Former Trump lawyer: ‘The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump’

Former Trump lawyer: ‘The Constitution is not adequate to deal with a president as evil as Trump’

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  1. The Constitution isn’t the problem, the lack of enforcement of said Constitution is. A law isn’t bad because it isn’t being properly enforced.

    No alteration to the Constitution to “strengthen” it would likely work here because the problem isn’t the document, it’s the people charged with upholding it.

  2. I think it is but it requires that “good men” not be indifferent

  3. The constitution assumes that the 3 branches are all going to constantly vie for more power and authority with the judiciary also playing the arbiter and ref role. It’s breaking down now because politicians and judges no longer care about the separation of power and prioritise party over states’ or individuals’ rights.

  4. The framers of the constitution never imagined the people would elect a president so manifestly unsuited to the job. Maybe the framers imagined that voters would generally be educated and well informed and incapable of being so badly hoodwinked.

    If I had a time machine, I would go back and show them a few hours of Fox News.

  5. That is why you impeach and deport to the ICC for war crimes.

  7. Then I guess we’d better start taking pointers from Brazil, huh?

  8. Exactly. We’re going to need Constitutional amendments to prevent this in the future.

  9. The Constitution is perfectly well designed to handle a corrupt president—but the framers didn’t imagine that Congress would be complicit. The problem is that our system cannot handle a corrupt party.

  10. i hate the revolving door of sycophants who do atrocious things for Trump and then have a lucrative career tut tutting the asshole later. you are responsible for this!

  11. Nothing to do with the constitution. The problem is that all three branches of government are complicit.

    It’s really the inevitable downfall of a two party system.

  12. The constitution is perfectly capable of dealing with Trump. It is not capable of dealing with a situation where 40% straight up supports what is happening and those people are aligned with the rural small state bias of the EC and Senate.

  13. Thank you Aloysius Pennywhistle or whatever your name probably is

  14. trump isn’t even the problem. he’s a fucking idiot. the real evil isn’t even the republicans hiding their heads in the sand. it’s the fucking heritage foundation fuckers driving the agenda

  15. Yeah that’s like blaming the instruction manual. Absolutely bullshit, dead on arrival argument. The problem isn’t the constitution. No. The problem is that our representatives have all willingly removed their balls/ovaries, placed them in a golden bucket, and then gave them to a conman to put in a drawer of the Resolute desk.

  16. US Constitution presumes that there will always be at least 2 branches in obedience and adherence. It did not predict 2 being simultaneously corrupt, let alone all three.

    The REPUBLICAN PARTY has enabled this. They are all treasonous & traitorous.

  17. Jefferson did say in a letter to Madison that the Constitution should be rewritten every 19 years…

    But he thought that about all laws because he didn’t think the rules of a previous generation should be automatically assumed as correctly representing what the new generation believed to work for them.

  18. It would be, but it’s not adequate to deal with an entire evil party that takes control of all branches of government. And I don’t know what the answer would be for that

  21. The Constitution would be if SCOTUS did its job.

  22. Three do equal branches would work if the other two stepped up and fulfilled their responsibilities as congress is just starting to do with the epstien matter

  24. The problem here, as it so often is, is that he’s focused on trump. Donald trump is not the architect of this. trump’s evilness is not the driving force of America’s fascist decline. 

    This precarious moment in our history was specifically engineered over the course of decades by dedicated villains from the right wing establishment. Federalist society, heritage foundation, owners of the media oligopoly, tracing their roots all the way back to the John Birch society, the kkk, the know nothings. Destroying American democracy has motivated right wing politics for at least a century. 

    They’ve played the long game. trump is just their tool: grover norquist’s perfect *idiot with a pen*.

  25. I disagree. The Constitution is up to the task. It’s Congress that needs to take the power. Congress advises and consents on everything. They control all of the money. They could literally give him a daily allowance financially and tell him how it’s going to be. There is nothing that says a president makes much of any decision without Congress being good with it. We are a Republic. The power and representation is to be with the public and the Congress is our representation. The President is to be the daily secretary for Congress. If he breaks on law that could be as simple as not ensuring the money gets distributed as Congress mandated, he can be fired.

    Money – used as Congress says.

    Military – have to go to Congress for military actions

    Judicial – Congress signs off.

    There is no reason our common understanding of the President needs to be tolerated. Toss his ass out on the street.

  26. jokes on him. trump is just the puppet in the chair. his handlers behind the scenes are the evil fuckers

  27. Haha. It is, but Congress and the SCOTUS would have to be free of team Trump’s influence. It was a calculated plan, years in the making.

  28. We need to do what the Germans have done after Hitler. There is a psychological cheat code for humans which allows them to be frightened and polarized and terrorized into terrible acts. The Germans have made it illegal to use right wing hate speech. We need to do that ourselves.

  29. It seems the founding fathers could not imagine that the voting citizens would be so base, idiotic, and ignorant. Are we more idiotic and such now than then, though.

  30. No system can be designed that will be immune from corruption if a majority of those in power choose to not follow the rules in good faith.

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