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Vonu's avatar

Trump would have had become more likely to keep campaign promises than he appears to have become, given that he has been trotting out new reasons for failing to prosecute Hillary, to earn my vote, ever.

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Politico Phil's avatar

That's my complaint across the board. Lots of words but, in the end, no prosecutions for crimes. Words are cheap. This corruption will not end until there are actual prosecutions that result in severe penalties, including Treason.

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Vonu's avatar

Treason is defined in the Constitution at Article 3, Section 3, as consisting "only in levying War against (the United States), or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

All members of the American military take an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; (and to) bear true faith and allegiance to the same."

When the military is committed to foreign actions without a declaration of war by Congress, as required by Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 11 of the Constitution, that is a violation of the Constitution, arguably the action of domestic enemies.

When a member of the military participates in an unconstitutional foreign military deployment, s/he violates both the Constitution and his/her oath to "support and defend" it, giving "aid and comfort" to it's "domestic enemies," committing treason by the definition given by the Constitution.

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YYR's avatar

So easy to say.

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