With Kavanaugh and Gorsuch rammed onto the court, there will be a 5-4 decision by the SCOTUS that a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime. After eroding the Judiciary branch by controlling it, King Trump will pardon Manafort, pardon Cohen, pardon Papadopolous, and pardon Mike Flynn.
Thomas Jefferson wrote: He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit."
Every major figure in the history of civic government, every major writer and every major thinker, from Plato to Montesquieu ... from Rousseau to John Locke ... even Thomas Jefferson himself have all written about how kings do this. King Louis XVI. King George III. Joseph Stalin. All dictators and tyrants control the courts and weaponize it against their enemies. They use their office to pardon their friends.
Donald Trump does not care for the judiciary or its independence -- and neither do his MAGA-hat wearing zombie followers. They see the courts and crimes as "speedbumps" and temporary inconveniences to be "dispensed with". Just like Hitler did. Just like Stalin did. Just like
_insert european monarch_
did.
With presidential pardons flying left and right, the trials of Manafort, Cohen, Flynn, and Papadopolous will not be criminal trials. They will be mock trials : just as Jefferson warned us about.
The MAGA hats will Sig-heil at their king, continuing to operate under the delusion that dictators seize power by
"Taking arr gunz" and
"Banning the Bible". Even though the entire swath of Western History (from Athenian city-states to Joseph Stalin) is screaming at them that is not the way monarchs have held onto power. Monarchs seize power and hold onto it by eroding the independence of the Judiciary. That's how they have been doing it for 10 centuries.
At base, the MAGA hats want a king. They don't want democracy. They don't want a Rule of Law. They want a Protestant Theocracy. They want a White Male Christian Emperor.
Donald Trump cares even less about the Rule of Law. He supposes he is above the Law.
- If a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime, then he could "shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it". And where did I get that example from? (oh, now I remember). Donald Trump said it himself, on camera.
- Donald Trump has told his followers that the free press is an "Enemy of the people".
- Donald Trump has gone on unhinged twitter rants about a "Criminal Deep State"
This is a psychological profile of a man whom would not leave his office on peaceful terms. He will not leave office as president, even when tanks are firing on the building.