Nougat

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[–] Nougat@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Easy solution to that: Stop using it.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here's the video, it's in the article. Yes, there were reporters calling questions as he walked away, but they all stopped talking except this one, who spoke loudly and at a reasonable cadence, and Trump's pace and body language suggest that he heard every word, and still chose not to answer. Is it as big a deal as the title makes it out to be? Not at all. Is it absolutely nothing at all, nothing to see here? I don't think it's that, either.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He thought the first primary he won in 2016 was rigged after Ted Cruz won Iowa.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago
[–] Nougat@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Nougat@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've heard that notion posed several times. IANAL, but just because Ford and Nixon both thought he needed a pardon does not necessarily mean that he actually needed a pardon. Those are two different things; it is possible that Ford and Nixon were both wrong on the necessity. (Edit: Of note, I don't think they were wrong, but I'm also not a federal judge, so what I think doesn't matter, in the same way as what Ford and Nixon thought didn't matter.)

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is exactly one of the scenarios that Jack Smith offered as an example of why this kind of immunity is ridiculous.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pan reframed the question to include a hypothetical where a president ordered assassination and then was not impeached, and Sauer still hung on to "impeachment has to happen first."

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

She has definitely shown through this process that she knows the law, and how to fairly apply it.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't being sarcastic. This "I won't try to overthrow the US government" pledge was aimed at Communists in McCarthyism, and here it tells us something important, since Trump did sign it the last two times he ran, and declined to this time.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure everyone in the federal government has had plenty of notice, since the US Constitution grants States the sole authority to operate elections.

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