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  But in the great Murica nothing will happened to the orange guy
context: It's like battered wife syndrome. republican congressmen they fled their offices out of fear for their lives, now they're like oh he didnt mean it! >
  
  Well that was when they were in physical danger.  Now they're more concerned with maintaining power and planning their retaliatory "investigation". >
  
  So, serious question, what happens if he does run and does win even if this actually passes both chambers? I'm fascinated by all these checks and balances that I was taught about in middle school. I'm even more fascinated that there's no enforcement because our magic rule scroll was written with an assumption of the wealthiest and most powerful acting in good faith. >
  
  If this actually passes he legally couldn't be elected, he'd be barred from office. Just like someone born in Austria couldn't be president even if he ran for it and somehow won (though it'd never get that far anyways). If you're barred from office you're barred from office, period.
  He wouldn't be eligible to be the Republican nominee in the first place anyways. He could run third party but even without being barred he's not winning 3rd party and even if he did he'd still be ineligible to hold office. 
  If this passes his political career is kaput, end of story. >
  
  
  Just like someone born in Austria couldn't be president even if he ran for it and somehow won (though it'd never get that far anyways).
  
  That's actually not true.  Article II Section 1 of the Constitution stipulates that someone born in Austria can't be president.  There is also a stipulation about how Congress may remove a president or elected official from office once elected.  There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution giving Congress the power to preemptively bar someone for running.  
  
  No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. >
  
  With Republicans taking control of the House and the Senate basically even, you know that's not likely to happen. Let the DoJ do its job and throw the bum in jail, where he belongs. >
  
  
  With Republicans taking control of the House and the Senate basically even, you know that's not likely to happen.
  
  It’s important to make substantive recommendations. Let republicans be the hacks they are. Maybe a few more people will start to notice. >
  
  A conductor cannot play a symphony alone. >
  
  I can see the history books now.
  "Many furrowed brows and heavy sighs were had that day, but in the end, the motion was defeated because the majority of congress were bought and paid for by special interests that wanted their profit margins extended No matter the cost to the country they claimed to love and serve."
  I hope I'm wrong though. >
  
  Once he's serving a sentence likely to be life they will be all over this. >
  
  I still think that when Trump finds out he’s to be arrested that he will flea the country.
  If I do see him in handcuffs after a peaceful surrender on American soil, I admit that I will be impressed. >
  
  Meh. He loses his SS if he flees the country right? How many foreign countries (Iran ahem) would love him to leave? >
  
  $20 says he’ll be begging Putin for asylum. >
  
  I would find it funny if putin got rid of the walking loudspeaker of state secrets to avoid endangering himself >
  
  The only shocking part is how it took 95% of a year to report a conclusion that was pretty obvious. Did anyone on either side ever really doubt this? >
  
  The ones on trumps side dont think anything bad happened at all. >
  
  The truth is not as important to them as whatever motivated them to support Trump in the first place, so they pretend it doesn’t matter. But save for them dumbest of them, I don’t believe they have any conviction in the idea that Trump acted appropriately. >
  
  Trump running again would be a gift to the democrats >
  
  Especially if he runs third party. Dems would win in a landslide. >
  
  Does Congress even NEED to to do anything?  Amendment 14 section 3 is pretty fucking clear cut. >
  
  Yes. It's not enough to just say or assume something like that, it's got to be official and what we saw was the necessary process. >
  
  Even Chancellor?