Ex-GOP Attorney General: Trump Vow To Jail Clinton Is A 'Watershed' Moment

[highplainsdem]

Source: TPM

A former Republican attorney general who spoke at this summer's GOP national convention warned that Donald Trump's vow to imprison Hillary Clinton represents a "watershed" moment in American politics and could lead to the world perceiving the U.S. to be a "banana republic."

Michael Mukasey, an ex-U.S. attorney general who served under President George W. Bush, told NPR Monday that he initially deemed the GOP nominee's line at Sunday's debate that Clinton would 'be in jail" under a President Trump to be a quip, but had become concerned about Trump's promise to have his attorney general appoint a special prosecutor to re-open the case on Clinton's private email server.

"But then you have to determine whether the bringing of charges is proper," Mukasey said, as he outlined what such a process would look like. "And then you start to get into questions of policy and whether doing that would make us look like a banana republic, which I think it would."

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"That's the - that to me is the - is a watershed event - that is that it's the president of a different party. That makes it an entirely different kind of exercise in my view," Mukasey said.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/mukasey-trump-clinton-jail

[sakabatou]

1. Trump wants to be a dictator

[Neema]

9. Absolutely. And it wasn't just

the "quip" about putting her in jail. It was all the times he questioned why she couldn't single-handedly pass legislation as a senator. He really must think that's how it works.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. The Trump threat to persecute his political adversary should he become president should be

enough for ALL Americans (with more than half a working brain) to disavow support for this wannabe-Putin.

The United States is a DEMOCRACY not a dictatorship, and our M$M should hold this Putin-puppet to account for what he threatened to do.

[forest444]

3. To see Trump's politics in action, but in a western democracy, look no further than Argentina

Where a far-right, racist crook and tax cheat - see Panama Papers - won narrowly last November thanks to a right-wing media smear campaign against his center-left predecessor (who wasn't even running).

Most new laws have been enacted by decree, and the opposition press, as expected, has been subject to harassment and spying. Like Trump, Macri is actively trying to jail his predecessor as well by using a pet prosecutor and judge (and by using right-wing media and 'troll centers' to shame those who won't go along).

The results for everyday people have been catastrophic: 45% inflation (it was 20%), -5.9% GDP decline (GDP grew 2.5% last year), 9.3% unemployment (it was 5.9%), 300-500% higher utility bills, $20 billion in annual income redistributed to the top, and $37 billion in new foreign debt (a 40% jump). The GOP playbook to the letter.

And yes, Macri and Trump are old friends.

[Mike Daniels]

4. If he said it once it "could have" been a quip.

However he's saying it at every appearance now.

Quip my ass.

[Mme. Defarge]

5. Um, hello?

Did he not pay attention to the GOP convention?

[PSPS]

6. Yet the media continues to prop him up

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Watershed moment?

Trump seems to shed the water at every turn. Like the other Teflon Don, nothing seems to affect him.

[mrmpa]

10. Not ony this...............

but listen to what he says about the media. If he were elected he would do everything to shut the presses down.

[Hatemonger]

11. I wish

I wish the media would stop following that orange jackarse around! He loves the free media attention!

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Sorry Mukasey, were you asleep when Trump hinted that the 'Hillary issue' needs a 'Second Ammendment

solution'?