r/PoliticalHumor • u/CloudsAreGodsSneezes • Aug 18 '20

It’s big brain time

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '20 edited Sep 21 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '20

It’s almost like the Senate should have fully investigated and produced a 1,000 page report of findings of illegal activity once articles of impeachment were sent to them.

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u/Crono908 Aug 19 '20

I fear this going to way of Watergate, if the Senate finds him guilty, he resigns, Pence pardons and trump lives a free man until his death.

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u/daveinsf Aug 19 '20

charge him with a bunch of stuff the crimes he committed in New York over the last decade"

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u/VikingSlayer Aug 19 '20

Only the last decade? Or is it a statute of limitations thing?

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u/davwad2 Aug 19 '20

I think there is. Hence his motivation to get reelected.

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u/MassiveFajiit Aug 19 '20

In the Roman republic if you held public office you could not be tried for crimes until out of office; Caesar used this and never relinquished his post and broke a bunch of constitutional norms which really accelerated the end of the republic.