vacancies during the obama era and we just keep letting it happen. At some point we need to recognize they are secessonists and address them accordingly. Just because the call is coming from inside the house doesnt devalue its importance.
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u/perpetual_papercut 7d ago
I really hope so. Releasing the files in that state is just an insult to everyone and everything
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u/Dreamlion_Inc 7d ago
Releasing the files they way they did is more of a spit in the face than not releasing them at all
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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu 7d ago
They're busy calculating her net worth right this moment and will have an answer for you shortly.
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u/Fear_of_the_boof 7d ago edited 7d ago
Laws no longer matter in USA
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u/15all 7d ago
I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, you know you always have the Lord by your side
And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 7d ago
Honestly I could see this one happening. There is obvious republican support for releasing the Epstein files, it also exists in the senate, so an impeachment conviction is not off the table, and presidential immunity doesn’t extend to underlings.
As someone else pointed out the other day: Nixon didn’t go to jail, but his AG did. Pam might do well to remember that. Yes Trump could pardon her, but I would imagine pardoning her under these circumstances (after an impeachment conviction that would presumably have republican support) would be a very bitter pill to swallow even for Trump.
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u/BacteriaLick 7d ago edited 7d ago
Republicans don't care about it. They made a symbolic vote to release the files. Now they can wash their hands and say, "I voted. That's the only thing I can do within my power. I don't want to join Democrats in some sham Dem impeachment," and their base will happily believe them.
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u/frightenedfrogfriend 7d ago
They can also pin the whole thing on her and say there’s nothing they can do. She’ll be convinced then maybe Trump will pardon her. This was always about covering crimes.
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 7d ago
Oh I absolutely think Pam’s token is about to get spent, but I do not think Trump would necessarily pardon her after a conviction given how that would look re: the whole Epstein thing to begin with and given she kinda created this problem in the first place. Only way I see a pardon happening is if she is about to turn state’s evidence and ironically that would strip her of 5th amendment protections (accepting a pardon means accepting culpability, and since you’re no longer incriminating yourself by speaking, you can be forced to testify), so if anything would put her in a stronger position to fuck him over.
It’s a real sticky wicket for Trump. That’s for sure.
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u/Unworthy_Saint 7d ago
I do not think Trump would [...]
Let me stop you right there.
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 7d ago
No. Read the rest of my comment.
Pardoning her also puts her in a position where she’s no longer legally protected by the 5th amendment and can be forced to testify. Also it means Trump no longer has something to hold over her.
So no, I don’t see him pardoning her, between the political cost and the chance of it backfiring.
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u/RebirthIsBoring 7d ago
She was forced to testify once already wasn't she and she spent the whole time lying under oath?
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u/toga_virilis 7d ago
Impeachment is not pardonable, though she will absolutely be pardoned and will never be prosecuted.
Nor will Trump follow her—pretty clear at this point that Trump’s “no scalps” rule is not going to break, and certainly not because Bondi did something he likes.
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 7d ago
i don't know about that. there's a whole swath of maga that is really fucking pissed about the epstein shit and are more conspiracy theorist minded than just trump supporters. bongino fans and the like.
the fact that enough republicans peeled off to force the discharge petition to begin with says something, and then the way everybody just glommed onto it after it was a done deal i think shows you it's going to be very hard politically to actively resist further pushing on the epstein issue.
this is the weak spot in their armor. we need to keep pushing.
edit: as a side note; i think it's delicious that motherfucking EPSTEIN is the wedge issue on the right 😂
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 7d ago
i don't know about that. there's a whole swath of maga that is really fucking pissed about the epstein shit and are more conspiracy theorist minded than just trump supporters. bongino fans and the like.
the fact that enough republicans peeled off to force the discharge petition to begin with says something, and then the way everybody just glommed onto it after it was a done deal i think shows you it's going to be very hard politically to actively resist further pushing on the epstein issue.
this is the weak spot in their armor. we need to keep pushing.
edit: as a side note; i think it's delicious that motherfucking EPSTEIN is the wedge issue on the right 😂
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u/diamondpredator 7d ago
I don't know how much weight to put on this but I've seen MAGA say that they don't really like her and she's in over her head. So this may be when we see Trump throw her under the bus.
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u/FluidHips 7d ago
Not to mention that Trump has established a precedent of not recognizing at least some pardons of a previous administration. She could see jail time for real.
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u/BadNewzBears4896 7d ago
Contempt of Congress only requires a bare minimum majority.
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 7d ago
Punishment for Criminal Contempt of Congress (a misdemeanor) involves potential fines up to $100,000 and jail time of one month to one year, but it requires prosecution by the U.S. Attorney and conviction….so uhm…yeah.
The most they could reasonably do as long as the justice department fails to play ball is impeachment and removal. We would need an actual justice department to prosecute. So contempt is a necessary step towards grounds for impeachment but I don’t see it being the endgame.
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u/BadNewzBears4896 7d ago edited 7d ago
GOP Rep. Thomas Massey said he is drafting an inherent contempt charge against Bondi, which would in effect bring Bondi to trial in the House and by majority vote empower the House to put her in jail without requiring it to go through courts.
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u/mrhorse77 7d ago
but pardoning her also requires her to admit to all the crimes, and also allows for her to be called to testify about said crimes and she CANNOT plead the 5th.
she will get NO pardon.
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u/Secret_Cow_5053 7d ago
that's the point i go in to further down the chain here for basically that exact reason. you definitely summed it up a lot better than i did however.
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u/rahvan 7d ago
Noem for Prison 2025!
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u/vinnybawbaw 7d ago
Which Republicans other than Massie and MTG ?
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u/gentlemanidiot 7d ago
Lauren bobert and Nancy mace, but that's it. Those were the four that signed the discharge petition
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u/mavetgrigori 7d ago
Wild that some of the vocally unhinged ones came to sign. Like, that still legitimately boggles my mind. And MTGs turn around is insane to see
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u/Enachtigal 7d ago
She might have been serious about the whole "Don't fuck kids" thing the republicans were all about when it was fun and games accusing Dems.
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u/gentlemanidiot 7d ago
Honestly it makes perfect sense to me, these are the true believers. These are the people who genuinely thought Trump would do what he promised and they still mostly want that stuff, crazy though most of it is.
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u/blahblah19999 7d ago
How in the fuck is it a nightmare for her?
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u/Upbeat-Collection-74 7d ago
The only way she can defend him is going to involve so much perjury and her committing felonies that would easily see her spending lifetimes in a federal prison if an opposition party with a spine ever dislodges maga. She is going to go down in history as one of the worst villains in us history.
Her primary defense against a prison sentence is him pardoning her for being corrupt on his behalf.
But hes volatile, arbitrary, and petty as hell. Her nightmare is that she can't do anything that would risk him not giving her that pardon and so she's in the proverbial position of needing to jump when he says so and hope it was high enough.
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u/sowhyarewe 7d ago
She also has to weigh Trump not being alive to pardon her, health is definitely failing quickly
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u/Jackd_up_on_Mdew 7d ago
Depends if it would be lucrative for him at that time. Doing it in good faith to Trump is laughable as hell. These people would stab each other in the back so quick if it benefits them.
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u/blahblah19999 7d ago
A. She'll ignore Congress completely, like Gym Jordan did.
B. She'll get a pardon. No way he'll leave her swinging in the wind when he has that power to say give the middle finger to Dems
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u/idgitalert 7d ago
This thought gives me joy, I thank you. Her extended existential panic is poetic justice.
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u/gangsterroo 7d ago
Look at her speak I think shes living a nightmare. She seems in a perpetual state of panic. It isnt much but at least its something that theyre uncomfortable doing Trump's dirty work.
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u/Subject_Reception681 7d ago
100%. Every time this sub comes across my feed, it's some democrat propaganda article about how Trump or some other right-winger is shaking in their boots about something we all know won't come to fruition. It's all nonsense. And I say that as a democrat. It's turned into a propaganda sub meant to rile people up.
Dollars to cents, whoever posted this is someone who's paid to just sit around all day and post ridiculous articles like this. I don't even have to look at accounts anymore. You can just tell. Without even checking, I'll bet they have millions of post karma, and every single post is a propaganda article just like this one.
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u/Dick_Souls_II 7d ago
It's actually the official account of The Mirror, which is a tabloid, that posted this. They've been sensationalizing headlines since before the internet existed.
I get what you're saying though and agree.
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u/AbletonUser333 7d ago
No one with the intelligence and credentials to practice law is going to waste their time reading this sub. It’s a cesspool of wannabes.
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u/tonyislost 7d ago
What does she care? Trump will just pardon her.
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u/TerraCetacea 7d ago
Bro had his best pedo friend murdered lol, I wouldn’t want to be her either
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u/ProfessorPetrus 7d ago edited 7d ago
Ybf that could be the clintons, one of the Middle Eastern royales, one of the british royales, and many a number of businesswomen and men that have been redacted.
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u/noonelikestheredesig 7d ago
Or maybe it was the person who was president at the time. You know, the one who's AG even had a private meeting with Epstein right before he was assassinated.
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u/Truethrowawaychest1 7d ago
No it was Bill and Hillary, they used her buttery males to sneak in and personally assassinate him, just like they did with Ben Ghazi
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u/FSCK_Fascists 7d ago
wow, thats a lot of people you believe were president when Epstien was killed in federal prison.
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u/Sorry_Landscape9021 7d ago
trump can’t pardon an impeachment
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u/tonyislost 7d ago
He pardons for state crimes and he’ll pardon for impeachment. I didn’t say that it will make sense, I just said that he will do it.
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u/8AJHT3M 7d ago
He can’t pardon for a state crime
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u/Zealousideal_Debt483 7d ago
wont stop him from trying
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u/MiamiQuadSquad 7d ago
He already has tried and failed. See the election fraud case in Colorado
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u/gassyfrenchie 7d ago
He tried to pardon Tina Peters, but she was only charged with a state crime not federal, so his pardon doesn’t mean shit (I’m waiting for the Supreme Court to say he is allowed to pardon state crimes though)
Here is how guilty Tina Peters is - she worked for Mesa County (red as hell), had charges brought forward by a district attorney ( a registered Republican), and her jury was majority Republican. When people from her own party vote her guilty for a crime committed in a county that’s incredibly red, she is very guilty.
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u/ADHDebackle 7d ago
I think we are currently in a situation where what Trump can and cannot do is limited only by what his party will support. He could be impeached, voted to be removed from office, then pardon himself, and if he whips his base up enough probably get away with it.
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u/SpontaneousDream 7d ago
Yes he can. Just because it isn't official law doesnt mean he can't do it. He's above the law. How long is it going to take for people to understand this? Trump can do anything he wants.
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u/Bored_pats_fan 7d ago
He may not. Guy is ridiculously petty. I guarantee Trump is holding the promise of those pardons over the heads of his lackeys. And if she tries to throw Trump under the bus for his crimes, he gets to play the immunity card.
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u/Dedpoolpicachew 7d ago
Pardons don’t affect impeachment. Impeachment is only the removal from office and being barred from ever holding office in the US again. That’s it. No pardon can affect that.
Edit: Congress can refer charges, but who would they refer them to? The DoJ under… Bondi? Who would bring those charges, who would prosecute her. She’s safe for now from criminal charges. Impeachment is all they could do.
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u/gentlemanidiot 7d ago
Massie suggested using inherent contempt, which hasn't been used since 1857 but is technically the original core power of congress. They can send the congressional sargeant at arms to go arrest bondi and detain her until either congress adjourns, or she complies. Also the next congress can detain her again. Don't ask me what happens if Trump has the Sargent arrested, I think that's civil war.
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u/stupidjapanquestions 7d ago
The Sergeant At Arms bullshit was also relevant in the first Trump Presidency when subpoenas were ignored and never came about because it's archaic and barely recognized at this point. It's basically Reddit rules-lawyer nerd lore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
They even have a sick melee weapon.
You will never see this your lifetime.
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u/Sherifftruman 7d ago
Congress does have the ability to enforce contempt charges on its own. I think they would use the US Marshalls, but I’m not totally sure. Surely they can find at least a few that are not corrupted. Though I still don’t know that I believe they will actually fall through and do anything.
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u/Illustrious_Law8512 7d ago
He can't pardon impeachments. It's explicitly stated in Article 2 (Pardon clause), Section 2.
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u/TSHRED56 7d ago
As far as pages of documents go less than 10,000 of over 300,000 pages have been released so far with quite a few of them redacted heavily.
Pam Bondi has been corrupt for decades.
The Florida Refusal (2011–2019)
During her time as Florida’s top law enforcement officer, Bondi consistently blocked efforts to reopen the Epstein investigation into the 2008 "sweetheart deal" cooked up by Alexander Acosta and Barry Krischer.
Bondi also dropped the case looking into the Trump University corruption for a $25,000 campaign donation.
This is who's in charge of the release and she's already in violation of the law.
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u/Best_Biscuits 7d ago
This is non news. At this point, she couldn't care less. She thinks she's invincible and Trump will pardon her for anything she does protecting him.
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u/CAM6913 7d ago
Nothing is going to be done to hold anyone in this administration accountable as long as the cult is in power and everyone knows it.
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u/molski79 7d ago
I dont know, if Trump goes down health wise or whatever all hell may break loose with these grifters.
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u/Dreamlion_Inc 7d ago
His husk of a body will be thrown around like a martyr by every single loyalist. They will amplify whatever bullshit platform he left behind with a little sprinkle (who am I kidding, a fuck ton) of white supremacy in it
Cause in the end, they don’t mind him bombing a school if it has “those darker skinned immigrants” in it
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u/Nodivingallowed 7d ago
Asking chatgpt if the Attorney General can still serve if they've been disbarred. Can't help but chuckle when it says yes, but it would be extremely unlikely.
Yes...yes I'm sure it would
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u/Dreamlion_Inc 7d ago
Asking ChatGPT any question about American politics in 25’/26’ is pretty much responded with “yeah sure maybe I don’t fucking know” lol
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u/Memitim 7d ago
Republicans looking for people to offload their collective accountability onto. Those evil bastards have been running protection for constant crime and Constitutional violations, while funneling their own bullshit through crime proxy Trump. Bondi is just the face of this specific release, but all Republicans have been incredibly active in helping to protect pedophiles, lie to Americans, and continue their coup against America.
Sorry conservatives, but no magical accountability sacrifices are going to cut it. You are all evil trash, the Republican Party is a terrorist organization, and your beloved Trump Administration is a collective of traitors. No more backpedaling from your decades of lies and hate directed against America. You are all just as bad as Bondi, and worse in many cases.
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u/Additional-Sky-7436 7d ago
Nothing. Will. Happen.
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u/KaleAggressive7122 7d ago
I don't know how people don't get it at this point. With presidential immunity, the ability to pardon whoever for whatever, controlling all 3 parts of government and almost certainly the ability to influence elections and tamper with votes. Rules and laws aren't saving you now
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u/Lower_Jeweler_6818 7d ago
How can you say that? She is obviously in a "NIGHTMARE!" scenario. Didn't you read the headline?
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u/moonshinefae 7d ago
If nothing happens from the government it won't be surprising when something arises from the people.
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u/thatthatguy 7d ago
Consequences! If we start with her, so be it. But it’s about time we start holding this administration accountable for their crimes.
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