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'Should be terrifying to everyone': Prosecutor fired by Trump delivers blunt warning

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Summary

Former federal prosecutor Sara Levine, fired by Trump, warned on 60 Minutes that the Justice Department is "under attack."

Levine, who prosecuted January 6 rioters, said she was fired for upholding the law.

Legal expert Peter Keisler criticized Trump's pardons of Capitol rioters, arguing they signal that crimes committed in support of Trump's agenda may go unpunished.

These actions undermine the rule of law and discouraging accountability for political violence.

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Legal expert Peter Keisler criticized Trump's pardons of Capitol rioters, arguing they signal that crimes committed in support of Trump's agenda may go unpunished.
Um, isn't that the main point why Trump did it?
- It's like the entire liberal world has been conditioned to act like the things that are very obviously happening may happen ... not right now though ... at some future unknown date ... so you don't need to worry about it really. Don't rock the boat and certainly don't miss work tomorrow... just continue consuming and hold tight while someone else presumably sorts it out.
  It's like a civilization-wide bystander effect.
  
  Always have been:
  I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
  
  This is what pisses me off about all the people who kept talking about how the Democrats were failing to get voters engaged in 2024.
  If the Dems weren't doing the job, what was keeping you from stepping up?
  Its like there was a fire going on and people were complaining the firemen weren't doing enough instead of jumping in and helping.
  
  I realize people have difficulty parsing language sometimes, but she did not say “may signal” she said “signals”. She said he is doing exactly what you both are saying he is doing. Basically: You appear to be in violent agreement with her.
  The “may” only comes in that if you commit acts of treason, etc. on behalf of dear leader, you may or may not show up on his radar.
- Someone's gonna be killed by one of these J6 yoyos. Could be a SC justice after a ruling that goes against Trump, could be one of those key people from the last administration that Trump quite openly dropped security details for.
  Will Trump go the extra mile and pardon them? Will his party full of Christian Conservatives ignore their God's commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill" when the victim is a political opponent who they don't like? Of course they will.
  
  At least three of them have already been re-arrested for other crimes.
I need more than Half the states to declare that Trump is a national emergency, and then set legislation to limit all Federal Authority in state level Justice Matters AND mark federal government actions, laws, and executive orders as null/void or something like that. We have to take power away from the Federal Government if it can’t be checked and balanced.
- That path is dangerous, too. It's currently what's allowing states to deny abortions and I bet it would eventually be used to re-legalize slavery.
  
  Slavery is already legal in the US.
  Why do you think we have 1/4 of the global prisoner population? Like, 1.9 million slaves are currently held in prisons in the US.
  
  At that point, civil war 3. Probably with non-south allies on the other side.
In no universe would a Democrat President even be allowed to joke about the things that Trump is doing in plain sight.
How long are you guys going to wait until doing something?
- Remember when Barack Obama wore a tan suit? Remember when he ordered a hamburger with spicy mustard?
  If he had ignored federal judges' orders, the entire staff of Fox News would have had a stroke.
  
  It's pretty wild when you think about government “scandals”.
  Democrat and Liberal “scandals” are often trivial shit that would only work in tabloid magazines (blow jobs, tan coloured suites, the fact that they are a woman or black, what's on the laptop of their kid, etc.)
  Meanwhile, Conservative and Republican scandals are more like treason, deals resulting in mass destruction of the environment, wars, threats to the free press, the stripping of civil liberties, institutionalized oppression against various minority groups (and women), felonies, rape or child molestation.
  breathes
  Publically supporting dictators, publically supporting Nazis, firing of staff designed to protect the country from government oversight or corruption, etc...
  What the fuck happened in the world for both sides to receive equal outrage?
- Always rules for thee, not for me
- We won't do a thing beyond ball-less protests because we're either too afraid of the repercussions, too lazy to give up any sort of comfort or too in denial about the severity of what's happening. No one views themselves as complacent, but there are complacent people out there.
- We did something already. It didn't work.
- I'm sure if they just occupied the right sidewalk that oligarchs never walk on, or write just the right sensational slogan on a picket sign, that'll be enough to fix things. Nothing wrong with attempting to try, but it might actually do something if they occupied, i don't maybe gated communities for millionaires/billionaires. Outside just one of their mansions, just one. Imagine if BLM or Occupy could happen at a billionaires mansion, even if they weren't home.
The terrifying part happened at the election.
This was the expected part.
The next terrifying part is that we might not kick them out.
I've been terrified since early November
- Me too
- French would argue that the guillotine is the more civilized way to do it…
  
  This 100%
- The clear thing was "vote for Harris". It was just that a lot of people wanted to punish Democrats for the Palestinian genocide.
  
  We sure showed them by electing double genocide for Palestine
  
  That was only clear to those who think the USA is a working democracy, where the purple states have fair elections. It was clear to idealists or uninformed.
  To those who understand why computer ballots should not be used, or just plain cynical, it was clear the choice was out of our hands
  
  I find it very telling when someone gets mad at the people who couldn't stomach voting for a genocide, rather than getting mad at the party for running on a pro-genocide platform
When idiots vote for a felon, they should expect that felon to destroy the system that might hold him accountable some day.
Like I said elsewhere, everyone is really just waiting for him to come after the federal judges who have been holding back his EOs. The DOJ is currently being torn apart, but he'll get there eventually.
Another warning? I'll get right on that.
The DOJ has been under attack since Jan 2018.
I never deliver a blunt warning cuz I always pass that shit after two puffs.

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