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HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago

Donald Trump tells court he had no duty to ‘support’ the US Constitution

www.the-independent.com

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Donald Trump tells court he had no duty to ‘support’ the US Constitution

www.the-independent.com

HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago
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‘The Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution — not to ‘support’ the Constitution,’ read a filing from the former president’s attorneys
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    If only he had murdered a bunch of small children instead then Republicans might have cared about the Constitution part.

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      I think you mean fetuses. Republicans don’t care about children after they’re outside of a uterus.

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        What the shit is going on with your username?

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          This is a work of fiction; any resemblance to the names of actual substances, whether real or fantastic, is purely coincidental.

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      Not if he did it with a gun. Or they were already born. That’s where they draw the line.

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      They were already born they’re politically useless now.

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      As long as they were non white children, they would have applauded.

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      They’d call them thugs in the press and then argue the definition of “children”

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      Everything he did just became the new norm for the GOP to defend. If he had done even worse, it wouldn’t have made him cross a line with the GOP, it just would have normalized even worse actions.

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      Give him time.

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      Republicans don’t care about children

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