https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/politics/trump-liz-cheney-treason-jail.html

Mr. Trump has repeatedly called for the imprisonment of his political opponents, often singling out members of the Jan. 6 committee. But the two posts that Mr. Trump amplified on Sunday particularly stand out.

One proposed jailing an extensive list of high-ranking officials, including Mr. Trump’s former vice president, the top Republican in the Senate and the current president and vice president. The other invoked the dictatorial imagery of a televised military tribunal, which would strip Ms. Cheney of her right to due process similar to the military courts used to prosecute terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I know that, rationally, this is bad and I shouldn’t ever want to see it attempted… but now that he’s said it… I kinda wonder what would happen if Trump wins.

    Will he just “forget” about it as soon as the inauguration happens?

    Will it go the route of the overturning of the Affordable Care Act? Remember that? For the first two years of Trumps presidency, it seemed like there were monthly votes to overturn the ACA but every time there’d be some technicality or just straight up not being able to get enough conservative votes to make it happen. Then one day, the votes stopped, the bills stopped being put to vote, and all conservative commentators just stopped talking about it like it was not a campaign promise that had been failing for two years straight.

    Will it actually happen? Will he actively persecute Republicans who spoke out against him? Clinton, Biden, Obama, Pelosi?

    Will the Supreme Court step in to stop it? Will he then persecute the Supreme Court Justices (fuck that’d kinda be amazing)? i really want to have a crystal ball that can show me the possibilities in detail without having to actually live through them.

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Will he just “forget” about it as soon as the inauguration happens?

      I’m going to say yes based on the fact that’s exactly what happened last time.and he even explained that to his supporters.

      They started chanting lock her up after he was elected and he waved them off and said “yea that was great and all during the campaign but I’m actually president now relax”