Comment by thatnameagain on 16/08/2020 at 16:46 UTC

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View submission: 'Trump warns presidential election result may not be known for 'years,' as allegations grow he's undermining the USPS to rig the election

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It’s because staying as commander in Chief isn’t something you can do by ignoring laws, you need the military to not just ignore those laws but actively mobilize to break them on your behalf.

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Comment by GregBahm at 16/08/2020 at 17:17 UTC

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There's that reckless optimism again.

Donald Trump's National Security Advisor was working as a foreign agent while sitting in on classified national security briefings, and lied about it to the FBI. He was prosecuted and **convicted** of this in federal court.

In response to this, Donald Trump fired the head of the justice department who allowed this, and hired the guy who said he wouldn't allow this. The new head of the justice department, William Barr, then simply dropped all charges against convicted felon Michael Flynn. They never even bothered to offer an explanation, other than to say that the president has total power over law enforcement proceedings.

The only defense against gross abuses of power like this, or the Ukraine deal, or the pardoning of Roger Stone, are US voters voting the president and republican senators out of office. But since the president controls the post office, and the post office controls the issuing of ballots, there's no way to stop him.